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Ntcheu
Ntcheu is a town located in the Central Region of Malawi. It is the administrative capital of Ntcheu District. Ntcheu is known for its produce, including potatoes. | WIKI |
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Yangzhen
I removed a lot of content from a Wikipedia article about this township in Shunyi. Some of it may be useful for this page. The revision with the removed content on is here. Audacity (talk) 02:45, 2 November 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Seamless pipe fittings Characteristics
Functions of seamless reducers
Carbon steel tees (pipe fittings) are generally used to adjust the valve to facilitate drainage. The concentric reducer facilitates fluid activity and has less interference with fluid flow at the time of variable diameter.
The diameter of the two ends of the reducer is different, and it is used to connect steel pipes or flanges of different diameters to reduce the diameter. The two nozzles of the concentric reducer have the center of the circle on the same axis. When the diameter is changed, the orientation of the pipe is unchanged according to the axis. Generally, the orientation of the steel pipe is constant, and it is generally used for gas or straight liquid pipe diameter reduction. The eccentric reducer is internally cut at the ends of the two nozzles and is generally used for horizontal liquid pipes.
Standard of Butt welding Tees
Butt welding tee is the connections of hot stamping or forging forming of steel plate. The connection method is to directly weld the tee and steel pipe. The main production standards of butt welding tees are generally GB/T12459, GB/T13401, ASME. B16.9, SH3408, SH3409, HG/T21635, HG/T21631, SY/T0510.
Related information of seamless Tees
Butt welding tees generally have equal-diameter tees, different-diameter tees, etc. The materials are carbon steel, alloy steel and stainless steel. Carbon steel tee When the chromium content of the steel reaches 1.2%, the chromium reacts with the oxygen in the corrosive medium to form a thin oxide film (self-passivation film) on the steel surface. The seamless tee can prevent further corrosion of the steel tube. In addition to chromium, commonly used alloying elements include nickel, molybdenum, titanium, niobium, copper, and nitrogen to meet various applications.
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Ruffo
Ruffo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Noble house of Ruffo di Calabria
* Fabrizio Ruffo (1744–1827), Italian cardinal
* Fulco Ruffo di Calabria (1884–1946), Italian World War I flying ace
* Giordano Ruffo (1200-1256), Italian nobleman and early writer on equestrian medicine
* Paola Ruffo di Calabria (born 1937), queen consort of Belgium
* Tommaso Ruffo (1663–1753), Italian cardinal
* Polissena Ruffo (1400–1420), princess of Calabria
Others
* Albert J. Ruffo (1908–2003), American politician
* Andrée Ruffo, Canadian judge
* Antonio Ruffo (1610s–1678), Sicilian politician, nobleman, patron, and collector
* Armand Garnet Ruffo (born 1955), Canadian scholar, filmmaker, writer and poet
* Bruno Ruffo (1920–2007), Italian motorcycle road racer
* Dennis Ruffo, Canadian music promoter
* Ernesto Ruffo Appel (born 1952), American-born governor of Baja California
* John Ruffo (born 1954), American business executive
* Johnny Ruffo (1988–2023), Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and television presenter
* Leonora Ruffo (1935–2007), Italian film actress
* Marco Ruffo, Italian architect
* Pietro Ruffo (born 1978), Italian artist
* Titta Ruffo (1877–1953), Italian baritone
* Victoria Ruffo (born 1962), Mexican actress
* Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508–1587), Italian composer of the Renaissance | WIKI |
Eunápolis
Eunápolis is a municipality in Bahia with 114,396 people. The town was founded in 1988. In 1996, the city was made the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Eunápolis. | WIKI |
On : My Thoughts Explained
Just How CoenzymeQ10 Powder Benefits You
If you have actually ever used a skin treatment cream that contains Coenzyme Q10, you will understand that it makes your skin appearance much healthier. It likewise helps to repair damage to the cells that has actually already been triggered by the sun’s ultraviolet rays. You may also have found out that it maintains creases at bay. Just how does this all job? Allow’s take a more detailed look. As you might anticipate, an item with this much promise depends on one of nature’s most effective antioxidant systems – the visibility of coenzyme Q10 in coconut oil. By imitating an all-natural antioxidant, it avoids complimentary radical damages to help extend the looks of age-related creases. Actually, scientists have actually shown that applying coconut oil to the skin can turn around particular signs of skin aging, such as sagging skin, dryness and creasing. Coenzyme Q10 powder likewise imitates an antioxidant because it likewise aids battle particular sorts of cancer cells. So just how can you obtain the benefits of coenzyme-Q10 without purchasing purebulk or taking a supplement? The answer is simple. Coenzyme Q10 can be located in numerous plant resources, as well as one of those sources is coconuts. That’s why coconut oil is often utilized in products that promise to advertise healthy aging and also health. However, coconut oil is extremely pricey as well as can be scarce in certain parts of the world. Consequently, people remain to seek choices to pure mass. Thankfully, suppliers have remembered of this issue as well as produced products which contain coenzyme q10 as an active ingredient. Purebulk as well as various other companies have done the same, producing products that are rather inexpensive and also which are still efficient in giving the degree of health and wellness advantages that individuals wish. One of the most preferred of these is coenzyme Q10 powder. You can either choose to buy it in its routine form or purchase it in a fluid kind that you can absorb supplement kind. Along with giving the benefits of coenzyme q10, the powder is made from natural components. For that reason, it’s safe to utilize, and it will not create any type of damaging side effects. The item has actually been thoroughly examined and accepted by the Food and Drug Administration, as well as it works equally as well as pure bulk. Lots of people prefer to use this kind of item since it’s much easier to absorb as well as soak up into the body. With every little thing that’s said, lots of people that purchase purebulk have no problems with absorption. Nonetheless, there is usually a difference in absorption in between the purebulk supplement and also the coenzyme Q10 powder. It’s all loved one. Regardless, both supplements offer superb degrees of coenzyme Q10 for your day-to-day needs, so they make a fantastic supplement selection.
Smart Ideas: Revisited
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In questo esempio viene descritto come distribuire l'applicazione WordPress utilizzando Pod vSphere nell'ambiente vSphere IaaS control plane.
La distribuzione di WordPress include container per il front-end WordPress e il back-end MySQL e i servizi per entrambi. Sono necessari anche gli oggetti segreti.
Questo tutorial utilizza gli oggetti di distribuzione. Nell'ambiente di produzione si utilizza in genere StatefulSets per entrambi i container WordPress e MySQL.
Prerequisiti
Distribuzione di WordPress
Utilizzare questo workflow per distribuire l'applicazione WordPress utilizzando Pod vSphere.
Parte 1. Accesso al proprio spazio dei nomi
Utilizzare questi passaggi per accedere al proprio spazio dei nomi.
Procedura
1. Accedere al Supervisore.
kubectl vsphere login --server=SVC-IP-ADDRESS --vsphere-username [email protected]
2. Passare allo spazio dei nomi vSphere.
kubectl config use-context VSPHERE-PODS-NAMESPACE
3. Verificare che il criterio di storage creato, vwt-storage-policy, sia disponibile nello spazio dei nomi come classe di storage.
Parte 2. Creazione di PVC WordPress
Utilizzare questi comandi per creare PVC WordPress.
Procedura
1. Creare la PVC MySQL.
kubectl apply -f mysql-pvc.yaml
2. Creare la PVC WordPress.
kubectl apply -f wordpress-pvc.yaml
3. Verificare le PVC.
kubectl get pvc,pv
Parte 3. Creazione dei segreti
Il Docker Hub pubblico è il registro di container predefinito per Kubernetes. Docker Hub ora limita il pull delle immagini. È necessario disporre di un account a pagamento e aggiungere la chiave dell'account al YAML del segreto nel campo data.dockerconfigjson.
Procedura
1. Creare il segreto del registro Docker Hub.
kubectl apply -f regcred.yaml
2. Creare il segreto della password mysql.
La password del DB MySQL è obbligatoria. All'interno del segreto, la password deve essere codificata in base64.
kubectl apply -f mysql-pass.yaml
3. Verificare i segreti.
kubectl get secrets
Parte 4. Creazione dei servizi
Per creare servizi, attenersi alla seguente procedura.
Procedura
1. Creare il servizio MySQL.
kubectl apply -f mysql-service.yaml
2. Creare il servizio WordPress.
kubectl apply -f wordpress-service.yaml
3. Verificare i servizi.
kubectl get services
Parte 5. Creazione di distribuzioni di pod
Utilizzare questa attività per creare distribuzioni di pod.
Questo tutorial utilizza gli oggetti di distribuzione. Nell'ambiente di produzione è consigliabile utilizzare StatefulSets per entrambi i container WordPress e MySQL.
Procedura
1. Creare la distribuzione MySQL.
kubectl apply -f mysql-deployment-vsphere-pod.yaml
Nota: Quando viene creato un Pod vSphere, il sistema crea una macchina virtuale per i container nel pod. Per impostazione predefinita, la macchina virtuale ha un limite di 512 MB di RAM. Il contenitore MySQL richiede più memoria. La specifica di distribuzione del pod mysql-deployment-vsphere-pod.yaml include una sezione che incrementa la memoria fornita alla macchina virtuale del Pod vSphere. Se non si include questa sezione, la distribuzione del pod non viene completata correttamente e genera un'eccezione di memoria esaurita (OOM, Out di Memory). Quando si distribuisce un pod MySQL in un cluster TKG, non è necessario incrementare la RAM.
2. Creare la distribuzione WordPress.
kubectl apply -f wordpress-deployment.yaml
3. Verificare la propria distribuzione.
kubectl get deployments
Parte 6. Test di WordPress
Per testare la distribuzione di WordPress, attenersi alla seguente procedura.
Procedura
1. Verificare che tutti gli oggetti siano creati e in esecuzione.
kubectl get pv,pvc,secrets,rolebinding,services,deployments,pods
2. Ottenere l'indirizzo IP ESTERNO dal servizio WordPress.
kubectl get service wordpress
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
wordpress LoadBalancer 10.96.9.180 10.197.154.73 80:30941/TCP 87s
3. Passare all'indirizzo IP ESTERNO.
4. Configurare l'istanza di WordPress.
Nome utente: amministratore
Password: utilizzare la password complessa fornita
Esempi di file YAML per la distribuzione di WordPress
Utilizzare questi file YAML di esempio quando si distribuisce l'applicazione WordPress con Pod vSphere.
mysql-pvc.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: mysql-pvc
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
storageClassName: vwt-storage-policy
resources:
requests:
storage: 20Gi
wordpress-pvc.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: wordpress-pvc
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
storageClassName: vwt-storage-policy
resources:
requests:
storage: 20Gi
regcred.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: regcred
data:
.dockerconfigjson: ewoJImF1dGhzIjog....zZG1KcE5WUmtXRUozWpc
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
mysql-pass.yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
password: YWRtaW4= #admin base64 encoded
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: mysql-pass
mysql-service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: wordpress-mysql
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
ports:
- port: 3306
selector:
app: wordpress
tier: mysql
clusterIP: None
wordpress-service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: wordpress
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
ports:
- port: 80
selector:
app: wordpress
tier: frontend
type: LoadBalancer
mysql-deployment-vsphere-pod.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: wordpress-mysql
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
replicas: 1
strategy:
type: Recreate
selector:
matchLabels:
app: wordpress
tier: mysql
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: wordpress
tier: mysql
spec:
containers:
- image: mysql:5.6
name: mysql
#increased resource limits required for this pod vm
#default pod VM RAM is 512MB; MySQL container needs more
#without extra RAM OOM error prevents deployment
#extra RAM not required for Kuberentes cluster
resources:
limits:
memory: 1024Mi
cpu: 1
env:
- name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: mysql-pass
key: password
ports:
- containerPort: 3306
name: mysql
volumeMounts:
- name: mysql-persistent-storage
mountPath: /var/lib/mysql
volumes:
- name: mysql-persistent-storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: mysql-pvc
imagePullSecrets:
- name: regcred
wordpress-deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: wordpress
labels:
app: wordpress
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: wordpress
tier: frontend
strategy:
type: Recreate
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: wordpress
tier: frontend
spec:
containers:
- image: wordpress:4.8-apache
name: wordpress
env:
- name: WORDPRESS_DB_HOST
value: wordpress-mysql
- name: WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: mysql-pass
key: password
ports:
- containerPort: 80
name: wordpress
volumeMounts:
- name: wordpress-persistent-storage
mountPath: /var/www/html
volumes:
- name: wordpress-persistent-storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: wordpress-pvc
imagePullSecrets:
- name: regcred | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
John Broman
John Broman (born 1958) is an American former ski jumper. His sons Anders and Bjorn are division 1 basketball athletes at Winthrop University. | WIKI |
Perilipin-4
Perilipin 4, also known as S3-12, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PLIN4 gene on chromosome 19. It is highly expressed in white adipose tissue, with lower expression in heart, skeletal muscle, and brown adipose tissue. PLIN4 coats lipid droplets in adipocytes to protect them from lipases. The PLIN4 gene may be associated with insulin resistance and obesity risk.
Gene
The PLIN4 gene resides on chromosome 19 at the band 19p13.3 and contains 9 exons.
Protein
This protein belongs to the perilipin family and contains 27 33-amino acid approximate tandem repeats. It is also one of the perilipin members of the PATS (PLIN, ADFP, TIP47, S3-12) family, which is named after structural proteins that share high amino acid sequence similarity and associate with lipid droplets. It shares a conserved C-terminal of 14 amino acid residues that folds into a hydrophobic cleft with other PATS members; however, it is missing the conserved N-terminal region of approximately 100 amino acid residues. Within the sequence of 33-amino acid repeats, PLIN4 contains a long stretch of imperfect 11-mer repeats predicted to form amphipathic helices with three helical turns per 11 amino acid residues. This 11-mer repeats tract is proposed to anchor the protein to the phospholipid monolayer of lipid droplets for its assembly, though no targeting sequence has yet been found in PLIN4.
Function
PLIN4 is a member of the perilipin family, a group of proteins that coat lipid droplets in adipocytes, the adipose tissue cells that are responsible for storing fat. Perilipin acts as a protective coating from the body’s natural lipases, such as hormone-sensitive lipase, which break triglycerides into glycerol and free fatty acids for use in metabolism, a process called lipolysis. In humans, perilipin is expressed as 5 different isoforms; it is currently understood that the level of expression for each isoform is dependent on factors such as sex, body mass index, and level of endurance exercise.
PLIN4 is hyperphosphorylated by PKA following β-adrenergic receptor activation. Phosphorylated perilipin changes conformation, exposing the stored lipids to hormone-sensitive lipase-mediated lipolysis. Although PKA also phosphorylates hormone-sensitive lipase, which can increase its activity, the more than 50-fold increase in fat mobilization (triggered by epinephrine) is primarily due to perilipin phosphorylation.
Clinical significance
The proteins in the Perilipin family are crucial regulators of lipid storage. PLIN4 expression is elevated in obese animals and humans.
The PLIN4 gene, along with PLIN2, PLIN3, and PLIN5, have been associated with variance in body-weight regulation and may be a genetic influence on obesity risk in humans.
Interactions
PLIN4 has been shown to interact with Caspase 8 and Ubiquitin C. | WIKI |
Trump to speak with Netanyahu by phone on Sunday
President Donald Trump will speak by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, Netanyahu’s office announced online. The call, , two days after Trump's inauguration, comes after Trump made deeper ties with Israel a major plank of his campaign. “I appreciate President Trump's deep friendship for Israel, and his declared willingness to fight radical Islamic terrorism with full force,” Netanyahu’s official Twitter account said Sunday before the call was announced. Trump has pledged to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a break with past policy but a long-sought goal for Republicans. Trump spoke by phone Saturday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, press secretary Sean Spicer said, and is set to welcome British Prime Minister Theresa May to the United States on Friday. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Calls for Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress are getting louder
Mark Zuckerberg said this week that he’d be “open to” testifying before members of Congress on the company’s latest privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. Congress really really wants that to happen. Top lawmakers at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has subcommittees focused on communication and technology and consumer protection, sent a formal letter to Zuckerberg on Friday asking him to appear on Capitol Hill “in the near future.” “In comments to the press, you stated that the person with the most knowledge at Facebook about what Congress is trying to learn is the most appropriate witness for a congressional hearing,” the letter, which is signed by six members of Congress, read. “As the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook and the employee who has been the leader of Facebook through all the key strategic decisions since its launch, you are the right person to testify before Congress about those decisions and the Facebook business model.” A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the company received the letter and is reviewing it. The call to testify caps what has been a busy week for Facebook. It was learned late last Friday that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, gained access to the personal data of roughly 50 million users without their permission. Facebook spent the week trying to explain what happened, and Zuckerberg finally did a press tour Wednesday apologizing and trying to smooth over concerns that the social network can no longer be trusted. In an interview with Recode, Zuckerberg said he was open to testifying before Congress on the matter “if I’m the right [person].” Numerous politicians in both the U.S. and U.K. have called on Zuckerberg to testify about the company’s data practices. Most recently, when Facebook was summoned to Capitol Hill to explain how Russian sources used the social network to try and influence public opinion ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook sent its top lawyer to the hearing, not Zuckerberg. The big concern for Facebook investors is that Congress will impart stricter regulations on the social giant. Facebook has built a big business by employing personal data in order to target users with advertisements. Any restriction on collecting, storing or using that data could hurt Facebook’s business. In an interview with Wired this week, Zuckerberg said it was more a matter of when, not if. “The question isn’t, ‘Should there be regulation or shouldn’t there be?’ he said. “It’s ‘How do you do it?’” Facebook is open to regulation, it just wants to ensure that any new rules are administered industry-wide and not targeting the social giant exclusively. Public testimonies and potential regulations are not the only possible punishments for Facebook. Lawsuits from shareholders and Facebook users have also been filed. This article originally appeared on Recode.net. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Page:Ferrier Works vol 2 1888 LECTURES IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY.pdf/499
444 On the ground of this distinction they may be understood to take up opposite positions, the one party founding their system on what they conceive to be the superior claims of the soul, and the other party founding their scheme on what they hold to be the more stringent demands of the body.
27. Assuming happiness to be in both cases the goal, we perceive that the happiness which the Stoics represent as the end at which man should aim, is very different from the felicity which the Epicureans propose as his aim. The Stoical happiness is a perfection of the mind in which we rise above the thraldom of the passions. It is an inner life in which we are conscious of our intellectual freedom and independency. It is a victorious antagonism exerted against sensation, passion, and desire; and in this victory our true being is realised. And thus our wellbeing consists, not in the gratification of our natural impulses, but in the limits which, by an act of freedom and of will, we impose on these impulses, a limit which prevents, them from monopolising us completely, and which affords room for our free personality to be developed "and to work along with them. It is not in the passion, or in its indulgence, that our happiness and perfection consist: it is in the limit, the check, which, in our very character as rational and conscious beings, we impose upon the passion: it is in this that our true wellbeing is to be looked for. Epicurism, on the other hand, | WIKI |
Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher freed from jail on probation
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, has been released after three years in prison for breaking a law that bans unapproved protests, his lawyer said on Thursday. Maher, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a founder of the April 6 movement, broke the 2013 law that is seen by activists as unconstitutional and designed to prevent a repeat of the mass protests that have toppled two presidents in five years. The 36-year-old civil engineer now starts three years of probation and will have to stay in a police station every night between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., his lawyer, Mohamed Gaheen, said. “The purpose of the probation period is to watch criminals after they finish their prison terms, but it has never been used before against political prisoners,” Gaheen told Reuters. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power by toppling freely elected Mohamed Mursi, he has presided over a crackdown on his Islamist opponents that has seen hundreds killed and many thousands jailed. But the dragnet has since widened to include secular and liberal activists at the forefront of the uprising that ended Mubarak’s 30 years in power. The law on protests says the Interior Ministry must be notified of any public gathering of more than 10 people at least three days in advance. It also imposes jail sentences of up to five years for those who violate a broad list of restrictions and allows security forces to disperse illegal demonstrations with water cannon, tear gas and birdshot. Reporting by Amina Ismail; Editing by Louise Ireland and Giles Elgood | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
I'll Be Lightning
I'll Be Lightning is the 2007 debut album by New Zealand artist Liam Finn. The album was recorded at his father Neil's Roundhead Studios in Auckland, New Zealand. The album is notable in that Liam plays most of the instruments himself. The album was made #42 in Q's 50 Best Albums of the Year 2008.
Vinyl/Digital Track listing
All songs were written by Liam Finn, except where noted
* 1) "Turn Up the Birds"
* 2) "Better to Be"
* 3) "Second Chance"
* 4) "Gather to the Chapel"
* 5) "Lead Balloon"
* 6) "Fire in Your Belly" (Finn, Chris Garland)
* 7) "Music Moves My Feet"
* 8) "This Place Is Killing Me"
* 9) "I'd Rather Waste You Than the Money on My Phone" (Finn, Matt Eccles)
* 10) "Lullaby"
* 11) "I'll Be Lightning" (Finn, Connan Hosford)
* 12) "Remember When"
* 13) "Come Home Sam"
* 14) "I Found Noise at ATP"
* 15) "I Will Explode" (Finn, Eccles)
* 16) "Energy Spent"
* 17) "Wise Man"
* 18) "Wide Awake on the Voyage Home"
* 19) "Shadow of Your Man"
CD Track Listing
All songs were written by Liam Finn, except where noted
* 1) "Better to Be" – 3:46
* 2) "Second Chance" – 4:52
* 3) "Gather to the Chapel" – 3:20
* 4) "Lead Balloon" – 4:15
* 5) "Fire in Your Belly" (Finn, Chris Garland) – 3:15
* 6) "Lullaby" – 2:02
* 7) "Energy Spent" – 4:08
* 8) "Music Moves My Feet" – 2:24
* 9) "Remember When" – 3:04
* 10) "Wise Man" – 5:17
* 11) "This Place Is Killing Me" – 4:06
* 12) "I'll Be Lightning" (Finn, Connan Hosford) – 4:14
* 13) "Wide Awake on the Voyage Home" – 5:37
* 14) "Shadow of Your Man" – 2:57
Personnel
* Liam Finn - vocals, all instruments except noted
* Matt Eccles - drums on Lead Balloon, I'll Be Lightning, Remember When, I Will Explode, Wise Man; guitar and bass on I'd Rather Waste You Than The Money On My Phone
* Neil Finn - bass on I'll Be Lightning
* Connan Hosford - autoharp and vocals on I'll Be Lightning
Production
* Produced by Liam Finn
* Recorded at Roundhead Studios
* Engineered by Liam Finn, except Remember When and Wise Man (Neil Baldock) | WIKI |
Third Time’s a Charm With Alphabet’s Latest Acquisition
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Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL) Google Cloud unit announced on March 8 that it was buying Mandiant (NASDAQ:MNDT) for $5.4 billion. The acquisition of the Virginia-based cybersecurity firm ought to be good for Google Cloud’s customers and, ultimately, GOOG stock.
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However, Alphabet’s history of acquisitions isn’t the best, so its shareholders better hope that third time’s a charm when it comes to its latest purchase.
Here’s why.
GOOG Stock and Past Acquisitions
The purchase of Mandiant for $5.4 billion makes it the second-largest acquisition in Alphabet’s history. That’s behind the $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in 2012, and ahead of the company’s Nest purchase for $3.2 billion in 2014.
Unfortunately, for Alphabet shareholders, it ended up selling Motorola Mobility for 75% less than it paid only two years later. That’s not a return on investment you want to see very often.
As for Nest, it’s safe to say that the purchase hasn’t exactly lit the company on fire. Nest Labs was on CNBC’s original list of 50 disruptors in 2013. Google bought it a year later.
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Nest was founded in 2010 by Tony Fadell and fellow Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) colleague Matt Rogers. When it made the list, Nest had saved an estimated 750 million kilowatt hours of electricity. I couldn’t begin to guess what that number’s risen to today.
Has Nest met management’s expectations?
In 2015, Nest is said to have generated annual sales of $340 million, according to Recode. While that’s no slouch for a company that was only five years old at that point, Alphabet paid more than 10x sales to buy Nest.
In 2020, Google paid $450 million for a 7% stake in ADT (NYSE:ADT). In return for its investment, ADT agreed to use Nest’s internet-connected cameras and the Nest Home Hub with its security systems.
Google’s ADT stake today is worth $391 million, down almost $60 million after 18 months. As for Nest, Google doesn’t break out its revenues. It’s part of Google’s other revenues.
My guess is that the ADT arrangement has helped accelerate Nest’s sales since August 2020, but not to the point it’s got its money back on the acquisition.
What Does Mandiant Bring to the Table?
As Google’s press release states, the acquisition of Mandiant will complement Google Cloud’s existing cybersecurity services.
“With the addition of Mandiant, Google Cloud will enhance these offerings to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite with even greater capabilities to support customers across their cloud and on-premise environments,” its press release stated. “As a recognized leader in strategic security advisory and incident response services, Mandiant brings real-time and in-depth threat intelligence gained on the frontlines of cybersecurity with the largest organizations in the world.”
Google Cloud just got that much stronger for just $2.2 billion more than it paid for Nest. And it kept Mandiant out of the hands of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), who was rumored to be kicking its tires in February.
“With cyber attacks increasing by the day and cyber warfare underway from Russia/state sponsored cyber terrorism organizations, Google is doubling down on its cyber security footprint at the right time with Mandiant and looking to differentiate itself from the likes of behemoths Microsoft and Amazon in the cloud arms race,” Barron’s reported Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives wrote in a note to clients.
I don’t think there’s any question Mandiant adds value to Google Cloud. How much value is yet to be determined.
For a company of Alphabet’s size, it doesn’t make a lot of large acquisitions. Since 2001, of the 246 acquisitions made, only seven have been for more than $1 billion.
Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia had this to say about joining Google Cloud:
“There has never been a more critical time in cybersecurity. Since our founding in 2004, Mandiant’s mission has been to combat cyber attacks and protect our customers from the latest threats,” Mandia said in the press release. “To that end, we are thrilled to be joining forces with Google Cloud. Together, we will deliver expertise and intelligence at scale, changing the security industry.”
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I would be surprised if this wasn’t asked already on the forum, but I’m not having any luck finding it.
Sorry if I’m just bad at searching.
I would like to transfer my video watch history from an old Vero 4K device to a newer Vero V. Where is the file location where the watch history is kept on Vero? I assume maybe I could copy this file over to the new Vero. If there is an easier way or more steps involved, please point me to the latest instructions.
Edit: To be clear, watched history from files played from a local hard drive.
Is watched history stored here?
/home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/Database/MyVideos121.db
I believe there isn’t a “watched history” per se but rather values stored for “play count” and “last played” which are stored in the database. The file you pointed to is a video database for Kodi v20 and if you transferred that to another Kodi instance it would transfer the video database which includes the aforementioned information. If you exported the video library using the settings>media>library>export> option that information would be included there as well.
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Talk:The Roses of Heliogabalus
Golden Mean
I've removed the following, leaving the bare measurements, as I can find no references in the literature (I've checked several offline sources) that suggest the theory that Alma-Tadema used the Golden Mean in choosing the dimensions of the painting. I'm not saying that he would have been unaware of the Golden Mean, but all I can find is copies of this Wikipedia article.
"'The canvas measures 52' by 84 1/8', which may, like ratios within the painting itself, be intended to encode the golden mean. (84 1/8 inches divided by 52 inches equals 1.6177884..., and the golden mean equals 1.61803398875...)'" Ken 03:10, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
* I just removed a similar statement with slightly different dimensions. Even if these dimensions are right, our connecting it to the golden ratio violates WP:NOR unless we cite a source that makes such an observation. Dicklyon (talk) 06:33, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
Inscription
I was wondering if anyone could translate the inscription partly visible on a bowl in the painting. MagistraMundi (talk) 09:59, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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Which one is Heliogabalus?
Why would Alma-Tadema paint this scene with someone other than Heliogabalus placed almost at the upper dead centre of the painting? Martinevans123 (talk) 16:10, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
* I think the new refs, though neither actually WP:RSs, are enough to settle it. I wish the refs were formatted properly though. Johnbod (talk) 16:12, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
* Yes, of course. If you think they are adequate, I will run ReFill when I have a moment. Or feel free yourself. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
We could of course pull some random new sources off a Google search. Or we could just rely on the references that the article already contained, such as Archdeadon Frederick Farrar, writing in Good Words in 1888: "Elagabalus! — there lies that shame and monstrosity of the human race, the loathly boy-emperor, on his couch of silver and mother-of-pearl, in his long golden Phoenician robe, leaning on cushions stuffed with the small plumes of partridges..."
Pace penelope.uchicago.edu, Herodian V.3.6 is not a complete answer. It says: "Bassianus [that is, Elagabalus] was the chief priest of this god. ... He went about in barbarian dress, wearing long-sleeved purple tunics embroidered with gold which hung to his feet; robes similarly decorated with gold and purple covered his legs from hip to toe, and he wore a diadem of varicolored precious gems."
The depiction in the painting does not quite match a "long-sleeved purple [tunic] [that is, a dalmatic] embroidered with gold". That said, there are other sources identifying the person in the gold robe and diadem as Elagabalus (and why would someone else be wearing a diadem at Elagabalus's feast) and I've not found any sources identifying any other person in the painting as Elagabalus. Shrug. Theramin (talk) 01:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* No, probably not the complete answer. We certainly wouldn't want to pull some random new sources off a Google search, would we, as that might suggest we were just lazy and had no knowledge of Classical literature. I wonder would Sir Larry himself have read those? Or else I wonder what other paintings he might have taken as his inspiration for this composition - the article doesn't seem to mention any. I think book sources, by known art experts, which describe the identities of the those in the picture, plainly and unambiguously, might be a good idea. Perhaps those "other sources" you mention might be suitable? I guess Archdeacon Frederic Farrar must have known what he was talking about, as he was a Classics scholar, so yes we could always re-use that one. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Well this was brought to my attention through Talk:Elagabalus. I'll state what I was about to say on that page. Elagabalus was famous for his choice of effeminate lavish clothing: He wore the richest clothing, draping himself in purple robes embroidered in gold; to his necklaces and bracelets he added a crown, a tiara glittering with gold and jewels from Herodian of Antioch 5.5.3 and [Maesa] was afraid that [Elagabalus'] appearance, obviously foreign and wholly barbaric, would offend those who saw him; they were not used to such garb and considered his ornaments suitable only for women - from 5.5.5. The uchicago source cites 5.3.6 which is similar in description to 5.5.3. I don't know why his robe is pure gold, instead of purple with gold, but that's almost certainly Elagabalus in the gold. You might also wish to compare this photo of a contemporary bust of Elagabalus to the face and hair of the man in the painting, they are quite similar. I'm fully aware of the OR aspect to this comment, but I did a search of both google and google books and came back with very little, and nothing related to the characters depicted. Mr rnddude (talk) 10:59, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* One more thing, you can discount anyone wearing cloth wool from being Elagabalus, per 5.5.4: [Elagabalus] loathed Greek and Roman garments because they were made of wool, in his opinion an inferior material; only the Serian cloth (Silk) met with his approval. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:02, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* And which petals belonged to the rose by any other name? Randy Kryn (talk) 11:07, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Indeed! Did Ancient Rome even have that cultivar?? We probably need advice from a horticulture expert like User:PaleCloudedWhite. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:14, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* The Romans grew a lot of roses, but they would not have been that cultivar, nor anything resembling it, as that cultivar is a hybrid tea, a class of rose that only came into existence in the 19th century, as a result of reliably remontant roses being traded from China. Exactly which cultivars (if any) the Romans grew isn't known, though it would have been cultivars of European and possibly Middle Eastern roses (e.g. Rosa gallica, Rosa x alba and possibly Rosa x damascena etc.), which were all in shades of pink, red, white etc. - no orange or yellow, which again came from Chinese roses. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 13:06, 1 December 2018 (UTC) Expert? How very dare you?!
* You see, I told you he was an expert. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:07, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* It took me too long to realize. Yes, indeed. A silk cloth is a cloth by any other name. Textile vs material. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:59, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Yes, I had noticed the similarity to the Palazzo Nuovo Musei Capitolini bust, but I didn't like to say anything! Martinevans123 (talk) 11:08, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Heliogabalus' position in the painting
Alma-Tadema was known for his careful research and realism. If you search for images of Heliogabalus, you will see what he looks like and recognize that he is the youth in a white robe holding a handful of grapes. He was assassinated when he was still in his teens. The man in the golden robe is clearly older than his teens and does not look like Heliogabalus. The fat bloke next to Heliogabalus is also obviously older than his teens. MagistraMundi (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:44, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* I think the subject of your post here might be relevant to the one above. So you might want to just join it on. The edit that you just made here is not supported by the current sources - so you've introduced a contradiction. Also your edit summary "True description of Heliogabalus" seems a little too bold, looking at the discussion here so far. So I think you ought to self-revert until consensus has been clearly established. I suspect that pictorial representation of figures from Classical Rome have often involved a certain amount of"poetic license" as far as age is concerned, especially when the event depicted was not an actual historical one. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC) p.s. I'm having some difficulty in locating a robe which is actually "white" and identifying anyone who is holding a bunch of grapes.
* I have removed the description until consensus is reached. The claims that the bloke in the golden robe is Heliogabalus are not by classical historians and are obviously wrong. Have you searched for images of Elagabalus from the relevant era? If you have, you should clearly see which figure in the painting is Heliogabalus. MagistraMundi (talk) 10:19, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Thanks. I think searching for images of Elagabalus, from whatever era, and comparing them with this painting, might be construed as WP:OR. I think we need to rely on good i.e. expert sources, such as those mentioned by User:Theramin above. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:25, 1 December 2018 (UTC) p.s. except you didn't revert, you removed the description wholesale, together with both of the new supporting sources. At least what we now have is quite neutral. Perhaps you have some better less lazy sources to present yourself?
* The woman in white robes with a handful of grapes is seated at the table to the right of a quite plump individual holding a blue cup of ... wine presumably, given the redness of the cheeks, a sure sign of intoxication. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:09, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Hilarious. No wonder Wikipedia has such a big reputation for accuracy and honesty. MagistraMundi (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
* But she's a woman (and the quite plump man looks a bit demonic, if you ask me). Ah, maybe Elagabalus has drunk so much he's actually under the table? Not surprised he's hiding if, as the Augustan History suggests, this is actually a murder scene. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:17, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
* Oh dear oh dear. How can I report you for homophobia and perhaps transphobia too? You appear to know nothing about Heliogabalus and are now mocking xir appearance. You know, my only interest here was to improve the article. Your interest seems to be in playing adolescent games. Natura abhorret vacuum, as Heliogabalus might have said. MagistraMundi (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
* I think he'd need quite a big vacuum to deal with all those petals. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:28, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
* Positively Wildean! How blessed Wikipedia is to have individuals of such intelligence, maturity and wit working on its articles. But it's no skin off my nose if this article makes false statements, so feel free to revert. After all, as Heliogabalus might also have said: Infinitus est numerus stultorum. (Your cue, Oscar.) MagistraMundi (talk) 11:48, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
* Why, thank you so much. As you know, I never joke. But feel free to offer some actual sources in support of your claim. Thanks! Martinevans123 (talk) 12:01, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Well, I might have anticipated this. I very much doubt that Elagabalus would appreciate you calling them "xir", given that it was their request that they be addressed as "lady". I haven't touched on Roman history in quite a while, not since rewriting Macrinus' and Caracalla's articles. I read both Dio's and Herodian's accounts of Macrinus' and Elagabalus' reigns for the article on their battle as well. I'm fully aware of Dio's recounting of Elagabalus' offer of significant sums of money to any physician who succeeded in incising a vagina into Elagabalus' body. Dio, rather importantly, was not in Rome during Elagabalus' reign and did not meet him. Most of the information Dio received was hearsay that had traveled hundreds of miles. Equally importantly, Herodian makes no mention of this event. Moreover, Elagabalus is from Syria. His mother, grandmother (a Phoenician) and his proposed father (Marcellus) are all from Syria. Elagabalus is, at least partly, Syrian (Semitic). One might question the selection of snow white for Elagabalus. If, as you say, Alma Tadema is recognized for their careful research, then I would expect that heritage to be reflected in the painting. *Looks at painting* is it me or does the golden robed man have a slightly more bronzed complexion than anyone else in the painting? Mr rnddude (talk) 14:44, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
* Looks at painting* is it me or does the golden-robed man have a slightly older and uglier appearance than one would expect of someone described by Herodian in this way: "Bassianus, in the prime of youth, was the handsomest lad of his time. With physical beauty, bloom of youth, and splendor of attire combining to produce the same effect, the youth might well be compared to the handsome statues of Bacchus. [...] His youthful beauty attracted the eyes of all."? And are there perhaps classical sculptures extant enabling us to compare the features of the golden-robed man with those of Elagabalus? You know, I have a funny feeling there are. MagistraMundi (talk) 10:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Cutting through the ever so amusing back-and-forth above, are there any published sources identifying Elagabalus as "the youth in a white robe holding a handful of grapes"? Or is that assertion just original research? This article should reflect the sources, not one editor's unsupported personal opinion.
Until someone finds an explanation or description of the painting by Alma-Tadema himself, the nearest we have so far is the contemporaneous analysis of Farrar. "Elagabalus! — there lies that shame and monstrosity of the human race, the loathly boy-emperor, on his couch of silver and mother-of-pearl, in his long golden Phoenician robe..."
And then we have several other sources identifying Elagabalus as the bearded youth in gold, including two recently added to and then removed from the article. That is supported by plenty of other more reliable sources too.
To which we could add the account in the Scriptores Historiae Augustae on which this painting must be based (as far as I am aware, the incident does not appear in Cassius Dio or Herodian): So no doubt that is the source of the gold robe, supported by references elsewhere to Elagabalus wearing robes of purple and gold.
* According to 21.5, "In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once overwhelmed his parasites with violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top" / "oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent"
* Then 23.3 carries on: "He would wear a tunic made wholly of cloth of gold, or one made of purple, or a Persian one studded with jewels..." / "usus est aurea omni tunica, usus et purpurea, usus et de gemmis Persica".
Whatever we think Elagabalus may or may not have looked like, it would be a mistake to expect a Victorian artist to paint a photorealistic depiction of an event that probably never happened nearly 2,000 years before. Theramin (talk) 01:41, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* No, I think there is nothing but MagistraMundi's personal OR. We've had enough fun, & should stick with what sources we have. Johnbod (talk) 01:52, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* I agree. I'm sure MagistraMundi's personal view may be perfectly genuine. But there is no place for it in deciding the content of this article. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:39, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Face: The Facts
There are some heavy technical details here (and *r*g*n*l r*s**rch), so I hope everyone will follow what I've done. There are two candidates for the role of Heliogabalus in the painting. Using sophisticated image-manipulation software, I have taken their faces and placed these next to busts of Heliogabalus orientated at roughly the same angle. Those editors in possession of sophisticated facial-recognition software (hint: try looking between your ears) can compare the faces and the busts and decide which face is more likely to have been intended by Alma-Tadema to represent the face of Heliogabalus. I hope editors will agree that the man in the golden robe is obviously not Heliogabalus. I further hope that they will agree that the youth in the white robe obviously is Heliogabalus. The eyes, noses, lips, chins, cheeks and so on are almost identical. Only the height of the upper lip differs significantly between the face and the bust.
N.B. Alma-Tadema was a realistic painter and careful researcher. Before creating this painting, he undoubtedly examined representations of Heliogabalus and read descriptions of him in classical history. Heliogabalus, as emperor, was described by classical historians as a charming, good-looking, effeminate youth. I do not think this description matches the appearance of the man in the golden robe. I do think this description matches the appearance of the youth in the white robe. And perhaps "man" and "youth" are further clues as to which figure was intended by Alma-Tadema to represent the youth Heliogabalus? MagistraMundi (talk) 10:11, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Yes, I can follow what you've done. And the comparison of the images above is very useful. But you are mistaken - these are not "facts" at all. The only reason "there are two candidates" is your own personal view. As far as I am concerned, that young woman looks nothing like the bust, from any angle. Furthermore, regardless of his careful research, we have to allow Alma-Tedema some artistic license. The sources that we have, as well as the composition of the painting, support the figure in the golden robe. I think it's now time for you to give up your personal crusade here. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Agreed. Btw, the file is called "Faces from The Roses of Heliogabalus compared with busts of Elagabalus", but in fact these are two views of the same bust, MC 470 in Rome, which we can probably assume AT knew. This looks rather different in different photos, as is often the case (angle, lighting). There is also the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen bust, which looks more like the images on his coins. Both show rather wispy facial hair, like the gold robe & unlike the white robe figures in the painting. But all this is pure OR. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* The Capitol Museum bust reminds me of Martin Freeman with added mutton chops. But I'm pretty sure he didn't sit for Sir Larry. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Face the facts. As an aside, the image of the painting is clickable to almost microscopic levels, and some of the detail in it is extraordinary (I wish he had that amount of detail throughout the whole painting). Darn fine artist. Randy Kryn (talk) 17:00, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* This (pp 189-184 - not all of which I can see) is interesting on his iconography. As so often, it turns out to be rather complicated. Johnbod (talk) 17:16, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* I can see pages 189, 193 and 194. And yes, the bits on those pages do look a bit complicated. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:20, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Actually, I can now see all that range - some took a while to appear. Johnbod (talk) 17:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* I'll try again later. I see that the Naples "refaced" statue doesn't show his gender reassignment surgery (or at least, not fully completed). Martinevans123 (talk) 17:26, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* I'm afraid that the physicians were unable to conduct the surgery. The sculptors on the other hand were simply being xphobic. Mr rnddude (talk) 17:29, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Oh well. Try not to feel too bad about it, Mr rddude. Perhaps surprising to find Elagabalus mentioned in a 2013 National Review article about Bradley Manning! Martinevans123 (talk) 17:37, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
* Well, she certainly catches the mood of 2018. Johnbod (talk) 03:52, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
I’d like to thank MagistraMundi for a stimulating and lively discussion here, and for posting the images for comparison. I’m sure most of us know more about Heliogabalus than we did to start with. But regarding the position of Heliogabalus in the painting, it seems that consensus is firmly against him. So I propose that the text describing him as the figure in the golden robe, with suitable supporting sources, should now be restored to the article and this discussion be brought to a close. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Agree. Johnbod (talk) 09:49, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Marty -- I am deeply upset by your false assertion that I am here on a "personal crusade". In fact, I am here in a foolish attempt to improve one small corner of Wikipedia by removing the Darkness of Error and replacing it with the Light of Truth. Alas! As Heliogabalus himself learnt only too well: some folk prefer Satanic Darkness to Godly Light. Furthermore, regardless of his careful research, we have to allow Alma-Tedema some artistic license. I see. You think that Alma-Tadema would use artistic license to portray a good-looking, charming youth of c. 18 years as an ugly, gloomy man in his 20s. I suggest that you need to learn more about both art and human psychology. This is artistic licence:
* David_-_Napoleon_crossing_the_Alps_-_Malmaison2.jpg
* Artists use license to portray people and situations as more potent and impressive, not less. It is not credible that Alma-Tadema carried out careful research and then ignored his research to portray Heliogabalus as quite unlike his sculptures and as both older and uglier. that young woman looks nothing like the bust Then I suggest that you are running either faulty facial-recognition software or faulty ethical software. Have you ever thought of upgrading? Then again, it might be a virus. the figure in the golden robe. How odd. You describe Heliogabalus as a "young woman", yet lapse into vagueness -- "the figure" -- for the man in the golden robe. You seem to be reluctant to admit that he is obviously older than his teens. The sources that we have, as well as the composition of the painting, support the figure in the golden robe.
* The composition of the painting does not support the "figure", i.e. man, in the golden robe. It supports the fat man to the left of Heliogabalus. Said fat man is the dramatic focus of the painting. The man in the golden robe looks bored and uninvolved. The fat man is gloating over the "deadly" practical joke, as one would expect the wicked Heliogabalus of legend to do. Not that anyone looks in any danger of death from the falling petals. The painting is not really an attempt to portray a scene of murder. It is subtle and full of symbolism and misdirection. Too subtle for some, obvs. MagistraMundi (talk) 09:59, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* I believe Alma-Tedema portrayed Heliogabalus as a man. The only man that fits the bill, by virtue of his position in the painting and because of how he is described by historians, is the man in the golden robe. I hope that's clear enough. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:27, 5 December 2018 (UTC) p.s. I don't see the fat man as the subject of the painting. Sorry if you think that's because I have "faulty virus-ridden software" in my brain.
* But Heliogabalus is described by classical historians as a charming and good-looking youth, not as an ugly, gloomy man in his 20s. The gold robe is a sartorial detail, not a sine qua non. And I don't think your software is both faulty and virus-ridden. That would be over-egging the pudding (if you'll forgive the comparison). I think it's one or the other, not both. Or possibly it's excessive humidity. Are you careful to wear a hat in the rain? MagistraMundi (talk) 10:50, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Hats in the rain now. Wow, and I thought I was a bit random. I think the guy in the golden robe is reasonably youthful and quite good-looking, not "an ugly, gloomy man in his 20s". I happen to think the face of the bust is a bit ugly. But these are just my wholly subjective personal views. I think we need to rely on sources here, e.g. expert art critics and historians. As I said before, I think it's time to restore the article detail, per the sources, and to stop the subjective discussion here. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:59, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* I'm not being "random," I'm trying to help you perform at your intellectual peak. If you neglect to wear a hat in the rain, your head will get wet and this might affect the working of your intra-cranial software. And something is certainly affecting the working of your ICS. It might be faulty programming, or a virus, or excessive humidity, or dust, or biscuit crumbs, or cosmic rays -- who knows? Not me. But I do know that it isn't all of them at once. That would be ridiculous.
* I have no problem with the article saying that the golden-robed man is Heliogabalus, but I think the article should note that this is the opinion of some critics and not conclusive. BTW, classical history does not describe Heliogabalus as "reasonably youthful and quite good-looking," but as a literal youth and, in the flesh, as very good-looking. MagistraMundi (talk) 12:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Random or not, you have totally lost me with the effect of rain on my "intra-cranial software", I'm afraid. But if you "have no problem with the article saying that the golden-robed man is Heliogabalus", why didn't you say that before you began your epic argument with this edit on 29 November?? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:39, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Note that The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus, a scholarly bio of 1911 by John Stuart Hay, says (Preface xiv), "I much regret that I have been unable to find any portraits of the Emperor for whose authenticity Bernouilli will vouch. Alone of the whole family there remain authentic busts of Julia Mamaea and Julia Paula, neither of whom are important enough to be included, since we are unable to give a portrait of Elagabalus himself. I have therefore confined myself to the use of coins, whose veracity is undoubted, hoping that the reader will supply from his imagination that charm and beauty which the biographers have been unwillingly forced to allow both to the Emperor and his mother." (my bold). "Bernoulli" = Bernoulli, Johann Jacob, Römische Ikonographie, 4 vols., the German starts here. I think he thinks MC 470 is Geta, although it may have been attributed to Elagabalus already. Or the attribution of MC 740 etc came well after AT painted the picture, as I warned above might be the case. Good luck running ID parades with the coins! Johnbod (talk) 23:58, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
Toxic Transphobia
Sorry, girls: I was joking about transphobia, so your trans-Wildean wit super-scintillated in vain. BTW, Mr rnddude, in terms of issues around LGBTQIA+ issues: you haven't said whether you think Mr Gold-Robe matches this description by Mr Herodian: "Bassianus, in the prime of youth, was the handsomest lad of his time. With physical beauty, bloom of youth, and splendor of attire combining to produce the same effect, the youth might well be compared to the handsome statues of Bacchus." I don't think he does, but then, unlike your good self, I'm neither deeply versed in the classics nor capable of being honest. Obvs. MagistraMundi (talk) 09:59, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* It didn't look like a joke. But if you're "not capable of being honest", at least we know where we stand. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:31, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* But if I'm not capable of being honest, how could I admit my incapacity? Are there perhaps two of me, one honest and one not? Anyway, Martita, let's test your own honesty. If poss, please answer the question I addressed to Mr rnddude. And of my two candidates for the role of Heliogabalus in TRoH, do you think the figure in the golden robe looks more or less like the bust of Heliogabalus than the young woman? Or is it impossible to say, cozza artistic lincense, adverse astrological factors and the vast gulf of time that separates us girls from the Victorian era? MagistraMundi (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Martita now, no longer Oscar? Those are your two candidates, no one else's. But I gave you my honest answer already that "the young woman looks nothing like the bust, from any angle." I hope that's clear enough. Again. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:49, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Martita now, no longer Oscar?. You're a shape-shifter and chameleon, like the late, great David Bowie. Of whom I assume you are a veteran fan. Please don't throw my compliments back in my face. MagistraMundi (talk) 10:54, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* You could at least compare me to a real man, like Martina. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:36, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* The book I linked to above notes that there are I think 6 contemporary unaltered (after his damnatio memoriae) portraits that are thought to be E. But none are certainly of him, unlike the coins. It would be unwise to assume that these identifications are the same now as pre-1888. Vast numbers of identifications have changed over the intervening years. If taking this seriously< one would need to check in 19th-century books what portraits were then thought to be of E. Johnbod (talk) 10:57, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Hmm, presuming you want a serious answer; I would not consider myself "deeply versed in the classics", I simply said I am familiar with them. It's difficult to answer your question, I don't find the male form attractive at all. So, I'd be naturally inclined to agree that the white robed individual fits the "youthful attractive" description better; but again, I see a cute girl, not a "handsome lad". Moreover, I'm concerned with Herodian's comparison to Bacchus given the "stud"-like qualities on display in this painting (my attempt at humour). I do think you're being honest in your selection, I just don't see that it matches. Ignore appearance for a second. Can you explain why Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus, in a purple robe and wearing a crown, would be sitting next to somebody other than her child? Can you explain why Elagabalus would not be a) in a controlling position and b) the focal point of the painting? Can you explain why Elagabalus, who by Herodian's own account hated Roman clothing and wool, would be wearing a traditional white woolen robe instead of a gold embroidered silk one (should be purple and gold, but oh well)? Why is Elagabalus not wearing any of the gold necklaces, bracelets, crowns, tiara's or any other jewellery, that they were known for? (both from Herodian 5.5) "Mr. Gold-Robe" matches all of these descriptions, yet the white robed youth does not. Returning to appearance for a moment, can you explain how snow white matches the descriptions of Syrian heritage from either Dio or Herodian? or where the facial hair from the busts are? I can't imagine why on earth Elagabalus would be half tucked away behind another courtier, lost in a day-dream, and munching on grapes, while the scene plays out around them. Thanks though, this was the first serious look I've had at anything to do with the Severans in a very long time. Mr rnddude (talk) 11:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Thank you for a considered answer, and yes, I was being serious. You're right that, if we ignore appearance, there are some strong factors supporting him-of-the-golden-robe. But we can't ignore appearance. For Sol's sake, this is a painting by one of the most skilled artists and meticulous visual researchers who ever lived. Heliogabalus was notorious in Victorian times for his youth, his effeminacy, and his good looks. He-of-the-golden-robe doesn't match those criteria. And the youth clearly looks much more like the bust that AT, we can assume, saw during his research. Furthermore, the youth is wearing a crown of roses. I think AT was playing artistic games and deliberately misdirecting spectators, but winking at the cognescenti with details like the crown of roses. Who might we expect to be wearing roses in a painting called The Roses of Heliogabalus? Heliogabalus, of course. Heliogabalus was also famous for his practical jokes and his subversion of conventions. This painting reflects that. It is much more complex than some commentators recognize. MagistraMundi (talk) 11:52, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Are there historical sources which suggest Elagabalus wore flowers in his hair? So AT is allowed artistic license when he is "playing artistic games", but not when he adjusts the subject's face to fit his compostion? Martinevans123 (talk) 12:02, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* How did making a good-looking youth of 18 into an ugly man of 20+ "fit his composition"? And although I don't know of any sources saying explicitly that Heliogabalus wore flowers in his hair, I do know of numerous sources saying that he was exactly the kind of person of whom one might expect such flamboyant floralistic fashioneering. Assuming, that is, one has some grasp of human psychology and LGBTQIA+ culture. (LGBTQIA+ is another joke, btw. I'm not a size queen.) MagistraMundi (talk) 12:11, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* Can we please stop all this? Wikipedia is based on sources; editors should, with due weight, present information according to how it explicitly appears in reliable sources. Everything else, including large chunks of the preceding discussion/s, is WP:SYNTH and original research, and thus irrelevant on Wikipedia. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 12:15, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
* He could be 18. He's not "ugly". But again, these are just subjective opinions. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Desktop Wireless network not connecting
By Maureen7
Aug 21, 2013
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1. HP Pavillion with Windows Vista
Using a Diamond 300 mbps Wireless Repeater
Netgear Wireless Dualband Router N600 WNDR3400v2
When attempting to open IE, a popup opens that says:
Connect to 10.0.10.254
The server 10.0.10.254 at GoAhead requires a username and password.
Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection).
User name:
Password:
and OK and Cancel
In device manager, computer doesn't recognize a wireless device.
It displays NVIDIA nForce 10/100 mbps Ethernet but nothing else.
Other devices (laptop,Ipad) can connect to the wireless in the home.
Internet provider says it is not on their end.
Can someone please offer some advice on how to resolve this issue.
Thank you
2. St1ckM4n
St1ckM4n TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 2,831 +479
Go to Device Manager, find the wireless adaptor. It should have a yellow ! symbol next to it.
Post details here, then you need to install the drivers for it.
3. Maureen7
Maureen7 Newcomer, in training
The Device Manager does not show a wireless adapter. The only thing listed is the NVidia nForce.
4. jobeard
jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 12,806 +186
that is NOT a device on the PC, so you need to use the wired connection, access the HP site and get the driver for your make/model (aka it doesn't show up so the driver is missing).
hmm; that must then be when you are using a wired connection to your router?
ok, who is your ISP and is that an ADSL or Cable connections?
try this; close all browsers, wire a connection to the router.
wait 30 seconds and then use IPCONFIG /ALL and copy paste that info in your follow up.
5. Maureen7
Maureen7 Newcomer, in training
I don't have a wireless adapter I have a wireless bridge.
The popup happens on the PC when I try and reach the internet. My understanding is that the wireless bridge acts as if I have a wired connection to the router. ISP is Optimum and it is a cable connection. I searched for IPCONFIG/ALL but nothing came up.
6. jobeard
jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 12,806 +186
I would agree
sorry, not correct. a bridge works like:
Code:
modem/wifi router --+-(wifi connection)--bridge to remote room(s)---switch/router--other devices
|
+--- wired or wifi connections
any wifi adaptor installed inside a PC makes the connection to the router and once connected, being wirerd or wireless does not matter. A bridge is not a device to which a PC connects at all. The single ethernet connection on the bridge is intended to go to a switch or another router, not a PC.
get a command prompt and enter
IPCONFIG /ALL
notice the space after ipconfig
7. jobeard
jobeard TS Ambassador Posts: 12,806 +186
Your first issue will be to get a wifi connection to the Dualband Router N600 WNDR3400v2;
• WNDR3400v2 <- - -> PC
and to setup the WiFi, you use a wired connection first. This is where you set the SSID for that device, enable encryption, set the connection password and turn on the broadcasting. Also note which channel is being used for the WiFi - - typically it is #6, so move it to #1 (an issue for the Wireless Repeater later below).
On the LAN configuration, take notice of the router address for later use.
Save the settings and the device will reset.
The second chore will be to configure the Diamond Wireless Repeater.
Connect Wireless Repeater <-->PC and set its channel to #11 to avoid conflicting with the WNDR3400v2.
Again you set
the WiFI SSID for that device,
enable encryption,
and connection password (hint: use the same from the WNDR3400v2)
If the WNDR3400v2 router address ended in x.1, then set the Wireless Repeater address to x.250 - - the point being to make sure that they have separate address, well separated and that neither of the use x.255.
The first three digits of BOTH devices must be identical.
Save the settings.
Now you should be able to make Wireless Repeater connect to the WNDR3400v2 correctly.
8. Maureen7
Maureen7 Newcomer, in training
I'm sorry I haven't responded. This has all gone very much ov my head. I'm hoping to get someone with more tech knowledge to assist me in following your directions. Thanks for your assistance and patience
9. Maureen7
Maureen7 Newcomer, in training
Thank you so much for all your efforts to assist me. I finally found someone to help me in person. It appears that in working over the phone with the cable tech people the software for the wireless bridge was deleted and the network number was changed. After re-installing the software for the bridge and changing the network number all is well. Thanks again!:)
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1. Jun 2023
1. Only by unblinding the returned signed blinded data, the signature can be extracted.
only those who can unblind the data can get the sig from coordinator?
nice guaranty, but why?
最简单的，通过公钥加密就能实现这一点，coordinator 将 sig 使用 user 的公钥加密，这样，只有拥有私钥的人才能获得 sig，而这个私钥也用于 data 的 blind 过程
2. submits a to-be-funded address alongside the coordinator's signature and the unblinded ticket.
这一步不会暴露 A 地址么？
根据 blind signature 的原理，不会，因为这一步提交的是信件的内容，而前面提交的是信封✉️，两者在外部人员看来，无法建立联系
1. ```
ethers.utils.RLP.encode(["0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045", ethers.utils.stripZeros(ethers.utils.arrayify(0x0)) ]) '0xd694d8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa9604580'
✗ cast keccak 0xd694d8da6bf26964af9d7eed9e03e53415d37aa9604580 0xabb18b93dff3ee19c50127123e4ea2156166390f880071d94458efb098473311 ```
0xabb18b93dff3ee19c50127123e4ea2156166390f880071d94458efb098473311
1. An Application Binary Interface (ABI) is a collection of Fragments which specify how to interact with various components of a Contract.
difference btw. ABI & Fragments & Interface ?
ABI is a collection of Fragments
and fragment is?<br /> fragment is a piece of definition of function/event/error/constructor
and fragment vs interface?<br /> interface is a collection of Fragments<br /> interface is ABI
``` const ABI = [ // Constructor "constructor(address ens)",
// Constant functions (pure or view) "function balanceOf(address owner) view returns (uint)",
// State-mutating functions (payable or non-payable) "function mint(uint amount) payable", "function transfer(address to, uint amount) returns (bool)",
// Events "event Transfer(address indexed from, address indexed to, uint amount)",
// Errors "error InsufficientFunds(address from, uint balance)", ] ```
1. AbiCoder: encode/decode btw. types and binary data
2. Most developers will never need to use this class directly, since the Interface class greatly simplifies these operations.
AbiCoder vs Interface
difference?
1. After the verification passes, the batch of transactions is considered final like any other Ethereum transaction
2. Apr 2023
3. Jul 2021
1. The state in Ethereum essentially consists of a key-value map, where the keys are addresses and the values are account declarations, listing the balance, nonce, code and storage for each account (where the storage is itself a tree).
state in eth: a k-v map
• key: address
• value: account infos:
• balance
• nonce
• code
• storage (which itself is another tree)
4. Apr 2021
1. formatEther
ethers.utils.formatEther(await vault.totalSupply())
'53.670765503837765998'
1. a.addUint(b); meaning a is passed automatically as first argument to the library function.
using count for uint;
a.addUint(b)
// equal
count.addUint(a, b)
看起来 using for 就是个语法糖🍬
2. The using A for B; directive means we attach library functions( from the library A to any type B). When this happens, these functions will receive the object they are called on as their first parameter
using A for typeB;
typeB.fooFunc(1) => A.fooFunc(typeB, 1)
3. then the library doesn’t need to be deployed
?
不部署 library 的代码从哪儿来？
1. If a smart contract is consuming a library which have only internal functions than EVM simply embeds library into the contract.
? 没看懂
5. Mar 2021
1. A records
对于普通的 Service， A 记录对应的形式是 svc-name.namesapce.svc.cluster-domain.example, 指向 service 的 cluster ip
headless service 没有 cluster ip，指向的直接是 service 匡选的 pods 对应的 IPs
svc.cluster-domain.example 是什么东西？
这个是 DNS search list
1. seems a interesting talk on k8s
听了一半，这里的 Builders and Operators 指的是运维而非 k8s controller 里的 operator，以后有机会再看看吧
配合自己用 kubeadm 部署一个 cluster 可能不错
1. isCA: false
certificate as CA?
啥意思，证书可以作为 CA 去签其他证书？
CA 本质上就是一个证书（包含一对公私钥），公钥用来表示自己，私钥用来签名
6. Jan 2021
1. Understand how CMD and ENTRYPOINT interact
CMD v.s ENTRYPOINT
1. This will make GitOps more natural as data sources and dashboards can be defined via files that can be version controlled. We hope to extend this system to later add support for users, orgs and alerts as well.
support:
• data source
• dashboards
not support yet:
• users
• orgs
• alerts
1. labelmap: Match regex against all label names. Then copy the values of the matching labels to label names given by replacement with match group references (${1}, ${2}, …) in replacement substituted by their value.
- action: labelmap
regex: __meta_kubernetes_service_label_(.+)
// all __meta_kubernetes_service_label_(.+) will be changed to the (.+)
// e.g.
// __meta_kubernetes_service_label_app='armada-api'
// to
// app='armada-api'
from https://gist.github.com/reachlin/a98b90afcbff4604c90c183a0169474f#file-prometheus-yml-L43-L46
2. role types
roles types for kubernetes_sd_config:
• node
• service
• pod
• endpoints
• ingress
1. Auth Proxy Authentication
seems related to Kalm integrating PLG (Promtail Loki Grafana)
1. Finally, to jump up to a full blown audit node, we recommend the following specs:A solid state drive (SSD) of 8 TBAt least 32 GB of RAMIntel i7 or equivalent
8TB 的 SSD，有点儿夸张。。。
7. Dec 2020
1. KubeSail.com can also forward kube-api and Ingress traffic to your cluster! This allows you to host internet-facing applications on your cluster, even if it does not have a reliable static IP address, and without having to forward ports. HTTPS traffic is kept secure and encrypted from the internet all the way to your cluster's applications - it's never decrypted by KubeSail (or the KubeSail agent).
怎么做到的
1. 哈哈哈，就从评价和标记都没了这点，就知道这部电影可以一看
1. p.eft is the effect for a policy, it can be allow or deny
eft == effect
骚气的简写，给跪
1. 设置 networkservice DHCP
DHCP
sudo networksetup -setdhcp Wi-Fi
networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 192.168.1.1
Koolshare
networksetup -setmanual Wi-Fi 192.168.1.234 255.255
.255.0 192.168.1.233
networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 192.168.1.233
1. You can change default privileges only for objects that will be created by yourself or by roles that you are a member of.
没看懂但是和我们这个错误貌似相关
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE bfd IN SCHEMA public REVOKE ALL ON TABLES FROM bfd;
# ERROR: must be member of role "bfd"
1. Sometimes, applications are temporarily unable to serve traffic. For example, an application might need to load large data or configuration files during startup, or depend on external services after startup. In such cases, you don't want to kill the application, but you don't want to send it requests either. Kubernetes provides readiness probes to detect and mitigate these situations. A pod with containers reporting that they are not ready does not receive traffic through Kubernetes Services.
alive but not ready for requests
1. All DNS servers fall into one of four categories: Recursive resolvers, root nameservers, TLD nameservers, and authoritative nameservers.
4 types of DNS Server:
• Recursive Solver
• root NS
• TLD NS
• authoritative nameservers
1. time-to-live (TTL)
TTL for cache
2. the .com Top-Level Domain (TLD)
TLD: Top Level Domain
3. recursive resolver
recursive resolver, 这是个什么鬼？
1. The authoritative name servers that serve the DNS root zone, commonly known as the “root servers”, are a network of hundreds of servers in many countries around the world. They are configured in the DNS root zone as 13 named authorities
a～m.root-servers.net
13 个 root servers
1. DeferredDiscoveryRESTMapper
There are multiple different implementations of the RESTMapper interface. The most important one for client applications is the discovery-based DeferredDiscoveryRESTMapper in the package k8s.io/client-go/restmapper: it uses discovery information from the Kubernetes API server to dynamically build up the REST mapping. It will also work with non-core resources like custom resources.
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@article {Kaaresene9, author = {Kaaresen, Per Ivar and R{\o}nning, John A. and Ulvund, Stein Erik and Dahl, Lauritz B.}, title = {A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness of an Early-Intervention Program in Reducing Parenting Stress After Preterm Birth}, volume = {118}, number = {1}, pages = {e9--e19}, year = {2006}, doi = {10.1542/peds.2005-1491}, publisher = {American Academy of Pediatrics}, abstract = {BACKGROUND. Preterm birth has been associated with increased parenting stress in early infancy, and some reports have found this to be a risk factor for later behavioral problems. There are, however, few studies and conflicting results. Information about the fathers is scarce.OBJECTIVES. Our goal was to study the effects of an early-intervention program on parenting stress after a preterm birth until 1 year corrected age.METHODS. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted including infants with a birth weight \<2000 g treated at the University Hospital of North Norway Trust, which serves the 2 northern-most counties in Norway, to examine the effects of a modified version of the Mother-Infant Transaction Program on parenting stress measured by the Parenting Stress Index. A term control group was also recruited. The Parenting Stress Index was administered to the mothers at 6 and 12 months{\textquoteright} corrected age and to the fathers at 12 months{\textquoteright} corrected age. The intervention consisted of 8 sessions shortly before discharge and 4 home visits by specially trained nurses focusing on the infant{\textquoteright}s unique characteristics, temperament, and developmental potential and the interaction between the infant and the parents.RESULTS. Seventy-one infants were included in the preterm intervention group, and 69 were included in the preterm control group. The preterm groups were well balanced. Seventy-four infants were included in the term control group. Compared with the preterm controls, both the mothers and fathers in the preterm intervention group reported significant lower scores in child domain, parent domain, and total stress on all occasions except the mother-reported child domain at 12 months. These differences were not related to birth weight or gestational age. The level of stress among the preterm intervention group was comparable to their term peers. Both parents in the intervention group reported consistently lower scores within the distractibility/hyperactivity, reinforces parents, competence, and attachment subscales compared with the preterm control group. There were no differences in mean summary stress scores between the mothers and fathers in the 2 preterm groups at 12 months, but the intraclass correlation coefficient was higher in the intervention group.CONCLUSIONS. This early-intervention program reduces parenting stress among both mothers and fathers of preterm infants to a level comparable to their term peers. We are now studying whether this will result in long-term beneficial effects.}, issn = {0031-4005}, URL = {https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/1/e9}, eprint = {https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/1/e9.full.pdf}, journal = {Pediatrics} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Siberian high
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Siberian high
[sī′bir·ē·ən ′hī]
(meteorology)
An area of high pressure which forms over Siberia in winter, and which is particularly apparent on mean charts of sea-level pressure; centered near lake Baikal. Also known as Siberian anticyclone.
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This transition period will see the diminishing effects of the Siberian High Pressure System, which brings cold dry air to the UAE during winter.
By Friday, PAGASA said the eastward migration of the Siberian high pressure towards the north Pacific will diffuse the tail-end of cold front.
Weather charts indicate that the country will be hit by the northwesterly strong wind from Saturday night until Monday due to the extension of a Siberian high pressure system over the region.
The Siberian High (SH) and North American High (NAH) favour extreme negative surface temperatures during the winter in the larger part of Northern Asia and the northernmost parts of North America.
For example, the researchers found that "winter cooling trends over Eurasia are accompanied by a strengthening of the Siberian High, which brings more cold air from the Arctic into central and eastern Asia," Perlwitz explains.
KUWAIT, Feb 1 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Civil Aviation's Meteorologist Essa Ramadan expected a decrease in the effect of the Siberian high pressure in the upcoming days with continuation of cold weather at night until Thursday and gradual rise in temperatures during daytime on Monday.
Due to its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator and locating in an area where the Indian Ocean summer monsoon influences it from both east and south, the influence of Siberian high tabs through the northern side and the waves of western winds, this province is facing with intense weather events such as extreme rainfalls.
Steve Jackson, of Bablake Weather Station, said: "The battleground between mild tropical air trying to edge from the west, and the cold Polar block that is the Siberian high out to our east is well under way, though there is no consistency, nor agreement, between forecast models as to the likely victor just yet.
periods such as a Siberian high during the winter when fuel is needed for heating and lighting, or an Azores high during the summer requiring fuel to keep the fridges, freezers and air conditioning going...
This makes the winter months dry and cold as winds predominately blow out of Central Asia under the influence of the Siberian high pressure that forms each year.
One of the Northern Hemisphere's long-lived, winter-weather features is the so-called Siberian high. As winter deepens, this dense mass of cold air becomes a potent weather maker for the Arctic and even temperate North America.
"The Siberian high pressure will start to affect the country during this period of fall and winter due to the cooler north-westerly wind moving over the Arabian Sea that increases the chances of mist or fog," he added.
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James Christie (Manitoba politician)
James Lyall Christie (June 9, 1891 – January 19, 1953 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive representative from 1932 until his death.
Background
Christie was born and educated in Glenboro, Manitoba where he worked as a farmer. His father, also named James Christie, was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the 1914 provincial election. His mother was Annie Ferguson.
The younger James Christie served as the provincial director of Manitoba Livestock Producers Ltd. and was an official or member in several local farm associations as well as being an active freemason. He served as a soldier in France with the Motor Machine Gun Corps from 1916 to 1918 during World War I, and was wounded during the Arras-Cambrai drive.
Career
He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1932 provincial election, defeating incumbent Conservative William H. Spinks by 256 votes in the Cypress constituency. In the 1936 election, he was re-elected over Conservative candidate R.G. Hurton by 129 votes. Christie again defeated Hurton, who was by this time an independent candidate, in the 1941 provincial election.
Christie's re-election in the 1945 provincial election occurred under unusual circumstances. During this period, the Liberal-Progressive Party was the dominant power in a coalition government which also included the Progressive Conservative Party, Social Credit and some independents. At a nomination meeting to determine the governing coalition's candidate, Christie unexpectedly lost to independent Robin Parsons by one vote. He challenged the validity of the result, however, and entered the general election as a candidate against Parsons. There were no further candidates, and Christie was easily elected over Parsons. He continued to sit with the Liberal-Progressives, on the government side.
He was re-elected again in the 1949 provincial election and was still a member of the legislature when he died in Glenboro in January 1953. His death followed a serious illness.
Christie served as whip of the Liberal-Progressive party for thirteen years. He was appointed chair of the standing committee on municipal affairs in 1949, and headed the provincial committee on agriculture and immigration from 1949 to 1952. | WIKI |
Talk:Artemisinin
Biosynthesis
The contributions to the biosynthesis of artemsinine are excellent, I find. For my part, my extensions are short and to the point. It is important to create new links to every wikipedia entry. This is done in the spirit of wikipedia. But, I agree, it might appear as too simplistic but yet, usable for those who read it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:28, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
The Keasling/Amyris process is presented in C Paddon et al, Nature, 2013, DOI: 10.1038/nature12051. Please add that reference to this useful and comprehensive article.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:52, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Mechanism of action
I would be grateful if this area could be monitored by experts and / or experienced Wikipedia users.
The evidence that artemisinins kill parasites by acting on redox metabolism relating to the parasite digestive vacuole is mounting, while evidence against PfATP6 being the site of action is diminishing as more tests of that hypothesis are published. Recently the group advocating that PfATP6 is the target of artemisinins published a substantial Corrigendum in Nature that clearly reduces confidence in the original publication. My edit in which I tried to point this out was effectively reversed by a new edit which suggested that an updated analysis '...has confirmed the original observations' and the clear labelling of this as a Corrigendum was removed. In the revision history the contributor Gmelins explains that 'A more balanced interpretation of a recently published paper (Uhlemann2012) is presented'. To reiterate, Uhlemann2012 is not an original paper but a Corrigendum to a 2005 paper, and no one reading the Corrigendum could conclude that it confirms the original observations; as I said above it could only undermine confidence in the findings from this system, rendering it even more vital that readers should look to other authors and commentators to shed light on the area.
And the evidence from elsewhere is that PfATP6 now appears very unlikely to be linked to artemisinin action. For example, in their paper from February 2012, Cui et al., who are independent of those originally promoting the hypothesis, conclude: 'Collectively, the evidence accumulated thus far strongly suggests that PfATP6 does not have much to do with ART resistance'. I have therefore made a further edit to reflect this. This edit also shortens the section considerably (it had become extremely wordy, particularly for an area that appears increasingly to be irrelevant to this drug's mechanism of action) and provides, in my view, a succinct and neutral summary appropriate to this important field.
It would be helpful for readers if biologists could review this section from the perspective of Wikipedia's statement on neutral point of view. Further input into the other sections of the article is also urgently needed.
Many thanks Uamha (talk) 12:39, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
* The views expressed in the first 2 paragraphs above reflect a highly partisan view. A full synthesis of the PfATP6 SERCA hypothesis, has after peer review been recently published . It addresses all the points made in the above (including erroneous comments regarding the parasite's food vacuole as a target for artemisinins) and below paragraphs, and provides reanalysis of the Cui paper that is consistent with artemisinins acting on parasite SERCAs. More recent results are from an independent and robust yeast model (not as confounded above with a corrigendum on a separate paper), and these are simply ignored. Furthermore, judging by the nature of critiques put forward, it is unlikely that the contributor has usefully worked directly on these hypotheses, or is current and familiar with all the literature on the subject.
* -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 13:50, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Synthesis section
All those parenthetical numbers are pretty much useless without accompanying structural drawings, but the paragraph was unfortunately written in such a manner as to preclude simply removing them. The section needs a rewrite so that it's no longer dependent on the parentheticals, or it desperately needs a set of structural drawings of the compounds referenced. IMO, this would probably be more useful than the immediately preceding drawing of the biosynthetic (mevalonate) pathway, especially in light of the way the total synthesis is described.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:19, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
* PARTLY ✅ I have rewritten the synthesis section, adding secondary citations, and a couple newer primary ones. It is still in need of a figure, but I am not convinced that the early Schmid design is the best; perhaps two are needed, the first and the best, so at present, it remains without an image (but cum better text, and sans numbers). Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 09:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
History section opening sentences and overall section tagged for need of citations and some poorly formatted material moved here to Talk
The first two paragraphs of the History were poor when I arrived, and I have tried to improve their readability, and their adherence to WP policies. The two paragraphs were combined, with material from the second ("herb" sentence) placed at an appropriate point in the first paragraph.
Then, there was a later sentence in the section whose English was unreadable, and whose citations were in a format so as to be unverifiable. That sentence has been corrected, thus: and it remains in the article in this edited form.
* "Images of the original scientific papers that record the history of the discovery have been available online since 2006."
Next, the citations that appeared with this sentence are unverifiable for various reasons, and are so poorly formatted as to be disruptive to reading. They are therefore moved here to Talk, for the record, and for holding until they can be corrected (REF2) or replaced (REF1 and REF3):
* REF1 http://qinghaosu.blogspot.com/ Qinghaosu Project ]
* Disallowed as a blog posting. Not an acceptable source. Also a bare URL. SOURCE MUST BE REPLACED.
* REF2 (BOOK) Zhang Jianfang (2007) Late Report: Record of Project 523 and the Research and Development of Qinghaosu, Yangcheng Evening News Publisher [Chinese citation: 張劍方 (2007) 遲到的報告五二三項目與青蒿素研發紀實, 羊城晚報出版社]
* May be acceptable, if details can be clarified: Corrections needed are page numbers of information cited, and ISBN or some other unique identifier so book can be sourced. SOURCE MUST BE CORRECTED.
* REF2 http://www.ycwb.com/ycwb/2007-01/05/content_1339932.htm ycwb.com
* Disallowed as a bare URL and as an apparent broken link. Link takes one to an all Chinese page. SOURCE MUST BE REPLACED.
There is a further redacted reference, from the sentence introducing Tu Youyou:
* REF4 http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Tu_Youyou ChinaVitae: Tu Youyou]
* This is a BLP issue, as this is a curriculum vitae of a living person, based on unspecified Chinese and English web sources, and so it is unclear as to its independence and accuracy. (E.g., sources may include unreliable or self-published information.) Citation also appeared as a Bare URL. SOURCE MUST BE INVESTIGATED FOR PROPRIETY.
Per WP policies, full, standard forms of citations are needed, all the more if the source is rare and/or hard to source. Please do not return these four until the indicated issues are resolved. (Reversion of this edit without change will bring in an administrator.)
Note, REF1 and REF4 are enjoyable and interesting reading, but REF1 is just not a valid source for Wikipedia, and REF4 must be confirmed as reliable, broadly, at WP. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 06:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I found some references that are related to the discovery and madical use of artemisinin. Both Chinese and English versions of paper are included in the reference list. Many of those are relatively original research paper of artemisinin, which gave us better idea on the early history of artemisinin in the scientific field. References: 1.Collaboration Research Group for Qinghaosu(1977). A new sesquiterpene lactone—qinghaosu [in Chinese]. Kexue Tongbao 3, 142 http://www.kjdb.org/CN/article/downloadArticleFile.doattachType=PDF&id=13117
2.Xiao, Y.Q. & Tu, Y.Y. (1984) Isolation and identification of the lipophilic constituents from Artemisia anomala S. Moore [in Chinese]. Yao Xue Xue Bao 19, 909–913. http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal-YXXB198412005.htm
3.Collaboration research group for Qinghaosu(1979). Antimalarial studies on qinghaosu [in Chinese].Chin.Med.J.92,811–81 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19802901722
4.Liu, J.M. et al. (1979) Structure and reaction of qinghaosu. Acta Chimi. Sin. 37, 129–143 . http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-HXXB197902005.htm
5.Tu, Y. (2011). The discovery of artemisinin (qinghaosu) and gifts from Chinese medicine.Naturemedicine,17(10),1217. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.2471.pdf?origin=ppub
6.Miller, L. H., & Su, X. (2011). Artemisinin: discovery from the Chinese herbal garden. Cell, 146(6), 855-858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2011.08.024
7.Huang, L. et al. Studies on the antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects of Artemisia annua L [in Chinese].Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi 18, 44–48 (1993). http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZGZY199301025.htm
8.Sun, X. Z. (1991). Experimental study on the immunosuppressive effects of qinghaosu and its derivative. Zhong xi yi jie he za zhi= Chinese journal of modern developments in traditional medicine, 11(1), 37-8. https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/2054892
9.Youyou, T. (2004). The development of the antimalarial drugs with new type of chemical structure-qinghaosu and dihydroqinghaosu. Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health, 35(2), 250-251. http://www.thaiscience.info/Journals/Article/TMPH/10601625.pdf
10.Zhang, D., Yang, L., Yang, L. X., Wang, M. Y., & Tu, Y. Y. (2007). Determination of artemisinin, arteannuin B and artemisinic acid in Herba Artemisiae Annuae by HPLC-UV-ELSD. Yao xue xue bao= Acta pharmaceutica Sinica, 42(9), 978-981. https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/18050742 ---Yliu3089 (talk) 18:02, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
Cancer
Dear Wikipedia:
Hello;
Concerning the Wikipedia article on Artemisinin - at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin
the important FDA approved Malaria herb/drug does not discuss Artemisinin as an anti cancer drug, why ?
( Adding this information my save or prolong the lives millions of persons affected by cancer. )
Please see Artemisinin as a Cancer Smart Bomb, Part I and 2 : at http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/canart1.htm and http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/canart2.htm and http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/FreeCanArtimisUpDate.htm
Quote from Link:
Artemisinin Cancer Smart Bomb, Part I: An Idea from Ancient Chinese Medicine
this paper and others can be found at:
http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/FreeCancerArts.htm
" The anti-cancer activity of artemisinin against 55 cancer cell lines was tested in the N.C.I.'s (National Cancer Institute) Developmental Therapeutic Program. Artemisinin was found to be most active against leukemia and colon cancer cell lines. Most promising was artemisinin's strong activity against drug resistant leukemia lines. Other cancer cell lines tested that indicated some responsiveness to artemisinin's actions were melanoma, breast, ovarian, prostate, renal and central nervous system cancers such as glioblastoma and neuroblastoma. ("The anti-malarial artesunate is also active against cancer," International Journal of Oncology, 18 {2001} 267-773) "
http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/canart1.htm
(c) 2002 Brewer Science Library, All rights reserved Excerpted from New Horizons, Summer 2002 issue
article attached
I researched anti worm drugs / agents as cancer drugs as I have stage 4 colon cancer.
Please notice most anti worn parasitic medications also have anti cancer properties. see your article on the antihelmintic drug Mebendazole at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebendazole see https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0109/c133ae30079fe21948f85e8c12466b10a903.pdf and the shocking before and after 6 wk photos..( still not a cure ) ( article attached )
Could Wikipedia please update the Article on Artemisinin an FDA approved treatment for Malaria to reflects its anti cancer properties ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dizzo2361 (talk • contribs) 20:01, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
* Thanks but sources about health need to be OK per WP:MEDRS and mwt.net is not OK. I will look to see if there are reviews on this drug and cancer... Jytdog (talk) 05:51, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
* There is a decent recent review; I added some content about that here. Jytdog (talk) 06:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Mechanism of action 2
" The malaria parasite enters the red blood cells and sequesters iron. The mechanism of action of artemisinin in "zapping" the malaria parasite is through the affinity of artemisinin to iron. The artemisinin compound contains two oxygen atoms hooked together in what is termed an endoperoxide linkage. In the presence of free iron this linkage breaks down, forming very reactive free radicals that cause rapid and extensive damage and death to the parasite. "
Source Artemisinin a Cancer Smart Bomb, Part I: An Idea from Ancient Chinese Medicine http://www.mwt.net/~drbrewer/canart1.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dizzo2361 (talk • contribs) 01:07, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
* As above, mwt.net is not OK per MEDRS. Jytdog (talk) 06:21, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Reference 6 is incorrect
Relating to artemisinin's advantages over other therapeutics. Having looked at the reference, it seems to be a different subject, with no mention of either malaria, plasmodium or artemisinin. If anyone is working on this page and can get to the bottom if it, would be most appreciated, if not, I'll take a look in due course. TobyBrann 17:59, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
* Agreed. No mention of any of those three, or the plant species. With this citation being used for such specific claims it really makes me wonder why. I suggest just going ahead and removing, and if this is the only cite then . Invasive Spices (talk) 23:43, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
Did Tu really discover it?
It seems over hyped to claim in the article that she is the first person in the world to discover this compound. She was probably the first person to name it in the modern sense but not the first person to discover or come across the compound and realise its beneficial effects. Ancient Chinese TCM herbalists have already long been using the same low temperature extraction methods for hundreds of years in treatment of Malaria. She merely rediscovered it after following instructions from an ancient TCM book. To claim she discovered it, is just like claiming Christopher Colombus had discovered America despite obviously native Americans' ancestors beat him to it. Both claims are absurdly ignorant of actual history. Nvtuil (talk) 20:58, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
Cell differentiation
Hello I don't work in medicine so I didn't even think that my phrasing would sound medical. As for in vitro this is actually in vivo for rodents and I had thought that would be obvious but you only know that if you read the review, read the paper, and figure out which part I'm talking about. In my mind this was not meant to be medically relevant but instead I was adding in this text to be definitive as to only that particular dynamic, i.e. cell differentiation in rodents. If there's any further human medical relevance that was not for me to say. But in actual fact I didn't say that in the text.
Anyway since you did that I gathered up all the other cites for this and it's a huge number in addition to the two I already had. Since I went through all those I noted that in fact Shin fails to replicate in non-human primates and Krentz thinks that's important. I interpret that to mean they believe this will never work for any primate. Overall this much coverage does tell us that this is an important controversy. Would you be satisfied to add in some text about "has only been found rodents and most importantly Shin finds this does not work in non-human primates which may be fatal for hopes of human use"? Invasive Spices (talk) 17 March 2022 (UTC)
* As we edit Wikipedia to be an encyclopedia, not a journal article covering what's emerging from lab research, WP:NOTJOURNAL, WP:MEDREV, we should wait until a reputable review in the mainstream medical literature (not from traditional Chinese medicine) summarizes what is new and significant about artemisinin beyond what the article states now. Zefr (talk) 22:44, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
* You didn't read what I wrote. What is this a reply to? Invasive Spices (talk) 18 March 2022 (UTC)
* What I see in your comments and weak TCM and lab references above is a diffuse unfocused discussion that is WP:OFFTOPIC about artemisinin. If you can find an actual reputable review to include, and offer a draft of text, then we can consider your proposal specifically. Zefr (talk) 17:06, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
* Where did I say anything about TCM? Which references do you think are relevant to TCM? Which references do you think are "lab references"? Which reviews do you think are not reputable? Invasive Spices (talk) 18 March 2022 (UTC)
* Refs 1-20 and 22 are from lab research in vitro and in vivo. A review of lab research is still a reference about lab research too preliminary for use in an encyclopedia. #21 is based partly on TCM - anytime the word "magic" is in an article's title, we should dismiss the source as dubious. At least 17 of the 22 refs imply importance to diabetes, which is not mentioned in the article; caution is needed about overinterpretation and WP:SYNTH. I've said enough here - if you wish a wider critique of the topic, post a discussion at WT:MED. Zefr (talk) 20:22, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
* Just chiming in to partially agree with Zefr. Not everything that is true of a topic should be in a Wikipedia article on that topic. Artemisinin is known for many things: miraculously potent antimalarial, lovely example of a drug sourced to traditional medicine, unusual chemical scaffold, a pain-in-the-ass to synthesize, etc. These are basically always covered in reliable sources on the topic. The fact that some artemisinin derivatives may cause alpha cells to act funny in immortalized rodent cells is just not that important to the story of artemisinin. This specific example seems to be on particularly poor footing - the Nat Rev End review only brings it up to shoot it down, and the original paper has apparently attracted some controversy (though I don't subscribe to the The Scientist magazine, so I'm inferring the contents from the title and first two paragraphs). But even if it was an uncontested finding, I still think any mention would be out of WP:PROPORTION to its importance. Ajpolino (talk) 01:55, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
* You both have been arguing with a strawman so long I can't possibly lose! You'll both be too tired to continue. Good for me.
* Seriously: We all need to move back away from medical claims I have not made. The text does not make any medical claims and as I said above I was surprised Zefr thought that because I did not mean to. I am interested to change the text as necessary so that is clearer if there are medical claims in my text that I am unaware of. Specific replies:
* A review of lab research is still a reference about lab research too preliminary for use in an encyclopedia. I don't understand. A review about lab research is WP:SECONDARY. This is normal to use yes? Is this something about medical citations I am unfamiliar with, because just to repeat, we need to get away from the idea that this is medical.
* 21 is based partly on TCM None of Wang is based on TCM. It does provide one paragraph and half of another paragraph of historical context. The other eight pages are science from 1971 and later. This is an Elsevier journal after all. The text I am citing is Recent findings have even identified a remarkable—if controversial—role of artemisinin in diabetes through inducing transdifferentiation of pancreatic a cells to generate b cells [142,143]. [142] = Li and [143] = van der Meulen.
* anytime the word "magic" is in an article's title, we should dismiss the source as dubious. A fanciful title is used because artemisinin has become so familiar that it is safe to do so. This is commonly done. For introducing a new substance or receptor this would look ridiculous yes.
* At least 17 of the 22 refs imply importance to diabetes, which is not mentioned in the article Yes? I agree? I did not mention diabetes. caution is needed about overinterpretation and WP:SYNTH. We do not need to be careful about overinterpreting things that we are not interpreting at all. If I have mentioned diabetes and then forgotten I did so please point out where it is.
* WT:MED would be inappropriate because again the effects of artemisinins on rodents are not necessarily relevant to humans, and even more specifically in this case are looking very doubtful for human purpose.
* The fact that some artemisinin derivatives may cause alpha cells to act funny in immortalized rodent cells is just not that important to the story of artemisinin. Twenty two reputable reviews think otherwise. And note, this is in vivo or should I say in rodentia (and in Li, in transzebrafish).
* This specific example seems to be on particularly poor footing - the Nat Rev End review only brings it up to shoot it down Yes several reviews endorse it, endorse it as correct along with other results which are contradictory = these are all correct for different combinations of substances and targets, or shoot it down in that way. and the original paper has apparently attracted some controversy Yes several of my sources treat this as controversial. That does make it a very large controversy worth covering.
* Note again that Krentz specifically doubts that this will ever work for non-human primates (in other words all primates) and I note that Pacios-Michelena also has some doubts about human relevance. I intended to present this as a very widely attended rodent matter and I will try to present a revised text to that effect tomorrow. Invasive Spices (talk) 19 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm sorry to repeat myself, but I still think this doesn't merit mention. Best I can tell, this is the kind of incident that happens in laboratory science all the time: group A published a paper claiming a surprising finding; other groups fail to replicate, or extend it to other research models; life goes on. Perhaps the material would be germane to an article on beta cell development, beta cell regeneration, or GABAergic regulation of beta cells (all of which certainly would pass WP:GNG). But I think any mention here would be undue. Ajpolino (talk) 23:44, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
* Yes my joke was not entirely accurate. You do bring up a good point that normally a failure to replicate is not notable. However I think we need to take our idea of what is DUE or UNDUE from these 25 (WP:DUE, fairly represent all significant viewpoints that have been published by reliable sources, in proportion to the prominence of each viewpoint in the published, reliable sources. and Keep in mind that, in determining proper weight, we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources). (Also keep in mind that when I wrote the first version I had read only Wang, Xu et al., 2019 and Nair et al., 2020. Then I read the others and this went from settled, different results for different substances to massive controversy. So I've changed my position to cover the controversy.)
* Here is my proposal:
* There is much controversy as to the effects of various artemisinin derivatives on α-cell-to-β-cell differentiation in rodents and zebrafish. Li et al., 2017 find artemisinin itself forces α⇨β conversion in rodents (via gephyrin) and zebrafish while Ackermann et al., 2018 find artesunate does not and van der Meulen et al., 2018 find the same absence of effect for artemether (although artemether does inhibit ARX). (Shin et al., 2019 further finds no such effect for GABA in rhesus macaque, although GABA is not an artemisinin but has a related action.) Both Eizirik & Gurzov 2018 and Yi et al., 2020 consider it possible that these are all legitimately varying results from varying combinations of substance, subject, and environment. On the other hand a large number of reviewers are uncertain whether these are seperate effects, instead questioning the validity of Li on the basis of Ackermann and van der Meulen – perhaps GABA receptor agonists as a whole are not β-cell-ergic. Coppieters et al., 2020 goes further, highlighting Ackermann and van der Meulen as publications that catch an unreplicatable scientific result, Li.
* I think this supports the notability of the range of expert opinion well. Because this is specific to several of the artemisinin family, I don't think this would be appropriate to cell development articles although maybe. Moreso, that is not a subject where I can contribute very much, although if someone else created such articles it's possible I could contribute this small part. Invasive Spices (talk) 21 March 2022 (UTC)
* I think we're not likely to come to agreement on this. It would be helpful if others chimed in so we can reach some kind of consensus. I'm guessing no one else is really watching this page, so I've posted at WT:MED and WT:Molecular Biology to see if anyone else might be willing to share their thoughts. Ajpolino (talk) 21:18, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
* concur w/ Invasive spices (above)...please remember --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:00, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
* I forgot that bundling is even possible. I will fix that in the next version. Invasive Spices (talk) 28 March 2022 (UTC)
* I was going to wait a week and ping and yourself but WP:MolBio is fine. I have to again note that MED is not going to be related here because these are rodent and Danio dynamics and because (after I looked further) I found these several other sources saying that these effects have not/will not hold for primates. Invasive Spices (talk) 24 March 2022 (UTC)
* Hi, for disclosure I saw the mention of this discussion at WT:MED. First off, congratulations for pursuing this discussion on the talk page and not with editing the mainspace. Invasive Spices you have clearly done extensive reading into this area and I can see that your edits have improved the article. However, I agree that this particular topic and your proposed paragraph is too esoteric to be included in this article, as it really does constitute small print even in a specialised review article. Most of the references fail WP:MEDRS due to being primary literature and most of your proposed paragraph is a synthesis of multiple results and opinions, and though I agree the review articles do constitute secondary literature in my opinion this remains too specific a topic for this article. |→ Spaully ~talk~ 12:07, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
* Which are primary? Invasive Spices (talk) 25 March 2022 (UTC)
* I'll strike the point on primary literature so as not to get drawn into a discussion on highly specific review articles, I think the central point stands and I don't have the time or interest to get drawn into a longer discussion. I suggest the best outcome for this is to find or write a more specific article which it pertains to, such as the suggestions by Ajpolino above. I won't be expending further energy on it. |→ Spaully ~talk~ 16:38, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
* Ozzie10aaaa objects to my horrible citations (one of which takes up most of the page width) but otherwise supports this version, Ajpolino doesn't want this here at all, Spaully same but won't push, which leaves . Sorry to bother you again but you were very certain I was making medical claims and I didn't understand that anyone would think that. Have I gotten away from confusion with medical claims and towards animal effects only? Should this be here, because it pertains to the artemisinin family, or elsewhere? Or do you still think this isn't worth having at all? Invasive Spices (talk) 28 March 2022 (UTC)
* Not going to repeat the assessments I made above about lab research being included in the article where the emphasis is on its antimalarial properties which led to a 2015 Nobel Prize, demonstrating its notability. Your draft proposal is convincing enough about uncertainty that the status of understanding on cell differentiation is speculative at best. As no reviews of lab research clarify this content adequately in an encyclopedic way, and there is no consensus from editors in this discussion to include anything like your draft, I suggest you drop the topic. If future research clarifies the issue, talk page history and your list of sources can serve then as the basis for new discussion. Zefr (talk) 20:49, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Numbering of carbon positions
"Modifications at carbon 10 (C10) position": the numbering of the carbon atoms is not shown anywhere on the page. AndreasJS (talk) 12:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Using messenger.com with NVDA
What is Messenger.com?
Messenger allows people to text, video chat and stay in touch with Facebook friends.
Where do I go to?
You will need to go to the following website at http://www.messenger.com and if you have not signed up for a new account - you can make one. If you already have a Facebook account, it is just a matter of signing into messenger.com with your details.
NVDA keys you will use on messenger.com
You will use the following keys while in browse mode with NVDA. The single letter navigation keys that can be used are: B for buttons, C for combo box, D for landmarks, E for editable areas, F for form fields, G for graphics, H for headings, I for list items, K for links, T for tables, U for unvisited links. Ctrl + Home key will take you to the top of the page; while Ctrl key + End key will take you to the bottom of the page.
In some cases you might need to go between browse mode (where you can use single letter navigation keys) and focus mode (where you can type in a message). Use the NVDA key + spacebar for this.
The Escape key can be used to dismiss some pop up menus. The say all command can be used (NVDA key + down arrow key) to read the content of a page - along with your arrow keys.
The spacebar is used to open a submenu, then jump down by headings.
Using the Shift key + a quick navigation key will take you back in reverse. For example, pressing the letter B will take you to the next button - where adding the Shift key and the letter B will take you in reverse to the previous button.
After you have logged into messenger.com
As you go down the page you will hear the following: back to recent messages, level 1 chats, sub menu settings help and more, new message, search messenger (which is a search box), contacts, conversation list. Conversation list will be a list of all the conversations you have had. They will say the name of the person, the date you chatted to them, and either what you sent to them, or what you got from them. Submenu actions is where you can reply to that person with certain replies (such as: start a voice call, start a video chat) then it will give you expanded info on that person.
Sending a message etcetera to a contact on your list
Locate the person's name you want to send a message to, then press the Enter key on their name. You will then be given options such as: Type in a message to that person, Choose an emoji, Send a like this if you arrow down. If you arrow back up from where you typed the message to that person, you will hear choose files, choose a sticker, choose a GIF, send a voice clip, play a game, take a picture using quick cam, and create a poll.
It will also tell you the message seen by your contact and what you wrote, and time, more, reply, react, and the previous message to that person. Press the Enter key on the option you want, then it might be a matter of using the arrow keys etcetera.
Settings help and more
When you open the sub menu settings (help and more menu) under this section, you will find the following: active contacts, message requests, archived chats, unread chats, about, terms, privacy policy, cookie policy help, report a problem, and log out. Again, press the Enter key on the option you want, then use the arrow keys to navigate that section.
If you choose active contacts, then press either the Spacebar or Enter key on it, and it will show you only your active contacts online at that time. Pick any of those contacts and you could do the following with them: such as start a voice call or start a video chat. You must either have a microphone or a web camera, and have them set up in messenger.com
To send a voice clip, you must allow it to be sent. This will be the same for an audio chat or video chat. It will pop up a little screen where you can allow it or deny it being sent.
Incoming chats or audio or video calls
Usually (in most cases) you are only talking to one person at a time.
To see what the person said back to you, use the arrow keys to locate their response. Their reply will be above the area where you typed in the message. Their message will be above the other menus. If you do a voice call, you can redial them back from the chat.
To receive an audio or video call, you will hear a ringing sound. Make sure you are in browse mode, then press an accept button; or a decline button will come up. Press the Spacebar or the Enter key on the accept button and then you will be in the call. You will also hear the person's name who is calling in at that time.
After you have finished your call with that person you can tab down to hang up and then the call will be finished.
Sometimes (after a call has ended) you will be asked about the quality of the message (rating from poor to excellent) or you can just say not at this time. Make sure you submit it, then close all windows so that other screens do not grab focus from NVDA. If the person has a camera, you should see them and visa versa.
Logging out of Messenger.com
To log out of Messenger.com you will need to locate the sub menu settings help and more menu.
Press the Spacebar on the submenu, and then arrow down to log out, and press the Enter key. Now you are logged out of Messenger.com
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Is a 1-a-Day Multivitamin Good for Women?
Introduction
When it comes to maintaining a healthy diet, especially for women, multivitamins can play a crucial role. But is taking a 1-a-day multivitamin enough to meet your nutritional needs? Let's explore how these supplements fit into a healthy diet for women.
Multivitamins are designed to fill in nutritional gaps that might be missing from your daily diet. For women, these gaps can include essential nutrients like calcium, iron, and vitamins D and B12, which are vital for bone health, energy levels, and overall wellness. A 1-a-day multivitamin can help ensure you're getting these nutrients in adequate amounts.
The Role of Multivitamins in a Healthy Diet for Women
Taking a multivitamin once a day is convenient and can support your health in various ways, including boosting your immune system, improving skin health, and supporting heart health. It’s a simple addition to your daily routine that can have long-term benefits.
Benefits of a 1-a-Day Multivitamin
While multivitamins can be beneficial, they shouldn't replace a balanced diet. It’s important to eat a variety of nutrient-rich foods to get the full spectrum of vitamins and minerals your body needs. Over-reliance on supplements may lead to missing out on the health benefits that whole foods provide.
Are There Any Drawbacks?
A 1-a-day multivitamin can be a good addition to a healthy diet for women, helping to fill nutritional gaps and support overall wellness. However, it’s important to use it as a supplement to, not a substitute for, a well-rounded diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
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So they say the new
60 is 50
but is this what your prostate is saying???
About the prostate
The prostate is a walnut-shaped gland that wraps around the urethra, the tube that urine flows out of. The prostate is part of the male reproductive system. The prostate gland starts out small and has two main phases of growth. It doubles in size during the teenage years, then continues to grow again after the age of 25 throughout the rest of a man’s life.
An excessively enlarged prostate results in a disease known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Eventually, an enlarged prostate can clamp down on the urethra and restrict the flow of urine from the bladder.
This leads to problems such as:
frequent urination
difficulty in voiding
urinary leakage
urinary tract infection
BPH impacts men of at least 40 years of age, but most common are those 50 years of age and older. As men grow older, their hormone levels change, especially levels of testosterone, estrogen, and a by-product of testosterone called dihydrotestosterone (DHT).
A few studies have shown that changes in the balance of these hormones may trigger some prostate cells to abnormally grow and divide.
What are the 5 warning signs of prostate cancer?
These include:
A Noticeable burning while urinating or during ejaculation.
A frequent need to urinate.
Blood in urine or semen.
Pain in the bones.
Erectile dysfunction.
Difficulty starting or stopping a stream of urine.
Best Foods for Prostate Health
Green tea can help reduce PSA levels. Mushrooms can help reduce prostate tumors. Pomegranates can help slow prostate cancer growth. Pumpkin seeds help reduce an enlarged prostate. Salmon has powerful cancer fighting antioxidants.Tomatoes help reduce prostate cancer risk. Turmeric is the #1 cancer fighting spice.
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Enlarged prostate treatments
There are several treatment options for an enlarged prostate. You can take alpha-blockers such as terazosin (Hytrin) or tamsulosin (Flomax) to help relax the prostate and bladder muscles.
You can also take dutasteride (Avodart) or finasteride (Proscar), a different kind of medication for reducing BPH symptoms. These block the hormones that cause the prostate to grow.
Combinations of these two different types of medications may also be recommended. Your doctor might also recommend surgery to remove the extra prostate tissue. One common surgical procedure for BPH is known as transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
There are also natural remedies that may work to combat enlarged prostate symptoms. If you do want to try any of these natural remedies, it is always a good idea to work with a skilled practitioner trained in herbal medicine working along the side of your doctor.
Saw palmetto
Saw palmetto is an herbal remedy that comes from the fruit of a type of palm tree. It’s been used in alternative medicine for centuries to relieve urinary symptoms, including those caused by an enlarged prostate. Saw palmetto is safe to use, but minor side effects can be upset stomach and headache.
Stinging nettle
You’ll know if you’ve accidentally touched the common European stinging nettle: The hairs on its leaves can cause a sharp jolt of intense pain. But stinging nettle may have some benefits when used as a medicine. Nettle root is thought to improve some BPH symptoms, and is commonly used in Europe. However, a 2007 review concluded that more studies were needed. Sometimes nettle is used in combination with other natural BPH treatments, such as saw palmetto. Side effects from nettle are usually mild, including upset stomach and skin rash.
Foods to treat BPH
The role of diet in the prevention of BPH and in treating its symptoms continues to be explored. A recent study in China looked at the effects of diet on BPH symptoms. Researchers found that men with diets high in fruits and vegetables, especially leafy, dark vegetables and tomatoes had less BPH, less symptoms of BPH, and were less likely to have worsening of their BPH. Researchers believe it’s not just one nutrient, but rather the combinations found in a healthful diet and lifestyle, that are beneficial.
Going the natural route
It’s important to remember that just because a supplement is labeled “natural” doesn’t always mean it’s safe, healthy, or effective. Remember that the FDA doesn’t regulate herbal remedies like it does prescription and over-the-counter drugs. That means you can’t be totally sure that what’s listed on the label is inside the bottle. This is why it is important to work with a skilled practitioner and to be very cautious when buying on line or in a store.
If you are like most men looking for ways to shrink your prostate, you probably have symptoms of an enlarged prostate, otherwise known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Symptoms of BPH can include nocturia (nighttime urination), urinary hesitation, a urine stream that stops and goes, a weaker urine stream, and not being able to empty your bladder completely. While these symptoms do not threaten your health (besides risk of infection from not emptying your bladder), they do greatly affect your quality of life and can indicate that your prostate health is not optimized.
Before you run out in search of ways to shrink your prostate, be aware that size itself doesn’t necessarily matter. You can have an enlarged prostate without the symptoms of BPH, while another man with a normal size prostate may experience advanced urinary symptoms. Whatever your case, your goal should be to improve your prostate health through natural methods, and this in turn will help you to make positive changes in your prostate and urinary health.
The best plan for maximizing your prostate health involves eating the right foods, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising daily, and managing your hormones. It is also important to manage your stress level and take steps to fight inflammation. You can improve your prostate health and prevent other prostate health problems (such as prostatitis or even prostate cancer) down the road.
A Mediterranean style diet is one of the best diets for prostate health. It includes eating oily fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids (like salmon, tuna, herring, and anchovies). This diet also allows you to indulge in other healthy fats like the ones found in seeds, nuts, olives, and avocados. You should eat a lot of vegetables, because men who eat a lot of vegetables have a decreased risk for BPH. Look for cruciferous vegetables (think broccoli, cauliflower, kale, and cabbage) as well as vegetables with a high vitamin C content.
Avoid or limit foods that harm the prostate like spicy foods (which can exacerbate pain and other symptoms of prostatitis), fried foods, processed foods, white bread products, sugar, artificial sweeteners, dairy foods, and red meat. Cut out salty foods and limit your alcohol intake. You also should limit caffeinated beverages like coffee, and soda, which can worsen your urinary symptoms.
The American Cancer Society classifies prostate cancer as the most common form of cancer among U.S. men. According to recent projections, of the 232,090 new cases to be diagnosed, about 30,350 men will die from prostate cancer. If you are a man over the age of 40 and prostate cancer runs in your family, it is extremely advisable to monitor your Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) levels. A PSA blood test measures the level of a protein released by prostate cells. This reveals the possibility of prostate growth (hyperplasia), but it does not always mean that cancer is present. Since PSA levels may fluctuate with infection and lab errors, usually more than one test over a period of time is done to confirm your PSA level. Digital Rectal Exam (DRE) and ultrasound are other ways to evaluate the prostate. However, only biopsies can truly determine whether the growth in the prostate is benign or malignant.
The prostate gland lies at the base of the bladder surrounding the urethra (urinary tract from bladder to penis). The swelling of the prostate puts pressure against the bladder and urethra, thereby affecting the smooth flow of urine. Abnormal patterns of urination such as higher frequency at night, burning sensation, difficulty, blockage and dribbling are common symptoms and signs of prostate enlargement.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approach to Prostate Care
TCM associates hyperplasia of the prostate with kidney deficiency. After the age of 40, one’s vital energy in the kidney system decreases, resulting in the disturbance of sex hormones. This process also decreases one’s sexual energy, which affects the function of the prostate and the circulation in this region. Throughout the ages, in order to compensate for the decline of prostate function, men in China have used regular acupuncture treatments to improve the circulation and energy in the prostate.
To enhance the effect of acupuncture, they have also used Chinese Formulas to replenish the kidney essence. In fact, we have had many successful cases of normalizing elevated PSA levels in patients with prostate conditions. Kidney essence nurtures the prostate. As the prostate is revitalized, it is capable of self-regulating toward normal functioning and maintaining a balance of growth and non-growth. This is the balancing property of Chinese medicine.
Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations
Nutrition experts have expressed concern that pesticides and herbicides in animal products may trigger cancer growth. This may be another good reason for you to eat more fruits and vegetables that are organic and avoid saturated, high-fat animal products and snacks that contain hydrogenated or partially-hydrogenated oils. These diet and lifestyle recommendations may help prevent this pervasive cancer and help invigorate your body.
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Another staple of traditional Men's Medieval clothing - was The Monk Cowl Mantle. Incorporated in basic commoner fashions around the late 13th Century, these pieces of apparel were based directly upon the type of outer garment worn by Monastic Orders. Often referred to as a "Cistercian Cowl" (somewhat incorrectly), unlike their religious counterparts, these pieces were not designed to extend much past the Upper thigh of the wearer. Similarly, they often featured no sleeves. The Hood and cowl could either be attached to the garment or simply put on at the wearers need. The basic design of The Monk Cowl was such that (as it was made of both wool and the material known as "Coarse"), it was ideal for a Peasant worker. This was made more so by the lack of sleeves (which provided for excellent range of arm motion). The Monk Cowl Mantle also found it's way in some military usage, especially by Archers. The design would fall out of favor by the mid-15th Century. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Pretty cool, eh? The same tricks employed for the CSS Flyouts demo are used here, but with a lot of obvious modifications. The same Jscript makes IE obey hover on any element, and the “sticky hovering” method is applied here as well.
Go to this demo page to see the nav with red borders outlining the sticky hover zones.
Modifications needed due to IE7
IE7 has arrived, and it does not read the star-html hack. Thus we have modified the conditional comment containing the csshover.htc file call so that only IE6 and lower will do so. Further we have added a new CC that feeds IE7 and above the modern equivalent to the old Holly hack, using the MS proprietary zoom property.
IE7 also obeys dimensions without the old Expanding Box effect, so the zoom property is used instead to trigger hasLayout in IE7 and up. Since zoom is not valid, we hide it inside the CC to let the page validate.
Finally IE7 obeys hovering on any element, so the CC that contains the .htc file call has been re-targeted to IE6 and lower, letting IE7 ignore that unneeded script and operate faster.
Expanded Navigation
This method does not work in IEmac, but a hack feeds “dumb down” css to that browser so that it shows the entire nav system on screen all at once. Nothing is covered, as the expanded nav is made to “flow” at the same time it is expanded.
IEwin will also fail if security is set to “High”, so to allow for such users we have applied those same expansion rules in a <noscript> block, that is itself within the conditional comment we used to hide the behavior scripting call. These things are seen only by IEwin, taking care of that browser while still allowing the page to validate.
Go to this demo page to see the fully expanded nav that would be shown in IEmac, and in IEwin with scripting turned off.
Pros and Cons
The entire nav is semantically just a set of nested lists, making for reasonable accessibility.
This nav works in IE5, IE5.5, IE6, Op7, Gecko, Konqueror, and Safari. IEmac fails to support the hover method used, and so gets the expanded nav instead. IEwin with scripting disables also gets the expanded nav. Nav 4 does not support this method, or much else for that matter.
If the sticky hovering zones protrude beyond the right viewport edge when they appear, it can cause a momentary horizontal scroll to appear. It will happen in this demo page if the window is set to a width of 800px. In a production page it would be fairly easy to narrow the wrapper slightly or reduce the right hover zone on the elements that are a problem. Just be aware it can happen so that you can fix it before the boss notices.
Scripts for IE6 and faux hovering
The Jscript that we’re using to handle IE6 does cause a great deal of recursion in the browser, which appears as a noticably lengthened load time when viewed in slower systems, and also as actual slow functioning of the nav itself, primarily in IE5/win. A less complex nav than the one above will significantly reduce the problem, and using ID node names on your :hover rules will help a lot too. Specifically div.parent:hover is better than than div:hover or .parent:hover, and div#parent:hover is faster still.
When Service Pack 2 is installed on Windows, the Jscript in the .htc file will only work in IE6 when correctly served with the mime type text/x-component. Mime types are defined by the server administrator, so if your server is incorrectly set, IE6 may fail to show the popups. That’s just the way it is, folks.
simpler script method for handling IE6 does exist, the Suckerfish script. Basically the script watches the links to be hovered, and when the mouseover event is triggered on a link it gets a class name applied, but only during the mouseover event. Then you write duplicate selectors for the hover rules, but referencing the JS-applied class name. The resulting IE6 faux-hovering is effective and doesn’t need a specical served mime type (simple JS file), but at the cost of having to modify the CSS hover rules just a bit.
Server Related Problems With The Method
IE6 has a well known background image caching issue, which seems to be partially active in this demo. Apparently when the nav is very large (as this one is), and the processor is slow, the cursor will show a very short flash of the “working in background” cursor as you pass from one link to the next.
There is a transparent bgfix.gif background image on the divs (a fix for an IE hover bug), which appears to be the root cause. As we say, with a smaller nav the flicker may never actually appear with some navs, but if it does it can be corrected only by making changes to the server itself.
Well, there is always the option of not having sticky hovering, but that seems rather extreme for a problem so minor that we overlooked it for several weeks.
For instructions on fixing an IIS server go to this Stop Image Flicker tutorial, and for the Apache server, go to this Fivesevensix.com tutorial. A hat tip to Bryce Fields for pointing out the existing fixes for this issue. We keep forgetting this stuff…
More About The Nav
The source for this demo is fully commented, but we will not be writing a full tutorial on the method here. Rather, a complete, in-depth tutorial series is available at CommunityMX.com, (currently in production under the series title “CSS Flyouts”), where you may view them after signing up for a free ten day trial membership (requires proof of ability to pay to receive the free trial).
Translations
This article is now available in Russian, thanks to the efforts of Patricia Clausnitzer.
Thanks Patricia! 🙂
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Does Brita Remove Fluoride? Detailed Fluoride Filter Review
Do Brita Filters Remove Fluoride? The Answer Might Surprise You
Do you want to know if your Brita water filter removes fluoride?
Fluoride is a chemical that has been added to many public water supplies throughout the United States. It helps prevent tooth decay, but there are some concerns about its safety and effectiveness. If you’re concerned about fluoride in drinking water, it might be time for you to invest in a good filtration system like the one from Brita.
Brita filters do not remove fluoride from drinking water. The Brita Standard filter uses a combination of activated carbon, particle filters, and ion exchange resin to purify water. However, none of these filtration processes remove fluoride. The Brita Longlast+ filter uses a proprietary filter media to remove lead, but it doesn’t filter out fluoride. A few brands of pitcher filters, such as Clearly Filtered and PUR, can effectively remove fluoride from drinking water.
Continue reading this article to learn which treatment methods can remove fluoride, how to test your water, and much more on this topic.
Read my article – Expert Recommendations: Pitcher Water Filters That Remove Fluoride.
Fluoride in Drinking Water
Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that helps prevent tooth decay. It’s also added to drinking water and some brands of toothpaste to help strengthen teeth. But there are concerns that too much fluoride can be harmful, especially for children under 8 years old.
Why is fluoride in our drinking water
Fluoride is added to public water supplies to help prevent tooth decay. It’s a naturally occurring mineral that is found in water and soil. A small amount of fluoride is beneficial for teeth and helps to prevent cavities.
How much fluoride is in my water
The level of fluoride in drinking water varies depending on the location. Most public water supplies have between 0.60 and 0.90 parts per million (ppm) of fluoride in their water. However, it’s important to check with your local water authority to find out how much fluoride is in your tap water. Remember, fluoride does help prevent tooth decay, so having it in your water isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Concerns over fluoride
Despite being good for teeth, some people are concerned that fluoride can be harmful. There is evidence that too much fluoride can lead to a condition called fluorosis. This condition causes white spots on teeth and in severe cases, can even lead to pitting and discoloration of teeth.
Fluorosis is the only unwanted health effect of community water fluoridation. It’s important to note that the levels of fluoride found in drinking water are not high enough to cause any serious health concerns.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set the recommended level of fluoride at 0.70 ppm for drinking water. This recommendation is based on studies that show that this level of fluoride is beneficial to teeth and helps to prevent cavities.
Do Brita Filters Remove Fluoride from Water
Brita filters do not remove fluoride from drinking water. Fluoride is a difficult chemical to remove from water, and the filtration methods used by Brita are not effective at removing it.
Brita sells several types of water filters, but none of them filters out fluoride. You would think that at least one of the six different filters Brita makes would treat fluoride. Unfortunately, none of them do.
Brita filters and fluoride treatment
Here is a list of the filter elements you can use with your Brita pitcher filter:
1. Standard Filter. This filter uses activated carbon, ion exchange resin, and mesh media. None of these filtration methods remove fluoride from water.
2. Longlast+ filter. This filter uses a combination of activated carbon and a particle filter media. These treatment methods do not remove fluoride.
3. Bottle filter. This filter uses an activated carbon block cartridge to purify water. The carbon block media is not capable of removing fluoride from water.
4. Stream filter. These filters utilize a proprietary dual-layer carbon filter to treat water. Activated carbon does not remove fluoride.
5. Faucet filter. This filter uses a nonwoven filter material and a tightly bound carbon block. These filtration methods do not work against fluoride.
Brita filters can remove a lot of contaminants from drinking water such as lead, VOCs, and PFAS.
Brita video on water filter pitcher fluoride removal
Check out this video on fluoride removal. The conclusion is: no Brita filters are not effective against fluoride.
Watch this video about Fluoride and Brita filters
Does Brita remove fluoride from drinking water? No Brita filters do not remove fluoride.
Which Water Filter Pitchers Remove Fluoride
If Brita filters don’t remove fluoride, are there any other pitcher type filters that do? Fortunately, there are two brands of pitcher filters that can remove fluoride from drinking water. Let’s take a look at these filters.
Clearly Filtered pitcher filters remove fluoride
The Clearly Filtered brand of pitcher filters can get rid of the fluoride from your drinking water. They use two treatment technologies consisting of a highly efficient particle filter and a proprietary filter media. The proprietary filter media is able to remove all of the fluoride from water with a very long service life.
Clearly Filtered Pitcher Filter System
The Clearly Filtered pitcher has the highest fluoride removal capacity of any pitcher filter on the market. It can remove 100% of the fluoride in drinking water. It can process a lot of water before the filter has to be replaced.
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Clearly Filtered provides analytical data that indicates their pitcher filter can remove 100% of fluoride at a concentration of 2.18 ppm. This is three times the concentration found in tap water.
PUR pitcher filters remove fluoride
The PUR pitcher filter can remove fluoride from your drinking water. Testing data indicates that the filter can remove up to 0.7 ppm of fluoride. Read my article about PUR filters and fluoride removal.
However, the PUR website does not list fluoride as a contaminant their product can treat. Presumably, if PUR believed their filter is effective at removing fluoride, they would claim this as a benefit. Since they don’t, it suggests that the reliability of the PUR filter is not adequate to consistently treat this contaminant.
PUR CR1100CV Classic Water Filter Pitcher
The PUR filtration system can produce 11 cups of water in each batch. It is able to remove a wide range of contaminants – although PUR does not note it in any of their product literature.
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Learn more about Brita filters and the contaminants they can remove from drinking water.
Test Your Drinking Water for Fluorine
Fluoride Water Test Kit
Tap Score has a simple to use test kit to measure fluoride in your drinking water.
Tap Score offers a laboratory test to measure the level of fluoride in your drinking water. This package provides all the necessary materials to collect and submit a sample for testing. Results will include a detailed, quantified analysis of fluoride levels in your water.
Knowing what’s in your water is the first step to keeping your family safe.
Order your Tap Score Fluoride test kit today
What Other Treatment Methods Can Remove Fluoride
There are several treatment methods that can effectively remove fluoride from your drinking water. Which water filters remove fluoride? Here are the best fluoride water filters you can purchase for your home.
Do Big Berkey filters remove fluoride
Big Berkey makes a gravity filter that can remove fluoride from drinking water. Their Black Berkey Filter uses a three-step process: microfiltration, adsorption/absorption, and ion exchange. This combination can remove up to 99.99% of fluoride.
However, the Black Berkey filter has a limited treatment capacity after which the filter has to be replaced. Berkey makes a Fluoride Reduction Filter that can treat 1,000 gallons of water with a fluoride removal efficiency of up to 97%.
Imperial Berkey Gravity-Fed Water Filter
The Imperial Berkey System filters water for about 4 to 8 people each day. The system is just 26” tall and 10” in diameter. A pair of Black Berkey Elements lasts for up to 6,000 gallons before replacement is required.
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Reverse osmosis filters remove fluoride
Reverse osmosis is very effective at removing fluoride from water. Most RO filters can remove more than 94%, and several can remove 99% of fluoride.
Reverse osmosis filters work by forcing water through a semipermeable membrane. This membrane allows pure water to pass through, while contaminants such as fluoride are left behind. The concentrated waste liquid, known as brine, is dumped down the drain. As much as 3 gallons of water are wasted for every gallon of drinkable water produced.
Express Water RO5DX Reverse Osmosis Filter
This RO filter has 5 filter stages to purify water. It is NSF certified and can remove a long list of contaminants from drinking water. I have this filter in my kitchen, and it works very well. You may want a unit like this for your home.
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If you’re looking for an affordable way to remove fluoride from your drinking water, a reverse osmosis filter is the best option. Not only do they remove fluoride, but they also remove other harmful contaminants such as lead, chromium, and arsenic.
Read my article on removing fluoride with reverse osmosis.
Crystal Crest fluoride removal in-line filter
If you are concerned about fluoride in your drinking water, you can use an inline filter that specifically removes fluoride. There are a few of these filters available, and they can be attached to your sink, your refrigerator’s water supply line, or your entire house.
The following in-line water filter reduces fluoride levels very effectively.
Fluoride Removal Refrigerator In-line Water
The Crystal Quest filter removes fluoride from your refrigerator water
The Crystal Quest fluoride removal In-line Water Filter System is designed specifically for refrigerators with ice-makers and water dispensers and sink faucets. It is a great way to ensure you have fluoride-free water whenever you want. It’s simple to install and even easier to maintain.
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Water distillers remove fluoride
Water distillers are very effective at removing fluoride from water. They can remove 99+% of fluoride plus a long list of other contaminants from your drinking water.
Distillation works by heating water to its boiling point. The resulting steam is then condensed back into water that is collected and provided for drinking. A small amount of liquid and remaining contaminants are left behind.
One potential downside of using a distiller is that it also removes beneficial minerals from your water. This can make the water taste flat and acidic. If you want to add minerals back into your distilled water, you can use a mineral filter or add them yourself.
VIVOHOME Brushed 304 Stainless Steel Water Distiller
This countertop water distiller can produce 4 liters of purified water in each batch. It has a brushed 304 stainless steel finish that I think looks great. If you live in an apartment or don’t want to install a treatment system under your sink, this is a great option.
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Testing Your Water for Fluoride
If you want to find out how much fluoride is in your drinking water, you can have it tested. There are several labs that will test for fluoride, and the cost is usually around $45 per sample.
I like Tap Score for all of my water testing. They provide a comprehensive report that includes the concentration of the contaminants plus a detailed explanation of what the results mean. They provide drinking water standards, comparison to public water system results, and a recommendation for how to treat the water if necessary.
Check out Tap Score.
FAQs
Do ZeroWater filters remove fluoride?
ZeroWater pitcher filters remove 41% of fluoride from tap water. These filters include particle filters and activated carbon filters, neither of which work for fluoride.
Do Seychelle filters remove fluoride?
Seychelle pitcher filters do not remove fluoride. Their website does not list fluoride as a contaminant it can remove. Most water filters will not effectively remove fluoride.
Their filters use activated carbon filtration to remove contaminants, but this media is not effective for fluoride.
Do Epic pitcher filters remove fluoride?
Epic pitcher filters do not remove fluoride. They treat water using particle filters combined with activated carbon. These treatment methods are ineffective for fluoride removal.
Do refrigerator water filters remove fluoride?
Refrigerator water filters do not remove fluoride. Most fridge filters consist of particle filters and activated carbon. Neither of these treatment processes work for fluoride.
Final Take on Fluoride Water Filters
Do Brita Filters Remove Fluoride? A lot of people assume that Brita filters remove fluoride from drinking water, but they don’t. Brita filters do not remove significant amounts of fluoride.
It turns out that Brita filters, and other pitchers like them, do not remove fluoride from the water. If you’re looking to reduce your exposure to fluoride, you might need a different type of filter. We’ve compiled a list of filters that have been certified by NSF International as removing fluoride from drinking water; you can find it on our website. Stay safe and healthy by knowing what’s in your water!
Boch Richard
Richard Boch is a chemical engineer responsible for designing water filtration systems for industrial and residential customers. He has more than 20 years of experience with ion exchange, activated carbon, and reverse osmosis. Richard's expertise has made him a go-to source for municipalities and businesses looking to improve their water quality. When he's not working, Richard enjoys spending time with his wife and two young children.
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Marcel ALLEYNE and Earl LeGrande, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. TIME MOVING & STORAGE INC. and the Time Record Storage Company, LLC, Defendants.
No. 08CV1356ENVSMG.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
Jan. 28, 2010.
Abdul Karim Hassan, Law Office of Ab-dool Hassad, Esq., Queens Village, NY, for Plaintiffs.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
VITALIANO, District Judge.
In April 2008, plaintiffs Marcel Alleyne and Earl Legrande commenced this action on behalf of themselves and a putative class of others similarly situated, alleging defendants failed to pay overtime compensation to employees in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19, and New York Labor Law § 160 (“NYLL”), which seeks recovery of the unpaid overtime wages, liquidated damages and attorney’s fees. On June 23, 2009, the parties entered into a class settlement agreement and promptly sought preliminary class certification and settlement approval under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which the Court granted. Plaintiffs then moved for final class certification and settlement approval. Objections were filed to class certification and to the settlement. A fairness hearing was held on September 23, 2009. This Memorandum and Order constitutes the Court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law.
BACKGROUND
Defendants Time Moving & Storage, Inc., a New York corporation, and The Time Record Storage Company, LLC, a New York limited liability corporation (collectively, “Time Moving”), are engaged in the business of providing storage and moving services to a variety of clients — ranging from financial institutions to law firms, primarily but not exclusively in the New York City metropolitan area. Defendants are jointly controlled from the same offices in Brooklyn, and operate several warehouses in New York and New Jersey in connection with their business.
In servicing clients, each of defendants’ employees performs, for the most part, a variety of roles. All client jobs are routed through a dispatcher, who staffs them. Warehouse supervisors and warehousemen move clients’ property on and off moving trucks and in and out of storage in the warehouses. Drivers, obviously, drive moving trucks containing cargo to and from the warehouses. Helpers, or “movers”, travel with the trucks and help to transport cargo. Carpenters, or “installers”, carry tools and assemble and disassemble office furniture and equipment to be moved and stored. Employee responsibilities, however, are not only not sharply defined, but by plan and practice, they are “blurred.” (Transcript of Fairness Hearing (“Tr.”) at 15, 29).
As a result, defendants have asserted that employees in these five types of job classifications, who constitute the putative class, all played some part in the packing, loading and moving of defendants’ trucks, and, therefore, none were ever entitled to overtime premium pay because they fell into the FLSA’s motor carrier exemption, 29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(1). In general terms, the motor carrier exemption relieves employers of the overtime obligations of the FLSA and NYLL when the employer is a “motor carrier” and the employee regularly or periodically is called upon to perform duties that affect the safe operation of the employer’s vehicles in interstate commerce. Common examples are employees who drive an employer’s motor vehicles or are responsible for loading and unloading cargo transported by the vehicles. It is undisputed that Time Moving is a “motor carrier.” The motor carrier exemption is the 800-pound gorilla in the courtroom.
On June 23, 2009, the parties entered into a class settlement agreement, which precipitated the motion for preliminary class certification and approval of the settlement agreement. That motion was granted on July 1, 2009. The class certification and settlement of class claims necessarily pertain solely to the state law claims of the putative class, as FLSA claims are ineligible for certification under Rule 23 and can only be certified as “collective actions” pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). See 5 James Wm. Moore et al., Moore’s Federal Practice § 23.04[1] (3d ed.2009). Although the amended complaint indicated an intent to seek recovery both under the FLSA via a collective opt-in action and under state law via a Rule 23 class action (in which class members are bound unless they opt out), an affidavit from proposed class counsel states that if the Court approves class certification and settlement under Rule 23, plaintiff will not pursue an FLSA collective action. {See Declaration in Support of Class Certification and Preliminary Settlement Approval, Dkt. No. 8 at ¶ 16).
In its July 1, 2009 Order, the Court provisionally certified the following class for settlement purposes: “All individuals employed by Defendants between January 1, 2002 and the Effective Date (as defined in the Settlement Agreement) (the ‘Relevant Period’) as an hourly employee in the following functions: (1) Drivers, (2) Movers, (3) Installers, (4) Warehousemen, and (5) Warehouse Supervisors, and who are listed on Exhibit A to the Settlement Agreement.” This definition covers approximately 417 individuals, of whom 74 are current employees of defendants and 343 are former employees. (See Declaration of Arthur J. Robb in Support of Motion for Class Certification and Final Approval of Class Settlement, Dkt. No. 23 at ¶ 3).
Named plaintiff Alleyne is undisputedly covered by the class definition. He was employed on an hourly basis by defendants for approximately two years, from 2005 to 2007. Based on his regular and recurring duties as an employee of defendants, Alleyne has been classified as an installer for purposes of the settlement agreement.
Proposed class counsel, Abdul K. Hassan, avers that, after excluding opt-outs and individuals who could not be located for notice purposes, there are approximately 341 class members who will be bound by the settlement and judgment in this case if approved by the Court. (See Supplemental Statement of Compliance with Class Action Procedure, Dkt. No. 24 at ¶ 5). Defendants initially provided Mr. Hassan with addresses for only 355 of the 417 known class members. Three of those 355 individuals are plaintiffs in a separate FLSA case previously filed and pending against defendants in this Court, captioned McIntosh v. Time Moving & Storage Inc., No. 07-cv-2226-ENV-SMG. Mr. Hassan also represents the plaintiffs in McIntosh, and was aware that they would be opting out of the class in this action. Accordingly, Mr. Hassan mailed 352 notices of this action via first-class mail on July 24, 2009. The notices provided an individualized estimate of the amount that each putative class member would be entitled to receive under the settlement agreement, and informed them that they had 30 days after the July 24, 2009 mailing date to opt out of the class or file objections to the settlement.
Of the 352 notices sent in the July 24, 2009 mailing, 122 were returned as undeliverable due to incorrect or outdated addresses. However, one of these 122 mis-addressees, Darren Gold, timely filed an objection, together with two other class members whose notices had not been returned, Edwin Perez and Johnny Spruill (together with Darren Gold, the “objectors”). In late September 2009, defendants twice provided Mr. Hassan with supplemental lists of contact information for class members who had not yet been located, and supplemental notice mailings were made on September 18 and 23, 2009.
All told, after all three mailings were completed, a net number of 58 notices were returned as undeliverable, and seven putative class members chose to opt out: the three parties to McIntosh, three individuals who are parties to other actions against defendants pending elsewhere, and one other person. The wives of two deceased class members, Earl Legrande and Neil Magliano, received their husbands’ notices and asked proposed class counsel for their shares of the settlement (if any). No party opposes the requests of the two widows.
By the terms of settlement, defendants agree to provide a common settlement fund of $180,000, of which each class member is allotted a share based on his overtime hours, rate of pay, and job classification. Any unclaimed settlement funds are to revert to defendants. The settlement fund is divided into “job funds”, calculated by taking the aggregate maximum overtime premiums for the covered job classifications and applying agreed-upon multipliers that purportedly reflect the relative strengths of the claims of— and concomitantly, assess the likelihood that the motor carrier exemption would be found applicable to — each type of employee in the class. (See Tr. at 45-50; Settlement Agreement, Dkt. No. 9 at ¶3.2). The multipliers are: Driver — 10%; Mover — 15%; Installer— 40%; Warehouseman — 40%, and Warehouse Supervisor — 50%. The net class of 341 individuals consists of: 236 movers (69.2%), 73 drivers (21.4%), 11 installers (3.2%), 16 ware-housemen (4.7%), and 5 warehouse supervisors (1.5%).
Each class member was classified based on his regular, recurring duties. If a worker performed a job task on an episodic or isolated basis, he would not be deemed part of that classification. In the event that a class member regularly performed multiple separate job functions, he was assigned to the category with the lower multiplier under the settlement agreement. (See Tr. at 33). As an installer, representative plaintiff Alleyne is assigned one of the higher, though not the highest, multipliers.
Attorney’s fees payable to class counsel are capped in the agreement at one-third of the settlement fund, or $60,000, payable out of the fund. The settlement agreement also provides that both of the originally named plaintiffs, Alleyne and Legrande, will receive $1000 incentive payments (Legrande’s being payable to his widow). The agreement is conditioned on provisions that class members who do not opt out agree to waive their claims against defendants, and that defendants, notwithstanding settlement funding, deny liability or wrongdoing arising out of the asserted claims.
On August 21, 2009, the three objectors collectively filed their opposition to class certification and the settlement agreement. In short, objectors argue that the proposed class, class representative and class counsel are inappropriate, the settlement is inadequate and the proposed class attorney’s fees are excessive. Additionally, objectors raise issues regarding the timing of the settlement of this action and changes in the status of other actions pertaining to defendants’ pay practices. Objectors are named plaintiffs in a FLSA case against defendants and others filed in 2008 and currently pending before Judge Colleen McMahon in the Southern District of New York, Perez v. Time Moving & Storage, Inc., 08-cv-2775. The putative class in that action is a subset of the proposed plaintiff class here — the so-called “helpers”, who are defined as employees who neither worked in the warehouse nor drove moving trucks. Shortly after Judge McMahon directed that a class certification motion be filed in Perez, a settlement agreement was announced in this case, and defendants moved to transfer Perez to this Court. Judge McMahon denied the transfer motion.
Objectors express suspicion regarding the timing of the settlement agreement and motion for preliminary certification in this ease, which occurred almost contemporaneously with Judge McMahon’s directive to the parties in Perez to establish a briefing schedule on class certification. Objectors assert that this is redolent of collusion between defendants and proposed class counsel in this action, and that the negotiation of the settlement agreement may have suffered as a result of the defendants’ desire to “choose their own plaintiffs” and the representative plaintiffs desire to beat the Perez plaintiffs in a “race to the courthouse.” The fairness hearing ensued.
DISCUSSION
A. Class Certification
The Second Circuit has established, and recently reiterated, the following guidelines regarding class certification under Rule 23:(1) a district judge may certify a class only after making determinations that all of Rule 23’s requirements have been met; (2) such determinations can be made only if the judge resolves factual disputes relevant to each Rule 23 requirement, finds that the underlying facts relevant to each have been established and is persuaded to rule, based on the facts and applicable legal standard, that the requirement is met; (3) the obligation to make such determinations is not lessened by overlap between a Rule 23 requirement and a merits issue, even a merits issue that is identical to a Rule 23 requirement; and (4) the judge should not assess any aspect of the merits unrelated to a Rule 23 requirement. See In re Flag Telecom Holdings, Ltd. Sec. Litig., 574 F.3d 29, 34-35 (2d Cir.2009). In the context of considering a motion for class certification, the Court accepts all of the allegations in the complaint as true, see In re Indep. Energy Holdings PLC Sec. Litig., 210 F.R.D. 476, 487 n. 5 (S.D.N.Y.2002), and a proponent of class certification must meet the Rule 23 requirements by a preponder-anee of the evidence. See Flag Telecom, 574 F.3d at 35.
In accordance with the foregoing principles, plaintiff must first demonstrate that the putative class fulfills the four prerequisites set forth in Rule 23(a): numerosity, commonality, typicality, and adequacy. The numerosity requirement is met where the difficulty or inconvenience of joining all members of the class makes use of the class action appropriate. See Cent. States Se. and Sw. Areas Health and Welfare Fund v. Merck-Medco Managed Care, L.L.C., 504 F.3d 229, 244-45 (2d Cir.2007). The commonality requirement is met where the class members’ grievances share a common question of law or of fact. See Marisol A. v. Giuliani 126 F.3d 372, 376 (2d Cir.1997). The typicality requirement is met where the claims of the class representative are typical of those of the class, each class member’s claim arises from the same course of events and each class member makes similar legal arguments to prove the defendant’s liability. See Robinson v. Metro-N. Commuter R.R. Co., 267 F.3d 147, 155 (2d Cir.2001). Finally, the adequacy requirement is met with a showing that the class representative will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class. See Denney v. Deutsche Bank AG, 443 F.3d 253, 267 (2d Cir.2006).
If the Court finds that the Rule 23(a) criteria are satisfied, it moves on to the next analytical step. As certification here is sought pursuant to Rule 23(b)(3), the Court then conducts a two-pronged inquiry: first, whether the class’s common questions of law or fact predominate over questions affecting only individual members; and, second, whether a class action is superior to other available methods for fairly and efficiently adjudicating this controversy. Finally, plaintiff must demonstrate that proposed class counsel can adequately represent the interests of the class under Rule 23(g).
The Court is mindful, of course, that many of the elements of Rule 23 tend to overlap or merge with each other, and that the Second Circuit advises district courts to “adopt a standard of flexibility.” Marisol A., 126 F.3d at 376. Ultimately, courts have broad discretion in determining whether to certify a class and are encouraged to construe the requirements of Rule 23 liberally in order to effectuate its overall purposes, which include the protection of small claims through aggregation and the preservation of judicial resources. See Baffa v. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Sec. Corp., 222 F.3d 52 (2d Cir.2000); Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin, 391 F.2d 555, 563 (2d Cir.1968). In addition, it is appropriate for a court to take into account the inability of the poor or uninformed to enforce them rights and the improbability that large numbers of class members would possess the initiative to litigate individually. See D'Alauro v. GC Serv. Ltd., 168 F.R.D. 451, 458 (E.D.N.Y.1996).
1. Rule 23(a)
i) Numerosity
Rule 23(a)(1) provides that a class may be certified only if “the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable.” The rule does not mandate that joinder of all parties be impossible. The Second Circuit has held that numerosity is presumed at as few as 40 class members. See Consol. Rail Corp. v. Town of Hyde Park, 47 F.3d 473, 483 (2d Cir.1995). Here, the number of claimants vastly exceeds that threshold. Plaintiffs counsel asserts that there are approximately 341 class members who would be part of the plaintiff class and potentially affected by the settlement. (See Dkt. No. 24 at ¶ 5). Plainly, to the extent that there are common issues affecting the 341 class members, individual adjudications of their claims would be expensive, time-consuming, and burdensome on the Court. A group of this size would make the joinder of individual members as named plaintiffs impracticable. Numerosity is therefore satisfied.
ii) Commonality and Typicality
Subsection (a)(2) requires that there be “questions of law or fact common to the class”, and (a)(3) requires that the “claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical” of the class. As a practical matter, the two requirements merge in the Second Circuit’s inquiry. See Caridad v. Metro- North Commuter R.R., 191 F.3d 283, 291 (2d Cir.1999). The commonality and typicality requirements are satisfied “when each class member’s claim arises from the same course of events and each class member makes similar legal arguments to prove defendant’s liability.” Robidoux v. Celani, 987 F.2d 931, 936-37 (2d Cir.1993).
The claims of the Time Moving class members, including named plaintiff Alleyne, all arise out of the same alleged conduct — ■ namely, Time Moving’s failure to pay time- and-a-half wages to employees who worked more than 40 hours in a week. As noted at the top, moreover, defendants have asserted, as a common defense to the claims of all class members, that the motor carrier exemption applies across the board regardless of nominal job title. Time Moving takes the position that, in any event, it did not maintain distinct divisions between employees performing the various tasks involved in the moving and storage process — in short, they claim that everybody multi-tasked as a matter of regular operation.
The FLSA requires that employees engaged in interstate commerce be paid “at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed” for work in excess of 40 hours per week; New York’s labor law is to the same effect. 29 § U.S.C. 207; see N.Y.L.L. § 160(3). However, Congress has enacted a broad range of exemptions from this rule, including the motor carrier exemption, codified at 29 U.S.C. § 213(b)(1). In order for the motor carrier exemption to apply, the employer must be within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Transportation by virtue of operating as a “motor carrier” or “motor private carrier”, and the employee’s activities must affect vehicular safety of operations in interstate or foreign commerce. Dauphin v. Chestnut Ridge Transp., Inc., 544 F.Supp.2d 266, 273 (S.D.N.Y.2008). Obviously, Time Moving is engaged in the business of “providing motor vehicle transportation for compensation”, which is the precise definition of a covered “motor carrier.” 49 U.S.C. § 13102(14). But, since in derogation of a worker’s benevolent act, the motor carrier exemption is narrowly construed against any employer who seeks to invoke it, its application is limited to what falls plainly and unmistakably within its terms and spirit, with the employer bearing the burden of proving that the exemption applies. Dauphin, 544 F.Supp.2d at 272
In sum, if each class member were to litigate his claims individually, each one would have to show Time Moving failed to pay him overtime and each one would have to grapple with the same defense — that the motor carrier exemption applied to him and that he was therefore excluded from the overtime provisions of the FLSA and NYLL. Therefore, construing Rule 23’s requirements liberally, and assuming for the sake of this inquiry that plaintiffs allegations are true, the Court finds that the commonality and typicality necessary for class certification have been demonstrated here.
Objectors, as one might likely imagine, disagree. They press that a determination of the motor carrier exemption requires a fact-specific inquiry into each employee’s individual duties. Objectors also postulate that employees in one of the job classifications included in the putative class, “drivers”, are obviously and unquestionably covered by the motor carrier exemption, while employees in the other job classifications — movers, installers, warehousemen and warehouse supervisors — at least have colorable arguments that they are not covered.
Regardless, the fact remains that all putative class members were allegedly harmed by a common practice — Time Moving’s indiscriminate “no overtime, period” policy — and that their grievances relate to this universal practice implicate common questions of law and fact. Furthermore, class certification is not automatically defeated by throwing a subset of the class under the truck; differences among class members as to the number of hours worked, the precise work they did and the amount of pay they received concern the amount of damages to which any individual class member might be entitled, not the amenability of their claims to Rule 23 certification. See Torres v. Gristede’s Operating Corp., No. 04-cv-3316, 2006 WL 2819730, at *14 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 29, 2006); Noble v. 93 Univ. Place Corp., 224 F.R.D. 330, 343 (S.D.N.Y.2004); Ansoumana v. Gristede’s Operating Corp., 201 F.R.D. 81, 86 (S.D.N.Y.2001).
In addition, objectors contend that it is improper for the class to contain both former and current employees of defendants, reasoning that former employees only care about receiving the highest immediate pay-out, while current employees have an added interest in preventing future overtime violations by defendants and retaining the ability to collect for any such future violations — rights that objectors assert would be waived in the settlement agreement. However, the overwhelming bulk of the class consists of former employees, like representative plaintiff Al-leyne, for whom any negotiated prospective relief would have no benefit. Further, current employees do not require the protection of negotiated prospective relief because they have the protection of the law — the settlement agreement does not purport to release claims arising after the effective date, meaning that all class members may seek redress in court or before the appropriate administrative agencies for any future violations.
Alternatively, based on their critique, objectors urge the Court, pursuant to subsection (c)(5), to create formal subclasses aligned with the various worker classifications covered by the settlement agreement. Upon due reflection, the Court nonetheless rejects objectors’ argument that the creation of subclasses is warranted in this case. Granted, the creation of subclasses may sometimes be called for where there is an unequal allocation of a settlement fund to different categories of class members. More pointedly, subclasses are necessary when it is clear that, unlike here, proposed class members have diametrically opposed interests. Objectors cling to the inclusion of the “driver” classification as evidence of conflicted interest in the overall class. The argument ignores what a thorough review of the record as a whole establishes: work tasks assigned to and performed by Time Moving employees were “blurred” as a matter of ordinary operations, as opposed to a haphazard happening or occurring in any de minimis fashion, i.e., the motor carrier exemption is a common enemy to all class members and not just to the “drivers”.
In any event, the Second Circuit has indicated that subclasses are less likely to be deemed necessary where class certification is sought pursuant to Rule 23(b)(3), because those aggrieved by the differentiation have the choice of opting out. See In re Joint E. and S. Dist. Asbestos Litig., 982 F.2d 721, 745 (2d Cir.1992) (modified on reh’g sub nom) (“Of course, our insistence on subclasses to reflect the adverse interests of the subgroups affected by the Settlement is premised on the Trial Courts’ use of Rule 23(b)(1)(B) on a mandatory non-opt-out basis. If, on remand, the existing Settlement, or some revision of it, can be achieved under Rule 23(b)(3) with objectors permitted to opt out, we would not require [the class] to be subdivided into subclasses.”).
Implicit in this flexibility is that there is a downside to creating subclasses — and it is significant. To create subclasses is to increase the expense to the overall class and the time demands on both the Court and the parties, as the Court would have to appoint counsel for each subclass, and analyze and certify each subclass according to the same Rule 23 standards. Furthermore, if subclasses are created in this case, the settlement agreement, by its terms, will be voided and litigation will resume. Given the practical realities of this case, that is, the similarity of the claims and (especially) defenses raised, the small number of objections (the three objectors, who constitute less than 1% of the 341-member putative class, are the only members who have submitted objections), the fact that potential class members were given an opportunity to opt out and the small number of individuals who chose to take that opportunity (seven, all but one of whom were already pursuing similar actions), the Court finds that the creation of subclasses is neither necessary nor advisable. Nor do any of objectors’ arguments undermine the Court’s finding that the commonality and typicality requirements have been met.
iii) Adequacy
Subsection (a)(4) requires a finding that the proposed action will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class. To satisfy this requirement, the named representative plaintiff must show that there is an absence of conflict and antagonistic interests between himself and the class members, and that plaintiffs counsel is qualified and competent to conduct the litigation. See Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591, 625-26, 117 S.Ct. 2231, 2250-51, 138 L.Ed.2d 689 (1997); Iglesias-Mendoza v. La Belle Farm, Inc., 239 F.R.D. 363, 373 (S.D.N.Y. 2007).
There were, as previously noted, two representative plaintiffs who initiated this class action, Alleyne and Legrande. As Legrande is now deceased, Alleyne continues on as the lone representative plaintiff. Objectors argue that Alleyne is an inadequate class representative because he no longer works for Time Moving, on the baldly-asserted logic that the interests of current employees are divergent from those of former employees. Yet, the great majority of the class members are former employees like Alleyne, and more importantly, the settlement agreement only resolves claims prior to its effective date, meaning it does not circumscribe the rights of current employees to assert additional claims against defendants that may have arisen or will arise after that effective date. Accordingly, there is no conflict in interest between former and present employees of defendants that would render Alleyne an inadequate class representative under these circumstances. See Guzman v. VLM, Inc., No. 07-cv-1726, 2008 WL 597186, at *7 (E.D.N.Y. Mar.2, 2008) (finding “no conflict” where named plaintiff was no longer employed by defendant, though other class members were); Ansoumana, 201 F.R.D. at 86 (S.D.N.Y.2001) (“Because this is a suit primarily for money damages stemming from past actions, it is not relevant that only one of the named Plaintiffs is still employed [by the defendant].”).
Objectors also point out that the settlement agreement only allows recovery back to January 1, 2002, although the First Amended Complaint suggests that recovery for claims arising as early as June 4, 2001 might be possible by relation back to the McIntosh case. According to objectors, because Al-leyne has no reason to care about the date range of the settlement agreement so long as it predates the start of his employment with defendant in 2005, Alleyne neglected to protect the interests of workers whose tenure with defendants began earlier. Despite this concern, objectors do not indicate that their own recoveries are affected by this slight time difference. Indeed, by their own admission, objectors are not impacted by the short gap, since their declarations indicate that each started working for Time Moving in 2003 or later. (See Declaration of David Stein, Dkt. No. 15-1, Ex. C). No other employee or ex-employee of defendants has, in fact, raised an objection to class certification or settlement on this ground (or any other ground). Further, plaintiff points out that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15 permits relation back only in the context of amended pleadings filed in a single action, and that the First Amended Complaint in this action therefore could not possibly have related back to the filing date of the complaint in a wholly separate action.
On another tack, objectors argue their belief that they are not being adequately represented by putative class counsel, Mr. Hassan, and request to be granted leave to intervene by and through their own counsel, David Stein of the law firm of Samuel & Stein, who also represents objectors in their capacities as named plaintiffs in the Perez action in the Southern District. Objectors express the view that Mr. Hassan’s allocation of the monies in the settlement fund, and his assignment of payment multipliers to the various job categories in the class (purportedly representing the relative strength of their claims) was essentially arbitrary. Claiming to be members of the settlement agreement’s “mover” classification, objectors contend that their work did not affect motor vehicle operation safety at all. Therefore, they assert that Mr. Hassan cannot adequately represent both their claims and the comparatively weak claims of class members in the “driver” classification. Notwithstanding objectors’ contention, in the context of the applicability of the motor carrier exemption to “movers” as well as “drivers”, the Court sees no basis to perceive such inherent conflict in pursuit of claims both so seriously-challenged by precisely the same exception to the wage and hour laws.
First, as set forth in detail in the affidavit submitted by Mr. Hassan to the Court in support of final certification and settlement (the “Hassan affidavit”), during the last seven years counsel has exclusively litigated 150-plus wage and hour cases, including class actions, and including the McIntosh action against the same defendants named in this case. (See Dkt. No. 18 at ¶¶ 38-44). Indeed, Mr. Hassan has developed a subspe-cialty in litigation of cases that turn on the federal motor carrier exemption and has handled a number of such cases in recent years, including an extremely complex matter previously before this Court, Khan v. IBI Armored Services, Inc., 474 F.Supp.2d 448 (E.D.N.Y.2007). More critically, during the pendency of McIntosh, Mr. Hassan conducted extensive investigation into and took formal discovery of Time Moving and its pay practices, and analyzed legal arguments regarding the applicability of the motor carrier exemption to Time Moving employees who performed various types of job functions. His background and experience certainly militate in favor of finding that he is a more than adequate class counsel.
Second, the Hassan affidavit offers proof that contradicts the heart of objectors’ perceived conflict. It explains in detail the logic underlying selection of the multipliers for the various job titles in the plaintiff class and how the representative plaintiff and settlement structure adequately served the interests of all of the class members. Recapitulating the settlement analysis, the Hassan affidavit explains that “supervisors” were assigned the highest multiplier (50%) because they were the least likely to have performed exemption-covered physical labor such as truck-loading. On the other hand, “drivers” and “drivers’ helpers” (i.e., “movers”) are specifically listed in the motor carrier exemption regulation as job titles covered by the exemption, and therefore these claims are arguably the weakest and were assigned the lowest multipliers. “Installers” and “ware-housemen” likely participated in or assisted with truck loading at some point, the affidavit relates, but their primary job duties were largely physically performed away from the moving trucks and, accordingly, their multipliers were in the middle of the range. Moreover, the settlement methodology related by Mr. Hassan was confirmed in open court at the fairness hearing by his negotiating partner, Arthur J. Robb, counsel for Time Moving. (See Tr. at 45-50).
It is on this base that the Court must make its assessment. As a general rule, the adequacy of an allocation plan turns on whether counsel has properly apprised itself of the merits of all claims, and whether the proposed apportionment is fair and reasonable in light of that information. In particular, the opinion of experienced and informed counsel is entitled to considerable weight. See In re Elan Sec. Litig., 385 F.Supp.2d 363, 371 (S.D.N.Y.2005); In re Am. Bank Note Holographies, Inc., 127 F.Supp.2d 418, 429-30 (S.D.N.Y.2001); In re PaineWebber Ltd. P'ships Litig., 171 F.R.D. 104, 133 (S.D.N.Y.1997). Here, Mr. Hassan concluded that the allocation of the settlement fund to the various job titles covered by the class definition in accord with job classification-specific multipliers was an appropriate and expeditious route to achieving a fair settlement. That conclusion is thoroughly supported in the record and was fully tested at the fairness hearing.
The Court concludes that Alleyne as representative plaintiff and proposed class counsel both fulfill the adequacy of representation requirement in this case, and therefore, that the proposed class in this case clears all four hurdles of Rule 23(a). Accordingly, the Court proceeds to its consideration of the Rule 23(b) requirements.
2. Rule 23(b)
i) Predominance of Class-Wide Questions
Plaintiff urges the Court to certify the class pursuant to Rule 23(b)(3), which requires two findings: first, that the questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and second, that a class action is superior to other available methods for fairly and efficiently adjudicating the controversy. The Rule 23(b)(3) predominance inquiry tests whether proposed classes are sufficiently cohesive to warrant adjudication by representation. To meet the predominance requirement of Rule 23(b)(3), plaintiff must establish that the issues in this case that are subject to generalized proof— and thus applicable to the class as a whole— predominate over those issues that are subject only to individualized proof. See Achem, 521 U.S. at 623, 117 S.Ct. at 2249.
Objectors reassert that the predominance requirement is not met, since the applicability of the motor carrier exemption is subject to an individualized evaluation of each class member’s job duties. However, defendants have submitted multiple affidavits from employees who state that there were no formal job assignments or practices that determined who did what on any particular moving job, and that on a given job “any man on the crew may be asked to do whatever is necessary to get the job done smoothly”, including truck driving and loading. (See Dkt. No. 23, Ex. A; Tr. at 71-72). Indeed, such proof also goes a long way in furthering Time Moving’s ultimate defense that each individual proposed class member is covered by the motor carrier exemption simply by virtue of their employment as a participant in defendants’ moving operations, and, therefore, that they are all uniformly exempt from overtime entitlement. To overcome this defense, each individual member of the class would need to make a showing either that the overall structure of defendants’ operations is not how defendants describe it, or that he was not a typical employee of defendants in this respect.
The three objectors are a prime example. While they make a blanket allegation that their duties did not affect the safety of vehicular operations, defendants submit affidavits from several other employees who specifically aver, based on personal knowledge, that each of the objectors performed truck loading duties from time to time. (See Dkt. No. 23, Ex. A). Defendants point to Supreme Court precedent providing that truck loaders and drivers are exempt under the motor carrier exemption, and that a partial-duty loader or driver is every bit as overtime-exempt as a full-duty loader or driver. Collectively or individually litigated, it is obvious from the record and the fairness hearing that defendants would raise this identical argument and the same basic proof in response to each and every claim. See Levinson v. Spector Motor Serv., 330 U.S. 649, 673, 67 S.Ct. 931, 91 L.Ed. 1158 (1947).
The Court finds that the issues common to the proposed class predominate over any individualized claims.
ii) Superiority of Class Action for Fair and Efficient Adjudication
In determining whether a class action is a superior vehicle for fair and efficient adjudication of litigation, subsection (b)(3) directs a court to consider the following nonexclusive factors: the interest of members of the class in individually controlling the prosecution or defense of separate actions; the extent and nature of any litigation concerning the controversy already commenced by or against members of the class; and the desirability or undesirability of concentrating the litigation of the claims in the particular forum.
The class action method appears to be superior in the instant case. The claims of the several hundred putative class members all involve allegations of FLSA and NYLL violations jointly committed by the same two defendants, and there is little likelihood that all of these individuals would otherwise be in a position to seek relief for any alleged overtime violations, given the expense associated with litigating these issues, the relatively small pay-outs expected by each class member, and the lack of access that low-wage workers generally have to legal representation.
In light of all of the foregoing, the Court grants final certification to the class in this action pursuant to Rule 23.
B. Fairness of Class Settlement
Under Rule 23(e), a class action lawsuit cannot be settled without the approval of the district court. In order to protect the interests of the class members, a district court must closely and carefully scrutinize the settlement proposal to make sure that it is fair, adequate and reasonable. See Plummer v. Chem. Bank, 668 F.2d 654, 658 (2d Cir.1982). A proffered settlement that is in large part negotiated prior to certification of the class — -as is the situation here — is subject to a heightened degree of scrutiny. See Weinberger v. Kendrick, 698 F.2d 61, 72 (2d Cir.1982). The Court evaluates a settlement’s fairness by examining the negotiating process leading up to the settlement as well as the settlement’s terms. In other words, the fairness inquiry requires evaluation from both a procedural and substantive standpoint. See D’Amato v. Deutsche Bank, 236 F.3d 78, 85 (2d Cir.2001).
In testing procedural fairness, the district court’s role is to ensure that the settlement resulted from arm’s-length negotiations, and that counsel for the plaintiff class possessed the experience and ability, and engaged in the discovery necessary to effectively represent the class’s interests. See Hertzberg v. Asia Pulp & Paper Co., 197 Fed.Appx. 38, 39 (2d Cir.2006). In this Circuit, a substantive fairness inquiry considers the so-called Grinnell factors: (1) the complexity, expense, and likely duration of the litigation; (2) the reaction of the class to the settlement; (3) the stage of the proceedings and the amount of discovery completed; (4) the risks of establishing liability; (5) the risks of establishing damages; (6) the risks of maintaining the class action through the trial; (7) the ability of the defendants to withstand a larger judgment; (8) the range of reasonableness of the settlement fund in light of the best possible recovery; and (9) the range of reasonableness of the settlement fund in light of all the risks of litigation. City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corp., 495 F.2d 448, 463 (2d Cir.1974).
Objectors oppose the settlement on both procedural and substantive fairness grounds. The Court finds their objections to be unavailing — the settlement is reasonable, fair, adequate, and merits approval.
1. Procedural Fairness
Objectors argue that the relationship between, on the one hand, the timing of the settlement and request for class certification in this case with, on the other hand, events in pending, related actions at least raises a question as to the arms-length nature of the negotiations, and reveals the existence of conflicts of interest between the representative plaintiff and his counsel and the class.
Before addressing the merits of the objection, a brief accounting of those related actions is in order to supply context. Excluding the instant case, there has been one separate action filed in this Court against Time Moving by certain of its employees alleging wrongful deprivation of overtime pay: McIntosh. See supra at 4. The complaint in McIntosh was filed in mid-2007, almost a year prior to the Alleyne complaint. McIntosh was not a class action. There were four plaintiffs — Stanley McIntosh, Ra-hamut Shah, Claude Eastman and Felix Lewis — who were also represented by class counsel in this case. In January 2008, McIntosh settled with defendants and released all claims against them. The settlement amount totaled $12,313.46, of which $7063.46 was payable to McIntosh, and the $5250 balance payable to counsel. The remaining three plaintiffs, Shah, Eastman and Lewis— who had been employed by defendants as, respectively, a warehouse manager, a warehouse supervisor and a carpenter, and thus would have been included in the class here had they not opted out — proceeded with the McIntosh action and the parties engaged in a lengthy discovery process including document production and several depositions. In June 2008, these McIntosh plaintiffs reached a settlement with defendants in that action, and after preliminary class certification in the instant case, those plaintiffs formally opted out of the class. The discovery and pretrial in McIntosh had been handled jointly with that in Alleyne under the supervision of Chief Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold (see Tr. at 9, 36), and the fruit of the McIntosh formal discovery was available for Alleyne without needless replication.
In the Southern District, two cases have been filed against defendants by workers alleging wrongful deprivation of overtime pay: Ortiz v. Time Moving & Storage, Inc., No. 08-cv-5003, pending before Judge Deborah Batts, and Perez, before Judge McMahon. See supra at 6.
Ortiz, like McIntosh, not a class action lawsuit, initially had three plaintiffs: Marco Ortiz, Marco Nanez and Manuel Escobar. The latter two withdrew their claims, electing to participate in this action. Ortiz — who, like McIntosh, claimed that he was an electrician and not a mover — has elected to proceed with his own case individually and opted out of the instant action.
Perez was brought as a class action on behalf of a class defined in the amended complaint as: “all persons employed by defendants as supervisors or helpers, who did not load trucks, who were not paid the statutory overtime premium for hours worked in excess of forty hours in a workweek, or who were not paid for all hours worked in a day, at any time between March 17, 2002 and the date of final judgment in this matter.” (Dkt. No. 18, Ex. 1). There were five representative plaintiffs: Edwin Perez, Darren Gold, Johnny Spruill, Nelson Escobar and Javier Yangua, all represented by their proposed class counsel, Mr. Stein. After a settlement was reached in the instant class action, Escobar and Yangua both chose to opt out, and are still pursuing their claims through the Perez action. However, Perez, Gold and Spruill withdrew from Perez and, in their capacity as members of the class in this case, promptly filed objections to class certification and settlement through Mr. Stein.
In the summer of 2009, Judge McMahon directed the Perez plaintiffs to file a class certification motion. Shortly thereafter, counsel in this ease notified the Court that they had reached a settlement agreement. Objectors argue that the concurrence of the start of the class certification process in Perez and the achievement of a settlement here suggests that the settlement negotiations were not “arms-length.” In response to Mr. Stein’s suspicion, Mr. Hassan avers that the parties in fact had already finished settlement negotiations and had reached a settlement in principle before a class certification briefing schedule was finalized in Perez. Even more to the point, Mr. Hassan avers that the settlement of this case was in fact precipitated by the conclusion of discovery in McIntosh, and that contemporaneous developments in Perez were irrelevant. (Dkt. No. 18 at ¶¶ 29-44).
Further, according to Mr. Hassan’s representations to the Court, in conjunction with the formal discovery he took in McIntosh, he developed a solid understanding of operations at Time Moving and the duties performed by their individual workers. Additionally, he states that he gathered significant information by informally speaking with dozens of current and former employees of defendants, and by intensively researching defendants’ arguments regarding the across-the-board applicability of the motor carrier exemption. (Dkt. No. 18 at ¶¶ 38-44). Based on this knowledge of Time Moving’s operations and his past experience, Mr. Hassan claims that, with a handful of exceptions, he would not take on the cases of Time Moving employees on an individual basis because their claims were in all likelihood precluded by the exemption. (Tr. at 14). He believed, he urges, that a class settlement would yield the best possible results for most employees, as it would guarantee them at least some recovery on claims that would very likely amount to nothing if litigated. (Dkt. No. 18 at ¶¶ 56-57).
Nor is that conclusion changed by the natural extension and application to a procedural fairness consideration of the argument advanced by objectors in opposition to a finding of “commonality and typicality” and in support of the formation of subclasses: the alleged conflict of the “driver” job classification with “mover” and other job classifications. Objectors contend that this conflict is fatal to the settlement negotiations and the ultimate agreement.
Sharpening the focus of their attack, objectors bludgeon the proposed settlement on their assumption that class counsel engaged in a “rob Peter to pay Paul” strategy— arriving at a global settlement figure and then sharing it among the various job classifications, such that Peter — the “movers” — is robbed to pay Paul — the “drivers”, whom objectors contend are entitled to nothing. (See Tr. at 51, 64-66; Objection, Dkt. No. 15 at 17). Indeed, if there was any proof that such was the case, not only could the settlement be seriously questioned but the conflict between subsets of employees would suggest the need for the creation of subclasses. But, not only is there no such proof, there is compelling testimony to the contrary. As articulated in open court both by Mr. Hassan and Mr. Robb, objectors’ suspicion is not the way they actually negotiated the settlement. What was negotiated was the liability assessment, ie., claim vulnerability to the motor carrier exemption, on an individualized job classification by job classification basis, to which actual wage and hour data for each covered employee was applied. (See Tr. at 50-55, 71-72). Thus, the record supports neither an attack on the settlement process nor the need to create formal subclasses. See supra at 13.
The Court finds, consequently, that objectors’ suggestion of impropriety is simply unfounded. No facts, other than the coincidence of timing, are offered by objectors to contradict the factual, flat-out denial of their suspicions by Mr. Hassan and Mr. Robb. The Court finds as a matter of fact that the settlement in this action resulted from arms’length negotiations and that class counsel possesses the requisite experience and ability and, by engaging in discovery and investigation, has gathered the facts necessary to permit effective representation of the class members’ interests.
2. Substantive Fairness
After considering all of the record evidence adduced through and including the fairness hearing as well as the arguments advanced for and against the settlement agreement in light of the Grinnell factors, the Court finds that, substantively, the settlement should be approved.
i) Complexity, expense, and likely duration of litigation
If the settlement is rejected, the litigation of class claims would be extremely complicated, costly and protracted, particularly because all of the claims require determination of the applicability of the motor carrier exemption, which all parties acknowledge mandates an individualized and highly fact-intensive analysis.
ii) Class reaction to settlement
Class reaction to settlement has been favorable. Less than 1% of the class has objected, and only seven of the several hundred class members has opted out. Further, six of the seven opt-outs were already pursuing their claims in separate actions when the settlement in this case was reached.
iii) Stage of proceedings and amount of discovery completed
Although the settlement was reached early in the pendency of this case (pre-formal document disclosure), extensive discovery of Time Moving relevant to the parties and issues here had previously been undertaken by class counsel as plaintiffs’ counsel in the McIntosh case. In that action, plaintiffs brought claims similar to the Alleyne claims, and the plaintiffs and defendants there were deposed and the parties engaged in document discovery. The Hassan affidavit also outlined his interviews of numerous former and current employees of defendants and his process of gathering information directly relevant to the size of the class in this case as well as the amount of potential damages. As a result, the Court concludes that the facts were sufficiently developed to enable counsel to assess accurately the merits of the settlement agreement in this action.
iv) Risks of establishing liability
The risks of establishing the liability of Time Moving to class members appear to be most daunting. This factor weighs strongly in favor of settlement. Although the merits of the motor carrier exemption defense as raised by Time Moving has never been tested through a final litigation battle, the Court sees no reason to doubt and plenty of reasons to concur with Mr. Hassan’s informed opinion that the provision would operate as a powerful bar to recovery of overtime compensation by any typical member of the class. Objectors apparently also concur, as they strenuously argue that many of the members of the class in this action (excluding objectors themselves, of course) are categorically barred from recovering any overtime compensation under the FLSA and/or NYLL.
While it is not inconceivable that some class members could respond to the defendants’ reliance on the exemption by pointing to discrete facts of their duties or physical limitations that set them apart from other employees performing in the same job classification — -for example, the existence of an injury which made it physically impossible to participate in truck loading — that is clearly not the norm. Significantly on this score, all of the class members were given the opportunity to opt out of the settlement if they believed themselves to be entitled to a higher recovery, and only a handful chose to avail themselves of that opportunity. Given the nature of this case, this Grinnell factor has enormous significance, and weighs overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed settlement.
v) Risks of establishing damages
This consideration carries little weight in evaluating the settlement agreement. Plaintiff concedes that damages for unpaid overtime are easy to establish since they are based on data in defendants’ possession, including records of hours worked by and wages paid to individual employees.
vi) Risks of maintaining class action through trial
This factor weighs in favor of settlement. In keeping with the information gathered from class counsel’s investigation and from discovery in McIntosh, there is a clear and substantial risk that most class members would obtain zero recovery if their claims were individually litigated and, correspondingly, would require much effort for virtually no collective gain. Indeed, class counsel has conceded that he would not seek certification without this settlement. (Dkt. No. 18 at ¶ 61). Litigation of the defined class as a class through trial is not likely.
vii) Defendants’ ability to withstand larger judgment
There is some support for the conclusion that Time Moving cannot likely withstand a larger judgment than the settlement amount. Time Moving, whose clients primarily involve law firms and financial institutions, has seen dwindling business in recent recessionary times and its liquidity has been limited as a result. In fact, the record shows that because of claimed financial difficulties, Time Moving insisted on expensing the agreement payments into the settlement fund on an installment plan, rather than a lump sum deposit of $180,000. (Dkt. No. 18 at ¶ 84; Dkt. No 9 at ¶ 3.1). Ultimately, however, the arguments advanced relevant to this Grin-nell factor are based on conclusory assertions — the record contains no hard proof that Time Moving cannot afford, from a strictly financial standpoint, to pay more to settle the class claims. This factor offers little or no support for the settlement.
viii) Range of reasonableness of settlement fund in light of best possible recovery
As the record establishes, the settlement fund represents approximately 17% of the maximum potential recovery of gross unpaid overtime for the class over the six-year statute of limitations period, which totals $1,074,000. Objectors point out that this maximum recovery estimate does not factor in liquidated damages, which are not available in a Rule 23 class action, and are only recoverable in an FLSA collective action— which class counsel will not pursue if the settlement is approved. In turn, class counsel acknowledges that, considering all available relief that might be obtained if plaintiff was totally successful at trial, including potential liquidated damages as well as additional recovery for employees who arrived at and began work before the official start of their shifts, the $180,000 settlement is still 13% of that best possible recovery. As a benchmark, in Grinnell, the Second Circuit found that a 12% recovery was reasonable. See 495 F.2d at 461-62. One to five percentage points higher than Grinnell, the settlement fund is in the range of reasonableness when compared to the maximum possible recovery.
ix) Range of reasonableness of settlement fund in light of risks of litigation
Finally, on this extremely important factor, the Court finds that the class recovery under the settlement agreement is reasonable in light of the super-substantial risks of litigation. Indeed, given the high probability that litigation would yield no recovery whatsoever for most, if not all, of the class members due to the applicability of the motor carrier exemption, even a lower settlement amount would be within the range of reasonableness here. Further, the negotiation of the settlement, including the allocation of the settlement fund by job classification was carried out by experienced and informed class counsel, who has shown on the record and at the fairness hearing that the settlement structure is a fair and adequate method to compensate class members with varying principal job tasks with varying degrees of vulnerability to nonsuit as a result of the motor carrier exemption. (See Tr. at 51-55, 71-72).
Taken as a whole and balancing all of the Grinnell factors, the Court concludes that the settlement agreement proposed by class counsel is certainly fair, more than adequate and is clearly reasonable considering the unlikelihood of success otherwise. It merits, and thereby is awarded, the approval of the Court.
C. ATTORNEY’S FEES
In reviewing a class action settlement agreement for final approval, Rule 23(h) requires that a district court assess and approve the reasonableness of attorney’s fees for class counsel. To determine what qualifies as a reasonable attorney’s fee in the class action context, a district court may use either of two distinct methods. The first is the lodestar-type methodology, under which the court reviews a fee application submitted by counsel to ascertain the number of hours reasonably billed to the class, and then multiplies that figure by an appropriate hourly rate. Under the second and simpler approach, the court approves an award of a percentage of the class settlement fund to compensate counsel, with reference to the lodestar or presumptively reasonable fee calculation as a cross-check. Regardless of whether the lodestar or percentage method is chosen, the Court’s assessment of the reasonableness of the fee is guided by the same criteria: the time and labor expended by counsel; the magnitude and complexities of the litigation; the risk borne in the litigation; the quality of the representation; the requested fee in relation to the settlement; and public policy considerations. See Goldberger v. Integrated Res., Inc., 209 F.3d 43, 50 (2d Cir.2000).
In this case, class counsel and counsel for defendants negotiated and agreed upon the fee provision in the settlement agreement, pursuant to which class counsel would receive one third of the total settlement fund, or $60,000; objectors oppose, claiming that the fee award is excessive. Though acknowledging that a one-third recovery by a class counsel would ordinarily be reasonable, objectors argue it is unreasonable here on two grounds. First, they postulate that if the fee is measured as a percentage of the settlement claimed or collected by the class members, the fee is more than one-third because not every member of the class received actual notice (in deliverable mail) and because it is highly likely that some members who did receive notice will not cash their checks. Second, they argue that a lodestar calculation would result in a fee award of less than $60,000. Their arguments do not carry the day. The Court finds the fee award contemplated by the settlement agreement to be reasonable.
As to objectors’ point that the fee percentage should be calculated with respect to the portion of the settlement fund actually claimed by class members, the argument is forestalled by the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Masters v. Wilhelmina Model Agency, Inc. 473 F.3d 423, 437 (2d. Cir. 2007). In that case, the Circuit held that, when using the percentage method, the proper number against which attorney’s fees are measured is the amount of the entire fund created by the efforts of counsel, not the amount actually claimed or collected by the class. Objectors seek to distinguish Wilhelmina on the grounds that, in that case, the unclaimed amount of the settlement fund did not revert to the defendants, but was to be distributed as the district court in its discretion decided was best. The district court had chosen to distribute the excess funds under the cy pres doctrine to several charities that would directly or indirectly benefit members of the class. That fact, however, is irrelevant to the basic holding regarding the assessment of the value of the legal services rendered, which applies with equal force here. In choosing the proper baseline for calculation of fee percentage, our Circuit case law directs courts to focus on fairly compensating counsel for work actually performed, given that “the entire fund, and not some portion [of it], is created through the efforts of counsel at the instigation of the entire class. An allocation of fees by percentage should therefore be awarded on the basis of the total funds made available, whether claimed or not.” 473 F.3d at 437. The value of legal advice rendered but not heeded is undiminished by its rejection. Nor is the value of legal service rendered in the creation of a settlement fund diminished by the failure of beneficiaries to cash in, regardless of what happens to the surplus.
Nor does objectors’ second argument — • that the fee amount exceeds a lodestar computed fee — withstand scrutiny. First off, class counsel does not seek his fee on a lodestar basis. More importantly, however, given the level of skill and experience demonstrated by Mr. Hassan, for cross-check purposes, there is enough on a broad lodestar approach to sustain the percentage fee he seeks. Consistent with the fees recognized as reasonable for attorneys of his caliber practicing in the Eastern District, Mr. Has-san’s legal work is billable at an hourly rate of $300, which, it is true, is below the $450 an hour rate he suggested in defense of his fee. Objectors jump on this claim and correctly characterize a $450 hourly fee as unreasonably high. They go on to argue that plaintiffs counsel had hardly any work to do in this case in light of the fact that settlement was reached so soon after the complaint was filed, and that the settlement administration work that is claimed to have been performed could have been assigned to a less expensive paralegal.
More significantly, because plaintiffs counsel had operated on his anticipation of seeking a percentage fee should the action prove successful in some way, Mr. Hassan declares that he did not keep time records in sufficient detail to support a lodestar or presumptively reasonable fee calculation. Although the Court does not approve of counsel’s poor decision not to keep detailed records, it is also mindful that counsel does not seek to justify his fee by way of a lodestar-style methodology, where his inability to justify his fees for failure to keep such records would have seriously undermined his fee request. Moreover, while the Court is deprived of its ability to fully “cross-check” the reasonableness of the percentage fee counsel seeks, using a $300 an hour rate, and given the amount of time that counsel expended on investigation, case management, negotiation and defense of the settlement and will expend on upcoming settlement fund administration that counsel has described, an all-encompassing $60,000 fee would certainly be within the range of reason.
Accordingly, after considering these relevant factors, the Court finds that attorney’s fees of one third of the settlement fund, totaling $60,000, are reasonable. As noted above, class counsel is experienced in wage litigation, with subspecialization in motor carrier exemption work, and has provided the class with high-quality representation. What is more, as objectors themselves have pointed out, the case is hardly a slam-dunk — like the class members themselves, class counsel ran a very real risk of recovering nil. Public policy favors generous attorney’s fees in a case such as this, because the small size and questionable merits of the individual class members’ claims necessitated prosecution of the action on a class or representative basis. If counsel did not have the prospect of an award that took account of the substantial risks and uncertainties of such litigation, there would be no incentive to take this type of case at all and the vast majority of the class would have gone without prospect of recovery. The fee request of class counsel is approved.
D. MOTION TO INTERVENE
On a concluding note, objectors argue that they should be allowed to intervene, either as of right, pursuant to Rule 24(a), or permissively, pursuant to Rule 24(b), and to conduct discovery, on the grounds that their interests are not being adequately represented by class counsel. For the reasons set forth previously, the Court finds that class counsel has adequately represented the interests of all class members in negotiating the settlement agreement, and, therefore, objectors cannot intervene as of right. Further, the Court sees no reason to exercise its discretion to permit objectors to formally intervene at this juncture. In a class action, the goal of permitting intervention is to enable class members to function as effective watchdogs, ensuring that the action is fairly and adequately conducted. Objectors were already given a full opportunity to air their quarrels with counsel and the settlement through the fairness hearing, and those concerns have been addressed in the course of the Court’s consideration of the objections. Thus, intervention is unnecessary, unwarranted, and would simply cause needless delay and add to litigation costs.
The Court notes that objectors were initially plaintiffs in a separate action in the Southern District in which they sought recovery from defendants on the very same claims, and that objectors withdrew from that case in order to join this action. In signing on, objectors were fully aware of precisely what recovery they would be entitled to if this settlement agreement was approved, given the fact that class certification and settlement approval were sought simultaneously. Indeed, the notice sent to each individual class member clearly stated the exact dollar figure that each would be entitled to under the settlement agreement. To the extent that objectors believed that the settlement gave short shrift to the merits of their claims and undervalued their potentially recoverable damages, the logical course was to opt out and continue to pursue their claims in the Southern District case — in fact, two of objectors’ co-plaintiffs in that action, represented by the same counsel, did just that. Obviously, the eyes-wide-open decision of objectors to be bound by this settlement agreement and then promptly attack it with allegations of unfairness and inadequate representation was a strategic move to preserve the possibility that objectors would be the class representatives in an action of their own elsewhere or of a subclass here, all of which they were entitled to pursue. Their monkey-wrench strategy cannot succeed, however, without some factual showing; a showing that would have led the Court to a different conclusion when applying the Grin-nell test. There was no such showing and the same record evidence (and absence of evidence) that led the Court to grant class certification, to reject the formation of subclasses, and applaud the settlement agreement compels denial of the motion by objectors to intervene.
CONCLUSION
In line with the foregoing, the Court grants final class certification and final approval of the class settlement agreement, including the provision of the agreement pertaining to the compensation of class counsel and its award of $60,000 in attorney’s fees. Further, the Court denies objectors’ motion to intervene and thereby conduct additional discovery. The Court also orders the monies allotted by the settlement agreement to Mr. Earl Legrande, deceased, to be paid to his widow, Sharon Legrande, and the monies allotted by the settlement agreement to Mr. Neil Magliano, deceased, to be paid to his widow, Joan Magliano.
Pursuant to ¶ 10.1 of the Settlement Agreement, class counsel and counsel for defendants are directed to submit a proposed final order and judgment.
SO ORDERED.
. Legrande died shortly after the action was filed. Alleyne continues to pursue the claims as the sole representative plaintiff.
. The set of 58 undeliverables is also composed primarily of movers — it consists of 52 movers and 6 drivers. (See Dkt. No. 24 at ¶ 5).
. The amount of this incentive payment is well within the range of permissibility. See Gulino v. Symbol Tech., Inc., No. 06-CV-2810, 2007 WL 3036890, at *1 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 17, 2007) (noting that incentive payments are "normally in the range of $1,000 to $5,000”).
. When the Perez case was commenced, there were five named plaintiffs: the three objectors, plus Nelson Escobar and Javier Yangua. Given their employment history with defendants, all five named plaintiffs in Perez qualify as members of the class in this action. The three objectors chose to withdraw from Perez to join this action, while the other two opted out of this class and continued with their claims in Perez.
. Rule 23(b)(3)(D) also lists a fourth factor— whether the class action, if tried, would present intractable management problems. However, when a district court is faced with a request for settlement-only class certification, this factor need not be included in the analysis. See Amchem, 521 U.S. at 620, 117 S.Ct. at 2248. Such is the case here.
. At the fairness hearing in the instant case, Mr. Hassan explained that plaintiff McIntosh had worked for Time Moving as an electrician and suffered from a medical condition that made it very unlikely that he had participated in any loading of moving trucks — therefore, he had a relatively strong argument that the motor carrier exemption did not apply to him.
. The initial complaint filed in Perez defined the potential class as: "all persons who were employed by defendants at any time since March 12, 2002, to the entry of judgment in this case who were non-exempt employees within the meaning of the New York Labor Law, and who have not been paid overtime wages in violation of the New York Labor Law.” Judge McMahon dismissed the complaint with leave to replead, holding that the plaintiffs' job duties were not described with sufficient specificity. See Perez v. Time Moving & Storage, Inc., No. 08-cv-2775, 2008 WL 5662070, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 15, 2008).
. Although this Court refers to the term "lodestar”, it is cognizant that in Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Assoc. v. County of Albany, 522 F.3d 182 (2d Cir.2008), the Court of Appeals recast its formulation of the "lodestar” fee as the "presumptively reasonable fee”, which should be calculated using the district court's determination of a "reasonable hourly rate.” See id. at 190; Konits v. Valley Stream Cent. High Sch. Dist., No. 08-CV-4351, 2009 WL 3424830 (2d Cir. Oct.26, 2009). Arbor Hill clarified that "the reasonable hourly rate is the rate a paying client would be willing to pay" in the district where the case was litigated. 522 F.3d at 190.
. In evaluating class counsel fees in the context of another wage-and-labor case, this Court noted that "hourly rates for attorneys approved in recent Eastern District of New York cases have ranged from $200 to $350 for partners, $200 to $250 for senior associates, $100 to $150 for junior associates, and $70 to $80 for legal assistants.” Cho v. Koam Med. Services P.C., 524 F.Supp.2d 202, 209 (E.D.N.Y.2007) (collecting cases and awarding fees in a FLSA and NYLL case based on a $250 hourly rate for a partner). In an even more recent case from within this district, a court approved an hourly rate of $250 for the services of an experienced attorney who had practiced exclusively in the area of labor and employment law for more than a decade. See Estrella v. P.R. Painting Corp., 596 F.Supp.2d 723, 724-26 (E.D.N.Y.2009).
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Pantaleón Salvó
Pantaleón Salvó Saura, also known as Salvó II, was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder and forward for FC Espanya and RCD Espanyol. His brother Cristóbal had a great career with FC Espanya. The dates of his birth and death are unknown.
Club career
Born in Catalonia, he began his career at his hometown club FC Espanya in the early-1910s, playing with them for nearly a decade. Together with his brother, he helped the club win three Catalan championships (1912–13, 1913–14 and 1916–17) and reach the 1914 Copa del Rey Final, which still is the club's only Copa del Rey final appearance, but they lost 1–2 to Athletic Club, courtesy of a brace from Severino Zuazo.
He also helped Espanya win the 1914 Pyrenees Cup, netting two goals in the final to help his side to a 3–1 victory over Cométe et Simot. In 1918 he followed his brother Cristóbal to RCD Espanyol, where he presumably retired.
Club
* FC Espanya
* Catalan championship:
* Champions (3): 1912–13, 1913–14 and 1916–17
* Copa del Rey:
* Runner-up (1): 1914
* Pyrenees Cup:
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Study Title:
Contribution of Dietary Supplements to Nutritional Adequacy in Race/Ethnic Population Subgroups in the United States.
Study Abstract
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that nutritional deficiencies in the U.S. population vary by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, and could be as high as nearly one third of certain population groups. Based on nationally representative data in 10,698 adults from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) primarily from 2009-2012, assessments were made of race/ethnic differences in the impact of dietary supplements on nutrient intake and prevalence of inadequacies. Compared to food alone, use of any dietary supplement plus food was associated with significantly higher intakes of 14 to 16 of 19 nutrients examined in all race/ethnic groups; and significantly (p < 0.01) reduced rates of inadequacy for 8/17 nutrients examined in non-Hispanic whites, but only 3-4/17 nutrients (calcium, and vitamins A, D, and E) for other race/ethnic groups. Across race/ethnic groups an increased prevalence of intakes above the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) was seen for 1-9/13 nutrients, but all were less than 5% of the population. In conclusion, use of dietary supplements is associated with increased micronutrient intake, decreased nutrient inadequacies, and slight increases in prevalence above the UL in all race/ethnicities examined, with greater benefits among non-Hispanic whites.
KEYWORDS:
Hispanic; NHANES; micronutrients; non-Hispanic Asian; non-Hispanic Black; non-Hispanic white; vitamin/mineral supplement
PMID: 29182574 PMCID: PMC5748746 DOI: 10.3390/nu9121295
Study Information
Nutrients. 2017 Nov 28;9(12). pii: E1295. doi: 10.3390/nu9121295.
Full Study
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Opinion | End Winner-Take-All in the Electoral College
Letter To the Editor: “As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power,” by Emily Badger (The Upshot, Nov. 21), made a good case for considering American democracy not only as venerably old, but also as an antique, in desperate need of updates and repair. I don’t mind so much that the small states have disproportional political and voting power, thanks to the two senators for states large and small. What I do resent is that the Electoral College, except for Maine and Nebraska, is a state-by-state winner-take-all, rather than being divided up proportionally. Proportionality would at least be the approximation of a direct presidential election. It requires no constitutional amendment. There would be no more swing states, and no more “wasted votes”; there would no longer be blue and red states, only shades-of-purple states. We are not as divided as it seems from looking at the winner-take-all red and blue electoral map. I am disgusted with the American election process. Living in a non-swing state, I vote only to drive up the popular vote for my candidate, knowing full well that I will have zero effect on who wins or loses. One way or the other, this democracy has to be fixed and given the chance to stitch this country together again. Otherwise, democracy may derail. FRITZ MUELLER New York | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
TypeScript
TypeScript Definition File References
To use external modules in TypeScript you should provide a definition of the types used in the module. This will activate the IDE and the TypeScript compiler's ability to use these types to help catch errors.
To use TypeScript typings in your code you have to provide a reference to the definition files. This can be done with a reference
/// <reference path="someExternalModule.d.ts" />
If you modules are proper node modules, you should have to use a reference. If you have problems importing a module that has a type definition, try including a reference to the type definition.
I use tsd to import my type definitions. This creates a tsd.d.ts file that contains a reference to all of the typings I have installed. I usually use this file as a reference instead of individually listing each typing I want to reference.
/// <reference path="../typings/tsd.d.ts" />
This is a little of a maintenance issue because I am using relative paths and if I move the file in the path heirarchy I have to update the reference path. There are ways to get around this with a tsconfig file, but it is out of scope for this simple guide.
I have a lot of trouble with references and the internal module import system with TypeScript. Using the reference and the root tsd.d.ts file has allowed me to use ES6 style import with little friction, but it took me some searching to get over some nuances that aren't apparent.
Importing Modules
To get the strong typing in TypeScript it has to know about the types you will be using. You can define your custom types as you build up your application, but if you are using third party modules like React, you have to give TypeScript some help.
Import External Modules
To import an external module, like a node module, you just use the name of the module instead of the path. TypeScript is smart enough to search in common locations for the module.
import SomeModule from ('some-external-module'); //import the default module
import * SomeModule from ('some-external-module'); //import all exports from the module
import {someExportA, someExportB as SomeModuelB } from ('some-external-module'); //import specific moduels and aliasing one of them to a specific name.
Import Internal Modules
To import an internal module that you exported you need to import from a relative path (you can use a tsconfig file to get around relative paths). For example, if I exported a module named somemodule in a root folder named js, then I would import it like so.
import SomeModule from ('./js/somemodule'); //import the default module
import * SomeModule from ('./js/somemodule'); //import all exports from the module
import {someExportA, someExportB as SomeModuelB } from ('./js/somemodule'); //import specific moduels and aliasing one of them to a specific name.
You can read more about importing modules at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import.
You can read more about tsconfig file at https://github.com/TypeStrong/atom-typescript/blob/master/docs/tsconfig.md
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How Red Reishi Contributes To Strong Immunity
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Of various functional mushrooms, the red reishi mushroom is widely popular. It’s also called Ganoderma lucidum and lingzhi, and is grown in humid and hot regions of Asia. This medicinal mushroom is known for boosting the immune system.
The article will focus on:
>How Reishi is Linked to Strong Immune Health
>How the Immune System is Activated
>Signs of a Weakened Immune System
>Why It’s Vital to Maintain a Robust Immune System
How Reishi is Linked to Strong Immune Health
The most important benefit one can derive from a consistent consumption of reishi mushrooms is the strong immune health. When a person has it, it directly interacts with white blood cells, which are critical parts of a good immune system.
The molecules found in the mushroom are rich in anti-bacterial and antioxidant properties that increase the immune system.
This is one of the reasons that the reishi mushroom is fruitful for cancer patients, as it boosts white cells that fight against infections.
Many athletes have supplements to combat infections such as cold & flu and also keep them calm in stressful conditions. R&D is still going on to reveal its potential effects on immunity.
How the Immune System is Activated
Something that triggers immunity is called an antigen. What can be an antigen? It can be a virus, bacteria, chemicals, or toxins that are foreign to the human body. Once the antigen interacts for the first time with the body, then the body recognizes it and finds out a way naturally to fight it.
It’s because the B-cells recognize the antigen and emit antibodies. Antibodies destroy the invaders and keep the body fit and healthy. However, over time, the body lacks antibodies and needs healthy food & supplements to remove antigens. Reishi mushroom powder is one of the ideal ways to increase the production of antibodies.
Signs of a Weakened Immune System
• Stomach Complaints – Do you know around 70 per cent of immune health is located in the gut? So, if you are suffering from constipation, diarrhoea, or flatulence, then it’s a big sign of poor immunity.
• Slow-Healing Wounds – Another sign is the slow-healing wounds. When your skin is taking time to heal or regenerate at a normal time, then chances are you are low on immunity.
• Frequent infections – When your body is affected by repeated infections such as respiratory, coughs, ear, colds and influenza. Then don’t neglect it as these are signs of a compromised immune system.
• Fatigue – Frequent tiredness is again an alarming bell of bad immune health. You can conserve energy with the daily dosage of reishi mushroom supplements.
Why It’s Vital to Maintain a Robust Immune System
The advantages are familiar to most readers. However, it’s vital to remind you of the most substantial benefits as you will be more cautious about immune health:
• Combats viruses & bacteria
• Fights off pathogens
• Prevents acute infections and disease
• Battles foreign bodies
You can very well understand the significance of immune health as it can influence the quality of life. Therefore, reishi mushrooms can be an enormous support to your immune system.
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Bonti Appoints Dr. Jacob Chacko to Board of Directors
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bonti, a privately-held, clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Jacob Chacko to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Dr. Chacko has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Ignyta, Inc. (NASDAQ: RXDX) since May 2014. At Ignyta, he leads multiple functions, including Finance, Accounting, Investor Relations, Communications, Facility Operations, and IT, and has helped lead over $500 million in capital raises. He was part of the management team that helped guide the company through the successful acquisition by Roche in December 2017. He is succeeding director David Ramsay, who has been a long-standing director of Bonti since 2015 and is making a planned transition from the Board to the company management as Chief Financial Officer, as announced previously.
“It is a pleasure to welcome Jacob as a member of our Board of Directors,” said Jonathan Lim, M.D., Chairman and co-founder of Bonti. “His deep experience building, growing and financing organizations will be invaluable as we continue to rapidly advance our clinical-stage pipeline and prepare for the next stage of Bonti’s development, on the back of topline data from our pain (LANTERN-1) program in the coming months.” He added, “We would also like to thank David Ramsay for his years of service on Bonti's Board, helping guide us during our initial years of growth to a Phase 2 stage company, with multiple programs ongoing simultaneously."
“I am delighted to join Bonti’s board at this exciting inflection point for the company," said Dr. Chacko. “The experience of the Bonti management team in the neurotoxin field along with a steadily advancing clinical pipeline positions the company well for future success. I look forward to working closely with the board and management team in advancing Bonti’s novel treatment paradigms to address unmet therapeutic and medical aesthetic needs of millions of patients.”
Prior to Ignyta, Dr. Chacko was an investor at TPG Capital, a global private investment firm with approximately $75 billion of assets under management, where he helped lead teams that successfully completed acquisitions having an aggregate value of over $10 billion. He served on the boards of directors of RentPath and EnvisionRx, was an advisor to the audit committee of Par Pharmaceutical and was a board observer to IMS Health and Quintiles Transnational. Dr. Chacko currently serves as the Chairperson of the Western Regional Selection Committee for the Marshall Scholarship.
About Bonti
Bonti, based in Newport Beach, California, is a rapidly emerging biotechnology company founded by world class neurotoxin and biologics experts with proven prior success at Allergan and Halozyme. This team, with deep neurotoxin, aesthetic and pain expertise, is uniquely qualified to develop treatment paradigms driven by a novel neurotoxin platform designed to become an innovative leader in both aesthetic and therapeutic markets. By turning the science of neurotoxins into beneficial patient and healthcare provider solutions, Bonti seeks to improve lives by successfully addressing key unmet needs.
For more information, please visit http://bonti.com .
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Enter the medication dosage, weight, and height of the patient into the calculator to determine the Mg/M2 Dose. This calculator can also evaluate any of the variables given the others are known.
Mg/M2 Dose Formula
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Variables:
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To calculate the Mg/M2 Dose, multiply the medication dosage by the weight of the patient, then multiply the result by the height of the patient. Divide the final result by 3600 to get the dose in mg/m2.
What is a Mg/M2 Dose?
A Mg/M2 dose refers to a method of calculating drug dosage based on a patient’s body surface area (BSA). The unit of measurement is milligrams per square meter (mg/m2). This method is often used in chemotherapy treatments for cancer, where the dosage needs to be carefully tailored to the patient’s body size to be both effective and to minimize side effects. The BSA is calculated using the patient’s height and weight, and then the drug dosage is determined based on this value.
How to Calculate Mg/M2 Dose?
The following steps outline how to calculate the Mg/M2 Dose using the given formula:
1. First, determine the medication dosage (M) in mg.
2. Next, determine the weight of the patient (W) in kg.
3. Next, determine the height of the patient (H) in cm.
4. Next, use the formula D = (M * W * H) / 3600 to calculate the dose in mg/m2.
5. Finally, calculate the Mg/M2 Dose.
6. After inserting the variables and calculating the result, check your answer with a calculator.
Example Problem:
Use the following variables as an example problem to test your knowledge:
Medication dosage (M) = 50 mg
Weight of the patient (W) = 60 kg
Height of the patient (H) = 170 cm | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Abbas pitching himself to Trump as 'strategic partner'
Washington (CNN)Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at the White House Wednesday with one sales objective in mind: to present himself and his government as a "strategic partner" for peace with the United States. So explained his new representative to the US, close aide Husam Zumlot, ahead of the first face-to-face meeting between his boss and President Donald Trump. "President Abbas is coming to give peace a well-deserved chance and fully embrace this historic opportunity for another chance for peace presented by President Trump," Zumlot told CNN. "We are focused on seizing this moment and giving this all that we have." Trump has spoken repeatedly about wanting to broker the "ultimate deal" between Israelis and Palestinians since taking office, inviting Abbas to the White House during a March phone call focused on ways to restart the peace process. In an interview with Reuters last week, Trump said: "I want to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians. There is no reason why there's not peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- none whatsoever." Trump has already dispatched his Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, to the region, where he met with Abbas and members of Palestinian civil society in Ramallah in addition to a variety of Israeli leaders and groups. The President hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in February. Trump is convening his top foreign policy advisers for the Abbas visit. Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are all expected to join the talks, along with Greenblatt, Trump son-in-law and aide Jared Kushner, chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, US officials said. Zumlot noted that the Palestinians were prepared to make the case to Trump -- seen as very sympathetic to the Israeli perspective, as are many of his advisers -- that they are taking steps toward peace. Zumlot said Abbas would detail how his government has sought to improve security cooperation with Israel and build up its institutions. At the same time he would explain Palestinian "aspirations, hopes and accumulated experiences." But Aaron David Miller, a Mideast peace envoy to four US presidents now at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, said Abbas has a steep challenge in trying to turn Trump into a partner. "Can he educate the President about the Palestinian story while persuading him that they are part of the solution, not the entire problem?," asked Miller. US officials said Trump is expected to press Abbas to crack down on incitement by Palestinians -- be it government officials or civil leaders -- to engage in violence against Israel. Acknowledging the need for improvement, Zumlot said that the government is looking for ways to address it. "We will never love occupation," he said, referring to Israeli control of lands Palestinians claim. "But we do have the task of separating the occupation and not confusing that with the Israeli people. Our issue is not with them. We have to make a distinction and we are trying our best to find ways to deal with the concerns." Abbas can also expect the US to raise the Palestinian Authority's compensation of Palestinians whose family members were killed while engaging in terrorist attacks against Israelis. Zumlot stressed the practice is not to "reward martyrs," but rather to direct the family away from violence. "If the breadwinner of the family is gone, we can either help them look for a different future or we are just send them to Daesh," he said, using the Arabic name for ISIS. Abbas' visit comes as Trump is expected to visit Israel later this month and meet with both Abbas and Netanyahu. Zumlot said no matter how well Abbas' visit this week goes, an announcement by Trump on the future of moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem could destroy the momentum created by any of his new initiatives. Jerusalem, which both sides consider their capital, has traditionally been a "final status issue" to be decided in a peace deal. The issue is just one of many that have caused consternation for Palestinians and their allies. Trump pledged to move the embassy during his campaign, a statement that was enthusiastically welcomed by Israel supporters. Following his election, Trump appointed David Friedman, a hardline supporter of Israeli settlements, as his ambassador to Israel. And he seemed to abandon a decades-long US commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which the Palestinians would have their own state alongside Israel. He has since stalled on relocating the embassy. But just Tuesday night Vice President Mike Pence said at an Israeli Independence Day celebration at the White House that the US was giving "serious consideration" to the move. Still, Zumlot is encouraged by Trump's business background, hoping that will translate into a sense of fairness. "An experienced dealmaker knows the deal only happens and can be sustained if it's a win-win for both sides," he said. "I think President Trump understands this." CNN's Kevin Liptak contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
William Glendon
William R. Glendon (c. 1920 – December 25, 2008) was an American attorney who specialized in issues relating to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and represented The Washington Post in the Pentagon Papers case.
Early life and education
Glendon was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and grew up in Stoneham, Massachusetts. He attended the College of the Holy Cross and enlisted in the United States Navy in 1941 following graduation. He served on a troop transport ship as a communications officer and earned five battle stars for his participation in the amphibious invasions of North Africa, Italy and the Normandy Landings. He left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant.
Career
After ending his military service, he attended the Georgetown Law School, graduating in 1947. He served as an assistant district attorney in Washington, D.C., and joined the firm of Rogers & Wells (now part of Clifford Chance), and relocated to the firm's Manhattan office in 1956.
In 1971, the Nixon Administration sought to suppress publication of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history prepared by the United States Department of Defense documenting American political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, citing claims that publication of the classified material could cause irreparable injury to the national interest. On this basis court injunctions were issued to prevent publication of the material in these documents by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Together with Alexander M. Bickel who was serving as chief counsel for The Times, Glendon appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States in New York Times Co. v. United States to argue that the government should not be allowed to exercise prior restraint to prevent publication. Glendon argued in a response to Justice Byron R. White that "when you bring a case you are supposed to prove it, and when you come in claiming irreparable injury, particularly in this area of the First Amendment, you have a very, very heavy burden." The court, by a 6-to-3 majority, agreed.
In the 1977 securities fraud case Santa Fe Industries Inc. v. Green, Glendon successfully argued that a party challenging a securities transaction permitted under state law must prove fraudulent deception and not just a breach of fiduciary responsibility.
Glendon was elected as mayor of Scarsdale, New York in 1985. After a group of residents objected to a Nativity scene that had been displayed on municipal property by a private group as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, the village trustees voted to prohibit its display. Glendon personally supported the crèche, but acting as the village's attorney he argued on behalf of the ban in a series of court cases. In 1985, the Supreme Court voted 4 to 4 with a ninth judge absent, keeping intact the reversal of the decision by the United States Court of Appeals which ruled that the village's ban amounted to an unconstitutional infringement on "religious speech", and allowing the crèche to be displayed after a five-year gap.
Personal life
A resident of Scarsdale and Fishers Island, Glendon died at age 89 on December 25, 2008, in White Plains, New York. | WIKI |
Live at the BBC (The Beautiful South album)
Live At The BBC is a compilation album by The Beautiful South. It was released in May 2011 and features three CDs and one DVD. | WIKI |
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confines description to the scenic notices at the commencement of each scene—notices which an Indian dramatist would certainly have worked out as poetry in the body of the play, expending, too, his highest art on these very parts which the Western dramatist cannot allow into his drama at all. If we are asked the causes of this marked difference between the dramas of the East and those of the West, we shall be content to name the absence of individuality in the former contrasted with the latter—weak character-drawing being thus supplemented by natural description—and the prominence of town-life in the Western contrasted with that of the village and country in the Eastern civilisation; but to answer the question at all fully would carry us far beyond the limits of the present work.
§ 85. Closely connected with this prevalence of natural description is a vivid realisation of sights and sounds likewise common to the Indian and Chinese theatres. In the Indian play Mrichchhakatí, for example, the following graphic speech is put into the mouth of Karnapúraka. "Only hear. Your ladyship's fierce elephant 'Post-breaker' killed his keeper and broke his chain; he then scoured off along the high-road, making a terrible confusion. The people shouted and screamed, 'Carry off the children, get up the trees, climb the walls; the elephant is coming!' Away went girdles and anklets; and pearls and diamonds were scattered about in all directions. There he was, plunging about in Ujjayin, and tearing everything to pieces with his trunk, his feet, and his tusks, as if the city had been a large tank full of lotus-flowers." Again, every reader of Sakuntalá will remember the graphic description with which that play opens. After the Brahman has pronounced the usual benediction, and the actress, at the manager's | WIKI |
In Python as in other languages, a lot of the work done by a program tends to be quite boring. Scripts and applications have to repeat the same process, such as calling a function or replacing a string, sometimes millions of times. The good news is that every language has features to condense these actions into a few lines of code. In this article, we’re going to talk about a particularly handy feature: the for loop.
What Is a For Loop?
A for loop (also: for-loop, for loop) is a computer science concept allowing us to iterate over some sequence. It may be combined with other statements such as if-else or try-except statements, or even other for loops. What makes the for loop so useful is that it repeats the same operation for each element in a sequence, saving us on the space and time it would otherwise take to redefine a given operation over and over again.
In the C language, a for loop iterates over a sequence of numbers. While we can easily use a for loop to accomplish the same in Python, the way a Python for loop is defined facilitates its ability to deal with other sequences, such as lists or strings. The for loop in Python is called a for-each loop in some other languages.
For Loops in Python
Looping Over Integers
If we were to traditionally iterate over a sequence of numbers in a Python for loop, we’d combine it with a range() function. range() takes three arguments: the start point, endpoint, and step size. For instance, range(0, 3, 1) would generate the sequence [0,1,2], since the start point is inclusive, but the endpoint is not.
The default start point is zero and the default step size is one. If we want to loop over a sequence of numbers, by convention we often use the variable i (short for integer).
>>> for i in range(3):
… print(i)
0
1
2
>>> for i in range(3, 10, 3):
… print(i)
3
6
9
Quick check: Do you understand how range() behaves in these two loops?
Looping Over Other Data Types
While range() is a handy shortcut, we could get the same behavior by spelling out the list of integers. For example:
>>> for i in [0, 1, 2]:
… print(i)
The list in Python is a welcoming data type; it can contain all kinds of variables: integers, strings, Booleans, or even other lists. Let’s look at how to write a for loop for a list of strings:
>>> for name in [‘maya angelou’, ‘nikki giovanni’]:
… print(name)
maya angelou
nikki giovanni
And how about a list with mixed data types?
>>> for item in [‘maya’, 3, True]:
… print(item)
maya
3
True
We can even loop over a string, since it is a sequence of letters.
>>> for letter in ‘maya’:
… print(letter.upper())
M
A
Y
A
Nested For Loops
Here’s where things get interesting. You can put a for loop within another for loop to create a nested loop. Let’s write a little program for finding all the prime numbers among the first 10 natural numbers.
Remember that a prime number is a number that can only be divided by itself and one. We start our sequence at two because one is not a prime number (it only has one positive divisor, not two). The internal loop only takes a range up to five, because in our scenario, the divisor can’t be larger than half the dividend.
>>> for i in range(2, 10):
… prime = True
… for j in range(2, 5):
… if i%j == 0 and i != j:
… prime = False
… if prime:
… print(‘{} is prime’.format(i))
2 is prime
3 is prime
5 is prime
7 is prime
Nested for loops are quite useful for creating a grid-like data structure (such as a table). You could even work with multi-dimensional grids (aka matrices), adding more for loops into your for loops (more on that below).
Modifying the Behavior of a For Loop
As we’ve seen, a normal for loop will terminate after looping over every item in a given sequence. We could change that behavior by using the statements break, continue or pass. These are used in combination with if-else statements, which are conditional statements that check if a condition is True, and run a command if it is. Let’s first write a basic for loop:
>>> for fruit in [‘melon’, ‘kiwi’, ‘blueberry’, ‘mulberry’, ‘pitaya’]:
… if fruit[-5:] == ‘berry’:
… print(‘A {} is a berry.’.format(fruit))
A blueberry is a berry.
A mulberry is a berry.
In this example, we made use of our ability to access the individual letters of the string by their indices to check whether the last five letters of a word spell “berry.”
Now let’s say we don’t want any berries at all in our fruit basket. Perhaps we’re allergic or simply prefer tropical fruits. We could tell our for loop to stop working upon encountering any kind of berry.
>>> for fruit in [‘melon’, ‘kiwi’, ‘blueberry’, ‘mulberry’, ‘pitaya’]:
… if fruit[-5:] == ‘berry’:
… break
… print(fruit)
melon
kiwi
As we can see, the break statement caused the program to stop. That’s why the program’s output only contains the first two fruits. If we wanted to get the pitaya as well, we could have used continue instead of break. The continue statement tells the program to do nothing and simply move on to the loop’s next iteration.
>>> for fruit in [‘melon’, ‘kiwi’, ‘blueberry’, ‘mulberry’, ‘pitaya’]:
… if fruit[-5:] == ‘berry’:
… continue
… print(fruit)
melon
kiwi
pitaya
A subtly different statement is pass. Like continue, it allows the loop to continue, but it’ll simply ignore the fact that the condition evaluates to True.
>>> for fruit in [‘melon’, ‘kiwi’, ‘blueberry’, ‘mulberry’, ‘pitaya’]:
… if fruit[-5:] == ‘berry’:
… pass
… print(fruit)
melon
kiwi
blueberry
mulberry
pitaya
When Not to Use For Loops
By now, you’re probably convinced of the Python for loop’s utility. If used correctly, this Python feature can save you time and space, and make for elegant, readable code. However, there are also plenty of scenarios in which the use for loops is not advised. We’ll be consulting the Zen of Python to see why we shouldn’t use for loops in at least two situations.
When There Are Simpler Ways
Line three of the Zen of Python states that “simple is better than complex.” Well, the language happens to offer features that simplify for loops, most notably list comprehensions, which are one-liners that can squeeze a simple for loop into one list. In a slight modification of a common example, let’s square our four one-digit prime numbers. Here’s how we’d do it in a loop:
>>> for prime in [2, 3, 5, 7]:
… print(prime**2)
4
9
25
49
And with a list comprehension:
>>> [prime**2 for prime in [2, 3, 5, 7]]
[4, 9, 25, 49]
Granted, the output is slightly different. But in most cases, a list comprehension will work better than your simple for loop. You could even do nested comprehension and add if-else statements, but remember to keep it simple, which brings us to our next case.
When They Impact Readability
Writing a multiple nested loop might look cool and economic, but if you get to a point where you don’t remember what the outermost loop was doing, you should rethink the design of your code. As line eight of the Zen of Python states, “readability counts,” and this should be your guiding principle when writing code meant to be read by others — or by yourself for that matter.
While Python can theoretically handle up to 20 levels of nesting, you probably shouldn’t use more than four. If you get to that number, think about modifying your code to make it more modular, to thereby increase its readability.
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those crows, the owl became filled with delight like a slayer of foes after having behaved towards his foes according to his pleasure. Beholding that highly suggestive deed perpetrated in the night by the owl, Drona's son began to reflect on it, desirous of framing his own conduct by the light of that example. He said unto himself,—This owl teaches me a lesson in battle. Bent as I am upon the destruction of the foe, the time for the deed has come! The victorious Pandavas are incapable of being slain by me! They are possessed of might, endued with perseverance, sure of aim, and skilled in smiting. In the presence, however, of the king I have vowed to slay them. I have thus pledged myself to a self-destructive act, like an insect essaying to rush into a blazing fire! If I were to fight fairly with them, I shall, without doubt, have to lay down my life! By an act of guile, however, success may yet be mine and a great destruction may overtake my foes! People generally, as also those versed in the scriptures, always applaud those means which are certain over those which are uncertain. Whatever of censure and evil repute this act may provoke ought to be incurred by person that is observant of kshatriya practices. The Pandavas of uncleansed souls have, at every step, perpetrated very ugly and censurable acts that are again fall of guile. As regards this matter, certain ancient verses, full of truth, are heard, sung by truth-seeing and righteousness-observing persons, who sang them after a careful consideration of the demands of justice. These verses are even these:—''The enemy's force, even when fatigued, or wounded with weapons, or employed in eating, or when retiring, or when resting within their camp, should be smitten. They should be dealt with in the same way when afflicted with sleep in the dead of night, or when reft of commanders, or when broken or when under the impression of an error.''—Having reflected in this way, the valiant son of Drona formed the resolution of slaying during the night the slumbering Pandavas and the Pancalas. Having formed this wicked resolution and pledged himself repeatedly to its execution, he awoke both his maternal uncle and the chief of Bhojas. Awakened from sleep, those two illustrious and mighty | WIKI |
Maica Laminates
Maica Laminates Sdn Bhd is the first high-pressure laminate (HPL) manufacturer in Malaysia. It is one of the earliest local-foreign joint venture manufacturing companies in Penang.
History
Maica Laminates was formed in 1968 as a joint venture between a Malaysian investor and a premier Japanese manufacturer, Aica Kogyo. Aica Kogyo is certified as an 'Aichi Quality Company', which the Aichi Prefecture has certified as "superior manufacturing companies within the prefecture".
The company's products are exported worldwide. The company has several OEM customers in the local and foreign market.
Maica's main sales arm in Malaysia is Maica Corporation, incorporated in 1982, and to date comprises eight sales and distribution branches in the two countries. Their manufacturing company also handles OEM and export markets.
The company achieved ISO 9002 in 1995, and upgraded in the year 2003 to ISO 9001:2000. In 2009, the company renewed its ISO certification, this time to the new ISO 9001:2008. It has not one, but two ISO certifications, one from UKAS and another from Standard Malaysia. All certificates based on Maica Laminates official website and printed company profiles.
Products
Maica products consist of High-Pressure Laminates and Compact laminates. Under these two categories, high pressure decorative laminates may also be custom-print products that do not conform to the standard designs, which is especially catered to interior designers and architects inspired to have customized designs in their works. There are also chemical grade products which are commonly used in laboratories.
Quality certificates
Maica Laminates products have received various certifications related to the high-pressure laminates and compact laminates products and industry. These include the European Standard EN438 and some other certifications for anti-bacteria, anti-fungi, termite resistance, and chemical resistance.
Since 2008, Maica has obtained two "green" certificates for its laminate products, the Singapore Green Label certificate which is one of the recognized Ecolabel under the Global Ecolabelling Network, and GREENGUARD.
Awards
* November 2006 - 2 awards by the Institute of Interior Designers: The Industry Service Excellence Award and The Interior Products Award
* 2008: Silver award for the Open Booth Category at Malaysia’s Interior Lifestyle Showcase, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC).
* 2009: Silver Award, Best Booth Award, Open Booth Category in 2009. | WIKI |
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160 The specimen employed for experiment may be an intact plant, rooted in a flower pot. It is, however, more convenient to employ cut specimens, the exposed end being wrapped in moist cloth. The shock-effect of section passes off after several hoars, and the isolated organ renews its growth in a normal manner. Among various specimens I find S. Kysonr to be very suitable for experiments on growth. The leaves are much stronger than those of wheat and different grasses, and can bear a consider- able amount of pull without harm. Its rate of growth under favourable condition of season is considerable. Some specimens were found to have grown more than 8 cm. in the course of twenty-four hours, or more than 3 mm. per hour. This was during the rainy season in the month of August. But a month later the rate of growth fell to about I mm. per hour.
I shall now proceed to describe certain typical experi- ments which will show : (1) the extreme sensibility of the Crescograph ; (2) its wide applicability in different investi- gations ; and (3) its capability in determining with great precision the time-relations of responsive changes in the rate of growth. In describing these typical cases, I shall give detailed account of the experimental methods employed, and thus avoid repetition in accounts of subse- quent experiments.
Determination of the absolute rate of growth : Experi- ment 51. — For the determination of the absolute rate, I shall interpret the results of a record of growth obtain- ed with a vigorous specimen 6*. Kysoor on a stationary plate. The oscillation frequency of the plate was once in a second, and the magnification employed was ten thousand times. The magnified growth movement was so rapid that the record consists of a series of short dashes instead of | WIKI |
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106 STAT. 140 PUBLIC LAW 102-281—MAY 13, 1992 "Liberty", "In God We Trust", "United States of America", and "E Pluribus Unum". . (c) HALF DOLLAR CLAD COINS. — (1) ISSUANCE.— The Secretary shall issue not more than 6,000,000half dollar coins each of which shall— (A) weigh 11.34 grams; (B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and (C) be minted to the specifications for half dollar coins contained in section 5112(b) of title 31, United States Code. (2) DESIGN. —The design of the half dollar coins shall, in accordance with section 404, be emblematic of the quincentenary of the discovery of America. Each half dollar coin shall bear a designation of the value of the coin, an inscription of the year "1992", and inscriptions of the words "Liberty", "In God We Trust", "United States of America", and "E Pluribus Unum". (d) LEGAL TENDER.—The coins minted under this subtitle shall be legal tender as provided in section 5103 of title 31, United States Code. SEC. 403. SOURCES OF BULUON. i. (a) GOLD. —The Secretary shall obtain gold for minting coins under this subtitle pursuant to the authority of the Secretary under existing law. (b) SILVER. —The Secretary shall obtain silver for minting coins under this subtitle only from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Minerals Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.y. SEC. 404. DESIGN OF COINS. The design for each coin authorized by this subtitle shall be selected by the Secretary after consultation with the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the Commission of Fine Arts. SEC. 405. ISSUANCE OF COINS. New York. (a) FiVE DOLLAR CoiNS.—The five dollar coins minted under this subtitle may be issued in uncirculated and proof qualities and shall be struck at the United States Mint at West Point, New York. (b) ONE DOLLAR AND HALF DOLLAR COINS. —The one dollar and half dollar coins minted under this subtitle may be issued in uncirculated and proof qualities, except that not more than one facility of the Bureau of the Mint may be used to strike any particular combination of denomination and quality. (c) PERIOD OF ISSUANCE. —The Secretary may issue the coins minted under this subtitle during the period beginning on January 1, 1992, and ending on June 30, 1993. SEC. 406. SALE OF COINS. (a) IN GENERAL. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall sell the coins minted under this subtitle at a price equal to the face value, plus the cost of designing and issuing the coins (including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses). (b) BULK SALES. —The Secretary shall make any bulk sales of the coins minted under this subtitle at a reasonable discount. (c) PREPAID ORDERS.— The Secretary shall accept prepaid orders for the coins minted under this subtitle prior to the issuance of
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To use Python for programming in Function Compute, you must define a Python function as the handler function. This topic describes Python event functions.
Background information
Function Compute supports the following Python runtime environments:
• Python 2.7 with Python 2.7 runtime
• Python 3.6 with Python 3 runtime
Definition
The following example shows the definition of a simple handler function, which is an event function:
def my_handler(event, context):
return 'hello world'
Function name
my_handler must correspond to the handler field that you specify when you create a function. For example, if you set handler to main.my_handler when you create an event function, Function Compute loads the my_handler function defined in the main.py file.
The event parameter
• The event parameter indicates the data that is passed in when you call a function. In Python 2.7, this parameter is of the str type. In Python 3, this parameter is of the bytes type. The event parameter is an input parameter of the function.
• You can convert this parameter as needed because it is not defined by the function. For example, if a JSON string is passed in, you can convert it to a data dictionary.
{
"key": "value"
}
For example, event is passed in and value is returned.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import json
def my_handler(event, context):
evt = json.loads(event)
return evt['key']
The context parameter
The context parameter contains the runtime information of a function, such as the request ID and temporary AccessKey pair. You can use the runtime information in your code. This parameter is of the FCContext type.
The context parameter is defined as follows:
class Credentials:
def __init__(self, access_key_id, access_key_secret, security_token):
self.access_key_id = access_key_id
self.access_key_secret = access_key_secret
self.security_token = security_token
class ServiceMeta:
def __init__(self, service_name, log_project, log_store, qualifier, version_id):
self.name = service_name
self.log_project = log_project
self.log_store = log_store
self.qualifier = qualifier
self.version_id = version_id
class FunctionMeta:
def __init__(self, name, handler, memory, timeout, initializer, initialization_timeout):
self.name = name
self.handler = handler
self.memory = memory
self.timeout = timeout
self.initializer = initializer
self.initialization_timeout = initialization_timeout
class FCContext:
def __init__(self, account_id, request_id, credentials, function_meta, service_meta, region):
self.request_id = request_id
self.credentials = credentials
self.function = function_meta
self.service = service_meta
self.region = region
self.account_id = account_id
The following table lists the fields contained in the context parameter.
Field Description
requestId The ID of the call request. You can record the ID for troubleshooting if an error occurs.
function Basic information of the current function, such as the name, handler, memory, and timeout period of the function.
credentials The temporary AccessKey pair obtained by Function Compute from assuming your service role. The temporary AccessKey pair is valid for six hours. For more information, see Permissions for services. You can use credentials in your code to access the related service such as Object Storage Service (OSS). This allows you not to write your AccessKey pair in the function code.
service The information about the service to which the function belongs. This field contains the service name, the project and Logstore information of Log Service to which the service is connected, and qualifier and version_id that indicate the service version information. The qualifier parameter indicates the service version or alias that is specified when the function is called. The version_id parameter indicates the version of the service that is called.
region The region to which the function applies, such as cn-shanghai.
accountId The ID of the Alibaba Cloud account that calls the function.
The following sample code shows how to upload a file to OSS by using a temporary AccessKey pair.
import json
import oss2
def my_handler(event, context):
evt = json.loads(event)
creds = context.credentials
# do not forget security_token
auth = oss2.StsAuth(creds.access_key_id, creds.access_key_secret, creds.security_token)
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, evt['endpoint'], evt['bucket'])
bucket.put_object(evt['objectName'], evt['message'])
return 'success'
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Diuris chrysantha
Diuris chrysantha, commonly known as granite donkey orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has one or two leaves and up to seven deep golden to orange-coloured flowers with brown markings and occurs on the ranges and tablelands north from Tamworth to the Darling Downs.
Description
Diuris chrysantha is a tuberous, perennial herb with one or two linear leaves 120-360 mm long, 4-8 mm wide and folded lengthwise. Between two and seven deep golden to orange-coloured flowers with brown markings and 18-20 mm wide are borne on a flowering stem 150-320 mm tall. The dorsal sepal is erect, egg-shaped, 7-9 mm long and 6-7 mm wide. The lateral sepals are linear to spatula-shaped, 12-18 mm long, 2-4 mm wide and turned downwards. The petals are more or less circular in shape, 6-8 mm long and wide on a brown stalk 4-7 mm long and held ear-like above the rest of the flower. The labellum is 7-9 mm long and has three lobes. The centre lobe is heart-shaped to wedge shaped, 5-7 mm long and 4-6 mm wide and the side lobes are egg-shaped, 2.5-4 mm long and 2.5-3 mm wide. There are two callus ridges 2-3 mm long and spreading apart from each other near the mid-line of the labellum. Flowering occurs from August to November.
Taxonomy and naming
Diuris chrysantha was first formally described in 1987 by David Jones and Mark Clements from a specimen collected near Stanthorpe and the description was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. The specific epithet (chrysantha) is derived from the Ancient Greek words chrysos meaning "gold" and anthos meaning "flower".
Distribution and habitat
The granite donkey orchid grows in grassy forest on the ranges and tablelands north from Tamworth to the Darling Downs. | WIKI |
User:GaryBGordon
A friendly "hello" to anyone who has reached my user page. I'm a Wikipedia supporter (of course!), and made a small handfull of contributions. My short biographical sketch was written by a member of the Computer History Museum and published as GARY BABCOCK GORDON. Best regards, Gary | WIKI |
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Agnes and Lucy, he sighed deeply. The host brought the wine; his companion had seated himself opposite to him; Renzo filled a glass for him, saying, "To wet your lips," and another for himself, which he swallowed at a draught.
"What can you give me to eat?" said he, addressing the host.
"A good piece of stewed meat," replied he.
"Well, sir, a good piece of stewed meat."
"You shall be served immediately," said the host, and calling to the boy, "Serve this gentleman. But," resumed he, turning again to Renzo, "I have no bread to-day."
"As for bread," said Renzo, in a loud voice, and laughing, "Providence has provided that." And he drew forth the third and last loaf, picked up under the cross of St. Dionigi, and holding it up, cried, "Here is the bread of Providence!"
At this exclamation many of the company turned round, and seeing this trophy in the air, one of them cried, "Bread for ever at a low price!"
"At a low price!" said Renzo; "gratis et amore."
"Better still, better still."
"But," added he, "I do not wish these gentlemen to think evil of me. I have not stolen it—I found it on the ground; and if I could find the owner, I am ready to pay him."
"Bravo, bravo!" cried they, laughing louder still, not imagining that he was in earnest.
"They think that I jest, but it is really so," said Renzo to his guide, and turning the bread in his hand; "see how they have formed it—you would call it a cake, but they were so packed one on the other. If there were any with the crust a little tender, one might know they were fresh." Then devouring three or four mouthfulls of the bread, he washed them down with another glass of wine, adding, "The bread will not go down alone—my throat was never so dry—a glorious uproar we made!"
"Prepare a good bed for this young man," said the guide; "he is going to pass the night here."
"Do you wish to sleep here?" said the host to Renzo, approaching the table. | WIKI |
Clune Park Church, Port Glasgow
Clune Park Church Of Scotland, Robert Street, Port Glasgow is a disused church in the town of Port Glasgow, Scotland. It is located on the partly abandoned Clune Park Estate and was originally built in 1905 for use by the then-new estate. It was in use for a while until 1997 when it was closed for unknown reasons and left abandoned since. The estate it is on has since declined and is in the process of being possibly regenerated. This means the entire estate would be demolished and rebuilt for social housing under Inverclyde Council's masterplan for the area and this was approved. In 2023, there were no plans to demolish the church, due to it being a listed building under category B, and the building was for sale. | WIKI |
Harold Shumate
Harold Shumate (September 7, 1893 – August 5, 1983) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 100 films between 1917 and 1954. He was born in Austin, Texas and died in Ventura County, California.
Selected filmography
* Fighting Back (1917)
* Hitchin' Posts (1920)
* The White Sin (1924)
* Sealed Lips (1925)
* Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)
* Meet the Prince (1926)
* The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927)
* The Rose of Kildare (1927)
* The Tigress (1927)
* After the Storm (1928)
* The River Woman (1928)
* United States Smith (1928)
* The Head of the Family (1928)
* San Francisco Nights (1928)
* Companionate Marriage (1928) (unconfirmed co-director with Erle C. Kenton)
* Hold Your Man (1929)
* The Voice of the Storm (1929)
* Heritage of the Desert (1932)
* Ridin' for Justice (1932)
* High Speed (1932)
* The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
* Hell Bent for Love (1934)
* A Man's Game (1934)
* One Is Guilty (1934)
* Beyond the Law (1934)
* Girl in Danger (1934)
* Against the Law (1934)
* Square Shooter (1935)
* Behind the Evidence (1935)
* Hell-Ship Morgan (1936)
* Pride of the Marines (1936)
* Panic on the Air (1936)
* The Final Hour (1936)
* Counterfeit Lady (1936)
* End of the Trail (1936)
* Killer at Large (1936)
* Counsel for Crime (1937)
* The Frame-Up (1937)
* The Main Event (1938)
* Man of Conquest (1939)
* Cafe Hostess (1940)
* Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
* The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
* The Forest Rangers (1942)
* Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
* Saddle Tramp (1950)
* Pride of the Blue Grass (1954) | WIKI |
Paulina
Paulina or Paullina is a common female given name Latin. In Greek it means: Pavlina was a name shared by three relatives of the Roman Emperor Hadrian: his mother, his elder sister and his niece.
Domitia Paulina the Elder
Domitia Paulina or Paullina, Domitia Paulina Major or Paulina Major, (Major Latin for the elder), also known as Paulina the Elder (?-85/86). Paulina was a Roman woman born in Spain who lived in the 1st century. She was a daughter of a distinguished senatorial family. Paulina originally came from Gades (modern Cádiz, Spain). Gades was one of the wealthiest Roman cities. Little is known of the life of Paulina. She may have been related to Domitia Lucilla the grandmother of Marcus Aurelius. G. Di Vita-Evard speculated that they might have been half-sisters.
Paulina married Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer, a Roman praetor, also born in Hispania (in the town of Italica), and paternal cousin of Roman Emperor Trajan. Paulina and Afer had two children, a daughter Aelia Domitia Paulina (75-130) and a son emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus (76-138). Around 85/86 Paulina died of unknown causes, before her husband. After the death of her husband, her children were raised by Trajan and the Roman officer Publius Acilius Attianus.
Sister of Hadrian
Aelia Domitia Paulina or Paullina or Domitia Paulina Minor (Minor Latin for the younger) also known as Paulina the Younger (early 75–130). The younger Paulina was the eldest child and only daughter to Domitia Paulina and praetor Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer. She was Hadrian's eldest sister and only sibling. She was born in Spain, probably born and raised in Italica (a city near modern Seville, Spain) in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica.
When her parents died around 86, she and her brother were raised by her father's paternal cousin, the Roman Emperor Trajan, and Roman officer Publius Acilius Attianus. Before the accession of Trajan to the throne in 98, Trajan had arranged for her to marry the Spanish Roman politician Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus. During Trajan's reign 98–117, Paulina and Servianus had a daughter called Julia Serviana Paulina.
Before Trajan's death in 117, Paulina and Servianus had arranged for their daughter Julia to marry the Spanish Roman Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, who was a man of consular rank. Julia and Salinator, in 118, had a son, a younger Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator. When Paulina died, Servianus and Hadrian had a private ceremony for her. Hadrian was ridiculed for not granting her a full state funeral and apotheosis until pressured to do so by the senate, but granting his companion Antinous a sumptuous funeral with full divine honours.
Niece of Hadrian
Julia Serviana Paulina or Paullina also known as Julia Paulina was the daughter and only child to Spanish Roman politician Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus and Aelia Domitia Paulina. Her maternal uncle was Roman Emperor Hadrian and maternal aunt-in-marriage was Roman Empress Vibia Sabina. She was born at an unknown date during the reign of her third cousin emperor Trajan, who reigned 98–117. Her birthplace is unknown. Before Trajan's death in 117, her parents arranged for her to marry the Roman senator Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, ordinary consul in 118. Roman senator Pliny the Younger sent a letter of congratulations to her parents regarding her wedding (Epistulae, VI.26).
Her husband was originally from Barcelona, Spain (this was the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis). Salinator had the same name as his father and his father was a former consul. In 118, during Salinator's consulship, Julia and Salinator had a son, the younger Lucius Pedanius Fuscus Salinator. The elder Salinator and Julia seem to have died before 136.
Julia's father had always cherished the idea that her youthful son would one day succeed Hadrian. The aging Emperor considered Julia's son as his heir. Hadrian promoted the young Salinator, gave him special status in his court and also groomed him for his succession.
However, in 136, Hadrian changed his mind and decided to adopt Lucius Aelius Caesar as his heir. Julia's father and son were angry with Hadrian and wanted to challenge him about the adoption. To avoid any conflict, Hadrian ordered the deaths of Julia's father and son. | WIKI |
I always wished of having a easy method to generate a “call graph” ( aka control flow graph ) depicting the calling relationship between the subroutines of a source code( in my case for code in C language). Now that i finally found a method ( and most importantly time to experiment it out ); i am documenting the steps in this blog. I used Doxygen coupled with Graphviz to get this done.
Firstly, a big thanks to the contributors of this page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_graph ) in Wikipedia where i got to see the multiple options to get this done. And of-course went through tips from this post of stackoverflow : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517589/tools-to-get-a-pictorial-function-call-graph-of-code.
Of the various options to get this done i decided to do the “Doxygen”(http://www.doxygen.org) way because i had good vibes about this tool! Also given that couple of projects that i worked with earlier had used Doxygen; i had some understanding on how it worked. And most importantly, your code need “NOT” have used “Doxygen style comments” for the call graph feature to work. I am sure many of you’ll heave a sigh of relief; as did i ;-).
Now the natural companion for Doxygen to get this work done is Graphviz ( Graph Visualization Software : http://www.graphviz.org/ ).
The reason these two tools are related is that Graphviz provides “dot” tool which is used by “Doxygen” to generate call graph.
Depending upon your requirement you could generate :
• class diagrams
• class inheritance graphs
• direct and indirect include dependencies of files
• caller and call graph for subroutines
Now with this background, let me jump into how to set this up and get it running :
Please note :
1. This is what i did on MacOS 10.12.5. Apart from the installation stuff; i think other steps would work the same way for Linux.
2. I rely heavily on brew for getting developer packages into Mac; and i see it does a great job. If you have not yet used it you can get more details here : https://brew.sh/
1. Install Graphviz
==> brew install graphviz
2. Install Doxygen
==> brew install doxygen
3. Go the parent directory of you code-base; and generate a Doxygen configuration file. By default the configuration file gets the name of Doxyfile
==> doxygen -g
Configuration file `Doxyfile’ created.
Now edit the configuration file and enter
doxygen Doxyfile
to generate the documentation for your project
4. Now customize the configuration file for graph generation and other personalized needs :
The configuration file is a plain text file; with “TAG“s to tailor the setting of Doxygen for a specific project. All the TAGs are pre-filled with default values; you have to just edit the value of the TAG which you want to change from the default behavior.
I made the changes to these TAGs for the reasons mentioned in statements beginning with hashes(#) :
( Listed below in the order of importance i though they are of )
#Only if this option is set, Doxygen uses the “dot” tool
#of Graphviz to generate graphs
HAVE_DOT = YES
# To make Doxygen generate a call dependency graph
# for every global function or class method
CALL_GRAPH = YES
# To make Doxygen generate a caller dependency graph
# for every global function or class method
CALLER_GRAPH = YES
# Since you’ll mostly be having newer version of dot(>1.8.10) ( in my case it was 2.38.0 )
# enabling this option will make dot run faster
DOT_MULTI_TARGETS = YES
# Since all of my code was in C, i enabled this option.
# and i see that Doxygen run completed sooner for my case after this option was enabled.
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C = YES
# Since my code did not have any Doxygen style comments,
# i enabled this tag
EXTRACT_ALL = YES
# If you code is spread across sub-directories,
# enabling this option will make Doxygen walk through code in all of them
RECURSIVE = YES
# If you don’t need the LaTeX output;
# better disable this option; as it saves a lot of time during graph generation
GENERATE_LATEX = NO
# Modified the graph image file format to be svg ( default is png )
DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT = svg
# These other tags i enabled; don’t matter much for C code i guess
EXTRACT_PACKAGE = YES
EXTRACT_STATIC = YES
EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES = YES
STRICT_PROTO_MATCHING = YES
5. Now that the configuration options have been set up as per your need; let me show you a sample execution and output
==> doxygen
Searching for include files…
Searching for example files…
Searching for images…
.. <output trucated> ..
Patching output file 12/13
Patching output file 13/13
lookup cache used 21/65536 hits=107 misses=21
finished…
It will generate “html” directory in same path where it was executed.
Open the “index.html” file located inside the “html” sub-folder in a web-browser of your choice.
6. You’ll find the file dependecy and call graph ( and caller graph too ) by clicking on the filename under the Files tab of the output.
Sample screenshots from my example run :
A. File dependency view of File “tree_b.c” under Files tab.
File dependency view under "Files" tab
B. Call Graph of “main” routine of this example program.
call graph for main routine
C. Call Graph and Caller Graph of “insert” sub-routine of this example program.
call and caller graph for a sub-routine
In the end, i’ll highlight the fact that these call graphs are static and are derived from the source code.
This would be suitable for most cases if you are interested to understand the overall code-flow and code-layout of some new project you are thrown in to work on :-).
However, if you are debugging some complex issue and are interested to generate runtime call graph based on the execution path of a program; you could take the help of certain run time profilers with call graph functionality.
What do you think ?
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indication of his occupations for more than thirty years after the above date, yet he had evidently proved himself to be an able and accomplished man, and had obtained the approbation and esteem of the Earl of Sunderland. This led to his appointment by King George I., as tutor to his lordship’s nephews. In the Patent Rolls, under date 17th March 1715, His Majesty declares, “We are graciously pleased to allow for and towards the maintenance of the late Countess of Clancarty’s children and for their education in the Protestant religion, the annuity or yearly pension of £1000, and the same shall be paid to the hand of our trusty and well-beloved Peter Flournois, Esq., as from last Christmas, during pleasure.” At a later date he received the office of Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobes to His Majesty. Died, 1719.
(7). De l’ Hermitage (p. 149), was a literary man in Saint-Evremond’s circle, and said by Weiss to be “nearly related to Gourville,” and a French Protestant Refugee. A Monsieur de l’Hermitage appears as an English secretary in Robethon’s correspondence. He was probably the same as St. Evremond’s friend, and as the pensioner on the Irish establishment of 1715, as to whom there is the following entry:— “Renatus de Saumier d’Hermitage, residing in England, £500.”
Gourville was a French political agent and diplomatist, as to whom see Grimblot’s Letters of William III. and Louis XIV., Vol. I., Appendix I. His names and title were Jean Herault, Sieur de Gourville, (born 1625, died 1703).
(8). Henri Justel (pp. 149-150), born at Paris in 1620, was Secretary and Councillor to Louis XIV., and had a high place in the confidence of that king. As a great scholar and man of letters he was of the same reputation as his father, Christophe Justel (who died in 1649). He was the chieftain of Protestant controversalists, though his position at court compelled him to shelter among the anonymous. His “Answer to the Bishop of Condom’s [Bossuet]” Book, entituled, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church upon matters of “controversie,” was translated and printed at Dublin in 1676. Dr Wake was much indebted to this remarkable book, in his later Reply to Bossuet. Justel was created D.C.L. of Oxford in 1675. It was in 1681 that he became a refugee in England. He was made Keeper of our King’s Library at St James’ Palace, with an annual salary of £200. Madame Justel (née Charlotte de Lorme), accompanied him. He died in 1693, and was buried at Eton.
Justel left a son and namesake, who became B.A. of Oxford in 1700, and M.A. in 1701. He appears on 14th May 1721, as Rector of Clewer in Berkshire, when he married Charlotte Francoise de la Croix, in the French Chapel Royal, St. James’ (Burn’s History, p. 158.) Mr Burn having accidentally allowed the name to appear as “Henry Tustel,” I wrote to the present rector on the subject, and received the following kind reply:— “Clewer, June 14th, 1872. Sir, In reply to your letter of the 12th, I have to say, after investigation, that the name of the Rector of this parish in 1721 was Justele, as evidenced by the entries of the baptisms of his children in 1721 and 1723. I remain, etc., Sydney M. Scroggs.”
Dr William Wake (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), was well qualified to answer Bossuet, from personal acquaintance with French Protestants, and from having made researches in France regarding both them and their opponents. He possessed the gratitude of the French Protestant church for his long series of controversial pamphlets. A learned correspondent informs me that in the archives of Christ-Church, Oxford, there are thirty-one volumes of Wake’s correspondence, containing the originals of letters received by him and drafts of his replies. The French Church and its ministers being scattered at the date of his elevation to the see of Canterbury, their congratulations had to proceed from Switzerland — one address received by him was signed by Benedict Pictet of Geneva (1715) — another by Joh. Frid. Ostervald of Neufchatel (1716). | WIKI |
AWS Rule Functions - AWS CloudFormation
AWS Rule Functions
In the condition or assertions of a rule, you can use intrinsic functions, such as Fn::Equals, Fn::Not, and Fn::RefAll. The condition property determines if AWS CloudFormation applies the assertions. If the condition evaluates to true, CloudFormation evaluates the assertions to verify whether a parameter value is valid when a provisioned product is created or updated. If a parameter value isn't valid, CloudFormation doesn't create or update the stack. If the condition evaluates to false, CloudFormation doesn't check the parameter value and proceeds with the stack operation.
Fn::And
Returns true if all the specified conditions evaluate to true; returns false if any one of the conditions evaluates to false. Fn::And acts as an AND operator. The minimum number of conditions that you can include is two, and the maximum is ten.
Declaration
"Fn::And" : [{condition}, {...}]
Parameters
condition
A rule-specific intrinsic function that evaluates to true or false.
Example
The following example evaluates to true if the referenced security group name is equal to sg-mysggroup and if the InstanceType parameter value is either m1.large or m1.small:
"Fn::And" : [ {"Fn::Equals" : ["sg-mysggroup", {"Ref" : "ASecurityGroup"}]}, {"Fn::Contains" : [["m1.large", "m1.small"], {"Ref" : "InstanceType"}]} ]
Fn::Contains
Returns true if a specified string matches at least one value in a list of strings.
Declaration
"Fn::Contains" : [[list_of_strings], string]
Parameters
list_of_strings
A list of strings, such as "A", "B", "C".
string
A string, such as "A", that you want to compare against a list of strings.
Example
The following function evaluates to true if the InstanceType parameter value is contained in the list (m1.large or m1.small):
"Fn::Contains" : [ ["m1.large", "m1.small"], {"Ref" : "InstanceType"} ]
Fn::EachMemberEquals
Returns true if a specified string matches all values in a list.
Declaration
"Fn::EachMemberEquals" : [[list_of_strings], string]
Parameters
list_of_strings
A list of strings, such as "A", "B", "C".
string
A string, such as "A", that you want to compare against a list of strings.
Example
The following function returns true if the Department tag for all parameters of type AWS::EC2::VPC::Id have a value of IT:
"Fn::EachMemberEquals" : [ {"Fn::ValueOfAll" : ["AWS::EC2::VPC::Id", "Tags.Department"]}, "IT" ]
Fn::EachMemberIn
Returns true if each member in a list of strings matches at least one value in a second list of strings.
Declaration
"Fn::EachMemberIn" : [[strings_to_check], [strings_to_match]]
Parameters
strings_to_check
A list of strings, such as "A", "B", "C". CloudFormation checks whether each member in the strings_to_check parameter is in the strings_to_match parameter.
strings_to_match
A list of strings, such as "A", "B", "C". Each member in the strings_to_match parameter is compared against the members of the strings_to_check parameter.
Example
The following function checks whether users specify a subnet that's in a valid virtual private cloud (VPC). The VPC must be in the account and the region in which users are working with the stack. The function applies to all parameters of type AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id.
"Fn::EachMemberIn" : [ {"Fn::ValueOfAll" : ["AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id", "VpcId"]}, {"Fn::RefAll" : "AWS::EC2::VPC::Id"} ]
Fn::Equals
Compares two values to determine whether they're equal. Returns true if the two values are equal and false if they aren't.
Declaration
"Fn::Equals" : ["value_1", "value_2"]
Parameters
value
A value of any type that you want to compare with another value.
Example
The following example evaluates to true if the value for the EnvironmentType parameter is equal to prod:
"Fn::Equals" : [{"Ref" : "EnvironmentType"}, "prod"]
Fn::Not
Returns true for a condition that evaluates to false, and returns false for a condition that evaluates to true. Fn::Not acts as a NOT operator.
Declaration
"Fn::Not" : [{condition}]
Parameters
condition
A rule-specific intrinsic function that evaluates to true or false.
Example
The following example evaluates to true if the value for the EnvironmentType parameter isn't equal to prod:
"Fn::Not" : [{"Fn::Equals" : [{"Ref" : "EnvironmentType"}, "prod"]}]
Fn::Or
Returns true if any one of the specified conditions evaluates to true; returns false if all the conditions evaluate to false. Fn::Or acts as an OR operator. The minimum number of conditions that you can include is two, and the maximum is ten.
Declaration
"Fn::Or" : [{condition}, {...}]
Parameters
condition
A rule-specific intrinsic function that evaluates to true or false.
Example
The following example evaluates to true if the referenced security group name is equal to sg-mysggroup or if the InstanceType parameter value is either m1.large or m1.small:
"Fn::Or" : [ {"Fn::Equals" : ["sg-mysggroup", {"Ref" : "ASecurityGroup"}]}, {"Fn::Contains" : [["m1.large", "m1.small"], {"Ref" : "InstanceType"}]} ]
Fn::RefAll
Returns all values for a specified parameter type.
Declaration
"Fn::RefAll" : "parameter_type"
Parameters
parameter_type
An AWS-specific parameter type, such as AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup::Id or AWS::EC2::VPC::Id. For more information, see Parameters in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Example
The following function returns a list of all VPC IDs for the region and AWS account in which the stack is being created or updated:
"Fn::RefAll" : "AWS::EC2::VPC::Id"
Fn::ValueOf
Returns an attribute value or list of values for a specific parameter and attribute.
Declaration
"Fn::ValueOf" : [ "parameter_logical_id", "attribute" ]
Parameters
attribute
The name of an attribute from which you want to retrieve a value. For more information about attributes, see Supported Attributes.
parameter_logical_id
The name of a parameter for which you want to retrieve attribute values. The parameter must be declared in the Parameters section of the template.
Examples
The following example returns the value of the Department tag for the VPC that's specified by the ElbVpc parameter:
"Fn::ValueOf" : ["ElbVpc", "Tags.Department"]
If you specify multiple values for a parameter, the Fn::ValueOf function can return a list. For example, you can specify multiple subnets and get a list of Availability Zones where each member is the Avalibility Zone of a particular subnet:
"Fn::ValueOf" : ["ListOfElbSubnets", "AvailabilityZone"]
Fn::ValueOfAll
Returns a list of all attribute values for a given parameter type and attribute.
Declaration
"Fn::ValueOfAll" : ["parameter_type", "attribute"]
Parameters
attribute
The name of an attribute from which you want to retrieve a value. For more information about attributes, see Supported Attributes.
parameter_type
An AWS-specific parameter type, such as AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup::Id or AWS::EC2::VPC::Id. For more information, see Parameters in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Example
In the following example, the Fn::ValueOfAll function returns a list of values, where each member is the Department tag value for VPCs with that tag:
"Fn::ValueOfAll" : ["AWS::EC2::VPC::Id", "Tags.Department"]
Supported Functions
You can't use another function within the Fn::ValueOf and Fn::ValueOfAll functions. However, you can use the following functions within all other rule-specific intrinsic functions:
• Ref
• Other rule-specific intrinsic functions
Supported Attributes
The following list describes the attribute values that you can retrieve for specific resources and parameter types:
The AWS::EC2::VPC::Id parameter type or VPC IDs.
• DefaultNetworkAcl
• DefaultSecurityGroup
• Tags.tag_key
The AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id parameter type or subnet IDs,
• AvailabilityZone
• Tags.tag_key
• VpcId
The AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup::Id parameter type or security group IDs.
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Mie koclok
Mie koclok (lit. 'shaked noodle'), is an Indonesian chicken noodle soup, a specialty of Cirebon city, West Java. The noodles come with a white-colored extra-thick porridge-like soup, made of chicken broth and coconut milk soup, which is coagulated with corn starch or tapioca. Other ingredients include shredded chicken breast, cabbage, bean sprouts, hard boiled egg, kaffir lime juice, and sprinkled with sliced fresh celery, spring onion, and fried shallot.
In Cirebonese dialect the term koclok means "shake", it refers to the method of softening and cooking the noodle by shaking the noodle placed in handled porous tin container, while being simmered in hot water. The dish commonly uses thick yellow egg noodle, but some might add bihun (rice vermicelli).
To add taste, spiciness and texture, kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), sambal and emping crackers might be added. A similar-named but slightly different beef-based noodle dish from neighboring city of Bandung is called mie kocok. | WIKI |
Everyone knows that playing sports is the basis of a healthy lifestyle. Training or dynamic games keep us in tone, allow us to feel more alive and energetic. But such activity increases the risk of getting various injuries, bringing a lot of discomfort and sometimes causing you to interrupt training or competition in the most critical place. If you are familiar with this situation, then it's time to learn about the medical novelty, which is sports frost.
Freezing sports: in which cases is it necessary and how to use it properly?
Cold as treatment
Everyone at least once suffered an injury more or less severe. More often bruises and sprains are exposed to children and athletes, but not insured against injuries and a person far from sports.
Ever since childhood, we all know the way of first aid with bruises and injuries - to apply something cold to the injured place. For these purposes, the contents of the freezer wrapped in a clean cloth are usually used at home. Such an impromptu compress relieves acute pain and brings relief. And due to what is this happening?
The fact is that with injury injured soft tissue and there is a rupture of small capillaries and blood vessels. This is expressed in the appearance of a hematoma, edema and severe pain syndrome as a consequence of an inflammatory reaction. If you immediately cool the damaged tissue, the blood stops intensively pouring into the injured tissues: the vessels narrow, and the sensitivity of the nerve endings decreases. Cooling the injured area significantly helps to reduce pain, and also helps to minimize the development of edema and hematoma.
But it's not always possible to have a fridge handy: injuries happen most often all at once and in the most unexpected place. In this case, a novelty can come to the rescue in medicine - sports frost. A spray in a small can can replace a full cold compress.
Why is the freezing convenient?
This novelty is gaining increasing popularity in sports medicine, where injuries are not an accident, but inevitability. If earlier only doctors used to freeze for emergency care, today the frosty sports in the pharmacy is available for anyone.
This miracle of medicine is a spray can, which contains liquefied gas. Each brand uses a variety of cold components. The most popular frosts in sprays contain in their composition:
Frost sports is placed in small spray cans, which are convenient to take with you to competitions or training, and also just have in your home medicine chest.
In case of trauma, spray the spray gun according to the instructions on the preparation: some frosts must be sprayed through the fabric. Variations can also be made for the application (usually 10 to 20 centimeters).
Substances that contain freezing sports, instantly cool and anesthetize damaged tissue, and also help reduce the manifestation of edema and bruising.
When is freezing needed?
Such a form of anesthesia of sports injuries is indispensable in competitions: if a stretch or a bruise is received, and the athlete needs to continue participating in the game or relay race, an aerosol with a frost will come to the rescue. The remedy helps to quickly and effectively eliminate the pain syndrome and finish the sports match without sacrificing the result.
It is also convenient to take a can with sports frost on a hiking trip, on nature or for outdoor activities. If there is a sudden injury, first aid is always at hand and in a convenient form.
It is very practical when freezing sports is in the home medicine cabinet. Cooling substances of the drug do not just cope with everyday injuries: bruises, sprains, dislocations. They are also very effective for insect bites and for alleviating pain in the joints or muscles in chronic diseases. Therefore, this tool, which is intended initially for athletes, is universal enough and can be used by everyone.
We use caution in use
Despite the availability in pharmacies and ease of use, sports frost is a fairly serious medical product. And as with any medicine, you need to observe several precautions when using it:
• do not apply to children and adolescents;
• do not spray on damaged skin;
• carefully read the instructions to the drug before use and follow it;
• do not use systematically - the drug is intended for emergency one-time help.
By observing these simple rules, the use of sports freezing can facilitate sports training and lead to better achievements and results.
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What shape of the nose can tell about your personality? Many experts believe that looking at the nose, you can say a lot about the person's personality. Therefore, at the first meeting, pay attention to the nose is unfamiliar. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Loisin an Fili
Loisin an Fili, Irish poet, fl. 868.
Loisin was the poet of King Flann mac Conaing of Breaga, who was killed at the battle of Cill Ua nDaighre in 868 by King Áed Findliath of Tara (died 879).
The Annals of the Four Masters record a verse of Loisin's concerning the battle:
Monday, the day of terror, we went to Bealach Natha. The men of Findruine were slaughtered; dear were the well-known faces. | WIKI |
[PATCH 00/18] tracing/ring-buffer: fixes for latency tracer [2.6.32]
From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 20:01:34 EST
Thomas,
I can port these over to -rt if you want, or you could just
add them yourself. I know the spinlocks need to be converted to atomic.
Just let me know if you want me to do it.
Ingo,
This patch series started out fixing a single bug that Arnaldo ran into
with the -rt patch series. I've hit it too and wrote a patch to solve it.
Unfortunately the patch was racey and error prone and would crash easily
in Arnaldo's setup.
The problem was with the wakeup latency tracer. When it was developed,
it controlled what went into the ring buffer. But now that we have
events, which can write into the ring buffer at anytime unless they are
disabled. When a max latency is encountered, the buffers are swapped
and the running ring buffer is reset. But if a commit is happening
at this time, it will be corrupted.
Luckily the ring buffer is robust enough to detect this and instead of
crashing the kernel, it safely disables the ring buffer and outputs
a back trace. But this does not help the developer that wants the trace.
Talking with Thomas Gleixner, we both agreed that resetting the ring
buffer on the fly was dangerous. Instead we should insert a marker and
use that as the start of the trace.
I thought this would be an easy change, but after a week of debugging,
fixing bugs just to create two new ones for every one I fixed, this
was not as easy as I thought.
The problem was that you can not write a marker in a buffer that is
not on the same CPU as the writer. I tried to add flags to make the
ring buffer reset itself when a new write happens on that CPU but
that just proved to be even more racey.
Finally (something I should have realized from day 1, not 4 days later)
I realized I already had a marker. The latency tracers always record
the timestamp of when the trace began. I can simply ignore any trace
event that happened before that timestamp. This ended up working out
very well. The code is quite simple and solid.
But this journey through the marker bits was not all in vain. I actually
came across several outstanding bugs in both the tracer and the ring buffer.
Nothing major, but enough to be fixed.
Not just the latency tracers could cause a corruption, but the reset
of the ring buffers by the switching of plugins could also cause it.
All resets must synchronize the disabling of the ring buffers with any
current writers.
Next I found that the swapping of the buffers with the wakeup tracer
was causing issues. The events would use the trace_array variable *tr
to access the buffers. tr->buffer to reserve space on the buffer
and then tr->buffer to commit it. The problem is that the wakeup
tracer swaps the tr->buffer with the max_tr.buffer. The commit can
happen on another buffer than what it started with. This again would
be detected by the ring buffer and would shut it down. The solution
here was to change the API to the writing of ftrace to pass in
the buffer directly and not the trace_array. Thus the events would pass
in the same buffer for both the reserve and the commit. It's OK
to update the max_tr on the wakeup tracer.
The irqsoff trace posed a different problem. It does not swap the
buffers, but it swaps a per cpu buffer within the buffer. This
can be done because the irqsoff tracer only records per cpu and does
not record the events of other cpus. But if a latency is detected
in the middle of a commit (commits can be preempted by interrupts) then
we can not swap the buffer. This is a tougher problem and I currently
do not have solution since it would require a copy of one buffer to the
other. Perhaps in the future. But instead of just failing, I added a
print into the buffer to notify the users that this has occurred.
They will now see:
# tracer: irqsoff
#
# irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 151 us, #1/1, CPU#3 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
# -----------------
# | task: -4328 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
# -----------------
# => started at: save_args
# => ended at: __do_softirq
#
#
# _------=> CPU#
# / _-----=> irqs-off
# | / _----=> need-resched
# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
# |||| /
# ||||| delay
# cmd pid ||||| time | caller
# \ / ||||| \ | /
bash-4328 3d.s5 167us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress
Which is better than a wrong trace. It still shows the max latency and the
start and stop points. Note, this run had lockdep enabled with locking
events on, which spews a lot of events after a latency has been hit
(the 167 entry with respect to the 151 max). This should not be too big of
a deal since it took a while loop of constant resettng of the max latency
and greping for this failure to hit it.
Because the irqsoff tracer swaps the internal ring buffer cpus,
a check needs to be added in the recording to handle this. Because this
check is only needed for swapping the internal buffers, and the irqsoff
(and preemptoff) tracer is the only user. I only do this if they
are configured (keep the overhead down).
Please pull the latest tip/tracing/core tree, which can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
tip/tracing/core
Steven Rostedt (18):
ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
----
include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 15 ++-
include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 23 +--
include/trace/ftrace.h | 15 ++-
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 8 +
kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 12 +-
kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 172 +++++++++++++-------
kernel/trace/trace.c | 297 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
kernel/trace/trace.h | 26 ++--
kernel/trace/trace_boot.c | 16 +-
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 6 +-
kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 14 +-
kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 3 +-
kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c | 10 +-
kernel/trace/trace_power.c | 22 ++-
kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c | 18 ++-
kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c | 7 +-
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 18 ++-
18 files changed, 444 insertions(+), 242 deletions(-)
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Thetford Aqua Magic IV Leaking: 3 Ways To Fix
thetford aqua magic iv leaking
thetford aqua magic iv leaking
Thetford is a famous company that focuses on manufacturing sanitation products for RVs and motorhomes. They are originally from America, but the brand has been expanding over time.
When it comes to installing a toilet or replacing its parts, Thetford is the most recommended company for this. They have lots of features that their products come with.
Additionally, you can even check their website for the specifications about this equipment. This makes it easier for people to select one for their usage and you can even take a look at dealers nearby you.
Though, you should note that recently some Thetford users have been reporting that the Aqua Magic IV is leaking for them. If you are also getting this problem then here are some simple steps that should help you in solving this.
Thetford Aqua Magic IV Leaking
1. Check Pedal Flush
The first thing that the user should do when they notice a leak in their toilet is where the water is coming out from.
This can either be from the top part of your device or its bottom. Though, when looking at Aqua Magic IV, there are two models that this toilet comes in. One of them is the foot pedal one while the other having a hand flush.
Usually, if the leak is coming from the pedal flushes then these might have gotten damaged. The user can take these off and then get them replaced with new ones easily.
You will just have to contact the company and purchase replacement parts directly from them. Once these arrive, replace them with your faulty ones to fix the issue.
1. Check Connections
Sometimes the water leakage can be from behind your toilet. In this case, the problem is actually from the water connections on the device and not the toilet itself.
You will have to check all the pipelines and connections for your equipment to identify the issue.
If the problem was simply from a loose connection then you can tighten it up to fix this. However, if one of the pipelines has gotten damaged, then these need to be replaced.
Make sure that there are bends in your pipes when you route them to avoid these issues. Furthermore, you can even cover the pipes with tape for the time being to stop the leakage.
1. Check Toilet’s Base
If the user notices that their foot pedal is working fine. But there is still water leaking from the base of their toilet. Then this usually means that the sealant on the floor has started to come off. People usually use wax or paper for these that can start to die out with time.
You will have to take off your entire toilet and replace this layer with a new one. After which you can proceed to install your toilet back in with a sealant. Make sure that you use a waterproof product to avoid running into similar issues anytime soon.
Additionally, ensure that the position for your wax layer or paper is correct before installing the toilet back in its place.
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Page:Vance--Terence O'Rourke.djvu/187
"Madame!" He was dazed by her manner; he could not credit the evidence of his senses as to the tenderness of her tone, as to the light that glowed in her eyes.
No; he told himself his wish had been father to his thought. He had misunderstood. He looked away.
"Listen," he said rapidly; "this is me plan: At the mouth of the Wadi Saglat, madame, there lies beached one of the catamaran rafts which the Eirene left behind her when she sailed. It will accommodate six at the most. We shall make for that; if we gain it, ye will go aboard with Monsieur l'Empereur and Mouchon. There is a sail,—maybe a breeze."
"But as for you, monsieur?" she demanded.
"I remain with me men to cover your retreat. No—don't dispute. 'Tis the only way."
She bowed her head, apparently yielding; but in her heart she was determined implacably that she would not desert this man who offered so debonnairely [sic] to lay down his life for her.
O'Rourke stepped to the western edge of the oasis; from the indications of the Tawarek fire he made little doubt but that practically all of the enemy's forces were massing in the east, as Mahmud had reported. Already his own men were gathering and making ready for the dash to the sea.
The adventurer found himself worried with a vague uneasiness unconnected with the desperate situation that menaced his comrades and the woman he loved. It was not that he was himself frightened, or that he feared death: death was his ultimate portion, a soldier's inevitable fate; he was prepared to accept it uncomplainingly, when it should come. But there seemed to be something awry with the day; its very atmosphere hung motionless, lifeless, indefinitely depressing. It struck him that the heat seemed more sultry even than usual. | WIKI |
Example #1
0
/**
* @return ezcQueryExpression
*/
protected function createExpression()
{
if ($this->db instanceof ezcDbInterface) {
$expr = $this->db->createExpression($this->db);
} else {
$driver = $this->db->getAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DRIVER_NAME);
$className = 'ezcQueryExpression';
if ($driver !== 'mysql') {
$className .= strtoupper(substr($impName, 0, 1)) . substr($impName, 1);
}
$expr = new $className($this->db);
}
return $expr;
}
Example #2
0
/**
* Constructs a new ezcQuery that works on the database $db and with the aliases $aliases.
*
* The aliases can be used to substitute the column and table names with more
* friendly names. E.g PersistentObject uses it to allow using property and class
* names instead of column and table names.
*
* @param PDO $db
* @param array(string=>string) $aliases
*/
public function __construct(PDO $db, array $aliases = array())
{
$this->db = $db;
if ($this->expr == null) {
$this->expr = $db->createExpression();
}
if (!empty($aliases)) {
$this->aliases = $aliases;
$this->expr->setAliases($this->aliases);
}
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians/Archive 1
Important details missing
The history of this party lacks important details.
This was the first Hungarian party in Yugoslavia, founded in 1990, and the first leader was András Ágoston. In 1992 they received the most votes a Hungarian party of Vojvodina ever received. In those years this was practically the only Hungarian minority party in Vojvodina.
In 1994 the majority of the members left this party and founded the VMSZ.
In 1997 Sándor Páll was elected as leader of the party, which was not accepted by András Ágoston, who founded the VMDP. Sándor Páll was the leader of VMDK until his death in 2010. András Ágoston lead VMDP until 2013.
The point is that currently this party is not a remarkable one, but historically its role is much higher than it comes from the few facts of the main page. I propose to set the importance, especially the history of the party in the early '90s to high. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:56, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
* Indeed. You probably won't read it, but for the record I expanded the article with at least basics from the party's history. No such user (talk) 10:23, 17 May 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 69.djvu/403
69 S T A T. 1
PUBLIC LAW 163-JULY 15, 1955
361
RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL
The following appropriations of the Secretary of the Army Engineers for authorized civil Army pertaining to rivers and and related purposes:
shall be expended nnder the direction and the supervision of the Chief of functions of the Department of the harbors, flood control, beach erosion,
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS
For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects, and when authorized by law, preliminary examinations, surveys and studies (including cooperative beach erosion studies as authorized in Public Law Numbered 520, Seventy-first Congress, approved July 3, 1930, as amended and supplemented), of projects prior to authorization for construction, to remain available until expended, $5,940,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the study authorized by P. L. 71, Eighty-fourth Congress: Provided, That of said total sum $180,000 shall be used for a comprehensive investigation of the entire ALabama-Coosa River and a report of said survey.
46 Stat. 918. 33 U S C 4 2 6, 4 6 5, 569a, 607a; 48 u s e 1399. Hurricane s u r vey. Ante, p. 132.
CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL
For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects authorized by law; detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for development with participation or under consideration for participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of the (rovernment to construction); and not to exceed $900,000 for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for conservation of fish and wildlife as authorized by law; to remain available until expended, $401,173,000, of which $25,000 shall be available for the project at Playa del Rey Inlet and Harbor, Venice, California, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954, and $68,000 shall be available for The Upper Iowa River Project: Provided, That funds appropriated herein may at the discretion and under the direction of the Chief of Engineers be used in payment to the accounts of the Confederated Tribes of the Yakima Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation; or other recognized Indian tribes, and those individual Indians not enrolled in any recognized tribe, but who through domicile at or in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir and through custom and usage are found to have an equitable interest in the fishery, all of whose fishing rights and interests will be impaired by the Government incident to the construction, operation, or maintenance of The Dalles Dam, Columbia River, Washington and Oregon, and must be subordinated thereto by agreement or litigation: Provided furthers That not to exceed $210,000 of funds appropriated herein may be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior for relocation of those permanent resident Indian families in The Dalles project who were domiciled within the project area on May 17, 1950, and to acquire such lands as may be necessary therefor on the condition that the Secretary of the Interior transfer to the control of the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with The Dalles Dam project, Oregon, an irregular shaped parcel of land containing in the aggregate approximately five and five-tenths acres located in lot 1 of section 17 and in lots 1 and 2 of section 20, township 2 north, range 15 east, Willamette meridian, Oregon, being a portion of the land previously transferred to the
68 Stat. 1242. The D a l l e s Dani, Colutrdbia River. Payment to I n dians.
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DirectDraw
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DirectDraw OpenGL renderer
The performance of 2D DirectDraw games is not always that great in Wine. There are a number of reasons for it and most are out of the scope of Wine. Some games can take advantage of Wine's ability to offload DirectDraw to OpenGL and then there's a thing called a DIB engine. You might think OpenGL will solve all the performance problems but in fact this isn't the case and it can be confusing to a lot of users. That's why I decided to explain the issues and the meaning of the registry options.As will be seen the performance gain depends on the way the game is written AND on the OpenGL features offered by your video driver.
DirectDraw
DirectDraw is used by games for transferring surfaces (2D arrays of pixels) to the screen. It is implemented in the DDraw DLL and offers a few different ways of working with surfaces. Most games use a combination of three main mechanisms: locking, blitting and GetDC/ReleaseDC.
Locking
The most basic way is 'LockRect / UnlockRect' which gives a program DIRECT access to the framebuffer of the videocard using a pointer (this is similar to 'DGA'). Games that use this handle do most of their rendering in software and then use these calls to send the final frames to the videocard. Lots of older games like !StarCraft, Red Alert II and others use this.
Blitting
The second mechanism for rendering is blitting. Using these functions programs instruct DirectDraw to update a portion of the screen with the image they specify. You could say that this is similar to locking except that now DirectDraw does all the drawing instead of the game.
GetDC/ReleaseDC
DirectDraw only offers features for drawing surfaces and for instance no mechanism for drawing text. When a game wants to draw texts it should either upload bitmaps with text or they need to render the text on a surface. But as I said before DirectDraw can't render text, so how to do that? Well DirectDraw offers a mechanism 'GetDC / ReleaseDC' which can be used to pass a surface to GDI for rendering.
Performance bottlenecks
By default Wine's DirectDraw uses GDI which in turn uses X but this way of rendering has certain performance problems.
Depth
First of all X can only render at the depth at which your desktop is running. This means that when a game uses 16bit and your X is at 24bit, there is a problem. What Wine does in such a case is to convert all the colors to 24bit using a DIB. This is slow and it is especially bad if a game uses 8bit as in that case a palette lookup needs to be performed for each single pixel.
Direct framebuffer access
As explained DirectDraw is about 'direct framebuffer access'. The problem is that Xorg doesn't offer such a mechanism. Long ago this was possible using DGA but DGA had various limitations for instance it wasn't secure and second it also couldn't be mixed with X11 drawing and OpenGL. This would limit to a few games. Wine emulates the framebuffer with a memory buffer and when needed copies the data to the card using plain X calls. This isn't very efficient and remember there is also depth conversion which is needed most of the time.
GetDC/ReleaseDC
Using GetDC/ReleaseDC games can use standard GDI for drawing. The main problem is that all GDI drawing is done through X even offscreen drawing. Under normal conditions this already isn't nice as a roundtrip to the Xserver takes a short amount of time. It is especially problematic for games when there is a depth mismatch. All drawing operations need to be converted twice (first 16bit -> 24bit and then 24bit -> 16bit as the game uses e.g. 16bit).
DirectDraw OpenGL
As has been pointed out DirectDraw's gdi renderer has performance problems due to depth conversion, the lack of direct framebuffer access and GetDC/ReleaseDC. I will move along each of the three bottlenecks and explain what OpenGL can offer. If you want to use OpenGL for DirectDraw, set DirectDrawRenderer to OpenGL
Depth
OpenGL supports a large number of texture formats each with different depths. If we would upload the DirectDraw surfaces in textures, this would allow us to do the depth conversion for free. This works fine but not all DirectDraw formats exist in OpenGL on all videocards. A good example is support for 8bit palettes. Older Geforce cards offer 'GL_EXT_paletted_texture' which gives an 8bit format and when this is used (e.g. in case of StarCraft) the performance is excellent. On modern Geforce/Radeon cards with fragment shaders we do the same conversion using shaders but on other hardware we convert all surfaces in software which is SLOW :(
Direct framebuffer access
OpenGL doesn't provide direct framebuffer access but using GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object we can get something which is almost similar to it. When this extension is present you can get a pointer to memory (DMA memory or even video memory but you don't know what it is). Its main use is that you can upload/download data asynchronously. This means that you don't have to wait until the data is sent to the card but you can already start doing other things. This heavily improves performance. Note GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object is not around on all drivers, Nvidia offers it and ATI these days as well though not in all fglrx releases.
Even when PBOs aren't around OpenGL's uploading mechanism on most driver is at least as fast as X or faster. OpenGL offers two ways of moving data to the card either in the form of textures or by directly accessing the framebuffer using glReadPixels/glDrawPixels. Which mechanism is faster depends on the hardware. On modern Nvidia cards textures appear to be fast for uploads but on older ATI cards for instance glDrawPixels was faster. The registry setting 'RenderTargetLockMode' defines how to do the upload and the download of data. It works in all cases, so also without PBOs. The values are: readdraw [default] - use glReadPixels for download, use glDrawPixels for upload readtex - use glReadPixels for download, but use textures for upload texdraw - use textures for download, but use glDrawPixels for upload textex - use textures for both upload and download
GetDC/ReleaseDC
When a game uses GetDC for drawing text we are in big troubles, in even bigger ones than in the case of GDI. In case of GDI we basically use a software renderer and in that case we also have the latest framebuffer image somewhere in memory. We can then directly pass this memory to GetDC and the game can use GDI for drawing. When using OpenGL we most of the time don't have the latest framebuffer image in memory and we need to download it back from the card. This takes time and is slow. Then when we finally got a copy we need to pass it to GDI which in its turn might have to do all the depth conversion magic. After the game is done with GDI we need to reupload the image to the card. Summarized GetDC/ReleaseDC is very painful for GL.
Summary
As explained standard DirectDraw GDI has performance limitations. Depending on what DirectDraw rendering mechanisms a game uses, OpenGL can fix the bottlenecks when the right OpenGL extensions are around. In such a case the game can run close to its native speed. In case a game uses GetDC/ReleaseDC, OpenGL can only make the situation worse and it will worsen the performance. What's the final solution to the performance problems? For a part this is the DIB engine. This allows us to do all offscreen drawing in software without requiring a roundtrip to X. This will save a lot of time for GetDC/ReleaseDC purposes. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
This week Class 1 were surprised to find a real egg in our classroom, nobody could understand where it had come from and why the nest had been built in lour classroom. Attached to the egg was a special set of clues we all needed to read to try and discover what animal was inside of the egg.
I think it’s a dinosaur! – Joshua
It’s a T-Rex – AJ
I think it’s a brontosaurus – Bodhi
We read the clues carefully, when we read that it had flat teeth we all knew that this meant the dinosaur was a herbivore, which is a dinosaur that eats plants. We then read about how it had horns, we then had a long think about the dinosaurs we know of which have horns and are herbivores.
Using our detective skills we read a Top Dinosaur book to see if it was one of the dinosaurs inside, sadly, we couldn’t find a dinosaur in the book which was being described. So we then began to think about what other dinosaurs we knew, together we decided to research a triceratops. After searching for the triceratops on the computer we found that this dinosaur had horns, a frill and was a herbivore! We all then learned some super facts about a triceratops and wrote them in our books.
We also had some broken eggs in our classroom, these eggs had numbers and numicon written on them, our job was to try and put the pieces of egg back together by matching the right number to the correct numicon! We all did a fantastic job! | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Rh of the gastric juice. It excites it only as any other body might, which is brought into direct contact with the mucous coat of the stomach. The action of bitters upon the gastric secretion is, beyond doubt, a reflex action, having its point of departure in the mucous membrane of the mouth.
In the course of the discussion which ensued, Dr. Hoppe Seyler observed that in dogs, when fevered, the gastric juice suffers a diminution of its acid, but not of its pepsin. The white of the egg, in order to be dissolved, must first be transformed into syntonine, [sic] which process requires a gastric juice of great acidity. This fact accounts for the difficulty with which albumen is retained upon a disordered stomach. As concerns the digestibility of cheese, that substance is composed of different ingredients, and notably it contains one phosphoric substance, utterly indigestible, nuclein. [sic]
Sanitary Reform in India.—Lord Mark Kerr sends a communication to the (East) Indian Medical Gazette, in which he relates how he came to discover the cause and means of prevention of what is called the Delhi Boil, formerly the scourge of the denizens of Delhi, native and foreign. From a comparison of the situation and surroundings of Delhi with those of other Oriental cities similarly noted for the prevalence of boils and sores, he was led to conclude that the cause of the disorder was to be found in the existence, within the walls of the town, of a barren strip of land, two miles in length, by 500 yards in breadth, covered with foul weeds and ruined buildings, with the wells and water-courses choked up. He proposed to clear the water-courses and plant trees and grass. This was done in 1864, and now the Delhi Boil has entirely disappeared from the city. Lord Mark Kerr desires to have his experience tested throughout India, for he believes that pure irrigation and draining, with judicious planting and gardening, would greatly tend, not only to remove sores and such-like evils, but to prevent the approach of more serious and even fatal scourges.
A New Anaesthetic.—The Medico-Chirurgical Circular (German) calls attention to a new anesthetic, which has received the name Aethelid Chlorid. Dr. Langenbeck has employed it in six operations, and found that it produced anæsthesia more rapidly than chloroform. He states that its use is unattended with any of those unpleasant effects which commonly attend the exhibition of chloroform. Also a new method of producing anæsthesia with morphine has been discovered. In this method hypodermic injections of the chlorhydrate of morphine are given, followed up with light inhalations of chloroform. Three cases were cited where this method had been employed satisfactorily. The anæsthesia, in this case, is not attended by sleep, and it leaves the action of the mind, the senses, and the voluntary muscles intact.
Liebig's Extract of Meat.—Liebig's process of obtaining meat extract is found to yield only 14 per cent, of the dry, solid material of the meat. The remaining 86 parts are the really nutritive constituents of meat, and the 14 contained in the Liebig extract are merely stimulative, not nutritive. This is, with ingenuous candor, admitted by Liebig himself. An English pharmaceutist, Mr. Darby, claims to have invented a process of obtaining, in concentrated, soluble form, all the constituents of the meat. His process, which has been patented, is this: Lean meat, finely sliced, is digested with pepsin, in water previously acidulated with hydrochloric acid, at a temperature of from 96 to 100 Fahr., until the whole of the fibrine of the meat has disappeared.
The liquor is then filtered, separating small portions of fat, cartilage, or other insoluble matters, and neutralized by means of carbonate of soda; and finally carefully evaporated to the consistence required, namely, that of a soft extract.
The resulting extract represents, in all its constituents, the lean meat employed, but with the fibrine, albumen, and gelatine, changed into their respective peptones, or soluble forms. This change is effected solely by the pepsin and hydrochloric acid, or artificial gastric juice, without the evolution or absorption of any secondary products.
But this process, whatever care be taken, leaves the fluid meat with a strong bitter taste, which always attaches to meat | WIKI |
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I’m confused about the available memory. When running my Cocoa application I get a crash because it ran out of memory.
It is a multithreaded application and the spot where a lot of memory is needed is not used by objects but simple malloc() calls in the second thread.
OK, I discovered that I can only use about 1.8 GB of memory (terminal » top) and as far as I can tell every application can use 4Gb in Tiger. So, I created a little application to test this (code below) and indeed once again I can only allocate about 1.8Gb. Could it be that I lose so much because of aligning the memory?
Second question: I can not recover from this out of memory. I can not use NSLog() or whatever to give a nice message. The program crashes. I can not even use a safety buffer which I release as soon as I run out of memory because even this call to free() makes the application crash.
So, I don’t understand this and I’m hoping someone will clear things up.
BTW: when I compile for 64 bit, things are different, my drive gets full and I have of course plenty of memory with my G5 :-)
#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) { long size = 0; void buf; do { buf=malloc(272); if ( buf==nil) { printf(“sizel %d %f GB”,size, (double)size/(1024.01024.0*1024.0)); exit(0); } else size+=272; }while(1); return 0; }
I’ve confirmed your results on my machine. Further, I’ve discovered that the memory areas skipped are actually large contiguous chunks of 0x100010 (1048592) bytes, skipped quite regularly every 0x200000 (2097152) bytes, rather than any kind of alignment problem. That is, half of the available memory addresses are being skipped over.
Weird.
I wonder if it is some side-effect of the way malloc stores valid addresses? Perhaps some hashtable oddity?
The entire memory range from 0x90000000-0xb0000000 is also unavailable. I guess it’s reserved for the stack.
If you want to max out your memory usage, allocate large chunks – say, 0x0FFFFFFC (268435452) bytes – and split them up into usable chunks yourself. I got 3.42GB memory usage that way. You could even go straight to the kernel and ask for memory pages directly. – KritTer
malloc, like all things computery, enjoys powers of two. When you ask malloc for 272 bytes, it probably allocates 512. This explains why so much goes missing.
Also, you’re using a long to store size. This will overflow into the negative once you hit 2GB.
Out of memory errors are pretty much impossible to recover from on a UNIX. Sometimes they are even impossible to detect, as they just result in your program segfaulting when you try to touch some memory that was promised but can’t be delivered.
Or you could read my post, where I said it’s not an alignment problem. I did check that :) I also changed the code to use a long long, so overflow would be detected, and stated above where the memory was going. – KritTer
Yeah, it appears you’re right. I guess being a multiple of 16 is enough. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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the lead of the world in the field of Juris prudence, and enable her to exercise a more potent influence in World Councils.
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the incidental extension of the power of the press. “If all nations were equally sensitive to this new force of world opinion, the problem would be a simpler one. But it is strongest
labors of the ablest members of the pro fession in America, both on the Bench and at the Bar, but particularly of those in the faculties of the Law Schools,
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%0 Journal Article %J Nature Materials %D 2010 %T Reversible electric control of exchange bias in a multiferroic field-effect device %A S.M. Wu %A S.A. Cybart %A P. Yu %A M.D. Rossell %A J.X. Zhang %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A R.C. Dynes %K Antiferromagnetic order parameter %K Conducting channels %K Electric field effects %K Electric fields %K Electric-field control %K Ferroelectric polarization %K ferroelectricity %K Ferromagnetic materials %K Ferromagnetic orderings %K Ferromagnetism %K Field-effect devices %K Magnetic storage %K Magnetization %K Magnetoelectronics %K Manganese oxide %K Multiferroic materials %K Spin polarized currents %X Electric-field control of magnetization has many potential applications in magnetic memory storage, sensors and spintronics. One approach to obtain this control is through multiferroic materials. Instead of using direct coupling between ferroelectric and ferromagnetic order parameters in a single-phase multiferroic material, which only shows a weak magnetoelectric effect, a unique method using indirect coupling through an intermediate antiferromagnetic order parameter can be used. In this article, we demonstrate electrical control of exchange bias using a field-effect device employing multiferroic (ferroelectric/antiferromagnetic) BiFeO 3 as the dielectric and ferromagnetic La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 as the conducting channel; we can reversibly switch between two distinct exchange-bias states by switching the ferroelectric polarization of BiFeO 3. This is an important step towards controlling magnetization with electric fields, which may enable a new class of electrically controllable spintronic devices and provide a new basis for producing electrically controllable spin-polarized currents. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. %B Nature Materials %I Nature Publishing Group %V 9 %P 756-761 %G eng %R 10.1038/nmat2803 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Dew (surname)
Dew is a surname. People with the name include:
* Albert George Dew-Smith (né Dew; 1848–1903), English scientist and photographer
* Sir Armine Dew (1867–1941), British soldier and colonial administrator
* Carrie Dew (born 1986), American footballer
* Charles B. Dew (born 1944), American historian
* Diana Dew (1943–2008), American fashion designer
* Earl Dew (1921–1941), American champion jockey
* Eddie Dew (1909–1972), American actor, film director, and television director
* George Dew (1666–1703), Caribbean pirate
* George Dew (politician) (1853/1854–1931), British politician
* John Dew (cricketer) (1920–2008), English cricketer
* John Dew (cardinal) (born 1948), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington and metropolitan of New Zealand
* John Dew (director) (born 1944), British opera director
* Josie Dew (born 1966), English cyclist & author
* Marianne Dew (born 1938), English sprinter
* Martin Dew (fl. 1982–1987), English badminton player
* Natalie Dew (born 1987), English actress
* Robb Forman Dew (1946–2020), American author
* Sam Dew, American musician
* Sheri L. Dew (born 1953), American Mormon speaker & writer
* Stuart Dew (born 1979), Australian rules footballer
* Susan Dew Hoff (1842–1933), American physician
* Thomas Dew (politician) (died c. 1691), Virginia colonial politician
* Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846), American educator & writer
* Walter Dew (1863–1947), English police detective | WIKI |
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ISSN: 1949-3045
pp: 152-164
Siu Hui , Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Baoyao Zhou , IBM Res.-China, Beijing, China
A. C. M. Fong , Sch. of Comput. & Math Sci. (SCMS), Auckland Univ. of Technol. (AUT), Auckland, New Zealand
Jie Tang , Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Guan Hong , Dept. of Comput., Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
The relationships between consumer emotions and their buying behaviors have been well documented. Technology-savvy consumers often use the web to find information on products and services before they commit to buying. We propose a semantic web usage mining approach for discovering periodic web access patterns from annotated web usage logs which incorporates information on consumer emotions and behaviors through self-reporting and behavioral tracking. We use fuzzy logic to represent real-life temporal concepts (e.g., morning) and requested resource attributes (ontological domain concepts for the requested URLs) of periodic pattern-based web access activities. These fuzzy temporal and resource representations, which contain both behavioral and emotional cues, are incorporated into a Personal Web Usage Lattice that models the user's web access activities. From this, we generate a Personal Web Usage Ontology written in OWL, which enables semantic web applications such as personalized web resources recommendation. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by presenting experimental results in the context of personalized web resources recommendation with varying degrees of emotional influence. Emotional influence has been found to contribute positively to adaptation in personalized recommendation.
INDEX TERMS
recommender systems, consumer behaviour, data mining, fuzzy logic, Internet, ontologies (artificial intelligence), personalized Web resources recommendation, consumer emotion, behavior analysis, buying behaviors, technology-savvy consumers, semantic Web usage mining approach, periodic Web access patterns discovering, annotated web usage logs, consumer behaviors, self-reporting, behavioral tracking, fuzzy logic, real-life temporal concepts, periodic pattern-based Web access activities, fuzzy temporal representations, resource representations, personal Web usage lattice, personal Web usage ontology, OWL, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Context, Lattices, Association rules, Semantics, semantic web., Emotion and behavior profiling, behavioral tracking, adaptation in mid to long-term interaction, consumer habits, personalization, recommender system, weblog mining, knowledge discovery, ontology generation
CITATION
Siu Hui, Baoyao Zhou, A. C. M. Fong, Jie Tang, Guan Hong, "Generation of Personalized Ontology Based on Consumer Emotion and Behavior Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 3, no. , pp. 152-164, April-June 2012, doi:10.1109/T-AFFC.2011.22
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Milestone-Proposal:First 500 MeV proton beam from the worlds largest cyclotron
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TRIUMF Laboratory, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3 Lat 49.2474, Lon -123.229544 http://www.triumf.ca The plaque will be installed on a wall outside the cyclotron main control room near the site dedication plaque. TRIUMF conducts frequent public tours for students and the public. All tours include a stop at this location.
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The site is owned by TRIUMF; the surrounding land is secured through a 99-year lease arrangement with the University of British Columbia.
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By providing intermediate energy proton beams that are two orders of magnitude more intense than were previously available, the TRIUMF cyclotron (and its two sister meson factories in the United States and Europe) have revolutionized nuclear physics, particle physics, molecular and materials science, and nuclear medicine. The quality of the initial design and engineering and the significance of the result are underscored by the longevity of the TRIUMF cyclotron. Thirty-five years after the first 500 MeV proton beam was extracted, the cyclotron is still the main engine of TRIUMF’s world-leading research program which currently includes meson physics, nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear medicine and irradiation services for industry.
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Compared to the first and second generation of cyclotrons, the physical size of TRIUMF is truly impressive. The main magnet is 18 metres in diameter and weighs 4000 tons. The 23 MHz main RF amplifier delivers almost 1 million watts of power in order to develop 200 kV across the accelerating gap. During the design and construction of the cyclotron between 1969 and 1974, the sheer scale of the effort required TRIUMF staff and contractors to develop revolutionary computer-assisted design, modelling, measurement and tuning technologies in an era dominated by mainframes and minicomputers. Some of these codes, e.g., RELAX3D - a Laplace and Poisson equation solver, are still in use today. Because of its size, TRIUMF was one of the first particle accelerators to employ a software-based supervisory control and data acquisition system rather than direct linkage of cyclotron and beamline components to a hardware-based control panel.
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TRIUMF is the world's largest cyclotron, and one of only three intermediate-energy high-intensity accelerators in the world. It pioneered the production and acceleration of H- ions and the use of an AVF (azimuthally varying field) main magnet. Unlike the world's other two intermediate-energy high-intensity accelerators (located near Zurich and Los Alamos, respectively), the TRIUMF cyclotron can deliver both low-intensity variable energy proton beams and high intensity intermediate energy proton beams with a 100% macroscopic duty cycle. The high intensity of the beam also allows the cyclotron to serve as the driver for multiple experiments within the course of a week. The TRIUMF cyclotron’s ability to provide steady, intense and reliable energy beams in a flexible manner has also allowed the facility to become a world leader in providing beams of exotic isotopes using the
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Burma Victory
Burma Victory is a 1945 British documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War II. It was directed by Roy Boulting. The accompanying music is by Alan Rawsthorne.
Production
The film was a project of Louis Mountbatten. It was originally meant to be a US-British co-production but neither side could agree on what emphasis to place on the film. The Americans then made their own documentary.
It features Mountbatten talking to his men and officers and footage of General Slim, Merrill's Marauders, the Chindits etc. Apart from war footage, it covers the Burmese monsoon and local traditions. More unusual sequences include a massive construction exercise of transport ships for use on the Irrawaddy river near Mandalay, which led to the capture of Mandalay. Forces then converge on Rangoon, which allowed the release of British prisoners. As Japan surrenders, the guns fall silent.
Reception
According to Kinematograph Weekly, the film performed well at the British box office in 1945. | WIKI |
Double fender
A double fender is a fender on the back wheel of motorcycles and mopeds which comprise a small fender, and a long fender in order to keep mud from going into the carburetor and on the motor. It covers the rear wheel's top and front. A double fender in fact keeps these areas dry during rain. The small fender directed to the front of the rear wheel is wider to prevent water spray from angling past the wheel. It acts more like a guard for rain rather than the top fender which in fact acts as a mudguard. | WIKI |
Built-in Module
Built-in modules are just like regular JavaScript modules, except that they don’t have to be downloaded because they ship with the browser.
Like traditional web APIs, built-in modules must go through a standardization process — each will have its own specification that requires a design review and positive signs of support from both web developers and other browser vendors before it can ship. (In Chrome, built-in modules will follow the same launch process we use to implement and ship all new APIs.)
Unlike traditional web APIs, built-in modules are not exposed on the global scope — they’re only available via imports.
Not exposing built-in modules globally has a lot of advantages: they won’t add any overhead to starting up a new JavaScript runtime context (e.g. a new tab, worker, or service worker), and they won’t consume any memory or CPU unless they’re actually imported. Furthermore, they don’t run the risk of naming collisions with other variables defined in your code.
To import a built-in module you use the prefix std: followed by the built-in module’s identifier. For example, in supported browsers, you could import the KV Storage module with the following code (see below for how to use a KV Storage polyfill in unsupported browsers):
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import {storage, StorageArea} from 'std:kv-storage';
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Susan B. Anthony met Elizabeth Stanton while petitioning for the Temperance movement(social movement against alcoholic beverages) yet they would not be taken seriously since women in politics was, not necessarily unheard of, but uncommon. Susan thought that if she had the right to vote she would be taken more seriously because then her voice would matter, and so would every other women's in the United States. So, in 1866, she and Elizabeth created the American Equal Rights Association(AERA) and ran a newspaper about women's rights. Their motto was:
And as you can expect, she formed the National Women Suffrage Association(NWSA) in 1869. The struggle continued, she gave speeches and travelled constantly for this cause. In 1872, when Ulysses S. Grant was running for president, she illegally voted, was arrested, and fined $100, which, for god knows what reason, she never paid! And for years she continued hoping one day she would eventually reach her goal.
It is said, that before she died she said:
only 14 years after she passed(1920) the 19th Amendment to the constitution was added, which gave men and women equal voting rights.
And in 1979, in recognition of her work, they had her face on the dollar coin. She was the first woman to be honored this way!
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school(although many opposed to her getting formal medical education) in the United States. In the 1860's she opened the Women's Medical College Of New York Infirmary, and in 1861 with the help of U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, formed the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean, accompanied and solo, from Newfoundland, Canada to Londonderry, Ireland. She also was the first to make a transcontinental nonstop flight from Los Angeles and landing in New Jersey. She disappeared over the Pacific while trying to become the first woman to fly around the world. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Cheverella
Cheverella is a monotypic genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It contains only one species, Cheverella galapagensis, which is endemic to the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Both the genus and the species were first described by Bernard Landry in 2011. The genus is placed in the tribe Udeini.
Description
Imagines (adults) of Cheverella galapagensis are medium-sized, with a forewing length of 6.4 to 9.6 mm in males and 7.7 to 10.3 mm in females. The upper side of the rather narrow forewings is white in ground colour, with dark brown antemedian, postmedian and submarginal lines, and large deep dark brown costal markings. Hindwings white with more or less prominent light brown submarginal and marginal lines, except in the anal field of the hindwings. Thorax white with brown spots, abdomen mostly white, dorsally with some greyish brown on most if not all segments. Forelegs dorsally greyish brown, ventrally white, midlegs white with apical femur and tibia brown, and hindlegs entirely white.
In the male genitalia, the tegumen exhibits straight sides and a semi-circular top, over which the uncus, reduced to a narrow band (an apomorphy of the genus), arches. The uncus centre is loosely set with simple thin chaetae. Vinculum broad U-shaped with a sharp, short keeled ventral tip. Juxta broad, dorsally rectangular, ventrally somewhat rhomboid and broader. Valva costae very broad, straight to slightly concave, basally each with a medially directed slender, apically pointed projection (which are, however, not the transtilla arms); valva apex broad rounded, ventral valva side medially broadly bulging outward, in basal half with elongate sacculus. A stout-tipped, short posteroventrad directed fibula emerging from a broad sclerotised base stretching from close to the costa base to the ventral valva edge. Phallus short, broad, evenly sclerotised, with a short coecum; vesica with a compact field of about 20 short, slender cornuti.
Female genitalia with a cup-shaped, weakly sclerotised antrum. In its posterior part, the ductus bursae is sclerotised and longitudinally ridged, the anterior part is membranous and gradually widens towards the globular corpus bursae, which contains a minute spine-like signum near the conjunction with the ductus bursae.
Based on material collected on Fernandina Island, the known flying period is between January and May, as well as in August, October, and November. The species inhabits various pristine or anthropized habitats ranging from the littoral zone up to 1341 m elevation.
The caterpillars or pupae are not scientifically described as of yet.
DNA barcode data is stored in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), although the sequences are not publicly accessible.
Food plants
The caterpillars feed on the Galápagos endemic plant Tournefortia pubescens (Boraginaceae), where they bore into the stems. Tournefortia species contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are acculumated as chemical defence in another, unrelated Galápagos endemic moth species, Utetheisa galapagensis (Erebidae). It is not known whether larvae of C. galapagensis also accumulate these pyrrolizidine alkaloids in their bodies, and whether they remain in the imagines for chemical defence.
Distribution
Cheverella galapagensis is recorded from the Gálapagos islands of Fernandina, Isabela, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santiago. Apart from these islands, the host plant Tournefortia pubescens furthermore grows on the islands of Floreana, Pinzón and Wolf. Therefore, Cheverella galapagensis could potentially also live on the latter three islands, but has not been collected there, yet.
Etymology
The genus name is derived from the word chévere, which is a frequent interjection heard in Ecuador and means "great", "nice", or "cool". The imago's unusual maculation prompted this interjection to the author of the species and others who examined adult specimens. | WIKI |
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894 SAMXimr. But the peace tlius concluded was of short dura- tion. Little more than five years elapsed between the close of the Second Samnite War and the com- mencement of the Third. It might well have been thought that, after a struggle of more than twenty years' duration, the resources of the Samnites, if not their spirit, would have been exhausted; but they seem to have been actively engaged, even before the actual outbreak of hostilities, in organising a fresh coalition against Rome. A new and formidable auxiliary had appeared in a large body of Gauls, which had recently crossed the Alps, and, uniting with their countrymen the Senones, threatened the Romans from the N. Rome was at this time en- gaged in war with the Etruscans and Umbrians, and the Etruscans hastened to secure the services of the Gauls. Meanwhile the Samnites, deeming the attention of the Romans sufficiently engaged else- where, attacked their neighbours the Lucanians, probably with the view of restoring the power in that country of the party favourable to the Samnite alliance. The opposite party, however, called in the Romans to their assistance, who declared war against the Samnites, and thus began the Third Samnite War, B.C. 298. (Liv. s. 11.) The contest had now assumed larger dimensions ; the Samnites concluded a league with the Etruscans, Umbrians, and Gauls, and for several successive cam- paigns the operations in Samniu.-n were subordinate to those in the valley of the Tiber. But the ter- ritory of Samniuin itself was at the same time ravaged by the Roman generals in so systematic a manner, that it is clear they had obtained a decided supe- riority in the field ; and though the Samnites on one occasion retaliated by laying waste the Campanian and Falernian plains, they were soon again driven back to their mountain fivstnesses. (Liv». x. 15, 17, iJO.) At length, in b. c. 295, the great battle of Sentinum, in which the united forces of the Gauls and Samnites were totally defeated by the Roman consul Q. Fabius, decided the fortune of the war. Gellins Egnatius, the Samnite general, who had been the main organiser of the confederacy, was slain, and the league itself virtually broken up. (Liv. x. 27 — 30.) Nevertheless the Samnites continued to carry on the war with unabated energy; and in B.C. 293 they raised a fresh army of 40,000 men, levied with solemn sacred rites, and arrayed in a peculiar garb. These circumstances sufficiently prove the import- ance which they attached to this campaign, yet its result was not more successful than those which had preceded it, and the Samnite armies were again defeated by the consuls L. Papirius Cursor and Sp. Carvilius in two successive battles near Aquilonia and Cominium. (Liv. s. 38 — 45.) The opera- tions of the subsequent campaigns are imperfectly known to us, from the loss of the books of Livy in which they were related: but the next year (b. c. 292) C. Pontius, the victor of the Caudine Forks, reappears, after a long interval, at the head of the Samnite armies; he defeated Q. Fabius, but was in his turn defeated in a far more decisive engagement, in which it is said that 20,000 Samnites were slain, and 4000 taken prisoners, including C. Pontius himself, who was led in triumph by Fabius, and then put to death. (Oros. iii. 22 ; Liv. Epit. xi.) It is probable that this battle gave the final blow to the Samnite power, yet their resistance was still pro- longed for two years more; and it was not till b. c. 290 that they consented to lay down their arms and sue for peace. Even in that year the consul SAMXIIJJI. 51'. Curius Dentatus could still earn the honour of a triumph, and the fame of having put an end to the Samnite wars after they had lasted for more than fifty years. (Liv. Epit. xi.; Eutrop. ii. 9.) The conclusion of the Third Samnite War is re- garded by some of the Roman historians as the close of the struggle between Rome and Samnium, and not without reason, for though the name of the Fourth Samnite War is given by modern writers to the war that broke out afresh in B. c. 282, the Samnites on that occasion certainly figure rather as auxiliaries than as principals. They, however, joined the league which was formed at the instigation of the Tarentines against Rome; and bore a part in all the subsequent operations of the war. They seem indeed to have at first looked with jealousy or suspicion upon the proceedings of Pyrrhus; and it was not till after the battle of Hcraclea that they sent their contingent to his support. (Plut. Pyrrh. 17.) But in the great battle at Asculum the fol- lowing year (b. c. 278) the Samnites bore an im- portant p.art, and seem to have sustained their ancient reputation for valour. (Dionys. xx. Fr. Uidot.) The departure of Pyrrhus for Sicily shortly after, and his final defeat by W. Curius at Beneventum after his return (b. c. 274), left the Samnites and their allies to bear the whole brunt of the war, and they were wholly unable to con- tend with the power of Rome. We know nothing in detail of the.se last campaigns : we learn only that in b. c. 272, just before the fall of Tarentum, the Samnites, as well as their allies the Lucanians and Bruttians, made their final and absolute sub- mission; and the consul Sp. Carvilius celebiated the last of the long series of triumphs over the Samnites. (Zonar. viii. 6 ; Liv. Epit.x'iv. ; Fast. Capit.) A fresh revolt indeed broke out in the N. of Samnium three years afterwards, among the petty tribe of the Cara- ceni, but was speedily suppressed, before it had at- tained any more formidable character. (Zonar. viii. 7; Dionys. xx. 9, Fr. Mai.) We have no account of the terms on which the Samnites were received to submission by the Romans, or of their condition as subjects of the republic. But there can be no doubt that the policy of the domi- nant people was to break up as much as jrossiblo their national organisation and all bonds of union between them. At the same time two colonies were established as fortresses to keep them in check : one at Beneventum, in the country of the Hirpini (b. c. 268), and the other at Aesernia, in the valley of the Vulturnus (b. c. 264). All these precautions, how- ever, did not sutfice to secure the fidelity of the Samnites during the Second Punic War. After the battle of Cannae (b. c. 216), the Hirpini were among the first to declare themselves in tijvour of Hannibal, and their example is said to have been followed by all the Samnites, except the Pentrians. (Liv. xxii. 61.) It is singular that this tribe, long the most powerful and warlike of all, should have thus held aloof; but the statement of Livy is con- firmed by the subsequent course of the war, during which the Pentrians never seem to have taken any part, while the laud of the Hirpini, and the southern portions of Samnium bordering on Lucania, were i'requently the scene of hostilities. But the Roman colonies Aesernia and Beneventum never fell into the hands of the Carthagini.ans; and the latter was through a great part of the war held by one of the Roman generals, as a post of the utmost military importance. In b. c. 214 and again in B.C. 212, | WIKI |
Redactor Redactor 1.x Custom Component Usage
The page you’re currently looking at contains information related to Redactor 1.x. Please visit Component Usage for the relevant information for Redactor 2.x.
1.2.0, you can easily load Redactor in your custom components as well in a few simple steps. The steps below will likely also work when you want to include other MODX editors in components, and depend on the which_editor setting in your site.
1. Invoke the OnRichTextEditorInit event
This calls the Redactor plugin which prepares the HTML and loads the necessary assets. The return value from the invokeEvent method needs to be inserted into your page; the easiest way to do that is in your controller, and to set the placeholder and make sure it is inserted into your template.
PHP inside your Controller:
<?php
abstract class MyManagerController extends modExtraManagerController {
/** ... */
public function loadRichTextEditor()
{
$useEditor = $this->modx->getOption('use_editor');
$whichEditor = $this->modx->getOption('which_editor');
if ($useEditor && !empty($whichEditor))
{
// invoke the OnRichTextEditorInit event
$onRichTextEditorInit = $this->modx->invokeEvent('OnRichTextEditorInit',array(
'editor' => $whichEditor, // Not necessary for Redactor
'elements' => array('foo'), // Not necessary for Redactor
));
if (is_array($onRichTextEditorInit))
{
$onRichTextEditorInit = implode('', $onRichTextEditorInit);
}
$this->setPlaceholder('onRichTextEditorInit', $onRichTextEditorInit);
}
}
public function process()
{
// ...
// Your other stuff here
// ...
// Call your method to grab the editor
$this->loadRichTextEditor();
}
}
Make sure to call the method when you want to load the editor. It helps, trust me.
Next, you need to make sure that the output of the event ($onRichTextEditorInit) is inserted into the page. In the code example above we’re using the setPlaceholder method of the manager controller to store a placeholder. We’ll need to reference that placeholder in our template, which uses Smarty by default.
Here’s an example template file for the Controller:
<div id="some-div-id-for-your-extjs"></div>
{$onRichTextEditorInit}
2. Call MODx.loadRTE(elements)
The second step is to call the loadRTE method. Redactor will make this method available when it is loaded. Simply specify an element by its ID, or pass an array of IDs to the function. As Redactor is based on jQuery, it will transform the elements value into a selector that jQuery understands by prefixing it with the hash (#), so make sure you pass IDs without the hash and that the element has an ID set.
if (MODx.loadRTE) {
// Will transform the textarea with ID "description" to a RTE
MODx.loadRTE('description');
// MODx.loadRTE(['description1','description2']);
}
If you’re loading the editor in an ExtJS modal window, you can hook into the “show” or “activate” events for the Window to call MODx.loadRTE. Have a look at the faqMan source to see this integration in action and context. Here’s an example:
this.on('activate', function() {
if (MODx.loadRTE) {
MODx.loadRTE('id-of-the-field-to-be-richtext');
}
});
3. There’s no step 3.
Sorry, that’s all it takes.
Do note that this requires at least Redactor 1.2; it will not work with older versions of Redactor. This method should also work for other editors (including TinyMCE), but obviously we have only tested with Redactor and your mileage may vary.
Extras that support Redactor:
• faqMan
• MoreGallery
• Articles
• mxCalendar
• ContentBlocks
Let us know if your Extra supports Redactor too, and we’ll gladly add it to the list.
Version Detection
One of the several improvements in Redactor 1.5 introduced the ability to check the current version of Redactor through our API. We do not recommend using version detection, however if you absolutely must it is possible through $redactor->version.
<?php
// Get the redactor service
$corePath = $modx->getOption('redactor.core_path', null,
$modx->getOption('core_path').'components/redactor/');
$redactor = $modx->getService('redactor', 'Redactor', $corePath . 'model/redactor/');
// Get specific parts of the version number
$major = $redactor->version->major; // 1
$minor = $redactor->version->minor; // 5
$patch = $redactor->version->patch; // 0
$release = $redactor->version->release; // pl
$float = $redactor->version->float; // 1.5.0
$full = $redactor->version; // 1.5.0-pl
// output some stats
$s = "You are running Redactor " . $redactor->version;
if($patch == 0) {
$s .= "This is the first patch release in this minor release cycle. ";
}
if($release == 'pl') {
$s .= "You are running a stable version";
}
else {
$s .= "Welcome to the bleeding edge. ";
}
return $s;
Assuming you were running Redactor 1.5.0, the above snippet would return:
You are running Redactor 1.5.0-pl. This is the first patch release in this minor release cycle. You are running a stable version.
The $redactor->version object has five public properties and one method. Major, minor, and patch releases are expressed as individual integers respectively. The “release” such as “pl” is defined as a string, optionally with a number like rc2. There is also a $float property that returns the version numbers stringed together, ex: “1.5.0”. By reading the object as string you will get the full version signature, for example “1.5.0-pl”. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Difficulty in Vega with Kibana while generating a tree graph
(Dimitry Khan) #1
I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss problem on plugins behavior. I am using vega plugin for Kibana to generate tree type of visualization. I have data in ES like below -
Let me provide you my example in detail. I have a log file which I read using logstash and put into ElasticSearch. Some sample data stored into ElasticSearch are as below -
{
"audit_message":"Operation_ABC",
"step_id":4,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:15:22.000Z",
"exec_time":2.457235
},{
"audit_message":"Step_DEF",
"step_id":5,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:15:27.084Z",
"exec_time":0.020198,
"parent_step_id":4
},{
"audit_message":"Operation_GHI",
"step_id":6,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:15:32.175Z",
"exec_time":0.015176,
"parent_step_id":5
},{
"audit_message":"Function_JKL",
"step_id":5,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:17:34.182Z",
"exec_time":4.46E-4,
"parent_step_id":4
},{
"audit_message":"Function_MNO",
"step_id":6,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:17:39.254Z",
"exec_time":1.56E-4,
"parent_step_id":5
},{
"audit_message":"Operation_PQR",
"step_id":6,
"@timestamp":"2017-12-01T03:17:44.345Z",
"exec_time":0.003522,
"parent_step_id":5
}
In my case, two node's a re linked with parent-child when -
1. parent's step_id=(child's step_id)-1 [only this cond is not sufficient since there may multiple step_id with the same value; but a child can not have multiple parents]
So, we have another cond -
2. parent's @timestamp is the immediate previous @timestamp of the child.
I used stratify transformation on my data to give it to a tree structure. But I am struggling to provide the parentKey in stratify since I can not perform cond#2 as shown above in my vega specification. I tried lookup but, that is only meeting cond#1. Here is what I tried on my primary data source so far -
"transform": [
{
"type": "lookup",
"from": "records", <----- records is secondary datasource. But that is exactly same as my primary datasource
"key": "_source.step_id",
"fields": ["_source.parent_step_id"],
"values": ["_source.@timestamp"],
"as": ["parent_timestamp"],
"default": null
},
{
"type": "stratify",
"key": "_source.@timestamp",
"parentKey": "parent_timestamp"
},
{
"type": "tree",
"method": {"signal": "layout"},
"size": [
{"signal": "height"},
{"signal": "width - 100"}
],
"as": ["y", "x", "depth", "children"]
}
]
This is creating the graph but all the child node's are pointing to one parent; since lookup is only returning the parent on the basis of step_id.
How can I query on the secondary data source with both the conditions as specified above?
(Chris Roberson) #2
Hi @Dimitry_Khan,
Unfortunately, we do not maintain the third-party Vega plugin. I'd recommend posting an issue on their GitHub repo.
Thanks,
Chris
(Dimitry Khan) #3
Thanks @chrisronline.
(Yuri Astrakhan) #4
@Dimitry_Khan, I see Roy just answered your question with an example at the Vega forum. Please link to it from github, as others may find that answer useful as well. Hope that was the answer you were looking for! Good luck :slight_smile:
(Dimitry Khan) #5
@nyuriks. Sure. Working on it. Will link.
(system) #6
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New-look board for drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim will enter next year with a new-look executive board after the retirement of two of its top executives and another of the positions on the six-person executive board becoming redundant. Allan Hillgrove, head of pharmaceuticals and biopharma and a company veteran of 37 years, will retire at the end of the year and will be replaced by Carine Brouillon, who joined unlisted Boehringer from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) in 2018. The head of Boehringer’s animal health unit, Joachim Hasenmaier, will also retire at the end of the year, to be succeeded by Jean Scheftsik de Szolnok, currently head of Boehringer’s French business. Boehringer became the world’s second-largest animal health company when it acquired Sanofi’s (SASY.PA) Merial business in 2017 but it is set to drop a place in the ranking when Elanco (ELAN.N) wraps up its agreed purchase of Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) veterinary drugs business next year. Boehringer added that head of personnel Andreas Neumann would quit at the end of September because responsibilities for human resources will be shared by Chief Executive Hubertus von Baumbach and finance chief Michael Schmelmer. A company spokesman declined to comment whether the departures were connected or coincidental. Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss; Editing by David Goodman | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
1984 Australian referendum
The 1984 Australian referendum was held on 1 December 1984. It contained two referendum questions, neither of which passed. As of 2022, this is the last referendum in which any state voted in favour of a constitutional amendment.
The referendum was held in conjunction with the 1984 federal election.
Terms of Senators
* This section is an excerpt from 1984 Australian referendum (Terms of Senators) § Results
Interchange of Powers
* This section is an excerpt from 1984 Australian referendum (Interchange of Powers) § Results | WIKI |
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Here is how problem came about:
I unlocked my moto G6's bootloader and fastboot flashed twrp-3.4.0-0-ali.img in it. I opened TWRP trough the recovery option in fastboot, and enetered my PIN, but TWRP was unable to decrypt my storage. I noticed that TWRP was showing that the CPU temperature was at 34ºC and battery full. Then, I clickend on "cancel" the operation, kept TWRP read only and rebooted to delete the fingerprint recognition in system settings, which I thought could have been causing the failure of TWRP to decrypt. That didn't work, but this time I shut my phone down with power button. I am unsure if I did so before or after cancelling the operation, but I didn't choose the option to keep TWRP read only. I also noticed TWRP showing a ridiculously high CPU temperature before turning off. Regardless, it disappeared. I can now boot normally but I am having the issues described in the title. I tried a factory reset from moto but it solve this problem.
I performed a full adb backup before unlocking the bootloader with the command
adb backup -apk -shared -all -f C:\Users\
However, I may not be able to restore this backup via USB, given that my phone is not connecting via USB.
Any ideas of what to try?
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After factor resetting through fastboot (so called hard reset), rather than factor resetting through the settings (i.e. soft reset), I got my phone in order again.
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How Robots Are Assisting Doctors Nurses and Patients in Hospitals
At hospitals and treatment centers, robots provide assistance with various tasks. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic they assisted by disinfecting areas, transporting supplies and patients as well as offering social stimulation programs to enhance patient care.
Hanson Robotics’ Sophia nursing robot can monitor vital signs, take blood samples and lift or transfer a patient, freeing nurses up to spend more time answering patient queries and building meaningful relationships.
Surgical Robots
Robotic technology that once only existed in sci-fi movies is making real strides in medicine today. Medical robots free healthcare staff from mundane tasks while making surgical procedures safer, more accurate and less costly for patients. A surgical robot is a computer-assisted machine with a master manipulator arm that controls multiple interchangeable tools (e.g. scissors or grippers). Such systems enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery without needing large incisions.
Surgeons perform surgery while under general anesthesia while sitting at a console that controls the movements of a robotic surgeon’s arms and instruments. Tools are inserted through small cuts into an endoscope tube with cameras at its ends (endocam). At the console monitors show 3-D images of the procedure area while hand movements translate directly to precise robotic instrument movements in real time; this system enables surgeons to perform complex operations using minimally invasive methods in the torso area.
Open surgery involving larger incisions remains commonplace for certain forms of internal surgeries; however, robotically assisted surgery offers several advantages that reduce recovery times and complications for appropriately selected patients. Robotically assisted surgery also enables surgeons to safely remove smaller portions of organs while still preserving function – potentially decreasing cancer risks or other diseases in the process.
Surgical robots are most often utilized for procedures in gynecology such as hysterectomies and gallbladder removal; however, their application has expanded into other areas such as bowel and colon surgery.
Robots will likely become an increasing presence in hospitals just like they are expected to be in casino industry (for instance, on sites reviewed on YoakimBridge.com) as these systems adapt to new procedures and surgeons gain experience using them. Robots provide numerous benefits to doctors, nurses and patients alike including increased dexterity and an ergonomic position as well as the opportunity for surgeries that would otherwise be impossible or difficult with traditional laparoscopic methods.
Though surgical robots offer significant advantages, they also come with their share of drawbacks. Positioned carefully to avoid damaging delicate tissues and nerves, surgical robots require maintenance due to hacking attacks or mechanical deterioration and require space for installation in special surgical rooms. Thankfully, recent developments in robotic technology have reduced these systems down to sizes that fit more conveniently within existing operating suites; researchers at Wyss Institute’s Wood Lab and Sony Corporation have created a miniature remote center of motion manipulation robot which fits through button-sized holes when inserting it through holes inserted through buttons on plastic buttons inserted through buttons-sized holes inserted through small holes on its base plate allowing its operation from one operating suites to be installed within existing operating suites allowing operation from existing operating suites!
Telemedicine
Robotic technologies that use telemedicine to assist physicians, nurses and patients in hospital settings have become more mainstream. Telemedicine technology ranges from familiar telephone consultations and radio links with emergency medical personnel to more experimental innovations like telesurgery where surgeons receive visual and tactile data from distant sites in order to operate robotic instruments on them.
Nurses find the ability to remotely control a robot that performs routine tasks such as drawing blood or monitoring vital signs can reduce stress and enable her to focus more on patient-centric activities. A venipuncture robot, for instance, uses 3D images to show where veins are located – making venipuncture much faster, easier, and less painful for their patients.
A teddy bear-like robot called MEDi is helping children overcome their fears of needles and hospitals by acting as their playmate during scans and other procedures. Children report feeling 50 percent less anxious during procedures with someone by their side than without one.
Other robots help seniors live healthier lives at home. Furry Pets like Paro the Robot Seal and Polly the Talking Parrot have proven popular with nursing home residents as companions and interaction. In addition, there are robo-nurses who utilize telemedicine technology to monitor patients while setting up video calls between family members and elderly patients.
As more patients check into hospital rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic, some robots have emerged to aid healthcare staff by performing tasks that put them at risk of infection – such as UVD cleaning robots to disinfect areas, PAL robots for social stimulation of elderly, and TIAGo robots which both serve food and drinks to patients.
Robotic Exoskeletons
Robotic exoskeletons are mechanical wearable devices used to support and augment movement. Their designs range from suits like Iron Man’s, or specific parts such as lower back or hand exoskeletons for specific parts of the body such as spinal cord injuries regaining the ability to walk, to helping nurses work for longer shifts without fatigue in their muscles.
Global healthcare workforce shortage is becoming more apparent. As populations age and chronic diseases spread, demand for medical services increases exponentially – yet hospitals remain short staffed. Nurses in particular often work long hours performing tedious repetitive tasks that don’t provide much value to patients such as drawing blood or monitoring vital signs – tasks which can be both physically and emotionally exhausting for themselves and patients alike.
Many laborious tasks are ideal candidates for robotic automation, allowing nurses more time and attention for patient care. Robots can assist by taking over these duties from nurses.
As technology develops, medical robots offer even greater assistance to physicians and nurses. Telepresence robots allow doctors to consult remotely from afar while pharmacy automation robots mix sterile intravenous solutions and disburse pills in hospital pharmacies.
However, it’s essential to keep in mind that robots should never replace human nurses; rather they must still be programmed with human emotions and the capacity for ethical decision-making in mind; something which may prove challenging when dealing with highly emotional patients or emergency situations.
As the global population ages and nurses become less available, medical robots have become an invaluable asset in healthcare. From surgical robots to nursing assistants, these machines play an increasingly essential role in healthcare by helping healthcare providers complete repetitive tasks more quickly while improving patient outcomes.
Robotic Nurses
Robots are increasingly being employed to aid nurses in hospitals and other healthcare settings, helping reduce nursing shortages by taking over routine tasks that would otherwise fall to staff alone and freeing up nurses to focus on more specialized duties. Furthermore, these robots can aid patients while increasing communication.
Robotic nurses offer great potential to enhance patient outcomes and increase hospital productivity, but still face certain limitations; such as being unable to make ethical decisions like humans can. For instance, when asking a patient if they would take medication and they refuse, humans can analyze any other signs that suggest otherwise such as tone of voice or facial expressions as signals for not taking medicine.
Robots make decisions based on information from its sensors. Therefore, their usefulness lies solely in being able to accurately detect signals from patients or healthcare workers – this requires significant research and development for robots that can make decisions beyond simple instructions.
DUSTIN, created by Duquesne University School of Nursing, is one of the most innovative robots used to assist nurses. Connected to a computer, DUSTIN allows students to practice nursing skills with virtual patients.
Other robots, like RIBA, can lift patients from lying or sitting positions to another location with ease and reduce strain on nurses while decreasing risk for musculoskeletal disorders. Robots can also be used to deliver food trays and medications or distribute laboratory specimens throughout a hospital.
Robotic technology is revolutionizing how doctors, nurses, and patients interact. These robots will enable more precise and safe treatments – from plaque removal from arteries to tissue biopsies and cancerous tumor removal – all due to advances in artificial intelligence that will enable robots to learn from both mistakes made by doctors as well as successes realized from them. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
What to do if Windows 10 HDR won’t turn on [Easy Fix]
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On Windows 10, you can play HDR content when supported by your external or laptop display. However, several users have reported the Windows 10 HDR won’t turn on issue on Microsoft forum.
This issue can occur if you recently upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10. When trying to enable HDR stream settings, the HRD option fails to turn on.
In this article, we explore a few quick steps to help you resolve the Windows 10 HDR won’t turn on problem.
How can I fix the Windows 10 HDR won’t turn on issue?
1. Enable HDR option from Registry Editor
Windows 10 HDR won't turn on
1. Press the Windows key + R to open Run.
2. Type regedit and click OK. Click Yes when the UAC prompt appears.
3. In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following location:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\VideoSettings
4. From the right pane, right-click on EnableHDRForPlayback and select Modify.
Windows 10 HDR won't turn on
5. Enter 1 in the Data value field.
6. Click OK to save the changes.
Next, go to Start and select Settings from the desktop screen: Select System and open Display. Try enabling the HDR stream option to see if it works.
If the issue persists, you can enable the HDRForPlayback in the registry editor using the command prompt.
Windows 10 HDR won't turn on
1. Press the Window key, and type cmd.
2. Click on Open as Administrator for Command Prompt.
3. In the Command Prompt, enter the following command and hit Enter to execute:
reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\VideoSettings” /v EnableHDRForPlayback /t REG_DWORD /d 1
4. Once the command is executed successfully, exit command prompt.
Make sure to restart your computer before trying to turn the HDR Stream option in Windows 10.
2. Restore Device to the Previous version
Windows 10 HDR won't turn on
1. Press the Windows key + I.
2. Open Update and Security.
3. Open the Recovery tab from the left pane.
4. Scroll down to Go back to the previous version of the Windows 10 section.
5. Click on Get started.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions to restore your PC to the earlier version of Windows 10.
7. Once restored, check if you can enable the Stream HDR option in settings.
If the issue occurred after upgrading to the latest version of Windows 10, you could restore the PC to the previous version of Windows OS to fix the issue.
Note that the Go back to the previous version of the Windows 10 option will not be available after 10 days of updating the system.
Going back to the previous version will also restore all the driver updates. So, you may have to install the update again to get the latest supported drivers for the PC hardware.
3. Check the Display and HDMI port
Turn on HDR on Windows 10
If you are connecting multiple HDR-enabled displays to your PC, make sure the multi-monitor setup is not causing the issue. If you are using a monitor plus TV setup, turn on HDR Stream with only your TV connected to the PC.
In other instances, an incompatible HDMI cable can also cause HDR issues in Windows 10. HDR requires HDMI 2.0b cable to transmit the signal. If you are using an HDMI 1.4v cable, replace it with an HDMI 2.0b cable.
With all said, if the HDR Stream option is missing for your display, it is most likely due to your monitor or TV not supporting HDR technology.
The Windows 10 HDR won’t turn on problem usually occurs due to a glitchy update or incompatible HDMI connection.
Follow the steps to troubleshoot and fix the HDR disabled issue on your Windows 10 computer. Do let us know which method helped you resolve the issue in the comments.
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My name is Ricky and I am 25 years of age. My passions include NASCAR racing, as well as sports in general and a lot of different types of music. I previously had a Wikipedia account, but I lost interest in building on articles, thus my email for that account had been deleted and I no longer know my password, so I have no access to that account, but I am back, and though I, like a lot of people have a life outside of using Wikipedia on the internet, that spark is back, and I can't wait to help build this site article by article as I dive in when I have the proper down time to do so.
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FreePBX migrate from Physical to virtual
Hello,
We are running FreePBX/Asterisk 11.17.1 on a physical server right now and we would like to move it to a VM on VMWARE cluster. I searched online and could not find anyone confirming if I can use vmware convertor to migrate my FreePBX instance to VM. Is it possible to use VMWARE convertor to do this conversion? If not and if I have to install FreePBX from scratch on a new VM, how do I copy all the extensions, trunks and other configuration from physical installation to virtual machine? Please advise the steps I would need to take to get this done.
I also plan on upgrading the FreePBX to latest version on VMWARE.
Thanks!
VMware converter should work just fine with this use case. Do you have any DAHDI hardware in the physical box?
You can also create a new VM from scratch, and then do a backup/restore in FreePBX of your physical box. Should work either way.
Thanks Mike! We do not have any DAHDI hardware. We are using SIP trunks for all the calls.
Since we also need to upgrade FreePBX to latest version what would you suggest is better?
– upgrade it on physical platform and then use vmware convertor to virtualize it
– virtualize it using vmware convertor and then upgrade
I moved my vm’s to googles cloud. It works great, better than aws. Low latency and great bandwidth. Very affordable. They also have a free migration tool that will automatically move your vm up to google - I highly recommend.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/migrating-vms-compute-engine
Virtualize then upgrade. This way you’ll have the ability to snapshot (or backup using ghettoVCB, VEEM, etc)… so if something goes wrong you can just revert.
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Dr. Frank Drake presented the Drake Equation in 1961. Here it is in all its glory:
N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L
What does that all mean, exactly? It's a way to say that life is present on a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the planets in the universe. Let's break it down:
• N = The number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This is the number the equation is trying to find.
• R* = The rate that stars suitable for developing intelligent life are forming.
• fp= The fraction of those stars that have solar systems.
• ne = The number of planets in each of those solar systems that could support life. (See how we're narrowing that N number down little by little?)
• fl = The fraction of those habitable planets that actually contain life.
• fi = The fraction of those life-bearing planets that actually have intelligent life.
• fc = The fraction of intelligent civilizations that develop a technology that release detectable signs of their existence into space.
• L = The length of time those signals have been transmitting.
Exciting as the possibility of alien life is, you can see how it's difficult to calculate our chances are of finding it—at least right now. We don't have exact numbers for most of the equation, so crunching the numbers is a challenge, at best. Still, we can theorize. The equation can result in a broad range of answers depending on how optimistic or informed the user is. Many scientists look at the equation as a useful and tool for the probability of life on other worlds.
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NICE has recommended AJOVY for chronic migraine patients who have not responded to at least three prior preventive drug treatments.
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It is estimated that 1 in 7 adults are affected by migraine and women are three times more likely to be affected than men.
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846 easy answer. Referring to the position taken by Mr, Spencer that justice should, but that beneficence should not, be enforced, he asks why this should be, if the warrant for beneficence equally with that for justice lies, as Mr. Spencer seems to admit, in the public good. The answer we conceive is this: that while beneficence, wisely practiced, is a public benefit, the enforcing of it would not be a public benefit, inasmuch as it would tend to kill the sentiment itself. If, for example, the moment a beneficent action became possible for us some power should seize us and force us to a performance of the action, we can hardly imagine any other result than that the very instinct of beneficence would die out. Another answer is that whereas justice is essentially of the nature of non-interference, beneficence is essentially of the nature of interference. The motto of the one is "Hands off!" For the other we would have to coin the motto "Hands on!" Now, the difference between establishing in government the principle of "Hands off!" and establishing that of "Hands on I" is obvious. The former is not only workable, but is the necessary condition of all free individual effort; the latter is unworkable in any consistent manner, from its absolutely indefinite and unlimited character. If beneficence is to be enforced, where are we to begin and where can we possibly end? Again, imagine the effect on weak individuals of knowing that beneficence toward them will be enforced. What interest have they henceforth in ceasing to be weak? Finally, beneficence administered by the state is not beneficence in the true sense, and can have none of the effects of true beneficence; for the state can only properly take what it has a right to take and give what it has a right to give, and the beneficiaries in the case supposed would be quick to draw the inference that they were getting no more than their due. Thus would the limits of justice be obscured and social stability endangered. On many grounds, therefore, we think the distinction Mr. Spencer draws a sound one.
report of the Library Committee of the Public Library of Cleveland, Ohio, for the year ended August 31st last, has come into our hands. Two remarks made in it have arrested our attention. One is to the effect that "it is a singular and deplorable fact that, of all the money so lavishly expended by the many rich men and women of Cleveland in various benevolent and charitable enterprises, not one cent has ever been given either toward the erection of a library building or to help to support the library." Elsewhere it is stated that "our library has never had the use of any money except such as came by taxation."
Well, whether or not there is anything "deplorable" in this, we can not say that we find the fact at all "singular." Taxation and benevolence are two things that do not naturally mingle. The Cleveland Public Library seems to have been in operation since 1869, and it has doubtless come to be looked upon as a department of the city government. Had taxation not been resorted to for the formation of a library, there is no knowing what private beneficence might not have done ere this. When the State takes up a function, it is a kind of hint to private enterprise to drop it. Why should a private individual subsidize a tax-supported library any more than a tax-supported post office?
The other remark above referred to is that "the plan of permitting free access of patrons to the shelves, adopted some time since with some misgivings, continues to give increased satisfaction to those using the library. . . . Not only," the report continues, "has this new method given great satisfaction to those desiring and drawing books from the library, but it has also enabled us to | WIKI |
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