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more 'n a big-league baseball game. That man ain't got no heart. He's just made up of vinegar and guncotton." It was true that Mr. Quick was getting the last ounce out of the men, and the pumping went on incessantly. There was always the bare chance that they were lightening the derelict a trifle, and the mate did not like to think of the tremendous strain those bulkheads were standing. Every hour, though, brought them miles nearer Charleston.
When night had fallen Barnes stood at the stern of the Pacific Queen, surveying the lurching light which alone showed that the stricken craft was still above water.
"This is where I quit cookin' pudding's for a bunch of sailors," he said to Dave. "It's more 'n I ever hoped for to come my way, is pickin' up two hundred feet or so of a steamer without even a canary on board. D' you know what I'm going | WIKI |
5 Insightful Analyst Questions From Veralto’s Q2 Earnings Call
Water analytics and treatment company Veralto delivered Q2 results that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, with management highlighting broad-based demand across both its Water Quality and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI) segments. CEO Jennifer Honeycutt credited “outstanding commercial execution and steady, broad-based customer demand” as critical to the quarter’s performance. Notably, recent investments in commercial architecture and supply chain resilience enabled Veralto to maintain growth even amid volatile macroeconomic and trade environments. Honeycutt praised the company’s teams for consistent delivery, particularly in procurement, operations, and customer-facing roles.
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Revenue: $1.37 billion vs analyst estimates of $1.34 billion (6.4% year-on-year growth, 2% beat)
EPS (GAAP): $0.89 vs analyst estimates of $0.85 (4% beat)
Adjusted EBITDA: $335 million vs analyst estimates of $326.3 million (24.4% margin, 2.7% beat)
Operating Margin: 22.8%, in line with the same quarter last year
Market Capitalization: $27 billion
While we enjoy listening to the management's commentary, our favorite part of earnings calls are the analyst questions. Those are unscripted and can often highlight topics that management teams would rather avoid or topics where the answer is complicated. Here is what has caught our attention.
Andrew Alec Kaplowitz (Citigroup) asked about the sustainability of Water Quality growth across regions; CEO Jennifer Honeycutt explained resilience is driven by secular trends like water reuse and regulatory pressure, particularly strong in Western Europe and industrial markets.
John Patrick McNulty (BMO Capital Markets) pressed on margin compression in PQI and the phasing of tariff and acquisition impacts; CFO Sameer Ralhan clarified that margin headwinds are split among acquisitions, tariffs, and supply chain changes, with improvement expected in the second half.
Deane Michael Dray (RBC Capital Markets) questioned the nature of investments in TraceGains; Honeycutt responded that most are focused on expanding commercial headcount and accelerating product development, aiming for continued double-digit growth.
Jacob Frederick Levinson (Melius Research) inquired about CPG customer spending and China market trends; Honeycutt noted stable demand in CPG and described China as a mature, flat market with no near-term recovery assumed in guidance.
Nathan Hardie Jones (Stifel) asked about Veralto’s competitive positioning amid evolving trade policy; Honeycutt highlighted the company’s regional manufacturing strategy and agility in adapting to policy changes as key advantages.
In upcoming quarters, the StockStory team will monitor (1) the timing and magnitude of margin recovery in PQI as pricing and supply chain adjustments take hold, (2) continued strength and share gains in Water Quality—especially in Europe and high-growth industrial markets like data centers, and (3) disciplined execution of M&A, particularly the integration and growth trajectory of TraceGains. Additional attention will be paid to how secular trends and regulatory changes influence regional demand patterns.
Veralto currently trades at $108.81, up from $103.15 just before the earnings. In the wake of this quarter, is it a buy or sell? The answer lies in our full research report (it’s free).
When Trump unveiled his aggressive tariff plan in April 2025, markets tanked as investors feared a full-blown trade war. But those who panicked and sold missed the subsequent rebound that’s already erased most losses.
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%0 Journal Article %A Kukat, Christian %A Davies, Karen M. %A Wurm, Christian A. %A Spåhr, Henrik %A Bonekamp, Nina A. %A Kühl, Inge %A Joos, Friederike %A Polosa, Paola Loguercio %A Park, Chan Bae %A Posse, Viktor %A Falkenberg, Maria %A Jakobs, Stefan %A Kühlbrandt, Werner %A Larsson, Nils-Göran %T Cross-strand binding of TFAM to a single mtDNA molecule forms the mitochondrial nucleoid %D 2015 %R 10.1073/pnas.1512131112 %J Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences %P 11288-11293 %V 112 %N 36 %X Altered expression of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is heavily implicated in human disease and aging, but the basic organizational unit of mtDNA, the mitochondrial nucleoid, is poorly understood. Here, we have used a combination of biochemistry, superresolution microscopy, and electron microscopy to show that mammalian mitochondrial nucleoids have an irregular ellipsoidal shape and typically contain a single copy of mtDNA. Furthermore, we show that the nucleoid ultrastructure is independent of cellular mtDNA copy number and that the core nucleoid structure is formed by cross-strand binding of mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) to a single copy of mtDNA. The clarification of the ultrastructure of the mammalian mitochondrial nucleoid provides the fundamental basis for the understanding of regulation of mtDNA maintenance and expression in mammals.Mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is packaged by mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) into mitochondrial nucleoids that are of key importance in controlling the transmission and expression of mtDNA. Nucleoid ultrastructure is poorly defined, and therefore we used a combination of biochemistry, superresolution microscopy, and electron microscopy to show that mitochondrial nucleoids have an irregular ellipsoidal shape and typically contain a single copy of mtDNA. Rotary shadowing electron microscopy revealed that nucleoid formation in vitro is a multistep process initiated by TFAM aggregation and cross-strand binding. Superresolution microscopy of cultivated cells showed that increased mtDNA copy number increases nucleoid numbers without altering their sizes. Electron cryo-tomography visualized nucleoids at high resolution in isolated mammalian mitochondria and confirmed the sizes observed by superresolution microscopy of cell lines. We conclude that the fundamental organizational unit of the mitochondrial nucleoid is a single copy of mtDNA compacted by TFAM, and we suggest a packaging mechanism. %U https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/36/11288.full.pdf | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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106 STAT. 4198 PUBLIC LAW 102-558—OCT. 28, 1992 Public Law 102-558 102d Congress An Act Oct. 28, 1992 [S. 347] Defense Production Act Amendments of 1992. 50 USC app. 2061 note. To amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to revitalize the defense industrial base of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.—Th is Act may be cited as the "Defense Production Act Amendments of 1992". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. — Section 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950 PART A—DECLARATION OF POLICY Sec. 101. Declaration of policy. PART B—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE I OF THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT Sec. 111. Strengthening of domestic capability and assistance for smedl businesses. Sec. 112. Limitation on actions without congressional authorization. PART C—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE III OF THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT Sec. 121. Expanding the reach of existing authorities under title III. Sec. 122. Defense Production Act Fund. Sec. 123. Declaration of offset pohcy. Sec. 124. Annual report on impact of offsets. Sec. 125. Civil-military integration. Sec. 126. Testing, qualification, and use of industrial resources developed under title III projects. PART D—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE VTI OF THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT Sec. 131. Small business. Sec. 132. Definitions. Sec. 133. Appointment of personnel. Sec. 134. Regulations and orders. Sec. 135. Information on the defense industrial base. Sec. 136. Public participation in rulemaking. PART E—TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS Sec. 141. Technical correction. Sec. 142. I nvestigations; reco rds; reports; subpoenas. Sec. 143. Employment of persoiinel. Sec. 144. Technical correction. PART F—REPEALERS AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS Sec. 151. Synthetic fuel action. Sec. 152. Sepeal of interest payment provisions. Sec. 153. Joint Committee on Defense Production. Sec. 154. Persons disqualified for employment. Sec. 155. Feasibility study on uniform cost accounting standards; report submitted. Sec. 156. National commission on supplies and shortages. PART G—REAUTHORIZATION OF SELECTED PROVISIONS Sec. 161. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 162. Extension of program. Sec. 163. Presidential study. TITLE II—ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS Sec. 201. Discouraging unfair trade practices.
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Section 620
Etymology
Refers to Section 620 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
Noun
* 1) A retirement annuity contract. | WIKI |
Nikolaus Schienen
Nikolaus Schienen (1491–1556) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Trier (1519–1556).
Biography
Nikolaus Schienen was born Zell, Germany in 1491. On 29 Oct 1519, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Leo X as Auxiliary Bishop of Trier and Titular Bishop of Azotus. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of Trier until his death on 21 Aug 1556. While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of Johann von Metzenhausen, Archbishop of Trier (1532). | WIKI |
如何从pandas DataSeries中提取唯一的排列？ - 代码日志
如何从pandas DataSeries中提取唯一的排列？
使用Pandas DataSeries在Jupyter中工作我有一个包含如下行的数据集：
color: white
engineType: diesel
make: Ford
manufacturingYear: 2004
accidentCount: 123
我需要做的是绘制颜色/ engineType / make的所有排列的制造年份(x轴)的事故计数图表(y轴).任何想法如何处理这个？
为了加快速度,我有了这个初始设置：
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from pandas import DataFrame, Series
import random
colors = ['white', 'black','silver']
engineTypes = ['diesel', 'petrol']
makes = ['ford', 'mazda', 'subaru']
years = range(2000,2005)
rowCount = 100
def randomEl(data):
rand_items = [data[random.randrange(len(data))] for item in range(rowCount)]
return rand_items
df = DataFrame({
'color': Series(randomEl(colors)),
'engineType': Series(randomEl(engineTypes)),
'make': Series(randomEl(makes)),
'year': Series(randomEl(years)),
'accidents': Series([int(1000*random.random()) for i in range(rowCount)])
})
最佳答案
您可以使用groupby()通过独特颜色,engineType和组合来获取事故数量：
accident_counts = df.groupby(['color', 'engineType', 'make'])['accidents'].sum()
Matplotlib是绘制结果的一种方法：
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
accident_counts.plot(kind='bar')
plt.show()
转载注明原文：如何从pandas DataSeries中提取唯一的排列？ - 代码日志 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
mne.viz.plot_compare_evokeds#
mne.viz.plot_compare_evokeds(evokeds, picks=None, colors=None, linestyles=None, styles=None, cmap=None, vlines='auto', ci=True, truncate_yaxis='auto', truncate_xaxis=True, ylim=None, invert_y=False, show_sensors=None, legend=True, split_legend=None, axes=None, title=None, show=True, combine=None, sphere=None, time_unit='s')[source]#
Plot evoked time courses for one or more conditions and/or channels.
Parameters:
evokedsinstance of mne.Evoked | list | dict
If a single Evoked instance, it is plotted as a time series. If a list of Evokeds, the contents are plotted with their .comment attributes used as condition labels. If no comment is set, the index of the respective Evoked the list will be used instead, starting with 1 for the first Evoked. If a dict whose values are Evoked objects, the contents are plotted as single time series each and the keys are used as labels. If a [dict/list] of lists, the unweighted mean is plotted as a time series and the parametric confidence interval is plotted as a shaded area. All instances must have the same shape - channel numbers, time points etc. If dict, keys must be of type str.
picksstr | array_like | slice | None
Channels to include. Slices and lists of integers will be interpreted as channel indices. In lists, channel type strings (e.g., ['meg', 'eeg']) will pick channels of those types, channel name strings (e.g., ['MEG0111', 'MEG2623'] will pick the given channels. Can also be the string values 'all' to pick all channels, or 'data' to pick data channels. None (default) will pick all data channels. Note that channels in info['bads'] will be included if their names or indices are explicitly provided.
• If picks is None or a (collection of) data channel types, the global field power will be plotted for all data channels. Otherwise, picks will be averaged.
• If multiple channel types are selected, one figure will be returned for each channel type.
• If the selected channels are gradiometers, the signal from corresponding (gradiometer) pairs will be combined.
colorslist | dict | None
Colors to use when plotting the ERP/F lines and confidence bands. If cmap is not None, colors must be a list or dict of ints or floats indicating steps or percentiles (respectively) along the colormap. If cmap is None, list elements or dict values of colors must be ints or valid matplotlib colors; lists are cycled through sequentially, while dicts must have keys matching the keys or conditions of an evokeds dict (see Notes for details). If None, the current matplotlib color cycle is used. Defaults to None.
linestyleslist | dict | None
Styles to use when plotting the ERP/F lines. If a list or dict, elements must be valid matplotlib linestyles. Lists are cycled through sequentially; dictionaries must have keys matching the keys or conditions of an evokeds dict (see Notes for details). If None, all lines will be solid. Defaults to None.
stylesdict | None
Dictionary of styles to use when plotting ERP/F lines. Keys must match keys or conditions of evokeds, and values must be a dict of legal inputs to matplotlib.pyplot.plot(). Those values will be passed as parameters to the line plot call of the corresponding condition, overriding defaults (e.g., styles={"Aud/L": {"linewidth": 3}} will set the linewidth for “Aud/L” to 3). As with colors and linestyles, keys matching conditions in /-separated evokeds keys are supported (see Notes for details).
cmapNone | str | tuple | instance of matplotlib.colors.Colormap
Colormap from which to draw color values when plotting the ERP/F lines and confidence bands. If not None, ints or floats in the colors parameter are mapped to steps or percentiles (respectively) along the colormap. If cmap is a str, it will be passed to matplotlib.colormaps; if cmap is a tuple, its first element will be used as a string to label the colorbar, and its second element will be passed to matplotlib.colormaps (unless it is already an instance of Colormap).
Changed in version 0.19: Support for passing Colormap instances.
vlines"auto" | list of float
A list in seconds at which to plot dashed vertical lines. If "auto" and the supplied data includes 0, it is set to [0.] and a vertical bar is plotted at time 0. If an empty list is passed, no vertical lines are plotted.
cifloat | bool | callable() | None
Confidence band around each ERP/F time series. If False or None no confidence band is drawn. If float, ci must be between 0 and 1, and will set the threshold for a bootstrap (single plot)/parametric (when axes=='topo') estimation of the confidence band; True is equivalent to setting a threshold of 0.95 (i.e., the 95% confidence band is drawn). If a callable, it must take a single array (n_observations × n_times) as input and return upper and lower confidence margins (2 × n_times). Defaults to True.
truncate_yaxisbool | 'auto'
Whether to shorten the y-axis spine. If 'auto', the spine is truncated at the minimum and maximum ticks. If True, it is truncated at the multiple of 0.25 nearest to half the maximum absolute value of the data. If truncate_xaxis=False, only the far bound of the y-axis will be truncated. Defaults to 'auto'.
truncate_xaxisbool
Whether to shorten the x-axis spine. If True, the spine is truncated at the minimum and maximum ticks. If truncate_yaxis=False, only the far bound of the x-axis will be truncated. Defaults to True.
ylimdict | None
Y-axis limits for plots (after scaling has been applied). dict keys should match channel types; valid keys are for instance eeg, mag, grad, misc, csd, .. (example: ylim=dict(eeg=[-20, 20])). If None, the y-axis limits will be set automatically by matplotlib. Defaults to None.
invert_ybool
Whether to plot negative values upward (as is sometimes done for ERPs out of tradition). Defaults to False.
show_sensorsbool | int | str | None
Whether to display an inset showing sensor locations on a head outline. If int or str, indicates position of the inset (see mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator.inset_axes()). If None, treated as True if there is only one channel in picks. If True, location is upper or lower right corner, depending on data values. Defaults to None.
legendbool | int | str
Whether to show a legend for the colors/linestyles of the conditions plotted. If int or str, indicates position of the legend (see mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator.inset_axes()). If True, equivalent to 'upper left'. Defaults to True.
split_legendbool | None
Whether to separate color and linestyle in the legend. If None, a separate linestyle legend will still be shown if cmap is specified. Defaults to None.
axesNone | Axes instance | list of Axes | 'topo'
Axes object to plot into. If plotting multiple channel types (or multiple channels when combine=None), axes should be a list of appropriate length containing Axes objects. If 'topo', a new Figure is created with one axis for each channel, in a topographical layout. If None, a new Figure is created for each channel type. Defaults to None.
titlestr | None
Title printed above the plot. If None, a title will be automatically generated based on channel name(s) or type(s) and the value of the combine parameter. Defaults to None.
showbool
Whether to show the figure. Defaults to True.
combine‘mean’ | ‘median’ | ‘std’ | ‘gfp’ | callable() | None
How to aggregate across channels. If None, channels are combined by computing GFP/RMS, unless picks is a single channel (not channel type) or axes="topo", in which cases no combining is performed. If a string, "mean" uses numpy.mean(), "median" computes the marginal median, "std" uses numpy.std(), and "gfp" computes global field power for EEG channels and RMS amplitude for MEG channels. If callable(), it must operate on an array of shape (n_evokeds, n_channels, n_times) and return an array of shape (n_evokeds, n_times). For example:
combine = lambda data: np.median(data, axis=1)
Defaults to None.
spherefloat | array_like | instance of ConductorModel | None | ‘auto’ | ‘eeglab’
The sphere parameters to use for the head outline. Can be array-like of shape (4,) to give the X/Y/Z origin and radius in meters, or a single float to give just the radius (origin assumed 0, 0, 0). Can also be an instance of a spherical ConductorModel to use the origin and radius from that object. If 'auto' the sphere is fit to digitization points. If 'eeglab' the head circle is defined by EEG electrodes 'Fpz', 'Oz', 'T7', and 'T8' (if 'Fpz' is not present, it will be approximated from the coordinates of 'Oz'). None (the default) is equivalent to 'auto' when enough extra digitization points are available, and (0, 0, 0, 0.095) otherwise.
New in v0.20.
Changed in version 1.1: Added 'eeglab' option.
time_unitstr
The units for the time axis, can be “s” (default) or “ms”.
New in v1.1.
Returns:
figlist of Figure instances
A list of the figure(s) generated.
Notes
If the parameters styles, colors, or linestyles are passed as dicts, then evokeds must also be a dict, and the keys of the plot-style parameters must either match the keys of evokeds, or match a /-separated partial key (“condition”) of evokeds. For example, if evokeds has keys “Aud/L”, “Aud/R”, “Vis/L”, and “Vis/R”, then linestyles=dict(L='--', R='-') will plot both Aud/L and Vis/L conditions with dashed lines and both Aud/R and Vis/R conditions with solid lines. Similarly, colors=dict(Aud='r', Vis='b') will plot Aud/L and Aud/R conditions red and Vis/L and Vis/R conditions blue.
Color specification depends on whether a colormap has been provided in the cmap parameter. The following table summarizes how the colors parameter is interpreted:
cmap
colors
result
None
None
matplotlib default color cycle; unique color for each condition
list or dict of integers
matplotlib default color cycle; lowest integer mapped to first cycle color; conditions with same integer get same color; unspecified conditions are “gray”
list or dict of floats
ValueError
list or dict of hexadecimal color strings
the specified hex colors; unspecified conditions are “gray”
string or instance of matplotlib Colormap
None
equally spaced colors on the colormap; unique color for each condition
list or dict of integers
equally spaced colors on the colormap; lowest integer mapped to first cycle color; conditions with same integer get same color
list or dict of floats
floats mapped to corresponding colormap values
list or dict of hexadecimal color strings
TypeError
Examples using mne.viz.plot_compare_evokeds#
Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python
Overview of MEG/EEG analysis with MNE-Python
Preprocessing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data
Preprocessing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data
Regression-based baseline correction
Regression-based baseline correction
Visualizing epoched data
Visualizing epoched data
Working with Epoch metadata
Working with Epoch metadata
Auto-generating Epochs metadata
Auto-generating Epochs metadata
Visualizing Evoked data
Visualizing Evoked data
EEG analysis - Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)
EEG analysis - Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)
Spatiotemporal permutation F-test on full sensor data
Spatiotemporal permutation F-test on full sensor data
Analysing continuous features with binning and regression in sensor space
Analysing continuous features with binning and regression in sensor space
HF-SEF dataset
HF-SEF dataset
Single trial linear regression analysis with the LIMO dataset
Single trial linear regression analysis with the LIMO dataset | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Artistic swimming at the 2023 European Games – Duet free routine
The Duet free routine competition of the 2023 European Games was held on 21 and 24 June 2023 in Oswiecim, Poland. Together with the Duet Technical event, it formed part of a direct qualification competition for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Preliminary round
In the preliminary rounds all eighteen pairs of entrants competed, with the top twelve pairs progressing to the final.
Final
In the final, all twelve duets perform in reverse order of qualification. | WIKI |
241 (number)
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← 240 241 242 →
Cardinal two hundred forty-one
Ordinal 241st
(two hundred forty-first)
Factorization prime
Prime twin prime
Greek numeral ΣΜΑ´
Roman numeral CCXLI
Binary 111100012
Ternary 222213
Quaternary 33014
Quinary 14315
Senary 10416
Octal 3618
Duodecimal 18112
Hexadecimal F116
Vigesimal C120
Base 36 6P36
241 (two hundred [and] forty-one) is the natural number between 240 and 242. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics[edit]
241 is the larger of the twin primes (239, 241). Twin primes are pairs of primes separated by 2.
241 is a regular prime[1] and a lucky prime.[2]
Since 241 = 15 × 24 + 1, it is a Proth prime.
241 is a repdigit in base 15 (111).
241 is the only known Lucas–Wieferich prime to (U, V) = (3, −1).
In Chemistry[edit]
Americium-241 is the most common isotope of Americium, used in smoke detectors.
In popular culture[edit]
• Reel Big Fish wrote a song entitled "241," where the number is repeated as the only lyric.
• A short form of the phrase "Two for One" describing a discount.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
1. ^ "Sloane's A007703 : Regular primes". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-28.
2. ^ "Sloane's A031157 : Numbers that are both lucky and prime". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2016-05-28. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
F.W. Webb Company
F.W. Webb Company, founded in 1866, is a wholesale distributor of engineering and construction products, such as plumbing, heating, and HVAC fixtures. It operates in the northeastern United States.
History
The company was founded in Boston in 1866 by John Stults as the city's second wholesale dealer in plumbing fixtures. Purchased in 1933 by Roger Pope, the company is now under the third generation of Pope family ownership.
Products
F.W. Webb Company offer products and services to commercial and residential contractors as well as industrial and institutional professionals. Core markets include plumbing, heating, HVAC, commercial refrigeration, and PVF (pipe valves fittings). The company also offers building and process controls, propane gas equipment and parts, ductwork, water systems, commercial and industrial pumps, fire protection and fabrication, thermoplastic piping, and high purity (sanitary) process components.
In addition to the wholesale trade, the company serves retail customers, contractors, and interior designers at approximately 40 Frank Webb's Bath Centers throughout the northeastern United States. These showrooms feature a range of products from different manufacturers, and include customer interaction displays configured before purchases are made, to provide immediate feedback to customers regarding design questions.
* Plumbing
* Heating
* HVAC
* Refrigeration
* Pipe, Valves & Fittings
* Building Controls
* Propane Gas Equipment & Parts
* Water Systems
* Commercial & Industrial Pumps
* Industrial PVF Specialties
* Fire Protection & Fabrication
* Thermoplastic Piping
* High Purity Process Components
* Process Controls
* Water Works
Sponsorships
The company is an official sponsor of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
Facilities
* 1973 – Dover, New Hampshire
* 1975 – Portland, Maine
* 1976 – Bangor, Maine
* 1977 – Williston, Vermont
* 1978 – Merrimack, New Hampshire
* 1981 – Plattsburgh, New York; Claremont, New Hampshire; Northampton, Massachusetts
* 1982 – Stoughton, Massachusetts; Hyannis, Massachusetts
* 1983 – Windham, New York; Newport, Vermont; Glens Falls, New York
* 1985 – Caribou, Maine; Biddeford, Maine; Conway, New Hampshire; Keene, New Hampshire
* 1983 – Lewiston, Maine
* 1986 – Albany, New York; Rutland, Vermont
* 1985 – Merrimack, New Hampshire
* 1986 – Haverhill, Massachusetts
* 1987 – Waterville, Maine
* 1988 – Sanford, Maine
* 1989 – Auburn, Maine
* 1989 – Scotia, New York; Laconia, New Hampshire; Bennington, Vermont; Hartford, Connecticut; Brockton, Massachusetts; Newport, Vermont
* 1996 – Malden, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Dedham, Massachusetts; Nashua, New Hampshire; Portland, Maine; Syracuse, New York
* 2000 – Cranston, Rhode Island; Portland, Maine; Hartford, Connecticut
* 2003 – Waterbury, Connecticut; Concord, New Hampshire
* 2004 – Amherst, New Hampshire
* 2005 – Laconia, New Hampshire; Warwick, Rhode Island; Woburn, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Ellsworth, Maine; Franklin, Connecticut; Binghamton, New York; Torrington, Connecticut; Rockland, Maine; Woburn, Massachusetts; Gilford, New Hampshire; Augusta, Maine; Methuen, Massachusetts; Biddeford, Maine; Madison, New Hampshire
* 2007—Burns Cascade Co. of Syracuse, New York
* 2009—O'Connor & Senecal (OSI) of Sutton, Massachusetts
* 2010—Control Equipment Corp. (CEC) of Cazenovia, New York
* 2011—Sachs Plumbing Supplies of Stamford, Connecticut
* 2011 – Boston, Massachusetts
* 2013 – Bergen Industrial Supply of Elmwood Park, New Jersey
* 2013 – Systemation Inc. of Fairport, New York
* 2014 – Allentown, Pennsylvania
* 2014 – Watertown Supply
* 2020 – Norwich, Connecticut
Executive officers
* Jeff Pope – President
* Bob Mucciarone – Chief Operating Officer
* Ruth Martin – Senior Vice President of Human Resources
* Michael Michaud – Senior Vice President of Information Technology
* Brendan Monaghan – Senior Vice President of Operations
* Jeff Thompson – Senior Vice President of Purchasing | WIKI |
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Mathematics is most commonly known as the study of numbers. However, mathematics also looks at structures, space and change. There are many different views among mathematicians of the definition of mathematics due to the different applications in which it is used. Mathematicians look for patterns within numbers to create new theories and models to explain phenomena. These theories are used in many practical applications such as science, engineering and business. Mathematical models are used to examine real events because the reasoning provides a basis of future predictions about certain behaviors.
Mathematics is a constantly changing field. The first documented study of math was the realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common. There is also evidence of tallies found on bone from prehistoric time. This shows that people thousands of years ago has the ability to count physical objects. These people also may have been able to count time, days, seasons and years. This shows the ability to count abstract quantities. More complex mathematics was not shown to appear until 3000 BC. The Babylonians and Egyptians were found to start using arithmetic, algebra and geometry. At this time they only used mathematics for financial calculations, to build and construct and for astronomy.
Mathematics is used in many practical applications. These applications can be found in natural science, engineering, medicine, finance and the social sciences. Applied mathematics is the study of mathematics which looks at the application of mathematical knowledge to other related fields mentioned above. This is often studies closely with engineering and its applications.
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Glottertal is a municipality in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.
History
From 1567 till the Napoleonic Wars the area was part of Further Austria and therefore part of the Habsburg monarchy. Although the history of mining in the Glottertal goes back to Roman times and villages in the area are mentioned 1112 in the chronics of Abbey of Saint Peter in the Black Forest the municipal Glottertal was formed in 1970. The four former independent villages Unterglottertal, Oberglottertal, Ohrensbach und Föhrental were associated to the Glottertal municipal.
Buildings
The 1914 built Carlsbau in Glottertal was the set for the 1980s medical drama television series The Black Forest Clinic. The outside of the building and the surrounding area was filmed while the interior was filmed in a set in Hamburg. The building was used as a clinic till it was closed down in 2004.
Mining
The first archaeologic artefacts demonstrating iron smelting date back to the Roman time. The mining of silver started in the 11th century. The construction of a 15 kilometer long water channel to supply the mines with water do drive the pumps which was built in 1284 marks the importance of mining in the area. Flooding of the mines during a war period ended this activities at the end of the 12th century. The mining of silver continued on a smaller scale and in the 18th century the mining of iron and baryte was started. The last mines in the area closed before 1900.
Geography
The town is located in a small valley south east of the Kandel mountain. The valley opens to the west and the water of the small river Glotter reaches the Elz and little later the Rhine. | WIKI |
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Medical device packaging leak detectors are critical systems used in the final stages of production to help you ensure your product is safe and ready for sale. Leak detection can involve various methods depending on your production line’s specific needs. They all have, however, the same goal: to identify any potential sources of leaks that could compromise the integrity of your final product.
A leak detector will detect even the smallest amount of fluid leakage inside a carton or tray. The system can either be stand-alone or integrated with other lines, such as visual inspection, tape testing, etc. It is up to you what level of automation works best for your specific needs. Let’s take a closer look at what a medical device packaging leak detector does and how it operates.
Importance of a Medical Device Packaging Detector
The medical device packaging detector is a machine that detects leaks in the packaging of a medical device. The device detects leaks in the containers of intravenous solutions, inhalers, and other medications. The medical device packaging detector is also known as a leak tester or a leak test system.
It ensures the protection of products for their intended users so that they arrive in the best possible condition. It minimizes the risk of a flaw or defect affecting only some devices, thus, ensuring that the brand and commercial value of medical devices remains at their best at all times. Additionally, we could highlight the following other important aspects:
• Reduces Operator’s Efforts
The device detection system works by detecting container defects that occur at the moment of packaging, ensuring that an operator can sort them out with minimal effort.
• Prevents Production of Compromised Devices
It’s vital to provide your patients and clients with the best medical device packaging detectors to help prevent quality issues. A compromised device could lead to improper use or even abandonment of a product due to health complications. Most of the time, there are no indications of the failure of a medical device unless someone reports it to you. Proper packaging and sealing are essential at all times to prevent any leakage from occurring during the transportation or storage of these devices.
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Medical device packaging is a safe and reliable way to store, transport, and maintain medical devices. It can protect your product, prevent contamination, and prolong product life. Medical device packaging is not only important for the health of the patient but also for the manufacturer’s reputation and quality.
How Does a Medical Device Packaging Detector Work
The medical device packaging tester is a machine that tests the integrity of packaging material. The tester has two chambers, one containing a dry compartment and the other with water. The test area with water houses the sample and medical device packaging. The package is then forced below the water’s surface by sealing the chamber, and a compressor removes the air from the water’s surface. The test determines whether there are any leaks or holes in the packaging material. You can also use this test to check for any damage caused by moisture or chemicals.
Final Remarks
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Adenovirus-mediated delivery of p16 to p16-deficient human bladder cancer cells confers chemoresistance to cisplatin and paclitaxel
Jon Grim, Anna D'Amico, Sandra Frizelle, Joan Zhou, Robert A Kratzke, David T. Curiel
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We have previously established the efficacy of adenoviral gene delivery vectors for the treatment of bladder carcinoma in vivo. In the present work, we developed a gene therapy strategy for bladder cancer based on the replacement of the tumor suppressor p16, which is known to be mutated or deleted in a variety of human tumors, including those derived from the bladder. Previous reports have demonstrated that reconstitution of p16 has marked effects on the proliferative capacity of tumor cell lines both in vitro and in vivo, and that p16 expression causes resistance to some chemotherapeutic agents. In the present study, we describe the construction of the recombinant adenovirus Adp16, expressing the p16 gene, to evaluate the effects of transient p16 replacement in the context of bladder carcinoma. To identify candidate target cell lines, we screened a panel of bladder cancer cell lines for p16 and retinoblastoma (RB) protein expression. We demonstrate that Adp16 can mediate high-efficiency p16 replacement to the p16-negative cell lines EJ and UMUC-3. In addition, the reconstitution of p16 to the highly transducible p16-negative, RB-positive bladder cancer cell line EJ caused a profound inhibition of cell proliferation mediated by arrest in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. In contrast, the p16-positive, RB-negative cell line J82 was unaffected by this treatment. However, when adenovirally mediated p16 replacement was combined with the chemotherapeutics cisplatin and paclitaxel, a marked chemoresistance was observed in genetically corrected cells. This work has implications for future gene therapy strategies based on p16 replacement.
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This country was supposed to be a place of freedom, yet we were stopping people from coming into this country, certain things such as the Chinese exclusion act of 1882, which was then followed by restriction on admitting criminal + mentally ill. Japanese unskilled workers were also restricted. In 1885 a law was passed prohibiting contracted labor workers. Along with push + pull factors; Religious persecution, poverty, overcrowding, political and religious freedom, economic opportunities in the great plains and industrial jobs in the cities. Slums were a way to describe urban life in the northern cities. Wealth flowed during the 18-1900’s but only to the upper class of society.
The general consensus is that the model minority stereotype was created only to retain American stability (ocampo,et. al,683). There are many reasons why pinning Asian Americans as the model minority was convenient for Americans. In the 1870’s, Chinese people migrated to America, mainly California. Asian Americans were suspicious to Californians because there was a thriving vice economy in Chinatown and most Asians were not Christian.
During the 19th century, America promised land and opportunities for all. Though some groups of individuals left their homes willingly in order to take advantage of what America had to offer, others were forced to flee due to inhabitable conditions in their homelands. Both Chinese and Irish immigrants, however, were often disappointed with their treatment upon arrival in America. The Anglo-Saxons that first inhabited America viewed immigrants as uncivilized and quickly declared their superiority, forcing immigrants to work for them. They created laws that prevented groups from accessing similar privileges as them and racialized these groups based on their cultures and languages.
It allowed the Chinese that are students, teachers, merchants, or the ones that are proceeding to the United States to just want to look at the place. The Alien Contract Labor laws of 1885 made it unlawful to send aliens into the United States under contract. The only other exception are aliens who are temporarily in the United States getting married to other foreigners as secretaries, servants, or domestics; actors, artists, lecturers, and domestic servants and skilled workers working in a place that did not get established in the United States. “Increased the head tax to $4.00 (established by the Act of August 3, 1882 and raised subsequently).” The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is similar to the 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law because they both say that they prohibit illegal immigrants to not be in this country. They can possible be in this country if they follow a rule that is said.
The Chinese were not quite exotic for an American audience as in 1850s–1870s they were encouraged to migrate massively to the United States, to work at the railway construction and in the gold fields out West. Their offensive representation in the plays and then in the movies followed the hostile response they met with in states like California and Nevada because there were so many of them, they did not mind worked long hours and for peanuts. Griffith abandoned mockery of the Chinese characters, typical in some of his predecessors’ plays, and made a Chinese man a central character (in Townsend’s play a Chinese was just one of many lesser ethnic types), but still he did not avoid showing him walking with bowed legs, head down, crouching and kneeling – to make sure the spectators will not forget his inferior racial and social position. Also, his posture and his behavior, including cutting his own pigtail leave no doubt that his intensions towards white female protagonist have no sexual character whatsoever and that his servitude is simply a logical consequence of his
While in the beginning, United States and Canada were willing to accept many Japanese immigrants, they soon started to restrict and finally the migration companies had to find new destinations. Owing to the abolishment of slavery in Brazil in 1988, major source of their labor for coffee plantation from Africa were not available. They recruited European laborers form countries such as Italy yet, these were enough and so Japanese companies mutually agreed with the government of Brazil and signed a contract in
In the time that Thoreau’s book was written, many Chinese were immigrating to the United States to build the Transcontinental Railroad. Thoreau includes this parable because he knows a large amount of his audience will be Chinese and he wants to relate to them as well as everyone in the East. 8. The if then statement I will be using is “if men would… Entertainments”. If men looked at reality and didn’t live a misleading life then, things we know would look much more elaborate.
Since this occurred a few years after the Gold Rush, there were already Chines immigrants that were starting to build their new life in the United States and looking for jobs. Since they were successful, the head of the Tong Hook Ton Dramatic Company decide to expand to the east as well. Having heard that the Europeans residing in the East Coast enjoyed watching Chinese inspired theatre they thought that it was a good idea to go to the East Coast. At first they were skeptical about this opportunity and when they arrived to New York, their intuitions were correct. The European Audience did not
Many Americans were afraid that the influx of Catholics coming to the United States would grant the Pope more control over them. This reminded them too much of a king so they were worried about being controlled. To stop from Catholics from having too much sway in America, Americans started treating the them as less than people. Jenkins used the comparison of the prejudice in the 19th century to the prejudice against blacks in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This comparison makes it really easy for people in modern times to understand what it was like to be Catholic back in the 19th century.
In the 19th century, western powers such as Britain were increasing their influence across the world and were engaging in free trade to improve their economic position. One of Britain’s biggest trading partner was China and there was a huge demand for Chinese products such as Chinese tea, porcelain and silk by the British. However, the Chinese had no interest in buying the products offered by the British and this led to Britain facing a huge trade deficit. In response to this, British traders began to illegally ship opium from India to China which led to a widespread addiction to opium in China that caused many economic and social problems in China. In order to control this addiction, the Chinese government led by Lin Zexu confiscated and destroyed over 20,000 chests of opium from British merchants.
But Lincoln’s death was not a limit for the railroad because the Americans looked to bright it to the West and the East for Sierra Nevada in California. Also talks about immigrants that were born in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe. They (immigrants) lured by the promises and high wages commanded by bosses. The problems increased, when the Chinese workers whom built the railroad that crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains in California had social conflicts with California and not only that. Furthermore they had conflicts in their relationship with their superior
Deng Xiaoping’s establishment of international relations and the Four Modernizations affected the Chinese people in a positive way by making China a more modern and industrialized place. Beginning in the early 1900’s, Japan started to conquer and occupy land in China in order to gain more resources. This caused a lot of trouble for the Chinese but with the help of the Allies they managed to drive the Japanese out of China.
The Mongols did not trust the Chinese, so they had foreigners come in to govern the people. They took away the traditional Confucian way of government. In the Middle East, the Mongols took the highest positions, but gave the lower positions to the people showing that there was more trust. The Mongols didn 't disrupt the original government, instead they used it to their advantage. Mongols
In 1885, the Canadian government imposed the Chinese Immigration act. The act made the Chinese the only nationality to pay $50 dollars in order to get into Canada. In addition, this was only implemented to discourage Chinese immigrants for coming into Canada. “In 1885...federal government decided to pass the Chinese Immigrant Act...special $50 head tax on Chinese immigrants…” (Canada in the Making). In spite of this act, this did not stop the Chinese from coming to Canada. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Are there some helpers in Phobos equivalent to std::set_difference of ugly c++
Ferhat Kurtulmuş aferust at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 15:48:55 UTC 2023
I could not find a thing doing this. And I don't want to write it
from scratch. Getting a range as output is ok too. What I need is
the following:
```c++
const std::vector<int> v1{1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 9};
const std::vector<int> v2{2, 5, 7};
std::vector<int> diff;
std::set_difference(v1.begin(), v1.end(), v2.begin(),
v2.end(),
std::inserter(diff, diff.begin()));
print(v1, "∖ ");
print(v2, "= ");
print(diff, "\n");
// yielding { 1 2 5 5 5 9 } ∖ { 2 5 7 } = { 1 5 5 9 }
```
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A functional take on console program loop in F#
Often when learning a new technology I start with a simple console application in which the program is run in a loop it continues to prompt you for more input until you give some command like quit or exit or whatever you choose:
Enter input: someInput
someOutput
Enter input: otherInput
someoutPut
Enter input: quit
Thanks! Come again!
The code for this is in an imperative language is usually something like:
1: while(true)
2: {
3: Console.Write("\nEnter input:");
4: var line = Console.ReadLine();
5: if(line == "quit") break;
6:
7: doSomething(line);
8: }
9:
10: Console.WriteLine("Thanks! Come Again");
While reading some F# samples, I saw some code doing essentially the same thing which looked something like:
1: Console.Write "\nEnter input:"
2: let mutable input = Console.ReadLine()
3: while input <> "quit"
4: do
5:
6: if input <> "quit"
7: then
8: doSomething input
9: Console.Write "\nEnter input:"
10: input <- Console.ReadLine()
Now this just feels dirty! In a functional language explicit loop constructs like a while loop feel wrong. I different way of doing this which is more functional is to create an infinite list of actions. Where each action represents one iteration of any of the above loops. Then you just execute each action until some condition is met (like seeing the input “quit”).
1: let action = fun _ ->
2: Console.Write "\nEnter input: "
3: Console.ReadLine()
4:
5: let readlines = Seq.init_infinite (fun _ -> action())
6:
7: let run item = if item = "quit"
8: then Some(item)
9: else
10: parse item
11: None
12:
13: Seq.first run readlines |> ignore
14: Console.WriteLine "Thanks! Come Again"
This code makes use of the Seq.init_infinite which create a infinite sequence and Seq.first which enumerates the sequence until the passed in function returns Some.
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* 1st and III links to the Internet Archive, instead of to Google Books- as do all the examples in the documentation. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* See prevention Chuck Entz (talk) 05:05, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
* . — SGconlaw (talk) 17:57, 2 March 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
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1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,160 P-party rocker, fa-show stopper
2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,100 More Chambull, number-one club popper
3 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,100 Got a hangover like too much vodka
4 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:08,100 Can't see me with ten binoculars
5 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:09,100 So cool
6 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:10,200 No doubt by the end of the night
7 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,300 Got the clothes coming off, then I make that move
8 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:15,200 Somehow, some way gotta raise the roof, roof
9 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,170 All black shades when the sun come through
10 00:00:17,170 --> 00:00:19,100 It's on like everything goes
11 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:21,100 Wild out, baby, 'til the freak, it shows
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This talk page has not been used in a decade. Those editors with an interest in the subjects's activism in a contentious topic-area should establish their differences—and common hround—here and by consensus decide how to describe the subject and political party in neutral, well-sourced terms, conducive with WP:BLP. Serial 19:28, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
* I made a bit of an effort just now, and I should have checked the talk page first. I did not find adequate sourcing to use the "transphobic" label in Wikipedia's voice nor at all really; this party suffers from the lack of reliable coverage common to very small (in terms of both size and ideology) political parties. Based on the not-obviously-biased sources I did find, I think it is fair to describe the party as I have, that it "advocates for the rights of biological women", with a wikilink to gender-critical feminism. I pulled the source from the party's article which is being used to support "The party's main ideology is trans-exclusionary feminism" (which also links to gender-critical feminism), which I think is wording that's inappropriately skewed to the negative, but that can be discussed on that article. I also added the party's own "priorities" page as a primary reference, which reads as a mission statement: "Sex is binary / Human beings cannot change sex / Women are adult humans of the female sex". Thoughts on that? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:01, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
* We have to be incredibly careful with bad faith dog whistle phrases like "biological women". "Biological women" can only be used in quotations and it would need to be contextualised so that readers can understand that it a dishonest way of saying "cisgender women" while snidely implying that other women are not biological, i.e. are less than human. I put the phrase in quotes as a quick fix but Ivan took it out completely because it looked like scare quotes. That absolutely was not my intention but, in retrospect, I agree that it looked like that so it was perfectly fair to remove it. I don't see any strong reason to bring it back but, if we do, it would have to be as part of an attributed quotation of a sentence or a longer sentence fragment. DanielRigal (talk) 21:38, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
* I used that wording in a bit of a rush, but I agree completely with not using "biological women" in this sense. I didn't have time to explain properly, but I thought that not describing the party's ideology at all was preferable to using a term that we use quotes to indicate is politically loaded; using the quotes made it a weasel word, I thought. Not having time to think of a better approach, I just removed it and hoped that my edit summary would suffice. Apologies for that, no offence was intended.
* As for what to do about it, I think some kind of statement about their openly stated anti-gender stance should be noted; it would be falsely neutral to leave it out, particularly since that is the only thing that the organization is broadly known for. But they also deny that they are transphobic, and absent any sources saying otherwise, Wikipedia also can't say that. The Newsroom source seems to be the best we have, that article describes the party's platform as "mostly based around upholding binary views of sex and gender, preventing trans women from accessing female spaces and resisting language that portrays gender and sex as a continuum", which seems like a good match for gender-critical feminism. We could describe them as "a gender-critical feminist political party" perhaps? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:33, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
* Thanks, for tidying it up - my immediate concern was the claims made in Wikipedia's voice, but it's much better now. Serial 13:29, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
WP:CITESTYLE
@Kiwichris, I made this edit to make the refs the same per WP:CITESTYLE. You reverted that:. Why is having 1 References and all the others Notes "improve referencing"? There is no good reason to have one sfn-ref mixed in with others in an article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:59, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
* There is more than one now, and I'm sure more will be added as the article grows. Kiwichris (talk) 07:33, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* And per WP:CITESTYLE and WP:CITEVAR new ones should not be sfn in this article. I will change again, and please follow established citing going forward per guideline. And again, the Notes/References division makes no sense as it was done, compare for example Shakespeare authorship question. Waikato Times is also a reference. Other editors, please comment if you have an opinion. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* I'm having trouble following your logic, . This article was using shortened footnotes until you changed that on 12 November. And now you are accusing of changing to a non-established citation style? I'm trying to assume good faith but this is bordering on disruptive behaviour. Would you please self-revert? Using shortened footnotes is an appropriate citation style. Schwede 66 08:32, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* @Schwede66 My logic is that the article had one sfn reference (Grant, and it was used for 3 cites) that I changed on 11 November (says my edit-history to me, I'm guessing a time-zone-thing), but 30+ (I think) others. That makes sfn not "established" in this article per WP:CITEVAR. Using shortened footnotes is an appropriate citation style, yes, but not mixed in with others, per WP:CITESTYLE guidance it's all or nothing.
* Since I think I'm right and reasonable (!), I will not self-revert. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Out of curiosity, does the Notes/References division you want me to revert to look WP-good to you? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:02, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* I’ve written ten articles that have passed as GAs (see my user page if you are interested) and six of those use the citation style that this article had until you changed it. You appear to misunderstand what it is that the guidelines say, or are you telling me that those six GA reviewers all got it wrong? Would you now please self-revert, ? Schwede 66 14:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Well, take Kathy Lynch for example. IMO the only sfn ref that article has should be done ref-tag style (with in-text Template:Rp), making it land under "References" like all the others. It would also get rid of the "Citations" section. We tend to use ref/cite/source interchangeably when we discuss, but as I understand it, citations are the in-text hyperlink thingies, to have a section titled that for a lone ref doesn't look right to me and per my reading doesn't follow WP:CITESTYLE. Doesn't it look weird to you? I don't know if GA/FA-people care about that, but I'm pretty sure I've seen them asking for consistent cite-style at times.
* For another WP:OTHERCONTENT comparison, compare FA William Shakespeare where every cite is sfn-style (not counting a few ones no one has bothered to put in in sfn-shape, probably because the editor who added them didn't know how). Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:37, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* No, it doesn’t look weird to me. Schwede 66 15:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Good enough. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* The article, as it existed before the first edit by Gråbergs Gråa Sång (as far as I can find) had a logical reason to use sfn for one source. The book by Grant, Anderton: His Life and Times, was the only source that had more than one inline citation to it. Also, different pages were cited each time, so it would not have been sufficient to just use the name parameter of the <ref> tag. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* That is what Template:Rp is for. And no it wasn't, check "Young, Audrey (6 August 2006)" in your link. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* May I draw your attention to the template's documentation? is an alternative to the method of using shortened footnotes. Please note the word "alternative". It does not say it’s the only way to quote specific pages. Schwede 66 16:38, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Agree, we can use one variation or the other. If we ref an article sfn-citestyle, we note pagenumbers the sfn-way. If we ref an article ref-tag-citestyle, we use the page-param or the rp-template, whichever we think is needed per specific ref. The Poor, Christopher J pdf could atm be done with a "77-81" param and skip the rp. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:47, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Here from WP:Citing sources. The purpose of CITEVAR is to stop editors edited warring other the 'right way' to reference. It doesn't stop editors from adding references that don't match the current article style, but is does allow for is imposing one style of referencing in an article. Which referencing style to use should be a matter of talk page consensus. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:00, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Hi @ActivelyDisinterested, thanks for commenting. Would you say this counts as changing referencing style, or is it something else? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:15, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* To butt in, from my point of view that was not a change a referencing style, it was a normalization of an off-style citation to the citation format used in all the rest of the article, which is what WP:CITEVAR instructs us to do in the first place. But see below for an alternative to using which was always a rather clumsy kluge. It was necessary when I invented it, but it has been surpassed. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 21:25, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* It's simply imposing a consistent referencing style, exception three of CITEVAR under "Generally considered helpful". -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* There is no reason to impose citation style, which is an unnecessary complication, for just one or a couple of sources that are reused, especially when plain use of ref completely dominates in an article. And is basically obsolete (and I say that as the creator of the template). If you want to cite the same source multiple times at different pages, a solution requiring no additional templates at all is provided by the ref parameter of the citation templates. E.g. first do and later do This system is more robust than, which doesn't support any annotations; with ref you can so something like The ref approach requires no dual-section referencing. And using "Notes" as the heading name in either section when you do dual-section referencing is a terrible idea, because that usually refers to non-citation footnotes. If you're going to do dual-sectional referencing, try "References" and "Sources", or "Citations" and "Sources". PS: ActivelyDisinterested above is correct that WP:CITEVAR can't be used to suppress addition of valid sources just because they're not in a format you personally prefer or which better matches the rest of the article. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 21:25, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* @SMcCandlish So, with the above method, one doesn't/shouldn't name the ref? And when will you get this "re-use" into reftoolbar/VE etc? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:33, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* There wouldn't be a need to name the ref unless you were going to cite it again at p. 123, which is what the original citation is using (in my example above; I didn't bother to look what was actually used in the article). I don't use VE or reftoolbar, so I have no idea. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 21:40, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* My thought was that if this is a good system, people should know about it. How will, for example, a newbie who's studying WP:TUTORIAL or WP:REFERENCING, Template:Rp or Template:Sfn find this option? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 21:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Ok, I edited the article's Grant-ref per above recommendation:. Afaict, it works. On the plus-side, there are no in-text page numbers, sfn-style, an no extra ref-section, reftag-style. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* You can do the same with harvnb (or one of the other harv templates, and have error messaging of something is wrong. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:14, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* Yes it involves an additional template, but Category:Pages with broken anchors shows 66k+ articles with broken anchors as they don't produce any visible erros. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 22:19, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* I still don't get this demand for a consistent citation style of only full or shortened footnotes, articles on Wikipedia using a combination of both are ubiquitous. Gråbergs Gråa Sång's above claim that "it's all or nothing" seems like an overliteral interpretation. I agree with SMcCandlish that "References" or "Citations" are better headings than "Notes" for dual-sectional referencing. Kiwichris (talk) 01:38, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* And I don't get the wish to add sfn-type cites to an article that had none:. So our incomprehension is mutual. Literal reading or not, guideline and MOS:REFERENCES ("Editors may use any citation method they choose, but it should be consistent within an article.") advice against it. Possibly we also have a bit of a mutual WP:ILIKEIT situation going on. IMO, a good "headings" for sfn-style articles is "References", with subsections "Citations" and "Sources" below that. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:33, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* The reason there were no sfn-type citations in the article before I added the info from the David Grant book was they were then not needed, as all citations were for a single webpage/article. With the Grant (and later Poor) sources added, more precise footnotes were needed to add page numbers to ensure the referencing is verifiable. Hence the introduction of shortened footnotes (Jc3s5h has also pointed this out earlier). The advantage that the sfn template has over manually created anchor references is that it is a standardised template that alerts users to inconsistencies and errors automatically to avoid any unwitting depreciation of the referencing. Kiwichris (talk) 09:06, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* So we disagree on the "needed". As I see it, both works, and ref-tag was the established cite-style. IMO, finding the named refs in reftoolbar and VE is also an advantage. As is having one section for refs instead of two. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:14, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* Obviously a bit late but sfn-style, so inclusive of harvnb, author dates templates are much easier than manually keeping track of custom anchor names. It is also very useful to have automatic checks for anchor typos. You can just use sfn in invocations such as to provide contextual details. Ifly6 (talk) 01:50, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* IMO named references are not difficult to work with, they are easily accessible in both reftoolbar and VE (once you learn they're there). I also think the sfn-types are generally trickier for new-ish editors, and that perhaps many editors like the academic-ish layout/look of the sfn-system. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:16, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* You can always use harv templates with refnames / named references
* It is useful if you already have an inline reference to Gruen already, but then want to quote them somewhere else as well. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 10:28, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* There is consensus that the reference style that we had is supported by editors, with 's view an outlier. I have asked you three times before to self-revert. Will you do so now? Schwede 66 17:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* @Schwede66, you consider me an outlier though I had the support of @SMcCandlish and @ActivelyDisinterested, and consider this a 4-3 consensus for your side? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 23:47, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* And wasn't that 2 times? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 23:56, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
* There is clearly not a consensus to do what Schwede66 wants. This page was consistently using plain ref citations, and someone (not going to dig through history to find out) introduced a completely different refercing system, the style, for a single source used twice, and then unhelpfully forked the References section into two sections. That was pointless and was done without consensus, and the WP:CITEVAR procedure is to remove the inconsistent style someone injected and replace it with consistent citations that match the rest of them. makes sense at pages where numerous sources are being cited multiple times, but it is an unnecessary and unhelpful complication for both readers and editors when injected to handle a single source or just a couple of them, especially when we have multiple other methods for handling this that don't result in contrary templates and multiple refs sections. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:00, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
* I can help with that. That "someone" was Kiwichris on 4 November when he first introduced a book source and cited three separate pages from different areas of the article. Here's . That seems a very reasonable edit to me and I would have done exactly the same. Schwede 66 00:11, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
* It seems that both sides see themselves as the common sense supporters here. If discussion has mostly died down, I think WP:RFCL is the way to go now. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 00:32, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
* There's nothing in policy against Gråbergs Gråa Sång edit, and ultimately it changed nothing. The same content is verifiable by the same sources. The point of CITEVAR is to stop pointless discussions. If the article grows in the future maybe there'll be cause to change the referencing style, but couldn't this just be forgotten and everyone go back to something more useful? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 00:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
* In addition to WP:CITEVAR, see WP:SFN: Short citations can be written manually, or by using either the or templates or the referencing template. (Note that templates should not be added without consensus to an article that already uses a consistent referencing style.) While Kiwichris was certainly free to add more citations, it was a mistake to diverge from the established citation style without establishing a consensus to do so. And yes, the point of WP:CITEVAR and reminders like the one in WP:SFN are to forestall citation format warring. Someone like Kiwichris adding a citation in a format "foreign" to the article should simply be (and by Gråbergs Gråa Sång was) normalized to the format used in the rest of the article; it is not an excuse for another editor like Schwede66 to decide there is magically a new consensus in favor of the format used in a one-off edit by Kiwichris. This discussion literally should not be happening, because CITEVAR and SFN were quite clear to begin with, and their point is to prevent this kind of conflict from arising. in the first place. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:06, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
* Whether sfn is used or not, can we at least have the footnotes for the Poor source in the same format as the Grant footnotes? Both require page numbers. This is especially pertinent given that Gråbergs Gråa Sång's initial objection is about consistency... Kiwichris (talk) 05:45, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
* Absolutely, I changed the Grant because I wanted to try SMcCandlish's suggestion above. I don't have a preference on that (let's call it the rp and |ref= versions), and nobody else voiced one, except SMcCandlish, so I'll revert that change. Young, Grant and Poor now match. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:23, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Article ref Poor, Christopher J. (2005)
This source may be dubious per WP:SCHOLARSHIP. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:38, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* A doctoral thesis, for what it’s used here, is not "dubious". I would very much use it and I used that argument during the deletion discussion. Schwede 66 14:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
* This is a PhD thesis. It was probably defended; theses (and working papers for that matter) are regularly cited in scholarship. Ifly6 (talk) 01:45, 22 November 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
It's pretty common for eye doctors to have older patients come in asking if the white part of their eye, the sclera, has a growth or is turning a gray color.
Usually, the culprit is senile scleral plaque, which is commonly seen in people over the age of 70. It is a benign condition and more commonly seen in women. This condition is symmetrically found on both sides of the eye and is due to age-related degeneration and calcification of the eye muscle insertion into the eye. In one study, the size of the senile scleral plaque increased as the person aged and was not associated with any medical conditions. People are asymptomatic, as the plaques do not affect vision and no treatment is needed.
Another commonly asked question is: Why is the colored part of my eye turning white?
The colored part of the eye is the iris, which is covered by a clear layer called the cornea. It is actually the edge of the cornea that attaches to the white part of the eye that becomes grey or whitish colored.
This condition is called arcus senilis, which is seen in over 60% of people over the age of 60 and approximately 100% over the age of 80. There is no visual impairment and no treatment is needed. Sometimes when this condition is seen in younger patients, it may be related to high cholesterol, so a visit to the primary care doctor may be needed.
These are two very commonly encountered conditions that may cause distress for patients because it seems like their eyes are changing colors.
Thankfully, no treatment is needed for these two conditions, as they do not affect vision.
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Petaling Jaya City Council
{ "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoline", "ids": "Q7171630", "properties": { "stroke": "#FFCC00", "stroke-width": 6 } } The Petaling Jaya City Council (Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya, abbreviated MBPJ) is the city council which administers the city of Petaling Jaya in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 20 June 2006. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 97.2 square kilometres.
The council consists of the mayor plus twenty-four councillors appointed to serve a one-year term by the Selangor State Government. MBPJ is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure.
History
In the early 1950s, Kuala Lumpur experienced congestion as a result of a rapid population growth and squatters existing in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. To overcome this problem, the State Government identified "Effingham Estate", a 1,200-acre rubber plantation in Jalan Klang Lama to create a new settlement known as Petaling Jaya.
The party entrusted to govern the new settlement was the District Officer of the Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya Board before being taken over by a statutory body, namely the Petaling Jaya Town Authority at the end of 1954.
Petaling Jaya made history on 1 January 1964 when the Selangor State Government gazetted a Township Board with financial autonomy to govern the city.
On 1 January 1977, Petaling Jaya Town Authority was upgraded to the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ), pursuant to the Local Government Act 1976 by the government. On 20 June 2006, the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council was upgraded as the Petaling Jaya City Council.
Now, the administrative area of MBPJ is 97.2 square kilometres which is rapidly growing. Petaling Jaya has a total population of over 619,925 people and the number of property holding of 217,930. Petaling Jaya is now known as the leading growth centre in Selangor.
The City Council consists of 24 councillors led by a mayor. Councillors are appointed by the Selangor State Executive Council. The Mayor is an officer of the Federal Government appointed by the state administration after obtaining the consent of the Menteri Besar. A mayor works full-time, assisted by a Deputy Mayor and Head of the Departments in setting and implementing the vision, mission, quality policy, objectives and activities of the council. The Council approved a Council legislation draft and forming policies to be implemented by the departments.
Presidents & Mayors of Petaling Jaya
Since 1977, the Municipal & city has been led by four mayors. The previous and incumbent mayors are listed as below:
Current councillors
Twenty-one councillors were sworn in on 18 January 2024, while the other four vacancies were filled on 30 April 2024.
City Council Zones
The Petaling Jaya City Council is subdivided into twenty-four zones that cover the entire authority. Each zone comprises the different sections of Petaling Jaya.
Former councillors
=== 2023 term ===
=== 2018–2020 term ===
Sports
* MBPJ FC | WIKI |
Page:The Female-Impersonators 1922 book scan.djvu/136
110 intimacy with heavy drinkers, came to a more and more rational loathing.
Alcoholics are by far the greatest curse of the Caucasian race. I have had almost unequalled opportunities for studying venereal diseases. My twelve years of having roues and filles de joies for bosom friends taught me that the presence of alcohol in the blood is the sine qua non of venereal disease. Perhaps my greatest contribution to the betterment and happiness of humanity is the epigram original with myself:. But it is necessary to be a. Mere moderation does not confer immunity. The total abstainer may possibly contract venereal disease, but it is sure to be benign, almost negligible, and inflicting no permanent injury. Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, who as army surgeon had extensive experience in the treatment of venereal disease, wrote in the, 1917, page 458: "In my opinion, alcohol bears the responsibility more than any other single agent—indeed more than all the others put together—for ensuring venereal infection."]
"Jennie, why not take a cocktail instead of a lemonade? We want to warm you up. Then you will give us some of your recitations and songs. Won't you drink a few cocktails for my sake?"
"I would not put the poison into my system for anybody! I do not need that kind of stimulant. You know what kind I need to get warmed up to declaiming and singing!
""'I am a-thirst, but not for wine;
The stimulant I long for is divine;
Poured only from your eyes in mine!" | WIKI |
Back from the Grave, Volume 4 (CD)
Back from the Grave, Volume 4 (CD) is the fourth installment in the Back from the Grave compact disc-exclusive series of garage rock compilations assembled by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. It was released on October 10, 2000. Its track listing differs from that of the LP version, which is part of the Back From the Grave LP-edition series, also on Crypt. In keeping with all of the entries in the series, and as indicated in the subheading which reads "Raw 'n' Crude Mid-60s Garage Punk!," this collection consists of many songs which display the rawer and more aggressive side of the genre and are often characterized by the use of fuzztone-distorted guitars and rough vocals. Accordingly, the set generally excludes psychedelic, folk rock, and pop-influenced material in favor of basic primitive rock and roll. The packaging features a booklet containing well-researched liner notes written by Tim Warren which conveys basic information about each song and group, such as origin, recording date, and biographical sketches, usually written in a conversational style that includes occasional slang, anecdotes, humorous asides. The liner notes are noticeably opinionated, sometimes engaging in tongue-in-cheek insults directed at other genres of music. The booklet also includes photographs of the bands, and the front cover features a highly satirical cartoon by Mort Todd depicting revivified "rock and roll" zombies who, on this occasion, with the help of Batman's sidekick, Robin, have taken the 1966 TV series Batmobile out for a "wild joyride" and are intent on causing as much mayhem as possible and "lassoing" unsuspecting bystanders—only on this outing, their "victims" are more "randomly selected" than as customarily portrayed on Back from the Grave sleeves.
The set begins with the fuzz-drenched "That's for Sure" by Riverside, California's the Mustangs. The Heathens, from Schenectady, New York, perform "The Other Way Around," which contains the line "I'd rather be dying with you girl, than be already dead with her!" Half-Pint & the Fifths sing the blues-based "Orphan Boy" about the hard life of an orphan. Phoenix's The Spiders, who would later attain fame as Alice Cooper, perform two songs on the set, "Don't Blow Your Mind" and "No Price Tag." The Mystic Five, from Venetia, Pennsylvania, serve up the highly primitive protopunk of "Are You for Real, Girl?" Ty Wagner's "Slander" is the fifteenth track. "Do You like What You See" is by the Invasion from Milwaukee. Chicago's the travel Agency perform the raunchy "Jailbait." It's Us form Kenellon, New Jersey play "Don't Want Your Lovin'" and the Outsiders from Tampa Florida (not to be confused with the better-known Ohio band of the same name) sing "She's Comin' on Stronger." Akron, Ohio's the Interns play "I've Got Something to Say." The set closes with "True Love Knows" by Beep Beep & the Roadrunners.
Track listing
* 1) The Mustangs: "That's for Sure" 2:07
* 2) The Tyme: "Land of 1,000 Dances" 3:23
* 3) Noblemen: "Short Time" 2:03
* 4) The Heathens: "The Other Way Around" 2:39
* 5) The Snails: "The Snails' Love Theme" 2:49
* 6) The Retreds: "Black Mona Lisa" 2:58
* 7) Half-Pint & the Fifths: "Orphan Boy" 2:26
* 8) The Spiders "Don't Blow Your Mind" 2:36
* 9) The Grifs: "Keep Dreamin'" 2:09
* 10) Spiders: "No Price Tag" 2:05
* 11) Mike's Messengers: "Gone and Left Me" 2:58
* 12) The Mystic Five: "Are You for Real, Girl?" 2:48
* 13) The Cavaliers: "7 Days of Cryin'" 2:03
* 14) The Hides: "Don't Be Difficult" 2:39
* 15) Ty Wagner: "Slander" 2:07
* 16) The Invasion: "Do You Like What You See?" 2:09
* 17) The Travel Agency: "Jailbait" 2:54
* 18) The Ron-De-Voos: "The Maid" 2:14
* 19) It's Us: "Don't Want Your Lovin'" 2:49
* 20) The Moguls: "Ski Bum" 2:21
* 21) Bel-Aires: "Ya Ha Be Be" 2:37
* 22) Reasons Why: "All I Really Need Is Love" 2:22
* 23) The Outsiders: "She's Comin' on Stronger" 2:20
* 24) Roy Junior: "Victim of Circumstances" 2:21
* 25) Children of Darkness: "She's Mine" 2:35
* 26) The Interns: "I've Got Something to Say" 3:27
* 27) Larry and the Blue Notes: "Night of the Sadist" 2:11
* 28) The Bryds: "Your Lies" 2:25
* 29) The Trojans of Evol: "Through the Night" 2:29
* 30) Beep Beep & the Roadrunners: "True Love Knows" 2:06
Catalogue and release information
* Compact disc (Crypt CD: CR-0013, released on CD in 2000) | WIKI |
Utiaritichthys
Utiaritichthys is a genus of serrasalmid fish found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins in tropical South America. The adults are typically found in rapidly flowing water where they feed on aquatic plants in the family Podostemaceae and filamentous algae. They reach up to 32.2 cm in standard length.
The monophyly and taxonomic position of the genus is not fully resolved. The only clear difference from Myloplus is the comparatively longer body of Utiaritichthys.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* Utiaritichthys esguiceroi Pereira & R. M. C. Castro, 2014
* Utiaritichthys longidorsalis Jégu, Tito de Morais & dos Santos, 1992
* Utiaritichthys sennaebragai A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937 | WIKI |
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1. Hadoop Common
2. HADOOP-2060
DFSClient should choose a block that is local to the node where the client is running
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When I chase down the DFSClient code to see how the data locality impact the dfs read throughput,
I realized that DFSClient does not use data locality info (at least not obvious to me)
when it chooses a block for read from the available replicas.
Here is the relevant code:
/**
* Pick the best node from which to stream the data.
* Entries in <i>nodes</i> are already in the priority order
*/
private DatanodeInfo bestNode(DatanodeInfo nodes[],
AbstractMap<DatanodeInfo, DatanodeInfo> deadNodes)
throws IOException {
if (nodes != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
if (!deadNodes.containsKey(nodes[i])) {
return nodes[i];
}
}
}
throw new IOException("No live nodes contain current block");
}
private DNAddrPair chooseDataNode(LocatedBlock block)
throws IOException {
int failures = 0;
while (true) {
DatanodeInfo[] nodes = block.getLocations();
try {
DatanodeInfo chosenNode = bestNode(nodes, deadNodes);
InetSocketAddress targetAddr = DataNode.createSocketAddr(chosenNode.getName());
return new DNAddrPair(chosenNode, targetAddr);
} catch (IOException ie) {
String blockInfo = block.getBlock() + " file=" + src;
if (failures >= MAX_BLOCK_ACQUIRE_FAILURES) {
throw new IOException("Could not obtain block: " + blockInfo);
}
if (nodes == null || nodes.length == 0) {
LOG.info("No node available for block: " + blockInfo);
}
LOG.info("Could not obtain block " + block.getBlock() + " from any node: " + ie);
try {
Thread.sleep(3000);
} catch (InterruptedException iex) {
}
deadNodes.clear(); //2nd option is to remove only nodes[blockId]
openInfo();
failures++;
continue;
}
}
}
It seems to pick the first good replica.
This means that even though some replica is local to the node where the client runs,
it may actually pick a remote replica.
Map/reduce tries to schedule a mapper to a node where some copy of the input split data is local to the node.
However, if the DFSClient does not use that info in choosing replica for read, the mapper may well have to read data
from the network, even though a local replica is available.
I hope I missed something and misunderstood the code.
Otherwise, this will be a serious problem to performance.
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For virtual machines with disproportionately large memory consumption, you can use advanced options to manually override the default virtual CPU settings.
You can add these advanced options to the virtual machine configuration file.
Advanced Options for Virtual NUMA Controls
Option
Description
Default Value
cpuid.coresPerSocket
Determines the number of virtual cores per virtual CPU socket. If the value is greater than 1, also determines the size of virtual NUMA nodes if a virtual machine has a virtual NUMA topology. You can set this option if you know the exact virtual NUMA topology for each physical host.
1
numa.vcpu.maxPerVirtualNode
If cpuid.coresPerSocket is too restrictive as a power of two, you can set numa.vcpu.maxPerVirtualNode directly. In this case, do not set cpuid.coresPerSocket.
8
numa.autosize
When you set this option, the virtual NUMA topology has the same number of virtual CPUs per virtual node as there are cores on each physical node.
FALSE
numa.autosize.once
When you create a virtual machine template with these settings, the settings are guaranteed to remain the same every time you subsequently power on the virtual machine. The virtual NUMA topology will be reevaluated if the configured number of virtual CPUs on the virtual machine is modified.
TRUE
numa.vcpu.min
Minimum number of virtual CPUs in a virtual machine that are required in order to generate a virtual NUMA topology.
9
Note
When you set numa.autosize to TRUE, and if the configuration is set up manually or with a script, some guests might not be able to handle dynamic changes.
For example, a Linux application configured with the numactl system utility is set up and tested on one physical host with four cores per node. The host requires two NUMA nodes for a virtual machine with eight virtual CPUs. If the same virtual machine is run on a system with eight cores per node, which might occur during a vMotion operation, and numa.autosize is set to TRUE, only one virtual NUMA node will be created (rather than two virtual NUMA nodes). When numactl references the second virtual NUMA node, the operation will fail.
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Python – Strings
Strings are amongst the most popular types in Python. We can create them simply by enclosing characters in quotes. Python treats single quotes the same as double quotes. Creating strings is as simple as assigning a value to a variable. For example −
var1 = 'Hello World!'
var2 = "Python Programming"
Accessing Values in Strings
Python does not support a character type; these are treated as strings of length one, thus also considered a substring.
To access substrings, use the square brackets for slicing along with the index or indices to obtain your substring. For example − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
var1 = 'Hello World!'
var2 = "Python Programming"
print "var1[0]: ", var1[0]
print "var2[1:5]: ", var2[1:5]
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
var1[0]: H
var2[1:5]: ytho
Updating Strings
You can “update” an existing string by (re)assigning a variable to another string. The new value can be related to its previous value or to a completely different string altogether. For example − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
var1 = 'Hello World!'
print "Updated String :- ", var1[:6] + 'Python'
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
Updated String :- Hello Python
Escape Characters
Following table is a list of escape or non-printable characters that can be represented with backslash notation.
An escape character gets interpreted; in a single quoted as well as double quoted strings.
Backslash notationHexadecimal characterDescription
\a0x07Bell or alert
\b0x08Backspace
\cxControl-x
\C-xControl-x
\e0x1bEscape
\f0x0cFormfeed
\M-\C-xMeta-Control-x
\n0x0aNewline
\nnnOctal notation, where n is in the range 0.7
\r0x0dCarriage return
\s0x20Space
\t0x09Tab
\v0x0bVertical tab
\xCharacter x
\xnnHexadecimal notation, where n is in the range 0.9, a.f, or A.F
String Special Operators
Assume string variable a holds ‘Hello’ and variable b holds ‘Python’, then −
OperatorDescriptionExample
+Concatenation – Adds values on either side of the operatora + b will give HelloPython
*Repetition – Creates new strings, concatenating multiple copies of the same stringa*2 will give -HelloHello
[]Slice – Gives the character from the given indexa[1] will give e
[ : ]Range Slice – Gives the characters from the given rangea[1:4] will give ell
inMembership – Returns true if a character exists in the given stringH in a will give 1
not in Membership – Returns true if a character does not exist in the given stringM not in a will give 1
r/RRaw String – Suppresses actual meaning of Escape characters. The syntax for raw strings is exactly the same as for normal strings with the exception of the raw string operator, the letter “r,” which precedes the quotation marks. The “r” can be lowercase (r) or uppercase (R) and must be placed immediately preceding the first quote mark.print r’\n’ prints \n and print R’\n’prints \n
%Format – Performs String formattingSee at next section
String Formatting Operator
One of Python’s coolest features is the string format operator %. This operator is unique to strings and makes up for the pack of having functions from C’s printf() family. Following is a simple example − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
print "My name is %s and weight is %d kg!" % ('Zara', 21)
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
My name is Zara and weight is 21 kg!
Here is the list of complete set of symbols which can be used along with % −
Format SymbolConversion
%ccharacter
%sstring conversion via str() prior to formatting
%isigned decimal integer
%dsigned decimal integer
%uunsigned decimal integer
%ooctal integer
%xhexadecimal integer (lowercase letters)
%Xhexadecimal integer (UPPERcase letters)
%eexponential notation (with lowercase ‘e’)
%Eexponential notation (with UPPERcase ‘E’)
%ffloating point real number
%gthe shorter of %f and %e
%Gthe shorter of %f and %E
Other supported symbols and functionality are listed in the following table −
SymbolFunctionality
*argument specifies width or precision
left justification
+display the sign
<sp>leave a blank space before a positive number
#add the octal leading zero ( ‘0’ ) or hexadecimal leading ‘0x’ or ‘0X’, depending on whether ‘x’ or ‘X’ were used.
0pad from left with zeros (instead of spaces)
%‘%%’ leaves you with a single literal ‘%’
(var)mapping variable (dictionary arguments)
m.n.m is the minimum total width and n is the number of digits to display after the decimal point (if appl.)
Triple Quotes
Python’s triple quotes comes to the rescue by allowing strings to span multiple lines, including verbatim NEWLINEs, TABs, and any other special characters.
The syntax for triple quotes consists of three consecutive single or double quotes. Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
para_str = """this is a long string that is made up of
several lines and non-printable characters such as
TAB ( \t ) and they will show up that way when displayed.
NEWLINEs within the string, whether explicitly given like
this within the brackets [ \n ], or just a NEWLINE within
the variable assignment will also show up.
"""
print para_str
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result. Note how every single special character has been converted to its printed form, right down to the last NEWLINE at the end of the string between the “up.” and closing triple quotes. Also note that NEWLINEs occur either with an explicit carriage return at the end of a line or its escape code (\n) −
this is a long string that is made up of
several lines and non-printable characters such as
TAB ( ) and they will show up that way when displayed.
NEWLINEs within the string, whether explicitly given like
this within the brackets [
], or just a NEWLINE within
the variable assignment will also show up.
Raw strings do not treat the backslash as a special character at all. Every character you put into a raw string stays the way you wrote it − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
print 'C:\\nowhere'
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
C:\nowhere
Now let’s make use of raw string. We would put expression in r’expression’ as follows − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
print r'C:\\nowhere'
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
C:\\nowhere
Unicode String
Normal strings in Python are stored internally as 8-bit ASCII, while Unicode strings are stored as 16-bit Unicode. This allows for a more varied set of characters, including special characters from most languages in the world. I’ll restrict my treatment of Unicode strings to the following − Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python
print u'Hello, world!'
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result −
Hello, world!
As you can see, Unicode strings use the prefix u, just as raw strings use the prefix r.
Built-in String Methods
Python includes the following built-in methods to manipulate strings −
Sr.No.Methods with Description
1capitalize() Capitalizes first letter of string
2center(width, fillchar) Returns a space-padded string with the original string centered to a total of width columns.
3count(str, beg= 0,end=len(string)) Counts how many times str occurs in string or in a substring of string if starting index beg and ending index end are given.
4decode(encoding=’UTF-8′,errors=’strict’) Decodes the string using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults to the default string encoding.
5encode(encoding=’UTF-8′,errors=’strict’) Returns encoded string version of string; on error, default is to raise a ValueError unless errors is given with ‘ignore’ or ‘replace’.
6endswith(suffix, beg=0, end=len(string)) Determines if string or a substring of string (if starting index beg and ending index end are given) ends with suffix; returns true if so and false otherwise.
7expandtabs(tabsize=8) Expands tabs in string to multiple spaces; defaults to 8 spaces per tab if tabsize not provided.
8find(str, beg=0 end=len(string)) Determine if str occurs in string or in a substring of string if starting index beg and ending index end are given returns index if found and -1 otherwise.
9index(str, beg=0, end=len(string)) Same as find(), but raises an exception if str not found.
10isalnum() Returns true if string has at least 1 character and all characters are alphanumeric and false otherwise.
11isalpha() Returns true if string has at least 1 character and all characters are alphabetic and false otherwise.
12isdigit() Returns true if string contains only digits and false otherwise.
13islower() Returns true if string has at least 1 cased character and all cased characters are in lowercase and false otherwise.
14isnumeric() Returns true if a unicode string contains only numeric characters and false otherwise.
15isspace() Returns true if string contains only whitespace characters and false otherwise.
16istitle() Returns true if string is properly “titlecased” and false otherwise.
17isupper() Returns true if string has at least one cased character and all cased characters are in uppercase and false otherwise.
18join(seq) Merges (concatenates) the string representations of elements in sequence seq into a string, with separator string.
19len(string) Returns the length of the string
20ljust(width[, fillchar]) Returns a space-padded string with the original string left-justified to a total of width columns.
21lower() Converts all uppercase letters in string to lowercase.
22lstrip() Removes all leading whitespace in string.
23maketrans() Returns a translation table to be used in translate function.
24max(str) Returns the max alphabetical character from the string str.
25min(str) Returns the min alphabetical character from the string str.
26replace(old, new [, max]) Replaces all occurrences of old in string with new or at most max occurrences if max given.
27rfind(str, beg=0,end=len(string)) Same as find(), but search backwards in string.
28rindex( str, beg=0, end=len(string)) Same as index(), but search backwards in string.
29rjust(width,[, fillchar]) Returns a space-padded string with the original string right-justified to a total of width columns.
30rstrip() Removes all trailing whitespace of string.
31split(str=””, num=string.count(str)) Splits string according to delimiter str (space if not provided) and returns list of substrings; split into at most num substrings if given.
32splitlines( num=string.count(‘\n’)) Splits string at all (or num) NEWLINEs and returns a list of each line with NEWLINEs removed.
33startswith(str, beg=0,end=len(string)) Determines if string or a substring of string (if starting index beg and ending index end are given) starts with substring str; returns true if so and false otherwise.
34strip([chars]) Performs both lstrip() and rstrip() on string.
35swapcase() Inverts case for all letters in string.
36title() Returns “titlecased” version of string, that is, all words begin with uppercase and the rest are lowercase.
37translate(table, deletechars=””) Translates string according to translation table str(256 chars), removing those in the del string.
38upper() Converts lowercase letters in string to uppercase.
39zfill (width) Returns original string leftpadded with zeros to a total of width characters; intended for numbers, zfill() retains any sign given (less one zero).
40isdecimal() Returns true if a unicode string contains only decimal characters and false otherwise.
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How Do I Know When My Compactor Needs to Be Serviced?
With the help of waste management equipment modern urban centres can maintain a clean and sanitary environment. One of the best tools for garbage control is a trash compactor – a heavy equipment machine that uses hydraulic system pressure to compress waste and simplify its storage. Condensed trash also reduces the frequency of necessary transportation, allowing trucks to store more materials on their way to disposal.
However, while trash compactors are sturdy machines, a frequent contact with dirt, debris, glass and other abrasive materials during the compaction process can damage the machine and diminish its optimal performance. In this beginner’s guide, we, with the help of equipment specialists at Frontu, will explain the basics of regular servicing for a trash compactor. From a basic maintenance schedule to regular preventative maintenance procedures, here you will learn the basics to maintain the machine’s proper operation and save money.
How does a compactor work?
There are different types of compactors that get damaged more than others. Trash compactor trucks have built-in compactors, which makes them a lot more mobile than stationary compactors, as they can compress the materials during the standard garbage collection route.
For the compaction mechanism, the machine uses hydraulic rams to push down the materials with great force to compress the material within the chamber. The power conversion comes from the hydraulic system, which pressurises the hydraulic fluid with a pump. As it travels through the hydraulic hoses to the cylinder within the hydraulic rams. The hydraulic fluid pushes the piston, which exerts the force on the surface that crushes the object in the chamber.
What is the life expectancy of a compactor?
On average, trash compactors can last about 10 to 15 years, while some stay active for up to 20, thanks to periodic servicing and swift replacement of damaged components. Stationary compactors can last even longer, as their structural integrity is not affected by bumps and vibration-induced damage, typical for machines that are integrated into trucks.
Another influential factor is the model of your equipment. Some industrial machines can last longer due to better design or stronger components than others, despite being categorised in the same way. All things considered, you can still avoid these issues and even increase operation hours with proper maintenance.
How do you maintain commercial trash compactors?
Trash compactors are relatively simple machines, and with little attention to detail, anyone can learn to service them in no time. This section covers the core concepts of trash compactor maintenance that will teach you to periodically check your equipment, identify essential fixes, and avoid costly repairs.
Visual examination
Regular visual inspections are the key of an effective maintenance program. Trash compactors are sturdy machines, so periodic maintenance checkups should begin with weekly or monthly visual examination processes. Operators inspect the exterior of the machine for any signs of depreciation before scanning the state of internal components.
For extra safety in more dangerous working conditions, workers can make quick inspections on a daily basis to make sure nothing is causing extra damage to the compactor. Even better, visual examinations can be done much faster and not as frequently if the machine’s state is tracked with heavy equipment software, which uses sensors to assess the state and effectiveness of key components.
Equipment cleaning
Compactor cleaning is another key component of a regular maintenance plan. The removal of abrasive materials will keep the ram in optimal condition, and a clean chamber will prevent contaminants from reaching and damaging internal components.
Less frequent cleaning procedures also cover the replacement of filters for stable air intake and removal of impurities from hydraulic oil and air-dependent parts.
Fluid levels and lubrication
When it comes to fluid maintenance needs, we structure each priority on how it benefits the work output and minimises equipment downtime. That is why, we start these procedures with inspection and replenishment of hydraulic fluid levels. After that comes the lubrication of moving parts: hydraulic rams, grease fittings, pivot points, and the components within the power unit. Regular lubrication and fluid replacement will prevent excessive damage to your trash compactor.
Safety precautions
Inspection of safety guards and regular servicing of electrical connections, with the help of skilled technicians, ensures that all parts work as intended. An optimised machine is a safe machine, but if you don’t know where to start, read the manufacturer’s manual and follow the safety guidelines for waste management machinery in the United Kingdom, advised by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Component replacement
The key to effective preventative maintenance lies in combining the previously mentioned strategies to identify gradual equipment damage and prepare suitable replacement parts ahead of time. When all potential damages are accounted for, equipment managers can make optimal replacements at the right time, making sure that they are ruined, but operational components do not cause collateral damage to other parts.
Operator training
Levels of operator training can different depending on the type of your trash compactor. A stationary machine requires its operator to understand the functionality of safety guards, and what types of waste cannot be used in the compression and recycling process. By training employees to not put bio-hazardous and flammable materials, glass, electronic components, and other various chemicals, you can extend the lifetime of a trash compactor due to elimination of many damaging factors.
For trash compactor trucks, the operator’s competence requirements add truck driving skills. A properly handled vehicle will suffer less damages during operation hours, which will indirectly lower the repair and maintenance costs.
A Recommended maintenance schedule for trash compactors
Below are the recommended servicing intervals for the average trash compactor. Keep in mind that different models will have unique servicing needs, so it is always recommended to have a manufacturer’s manual by your side and make personalised adjustments based on the workload of your equipment
Monthly maintenance
Monthly servicing procedures focus on visual examination of potential damages, fluid servicing, and cleaning. A clean compactor will work better, as removing contaminants will not damage the machine’s components.
Quarterly maintenance
Quarterly maintenance tasks grease the moving parts to minimise friction – another damaging factor for heavy equipment machines. Apply grease and replace filter parts. On top of that, quarterly checkups are a great time to perform additional safety checks, especially if safety guards show signs of damage or malfunction
Annual maintenance
Every 6 to 12 months, compactors need to be serviced by specialised personnel for testing and servicing of the control box, power transmission mechanisms, and electrical systems. Annual equipment testing is a long ordeal that includes additional inspections of previously serviced components and maintenance of logs to keep an eye on the changes of their state.
Regular preventative maintenance tips for recycling equipment
• Read the owner’s manual. Most trash compactors come with a thorough documentation provided by the manufacturer that will help you pinpoint the exact servicing needs and the recommended maintenance frequency
• Use a strict maintenance checklist. A linear servicing process provides a solid structure for any regular maintenance plan. Organise your servicing plan in a descending priority order and add conditional changes later.
• Software assistance for equipment maintenance. Modern heavy equipment machines have sensors, capable of tracking its overall state and inform the operator about any signs of damage. The incorporation of heavy equipment software gives a great overview on the compactor’s help, and managers can oversee all waste management tools under one system.
Summary
Keeping trash compactor machines in optimal condition is necessary to maintain a clean environment. The amount of trash only keeps growing, therefore frequent maintenance tasks for recycling equipment should be at the top of priorities for waste management companies.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. AUG. is, 1911
Some time ago a portion of the paper became discoloured through water finding its wny through the roof. By accident a roll of the identical wall-paper was found in a store cupboard. This was used, and it is almost impossible to-day to say where the strip of new paper was placed.
W. G. WILLIS WATSON. Exeter.
The best general accounts of wall-papers are in Havard's ' Dictionnaire d'Ameuble- ment et Decoration ' and in Larousse's ' Grand Dictionnaire.' Both these works contain encyclopaedic articles crystallizing all the important data, historical and artistic, under the heading ' Papier-peint.' The chief wall -paper factories on the Continent were at Bixheim, Lyon, Metz, Caen, Tou- louse, Epinal, and Le Mans. The great centre in Paris for the sale of wall-papers is in the Faubourg St. Antoine.
Beckmann's ' Inventions ' is a little out of date, but it has a lengthy historical article on wall-papers. There was published in Liverpool in 1875 ' The History of Paper- Hangings, with a Review of other Modes of Mural Decoration,' by G. H. Morton. I have not seen this book, and it is not in the British Museum. Other authorities are D. Kaeppelin, ' Fabrication de Papier- Peint,' in E. Lacroix's ' Etudes sur 1'Exposi- tion de 1867,' vol. i. (1867) a later edition was issued (perhaps separately) in 1881 ; K. Sanborn, ' Old -Time Wall-Papers,' 1905; and A. S. Jennings, 'Wall -Paper Decora- tions,' 1907. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
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THE MARQUIS DE SPINETO, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (11 S. ix. 510). I have just seen in 'N. & Q.' of 27 June that inquiries are being made concerning the Marquis de Spineto.
From the Burial Register of All Saints', Cambridge :
" August 24th, 1812. Matilda, wife of Nicola D'Auria, Marchese di Spineto of the Kingdom of Naples, was buried ; aged 20."
Her surname is unknown.
From Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal, Isle of Ely Herald, and Huntingdon- shire Gazette of 1 Sept., 1849, in the obituary notice of the Marquis :
"....was a native of Italy. In early life he held a commission in a regiment of cavalry, and fought under the Austrian colours at the Battle of Marengo. Through life he was on the side of the established order, and the sincerity of bis attachment to that cause was exemplified by his sufferings on its behalf. Upon the ascendancy of Napoleon he quitted his native country, choosing
that course rather than the more profitable one of deserting his principles and paying court to Murat, King of Naples. He accompanied Lord Nelson to England, being upon terms of intimacy with that immortal hero, and for some time after- wards, being cut off from his paternal property, he came down to Cambridge, and about the year 1807 was nominated by Professor Smyth to the academic office of Italian -teacher, which he filled to the day of his death."
The Marquis's eldest son, Samuel Marie Rocco Doria, was born 14 Feb., 1807, in the county of Middlesex. This has been gathered from the Registers of Admission of Shrews- bury School, Felsted School, and St. John's College, Cambridge.
Can any reader tell me the place and date of the Marquis's first marriage ? (The second was in Edinburgh in 1814.) In what parish was Samuel born ?
The two other children of the first mar- riage, Matilda, born 1 Oct., 1808, and Adair Andrew, born 17 Sept., 1810, were baptized at All Saints', Cambridge, 12 Oct., 1813, and were presumably born in Cambridge.
GLORIA SANER (great-granddaughter of the Marquis).
THE CUSANI (11 S. x. 90). May one suggest that the savage custom alluded to was, perhaps, observed among the Cumani, a tribe of the Turkish race, described by the Byzantine historians of the Middle Ages, who first invaded Rxissia in the eleventh century ? After having been driven back by the Tatars in the thirteenth century they entered Hungary, and received there a separate district. Their descendants still exist between the Danube and the River Tisza, but are now mostly mixed up with the Magyar people of Hungary. H. K.
Herodotus (v. 4) tells this story of the Trausi. I cannot trace Cusani. H. C.
VOLTAIRE IN LONDON (11 S. ix. 70). In the first volume of Parton's ' Life of Voltaire ' it is stated that Voltaire was, for much of his time in England, at the house of Everard Falkener, silk and cloth merchant (afterwards Sir E. Falkener, English Ambas- sador at Constantinople), at Wandsworth. No more details of the address are given.
DAVID OWDEN.
THE STONES OF LONDON (11 S. vi. 429, 515; vii. 16, 77, 211 ; viii. 18). Small marble slabs from the Tivoli Music -Hall in the Strand, lately demolished, have been used in the construction of a footpath around a bowling green laid out on the local recreation ground at Woking, Surrey. SYL VIOLA. | WIKI |
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Does anyone have experience using VecDeque in an Anchor project?
I have the following structure:
#[account]
pub struct Market {
pub bids: VecDeque<Order>,
pub asks: VecDeque<Order>,
pub quote_token: Pubkey,
pub base_token: Pubkey,
}
It compiles just fine but running anchor test results in the following:
IdlError: Type not found: {"name":"bids","type":{"defined":"VecDeque<Order>"}}
at Function.fieldLayout (/home/user/Downloads/CLOB/node_modules/@coral-xyz/anchor/src/coder/borsh/idl.ts:100:19)
at /home/user/Downloads/CLOB/node_modules/@coral-xyz/anchor/src/coder/borsh/idl.ts:128:28
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
From this, I infer that anchor-ts can't work with the VecDeque structure. Is there another double-ended queue structure that Anchor supports? If not, is my best best to write the tests in Rust?
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Not sure if it is supported, but you won't see much (really any) performance gain over Vec. Your on-chain memory usage is typically limited to a few hundred items at best and push/pop from the head for Vec vs VecDeque will be about the same when the lists are that small. You're not going to see any appreciable difference in performance until the number of items is in the tens of thousands.
VecDeque keeps buffer space in the middle, e.g. [tail data n-3, n-2, n-1][buffer][head data 1, 2, 3], which would make it hard to serialize without wasting the middle buffer. If we serialized it without the buffer, then it would be full and need to realloc after being deserialized (if you try to add any items), so at that point it's equivalent to a realloc with VecDeque::from(some_vec); anyways.
So if you really need VecDeque, just store a Vec on-chain on realloc into a VecDeque when loading it.
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Chōjū-ji
Chōjū-ji (長寿寺) is a Buddhist temple in the city of Konan, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Tendai school of Japanese Buddhism. Its main image is a hibutsu statue of Jizō Bosatsu. Its Hondō is a National Treasure.: It is also referred to as Higashi-dera (東寺), whereas the temple of Jōraku-ji (長寿寺) is referred to as Nishi-dera (西寺).
History
The history of Chōjū-ji is uncertain, as the documentary evidence of its foundation has been lost. The temple's legend states that it was founded by Rōben at the request of Emperor Shōmu during the Tenpyō era (729-749), into order to project the spiritually vulnerable northeastern quadrant from Shigaraki Palace, and also in hopes that he would conceive an heir. In response to this, his consort gave birth to a princess, later known as Empress Kōken. The temple was a substantial establishment with 24 chapels and it was named "Chōjū-ji" as a prayer for the longevity of the princess. A statue of Jizō Bosatsu was carved by Gyōki as the temple's main image.
The Hondō was destroyed in a fire during the Jōgan period (859-877) but was soon rebuilt. The temple was patronized by Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Kamakura period and the Ashikaga clan during the Muromachi period. In the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga had the temple's Three-story Pagoda relocated to Sōken-ji near Azuchi Castle, where it remains to this day. The Rōmon was likewise relocated by Nobunaga to a temple called Rendai-ji in what is now Rittō, Shiga, but neither the gate nor the temple have survived.
The temple is seven-minutes by car from Ishibe Station on the JR West Kusatsu Line.
Cultural Properties
* The Main Hall (Hondō) of Chōjū-ji was built towards the end of the Heian period or the start of the Kamakura period. As all documentation has been lost, the exact date is not certain. It is a five by five bay, single-story, yosemune style structure with a three-ken step canopy, and hinoki cypress bark shingled roof. The building was designated a National Treasure in 1953.
* Benten-dō; late Muromachi period (dated 1550), a one x one bay chapel
The temple also has a number of statues which are National Important Cultural Properties
* Amida Nyōrai, Heian-period
* Amida Nyōrai, Heian-period
* Shaka Nyōrai, Heian period, | WIKI |
Shirleya
Shirleya is an extinct genus in the crape myrtle family, Lythraceae, which contains a single species, Shirleya grahamae. The genus and species are known from Middle Miocene fossils found in Central Washington.
History and classification
The species was first described from specimens of silicified fruits preserved in chert of the "Yakima Canyon Flora". The chert was recovered from the type locality "Hi hole" site, one of the "county line hole" fossil localities of the "Yakima Canyon Flora" located north of Interstate 82 in Yakima County, Washington. The "Hi hole" site works strata was formerly thought to be part of the Museum Flow Package within the interbeds of the Sentinel Bluffs Unit of the central Columbia Plateau N2 Grande Ronde Basalt, Columbia River Basalt Group. The Museum Flow Package interbeds are dated to the middle Miocene and are approximately 15.6 million years old. Later re-evaluation of the "Hi hole" site indicated that the site is included into a basalt flow, having deposited into pockets and crevasses on the surface of the flow, rather than being part of the interbedded Museum flow package. The evaluation suggested the basalt is part of the Wanapum Basalt and that the fossils are possibly a little younger than formerly reported. Dating reported in 2007 of a related site near Ellensburg, Washington confirmed that the deposits worked are pockets within the basalt flows, and the 15.6 million year old date was accurate.
At the time of study, the holotype fruit, specimen UWBM 55134, and a series of paratype specimens were preserved in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture while additional paratypes, and examined fossils that were not part of the type series, were part of the paleobotanical collections at Arizona State University. The specimens represent a range of preservation conditions, ranging from exposed on weathered surfaces of the chert, totally weathered out of the chert, and as fully enclosed fruits in chert. A total of over 24 specimens in or preserved by chert were studied by paleobotanists Kathleen Pigg and Melanie DeVore, with their 2005 type description being published in the American Journal of Botany. Pigg and DeVore coined the genus name Shirleya and the specific epithet grahamae as a matronym honoring Shirley A. Graham, then of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri for her work and "significant contributions" to the family Lythraceae.
Based on similarities to the living genus Lagerstroemia, Pigg and DeVore placed Shirleya into Lythraceae, with no indication of a subfamily assignment. While Shirleya has a number of features that are similar to Lagerstroemia, there are also several distinct features. The fruits have a thicker pericarp that is similar to the genera Duabanga and Sonneratia which have berry-like fruits, but Shirleya fruits were dehiscent, unlike the berry-like fruits, as indicated by several isolated silicified fruit valves. The seeds in Shirleya fruits develop near the tops of the fruit gynoecium with wings extending down towards the gynoecium base, while in Lagerstroemia the seeds develop in reverse position, with the wing extending from the seed towards the top of the gynoecium. These differences lead Pigg and DeVore to place the fossils in a new genus.
Description
The fruits of Shirleya range up to 10.0 mm long and have a diameter of up to 12.5 mm giving a subglobose outline. The central axis of the fruit is mostly a parenchymatous pith that forms a star shape. The fruits have between five and seven wedge shaped locules or minute chambers surrounding the central axis and narrow dehiscence slits which split on maturity, breaking the fruit into sections of two locule halves and the joining septum. Each locule contains between five and seven mature seeds plus occasional smaller seeds. The seeds are tightly packed into each locule and hang down from the apical area of the locule with wings curving out from the axis. The seeds are up to 4.6 mm in length with a tail or hook on both the proximal and distal ends, and a wing that make up approximately two-thirds of the seed length. The seed wings each have a central bilobed parenchymatous mass that surrounds a central cavity. | WIKI |
This City Is Taking a Stand Against Comcast's Customer Service. Will It Matter?
Comcast has been the subject of some highly public customer service disasters in recent months, but the negative publicity and general dislike for the company from consumers has had little impact on its bottom line.
That may finally be changing as the City Council in Worcester, Mass., has urged the city's manager to reject Comcast's application to take over the city's cable franchise from Charter Communications . The council voted 8-3 to reject the license transfer request, according to The Worcester Telegram and Gazette , citing the number of public complaints there have been about its "substandard customer service practices."
The vote is not legally binding. City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. has sole right to approve contracts, but the City Council wanted to make it very clear that it does not want Comcast in its city of 182,000 people.
District 5 Councilor Gary Rosen said the City Council should not welcome Comcast to Worcester because of its "deplorable and substandard" customer service across the country, the paper reported.
"It's a terrible company," he said. "In my opinion, they should not be welcome in this city. Comcast is a wolf in wolf's clothing; it's that bad. They are awful, no doubt about it. Maybe we can't stop it, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't speak out."
Those are pretty bold statements and show just how much ill will there is toward Comcast.
People really don't like Comcast
In a field that consistently ranks at the bottom of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Comcast ranks near the bottom among pay TV providers. (Subscription TV ranked ahead of only ISPs on the latest ACSI survey.) Consumer Reports does an annual survey of readers' experiences with television and Internet service, and, not surprisingly, Comcast was ranked 15 of 17, earning "particularly low marks for value for the money and customer support."
To further rub salt into the wounds, Comcast's potential merger partner, Time Warner Cable ranked 16th overall for television service in the CR survey, with "particularly low ratings for value, reliability, and phone/online customer support." Both companies "received especially poor marks for value and low ratings for phone/online customer support."
A Comcast XFinity cable box Source: Author
Maybe Comcast is starting to feel the pinch
Comcast has been caught in a storm of negative publicity due to its lousy customer service, which began when former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Bloc publicly released a call during which he tried to cancel his service only to be berated by a "customer retention" specialist. Despite that, Comcast actually reported a 5.3% increase in revenue from cable to $21.8 billion in the first six months of the year.
Those numbers are a little bit deceiving, though, as Comcast actually lost 144,000 cable customers during the second quarter, the most recent one it has reported on. The revenue increase comes from the company squeezing more money out of its declining user base. That's a tough strategy to maintain in the long term as there are only so many premium channels and enhanced DVRs a person will want. Comcast should also be concerned that if it pushes individual bills too high then customers may decide to throw in the towel and cut the cord.
Cable in general is losing subscribers, due in part to the growth of streaming services, which makes it difficult to determine how much the growing perception that Comcast has bad customer service is hurting it. It's fair to say that in a market where people are looking for a reason to make the leap to cheaper competitors having a reputation for treating people poorly does not work in your favor.
There may be nothing the city can do
In reality, Worcester's government may have little choice. Charter is swapping approximately 1.6 million customers with Comcast as part of the complicated deal with Time Warner. That leaves the city with a Council that may not want Comcast being stuck with it anyway.
This was not missed by Councilor-at-Large Frederick C. Rushton, who said the city clearly needs better cable service, but noted that federal laws are geared more in favor of cable companies than consumers, the newspaper reported.
"We can make it sound like we are taking on the big boys, but in reality this will go nowhere," Rushton said. "People want better service but I'm not sure the council floor is the way to get better service. We are just bit players in a big play."
That's frustratingly true -- very few cities have more than one traditional cable service available -- but, symbolic or not, what's happening in Worcester shows that there is a level of rising discontent with Comcast. If a relatively large city's government is publicly calling out your business, that's a sign that people are fed up and might no longer be willing to put up with you.
Comcast has not seen a flood of defections yet, but the negative publicity is piling up and the floodgates could open if Comcast does not take heed.
Your cable company is scared, but you can get rich
You know cable's going away. But do you know how to profit? There's $2.2 trillion out there to be had. Currently, cable grabs a big piece of it. That won't last. And when cable falters, three companies are poised to benefit. Click here for their names. Hint: They're not Netflix, Google, and Apple.
The article This City Is Taking a Stand Against Comcast's Customer Service. Will It Matter? originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Aarhus University Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University is with its 1000 students the largest Computer Science Department in Denmark. Earlier, the department abbreviation was 'DAIMI’, but after a restructure and internationalization, the abbreviation of the department became CS AU, short for Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.
History
Originally, Department of Computer Science was a section within Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University. Here, the department was abbreviated DAIMI, short for Datalogisk Afdeling i Matematisk Institut, and by 1998 the name DAIMI had become so well known that it was kept, when the department became an independent department.
The computer science course started at Aarhus University in 1971 as part of Department of Mathematics. During the period 1993-1998 the computer scientific subject area underwent rapid growth, and at the department the total number of staff members rose from 80 to 160, primarily because of an increase in external funding.
An independent Department of Computer Science was founded in 1998. In the coming 5–6 years the department continuously moved more sections to new buildings as part of Aarhus University's plan to concentrate IT activities within the IT City Katrinebjerg. Close working relations to other organizations within the IT City have been established, i.e. with Department of Aesthetics and Communication and the Alexandra Institute.
Well-known computer scientists from Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University include:
* Bjarne Stroustrup (inventor of C++)
* Jakob Nielsen (expert in usability)
* Lars Bak (inventor of the V8 JavaScript Engine)
Education
Educations at Bachelor level: Educations at Master level:
* Bachelor in Computer Science
* Bachelor in IT (Information Technology)
* MSc in Computer Science
* MSc in IT Product Development
* MSc in Information Technology
Additionally, the department offers a number of continuing and further education courses.
Research
* Algorithms and Data Structures
* Bioinformatics
* Complexity Theory
* Computer Graphics and Scientific Computing
* Cryptography and Security
* Human Computer Interaction
* Modelling and Validation of Distributed Systems
* Object-Oriented Software Systems
* Programming Languages and Formal Models
Professors
* Lars Arge
* Susanne Bødker
* Lars Birkedal
* Ivan Bjerre Damgård
* Kaj Grønbæk
* Christian S. Jensen
* Kurt Jensen (CPN Tools)
* Morten Kyng
* Ole Lehrmann Madsen
* Brian H. Mayoh
* Peter Bro Miltersen (P/poly)
* Mogens Nielsen (Petri net)
* Michael I. Schwartzbach
The IT City Katrinebjerg
The department is located in the Aarhus region named Katrinebjerg. The area also hosts many IT companies as well as other institutes of education and is known as the IT City Katrinebjerg. | WIKI |
Li Li-hua
Li Li-hua (17 July 1924 – 19 March 2017) was a Chinese actress, better known as an actress from the Shaw Brothers Studio. In 1957, Li married Hong Kong actor and director Yan Jun (嚴俊) (December 17, 1917 – August 18, 1980).
Life and career
Li Li-hua was born on July 17, 1924, in Shanghai. She was the daughter of the famous Beijing Opera actor Li Guifang (李桂芳). At age 12, she moved to Beijing and studied Beijing Opera. Four years later she moved to Shanghai and joined the Yihua Film Company. Her first movie was 3 Smiles (三笑) which was released in two parts in 1940. Her final movie was New Dream of the Red Chamber (新紅樓夢) in 1978, after which she retired and moved to the United States. She acted in over one hundred twenty movies during her 38-year career. In 1969 she was awarded the Golden Horse Best Actress award for Storm over the Yangtze River (揚子江風雲). In 2015 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. In April 2016 she was honored with a Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. She died on 19 March 2017, aged 92. | WIKI |
Sergio D'Antoni
Sergio Antonio D'Antoni (born 10 December 1946 in Caltanissetta) is an Italian politician, syndicalist and sports manager, current President of CONI Sicilia.
Biography
Graduated in law, D'Antoni became a researcher at the University of Palermo. He joined the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL) in the early 1970s, becoming finally its General Secretary in 1991. He remained leader of the CISL until 2000, furthermore he has been member of the National Council for Economics and Labour (CNEL) from 1991 to 1999.
In 2001 D'Antoni founded a new centrist party, European Democracy, that elected two senators in the Italian general election of the same year. Still in 2001, he was a candidate in the Sicilian regional election, getting the 5% of the votes.
In 2002 he joined the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, becoming its Deputy Secretary; but, in 2004, he left the UDC to join Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, led by Francesco Rutelli. In 2004 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the supplementary election in the vacant Napoli-Ischia district (after the election of Alessandra Mussolini as MEP), supported by The Olive Tree. In the 2006 Italian general election he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies and he became Vice-Minister for Economic Development in the Prodi II Cabinet.
He was re-elected deputy with the Democratic Party in the 2008 general election.
He has been executive of Virtus Roma, president of Lega Basket from 2000 to 2001 and President of the Palermo football club from 2000 to 2002. In June 2014 he was elected President of CONI Sicilia. | WIKI |
NaN
Noun
* : applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself. | WIKI |
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240 There were some matters Dick and Tom did not understand. But from what was said they learned that Japson was a distant relative of Josiah Crabtree and the two had been in several shady transactions together. Crabtree had agreed, if aided in his escape from the Plankville jail, to assist the brokers in making Anderson Rover a prisoner and keeping him such until he signed certain documents and until the time had passed when he could no longer take up the options which were so valuable to the Rovers and their friends.
"Well, I think these documents are all right," the boys heard Jesse Pelter say, presently. "Now we can turn them over to Belright Fogg and tell him to go ahead."
The boys looked at each other in amazement. Belright Fogg! The lawyer who had tried to outwit them in their claim against the railroad company because of the smashed Dartaway! Was that felbw mixed up in this game also? It looked like it. | WIKI |
Clerodendrum infortunatum
Clerodendrum infortunatum, known as bhat or hill glory bower, is a perennial shrub belonging to the family Lamiaceae, also sometimes classified under Verbenaceae. It is the type species among ~150 species of Clerodendrum. It is one of the most well-known natural health remedies in traditional practices and siddha medicine.
The species is native to tropical regions of Asia including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Andaman Islands, and Sri Lanka.
Description
Clerodendrum infortunatum is a flowering shrub or small tree, and is so named because of its rather ugly leaf. The stem is erect, 0.5–4 m high, with no branches and produce circular leaves with 15 cm diameter. Leaves are simple, opposite; both surfaces sparsely villous-pubescent, elliptic, broadly elliptic, ovate or elongate ovate, 3.5–20 cm wide, 6–25 cm long, dentate, inflorescence in terminal, peduncled, few-flowered cyme; flowers white with purplish pink or dull-purple throat, pubescent. Fruit berry, globose, turned bluish-black or black when ripe, enclosed in the red accrescent fruiting-calyx. The stem is hollow and the leaves are 15–20 cm long, borne in whorls of four on very short petioles. The inflorescence is huge, consisting of many tubular snow white flowers in a terminal cluster up to 0.6 m long. The tubes of the flowers are about 10 cm long and droop downward, and the expanded corollas are about 5 cm across.
The fruits are attractive dark metallic blue drupes, about 1 cm in diameter. Fruit usually with four dry nutlets and the seeds may be with or without endosperm. It flowers from April to August.
Chemical constituents
The major compounds are sterols, sugars, flavonoids and saponins. Novel crystalline compounds such as clerodolone,, clerodol, and a sterol designated clerosterol have been isolated from the root. Seven sugars namely raffinose, lactose, maltose, sucrose, galactose, glucose and fructose were identified. Fumaric acid, caffeic acid esters, β-sitosterol and β-sitosterol glucoside were isolated from the flowers. Apigenin, acacetin and a new flavone glycoside, characterised as the methyl ester of acacetin-7-0-glucuronide are isolated from the flowers. Saponin is one of the major compounds of the leaf. 24 beta-ethylsterols, clerosterol and 22-dehydroclerosterol, 24-methyl-sterols (24-methylcholestanol, 24-methylcholesterol, 24-methyl-22-dehydrocholesterol, and 24-methyllathostero) and 24 beta-ethyl-22-dehydrocholestanol are found in the seeds. Scutellarin and hispidulin-7-O-glucuronide are present in the leaf. Poriferasterol and stigmasterol are the components of the aerial parts.
Traditional herbal medicine
Clerodendrum infortunatum is used in Ayurvedic and Siddha traditional medicines. Fresh leaves are given for diarrhea, liver disorders, and headache. The leaf and root are used as antidandruff, antipyretic, ascaricide, laxative, vermifuge, anticonvulsant, antidiabetic, and for gravel, malaria, scabies, skin diseases, sores, spasm, scorpion sting, snake bite, and tumors. In many traditional practices the leaves and root are widely used as antihyperglycemic. | WIKI |
Tekeda Alemu
Tekeda Alemu (born in Addis Ababa, May 5, 1951 ) is an Ethiopian diplomat to the United Nations.
Education
Tekeda earned a B.A. and M.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School.
Career
Tekeda Alemu has served as a diplomat for four decades, starting in 1983.
For the month of September 2017, Alemu served as the president of the United Nations Security Council.
Other activities
* UNICEF, vice-president of the executive board (2018) | WIKI |
-- NHL Lockout-Bound With Talks Stalled Prior to Tonight’s Deadline
The National Hockey League appears
headed for a lockout, with the current labor accord set to
expire tonight and no formal talks planned between owners and
players. It would be the second time in the past seven seasons that
owners locked out players following the expiration of a
collective bargaining agreement. The previous lockout resulted
in the loss of the entire 2004-05 season and the first year
since 1919 that the Stanley Cup wasn’t awarded. The NHL and its Players’ Association last met on Sept. 12,
when both sides rejected fresh proposals. Those talks were
followed by separate meetings in New York, after which league
Commissioner Gary Bettman and union Executive Director Donald Fehr criticized the other side for impeding progress. “If you are dedicated to the negotiating process, you can
move this along quickly,” Bettman told reporters on Sept. 13.
“If for whatever reason you’re not interested in making a deal,
you drag it out.” Fehr questioned whether or not the owners’ approach was
“reasonably calculated to lead to an agreement as opposed to a
dispute.” There’s no legal requirement for a lockout in the absence
of a new agreement, because the sides can continue to operate
under the old accord while negotiations proceed. The players
have said they’re willing to compete while talks continue. Negotiations, which began during the offseason, have
focused mainly on player compensation and revenue sharing. Under the current agreement, the players receive 57 percent
of hockey-related revenue. The NHL’s most recent proposal was a
gradual reduction to 47 percent; under the union’s latest offer,
should league revenue grow at the same rate as in the past 10
years, the players’ share would fluctuate and remain above 52
percent. -- Editor: Rob Gloster To contact the reporter on this story:
Eben Novy-Williams in New York at
enovywilliam@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Sillup at
msillup@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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T WAS a lane of dead grass perhaps ten feet wide—a straight, even strip of sere yellow extending for nearly half a mile across the green hillside. Up near the crest of the slope it terminated as abruptly and as evenly as it had begun down in the valley. Had it not been a lonesome spot in an obscure Austrian countryside one might have believed that some huge carpet had lain out there in the sun until the grass beneath it had perished.
Half-way down the dope a dead cow lay athwart the yellow lane, and around the carcass a group of four men were gathered. Only one of them, he who talked and gesticulated so excitedly, was dressed in the native costume of the countryside. The other three, a rather motley trio of physiques and faces, might have passed for tourists, and yet this was a territory remote from the beaten paths of travel. In other ways—in cut of clothes, in speech, in faces half concealed by low-pulled cloth caps, they did not seem to fit in with the general scene either as interested strangers or cursory wayfarers. One | WIKI |
SyncRepositoryHook permission denied
Hello together,
I updated Gitea 1.16.8 to 1.18.3 (suse linux 15.3.).
After the update, gitea no longer starts, the following error occurs:
Gitea - Code.SyncRepositoryHooks(ctx) failed: SyncRepositoryHook: unable to pre-remove old hook file ‘/opt/gitea/repositories/giteaadmin/ordirob.git/hooks/pre-receive’ prior to rewriting: remove /opt/gitea/repositories/giteaadmin/ordirob.git/hooks/pre-receive: permission denied
Before the update everything was working fine.
Does anyone have an idea what’s going wrong?
remove /opt/gitea/repositories/giteaadmin/ordirob.git/hooks/pre-receive: permission denied
This error is saying Gitea is not able to modify the files at that location. Make sure that Gitea is running as the right user/group and that those directories are accessible by that user/group.
You may also be running into an issue with MAC like AppArmor or SELinux, you can check their audit logs to see if they’re the reason behind it.
Thanks for your reply Jake.
Gitea works with the right user, the permissions on the directories match.
Meanwhile I did an update to a 1.17.x version. The problem here was now, that new repositories could not be created via the gitea WEB-UI - because of permission denied on the repository directory.
Only with a gitea 1.16.x version do these problems not occur in my environment. I now suspect that something is running on the server that interferes with gitea.
You might be running into the switch from using the gitconfig at $HOME/.gitconfig to a path specified in app.ini which occurred in 1.17.x. See Internal Gitconfig and Config Cheat Sheet. It could also be an issue where an antivirus or other process is scanning files and Gitea tries to access the file at the same time the other process does.
If that’s not it, could you post your scrubbed app.ini and the full debug logs from Gitea starting to the error (set [log] LEVEL=Debug)?
To make it easier to read, you can format it like this to make it show nicely on Discourse.
```
[logs]
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Thank you for these valuable tips!
I’ll take a look and report back with results. But it can take a while… :wink: | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Paper
Sentence-level Prompts Benefit Composed Image Retrieval
Composed image retrieval (CIR) is the task of retrieving specific images by using a query that involves both a reference image and a relative caption. Most existing CIR models adopt the late-fusion strategy to combine visual and language features. Besides, several approaches have also been suggested to generate a pseudo-word token from the reference image, which is further integrated into the relative caption for CIR. However, these pseudo-word-based prompting methods have limitations when target image encompasses complex changes on reference image, e.g., object removal and attribute modification. In this work, we demonstrate that learning an appropriate sentence-level prompt for the relative caption (SPRC) is sufficient for achieving effective composed image retrieval. Instead of relying on pseudo-word-based prompts, we propose to leverage pretrained V-L models, e.g., BLIP-2, to generate sentence-level prompts. By concatenating the learned sentence-level prompt with the relative caption, one can readily use existing text-based image retrieval models to enhance CIR performance. Furthermore, we introduce both image-text contrastive loss and text prompt alignment loss to enforce the learning of suitable sentence-level prompts. Experiments show that our proposed method performs favorably against the state-of-the-art CIR methods on the Fashion-IQ and CIRR datasets. The source code and pretrained model are publicly available at https://github.com/chunmeifeng/SPRC
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Railgun OXP
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Introduction
This OXP adds a new class of weapons to the Ooniverse. Railguns fire high velocity kinetic projectiles which are destructive simply by impacting on their target.
Overview
Fauchon-Oliphant Inc., producers of high-powered electrical coils and appliances, proudly present their newest contribution to advanced weapons technology: the Fauchon-Oliphant X-series of precision railguns.
The basic principle of railguns has been known for centuries: a strong electric current sent through a pair of metal rails accelerates a conductive projectile to speeds much higher than achievable by propellants like in missiles. The Fauchon-Oliphant X-series operates with kinetic projectiles: there are no explosives involved, the damage to its target is dealt purely through the kinetic energy of the impact. The lack of explosives makes at the same time the projectiles perfectly safe for storage on a space ship.
Military Railguns
Currently the Fauchon-Oliphant X-series of precision railguns consists of three different varieties: The X-100 Small Railgun, the X-150 Medium Railgun, and the X-200 Heavy Railgun. Their basic difference lies in the different composition of the projectiles. The heavier projectiles yield more destruction on impact, but the gun needs more time and energy to recharge. While the X-100 allows for an almost continuous firing rate of its lighter projectiles, the rate is noticeably slower for the X-150 and the X-200. The prodigious amounts of energy needed to create the electric current means that with all weapons the user should have an eye on their energy banks. As an added safety measure the guns will shut down if there is only one full energy bank left.
Each of the railguns needs its specially manufactured projectiles. These are available in bundles of 100 at your local equipment department of at least techlevel 3. The railguns themselves can be fitted in stores beginning with techlevel 4 for the X-100 Small Railgun.
Fauchon-Oliphant Inc. guarantee the efficacy of all their projectiles up to a range of 20 km, independent of the type of projectile. Above this range the projectiles tend to dissolve due to the increasing friction with the surrounding phlogiston.
Mining Railguns
For civilian use Fauchon-Oliphant Inc. is also proud to present the new Z-series of mining railguns. Currently this consists of the Z-300 Mining Railgun. While the basic principle is the same as for the X-series, the projectiles of the Z-300 Mining Railgun are much heavier than even the X-200 Heavy Railgun projectiles, and they are fired with a much slower velocity. This—and the enormous energy and time needed for recharging the gun—makes them practically useless as weapons against moving targets, but a very powerful tool for asteroid mining. Two projectiles should be sufficient to crack all but the biggest asteroids, and another one will usually knock a couple of valuable splinters from the resulting boulders.
The higher mass and density of the Z-300 Mining Railgun projectiles made it possible to increase their effective range. Fauchon-Oliphant Inc. therefore guarantees their functionality up to a full scanner range of 25.6 km. The downside of their increased mass is that one bundle only contains 50 projectiles, and is a little more expensive than the bundles for the X-series.
All railguns are mounted close to the front laser of your ship and fire their projectiles strictly forward. They are currently not available for other orientations. All railguns need to be activated first (default key 'SHIFT-N'), before they can be fired (default key 'N'). A message informs the pilot how many projectiles are left in the magazine. When all projectiles have been fired, the gun stops working until the pilot has re-filled the magazine.
Minimum Requirements
Railgun.oxp v 1.1 requires at least Oolite 1.75.1.
Railgun.oxp v 1.2, which includes the mining variant and many more improvements, requires at least Oolite 1.75.2 (or the current trunk). It won't work with Oolite 1.75.1.
Download Location
Railgun.oxp v 1.1 is available for download via Box.net.
Railgun.oxp v 1.2 is available for download via Box.net.
Installation
Move or copy the file railgun.oxp from its download folder into your AddOns folder. Where that resides depends on your installation. Restart Oolite. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Diagnostic image quality of a comprehensive high-pitch dual-spiral cardiothoracic CT protocol in patients with undifferentiated acute chest pain EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY Bamberg, F., Marcus, R., Sommer, W., Schwarz, F., Nikolaou, K., Becker, C. R., Reiser, M. F., Johnson, T. R. 2012; 81 (12): 3697-3702
Abstract
To evaluate diagnostic image quality of high-pitch dual source comprehensive cardiothoracic CT protocol in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated chest pain.Consecutive symptomatic subjects (n=51) with undifferentiated acute chest pain underwent ECG-synchronized high-pitch dual-spiral chest CT angiography (Definition Flash, Siemens Medical Solutions, 2 × 100 kVp or 2 × 120 kV if BMI>30, collimation: 128 × 0.6mm, pitch: 3.2). Independent investigators determined the image quality of each cardiac and pulmonary vessel segment, measured contrast-to-noise-ratio (CNR), and determined radiation exposure. In addition, the prevalence of CT findings (pulmonary embolism (PE), aortic dissection (AD) and significant coronary stenosis (= 50%)) was determined. Univariate and multivariate analysis were performed to determine the subpopulation with highest diagnostic quality.Among 51 subjects (66% male, average age: 63 ± 15.8), the prevalence of positive CT findings was moderate (overall: 11.7%). Overall, image quality of the pulmonary, aortic and coronary vasculature was good (1.26 ± 0.43 and CNR: 2.52) with an average radiation dose of 3.82 mSv and 3.2% of segments rated non-evaluable. The image quality was lowest in the coronary arteries (p=0.02), depending on the heart rate (r=0.52, p<0.001). In subjects with a heart rate of = 65 bpm (n=30) subjective image quality and CNR of the coronary arteries were higher (1.6 ± 0.5 vs. 2.1 ± 0.5, p=0.03 and 1.21 ± 0.3 vs. 1.02 ± 0.3, p=0.05) with only 1.5% segments classified as non-evaluable.High-pitch dual-spiral comprehensive cardiothoracic CT provides low radiation exposure with excellent image quality at heart rates = 65 bpm. In subjects with higher heart rates, image quality of the aortic and pulmonary vasculature remains excellent, while the assessment of the coronary arteries degrades substantially.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.11.032
View details for Web of Science ID 000311340800007
View details for PubMedID 21196093 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Develop for Poly Chain
This step shows you how Poly Chain verifies cross-chain transactions from your chain. Verification by synchronizing block headers is the most common method. The tutorial below will describe how to implement this method in detail.
[!Note|style:flat|label:Notice] If your chain doesn't support the method of verification by synchronizing block headers (i.e., your chain fails to meet the prerequisites listed), here are also other solutions, and please contact Poly team via for more support.
1. Prerequisites
There are three prerequisites to verify by synchronizing block headers:
• Your chain must support light client verification, like Simple Payment Verification (SPV) protocol in Bitcoin or Light Ethereum Subprotocol (LES) in Ethereum, which means the block header must contain the following information：
• Hash of the previous block header.
• Hash of the Merkle state root.
• A way to prove the unique legitimacy of a block.
• Make sure the block header struct in your chain can be parsed and verified correctly.
• Make sure the Merkle state root in your chain can be parsed and verified correctly.
2. Development Specifications
There are four steps to implement for the verification method.
Step 1. Adding a router for your chain
When importing your chain to Poly Chain, you should firstly add a router for your chain in the file.
Step 2. Implementing the interface of block header synchronization
• First, the corresponding handler should be added to the file.
• Second, implement the method for the interface of HeaderSyncHandler, as shown below:
type HeaderSyncHandler interface {
SyncGenesisHeader(service *native.NativeService) error
SyncBlockHeader(service *native.NativeService) error
SyncCrossChainMsg(service *native.NativeService) error
}
Method Description
SyncGenesisHeader This method is used to store the initial block header so that the subsequent block headers of blocks containing cross-chain events can be verified and synchronized. This method will only be called for once in initializing the new chain. Please refer to the code for more details.
SyncBlockHeader This method is used to synchronize block headers consistently from the new chain to Poly Chain. Please refer to the code for more details.
SyncCrossChainMsg This method is used to fetch the cross-chain messages. Please refer to the ontology code or eth code for more details.
Step 3. Implementing the interface of cross-chain management
• First, the corresponding handler should be added to the file.
• Second, implement the method for the interface of ChainHandler, as shown below:
type ChainHandler interface {
MakeDepositProposal(service *native.NativeService) (*MakeTxParam, error)
}
Method Description
MakeDepositProposal This method is used to verify the legitimacy of cross-chain transactions and store legitimate transactions to Poly Chain. Please refer to the code for more details.
The returned struct MakeTxParam is used for subsequent notification that the transaction has been verified.
type MakeTxParam struct {
TxHash []byte
CrossChainID []byte
FromContractAddress []byte
ToChainID uint64
ToContractAddress []byte
Method string
Args []byte
}
In the example of the function MakeDepositProposal, two functions (verifyFromTx and verifyMerkleProof) play an important role in cross-chain verification.
Method Description
verifyFromTx This method is used to get the synchronized block header from the database stored in Poly Chain, and then to call the function verifyMerkleProof to verify the legitimacy of cross-chain transactions, and decode the Extra data to construct MakeTxParam. Please refer to the code for more details.
/*
* @param native Native Service that carries values of information of cross-chain events
* @param proof The proof submitted by the current cross-chain transaction
* @param extra The cross-chain message which is used to construct MakeTxParam
* @param fromChainID Source chain id
* @param height The block height corresponding to the current transaction event
* @param sideChain Source chain information that contains the ccm contract address
*/
func verifyFromEthTx(native *native.NativeService, proof, extra []byte, fromChainID uint64, height uint32, sideChain *cmanager.SideChain) (*scom.MakeTxParam, error)
Method Description
verifyMerkleProof This method is used to verify whether the Merkle proof submitted by the transaction is consistent with the block header stored in Poly. Please refer to the code for details.
/*
* @param ethProof The proof submitted by the current cross-chain transaction
* @param blockData The block header stored in poly chain corresponding to the current transaction event
* @param contractAddr The ccm contract address
*/
func VerifyMerkleProof(ethProof *ETHProof, blockData *eth.Header, contractAddr []byte) ([]byte, error)
Step 4. Developing for register tool
The final step for importing your chain is to register your chain in Poly Chain and synchronize the Poly chain genesis header to your chain. There are two methods for doing this, as shown below:
Method Description
RegisterSideChain This method is used to register your chain in Poly Chain. Please refer to the code for more details.
SyncPolyGenesisHeader This method is used to achieve two-way synchronization of genesis block headers between Poly Chain and your chain. Please refer to the code for more details.
Upon completion of the above you have finished the development for Poly Chain.
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ALS Awareness Month
ALS Awareness Month is a campaign to spread awareness of and raise funds for research for a cure for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
Canada
In Canada, June has been declared as ALS Awareness Month by the Canadian Minister of Health. In 2015, it was recognized by the House of Commons.
United States
In the United States, the campaign is observed every year in the month of May. It is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Advocacy
During this month, the ALS Association sponsors the National ALS Advocacy Day and Public Policy Conference and leads a delegation of people with ALS, their caregivers and other advocates to Capitol Hill to urge legislators to support measures to help find treatments and a cure. Other organizations, including the ALS Therapy Development Institute and the Les Turner ALS Foundation have their own initiatives.
Postage stamp
In 2008, the ALS Association created a commemorative U.S. postage stamp to promote ALS Awareness Month through Zazzle.
Georgia
In 2003, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared May to be ALS Awareness Month in the state. He repeated this action in 2011. In addition, Governor Nathan Deal in 2012, 2013, and 2014. In 2016, Governor Deal declared January 26 to be ALS Awareness Day in Georgia.
Massachusetts
In 2016, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker declared May to be ALS Awareness Month in the state.
Minnesota
In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton declared May to ALS Awareness Month in the state.
North Dakota
In both May 2014 and May 2016, the Governor of North Dakota issued proclamations declaring May to be ALS Awareness Month in the state.
Ohio
On January 13, 2012, the 129th General Assembly of Ohio designated the month of May as ALS Awareness Month for the state. | WIKI |
Justin Azevedo
Justin Azevedo (born April 1, 1988) is a Canadian ice hockey forward currently playing for the ZSC Lions of the National League (NL).
Junior
Azevedo played his first OHL game on September 24, 2004 as a member of the Kitchener Rangers. During the 2007–08 OHL season, Azevedo won the Red Tilson Trophy for the most outstanding player in the OHL, Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy for being the top scorer in the OHL, Ed Chynoweth Trophy for being the top scorer of the Memorial Cup, CHL Player of the Year, CHL Top Scorer Award, and Wayne Gretzky 99 Award for being the most outstanding player in the OHL playoffs.
Professional
Azevedo was drafted 153rd overall, in the 6th round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings. As an older draft pick, Azevedo immediately turned professional and was signed by the Kings AHL affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs on August 10, 2008. After attending the Kings training camp on September 29, 2008, he was assigned to the Monarchs for the 2008–09 season.
Despite missing significant parts of the season with the Monarchs suffering two injuries, Azevedo scored 36 points in 49 games to earn a two-year entry-level contract with the Kings on July 20, 2009.
Azevedo was one of two players, alongside left wing Brandon Kozun, to be allowed a penalty shot in the same game during Manchester's 5-2 victory over the Providence Bruins, a franchise record for the Manchester Monarchs.
On June 7, 2012, he signed with Lukko Rauma, in the Finnish SM-liiga. In his first European season in 2012–13, Azevedo made a comfortable transition with Lukko, leading the SM-Liiga amongst rookies with 38 assists and 58 points. Azevedo lead the entire league in playoffs scoring with 10 goals and 18 points in only 14 games to also earn a selection in the SM-liiga All-Star Team.
On April 15, 2013, Azevedo opted to play in the Kontinental Hockey League, signing a multi-year contract with Czech based club, HC Lev Praha for the 2013–14 season. Azevedo contributed with 9 goals and 27 assists in 48 games for Lev before stepping up in the playoffs for a second consecutive season, to post 13 goals and 20 points in 22 games.
Despite reaching the Gagarin Cup finals, Lev announced they would not continue participation due to bankruptcy. On July 1, 2014, Azevedo was transferred to fellow KHL club, Ak Bars Kazan, in exchange for financial compensation. | WIKI |
On‐line real‐time monitoring of a rapid enzymatic oil degumming process: A feasibility study using free‐run near‐infrared spectroscopy
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Enzymatic degumming is a well established process in vegetable oil refinement, resulting in higher oil yield and a more stable downstream processing compared to traditional degumming methods using acid and water. During the reaction, phospholipids in the oil are hydrolyzed to free fatty acids and lyso‐phospholipids. The process is typically monitored by off‐line laboratory measurements of the free fatty acid content in the oil, and there is a demand for an automated online monitoring strategy to increase both yield and understanding of the process dynamics. This paper investigates the option of using Near‐Infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to monitor the enzymatic degumming reaction. A new method for balancing spectral noise and keeping the chemical information in the spectra obtained from a rapid changing chemical process is suggested. The effect of a varying measurement averaging window width (0 to 300 s), preprocessing method and variable selection algorithm is evaluated, aiming to obtain the most accurate and robust calibration model for prediction of the free fatty acid content (% (w/w)). The optimal Partial Least Squares (PLS) model includes eight wavelength variables, as found by rPLS (recursive PLS) calibration, and yields an RMSECV (Root Mean Square Error of Cross Validation) of 0.05% (w/w) free fatty acid using five latent variables.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer2368
TidsskriftFoods
Vol/bind10
Udgave nummer10
Antal sider15
ISSN2304-8158
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021
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Funding Information:
Novozymes provided the raw materials (crude vegetable oil, enzyme etc.) and laboratory facilities for conducting the experiments. The authors have not received any financial support from Novozymes.
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Ivan Turina
Ivan Turina (3 October 1980 – 2 May 2013) was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made one appearance for the Croatia national team.
Club career
Turina started his professional career with his youth club Dinamo Zagreb in 1998. Before settling as a first-team member in 2003, he completed loan spells at Croatia Sesvete, Kamen Ingrad and Osijek. He was Dinamo Zagreb's first-choice goalkeeper during the 2005–06 season, when the club won their first league title in two years. He continued to play regularly in the early stages of the following season. However, after Dinamo Zagreb were eliminated from the UEFA Cup with a 5–2 aggregate defeat to AJ Auxerre in the first round, Turina was replaced in the starting line-up by Filip Lončarić. At the time, he was criticized for letting a long-range shot by Ireneusz Jeleń slip through his hands when the French club took a 1–0 lead in the first leg in Zagreb. Following the signing of German goalkeeper Georg Koch in the summer of 2007, Turina decided to join Greek club Skoda Xanthi, spending one season with them before leaving for Polish club Lech Poznań.
Turina made his league debut for Lech Poznań on 31 October 2008 in a 3–1 win at home to Odra Wodzisław Śląski. He finished the season with a total of 12 appearances in the league and six in the UEFA Cup, where the club were eliminated by Udinese in the round of 32. He played in the final of the Polish Cup, which the club won that season. On 11 September 2009, Turina terminated his contract with Lech Poznań and started training with Dinamo Zagreb later that month.
On 27 January 2010, Dinamo Zagreb signed Turina as their new second-choice goalkeeper, behind Tomislav Butina, on a short-term contract until the end of the 2009–10 season. His sole appearance during that spell with the club came on 14 April 2010 in a 2–1 win at Varaždin, where he came on as a substitute for Butina at half-time.
Turina went on to join Swedish club AIK, making his debut on 17 July 2010 in a 2–0 win at home to Malmö FF. At the time of his death, he was in his fourth season with the club and had made a total of 65 appearances in the league.
International career
Turina was part of the Team Croatia at the 2006 Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong. On 1 February 2006, he came on as a half-time substitute for Joey Didulica in the team's second match at the tournament, a 4–0 win against the hosts. It was his only full international appearance.
Death
On 2 May 2013, Turina died in his sleep in his apartment in Solna. His wife did not realize what had happened until the morning. The autopsy report, released on 10 July 2013, states that Turina's death was caused by cardiac dysrhythmia, a congenital heart defect. He was survived by one-year-old twin daughters and a pregnant wife.
On 13 May 2013, a charity game between AIK and Dinamo Zagreb, Turina's youth team where he also played as a professional until 2007 and in the spring of 2010, was played at Friends Arena to honour him. All proceedings from the game went to Turina's family. Each half of the game was 27 minutes long, as 27 was Turina's shirt number at AIK. Former AIK players Krister Nordin and Nebojša Novaković also played in the charity game, which Dinamo Zagreb won 1–0 in front of 8,058 spectators. Turina's family received US$170000 as a result of the charity event.
In every game played by the AIK male football squad since Turina's death, the fans spend the 27th minute chanting his name. This tradition has been upheld every single game since Turina's death.
Honours
Dinamo Zagreb
* Prva HNL: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10
* Croatian Cup: 2003–04, 2006–07
* Croatian Super Cup: 2006
Lech Poznań
* Polish Cup: 2008–09 | WIKI |
-- Spain Nearing Accord With Solar Producers on Reducing Subsidies
The Spanish government and solar-
power producers almost reached an agreement on reducing
subsidies to the industry before officials suspended talks to
assess savings from a clampdown on fraud, according to a memo
from industry representatives at the meeting.
A draft agreement forming the basis of the talks said
subsidies for plants already operating would be lowered by 5
percent to 15 percent over the next three years, compensated by
extra years of payments, the memo distributed to members of the
Photovoltaic Industry Association said.
“This is better than the industry was fearing and probably
does mean there will be continued investor confidence in Spain
and most project developers will be all right,” Jenny Chase ,
lead solar analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said today.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ’s government
wants to keep a lid on electric costs by paring back a 2007 law
granting above-market prices for clean-energy producers. Solar
price cuts would hurt plant developers including Actividades de
Construccion y Servicios SA and Solaria Energia y Medio Ambiente
SA.
A spokesman for the Industry Ministry didn’t immediately
respond to calls to his cell phone for comment. Before last
night’s meeting concluded on the brink of an accord, he said the
government would insist on deeper rate cuts.
Solaria, the Madrid-based solar panel maker and plant
developer, rose as much as 2.2 percent today in Madrid trading
and was at 1.62 euros at 5:15 p.m. local time.
Leaked Document
Under the plan, operators of existing plants could opt to
receive 85 percent of the subsidy they already get in 2011 and
2012 and 95 percent in 2013. The subsidies, now due to run 25
years from 2007, would be extended four years beyond the current
expiration date. A second option would offer operators a smaller
price cut in the first two years without the extension.
Industry representatives and officials failed to reach
agreement over these terms, prompting officials to defer a final
decision to give them time to quantify savings from new measures
to tackle fraud in the industry approved by the government
today, the memo said.
“It’s encouraging,” association secretary Enrique Alcor
said in the memo. Still, “we don’t know which of the elements
covered in recent days will remain in place come September.”
The draft also speaks of an option where developers could
escape the temporary subsidy cuts by taking a cap on the number
of hours their plants can earn above-market prices. Ground-
mounted systems would have a cap of 1,075 to 1,529 kilowatt
hours and plants with trackers would earn 1,515 to 2,154
kilowatt hours. The Industry Ministry spokesman said yesterday
the government is pressing to make that provision mandatory.
Project Incentives
Incentives for projects not yet built would be reduced 45
percent for those mounted to the ground and 25 percent for ones
on roofs.
Representatives of another industry group, the Photovoltaic
Business Association, painted a different picture of
negotiations today at a press briefing in Madrid.
“We don’t understand the negotiating position of the
ministry. We don’t know what objectives they are pursuing,”
association chairman Juan Laso said. “All the measures that we
have proposed have been rejected.”
Solar plant operators have been pressing Industry Minister
Miguel Sebastian to maintain the prices set out in the 2007 law
since April, when officials said they may cut the rate paid to
existing plants in addition to ones yet to be built.
Funds including London-based HG Capital and Denmark’s AP
Pensions have argued that the government was reneging on its
legal obligation to maintain the subsidies for 25 years.
10 Times
Spain’s 52,000 photovoltaic-panel installations earn as
much as 440 euros ($573) a megawatt-hour, or almost 10 times the
futures price for 2011 power in the wholesale market.
The premium was set at that level to spur investment in
renewable forms of energy. The Spanish Banking Association
estimated domestic banks have loaned 40 billion euros to
renewable-energy projects. Some 600 photovoltaic plant operators
may face bankruptcy if the subsidies are slashed, the
Photovoltaic Industry Association has said.
Solar plants claimed more than half the 5 billion euros in
renewable-power subsidies paid by homes and businesses through
their bills last year, while producing 11 percent of Spain’s
emission-free electricity.
Sebastian told executives last month that he planned to cut
1 billion euros from the annual subsidies. Germany has also
scrapped tax breaks for solar energy, and Italy is working to
eliminate a minimum price set for emission-free power.
Spain will pare some of the support its solar operators
receive by clamping down on operators who cheated on paperwork
to qualify for the highest rates, under a Royal Decree approved
today by the government.
Companies that cannot prove their generators were connected
to Spain’s power grid before September 2008 will be forced to
switch to the lower subsidy rate and repay excess earnings.
About a quarter of the industry may be affected, the government
estimates.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Ben Sills in Madrid at
bsills@bloomberg.net
Marc Roca in London at mroca6@bloomberg.net
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America between 1790 and 1860
America between 1790 and 1860 was going through a transformation that later shaped the history of this nation. The country has just gained independence back in 1776 and was going through changes like any other young nation. There were several issues that were threatening to tear apart the union one of them being the thorny issue of expansion. Expansionist in the south were interested in continuation of slavery and their main aim was to gain more states so that they can have more power in the congress to enable them advance their cause which had supported their economy.
The issue of slavery drew the line between the two sections of America. There are states that wanted slavery to be abolished and proper mechanisms be put in place to free all the slaves whereas other states especially the southern part did not support this sentiment; they wanted to continue owning the slaves as their economy largely depended on their services. Slavery had started way back in 1619 in Virginia, by the time the American Revolution was ending most of the Northern states had abandoned it while the Southern states continued with the institution.
The issue of slavery dominated most part of the nineteenth century starting with the compromise of the 1820 followed by the nullification crisis and the anti slavery Gag. The debate was coming to an end with the compromise of the 1850 but the matter could not end there as it brought other issues which culminated into a full scale war which is popularly referred to as the American Civil war. This war started in 1860 and was largely as a result of the slave issue between the northern and southern states. (Foner, E 1981 56)
During the first census that was carried in United States in 1790 there were 694,207 slaves, the number increased to 887612 in 1800. Ten years later the population of the slaves had grown to 1,130,781. This showed that the number of slaves in America was increasing after the declaration of the independence. This was partly because of the natural increase of the population and the trade of slaves in the Southern states. The Southern states largely depended on slavery for their economic survival. These slaves were owned by the plantations owners who depended on their free labor for the production of different crops most dominant being cotton.
To these landowners slavery was a way of life as they played a big role in their economic wellbeing. Abolition of slavery and ultimate freeing of slaves would be a big blow to them and their states as they would be greatly affected by the shortage of labor which has been freely provided by the slaves. (Stampp, K 1990 123) John Calhoun one of the strongest proponents of slavery described this institution as positively good requiring protection as it was beneficial to all those who were involved including the slaves themselves.
Calhoums sentiments have been largely attributed to be one of the catalysts of Southerners actions and their dedication to keep their economic life line. Although he did not have any intention for America to breakaway this slavery proponent has been closely associated with the secession process as his sentiments and strong defense of the slavery institution formed the basis of its advancement In the first half the nineteenth century the southerners led by their politicians defended slavery through retaining the majority control of the federal government.
They benefited from the fact that most of the presidents were coming from the South. There was a concerted effort to balance the free and slaves states. It was a battle for power between the two sides. Each saw the other as a real threat. As more states continued to join the Union new compromises had to be made so that a balance could be maintained between the two sides. The balance kept on being upset as new states joined, once in 1820 when Maine joined as a free state and in 1850 when California came in as a free state also. (Foner, E 1981 56)
The gap continued to widen as changes continued to occur in the two regions. The Northern states which were more inclined towards the industrialization whereas the Southern counterparts embraced the agrarian plantation economy. North was experiencing a higher population growth due to the high birth rates and the coming of the European immigrants into the area. The South on the other hand was experiencing a slow economic growth. They saw this as a real threat as the balance would soon be tilted towards the Northern states giving them more power as far as the control of the federal government was concerned.
They feared that a strongly anti slavery president may be elected due to the as more free states population continued to increase threatening their economy which was largely supported by the free labor from the slave population. This political issue that is largely believed to have moved the nation into conflict was more of an economic affair. Each region wanted to have the ultimate control of the federal government so that they can be in a position to advance their causes.
The southerners could not have wanted a situation where there were more free states than those which supported slaves as this would spell doom to their economies making them vulnerable to the Northerners. Slavery was such a sensitive issue to them as they could not have supported their economy with any other economic activity apart from plantation agriculture. (Freehling, W 1991 154) The issue of slavery continued to divide the nation for a long time there were different occasion when there were attempt to solve the conflict through compromise.
All the differences were as a result of the fear that one side may yield more power and have the full control of the federal union threatening the interests of the other side. The south slave states threatened to secede if their issues were not addressed, though not all the slave states at first agreed with this idea, they eventually rallied behind the cause of secession something that led to the war which has been described as the bloodiest in the history of America. This war was as a result of a disagreement on the issue of slavery.
One side relied heavily on this institution for its economic survival where the north this institution was regarded as evil, they looked at it as a moral issue. Though not everybody was for this institution to be abolished in the south the issue had become a divisive factor as it touched on the core point of survival. (Adam, E 1959 85) When the South came to realize that their control of the federal union was slipping towards the north they began to come up with other issues that would have saved their day and continue enjoying the services offered by the slaves.
To them they were on the brink of losing out on the spirited fight by the Free states muzzling their influence so that the institution can be done away all the same. This would be a big blow to the plantation owners as they would loose out on their main economic activity or the cost of production would go up as they would be forced to pay for the services which they have enjoyed for free for so long. The Southern states brought the constitution issue into the picture.
They argued that states should be granted their right as stated in the constitution. The brought forth this argument as a method of protecting slavery. They argued that the federal government was barred by the federal constitution precisely the tenth amendment from impinging on the rights of the slaveholders. They stated that the constitution does not allow the government to interfere with the slavery especially on the states where this institution already existed. (Robinson, A 2004 67)
The South felt that through these constructive interpretation of the federal constitution there attempt to continue with the slavery in their states would protected even with a free states controlled federal government. They had other option available at their disposal in cases the issue of the constitution failed to deliver their expectation. They would apply the nullification option or opt for the secession if their interest were threatened. They were determined to keep their economy going and given the fact that the slaves were important towards this cause they could not easily let it go.
They were ready to leave the union and form their own federation which would look at their interest. They were ready to move away and install a system that would have the interests of the southerners at heart. (Meyers, D 2005 102) The abolitionist further heightened the issue of slavery when they joined the North adherents of this cause. They felt that it was morally wrong to continue with this dehumanizing institution. It just made the society unequal where people who some members of the American society considered inferior are subjected to hard labor without proper compensation.
They vehemently supported the campaign to end this evil which they referred to as peculiar institution. Upon the rise of the abolitionist there arose a nationwide debate where the southern stood to their ground basing their argument from the bible where the institution existed with the blessing of the religion. The abolitionist also based their argument from the bible where they argued that all men should be equal where no one subjected the other to unfair treatment without the due compensation.
The tension between the two sides continued to an extent where cracks started in the two major political parties. Following the Kansas crisis and the compromise that had been reached earlier in 1850 the two major political parties the democrats and the Whigs started to disintegrate along the regional lines. The Whigs in the north largely formed a new party which came to be known as the Republicans. This party which was formed in 1854 was an anti slavery party which offered the vision for the future which laid more emphasis on the education and industrialization for all.
Although the presidential candidate for this anti slavery party was defeated in the elections the party scored well in the North proving to be the future party for this region. With the division that was prevalent in the political arena the battle lines had been drawn, with the election in 1860 approaching there was no candidate who had a national appeal. This was a signal that an eminent change was on the way. The issue of slavery had divided the country further along the party lines. With the Lincoln win in the presidential election the south had a good reason to secede.
A declaration was made where South Carolina seceded followed by other southern states. This marked the beginning of the war as the local forces began to take the control of the federal forts. The stand off between the two sides on the issues among them the freeing of the slaves led to the war that has been described as the turning point for this country. This issue was so divisive such that both sides did not want to loose the glimpse. This led to a conflict that lasted the most of the first part of the nineteenth century.
Work Cited Foner, E Politics and Ideology: In the Age of Civil War, New York, Oxford University Press (1981) Stampp, K America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, New York, Oxford University Press (1990) Robinson, A Bitter Fruits of Bondage, Charlottesville University of Virginia Press (2005) Freehling, W The Road to Disunion: Secessionist at Bay, Oxford University Press (1991) Adam, E Great Britain and the American Civil War, Plain Label Books (1959) Meyers, D And the War Came, New York, Algora Publishing (2005)Sample Essay of Custom-Writing | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Bangladesh–Ghana relations
Bangladesh–Ghana relations refer to the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Ghana. Neither country has a resident ambassador. Bangladesh and Ghana enjoys warm diplomatic relations and both are interested to strengthen them further.
High level visits
In 2010, former foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes paid an official visit to Accra.
Economic cooperation
Both the countries have been exchanging business and official delegations and have been holding trade fairs to boost the bilateral economic cooperation. In 2012, a high-profile Bangladeshi business delegation led by Shubhashish Bose, Vice Chairman of Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau, visited Ghana to explore ways for expanding bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Ghana. Bangladeshi investors have shown their interest to invest in Ghana because of its strategic location in West Africa and steady economic growth. Bangladeshi products especially the ready made garments and pharmaceuticals have been identified as products with huge potential in the Ghanaian market.
Cultural exchange
Many Ghanaian footballers have been regularly playing for various major Bangladeshi football clubs. Bangladesh has now become one of the most favorite destinations for Ghanaian footballers willing to play overseas. | WIKI |
2022 Atlanta Open – Doubles
Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios defeated Jason Kubler and John Peers in the final, 7–6(7–4), 7–5 to win the doubles tennis title at the 2022 Atlanta Open.
Reilly Opelka and Jannik Sinner were the reigning champions, but did not participate this year.
Rajeev Ram would have taken over the ATP no. 1 doubles ranking from his regular partner Joe Salisbury by winning the title partnering Jack Sock, but lost to Kokkinakis and Kyrgios in the semifinals.
Seeds
• # Ivan Dodig / 🇺🇸 Austin Krajicek (first round)
• # 🇦🇺 Thanasi Kokkinakis / 🇦🇺 Nick Kyrgios (champions)
• # 🇺🇸 Rajeev Ram / 🇺🇸 Jack Sock (semifinals)
• # 🇦🇺 Matthew Ebden / 🇦🇺 Max Purcell (quarterfinals) | WIKI |
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The properties of water ice at megabar pressure are characterized with ab initio computer simulations. The focus lies on the metallic Cmcm phase and its insulating distorted analogue with Pnma symmetry. Both phases were recently predicted to occur at 15.5 and 12.5 Mbar, respectively (Militzer and Wilson, Phys Rev Lett, 2010, 105, 195701). The Fermi surface of the Cmcm phase is analyzed and possibility of Fermi nesting to occur is discussed. The Wannier orbital are computed for the Pnma structure and compared to ice X. While ice X shows typical sp3 hybridization, in the Pnma structure, the orbitals are deforms and no longer all aligned with the hydrogen bonds. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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All the ladies always want to look their best.Especially when they are hitting the beach or the swimsuit they want to look really awesome.For this, make sure that the swimwear fits well and flatters the figure of the wearer.Everyone does not have the same type of figure.
If a swimsuit suits someone very well,it does not necessarily mean that it will suit the other person as well.It may make her look not that appealing. The main thing is that one should choose swimwear according to one’s body shape. If the swimwear is not perfectly fitting, the wearer won’t look good. The swimwear manufacturers have understood the various body shapes and deigned swimwear that are perfect for each and every body shape. Good swimwear are those which cover up the problem areas of and accentuates the best features of your figure.
You need to do some research and find out what swimwear suits your body type.A helpful guide for you: Pear Shaped- If you are having a pear shaped figure, i.e. a heavier bottom, a swimwear such as a swimming skirt will be good for you.With a fuller fit,it cover up your bottom and at the same time adds flare and style to the swimwear and of course to your overall look. Apple Shaped- You have an apple-shaped figure when you have “top heavy”.It means you have broad shoulders,full bust and generally have thinner arms,legs and hips.You will also have a tendency to gain weight at your waist lines.You should chose swimwear with broad straps and well designed solid cups to distribute the weight of the breasts evenly.
Small Bust- The best bet for a woman with smaller bust is to choose a top with ruffles or embellishments so thatit gives the illusion of a bigger chest. Alternatively, a swimsuit which has padding can help to give you a little something extra.
Compact, Athletic Body - If you have broad shoulders, narrower hips and muscular legs,you belong to the category of athletic shaped body. In this case you need to give the illusion of more curves.This can be easily done with a swim top with cups and padding. Picking bright colours and girlie prints will be good for you. Straight-across bandeaus should be avoided. Short Torso- If you have short torso,you should choose a swimwear that add length and lift the bust line so that you have a taller appearance. Choose a swimwear which has low rise bottoms and also halter straps. Halter straps draw the attention to your shoulders and neck.
Full Thighs- In case you have fuller thighs, you should opt for a swimwear that has bottoms with a little more coverage. You can try bottoms with a skirt that will help conceal part of your leg.
Belly bulge- Belly bulge always make us gloomy. Especially it can spoil the excitement of wearing a swimwear.But you can do the trick by choosing a dark colour one-piece swimwear. You can also try a two-piece swimsuit such as "tankini" with a longer top.
Now that you have a good idea which type of swimsuit will be perfect for your body type, you may be pondering where to purchase it from.Buying swimwear online in India has become very easy.With a number of lingerie and swimwear brands online, you can pick your choice whenever you want. | WIKI |
In an experiment carried out by a team of scientists, a cuttlefish was fastened with 3D glasses to test its vision. Like octopuses and squids, cuttlefish belong to the cephalopod family. As octopuses and squids cannot see in 3D, cuttlefish were tested since they belong to the same family. In the study, a silhouette of a shrimp was projected on the screen. The cuttlefish immediately stretched its tentacles and attacked the projected image. When the cuttlefish was given the addon 3D glasses, the cuttlefish set itself back by a few steps before shooting its tentacles at the shrimp. This proved that cuttlefish have human-like 3D vision. The study was carried out on 11 different European cuttlefish to confirm similar results. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Himanshu Nandal
Himanshu Nandal (born 2014) is an Indian para swimmer known for his national and international competitions accomplishments. Born in Rohtak, Haryana, Nandal is 100 percent visually impaired due to optic nerve failure from birth. Nandal won two gold medals and set a national record at the National Para Swimming Championship Udaipur in March 2022. He won three gold medals and set three national records at the National Para Championship Guwahati in November 2022.
Early Life and Background
Nandal comes from a family of sportspersons. His father, Balwant Singh is a former national hockey player currently with the Haryana Police. His uncle, Manjeet Nandal, represented India in judo at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Nandal initially pursued judo in 2017 before transitioning to swimming in 2021 to maintain his fitness and continue his interest in sports.
Swimming Career
Nandal began his formal swimming training in October 2021 at the Siri Fort Sports Complex under coach Ranbir Sharma. Sharma used specific training methods to accommodate Nandal's visual impairment, such as physically guiding his arm movements.
In March 2022, Nandal debuted at the National Para Swimming Championship in Udaipur, where he won two gold medals and set a national record. He continued to perform well in November 2022 at the National Para Championship in Guwahati, winning three gold medals and setting three national records. In April 2023, Nandal competed in the Citi World Para Series in Singapore, qualifying for the Asian Para Games 2022 in Hangzhou. In March 2024, he won three gold medals at the National Para Swimming Championship in Gwalior.
Nandal received sponsorship from the National Mineral Development Corporation, which provided approximately Rs 2 lakh for his participation in the Citi World Para Series in Singapore in May 2024. During this event, Nandal met the minimum qualification standards in the 100-meter breaststroke and the minimum entry times in the 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter individual medley, qualifying for the Paris Paralympics 2024.
Achievements
* Participated in Asian Para Games, 2022
* 21st Para National Championship 2022 - Gold medal
* 22nd Para National Championship 2022 - Gold medal | WIKI |
Israel launches US$2bn dual-tranche bond offering
LONDON, Jan 10 (IFR) - Israel has launched a US$2bn bond offering, according to a lead.
The sovereign has set final terms on US$1bn due January 2028s at 75bp over Treasuries, and US$1bn due January 2048s at Treasuries plus 125bp.
The 10-year bond was initially marketed at plus 90bp area, and guidance was set at plus 80bp area (+/-5bp).
The 30-year tranche was originally offered at 145bp area over, before pricing was revised to plus 130bp area (+/-5bp).
The bookrunners are Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.
Israel is rated A1/A+/A+. (Reporting by Robert Hogg; editing by Sudip Roy)
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Cura (surname)
Cura is a surname, and may refer to:
* Ben Cura (born 1988), British film, television and theatre actor
* Domingo Cura (born 2004), Argentinian musician
* Francesco Cura (born 1977), American actor, singer, and fashion model
* John Cura
* José Cura (born 1962), operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer
* Maria Renee Cura (died 2007), Argentinian geographer, writer, and Indologist
* Philippe Cura (born 1972), French actor
* Verónica Cura (born 1970), film producer, production manager, and production designer
History
Cura is a noble ancient Roman family name.
Etymology
Cura is the name of a divine figure whose name means "Care" or "Concern" in Latin. Hyginus seems to have created both the personification and story for his Fabulae, poem 220.
Origin
1. Latin: for "care", "cure", or "concern". 2. Spanish and Portuguese: from cura "priest". 3. Italian: probably a habitational name from Cura Carpignano in Pavia province, or other places named with this word.
Given names
Spanish 38%; Portuguese 11%; Italian 9%. Jose (4), Pedro (3), Cayetano (2), Cristina (2), Miguel (2), Alfonso, Alicia, Bernardo, Enrique, Estela, Evangelina, Genaro; Joao; Aldo, Antonio, Elio, Federico, Gino, Silvio.(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population) | WIKI |
Talk:Ohne dich
Eisbrecher Song
There should be a distinction between the Rammstien Song, and The Eisbrecher Song of the same name. Considering they are two different songs. --Emevas (talk) 01:14, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
"Political" claims
Claims about "Silent Spring" removed as unsupported. What next, claims that it's a Christian song praising Jesus because there's a panoramic shot of a mountain peak topped with a cross?
* The interpretation as written is still rather inane. The birds going silent, the empty forest, counting hours, seconds not being worthwhile, breathing being hard, these are all allusions to modern trench warfare. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:16, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Slavoj Zizek has a reasonably extended Hegelian interpretation of this song in the book *Less than nothing*. I wish I had understood that book well enough and wasn't depressed enough to put up a summary here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:14D:5C5B:490B:3079:63B3:EDED:4BA2 (talk) 13:41, 31 August 2023 (UTC) | WIKI |
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F. John Clendinnen (August 23 1924 - July 25 2013) was a contemporary philosopher of science interested in induction and empiricism. His father, Leslie John Clendinnen and grandfather, Frederick John Clendinnen were radiologists at several hospitals in Melbourne, Australia, where Clendinnen lived. He enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War and trained as a pilot in both Australia and Canada. The war ended before he entered combat and he returned to Australia where he commenced an undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne. After graduating with honours in philosophy he was employed initially as a tutor by the University at the newly created History and Philosophy of Science Department in the Faculty of Arts. He remained in the same department until his retirement in 1989. He married the noted Australian historian Inga Clendinnen (née Jewell). Clendinnen completed a part time PhD while on the teaching staff of the University called "Logical Principles of Scientific Inference". Clendinnen was in correspondence with philosophers such as Wesley C. Salmon and Susan Haack. In his work he explored the ways in which we can know things; how causal connections can be tested and established in the real world. | WIKI |
A brief history on the life of Edgar Allen Poe
It was January 19, 1809, when the world was blessed with Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in Massachusetts, Boston. According to IMDB, Poe’s biological parents were David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe (IMDB.com). At the age of three, Edgar became an orphan and was adopted by John and Frances Allan. Edgar’s foster father was a rich tobacco exporter and was easily able to finance his education and did not hesitate to send him to a posh boarding school. While he did excel in his academics, he was forced to drop out as his foster father refused to finance him further when he learned of his gambling debts.
According to The Raven Society, Poe was forced into gambling because he did not receive adequate funds from his home to afford his studies (alg.alumni.virginia.edu). Being an honor student, he was adamant about pursuing and finishing his studies one way or another, and this is how he started gambling. Although Poe was remarkably intelligent, his luck took a turn for the worse as, soon enough, he amassed a debt of over $2,000. After finding out what his child had gotten into, John refused to help him in this regard and would not further fund his literary venture. Seeing no other option, Poe agonizingly went back and never returned to university.
After failing to reconstruct his relationship with John, Edgar joined the army in 1827, and this was also the year in which he produced some marvelous writing: Tameriane and Other Poems, according to Poets (Poets.org). At the time of writing, none of his pieces received the praise they deserved. Soon after, he dropped out of the army due to financial constraints. From here, he moved in with his aunt and became an editor at Southern Literary Messenger. In 1836, he married his aunt’s daughter, Virginia. He adored his marriage, and in the next ten years, he went on to produce a number of poems and short stories that enabled him to garner the fame he has to this day. The Fall of The House of Usher, The Raven, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue are just some of the works that turned him into a sensation. These writings would establish him as an architect of short stories, and his style of writing is still seen as an inspiration for modern authors.
In 1847, Virginia succumbed to tuberculosis, and Edgar was unable to recover from his broken heart afterward. His alcoholism worsened and had a great impact on his health. On September 27, 1849, Poe left Richmond and was presumably on his way to Philadelphia. Until October 3, his journey is very vague as there are barely any witnesses in his last days. According to Sarah Pruitt, Poe was discovered in a Baltimore bar in a very drunken state by a friend of his and was immediately provided medical help from another acquaintance. After being taken to a hospital, Poe did not show any signs of improvement and soon passed away (History.com).
Poe’s death is still as much of a mystery as it was when he died. There is a lack of a death certificate, and the cause of death is reported to be some sort of congestion in the brain, which is linked to rabies in some reports. Edgar Allen Poe breathed his last breath on October 7, 1849, and the world lost an incredibly talented composer along with. | FINEWEB-EDU |
határozott
Adjective
* 1) determined, resolute, firm
* 2) precise, exact, accurate, fixed, definite
* 3) definite, marked e.g. improvement
* 4) express, unequivocal, flat, clear e.g. a reply
* 1) definite, marked e.g. improvement
* 2) express, unequivocal, flat, clear e.g. a reply
* 1) express, unequivocal, flat, clear e.g. a reply
* 1) express, unequivocal, flat, clear e.g. a reply | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)
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Saturday, March 20, 2021
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Theme Compliant Preferences for Big Sur and below
How to adapt your Preferences Window toolbar so it looks and works like an Apple app on macOS Big Sur and consistent with previous OS Versions.
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Sam Rowlands
A common question I get asked, is how to make a Preferences Window look and work consistently with macOS Big Sur, while still looking and working consistently with older versions of the macOS.
Preferences Dialog in macOS Big Sur
Preferences Dialog in macOS Big Sur
Preferences Dialog in macOS Mojave
Preferences Dialog in macOS Mojave
Start with the toolbar
Preferences Toolbar in the Xojo IDE
Layout the toolbar in the Xojo IDE, adding only the buttons to use for switching the pane. Make sure all the buttons are "ToggleButton" in the IDE. You can specify icons here, but they'll be overwritten when running on Big Sur, so I personally don't bother.
Add some code
The following code uses the Ohanaware App Kit, but you should be able to translate it to whatever application kit that you're using. Place it in the "Open" event of the window.
The property "app.fullColorIconsUse" allows my users to choose between Big Sur consistency or easily recognizable icons.
The code works by using NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 0 ) to get the toolbaritem, NSControlSetImage then sets the image on the item. NSImageFromName will load images from either the system or that are contained in the Resources folder of the application, while NSImageWithSymbolName will use a SF Symbol as the image. SF Symbols only work on macBS or newer.
#if targetMacOS then Dim tHandle as integer = NSWindowToolbar( self.handle ) Dim items as integer = NSToolbarItems( tHandle ) if operatingSystemisAtLeastBigSur then // If we're on macBS, tell the window to use the Preference style toolbar. NSWindowSetToolbarStyle( me.handle ) = NSWindowToolbarStyleValue.preference end if if app.fullColorIconsUse or operatingSystemisAtLeastBigSur = false then // --- If the user has choosen full color icons or is running on an older version of the macOS NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 0 ) ) = NSImageFromName( "NSImageNamePreferencesGeneral" ) NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 1 ) ) = NSImageFromName( "NSImageNameUserAccounts" ) NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 2 ) ) = NSImageFromName( "interfaceIcon" ) else // --- macBS, so use SF Symbols. NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 0 ) ) = NSImageWithSymbolName( NSImageClass, "gearshape", "general" ) NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 1 ) ) = NSImageWithSymbolName( NSImageClass, "person.crop.circle", "accounts" ) NSControlSetImage( NSArrayObjectAtIndex( items, 2 ) ) = NSImageWithSymbolName( NSImageClass, "macwindow.on.rectangle", "Window" ) end if #endIf
Finally...
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Talk:Tibetan Terrier
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Tibetan name
original name is NOT Dhoky Apso (which is for bearded tibetan mastiff). the right term is Tsang Apso (bearded dog from Tsang province).
Does that mean you want it changed not only on the picture and info on the side, but also the section in the beginning where it mentions it "The Tibetan name for the breed, Dhoki Apso"?--~*Twinkler4*~ 00:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Sure ! Already changed it.
>> Are you sure it's not Dhoki Apso? In Google, I see lots of references to Dhoki Apso and Tibetan Terriers, but none to Tsang Apso.. other than this page.
yes, I'm sure it is! ''The people of the Tsang Province have enjoyed their company for thousands of years. Recent DNA testing places these shaggy dogs on the list of 14 most ancient dog breeds, meaning they have more genetic similarities to wolves than most other dogs nipping at our heels today.
''Not really a terrier but an apso instead, the Tibetan Terrier was so named by European travelers remembering the beloved terriers they left back home. Apso means shaggy or bearded dog in Tibet and Tsang is the province from which the breed originated. Thus the Tibetan name for the dog is Tsang Apso.''
please, also look at this article, where you will learn what actually is a do khyi apso, an apso, and a tibetan terrier. http://www.lhasa-apso.org/articles/bailey.htm
Commons
Can anyone help to put these on Commons? File:Tibeti terrier.jpg File:Naicaposa.jpg File:Tibetanterrier-toe-khaley.jpg Hafspajen (talk) 06:43, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
-50C ??
Tibetan Terrier withstand temperatures as low as −50 °C for prolonged periods of Time
Really ?
Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. At its summit, the temperature never gets above minus 2 degrees in summer, and can be as low as minus 60 degrees in the depths of winter. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hilary Critchley
The result was keep__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Star Mississippi 16:11, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
Hilary Critchley
* – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)
There are no independent sources that I could find that would make this individual notable (nor does the article have any such sources), thank you Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:56, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:56, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Medicine, and Scotland. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:03, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
* Keep. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, at least, is a pass of WP:PROF. Likely some of the other fellowships also confer notability, and her Google Scholar profile shows high enough citations for a pass of #C1 as well. The nomination is faulty, because it only considers WP:GNG-based notability; PROF is an independent notability guideline that does not involve the amount of publicity the subject has obtained. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
* not sure about...other fellowships also confer notability, IMO--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:31, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
* Keep per David Eppstein, PROF#C3. —siroχo 00:14, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* Keep. Agree Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh passes WP:PROF, and we have also counted FMedSci in the past. Citations in GS are very strong (1826,792,768,716,666 and a further ~30 over 200) and also meet WP:PROF. Espresso Addict (talk) 00:47, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* Keep: FRSE is a clincher (have added a link to the RSE source as extra verification). The exhibition mentioned in the Herald source would be good too, but I can't actually find it in the online copy of the newspaper, sadly. Page no in the ref would have been helpful. But clearly notable. Pam D 07:56, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* @Thincat Thanks for finding the Herald source - I wasn't patient enough to zoom all the pages up and find that article! Pam D 11:06, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* Keep, since meets PROF#C3. @Ozzie10aaaa, you are right that the other fellowships do not contribute to notability. As in many British societies they are a senior membership level that one applies for and pays higher dues. Often there is an Honorary Fellow level in those societies which does meet C3. However there was an independent source for the RSE fellowship in the article when it was nominated for deletion. The link was dead, as are many, since it was an http address and the society had converted to https addresses. That security change has caused a lot of dead links for us, so something to check before nominating. StarryGrandma (talk) 16:56, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* Purely for clarity, I'd say FMedSci definitely also counts, as an honorary elected fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences, which also checks out with source (though wasn't in the article at time of nomination.) I probably should not have rolled the other fellowships up into one sentence. Espresso Addict (talk) 18:29, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
* @Espresso Addict, like the US National Academy of Sciences, members of the Academy of Medical Sciences are elected for "exceptional contributions' as explained here, so definitely counts as meeting C3. StarryGrandma (talk) 02:04, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
* Keep. Stunning pass of WP:Prof on GS record. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:08, 1 October 2023 (UTC).
* Keep. Some of the highly-cited papers are highly coauthored, but enough are not to give confidence of WP:NPROF C1. I also believe the WP:NPROF C3 case. Time to close this as a WP:SNOW keep? Russ Woodroofe (talk) 08:10, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
* Keep per those above. Sufficiently productive as an academic to merit an article. BD2412 T 02:50, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
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Talk:Mars Ill
Merge
The manCHILD article is in bad shape, mainly just being a list of guest appearances. I recommend that any useful information from that one, be merged into Mars ILL, since they appear to be about the same people. --Elonka 17:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
I disagree. Even though manCHILD is one half of Mars ILL, he is totally autonomous from the group, and is currently working on solo projects. Wardomatic (talk) 05:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
* Can third-party reliable sources be provided, which prove that manCHILD is independently notable? --Elonka 18:11, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I'll look into this as soon as I can. Thanks, --Wardomatic (talk) 06:13, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I've added a reference from PerformerMag which interviewed manCHILD about his new method of selling music independently, as well as his official announcement on Mars ILL's forum back in Feb. '08 about this new venture. I know that forum links are iffy, but I can contact manCHILD himself to get any other sources, if needed. Also, I have to say that I'm not big on the long list of his guest appearances, as it looks ugly, but, apparently his fans are big in knowing which songs he's performed on. If there's a better, more concise way of showcasing this info, I'm game. Thanks again for the heads up on this article. Although I've not done any work on it (aside from the new paragraph), I'm willing to clean it up and make it more presentable and get it up to Wiki standards. --Wardomatic (talk) 08:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
manchildinsider.com Go there, and you will realize that Gregory Owens has a huge following and active work outside of Mars Ill. Here, he releases 5 songs a month for subscription users. The users design the album art. So, DO NOT MERGE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Move?
The result of the move request was: page moved, per discussion. - GTBacchus(talk) 16:48, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Mars ILL → Mars Ill —
* Capitalization fix per WP:CAPS that is currently a redirect. Aspects (talk) 18:18, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
* 'Oppose. OK usually, but here in Wikipedia's usual sans-serif font the asked new form "uppercase-eye lowercase-ell lowercase-ell" looks like the Roman number III = 3. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 23:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
* Support move. Yes, the word Ill looks exactly like the roman number III, but I don't think that's how we should decide on how to name our articles. The group's name is written without all caps in most sources I looked at (eg., , ), and they spell their name as Mars Ill on their official site (as seen via archive.org). This page does use the all-caps version, but it seems the most common spelling is just "Ill". Jafeluv (talk) 20:36, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
* Comment Here are three bands that have "Ill" in their title with just the "I" capitalized: Ill Chemistry, Ill Niño and Ill Repute. Aspects (talk) 23:15, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Merger discussion
Many of this band's album articles can be merged into this article. Merge tags are present on the article page. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:23, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
* Most of the material is simply track listings. Not particularly important to save.
* If it has no WP:RS, delete. Do not merge.
* If it has only one RS, such as AllMusic, keep the material and merge.
* If more than one RS can be found, keep the article where it currently is. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:13, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
* Results of my g-hits search for RSs for albums:
* - Raw Materials: Cross Rhythms, JFH news article (at the bottom of page), CCM Magazine, 76, 79, RapReviews.com, JFH review, Rapzilla, Phantom Tollbooth.
* - Blue Collar Sessions: Patheos - contains a review of a song from the album, CMJ, 18.
* - Pirate Radio: JFH
* - Backbreakanomics: (Allmusic already included, so I won't list that one). CCM Magazine, page 48, Cross Rhythms, Phantom Tollbooth, HipHopDX, Rapzilla, Jesus Freak Hideout
* - Sound Methods/SM 2.0: JFH
* - Pro Pain: CBN (review, listed under "M" section, interview), several Cross Rhythms articles, Allmusic, Rapzilla, JFH, Crosswalk
* - Old Ironsides: JFH
* - No Fame: nothing
* - Slow Flame: Cross Rhythms, JFH
* Comments: All articles for what are essentially the same albums should be merged into one (for instance, Sound Methods, Raw Materials, Backbreakanomics). No Fame should be deleted. I don't know if Sound Method, Old Ironsides, and Pirate Radio should be merged with Mars Ill or not. Slow Flame could probably be merged with Pro Pain, like the Gravity Remix EP is included in the article on Lecrae's Gravity. All the others should be able to have their own articles (Blue Collar Sessions has only two sources, but those are probably enough to warrant a separate article).-- ¿3fam ily6 contribs 17:54, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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* The ones that have either charted or have been reviewed should be left and expanded with the information contained in them. The other ones that have not should be deleted and the track listings kept on the discography page. This is about all you can do for this band.HotHat (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
I carried out these merges, going off of User:3family6's sources for which albums should have their own articles. For the ones I merged, I actually just redirected, because the only thing in the articles was a track listing, and it seems like we usually don't keep track listings in discographies. --Cerebellum (talk) 09:04, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Mars ILL edit
The band Mars ILL has always officially gone with the capitalization of "ILL" - as I mentioned in my earlier edits from long ago, so as to clarify the name, as well as an aesthetic issue. Greg and Nate (Mars ILL members) have always liked it that way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wardomatic (talk • contribs) 21:09, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
* I moved this from my talk page.
* There was a move discussion above. At best, we can indicate that it is stylized as 'Mars ILL, but unless there is a good reason for moving it back (which would require a discussion) what the band members like does not supersede English grammar. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:40, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
* If that's the argument that you're using, then we would have to go in and change all band names like Boyz II Men, Outkast, Led Zeppelin, Def Leppard, et al. Band preference supersedes English grammar if it's a stylization of a word or name. Especially if it's a name. - Wardomatic (talk • contribs)
* Bands may select to intentionally misspell words, but we still use English capitalization for their articles. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) is what we adhere to. not the stylization a band prefers for capitalization. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:45, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
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Siemens to pick banks for blockbuster Healthineers listing: sources
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German industrial group Siemens (SIEGn.DE) will shortly start picking banks to organize a stock market listing of its healthcare business, which could be valued at up to 37 billion euros ($40 billion) including debt, three people close to the matter said. Siemens will invite investment banks in early April to pitch for roles in the initial public offering (IPO), which could be the biggest since the flotation of German energy group Innogy (IGY.DE) in October, the people said. They said that Goldman Sachs (GS.N) had already been asked to look after some preparatory tasks for the IPO. “Goldman Sachs will very likely emerge as one of the global coordinators of the Healthineers IPO,” one of the sources said, adding that Healthineers would be listed in late 2017 provided equity markets were favorable. Siemens and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. Analysts estimate the business, Siemens’s most profitable, has an enterprise value of around 36 to 37 billion euros. Barclays Capital, which rates Siemens “equal weight”, estimates that that represents around 15 times 2018 earnings before interest, tax and amortization (EBITA), compared with 10.4 times for the trains-to-turbines group as a whole. “This is quite a high multiple factoring the strong cash generation and stable margin. However, top line growth has been muted and there are some headwinds ahead in both the U.S. and China, in our view,” Barclays analyst James Stettler said. Comparison with peers is difficult as they are divisions of conglomerates General Electric (GE.N), Philips (PHG.AS) and Toshiba (6502.T). Potential investors in the IPO may compare Healthineers to Baxter (BAX.N), Boston Scientific (BSX.N), Ambu (AMBUb.CO) and Dentsply Sirona (XRAY.O) - which trade at 17 to 30 times their core earnings - when making their decisions on how much they are willing to pay. The IPO of a minority stake in Healthineers would give Siemens a currency for organic or inorganic investment in the business, which is a market leader in diagnostic imaging but needs to adapt fast to boost its exposure to growth segments. These include molecular diagnostics, which involves analyzing patients’ genetic make-up to help doctors with diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options, as well as advanced therapies and bespoke hospital services. This will not be cheap. U.S. medical technology group Danaher (DHR.N) in November bought fast-growing but loss-making Californian molecular diagnostics market leader Cepheid for $4 billion including debt, or just over six times sales, at a premium of 54 percent. “This (flotation) is the best option and the logical next step to provide flexible access to the capital markets and further strengthen the Healthineers business in the future,” Siemens Chief Executive Joe Kaeser told investors on a call in November. Analysts say GenMark Diagnostics (GNMK.O) and Oxford Immunotec Global (OXFD.O) are future logical takeover targets in the sector. Siemens is now developing a next-generation lab diagnostics system, named Atellica, designed to leapfrog competitors such as Roche (ROG.S) and Abbott (ABT.N), but the move is expected to dilute profit margins for around two years. Last month, Siemens announced a $300 million investment and 700 new jobs at its Walpole, Massachusetts laboratory diagnostics manufacturing facility over the next four years to manufacture assays for Atellica. Analysts say Healthineers - which accounts for about 30 percent of divisional sales - has underperformed both its peers and expectations since Siemens created it in the last decade. It posted sales of 13.5 billion euros in the fiscal year to end-September, an increase of 5 percent. It had an EBIT margin of 17.2 percent, an improvement on the previous year’s 16.9 percent and the highest of any Siemens business. It has about 46,000 employees worldwide. Editing by Maria Sheahan and Adrian Croft | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Motivation: Determining the interaction partners among protein/domain families poses hard computational problems, in particular in the presence of paralogous proteins. Available approaches aim to identify interaction partners among protein/domain families through maximizing the similarity between trimmed versions of their phylogenetic trees. Since maximization of any natural similarity score is computationally difficult, many approaches employ heuristics to evaluate the distance matrices corresponding to the tree topologies in question. In this article, we devise an efficient deterministic algorithm which directly maximizes the similarity between two leaf labeled trees with edge lengths, obtaining a score-optimal alignment of the two trees in question. Results: Our algorithm is significantly faster than those methods based on distance matrix comparison: 1 min on a single processor versus 730 h on a supercomputer. Furthermore, we outperform the current state-of-the-art exhaustive search approach in terms of precision, while incurring acceptable losses in recall. Availability: A C implementation of the method demonstrated in this article is available at http://compbio.cs.sfu.ca/mirrort.htm Contact: imanh@sfu.ca; cenk@sfu.ca; as@cwi.nl
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Hajirasouliha, I, Schönhuth, A, Juan, D, Valencia, A, & Sahinalp, S.C. (2012). Mirroring trees in the light of their topologies. Bioinformatics, 28(9), 1202–1208. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
John W. ANTHUIS, Jr., Appellant in 91-3670 and 91-3894, v. COLT INDUSTRIES OPERATING CORPORATION, Administrator of the Colt Industries Operating Corporation Severance Plan and the Colt Industries Operating Corporation Severance Plan, Appellants in No. 91-3674. Donald Dale GROSCOST, Appellant in 91-3675 and 91-3893, v. COLT INDUSTRIES OPERATING CORPORATION, individually, and as successor to Crucible Inc., and Colt Industries Operating Corporation, Administrator of the Colt Industries Operating Corporation Key Executive Severance Plan, and the Colt Industries Operating Corporation Key Executive Severance Plan, Appellants in No. 91-3676.
Nos. 91-3670, 91-3674 — 91-3676, 91-3893 and 91-3894.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued May 19, 1992.
Decided July 27, 1992.
Gregory K. Douglass, (argued), Whit-more, Yerlihay & Douglass, Beaver Falls, Pa., for appellants, cross-appellees.
William H. Powderley, III (argued), Paula E. Ganz, Joan C. Zangrilli, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appel-lees, cross-appellants Colt Industries.
Before: HUTCHINSON, COWEN, and GARTH, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge:
Once again, we have been called upon to resolve issues raised by two agreements affecting employees of Colt Industries Operating Corporation (“CIOC”). One agreement is known as the Severance Plan. The other has been designated the Continuance Agreement. Both the Severance Plan and the Continuance Agreement have been discussed in detail in Frank v. Colt Industries, Inc., 910 F.2d 90 (3d Cir.1990).
In the appeals before us, brought by appellants-cross-appellees John Anthuis and Donald Dale Groscost, we are obliged to dismiss Anthuis’ appeal, because the order from which Anthuis took his appeal— the district court’s order of August 29, 1991 — was not an appealable order. For a similar reason, we are obliged to dismiss CIOC’s cross-appeal which was taken from an order of the district court dated October 1, 1991.
Groscost and CIOC’s appeals initially raised jurisdictional problems. We have reached the merits of the Groscost appeals, however, and although we do not entirely agree with the analysis of the district court, we affirm the district court’s judgment in so far as it awards severance pay and prejudgment interest to Groscost. We will vacate the district court’s ruling which denied Groscost’s motion for attorneys’ fees to be assessed against CIOC.
I.
Anthuis and Groscost each filed an Amended Complaint against CIOC in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, after their respective complaints filed in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas had been removed.
Both Anthuis and Groscost moved for partial summary judgment with respect to severance pay only. CIOC moved for summary judgment as to all counts, i.e., continuance salary payments and severance payments. On July 19,1991, the district court, pursuant to its opinion rendered on that date, entered orders which denied CIOC’s summary judgment motions, and which granted Anthuis severance pay of $19,-125.00 and prejudgment interest of $16,-738.44, and denied Anthuis’ motion for attorneys’ fees. Anthuis’ continuance salary count was not adjudicated. On the same date, the district court entered an order which granted Groscost’s severance pay of $15,245.00 and prejudgment interest of $13,570.78. The district court also denied Groscost’s claim against CIOC for attorneys’ fees. Groscost’s continuance salary count was not adjudicated.
Thereafter, on August 29, 1991, the district court certified for interlocutory appeal its grant of -severance pay to Anthuis (Count I of Anthuis’ complaint), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), and on October 1, 1991, certified the same Count as a final judgment under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b).
On September 30,1991, Anthuis appealed at 91-3670 from the district court’s order of August 29, 1991 (the district court’s order purporting to certify the order of July 19, 1991 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b)).
On October 3, 1991, CIOC cross-appealed in the Anthuis proceeding at 91-3674 from the district court’s order of October 1, 1991 (the district court’s order purporting to certify. the July 19, 1991 order pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b)).
After the district court had entered its order respecting Groscost’s claims on July 19, 1991, Groscost and CIOC entered into a Stipulation under Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a), which dismissed Groscost’s claim for continuance salary payments (Count II of Groscost’s complaint) and which limited the amount of Groscost’s severance pay claim (Count I) to $15,245.00. The Stipulation also provided that the voluntary dismissal with respect to Groscost’s severance count did not affect Groscost’s claim for interest, costs and attorneys’ fees, but only limited the amount of his severance benefit claim to $15,-245.00.
On September 30, 1991, Groscost appealed the district court’s decision denying him attorneys’ fees. His appeal at 91-3675 was taken from the district court’s order of August 29, 1991, which had approved the Stipulation which Groscost and CIOC had signed.
On October 3, 1991, CIOC cross-appealed in the Groscost proceeding the district court’s order awarding Groscost severance pay and prejudgment interest. CIOC’s cross-appeal at 91-3676 was also taken from the district court’s order approving the August 29, 1991 Stipulation.
II.
1. District Court Opinion
The district court in its two opinions dated July 19, 1991, one opinion in Anthuis, the other in Groscost, held among other things that CIOC had not waived its contention that Anthuis and Groscost had failed to meet the conditions precedent to eligibility for participation under CIOC’s Severance Plan. In Frank v. Colt Industries, Inc., 910 F.2d 90 (3d Cir.1990), this Court held that because CIOC had failed to raise its discretionary defense in the Frank case, CIOC had waived that issue. In the present actions brought by Anthuis and Groscost, CIOC had raised the discretionary argument in the district court; and the district court, as stated, held that the issue of discretionary approvals by CIOC officials was ripe for a merits decision.
The district court held that its reading of our decision in Frank required CIOC to pay severance benefits because the Continuance Agreements could not be construed to reduce or eliminate severance benefits under the Severance Plan. The district court went on to hold that the reservation of a broad discretion in an employer’s Plan was in any event invalid and would cause a Plan with such a provision to violate ERISA. Hence, the district court entered summary judgment in favor of Anthuis for $19,125.00 in severance benefits and $16,-738.44 in prejudgment interest. It entered summary judgment in favor of Groscost for $15,245.00 in severance benefits and $13,570.78 in prejudgment interest.
However, the district court then denied Anthuis and Groscost attorneys’ fees which they sought pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1). It did so on the grounds that CIOC had not acted in bad faith and that its position was not meritless. The appeals to which we have referred earlier were then filed by all parties.
We have plenary review over the jurisdictional issues in both Anthuis and Gros-cost’s appeals as well as the issues in Gros-cost concerning severance pay. Frank, 910 F.2d at 92. Our review of Groscost’s prejudgment interest award is for abuse of discretion, Schake v. CIOC, 960 F.2d 1187, 1192 (3d Cir.1992); Feather v. United Mine Workers of America, 711 F.2d 530, 540 (3d Cir.1983), as is the denial of Groscost’s motion for attorneys’ fees. Schake, 960 F.2d at 1190.
2. Anthuis’ Appeal
Anthuis’ Amended Complaint contained two counts. In Count I, Anthuis sought severance benefits under CIOC’s Severance Plan. In Count II, Anthuis sought payment of additional salaries under a separate agreement — the Continuance Agreement — that he had made with Crucible Inc., the predecessor to CIOC.
Anthuis filed a motion for partial summary judgment limited to Count I (severance pay). CIOC filed a cross motion for summary judgment on both counts. On July 19, 1991, the district court granted Anthuis’ motion for partial summary judgment on Count I, awarding Anthuis a severance benefit of $19,125.00 and prejudgment interest of $16,738.44, but denied An-thuis attorneys’ fees and costs. The district court also denied CIOC’s cross motion for summary judgment on both counts. The district court did not decide the second count in Anthuis’ complaint. Thus, the July 19,1991 order of the district court was not a final order from which appeal could be taken.
On August 21, 1991, both Anthuis and CIOC jointly moved “To Bifurcate Count I from Count II of Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint and, Pursuant to Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to Enter Final Judgment on Count I, or alternatively, to Certify the Issuance of Summary Judgment as to Count I for Immediate Appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b).” An order signed by the district court on August 29, 1991, certified its July 19, 1991 order for immediate interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b). The district court’s order did not specify a controlling question of law as to which there was a substantial ground for a difference of opinion, although the order did state without explanation that an immediate appeal would materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation. Both of these statements are required by the statute and by our own Local Rule 23, which also provides that
the controlling question of law presented for review shall be concisely stated in one sentence, if possible, expressed in the terms and circumstances of the case, but without unnecessary detail. The expression will be deemed to include every subsidiary question fairly comprised therein.
Moreover, neither Anthuis nor CIOC complied with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 5(a) which requires that a petition for permission to appeal be filed with this court within ten days after entry of 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) certification by the district court. Thus, not having received this court’s certification permitting an interlocutory appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), the Notice of Appeal filed by Anthuis on September 30, 1991, was not effective and jurisdiction did not vest in this court.
The record does not reveal any appeal taken by Anthuis from the district court’s order of October 1, 1991, which purported to certify the July 19, 1991 order under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b). Even if Anthuis had sought to appeal this latter certification, the district court’s failure to furnish reasons for its certification under Rule 54(b), as we explain below, would have rendered such an appeal ineffective.
3. CIOC’s Cross-Appeal
On October 1, 1991, the district court also signed an order entering judgment on Count I of Anthuis’ Complaint, pursuant to Rule 54(b). The district court stated that “since there is no just reason for delay, final judgment be and hereby is entered pursuant to Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” (A 308-09). Fed. R.Civ.P. 54(b) does permit “entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all the claims or parties ... upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
The district court, in entering its order, gave no reasons to support its exercise of discretion. By failing to do so, the district court failed to comply with this court’s requirements set forth in Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Philadelphia Electric Co., 521 F.2d 360, 364 (3d Cir.1975) that,
A proper exercise of discretion under Rule 54(b) requires the district court to do more than just recite the 54(b) formula of “no just reason for delay.” The court should clearly articulate the reasons and factors underlying its decision to grant 54(b) certification. “... It is essential ... that a reviewing court have some basis for distinguishing between well-reasoned conclusions arrived at after a comprehensive' consideration of all relevant factors, and mere boiler-plate approval phrased in appropriate language but unsupported by evaluation of the facts or analysis of the law ...” Protective Committee v. Anderson, 390 U.S. 414, 434, 88 S.Ct. 1157, 1168, 20 L.Ed.2d 1 (1968).
Allis-Chalmers also announced the principles which guide a district court’s decision in issuing a Rule 54(b) certification:
(1) the burden is on the party seeking final certification to convince the district court that the case is the “infrequent harsh case” meriting a favorable exercise of discretion; (2) the district court must balance the competing factors present in the case to determine if it is in the interest of sound judicial administration and policy to certify the judgment as final; (3) the district court must marshall and articulate the factors upon which it relied in granting certification so that prompt and effective review can be facilitated.
521 F.2d at 365.
By placing the burden on the parties seeking final certification, we recognize that district court judges must necessarily depend upon counsel to assist them by identifying the factors, considerations and reasons for the entry of a final judgment on less than all issues. The ultimate responsibility falls, of course, on the district court, but we would be unrealistic if we did not recognize that counsel must shoulder the burden of identifying the particular factors, considerations and reasons so that the district court may, in its discretion, properly evaluate the Rule 54(b) application.
When “faced with an appeal from a Rule 54(b) certification of finality, we must ‘scrutinize the district court’s evaluation of such factors as the interrelationship of the claims so as to prevent piecemeal appeals in cases which should be reviewed only as single units.’ ” Cemar, Inc. v. Nissan Motor Cory, in America, 897 F.2d 120 (3d Cir.1990), quoting Curtiss-Wright Gorp. v. General Electric Co., 446 U.S. 1, 10, 100 S.Ct. 1460, 1466, 64 L.Ed.2d 1 (1980).
Here, as in Allis-Chalmers, and Cemar, the district court did not explain its analysis nor did it explain the basis for its statement that there was no just reason for delay. Nor did the district court assure us, by a statement of its reasons, that this was the “infrequent harsh case” in which final certification should be granted. In particular, we note that even after the entry of the October 1,1991 order, and after we had requested • supplemental briefing from counsel addressed to the issue of jurisdiction, neither Anthuis’ counsel not CIOC’s counsel made reference to the requirements of Allis-Chalmers. Indeed, that authority was not even cited in the primary briefs, let alone the supplemental briefings of the parties.
Because we lack a competent Rule 54(b) certification, the district court’s order of October 1, 1991 lacks finality. We are, therefore, obliged to dismiss CIOC’s cross-appeal.
4. Groscost’s Ayyeal
Partial summary judgment was granted in Groscost’s favor on July 19, 1991 on Count I of Groscost’s Complaint. Groscost was awarded a severance benefit of $15,-245.00, and $13,570.78 in prejudgment interest. The district court did not rule on Groscost’s Count II (continuance payments). Thus, at that point, the July 19, 1991 order was not appealable.
Thereafter, the district court on August 29, 1991, approved a Stipulation for Voluntary Dismissal of both counts of Groscost’s complaint and, by its order, limited Gros-cost’s severance benefit to no more than $15,245.00. It further provided that the parties’ voluntary dismissal of Count I, the severance count, would not affect Gros-cost’s claim for interest, costs and attorneys’ fees. Groscost filed a Notice of Appeal at 91-3675 on September 30, 1991. CIOC filed its cross-appeal at 91-3676 on October 3, 1991.
On appeal, Groscost argues that he was entitled to attorneys’ fees because CIOC had breached its fiduciary duty in attempting to modify its Severance Plan without notice to employees. CIOC, on the other hand, appeals the severance award of $15,-245.00 made to Groscost and the prejudgment interest award of $13,570.78.
Our initial jurisdictional reaction to the order approving the August 29, 1991 Stipulation was that it appeared to leave open not only costs and attorneys’ fees, but also prejudgment interest. Under Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney, 489 U.S. 169, 109 S.Ct. 987, 103 L.Ed.2d 146 (1989), prejudgment interest is a part of the merits determination. See also Schake, 960 F.2d at 1192. After receiving supplemental letter briefs which we requested, and after oral argument, we are satisfied that the district court’s order approving the August 29, 1991 Stipulation, when read in conjunction with its earlier rulings, constitutes an ap-pealable order which vests us with appellate jurisdiction over Groscost’s and CIOC’s appeals.
We therefore turn to the merits of these appeals. We hold that on the record of these proceedings that the district court did not err in ruling that Groscost is entitled to a Severance Benefit of $15,245.00 and did not abuse its discretion in ordering prejudgment interest of $13,570.78. We hold, however, that because the district court failed to articulate its consideration of all five factors required by Ursic v. Bethlehem Mines, 719 F.2d 670, 673 (3d Cir.1983), the issue of attorneys’ fees must be returned to the district court.
III.
1.
The facts out of which this litigation arises have been considered by us on numerous occasions. We will not repeat in . detail all of those facts, but will just briefly summarize those matters relevant to our disposition here.
In 1982, CIOC decided to close or sell its plant in Midland, Pennsylvania. Groscost was an employee of CIOC. CIOC established a Key Executive Severance Plan for its key personnel. When Crucible decided to close operations at Midland, it provided “Continuance Agreements” to give those employees who chose to continue working at CIOC, incentives to remain at the plant for fixed periods of time, both to ensure an orderly winding down of operations, and to keep a skilled workforce on hand to make the plant more attractive to prospective purchasers. The Continuance Agreements provided that
should you voluntarily continue full employment at [CIOC] for the Agreement Period, you shall receive your current compensation and benefits and upon [varying separation date] should separation be necessary, you shall receive an accrued continuance bonus equal to a month’s salary for each month of continuous employment up to [same separation date].
(A 16). The Agreements generally covered periods of five, seven or ten months duration. Thereafter, CIOC denied severance benefits under its Severance Plan to Gros-cost and other employees who had signed Continuance Agreements on the grounds that they were precluded from receiving severance benefits once they had bound themselves under a Continuance Agreement.
We had held in Frank v. Colt Industries, 910 F.2d 90, 96 (3d Cir.1990), that “the Continuance Bonuses were not alternative benefits, but rather were distinct agreements that had no effect on the plaintiffs’ rights to severance pay under the Plan.” In so holding, however, we did not address on the merits the argument that CIOC makes here. CIOC argues here that in order for an employee to receive a severance benefit, the Plan provides that the company, through its designated officers, had discretion to consider the unique circumstances of each employment termination, in order to determine whether severance pay should be granted in each instance. Here, however, the district court, as we have earlier stated, concluded that CIOC, by raising this argument before the district court, had not waived the “discretion” argument in Groscost’s case. We agree, and thus proceed to address this issue. '
Based on its discretion argument, CIOC urges us to deny severance benefits to Groscost, in light of our opinions in Hamilton v. Air Jamaica, Ltd, 945 F.2d 74. (3d Cir.1991), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 112 S.Ct. 1479, 117 L.Ed.2d 622 (1992) and Na-zay v. Miller, 949 F.2d 1323 (3d Cir.1991). CIOC argues that, under the terms of the Plan itself, Groscost had failed to meet all the conditions precedent to eligibility for severance benefits, principally by failing to secure the discretionary approvals described in the Plan.
The Severance Plan contains a broad reservation of discretion to withhold payment of benefits. The Plan provided that “[u]n-der circumstances and conditions as defined by the Company, subject employees whose employment is terminated for specified reasons may become eligible for severance allowance.” (A 220). The Plan also provides that “[a] severance allowance is payable only when prior approval is obtained from the Division President, Group Vice President and the corporate Vice President of Personnel.” Id. Finally, the Plan further states,.
The procedures and allowances contained herein are not to be automatically applied to any employment termination, and the application of these procedures and allowances to an incident of employment termination shall not serve as a precedent for any subsequent employment determination. Each incident of employment termination will be evaluated as an isolated occurrence and the Company shall determine in each instance the applicability of these allowances.
(A 220-221) (emphasis added).
In Frank, CIOC argued that the benefits under the two plans were mutually exclusive, that the language in the Continuance Agreements — “you shall receive your current compensation and benefits” (A 16)— did not refer to severance pay, and that workers who opted to collect benefits under the Continuance Agreements had thereby relinquished their rights to severance benefits.
The crux of CIOC’s argument under its “discretion” analysis is that CIOC did not intend, and the terms of the Severance Plan did not require, mandatory severance benefit payments. To the contrary, CIOC claims that it had complete discretion to select which individuals would participate in the Severance Plan and receive severance benefits. That broad discretion, according to CIOC, was vested in CIOC’s Division President, Group Vice President and corporate Vice President of Personnel. CIOC describes its process of individual evaluation of eligibility for severance benefits under the Plan as follows:
The terms of the Severance Plan reflect Crucible’s intent that the circumstances of each employee’s termination were to be evaluated on an individual basis. The eligibility for and payment of any benefit from the Severance Plan was conditioned upon approval of [the three officers]; thus, the prior approval was a pre-condition to becoming eligible to participate in the Severance Plan. Crucible intended, and the Severance Plan directed, that these persons were to determine, based on a consideration of the particular circumstances of each termination, whether participation in the Severance Plan was appropriate in a given instance.
(CIOC Brief at 19).
In urging us to reverse the district court’s holding that Groscost is entitled to severance benefits, CIOC relies on our precedents which hold that an employer . may exercise complete discretion over who may be eligible participants in severance benefits. In Hlinka v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 863 F.2d 279, 283 (3d Cir.1988), we stated that “ERISA is not a direction to employers as to- what benefits to grant their employees. Rather, ERISA is concerned with the administration of an established plan and its elements.” Likewise, in Nazay, 949 F.2d at 1329, we recognized that “the clear emphasis of the statute is to ensure the proper execution of plans once established.”
In Nazay, a certification for hospitalization required by the employer’s health plan had not been obtained by the employee. A waiver had been sought, but was denied by the Administrator of the Plan. Nazay then brought an action claiming that ERISA had been violated, because he had been denied health benefits to which he was entitled under the.Plan. The district court refused to enforce the certification requirement and held for Nazay. In reversing the district court and directing that summary judgment be entered in favor of the employer and the other appellants, we stated:
In our view, BSC, as an employer, is free to develop an employee benefit plan as it wishes because the creation of a benefit plan is a corporate management decision unrestricted by ERISA’s fiduciary duties. Therefore, the arbitrary and capricious standard which may attach to fiduciary decisions does not apply.
Id. at 1328.
In Hamilton v. Air Jamaica, 945 F.2d at 78-79, we also stated that “nothing in ERISA prevents Air Jamaica from providing its employees with benefits on a case by case basis — as long as that limitation is explicitly stated as part of the plan.”
It is undisputed that Groscost never received the prior approval which CIOC contends is essential for an employee to obtain severance benefits. The district court in its alternative holding, concluded that the reservation of such broad discretion by CIOC was a violation of ERISA. In light of the earlier expressions of this court in Hlinka, Nazay, and Hamilton, to which we have just referred, we cannot agree. We hold that approvals such as are incorporated into CIOC’s Severance Plan are not precluded by ERISA.
If this action came down to no more than a question of CIOC’s approval as an employer, of an employee’s severance benefit — an approval contingent upon the proper exercise of CIOC’s discretion — and if Groscost’s severance claim had been evaluated on an individualistic basis by the designated representatives of CIOC as provided in CIOC’s Severance Plan, our resolution of the instant controversy would necessarily be controlled by Nazay, Hamilton, and similar cases. Thus, our holding, permitting employers to exercise discretion in their ERISA plans, has been presaged by our earlier decisions where we interpreted ERISA to permit employers to exercise complete and broad discretion.
If in this case, CIOC’s discretion had been properly exercised, Groscost might well have been denied severance benefits. However, even though we have determined that CIOC’s Severance Plan may reserve discretion in its officers to determine employee participation, the next question to which we must turn is whether the discretion practiced by CIOC in this case was properly exercised. The district court found that it was not. We agree.
2.
The Continuance Agreement which Gros-cost signed provided, among other things: “[y]ou shall receive your current compensation and benefits.” (A 16) This court has already addressed this provision in Frank, holding that the employees’ interpretation that their severance benefits would be unaffected by any decision to enter into a Continuance Agreement was not only reasonable, but the only rational meaning to be accorded the quoted words.
Thus, Frank held that any reasonable employee would construe this clause to include benefits under CIOC’s Severance Plan. Frank went on to state:
Accordingly, if the terms of the Severance Plan precluded payment of both a Continuance Bonus and severance pay, then we would have to sustain [CIOC’s] position. But there was no such provision in the Severance Plan when the Continuance Agreements were signed. While the other benefits provision permits the creation of different benefits, it does not by its terms prohibit the creation of a benefit to be paid upon termination in addition to severance pay. Thus, it was entirely consistent with the Severance Plan for [CIOC] to create a new benefit that would not supplant the existing severance pay.
Frank, 910 F.2d at 97. Similarly, if the terms of the Continuance Agreement precluded payment of severance benefits or specifically excluded benefits under CIOC’s Severance Plan, we would have to sustain CIOC’s position.' But just as there was no provision in the Severance Plan precluding continuance payments and severance pay, so too there is no provision in the Continuance Agreement precluding both continuance payments and severance benefits. Thus, there can be no room for difference between the Frank interpretation and ours.
Even though we have held that CIOC had broad approval rights and thus discretion under its Severance Plan, that discretion as it was required to be exercised under the Plan, was never exercised when Groscost was denied severance benefits. Rather than exercising its “prior approval” discretion on a case-by-case basis as required by the Severance Plan, CIOC automatically determined that employees who entered into a Continuance Agreement could receive no severance benefits. This was the only factor to which CIOC looked in deciding whether severance benefits should be paid. As CIOC put it:
“the record demonstrates that there was a reason why Appellants did not receive Severance Benefits: the Division President, Group Vice President and corporate Vice President of Personnel decided that Severance Benefits would be extended to salaried employees who did not receive a Continuance Bonus Benefit, and that employees who received a Continuance Bonus Benefit would not receive Severance Benefits."
(CIOC Brief at 22)
Thus, CIOC has conceded that the officers in whose discretion individual eligibility for severance payments lay, made their decision, not on a case-by-case evaluation, but by excluding all participants in the Continuance Agreements on the grounds that they had entered into Continuance Agreements.
In sum, by holding that Groscost is entitled to severance benefits, we do not question that CIOC may provide for approval of benefits in its discretion. But CIOC may not import new conditions into its benefit Plan, without notice to those who are affected, and CIOC may not ignore nor dispense with discretionary case-by-case employee evaluations which were provided as part of the Severance Plan. Having deliberately eschewed, and thus having waived, a “prior • approval” severance pay evaluation for each employee, such as Groscost, who, after continuing to work under a Continuance Agreement, then left CIOC's employ, CIOC cannot now be heard to object to severance pay liability. Hence, we hold that the district court did not err in granting summary judgment .to Groscost and awarding Groscost the sum of $15,245.00 as provided in the August 29, 1991 Stipulation and Order.
IV. Prejudgment Interest
On July 19, 1991, the district court had awarded $13,570.78 in prejudgment interest to Groscost. In the Groscost-CIOC Stipulation of August 29,1991, which the district court approved, Groscost’s claims for prejudgment interest and attorneys’ fees were not affected. CIOC argues here that ERISA (29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)) does not provide for the payment of prejudgment interest except where employer contributions are delinquent, and calls our attention to 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1) which refers to attorneys’ fees and costs, but does not refer to payment of interest.
Groscost, on the other hand, contends that under ERISA, a civil action may be brought by a participant (Groscost) for “appropriate equitable relief” under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(2)(E), which Groscost claims in this case should be construed to include prejudgment interest. Groscost argues that “if [CIOC] is now only required to pay the original principal amount of the claim, [CIOC] can practically pay this from the interest that the employer has earned on the employee’s money over the last nine years.” (Groscost Reply Brief at 16). Groscost also refers us to other ERISA cases in the Sixth and Eighth Circuits which have affirmed prejudgment interest awards.
While it is true that Congress did not mandate prejudgment interest payments for other than delinquent contributions, we have held generally that “[i]n the absence of an explicit congressional directive, the awarding of prejudgment interest under federal law is committed to the trial court’s broad discretion.” Ambromo-vage v. United Mine Workers, 726 F.2d 972, 981-82 (3d Cir.1984). Ambromovage cited Board of Commissioners of Jackson County, Kansas v. United States, 308 U.S. 343, 352, 60 S.Ct. 285, 289, 84 L.Ed. 313 (1939), in which the general federal rule was announced that prejudgment interest is to be “given in response to considerations of fairness [and] denied when its exaction would be inequitable.”
Moreover, Groscost, in citing authority to us for the principle that prejudgment interest may be awarded in this ERISA context, could well have referred to our own decision in Schake v. Colt Industries, 960 F.2d 1187 (3d Cir.1992), a case involving the same benefits and employer as the instant proceeding. In Schake, while we did not directly address ourselves to the issue of whether prejudgment interest was permitted, we nevertheless acknowledged that prejudgment interest in an ERISA case involving the self-same CIOC Severance Plan was authorized. We stated “[i]t is undisputed that prejudgment interest typically is granted to make a plaintiff whole because the defendant may wrongfully benefit from the plaintiff’s money.” 960 F.2d at 1192 n. 4.
Schake, of course, dealt with the issue of not whether prejudgment interest should be allowed as such, but whether the district court retained jurisdiction in the Schake case to order prejudgment interest when the motion seeking interest, costs and attorneys’ fees was filed long out of time. We held that the district court erred in granting prejudgment interest, costs, and attorneys’ fees, only because it had no jurisdiction to do so, due to the time that had transpired after its final order had been entered.
The Schake court in its decision cited Stroh Container Co. v. Delphi Industries, Inc., 783 F.2d 743, 752 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1141, 106 S.Ct. 2249, 90 L.Ed.2d 695 (1986), an Eighth Circuit case which discussed the considerations which should be undertaken when a district court exercises discretion in the award of prejudgment interest. Significantly, as we have noted above, the Eighth Circuit has specifically interpreted ERISA to provide for prejudgment interest where there had been a denial of pension benefits. See Short v. Central States Pension Fund, 729 F.2d 567 (8th Cir.1984) and supra note 9. Stroh Container stated:
As a general rule, prejudgment interest is to be awarded when the amount of the underlying liability is reasonably capable of ascertainment and the relief granted would otherwise fall short of making the claimant whole because he or she has been denied the use of the money which was legally due. Awarding prejudgment interest is intended to serve at last two purposes: to compensate prevailing parties for the true costs of money damages incurred, and, where liability and the amount of damages are fairly certain, to promote settlement and deter attempts to benefit from the inherent delays of litigation. Thus prejudgment interest should ordinarily be granted unless exceptional or unusual circumstances exist making the award of interest inequitable.
Stroh Container, 783 F.2d at 750.
We regard Schake as providing authority for the principle from which we may not depart that in the district court’s discretion, prejudgment interest may be awarded for a denial of pension benefits. Even if Schake were to be construed otherwise, however, we would reach the same conclusion that the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have reached, and for which we believe Schake stands.
CIOC has also argued that if prejudgment interest were to be awarded, it could only be awarded from the time that Gros-eost had an immediate, unqualified entitlement to benefits and that interest could not be computed from the time Groseost’s employment terminated, because Groscost had not received “prior approval” from CIOC’s officers. We have held, however, that CIOC had not properly exercised its discretion in determining approval and thus eligibility for severance payments as required by its Severance Plan. See Part III.2 supra.
Hence, we reject CIOC’s argument and hold that the district court properly measured Groscost’s prejudgment interest from the date of his termination. In light of these considerations, we affirm the district court’s exercise of its discretion in awarding prejudgment interest to Groscost in the sum of $13,570.78.
V. Attorneys’ Fees
29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1) provides that “the court in its discretion may allow a reasonable attorney’s fee and costs of action to either party,” but does not automatically mandate an award to a prevailing party. Monkelis v. Mobay Chemical, 827 F.2d 935, 937 (3d Cir.1987).
The district court denied Groscost’s request for attorneys’ fees in the Memorandum Opinion of July 19, 1991, with the following statement:
Plaintiff has requested attorney's fees which are available pursuant to our discretion under 29 USC § 1132(g)(1). We will deny that request. Colt has neither acted in bad faith, nor pressed a clearly meritless position. See Monkelis v. Mo-bay Chemical, 827 F2d 935, 937 (3d Cir 1987).
(A 226-27).
Monkelis, which held that the district court did not abuse its discretion in awarding attorneys’ fees to Mobay Chemical, affirmed the district court’s analysis made pursuant to Ursic v. Bethlehem Mines, 719 F.2d 670, 673 (3d Cir.1983). Ursic set out a five factor test for the award of attorneys’ fees:
(1) the offending parties’ culpability or bad faith;
(2) the ability of the offending parties to satisfy an award of attorneys’ fees;
(3) the deterrent effect of an award of attorneys’ fees against the offending parties;
(4) the benefit conferred on members of the pension plan as a whole; and
(5) the relative merits of the parties’ position
Since Ursic announced the factors which a district court' should consider in awarding fees under ERISA, we have consistently required a district court’s discretion to be informed by at least these five factors. Indeed, the Ninth Circuit case of Hummell v. S.E. Rykoff & Co., 634 F.2d 446 (9th Cir.1980) from which Ursic’s analysis stemmed, indicated that each of those factors, among others, was to be balanced and considered by the district court in determining claims for attorneys’ fees under ERISA.
In Monkelis, which the district court cited, the five Ursic factors were once again recited and, as stated, the district court’s analysis was reviewed by us and affirmed. In Groves v. Modified Retirement Plan, 803 F.2d 109 (3d Cir.1986), the district court considered each of the five Ursic factors and, after such consideration, found three of the factors dispositive and denied Groves the attorneys’ fees which he sought. On review, although recognizing the deference which we accord to a district court’s discretion, we nevertheless reversed the district court’s order, holding that the district court’s factor analysis of “benefit” and “bad faith” were flawed.
In our recent decision in Schake, 960 F.2d at 1193, we once again reversed the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees because in Schake the district court had “offered no explanation for its decision to assess attorney's fees and costs against appellant; the record is devoid of any standard, much less the analysis set forth in Ursic.”
We also said:
... the district court failed to apply the five factor standard we adopted in Ursic, 719 F.2d 670, to be applied in considering whether to grant an application for attorney’s fees and costs under ERISA section 502(g)(1). Although some courts permit a more flexible approach than our five-step analysis, courts agree that some rationale must be given to support an award under section 502(g)(1).
Id. at 1192.
Indeed, the Schake decision graphically emphasizes the- shortcomings of the district court’s treatment of the attorneys’ fees issue in the present case. In Schake, the district court, without any analysis of the Ursic factors, granted attorneys’ fees. Here, the district court, with only an abbreviated analysis, denied attorneys’ fees, even though the same Plan, the same employer, and the same issue were involved here as were involved in Schake. .
It would be pointless for us to cite to every decision of our court rendered since Ursic which did, or did not, award attorneys’ fees based upon an Ursic factor-analysis. Suffice it to say, we regard our requirement that district courts consider and analyze these factors as a mandatory requirement. We do so in order that we may intelligently review the judgments reached by those courts, as
[i]t is essential ... that a reviewing court have some basis for distinguishing between well-reasoned conclusions arrived at after a comprehensive consideration of all relevant factors, and mere boiler-plate approval phrased in appropriate language but unsupported by evaluation of the facts or analysis of the law.
Protective Committee v. Anderson, 390 U.S. 414, 434, 88 S.Ct. 1157, 1168, 20 L.Ed.2d 1 (1968).
We have been consistent in holding that meaningful appellate review of the exercise of discretion requires consideration of the basis on which the trial court acted, see e.g., Gurmankin v. Costanzo, 626 F.2d 1115, 1119-20 (3d Cir.1980), cert, denied, 450 U.S. 923, 101 S.Ct. 1375, 67 L.Ed.2d 352 (1981), and in holding that the mere listing of factors without further explanation and without balancing one factor against another is insufficient for meaningful appellate review. Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., 487 F.2d 161 (3d Cir.1973).
Unfortunately, although the district court was aware of the factor-analysis required by Ursic, having cited to Monkelis, it did not implement that analysis by explanation or reasoning. Indeed, it concluded no more than that “[CIOC] has neither acted in bad faith nor pressed a clearly meritless position.” (A 227).
By so stating, it is obvious that the district court considered factors one and five of the Ursic catechism, but did so without analysis or articulation of its reasons. Moreover, the district court’s opinion is silent with respect to-the other three Ursic factors (i.e. ability to satisfy an award, deterrent effect, and benefit conferred on members of the pension plan).
While having read the arguments of the parties and having studied the record, we could reach our own conclusions with respect to the merit of CIOC’s position and, possibly, with respect to some, if not all, of the remaining factors, the function of analyzing and balancing these considerations is not ours to undertake; As Judge Weis wrote in Ursic, “it is the district court, and not this court, which possesses the authority to exercise fee setting discretion.” Ur-sic, 719 F.2d at 674. Thus, we ought not to substitute our judgment for that of the district court.
However, because oür review, in this case and in similar cases, cannot proceed without knowing the basis upon which the district court acted, we must require that, in each instance in which the district court exercises its fee-setting discretion, it must articulate its considerations, its analysis, its reasons and its conclusions touching on each of the five factors delineated in Ursic. It may, of course, consider additional factors, see Hummell v. S.E. Rykoff & Co., 634 F.2d 446 (9th Cir.1980), but at the least, it must furnish a reasoned basis for its ultimate determination,-and that reasoned basis must be grounded in the policy factors enumerated in Ursic. This requirement of factor-analysis is not uncommon, for in various contexts, we have heretofore required a specification of factors, a reasoning calculus, and a weighing and balancing of interests, all of which are essential to inform our review of the district court’s exercise of discretion.
Here, as we have observed, we are hampered in our review function because the district court failed to enunciate the reasons for the conclusions which it reached in denying Groscost’s attorneys’ fees, and additionally has utterly failed to recognize, analyze, explain or enunciate conclusions concerning the other Ursic factors which it was required to consider. Inasmuch as we are capable of reviewing a district court’s discretionary judgment only when we know the reasons for, and the basis of, those factors on which the district court relied when it exercised its discretion, we are unable to discharge our responsibility in this case because the record is insufficient for purposes of our review. We must, therefore, return this aspect of the proceeding to the district court.
In doing so, we express no opinion as to whether attorneys’ fees should be awarded, or the amount of such award if granted. As we have stated, it is the district court which possesses the requisite authority to exercise this discretion.
VI.
For the reasons stated, we will dismiss Anthuis’ appeal at 91-3670 and CIOC’s cross-appeal at 91-3674 for want of appellate jurisdiction. We will affirm the award of severance pay to Groscost in the amount of $15,245.00 and the award of prejudgment interest in the amount of $13,570.78. We will vacate so much of the district court’s order of July 19, 1991 (as finalized in the order August 29, 1991) as denied Groscost’s motion for attorneys’ fees, and we will remand only this issue to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the foregoing opinion.
Costs shall be taxed against the cross-appellants CIOC.
ROBERT E. COWEN, Circuit Judge,
concurring and dissenting.
I concur in the court’s opinion insofar as it dismisses Anthuis’ appeal and CIOC’s cross-appeal, both of which were taken from non-appealable orders of the district court. However, I respectfully dissent from section III of the opinion which affirms on the merits the decision of the district court with respect to Groscost. I would reverse the district court’s decision, and thus, I would not reach the issue of prejudgment interest and attorney’s fees.
I believe the majority opinion has read far too much into this court’s earlier decision in Frank v. Colt Industries, Inc., 910 F.2d 90 (3d Cir.1990), and neglected our subsequent decisions concerning employer discretion under ERISA. In Frank, this court examined the same benefit plan that is at issue in the case currently before us. There, we simply held that “the Continuance Bonuses were not alternative benefits, but rather were distinct agreements that had no effect on the plaintiffs’ rights to severance pay under the Plan.” Id. at 96 (emphasis in original). It is important to recognize that Frank did not require the payment of both severance and continuance benefits; all Frank held was that the payment of one benefit did not preclude the payment of the other benefit.
In Frank, CIOC first raised the discretion argument that is now before us. We noted that Colt’s argument raised “important issues of first impression concerning the ability of an employer to reserve complete discretion over employee eligibility for benefits under an ERISA plan.” Id. at 99 (emphasis in original). However, we did not address these admittedly important issues, since we held that Colt had waived them by raising them for the first time on appeal. Id. at 100.
This court has since allowed employers to reserve broad discretion in the payment of severance benefits “as long as that limitation is explicitly stated as part of the plan” and the reservation does not violate the policies underlying ERISA. Hamilton v. Air Jamaica, Ltd., 945 F.2d 74, 77-78 (3d Cir.1991), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 1479, 117 L.Ed.2d 622 (1992). “Having concluded that ERISA permits an employer to reserve the right to make early retirement benefit determinations on an individual basis, nothing suggests we should treat severance pay differently.” Id. at 78 (emphasis added). Hamilton provided a detailed explanation of how employer discretion can be reconciled with thé goals of ERISA, and how discretion actually advances the interests of employees:
Employers are understandably more willing to provide employee benefits when they can reserve the right to decrease or eliminate those benefits. To the extent that employees have sufficient bargaining power to obtain guaranteed benefits, ERISA will enforce those rights and will ensure — through its disclosure requirements — that employees know what benefits they will receive. Therefore, allowing employer reservations of the right to make individual benefit determinations takes nothing away from employees who can command guaranteed benefits and will allow other employees to obtain benefits the employer would refuse to provide on a guaranteed basis.
Id. at 79. The “almost unbounded discretion” given to employers to determine benefits is qualified by “no more than the minimal obligation of good faith.” Berger v. Edgewater Steel Co., 911 F.2d 911, 919 (3d Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 111 S.Ct. 1310, 113 L.Ed.2d 244 (1991). Because Frank explicitly left open the issue of employer discretion later decided in Hamilton, the two decisions must be read together.
In this case, unlike in Frank, CIOC presented the discretion argument to the district court, and thus, there was no procedural waiver. The district court, however, held that “the reservation of such broad discretion in the employer is invalid.” App. at 224. Given Hamilton, this is surely no longer an accurate statement of the law. Thus, the majority has wisely chosen not to adopt the district court’s analysis. Instead, the majority argues that the CIOC officers never exercised any discretion and decided eligibility for severance payments “not on a case-by-case evaluation, but by excluding all participants in the Continuance Agreements on the grounds that they had entered into Continuance Agreements.” Maj. op. at 1008.
The majority cites nothing in the record to support its theory that CIOC failed to exercise or improperly exercised its discretion. See Kotrosits v. GATX Corp. Non-Contributory Pension Plan for Salaried Employees, 970 F.2d 1165, 1173 (3d Cir. 1992) (“[Ajnyone urging that a court disregard that reservation [of discretion] has the burden of showing some reason to believe the exercise of discretion has been tainted.”). Had there been such a smoking gun in the record, I might have agreed with the majority. However, the only support for the majority’s theory is an excerpt from CIOC’s brief to this court. See Maj. typescript at 1008 (quoting CIOC Brief at 22). This excerpt is far from dispositive. Indeed, this excerpt could support a different conclusion, since it indicates that “the Division President, Group Vice President and corporate Vice President of Personnel decided ” not to award one type of benefit to employees who received the other type of benefit. The use of the word “decided” implies the exercise of some discretion by CIOC’s officers.
The majority views the proper exercise of discretion as requiring a thoughtful, comprehensive, case-by-case evaluation of an employee’s eligibility for benefits. However, this court has previously recognized that case-by-case decisionmaking can take many forms. See Hamilton, 945 F.2d at 79 n. 6 (“Hamilton cannot credibly claim that, in awarding him the same severance pay that it awarded all similarly situated employees, Air Jamaica acted in bad faith.”); Berger, 911 F.2d at 919 (employer’s “failure to give individual attention to the Employees’ requests was without consequence”). The majority’s opinion is problematic, since it does not elaborate on what constitutes sufficient case-by-case evaluation, and thus fails to give specific guidance to employers on how they should evaluate an employee’s claim. Surely, the majority would not be satisfied with a mere perfunctory evaluation.
There is no evidence that CIOC failed to examine the individual merits of Groscost’s claim before denying him severance benefits. Nor is there any evidence that greater individual attention to Groscost’s claim would have affected CIOC’s decision to deny him benefits. Whatever case-by-case evaluation was required by the severance plan was qualified by a provision stating that employees “may become eligible” for severance benefits “[ujnder circumstances and conditions as defined by the Company.” App. at 220.
Lastly, I would point out that this court has given greater deference to an employer’s decision to deny benefits when the employer is acting in its capacity as an employer rather than as an ERISA fiduciary. Berger, 911 F.,2d at 918; see also Nazay v. Miller, 949 F.2d 1323, 1328 (3d Cir.1991) (“the creation of a benefit plan is a corporate management decision unrestricted by ERISA’s fiduciary duties”); Fletcher v. Kroger Co., 942 F.2d 1137, 1139-40 (7th Cir.1991) (employer’s decision to provide early retirement benefits to selected employees was permissible). “Business decisions can still be made for business reasons, notwithstanding their collateral effect on prospective, contingent employee benefits.” Dzinglski v. Weirton Steel Corp., 875 F.2d 1075, 1079 (4th Cir. 1989), cert, denied, 493 U.S. 919, 110 S.Ct. 281, 107 L.Ed.2d 261 (1989). Here, CIOC acted in its capacity as an employer in deciding not to award severance benefits, and thus, we should defer to CIOC’s decision.
This litigation has gone on far too long. Nevertheless, I would reverse the district court’s decision, since it was based on reasoning no longer valid in this circuit. Given the broad discretion enjoyed by employers after Hamilton, I cannot conclude that CIOC acted improperly in this case. At the very least, I would remand this case to the district court for a re-examination of CIOC’s exercise of discretion in light of Hamilton.
For the foregoing reasons, I respectfully dissent.
. See Schake v. CIOC, 960 F.2d 1187 (3d Cir. 1992); Frank v. Colt Industries, Inc., 910 F.2d 90 (3d Cir.1990); Schake v. Colt Industries, Inc., 791 F.2d 920 (3d Cir. 1986); Anthuis v. CIOC, 789 F.2d 207 (3d Cir. 1986).
. The parties have variously referred to the Continuance Agreement as the "Continuance Bonus Benefit,” and the "Continuance Bonus Agreement.”
. Our familiarity with the issues and arguments made by the parties respecting both the Severance Plan and the Continuance Agreements, a familiarity obtained through extended exposure to this litigation, makes us question whether there could ever be a proper exercise of judicial discretion which would result in an "entry of a final judgment” certification under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b).
. The requirement of a specification of factors and reasons to support granting a Rule 54(b) motion for certification is not confined to this court. At least six other Courts of Appeals have imposed the same requirement. See Pahlavi v. Palandjian, 744 F.2d 902 (1st Cir.1984); Arlin-ghaus v. Ritenour, 543 F.2d 461 (2d Cir.1976); Rothenberg v. Security Management Co., Inc., 617 F.2d 1149 (5th Cir.1980); Solomon v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., 782 F.2d 58 (6th Cir.1986); United States General, Inc. v. Albert, 792 F.2d 678 (7th Cir.1986); Hayden v. McDonald, 719 F.2d 266 (8th Cir.1983).
. The Administrator of the Severance Plan has stated in his affidavit that the Key Executive Severance Plan, other than for the amount of benefits, is the same as the basic Severance Plan (A 121), and that the term "Severance Plan” as referred to by the parties in this litigation encompasses both plans.
. Unlike Berger v. Edgewater Steel Co., 911 F.2d 911 (3d Cir.1990), CIOC’s blanket decision does have a "consequence.” Id. at 919. CIOC's blanket decision based on an employee’s participation in the Continuance Agreement as constituting a forfeiture of severance benefits cannot meet Berger’s minimal standard of good faith.
. CIOC admits in its Brief as cross-appellant that ”[t]he Severance Plan can only pay benefits in accordance with its terms — all of its terms.” (CIOC Brief at 26). As discussed in text above, the terms of CIOC's Severance Plan did not provide for an exclusion for those employees who signed Continuance Agreements. Moreover, the terms of the Plan, reproduced at typescript p. 15 supra, provide for individual discretionary evaluations.
. In Spanos v. Skouras Theatres Corp., 364 F.2d 161, 169 (2d Cir.1966), cited with approval in Cross & Cross Properties v. Everett Allied Co., 886 F.2d 497, 501 (2d Cir.1989), the court (per Friendly, J.) held, citing'3A Corbin, Corbin on Contracts, § 767, at 540 (1960):
One who unjustly prevents the performance or the happening of a condition of his own promissory duty thereby eliminates it as such a condition. He will not be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong, and to escape liability for not rendering his promised performance by preventing the happening of the condition on which it was promised.
See 5 Williston on Contracts § 677, at 224 (3d ed. 1961):
It is a principle of fundamental justice that if a promisor is himself the cause of the failure of performance, either of an obligation due him or of a condition upon which his own liability depends, he cannot take advantage of the failure.
Here, CIOC unjustly prevented the prior case-by-case approval and, by doing so, eliminated that condition — a condition of its own promissory duty — as a condition to be satisfied. CIOC cannot be permitted to take advantage of its own wrongful act and thereby escape liability, when it did not render its promised performance, in this case discretionary case-by-case approval of an employee’s severance pay award. It prevented the happening of its "prior approval” condition by automatically barring severance benefits to any employee who entered into a Continuance Agreement.
.29 U.S.C. § 1132(g) provides:
(1) In any action under this subchapter (other than an action described in paragraph (2)) by a participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary, the court in its discretion may allow a reasonable attorney's fee and costs of action to either party.
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. See Sweet v. Consolidated Aluminum Corp., 913 F.2d 268 (6th Cir.1990) (awarding prejudgment interest under ERISA in order to make employee whole); Bricklayers’ Pension Trust Fund v. Taiariol, 671 F.2d 988, 990 (6th Cir. 1982) (under ERISA, "the general rule is that in the absence of a statutory provision the award of prejudgment interest is in the discretion of the court.”).
. Short v. Central States Pension Fund, 729 F.2d 567, 576 (8th Cir.1984) (when benefits under ERISA were denied, prejudgment interest ordered to be payable, otherwise "the relief would fall short of making [the employee] whole because he had been denied the use of the money which was his.”).
. See Third Circuit Internal Operating Procedures § 9.1, providing that the holding of a panel in a reported opinion is binding on subsequent panels and may not be overturned other than by an in banc court.
. See e.g. O'Donnell v. United States, 891 F.2d 1079, 1081 (3d Cir.1989) (appellate review of the district court’s entry of summary judgment in a non-frivolous case is almost impossible if the district court fails to set forth reasons for its summary judgment ruling); Poulis v. State Farm Fire & Cos. Co., 747 F.2d 863, 868 (3d Cir.1984) (stressing the importance of the district court's articulation of reasons underpinning its exercise of discretion in dismissing a complaint with prejudice for failure to comply with pretrial orders); Hritz v. Woma Corp., 732 F.2d 1178, 1180 (3d Cir.1984) (requiring that the district court's discretionary decision to enter a default judgment be supported by articulation of its consideration of required factors); Allis Chalmers Corp. v. Philadelphia Electric Co., 521 F.2d 360, 364 (3d Cir.1975) (requiring analysis of factors leading the district court to certify a Rule 54(b) final entry of judgment). See also United States v. Criden, 648 F.2d 814, 817-19 (3d Cir.1981) (approving the district court’s articulation of the factors it analyzed and weighed when it considered the common law presumption of access to broadcast evidence, as providing “a firm base for an appellate judgment that discretion was soundly exercised”).
. Other courts have also allowed broad reservations of discretion by employers. See, e.g., Cat-tin v. General Motors Corp., 955 F.2d 416 (6th Cir.1992); Reichelt v. Emhart Corp., 921 F.2d 425 (2d Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 111 S.Ct. 2854, 115 L.Ed.2d 1022 (1991); Alday v. Container Corp. of America, 906 F.2d 660 (11th Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S..-, 111 S.Ct. 675, 112 L.Ed.2d 668 (1991); Young v. Standard Oil (Indiana), 849 F.2d 1039 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 488 U.S. 981, 109 S.Ct. 529, 102 L.Ed.2d 561 (1988).
. The district court also held that "the receipt of a continuance benefit is not relevant to eligibility for the severance benefits ... whether that receipt is considered an automatic disqualification from severance benefits or merely a factor in a discretionary decision to deny them.” App. at 223 (emphasis added).
. The severance plan states in at least three places that CIOC reserves discretion over the approval of severance benefits:
Under circumstances and conditions as defined by the Company, subject employees whose employment is terminated for specified reasons may become eligible for a severance allowance.
Approvals — A severance allowance is payable only when prior approval is obtained from the Division President, Group Vice President and the corporate Vice President of Personnel.
The procedures and allowances contained herein are not to be automatically applied to any employment termination, and the application of these procedures and allowances to an incident of employment termination shall not serve as a precedent for any subsequent employment termination. Each incidence of employment termination will be evaluated as an isolated occurrence and the Company shall determine in each instance the applicability of these allowances.
App. at 220-21 n. 5 (emphasis added). Thus, I disagree with the majority’s assertion that CIOC has imported new conditions into its benefits plan, without giving prior notice to employees. See Maj. op. at 1008.
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Software as a service (Saas) is a way of delivering software that allows data to be accessed from any device with an internet connection and a web browser. In this service model, software vendors host and maintain the servers, databases, and code that make up the application. The cloud model is now so common that 69% of organizations have accelerated their cloud migration over the past 12 months and 60% of IT decision-makers state that cloud capabilities have helped their organization achieve sustainable revenue growth over the past 12 months according to this survey article from Foundry Co https://foundryco.com/tools-for-marketers/research-cloud-computing/
SaaS vs On-Premise
The traditional on-premise software delivery model differs from SaaS in two important ways. SaaS deployments do not require a large amount of hardware, allowing buyers to outsource most of the IT services typically required to maintain the software in-house. Secondly, SaaS systems are typically paid for under a yearly subscription or contract based model, while on-premise software is typically purchased through a perpetual license that is paid in advance. On-premise users can also pay up to 20% per year in maintenance and support fees for onsite staff. The annual or monthly fee for a SaaS service will typically include the software licensing, support, and most other fees that would be associated with an on-premise model.
History of SaaS
Saas started back in the late 1990’s when companies like Salesforce started offering traditional business solutions like Customer Relationship Management (CRM) through a SaaS model. However, in a speech to MIT students back in 1961 John McCarthy, a renowned computer scientist who won the Turing Award for his work in artificial intelligence (AI), said “The computer of the future will be organized as a public one.” In other words, John hinted over 60 years ago at the concept of cloud computing as a shared computing power resource.
Data Security
The most common questions are who owns the data and is it safe in the cloud. While most cloud platforms consist of multiple software and hardware components, which those may be sourced from multiple providers and it’s not unusual for their subsystems to be outside of the direct control of the cloud provider, it is imperative for SaaS clients to confirm what and how security is handled from the vendor in their service level agreements(SLAs). Some SaaS providers will have the ability to integrate with existing identity access providers giving some control to the client in integrating permissions. In terms of the data, most SLAs confirm your company’s ownership of your data located on the vendor’s servers, as well as your right to retrieve the data to your own data centers or company machines at anytime. It is highly unusual for any vendor to insist that they retain ownership of your data. Most SLAs will also have built-in and prepaid contingencies that will provide access to your data if the vendor goes out of business and guarantees that you own that data.
Future of SaaS
The future of SaaS will continue to grow due to the low upfront and maintenance costs. However, the security of data could be the part of the equation that could drastically change things. Additionally, depending on content and your business model, hosting providers have their own terms and conditions that they require their customers to adhere to. Let’s look back at what happened to the upstart social media platform Parler in 2021. Their website was hosted with AWS and when their terms and conditions were violated, their website was removed and they had to start over with an on-premise version. So, what is the future of SaaS, will you fully trust your data and security to big tech or trust a smaller firm to handle these services for you? Would you want to hire your own team to manage on-premise servers and have to replace parts all of the time. These are the decisions IT leaders will have to make in the coming years.
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Apple has been one of the leaders in technology ever since the release of the iPod Touch. Since then, they've done nothing but amaze us time and time again with their innovative products. The sleek designs, flawless performance, and overall functionality of Apple products are fantastic. But, as of recently, there have been some complaints about iPhone camera not working.
Some people choose to use their iPhone primarily for photography and this is why camera issues can be so disappointing. There are a lot of different camera problems that you, as an iPhone user, might experience and as such, we're going to explain how to fix all of them.
Problem #1 – iPhone Camera Flash Not Working
A common camera problem is that the flash isn't working. This can be due to a range of different things: your iPhone may be overheating or an iOS update could be interfering somehow. First, you should check if your iPhone's flashlight is working.
Step #1 – Unlock your iPhone and swipe upwards to open the control center.
Step #2 – Tap the flashlight icon and check if the light activates.
Step #3 – Next, tap on the camera icon and the camera app, check if the flashlight at the top-left is set to “on”.
Step #4 – Lastly, go to “Settings > Location Services > Camera” and make sure that it is set to “Never”.
This will narrow down the problem and you can see if it is just the camera app or if the light is actually broken. If it's broken, contact an Apple store. Similarly, you should make sure that your iPhone isn't overheating and perhaps even try restarting it.
Problem #2 – HDR Button Hidden on Camera App
Another common problem is that the HDR button disappears from the camera app. This is only an issue with the iPhone 7 and earlier, as later models can detect HDR automatically. Fortunately, this isn't that difficult to fix and you can use the steps below to do so.
Step #1 – Open the Settings app and go to “Camera”.
Step #2 – If the “Auto HDR” slider is enabled, tap on it to disable it.
Step #3 – Launch the camera app and the button will be shown.
Some iPhones will decide to detect if HDR is available automatically. If this happens and you don't want it to, use the solution above to disable the automatic setting.
Problem #3 – iPhone Camera Showing Black Display
This is probably the most upsetting iPhone camera not working problem to experience. Unlike most camera problems this completely prevents you from taking photos and is more than just an inconvenience. Here are a few things to try to fix iPhone front camera not working because of a black screen.
1. Examine both the front and back cameras. Make sure that they are clean and that nothing is covering them. You should try video calling on an app such as WhatsApp or FaceTime and if the camera works fine on these, the problem is limited to the camera app.
2. Force close the camera app. To do this, double-click your iPhone's home button and when the app browser appears, swipe up on the camera app. Reopen the camera app and see if the problem is persistent.
3. Force restart your iPhone. You can do this by simply holding down the “Volume Down” and “Power” keys at the same time, then releasing them once the Apple logo appears.
4. Erase your iPhone completely. Make sure that you back up all of your data on either iCloud or iTunes, or it will be lost. Head over to “Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings”. After entering your passcode and confirming this is what you want to do, your iPhone will be wiped. Alternatively, you can try the “Reset All Settings” option which will only reset the device's settings and your data will remain.
Most of the time you can fix the black display by just restarting your iPhone. However, if that doesn't work, one of the other fixes should.
Problem #4 – Camera App Missing
Although this is obscure, your iPhone camera not working could be because the app itself is missing. This is usually a result of human error and thus you can locate and fix the problem with ease. Here are two possible fixes:
1. Use the search feature to find the camera app in case you have accidentally moved the app.
2. Go to “Settings > General > Restrictions” and check if the “Camera” app has a restriction. If it is, tap the slider and enter your passcode to disable the camera restrictions.
Unless you previously enabled restrictions, it's unlikely that this will be the cause. But, if you have been using this iOS feature, it could be why iPhone front camera not working.
Problem #5 – iPhone Camera Not Focussing
When you take a photo using your iPhone camera, focusing won't always be a requirement. Some people use the feature out of habit while others depend on it to enhance their photos' quality. However, being unable to focus your camera can significantly decrease the photo quality. Here are a few tips on fixing this problem.
1. Tap on the area you want to focus on more than once. You can also try tapping slightly harder as the touch screen could be the problem.
2. Turn off your iPhone, wait a few minutes, then turn it back on. This will reload the iOS which will verify that it is installed properly and if not, it'll be fixed.
3. Inspect the lens of the camera that you are using (front or back). Make sure that the lens doesn't have a scratch and that it is clean. To fix small scratches you can apply toothpaste to the scratch, wait an hour, then remove it carefully with warm water and a clean cloth. You can also go to an Apple store.
Focusing problems are usually due to hardware and therefore you might struggle to fix it on your own. Obviously, it doesn't hurt to try some of these fixes, though.
Problem #6 – iPhone “Cannot Take Photo” Error
When your iPhone back camera not working and you see the “cannot take photo” error, it's usually a storage issue. Below are some of the things that you can try to eliminate this error.
1. Instead of using the default iPhone camera app, download one from the App Store. This is a temporary fix and will only allow you to take a small number of photos, but it'll remove the error.
2. Open the Settings app and select “General > iPhone Storage”. From this menu, you will be able to see which apps are filling the most iPhone storage. A few ways to free up some storage are: move your photos and videos to your computer and delete them from your iPhone, delete some apps, and delete old texts and emails.
It should go without saying that deleting a few texts and emails won't make a huge difference. However, if you are texting someone a lot then your chat history will start building up.
Problem #7 – Camera App Freezing When Switching Between Front and Rear Camera
Is your iPhone front camera not working when you switch between front and back? Or perhaps it's the back camera that isn't working? This is, unfortunately, quite common among the newer iPhone models. The 3 common fixes for this are:
1. Force restart your iPhone by holding “Volume Down” and “Power” until the Apple logo appears.
2. Open the “Settings > General > Restrictions” menu and enable the “Camera” slider.
3. Double-click the home button and swipe up on the Camera app to close it.
Again, this is a relatively easy problem to fix. If these don't work, reinstalling the firmware by factory resetting could be worth trying.
Problem #8 – Blurry iPhone Camera
The final problem that we're going to address is if you have a blurry iPhone camera. Below are a few of the solutions that we have found can help fix it.
1. Use a clean towel to clean the camera lenses.
2. Force close any other apps that you have open.
3. Open the “Settings” app and head to “General > Reset” and choose “Reset All Settings”.
4. When you take a photo, change the camera mode to “Auto”.
Cleaning your lens might seem obvious, but it would surprise you how many people touch their lenses without realising and add smudges to it.
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Step #2 – Connect your iPhone via USB cable and launch the program to begin.
Step #3 – From the main menu you must select “Standard Mode“. If this method isn't successful, then you can try “Advanced Mode” using the same steps.
Step #4 – Put your iPhone into DFU Mode using the on-screen instructions. Be sure to select the specific iPhone that you have so that the correct instructions are shown.
Step #5 – Once your iPhone is in DFU Mode (or Recovery Mode) then some information about your device will be shown. Verify that the information is correct and click “Download” to continue.
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Christian Garros
Christian Garros (February 17, 1920, Paris – August 23, 1988, Rouen) was a French jazz drummer and bandleader.
Garros began playing professionally shortly after the end of World War II, working with Django Reinhardt and Jacques Hélian. He was a regular at clubs in Paris in the 1950s, including the Club Saint-Germain, and played with Bill Coleman, Bobby Jaspar, Lee Konitz, Martial Solal, and Lucky Thompson. He played with the Birdland All Stars in 1956 and was a founding member, with Georges Arvanitas and Guy Lafitte, of the Paris Jazz Trio in 1958. In the 1960s, he recorded with Alice Babs and Duke Ellington among others, and was a session musician for film and television soundtracks directed by Michel Legrand and Quincy Jones. In 1960 he began a longtime association with Jacques Loussier, and formed the Néo Jazz Quartet in 1976 with Roger Guérin, Pierre Michelot, and Michel de Villers. In 1978 he moved to Normandy and founded the Rouen Memory Jazz Band. | WIKI |
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Terahertz Metasurfaces for Beam Steering Applications
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Metasurfaces have demonstrated numerous functions, including guided scattering and localization of electromagnetic waves, and they are a promising platform for replacing bulk components in the Terahertz frequency regime. In particular, gradient metasurfaces with spatially varying phase responses are a key tool for controlling of electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering phenomena. The generalized Snell’s law is a well-known design principle for the gradient metasurfaces. However, most existing gradient or inhomogeneous metasurfaces suffer from the full phase coverage and deeply subwavelength unit cell dimension, hampering the control over wavefront and the avoidance of unwanted scattering. In a single resonant metasurface, the shift of the phase response is limited for the limited parametric tuning range. Thus, achieving full phase coverage is difficult with a single resonant structure. Furthermore, the application area of the inhomogeneous metasurfaces is constrained due to their low subwavelength profile, which is required for the manipulation of complex wave. Therefore, obtaining the complete phase coverage with a highly subwavelength metasurface unit remains a challenge, in which inhomogeneous metasurfaces can be designed by introducing auxiliary waves in the surface impedance approach. In the first work, a multiresonant deeply subwavelength unit cell with complete phase coverage is developed to numerically demonstrate a high efficiency Terahertz gradient metasurface. In this case, almost all the spurious diffraction are suppressed successfully even with higher number of Floquet modes at lower reflection angles, while preserving good conversion efficiency. The generalized Snell’s law has certain drawbacks beyond its outstanding advantages, which can be overcome through surface impedance approach. However, the metasurfaces based on this approach may violate the local power conservation principle. Incorporating auxiliary waves in the surface impedance approach is a way to address the lacking of power conservation. Nevertheless, most metasurfaces accomplish their functionalities through only a single beam scattering. Beam splitting into multiple diffraction orders can offer an extra freedom in the metasurface. In the second work, an impedance-based design recipe is proposed for beam splitting into multiple diffraction orders, developing an inhomogeneous metasurface by exploiting auxiliary waves. Moreover, a realistic design for the metasurface is studied numerically.
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Russian/Grammar/Instrumental case
The instrumental case is traditionally taught as the fourth case in Russian. It typically denotes an object as being the means by which some action is carried out (e.g., I ate with a fork).
Usage
The instrumental case is used to denote the means by which some actions is carried out. In the phrase, 'Boris wrote the school a letter with a pencil', there are four items:
* 1) 'Boris' is the person who is doing, or did, or will do, the verb, so he is the subject of the verb. Thus, the word Бори́с is in its nominative form.
* 2) 'A letter' is the thing that's being verbed, the direct object of the verb. Thus, the word письмо is in its accusative form.
* 3) 'To school' is the thing that's being indirectly verbed, so it's the indirect object of the verb. Thus, the word школа is in its dative form, школе, and means 'to school'.
* 4) 'With a pencil' is the thing that allows the verb to be done, or is the means by which it is done. Thus, the word карандаш is in its instrumental form, карандашо́м, and means 'with a pencil'
* 5) Finally, the complete sentence is: Борис писал письмо школе карандашом. Notice that the words 'a', 'to', 'with', etc, are omitted in Russian and instead controlled by grammatical endings.
So the instrumental case is so called because it denotes the instrument by which some task is carried out, and this is its primary meaning. Thus, a word in the instrumental case can be translated by adding the words 'with' or 'by'.
Like the other cases, there are prepositions which can place whatever comes after them in the instrumental case. There are six in total: С(о), над, под, за, перед, and между.
* C(o) + inst means 'with'. This may be confusing, as the primary meaning of the instrumental case on its own is also 'with'. There are two concepts that are both conveyed by the English word 'with', but are conveyed separately in Russian. 'With', as in 'by means of' ('He built it with his hands') is conveyed by the instrumental case on its own ('his hands' in their inst. form). 'With', as in 'accompanied with' ('He built it with her') is conveyed by c(o) followed by the instrumental case ('with her' is c + inst.). It can also be used to denote the manner in which something is done ('He built it with ease'). In both of these uses, c(o) inst is the antonym of без + gen ('without').
* Над means 'over' or 'above', and под means 'under' or 'beneath'. Под + inst means 'under' if there is no motion involved - if there's motion, use под + acc instead ('The book is under the bed' - no movement, 'The book slid under the bed' - movement). Под + inst can also mean 'physically near', and под + acc can mean 'temporally near' or 'near in time' ('They live near the city' - physically near).
* Перед means 'before' or 'in front of' in terms of positioning, and can also indicate responsibility ('The dog is in front of the house', 'The dog walked in front of the house', 'the family has a responsibility to the dog').
* Между means 'between' or 'among', similar to среди + gen, 'among' (e.g., 'He stood between them').
* За generally means 'behind' or 'beyond', but has a few nuances to it. Like под, when no motion is involved, the instrumental case is used. When motion is involved, however, the accusative case is used ('It's behind the house' - за + inst, 'It went behind the house' - за + acc).
Nouns
Nouns in the instrumental case decline unusually compared to other cases, using rules that aren't found elsewhere. While not as complex as the genitive plural, it still warrants extra attention.
Singular
* Nouns ending in о or a consonant have -ом in the instrumental. However, if this ending syllable is both a) unstressed, and b) preceded by the five-letter rule (ч, ж, ш, щ, ц), then the ending becomes -ем.
* Train - поезд --> поездом
* Morning - утро --> утром
* Pencil - карандаш --> карандашом - ends in ш, but ending syllable is stressed
* Husband - муж - мужем - ends in ж and is unstressed
* Nouns ending in й, е, or ь, have the ending -ем. If this ending is stressed, it becomes -ём. This applies mainly to masculine and neuter nouns; See below for feminine nouns ending in ь.
* Museum - музей --> музеем
* Sea - море --> морем
* Dictionary - словарь --> словарём - ending is stressed
* Day - день --> днём - e is a fleeting vowel, so vanishes when the word declines
* Those ending in а of any gender have -ой. As above, if the ending is both unstressed and ends in the five-letter rule, the ending becomes -ей.
* Book - книга --> книгой
* Newspaper - газета --> газетой
* Arm/hand - Рука --> Рукой
* Chicken - курица --> курицей - untressed ending and stem ends in ц
* Pear - груша --> грушей - unstressed ending and stem ends in ш
* The ending я of any gender becomes -ей. If stressed, it becomes -ёй.
* Week - неделя --> неделей
* Surname - фамилия --> фамилией
* Pig - свинья --> свиньёй - stress on end syllable
* Feminine nouns ending in ь have -ью in the instrumental.
* Square - площадь --> площадью
* Horse - лошадь --> лошадью
* Church - церковь --> церковью
So masculine and neuter nouns have the endings ом, ем, or ём, and feminine nouns have ой, ей, ёй, or ью.
Plural
There are two general endings for the instrumental plural: ами and ями. If the noun ends in a consonant, а, or о, the ending is ами. However, if such a noun has an irregular nominative plural that ends in я, use ями instead. If the noun ends in й, ь, я or е, use ями. In the following examples, the first word is the nom. sing., the last is the inst. pl., and the middle word (if one is given) is the nom. pl.:
* House - дом --> домами
* Book - книга --> книгами
* Letter - письмо --> письмами
* Museum - музей --> музеями
* Day - день --> днями
* Pig - свинья --> свиньями
* Sea - море --> морями
* Brother - брат --> братья --> братьями - note the irregular nominative plural
* Friend - друг --> друзья --> друзьями - note the irregular nominative plural
There are three words which have the irregular instrumental plural ending ьми, (the three words given are the nom. sing., the nom. pl., and the inst. pl.):
* Daughter - дочь --> дочери --> дочерьми
* Mother - мать --> матери --> матерьми
* Child - ребёнок --> дети --> детьми
* Person - человек --> люди --> людьми
Adjectives
Adjectives modifying masculine or neuter nouns in the instrumental case have two endings: adjectives which have the default ending ый or ое have the instrumental ending ым, and those which end in ий or ее have им. Feminine adjectives have the same endings as the genitive, prepositional, and dative cases: ой, or, if the adjective's stem ends in the five letter rule (ц, ш, щ, ч, ж) or it has the soft ending (ний), the ending is ей.
The plural ending is ыми. For adjectives that end in ий, the ending is ими.
* She walked to school with her new friends - Она шла в шко́лу с её но́выми друзья́ми
* They live between the old Russian bookshops - Они живу́т ме́жду ста́рыми ру́сскими кни́жними магази́нами
* Sasha was under the pink bed - Са́ша был под ро́зовой крова́тью
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The article title doesn't match its current scope. หลวงพ่อเพชร is not a type of Buddha image, it's a proper name given to specific Buddha images, several of which share the name. The type/pose of image would be called ปางขัดสมาธิเพชร (pang khat samat phet). --Paul_012 (talk) 14:35, 17 January 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
William Carden
William or Bill(y) Carden may refer to:
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* Bill Carden (diplomat)
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So all of that a-fussin' and a-feudin' and Lance Briggs ends up agreeing to play this season for the Bears for… (Drumroll, please.) …the amount coming to him through the franchise tag the Bears put on him. If this is a testament to anything, it's how smart Briggs is. He tried to talk big about holding out, perhaps a shot-in-the-dark attempt to see if the Bears just might buckle. But when they didn't, to the surprise of pretty much no one, Briggs figured the best way to deal with it was, well, to deal with it. He wasn't going to win the sympathy of any fans, complaining about $7.2 million in guaranteed money, and $7.2 million guaranteed was probably just about as well as he'd do on any long-term deal. Maybe a little better (say, $8 or $8.5 million), but not enough to risk sitting on his tail for 10 weeks and letting his muscles atrophy. At heart, Briggs is a football player. He's not an attention-grabber like another notable Drew Rosenhaus client, and in fact, he mostly avoided the media for a lot of the 2006 season, presumably to avoid talking about his contract status. Now he's back doing what he wants to do, and what Bears fans want him to do. Rahula Strohl at 6:02 p.m. So all of that a-fussin' and a-feudin' and Lance Briggs ends up agreeing to play this season for the Bears for… (Drumroll, please.) …the amount coming to him through the franchise tag the Bears put on him. If this is a testament to anything, it's how smart Briggs is. He tried to talk big about holding out, perhaps a shot-in-the-dark attempt to see if the Bears just might buckle. But when they didn't, to the surprise of pretty much no one, Briggs figured the best way to deal with it was, well, to deal with it. He wasn't going to win the sympathy of any fans, complaining about $7.2 million in guaranteed money, and $7.2 million guaranteed was probably just about as well as he'd do on any long-term deal. Maybe a little better (say, $8 or $8.5 million), but not enough to risk sitting on his tail for 10 weeks and letting his muscles atrophy. At heart, Briggs is a football player. He's not an attention-grabber like another notable Drew Rosenhaus client, and in fact, he mostly avoided the media for a lot of the 2006 season, presumably to avoid talking about his contract status. Now he's back doing what he wants to do, and what Bears fans want him to do. Rahula Strohl at 6:02 p.m. Rahula Strohl at 6:02 p.m. So, everyone is saying the Washington Redskins are going to propose a trade for Lance Briggs. ESPN.com. FOXSports.com. And everybody else is picking it up from them. The Bears get the Redskins' No. 6 pick in the first round of the draft for Briggs and the Bears' top pick. That's not a done deal, but Lance, as he and agent Drew Rosenhaus have stated over and over again, is through being a Bear. Though Rosenhaus (love the way Steve Rosenbloom talks about him) did say that if Lance is still around, he will be ready to play for the Bears by Game 11. Gee, thanks a whole lot, Drew. Powered by TypePad Powered by TypePad | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Installing SciPy and NumPy using pip
I'm trying to create required libraries in a package I'm distributing. It requires both the SciPy and NumPy libraries.
While developing, I installed both using
apt-get install scipy
which installed SciPy 0.9.0 and NumPy 1.5.1, and it worked fine.
I would like to do the same using
pip install
- in order to be able to specify dependencies in a setup.py of my own package.
The problem is, when I try:
pip install 'numpy==1.5.1'
it works fine.
But then
pip install 'scipy==0.9.0'
fails miserably, with
raise self.notfounderror(self.notfounderror.__doc__)
numpy.distutils.system_info.BlasNotFoundError:
Blas (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) libraries not found.
Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the
numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [blas]) or by setting
the BLAS environment variable.
How do I get it to work?
Answer
I am assuming Linux experience in my answer; I found that there are three prerequisites to getting pip install scipy to proceed nicely.
Go here: Installing SciPY
Follow the instructions to download, build and export the env variable for BLAS and then LAPACK. Be careful to not just blindly cut'n'paste the shell commands - there will be a few lines you need to select depending on your architecture, etc., and you'll need to fix/add the correct directories that it incorrectly assumes as well.
The third thing you may need is to yum install numpy-f2py or the equivalent.
Oh, yes and lastly, you may need to yum install gcc-gfortran as the libraries above are Fortran source. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Muzi Yeni
Muzi Yeni (born 6 December 1986 in Durban) is a South African thoroughbred horse racing jockey. To date he has won Numerous Grade 1 races, with 1788 career wins (as off 24 May 2021).
He finished second in the 2018/19 SA Jockey Championship riding 215 winners, narrowly losing by 3 wins, to Lyle Hewitson.
Yeni won his first race in the 12th start of his career. He rode Storm King to victory for Mike de Kock at Clairwood in November 2003.
Yeni's first Grade 1 victory came in the President's Champions Challenge over 2000m at Turffontein in April 2011. He rode Happy Landing to victory, which was a big outsider at 55/1.
Muzi Yeni won the Grade 2 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile at Turffontein Racecourse in November 2018. Yeni rode Coral Fever to victory, winning R150,000 for his charity, Khangezile Primary School.
Early career
Yeni was educated at Hunt Road Secondary, before earning his matric at the South African Jockey Academy.
As an apprentice he rode 75 winners. In the 2007/08 season, his first as a fully fledged jockey out of the academy, he rode 36 winners. The following season he rode 57, and 97 in the 2009/10 season. He then broke into the top 10 in the 2010/2011 season, finishing third on the national log with 133 winners.
National Honours
Muzi Yeni rode for Team SA for the first time in the International Jockeys’ Challenge in 2010, where he subsequently won the Turffontein leg.
He represented Team SA in Premier Gateway Challenge in Singapore in September 2018. | WIKI |
Julian O. Newhouse
Julian Orville Newhouse (July 5, 1915 – February 4, 2006) was an American businessman and politician.
Newhouse was born in Brandon, Douglas County, Minnesota. He moved to Alexandria, Minnesota with his family and graduated from Alexandria High School in 1934. He was involved with his family's business: Newhouse Implement. Newhouse served in the Minnesota National Guard during World War II and the Korean War and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1957 to 1962. He died at the Minnesota Veterans' House in Fergus Falls, Minnesota with the funeral and burial in Alexandria, Minnesota. | WIKI |
Forget Your Troubles, C'mon, Get Happy
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=latvia+map&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=cMEnSsToMZOJtgeczqy1Bg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1">Latvia</a> has been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/world/europe/24latvia.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=latvia&st=cse_ ">particularly devastated</a> by the economic crisis. The Latvian Blondes Association recently staged a "<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,627912,00.html">Blonde Weekend</a>," complete with a 500-woman parade, in the hopes of raising the nation's spirits. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Title: Burkitt lymphoma risk in U.S. solid organ transplant recipients.
Authors: Mbulaiteye SM, Clarke CA, Morton LM, Gibson TM, Pawlish K, Weisenburger DD, Lynch CF, Goodman MT, Engels EA
Journal: Am J Hematol
Date: 2013 Apr
Branches: IIB, REB
PubMed ID: 23386365
PMC ID: PMC3608801
Abstract: Case reports of Burkitt lymphoma (BL) in transplant recipients suggest that the risk is markedly elevated. Therefore, we investigated the incidence of BL in 203,557 solid organ recipients in the U.S. Transplant Cancer Match Study (1987-2009) and compared it with the general population using standardized incidence ratios. We also assessed associations with demographic and clinical characteristics, and treatments used to induce therapeutic immunosuppression. BL incidence was 10.8 per 100,000 person-years, representing 23-fold (95% confidence interval (CI) 19-28) greater risk than in the general population, and it peaked 3-8 years after the time of transplantation. In adjusted analyses, BL incidence was higher in recipients transplanted when <18 vs. â¥35 years (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 3.49, 95% CI 2.08-5.68) and in those transplanted with a liver (IRR 2.91, 95% CI 1.68-5.09) or heart (IRR 2.39, 95% CI 1.30-4.31) compared with kidney. BL incidence was lower in females than males (IRR 0.45, 95% CI 0.28-0.71), in blacks than whites (IRR 0.33, 95% CI 0.12-0.74), in those with a baseline Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-seropositive versus EBV-seronegative status (IRR 0.34, 95% CI 0.13-0.93), and in those treated with azathioprine (IRR 0.56, 95% CI 0.34-0.89) or corticosteroids (IRR 0.48, 95% CI 0.29-0.82). Tumors were EBV-positive in 69% of 32 cases with results. EBV positivity was 90% in those aged <18 years and 59% in those aged 18+ years. In conclusion, BL risk is markedly elevated in transplant recipients, and it is associated with certain demographic and clinical features. EBV was positive in most but not all BL cases with results. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Eva Wolfe
Eva Wolfe (July 24, 1922 – February 6, 2004) was an accomplished basket maker from North Carolina. Wolfe was known for weaving rivercane baskets, a traditional type of Cherokee basketry. She earned special distinction for her accomplishments in doubleweave basketry, a difficult plaited basket weaving technique. She was honored with a number of awards for her achievements as an artist, including the Brown-Hudson Folklore Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society in 1988 and the North Carolina Heritage Award in 1989.
Biography
Eva Wolfe (née Awee Queen), was born in the Soco community of the Qualla Indian Reservation. She learned the craft of basket weaving at a young age from her mother, and later studied with her aunt Lottie Queen Stamper, a noted Cherokee basket weaving instructor. According to an interview with Mollie Blankenship, when Wolfe "realized that there were only two older basket weavers who could do rivercane double weave baskets," she decided to focus her energies on preserving this craft. She continued weaving baskets all her life, while raising eleven children on the Qualla Indian Reservation.
In order to weave her baskets, Wolfe and her husband Amble would travel 80 miles each April to find and cut suitable river cane. She would also gather bloodroot and butternut to dye her baskets. She would use a variety of knives to split each cane stalk into four strips to weave into baskets. The doubleweave basket technique requires the weaver to simultaneously weave one basket inside another, creating a flawless surface inside and out. Wolfe would work with as many as 120 cane splits at a time to make one basket, keeping them pliable by dipping frequently in water.
Wolfe's work was displayed at an exhibition organized by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. in 1969. In 1980, her work was part of an inaugural exhibition at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee. In 1978, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a grant for the creation of an exhibition of her work.
Wolfe won numerous awards for her artistry and craftsmanship. In 1968, her work placed first in an exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1988, she was awarded a Brown-Hudson Folklore Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society, and in 1989 she won the North Carolina Heritage Award.
Death
Wolfe died on February 6, 2004, in Cherokee, North Carolina. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Monastyryshche
The result was no consensus__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit 03:45, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Battle of Monastyryshche
* – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)
A poorly written article, devoid of reliable sources. In addition, the language is very engaged and one-sided. Marcelus (talk) 18:16, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military, Poland, and Ukraine. Marcelus (talk) 18:16, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
* You keep going on and on about the poor article, but you won't even point out examples, and on what grounds are the sources unreliable? Querty1231 (talk) 19:07, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Specific analysis of the amount of available reliable source material available about this subject would be very helpful. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Seraphimblade Talk to me 01:41, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
* Keep as a Stub - these are actual events so what is the point of deleting it? If someone has reliable information to the battle then they can expand it at any time.Olek Novy (talk) 15:03, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
* Weak keep. References are very poor and I am having trouble finding RS on this, there are some snippet mentions in few academic sources but nothing substantial (well, I am also doing a quick search too, no time for in-depth one - but nom should do it - I see little evidence of WP:BEFORE here). The nom also writes thatthe article is "devoid of reliable sources", but one ref is "Wielcy hetmani Rzeczypospolitej" from 1983 by Jerzy Besala - why is it unreliable? Now, given the crappy writing found in the article, I would not be surprised if that source does not mention this battle - but this needs to be verified first. There are also more reliable positions in bibliography that should be checked. Lastly, why did the nom not nominate this for deletion at pl wiki (where I see a page range is given for Besala, making it more likely this event is mentioned there, and another RS, Leszek Podhorodecki, is cited)? Sorry, Marcelus, but I think you need a WP:TROUT here. Such messes should be tagged and improved, but not deleted. WP:AFDNOTCLEANUP. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:10, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
* If the article is going to stay, basically 90% of it needs to be removed as unsourced OR. Marcelus (talk) 08:48, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Researchers in Australia captured the moment that thousands of turtles congregated on the edge of Australia’s great barrier reef during the nesting season.
Using drones, scientists from the Queensland government’s department of environment and science were able to capture aerial footage of the event.
It took place at Raine Island, which is the world’s biggest "turtle rookery" – the breeding grounds for turtles and other mammals which live in and around the sea.
They’re called green turtles because of the colour of their cartilage and fat.
This particular breed of turtle is endangered – they’ve often been hunted for their eggs, and many get trapped in fishing nets.
Historically, researchers have tried to paint turtles with stripes to identify them but have realised that wasn’t the most efficient or accurate way of determining what their migration and mating patterns were.
Around December of last year, they found that using drones to monitor them was more accurate. It also led them to realise that they had previously been undercounting their numbers, and that they could go back and revise historical estimates.
"Trying to accurately count thousands of painted and unpainted turtles from a small boat in rough weather was difficult. Using a drone is easier, safer, much more accurate, and the data can be immediately and permanently stored," Dunstan, senior research scientist and lead author of the paper, said in a statement.
With the drone, they were able to estimate that there were around 64,000 turtles swimming around Raine Island, coming on shore to lay their eggs.
This is almost 1.4 times as many as they had expected – for the researchers, this was a long-awaited bit of good news. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Describe the number of ways that an argument is passed to a subroutine in the programming?
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Is it possible to sniff the Character encoding?
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I have a webpage that accepts CSV files. These files may be created in a variety of places. (I think) there is no way to specify the encoding in a CSV file - so I can not reliably treat all of them as utf-8 or any other encoding.
Is there a way to intelligently guess the encoding of the CSV I am getting? I am working with Python, but willing to work with language agnostic methods too.
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There is no correct way to determine the encoding of a file by looking at only the file itself, but you can use some heuristics-based solution, eg.: chardet
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what happens if i take a mesothelioma
What Happens If I Take a Mesothelioma: A Comprehensive Guide
An Overview of Mesothelioma
Before we delve into the effects of taking mesothelioma, it is essential to understand what mesothelioma is. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects the mesothelium, which is a thin layer of protective tissue covering the internal organs of the body. Mesothelioma is mainly caused by exposure to asbestos fibers, which can be inhaled or ingested into the body.
According to the American Cancer Society, mesothelioma is a rare cancer that affects approximately 3,000 people in the United States each year. The disease has a poor prognosis, with an average life expectancy of 12-21 months for people diagnosed with the disease.
Mesothelioma is a severe condition that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. In this article, we will explore the effects of taking mesothelioma, including its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, and more.
Symptoms of Mesothelioma
The symptoms of mesothelioma can be difficult to detect because they often resemble other common illnesses. Some of the common signs and symptoms of mesothelioma include:
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Shortness of breath 😫
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Fatigue 😴
Unexplained weight loss 👍
If you experience any of these symptoms, it is essential to consult your doctor immediately.
Diagnosis of Mesothelioma
The diagnosis of mesothelioma involves various tests and procedures, including:
Medical history and physical exam
Your doctor will ask you about your medical history and perform a physical exam to detect any abnormalities.
Imaging tests
Various imaging tests such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRI scans can help to detect any tumors or abnormalities in the body.
Biopsy
A tissue sample is taken from the affected area and examined under a microscope to detect the presence of cancer cells.
Treatment of Mesothelioma
The treatment options for mesothelioma depend on several factors such as the stage of the cancer, the location of the tumor, and the overall health of the patient. Some of the common treatment options for mesothelioma include:
Surgery
Surgery involves the removal of the tumor and surrounding tissue to prevent the spread of cancer cells.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy involves the use of drugs to kill cancer cells.
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy involves the use of high-energy radiation to destroy cancer cells.
Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy involves the use of drugs to strengthen the body’s immune system to fight cancer cells.
FAQs
What Causes Mesothelioma?
The primary cause of mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos fibers.
Is Mesothelioma Hereditary?
No, mesothelioma is not hereditary.
Is Mesothelioma Curable?
Mesothelioma is a severe condition with a poor prognosis. However, early detection and treatment can improve the chances of survival.
Can Mesothelioma Spread to Other Parts of the Body?
Yes, mesothelioma can spread to other parts of the body if left untreated.
What Are the Risk Factors for Mesothelioma?
The primary risk factor for mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos fibers. Other factors that increase the risk of mesothelioma include smoking, a weakened immune system, and radiation exposure.
Is Mesothelioma Common?
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer that affects approximately 3,000 people in the United States each year.
Can I Prevent Mesothelioma?
Yes, you can prevent mesothelioma by avoiding exposure to asbestos fibers.
What Are the Long-Term Effects of Mesothelioma?
The long-term effects of mesothelioma include reduced lung function, chronic pain, and a weakened immune system.
How Long Does It Take for Mesothelioma to Develop?
It can take anywhere from 20-50 years for mesothelioma to develop after exposure to asbestos fibers.
Is Mesothelioma Contagious?
No, mesothelioma is not contagious.
What Is the Life Expectancy of Someone with Mesothelioma?
The average life expectancy of someone with mesothelioma is 12-21 months.
What Is the Cost of Mesothelioma Treatment?
The cost of mesothelioma treatment varies depending on several factors such as the stage of the cancer, the location of the tumor, and the overall health of the patient.
Conclusion
Mesothelioma is a severe condition that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Early detection and treatment can improve the chances of survival for people diagnosed with this disease. If you experience any symptoms of mesothelioma, it is essential to consult your doctor immediately.
We hope that this comprehensive guide has provided you with valuable information about what happens if you take mesothelioma. Remember, prevention is always better than cure. Avoid exposure to asbestos fibers to reduce the risk of developing mesothelioma.
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