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Ancient people conquered the Arctic at least 45,000 years ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The frozen carcass of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia with unmistakable signs of spear wounds is providing evidence that people inhabited Arctic regions thousands of years earlier than previously known. Russian scientists on Thursday said the male mammoth excavated from a bluff on Yenisei Bay on the Arctic Ocean was killed by hunters 45,000 years ago, providing the earliest indication of the presence of humans in the Arctic. Until now, the oldest evidence of humans in Arctic regions dated to “more or less 30,000 years ago,” according to Vladimir Pitulko, senior research scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg. The people who endured the harsh Arctic conditions likely lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, Pitulko said. Mammoths, the close elephant relatives that were the largest land creatures in the region, represented an important resource for them. “Indeed, these animals provide an endless source of different goods: food with meat, fat and marrow; fuel with dung, fat and bones; and raw material with long bones and ivory,” Pitulko said. “They certainly would use them as food, especially certain parts like tongue or liver as a delicacy, but hunting for the ivory was more important,” added Pitulko, with the ivory substituting for wood in the treeless steppe landscape. The mammoth, excavated in 2012, had injuries indicating it had been killed by people. Damage to its ribs appears to have been caused by spears thrown by hunters, while shoulder-blade and cheekbone injuries probably came from hand-held thrusting spears, Pitulko added. There also was damage to the right tusk that may have been caused by people chopping at it after the mammoth was killed. “The main part of it is that the mammoth was really killed by humans, and evidence for that is unbeatable,” Pitulko said. Scientists think mammoth-hunting may have been a critical factor in enabling people to survive in the Arctic and trek across northernmost Siberia, helping them reach the vicinity of the Bering land bridge that at the time linked Siberia to Alaska. The first humans to reach the New World crossed that land bridge, then spread through the Americas. The fact that humans populated Arctic regions sooner than previously known suggests the possibility that people also crossed the Bering land bridge earlier than currently suspected, Pitulko added. The research was published in the journal Science. Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Sandra Maler | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Lloyd I. Ross v. State.
No. 24094.
November 3, 1948.
Rehearing Denied May 11, 1949.
Fred L. Blundell, Lockhart, Leonard Brown, San Antonio, C. C. Jopling, La Grange, and J. H. Schyler, New Braunfels, for appellant.
A. J. Luckett, County Attorney, New Braunfels, John C. Marburger, County Attorney, Bellville, and Ernest S. Goens, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
BEAUCHAMP, Judge.
The appeal is from a conviction for murder with a death penalty.
Dr. Lloyd I. Ross was a practicing surgeon in the City of San Antonio. Through the years he became acquainted with Willard York and intrusted to him for investment a large amount of securities. In the early part of 1947 appellant learned that the stocks and bonds and all the securities he had placed with York had been mishandled. The doctor became much troubled over his loss and the fact that his friend had betrayed him. On Sunday morning the 25th day of May, 1947, he left his home in San Antonio and parked his car in Stahl Lane, near the home of Willard York in Comal County, and waited until York and his family came along in their car. Appellant opened fire on the family which resulted in the death of four, leaving only Ann York as the survivor. She escaped by fleeing from the car while he was shooting at her. The prosecution is for the murder of Mrs. Gertrude York, wife of Willard York.
The appellant then returned to San Antonio and voluntarily surrendered to the city police, to whom he told the story of the killing in Comal County. Communication was had with the sheriff’s department in New Braunfels, where the appellant was lodged in jail later in the day. He was denied bond and retained in jail in Comal County until his case was called for trial in September following. After an effort to secure jurors qualified under the law, the court, on his own motion, transferred the case to Fayette County, where it was called for trial October 13, 1947. The lengthy trial brings to his court quite a voluminous record, with seventy bills of exception for our consideration. These complain of the action of the court in changing the venue of the case; also many objections to non-expert witnesses’ testimony as to the mental condition of the accused; and chiefly the grounds upon which reversal is- sought seems to be that the evidence of insanity, as produced by the appellant, was so impressive that the judgment should not be permitted to stand. There are also objections to the court's charge and to the argument of the district attorney in several particulars. The opinion will deal with these questions and such others as might be properly involved by them.
We note the views expressed in appellant’s brief on the law of insanity. The requested charges and exceptions to the charge indicate that both the court and counsel for defendant had reviewed extensively the law on the subject in other jurisdictions as well as in Texas. On some questions there is sharp disagreement between the states as to what the law should be. The opinions by the various courts in Texas, civil as well as the court of criminal appeals, might, in instances, be subject to discussion, but we think there is no conflict so far as the law of the case now before us is involved.
We may eliminate a discussion of a large part of the record by the positive statement that Texas does not recognize the doctrine of irresistible impulse. Carnes v. State, 275 S. W. 1002. Much of the evidence in the case presents conclusions of witnesses, based on the idea which the witness had that circumstances had developed in the appellant an irrisistible impulse which drove Dr. Ross to the murder of Willard York, and with him his wife, Gertrude York.
Eliminating all discussion about the types of insanity, the one controlling question in this case is whether or not the accused was so mentally deranged at the time of the commission of the alleged offense as to make him incapable of knowing the right from the wrong in the particular transaction, and that it was a thing he ought not to do. Davidson v. State, 4 S. W. (2d) 74. He might have been indulged even from childhood so that he gave undue importance to his own position in matters. He might have been sensitive, suspicious, and retiring. He might have been abnormal, as concluded by the psychiatrists, all the days of his life. His nerves might have been frayed because of his strenuous professional duties and the worry which his losses brought upon him. Yet the question remains: Did he have sufficient mental capacity at the time of the tragedy to know and understand the right from the wrong in the particular matter involved?
The circumstances under which the murder took place are important. His actions before and after the tragedy were considered by the jury. His life experiences were presented to the jury and utilized by them in determining the mental capacity of the man at the very time of the shooting. The field of inquiry is wide, but this cannot affect the rule of law which we have stated, and which should be kept definitely in mind in order that we may discuss more briefly such questions as appear to call for treatment in this opinion.
The first question complains of the action of the judge of the district court in transferring the case from Comal County to Fayette County for trial. We see no ground for complaint in this. A large number of jurors had been examined. Ten qualified and had been accepted by both sides. The court, on his own motion, at this time transferred the case and gave as his reason that he had become satisfied that a trial alike fair and impartial to the accused and to the state could not be had in Comal County, for the reason that the examination of one hundred and seventy-three veniremen and talesmen showed that the facts of the alleged crime “* * * have so permeated the entire citizenship of the county,- from what can be discerned from the jurors, from the veniremen and the talesmen, that there is hardly a man in the county who has not made up his mind either one way or the other, and it further appearing to the court from the facts and circumstances which have come to the knowledge of the court during the proceeding herein that justice demands and the interests of the accused and the state would better be served by a transfer of this cause to some other county for trial.” Nothing is presented in the record to refute this finding and it will be presumed that the trial court had a basis for it. Under such presumption we cannot say that he was not authorized to transfer the case.
Of the seventy bills of exception, we find a great many relate to the admission of evidence and will be considered under classifications along with a discussion of what appears to be the chief grounds upon which a reversal is sought. We might summarize the argument, both in the brief and that made orally, by saying it was the view of appellant’s counsel that the evidence is so overwhelmingly in favor of the plea of insanity that the verdict of the jury, assessing a death penalty, should not stand. On this issue we have given careful consideration to the testimony of all of the witnesses produced. They come under two classifications; those who had known the appellant for some time, who had been associated with him intimately and were in position to detail the acts and conduct of the man for the consideration of the jury and as a basis for expert testimony; the other class would be those who did not know him intimately but who examined him for the purpose of testifying to their conclusions as experts.
Of the first class there are a great number; patients, some of whom had been engaged with him in social activities also; nurses who had worked for him in his office or aided in his operations; and doctors who had even better and more frequent opportunities to observe him in his professional connection as well as social activities. Each and all of these witnesses claimed a definite understanding of the man. They pictured him as a very capable surgeon, one who was extremely meticulous, interested in his profession above all things else, quite courteous, and possessed the qualities of a perfect gentleman in his office and out of it. Generally, they described a definite change in the man soon after publicity was given to the failure of the York Company and his loss in such failure. He had talked to them about his loss. He had revealed his fear of his health condition. He had expressed disappointment in the betrayal of a friend (Willard York). He had an appearance of untidiness not theretofore characteristic of him. He was forgetful and nervous; was seen to drop his cigarette with a lighted match on the rug and did not realize it. He sometimes failed to recognize friends when he met them. On one occasion, shortly before the homicide, a couple, close friends, visited in his home for the evening and he sat in perfect silence and never uttered a word. There is other evidence along this line not mentioned and there is evidence to contradict it. Even a doctor friend introduced by the defense, who expressed an opinion that he was insane on the day of the killing, visited with him the day before and they were together a considerable time. This witness said he was not insane then. Other associates testified as state witnesses and by their evidence raised issues of fact for the jury pertaining to his mental state during the months previous to the homicide, at the time — and continuously to the date of the trial.
The state introduced rebuttal testimony which impliedly contradicted any conclusion that might have been made from the first group of the defense witnesses.
Among the witnesses who testified that appellant was insane at the time of the homicide.are two psychiatrists of San Antonio, Dr. Anna Boyd and Dr. W. J. Johnson. Each of these witnesses described the man in positive terms. Dr. Boyd said the appellant thought everybody was commenting on him, they were watching him as he went along the street and about his work. He thought the doctors took a delight in his plight, that certain doctors hated him and were spying on him, that he had delusions that his wife had turned his daughter against him. After the commission of the crime he concluded that he was a part of God’s infinite plan; that all of his ailments and misfortunes were a part of that and he even had hallucinations. He said that his insanity at the time of the killing had grown from the suffering he had gone through in early ailments; that he in fact did not at the time of the killing understand the nature of his act and the consequence of it — was not able to distinguish between right and wrong. On cross-examination the doctor said this type of insanity comes on very gradually and that it had existed for several years, saying: “He has not been normal for several years; in fact I testified a while ago that he has been insane for several years.” His complications had resulted in several types of insanity for some time and that he will always be so, will get worse; that he had never been quite normal; was poorly adjusted. This is denominated a schizoid personality, “* * * which means he was withdrawn into himself and is retiring and too sensitive. * * * Certainly he has had a strongly marked paranoia tendency all along.”
Dr. Johnson testified more extensively that appellant did not understand the nature and consequence of his act at the time of the killing — did not understand right from wrong in the particular act with which he was charged. This answer was given from personal examination and was repeated in answer to a hypothetical question. His testimony followed much the line of that Of Dr. Boyd, above summarized. On cross-examination he said, “There is a basic defect in this man and always has been; it is what we call a schizoid personality and he has developed a paranoia trend with delusions of persecution.” He said the condition is partly hereditary and described his type as being suspicious, moody, withdrawing from reality, they have delusions and defective judgment relative to them. He says this man only had two friends in his life; that he is suspicious of everybody, his lawyer, his wife, and everyone else; that he cannot see life as an ordinary individual does; that his kind of insanity is progressive and will break under stress and strain. He continued, “This defendant has been unstable all his life, but he has been insane since the moment he could not adjust himself for the last two or three years.” He concludes that he is insane now, will continue to be, and has been insane, in his opinion, for two or three years. (Quoting (S. F. p. 28) : “The man’s history is the history of an inadequate individual who is not equipped to meet the ordinary situations of life in any way.”
It requires no comment to point out the conflicts between the two classifications of witnesses we have discussed. If the associates, the non-expert witnesses, are correct in their judgment of the man, the experts misunderstood him entirely and there would be but weak and inconsiderable evidence from the first class upon which the conclusion may be reached that the accused did not, at the time of the homicide, have the ability to understand the right and wrong of the thing in which he was engaged. The friends and associates pictured him as a fine character. He had many friends and they testified for him as such. He was affable. The strongest conclusion which might be reached from the testimony of the great majority of them was that he committed the offense under an irresistible impulse. It was not that he could not understand, but that he could not control his action. Under such facts he should be made to pay the penalty of the law, since the jury so decreed.
If the jury had accepted the evidence of the expert witnesses it would have been a finding that practically all of the conclusions of the other witnesses who appeared in his behalf were entirely without foundation. In view of such conflicts it is not surprising that the jury, acting under the court’s charge, returned their verdict in the short period of time complained of in the motion for a new trial. When we consider the testimony of the many witnesses for the state directly in conflict with much of that upon which appellant relies to establish his insanity, there could be no question that there is evidence to support the jury’s finding. Particular attention is directed to the fact that following the shooting he returned to San Antonio, went to the police station and surrendered himself to be imprisoned for his crime. It would be singular that a man should do this in the absence of any realization of wrong doing.
We have examined the many bills complaining of the qualifications of non-expert witnesses to testify to the mental condition or, rather, conclusions as to the changed state of the man. Such proffered evidence called for expert opinion and was not admissible. The rule involved is well established by many decisions of our state so that the question is elementary. We think that in each case the court ruled properly.
Another objection seriously urged complains that the court did not limit evidence of the killing of all other members of the York family at the time. It was all one transaction. A witness could hardly testify to the killing of Mrs. Gertrude York, for whose murder he was charged in the instant case, without relating the facts which show the murder of the other three. It was a part of the res gestae. We are unable to understand what language the court could have used to limit the evidence with effect so as to give any relief to appellant.
In Bills of Exception Numbers 58 and 59, complaint is made that the district attorney in arguing the case went outside of the record, making a prejudicial argument, wherein he said, “They talk to you, ‘Why don’t they bring a doctor here to testify?’ Every one says, the Court will remember, not once but many times, they say, ‘Why doesn’t the State bring a doctor in here to testify in this case?’ I will tell you why. Blundell says every doctor in San Antonio knows this man; I tell you there isn’t a doctor in San Antonio that will testify against him. That is what the State of Texas is up against in this case. Not only in San Antonio, but anywhere else. Think of it. Think of it. Who is trying to mislead you gentlemen ? Why doesn’t the State of Texas bring a doctor in here, they say. That is the answer.”
In Bill No. 59 it is claimed that the district attorney said, “I am telling you again, the State of Texas can’t bring you a doctor. They challenged me to tell you why the State of Texas didn’t bring in a psychiatrist.” Objection is further made that the foregoing argument was prejudicial and inflammatory.
From the very language which the district attorney used it appears that his statement was invited. The argument for the defense called for such an answer. They had asked him a question outside of the record. The rules do not require that he ignore the defense argument and it is not considered error that he gave to them such answer as their question calls for. The bill is defective in that it does not negative the proposition that it was made in reply or in response to argument of the defense attorneys. Lerma v. State, 200 S. W. (2d) 635; Dinklage v. State, 198 S. W. (2d) 578, and cases there cited.
The same defect above pointed out is found in subsequent bills relating to the argument of the prosecution.
Bill of Exception No. 70 complains of the misconduct of the jury, as shown by appellant’s motion for new trial, to the effect that the jury deliberated only fifteen minutes. It is contended that this shows the jury did not base its verdict on the testimony and the law. We know of no rule of law requiring that a jury consume any specified time. The trial had lasted several days, many witnesses had been called, the evidence of each was very similar to the other. It was a repetition of similar facts day after day. When the charge had been read, the attorneys spent several hours arguing the case. Presumably they applied the law to the facts and the jury had an opportunity to be familiar with both the law as given in the charge and the facts submitted before them. If the first ballot showed they were of one mind, appellant could have little hope that hours of discussion among the jury would give him any material assistance. The bill shows no error.
Bill of Exception No. 36 contains a lengthy exception to the court’s charge on the defense of insanity. This complains of sections 10 to 24 inclusive, and embraces more than one subject. The defendant objected and excepted to the court’s charge on insanity because the court does not, in its charge, differentiate between facts to be considered by the jury on the issue of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense as distinguished from the issue of insanity at the time of the trial.
Special objection is then directed to section 13 of the court’s charge and the reason therefor was that the charge placed too great a burden upon the defendant and is not the law of the state. We cannot commend the treatise on the law of insanity which the court gave, nor his instruction to the jury as to “* * * a safe and reasonable test in all cases * * This part of the charge does not purport to define the law but is rather an instruction to the jury, apparently for the purpose of guiding them in the reasoning which they should indulge. Certainly it was not necessary, but it was favorable to the party on trial and the harm resulting from it, if any, would be against the state and not the accused.
We find no reversible error and conclude that the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed. It is so ordered.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
GRAVES, Judge.
Appellant insists that we erred in holding the facts sufficient' to support the conviction.
Early on the morning of Sunday, May 25, 1947, appellant, with a high-powered rifle in his car, drove to what is known as the “Stahl lane” in Comal County, which led to the York ranch, where Willard York and his family resided. He parked his car in the lane or road and waited for some evident purpose. Shortly thereafter, Willard York, accompanied by his wife, Gertrude York, his mother, Mary York, his thirteen-year old daughter, Ann York, and his nine-year old son, John York, drove up in his car and stopped as appellant’s car had the roadway blocked. Appellant got out of his car with the rifle in his hand, and without saying anything or replying to the pleading of Gertrude York, who said, “Don’t shoot, Lloyd, don’t shoot,” he opened fire on Willard York, killing him. Then moving the gun, he killed Gertrude York, reloaded his rifle and killed John York, who fell close by the side of the right door of the car. He then fired at Ann York, who was struck by a bullet in her leg as she fled down the road, but was not killed. A more brutal or horrible crime could hardly be conceived.
As mitigating the crime, it was shown that appellant entrusted to York, his friend and investment banker, his life savings and inheritance for investment, and that about two months prior to the killing he learned that York had used his funds and lost them, as a result of which he filed a suit against York claiming improper use of the funds. York then filed a petition in bankruptcy in which he listed appellant as an unsecured creditor for $80,279.67, thus furnishing a motive for this multiple killing.
Appellant’s sole and only defense was that of insanity at the time of the commission of the crime and at the time of the trial. As supporting that defense, appellant points to the facts of the killing which, it is insisted, of and within themselves evidence the act of an insane person.
Doctors, patients, and nurses, as well as nonexpert witnesses who had been associated with and knew appellant, testified that he was insane, as did also eminent psychiatrists and specialists in mental diseases, expressing the opinion that appellant was unable to distinguish between the right and wrong of his acts. In addition, it was shown that appellant’s .mother was insane for five years before her death. Appellant’s life history was shown, exhibiting his gradual mental decline from the normal to the abnormal and finally to insanity.
There is no question but that the facts as a whole presented a very strong defense of insanity. To combat that defense, the state relied alone upon the testimony of nonexpert witnesses as will be more fully shown by a discussion hereafter of certain bills of exception. No doctors or medical experts testified that appellant was sane.
If we understand appellant’s contention that the facts are insufficient to support the conviction, it is that the insanity defense was so overwhelmingly shown that this court should not permit the conviction to stand.
Mere mental deficiency or derangement, though it may constitute a form of insanity known to and recognized by medical science, does not excuse one for crime. The insanity that excuses for crime is that known as the “right and wrong test,” that is, the capacity of the accused to distinguish right from wrong in respect to the act charged as a crime at the time óf its commission and the probable consequences of his act. If a person has sufficient mental capacity to understand the nature of the particular act or acts constituting the crime and to know whether they are right or wrong, he is responsible if he commits such act or acts. If he does not possess that degree of capacity of mentality, he is not responsible. The rule stated is the generally accepted doctrine, not only in this state, but in all other jurisdictions where a different rule is not applied by statute.
Insanity that excuses for crime is a fact question which must of necessity be determined by the jury under proper instructions from the court. It was the sole province of the jury to believe or not believe the appellant’s defensive testimony. In the exercise of that discretion, the jury chose not to believe that defense, but rather to accept the theory of the state that appellant was sane. This court is without power to say that they were not authorized to do so. The facts are sufficient to support the conviction.
Appellant urges that the strong insanity defense presented becomes of material importance in considering certain of his bills of exception complaining of the receipt in evidence of the testimony of certain nonexpert witnesses attesting the appellant’s sanity. These bills will be considered together.
Bill of Exception No. 16 reflects the following: In the development of its case in chief, the state proved by the witness Fest, Lieutenant of Police in San Antonio, that at about 11:00 or 11:30 o’clock in the morning of May 25, 1947, which would be about three hours after the killing, appellant appeared at the police headquarters and asked Fest, “Who is in charge of the office?” Upon Fest’s replying that he was in charge, appellant stated, “I think I killed a man. * * * Yes, I think I killed a man by the name of York.” Thereupon Fest asked appellant to sit down, which he did. Fest then called to Lieutenant Hester, who came to the office and took charge of appellant. Upon rebuttal, the witness Fest was recalled by the state, and after again detailing the foregoing facts, he was permitted to testify over objection as follows:
“From my observations of this defendant at the time he was in my office on May 25, 1947, the conversation I had with him, his appearance as I have described in my former testimony, his demeanor and his behavior on that occasion, it is my opinion that Lloyd I. Ross was sane on the morning of May 25, 1947, the date of the commission of the offense with which he is charged, the murder of Gertrude York.”
The witness fixed the length of time that appellant was in his office as being ten or fifteen minutes. The witness farther testified that he based the opinion expressed by him “solely on the fact that the man came to my office voluntarily, made one statement, I asked him one question, and then he took a seat over in a corner.” The witness had not known appellant prior to this time.
By Bill of Exception No. 18 the following appears: Lieutenant Fest turned appellant over to Hester, the lieutenant of the San Antonio Police Department in charge of homicide, who went with appellant to his car parked near the police station and there Hester found in the car the high-powered rifle which was loaded at that time. There was also found in the car an ammunition box containing one loaded shell. Appellant was placed in jail and later turned over to the sheriff of Comal County. Hester saw appellant after he was in jail. The period of time which Hester fixed as covering his opportunity for observation of the appellant was between “45 minutes and an hour approximately.” Upon this predicate Hester testified:
“During the time that Dr. Ross was in my custody, all the time that I observed him, he did not at any time do anything other than conduct himself in a normal way. To me his conduct was normal.”
This witness had not known appellant prior to this time.
By Bill of Exception No. 25 it appears that Herrera, the city jailer, checked appellant into the jail and asked him the usual questions incident thereto, and then fingerprinted him. During that time appellant asked permission to use the telephone and call an attorney. Herrera looked up the telephone number and dialed it for him as appellant could not see well without his glasses. Herrera said that appellant was in his presence about forty-five minutes or an hour. Based upon that observation, Herrera testified that in his opinion appellant was sane at that time. He had not known appellant prior to this time.
To the testimony of each of those witnesses who attested to appellant’s sanity, the objection was urged that a sufficient predicate had not been first laid in that there was not shown close or intimate relations or period of time sufficient to authorize the witness to express the opinion that appellant was sane.
Every person is presumed to be sane until the contrary is shown. It is by reason of this presumption that "the law casts upon one relying on insanity as a defense to crime the burden of establishing such fact by a preponderance of the testimony. See Craven v. State, 93 Tex. Cr. R. 328, 247 S. W. 515; Ex parte McKenzie, 116 Tex. Cr. R. 144, 28 S. W. (2d) 133. As the law presumes every person to be sane, it is only by a departure from the normal that the sanity of a person is called in question. So, when witnesses attest to observing nothing in the appearance, acts, conduct, or words of a person that would suggest or lead to the belief that such person was abnormal or of unsound mind, the legal presumption follows that such a person is sane. Therefore, under the law, it may be said that the absence of the abnormal attests of and within itself the fact of sanity. The question as to the admission of nonexpert testimony as to the sanity of the accused has often been before the courts.
In Shields v. State, 104 Tex. Cr. R. 253, 283 S. W. 844, the rule is stated as follows:
“The rule seems well settled in this state that a nonexpert witness, who has shown reasonable opportunity to observe the acts and conduct of the party inquired of, may state that he has never observed anything in the acts, speech, demeanor, or conduct of such party which were peculiar or which led witness to believe or conclude such party of unsound mind or abnormal.”
Therefore, the test in reviewing the action of the trial court in admitting nonexpert testimony of sanity appears to turn upon whether “there appears to have been so little knowledge, opportunity, etc., shown to form a conclusion” in regard to the question. The shortness of time in such observation would usually be a matter relating to the weight to be given to such testimony rather than affecting its admissibility. The rule stated has been consistently followed. See Langhorn v. State, 105 Tex. Cr. R. 289 S. W. 57; Upton v. State, 20 S. W. (2d) 794; Moroney v. State, 133 Tex. Cr. R. 579, 112 S. W. (2d) 742; McKee v. State, 118 Tex. Cr. R. 479, 42 S. W. (2d) 77; Newchurch v. State, 135 Tex. Cr. R. 619, 121 S. W. (2d) 998; Henderson v. State, 130 Tex. Cr. R. 409, 94 S. W. (2d) 467.
Appellant presses upon us his contention that the testimony of the witnesses named, and especially that of Fest and Herrera, comes within the rule stated; that is, that there was not shown sufficient knowledge or opportunity for observation to authorize them to say that appellant was sane. In keeping with this contention, appellant relies upon the case of Winn v. State, 136 Tex. Cr. R. 513, 126 S. W. (2d) 481.
We are not in accord with the statement that the holding in the Winn case, supra, lays down the doctrine that an observation of five minutes’ duration is too short a time to allow a witness to testify in regard to his conclusion as to one’s sanity or insanity. The Winn case again asserts the doctrine as laid down in the case of Shields v. State, 104 Tex. Cr. R. 253, 283 S. W. 844, and is quoted in Malone v. State, 115 Tex. Cr. R. 94, 30 S. W. (2d) 486, as follows:
“In this connection, however, we may say that it being manifestly impossible for this court to lay down any hard and fast rules as to the exact amount and extent of the predicate which should precede the testimony of a nonexpert witness offered to prove the sanity of the accused, we will not hold such testimony incompetent in a given case unless there appears to have been so little knowledge, opportunity, etc., shown to form a conclusion in the regard mentioned, as would manifest an abuse of the discretion of the trial judge.”
When all the cases touching the receipt in evidence of the testimony of nonexperts that the accused is sane are viewed as an overall picture, the conclusion appears to be inevitable that each case must be determined upon the facts there presented and that no fixed rule of acquaintance, time, or opportunity for observation may be established, and if the Winn case is susceptible of such interpretation, to that extent the same is overruled.
Bills of Exception Nos. 11 and 13 complain because the non-expert witnesses, Aronstein and Jordan, were not permitted to express the opinion that appellant was insane. Appellant argues with much emphasis that if the state was entitled to establish the sanity of appellant by nonexpert witnesses, then he was entitled to prove his insanity by nonexpert witnesses.
It must be remembered that a difference exists in the predicate authorizing a nonexpert witness to testify as to the sanity of the accused and that of one testifying as to insanity. Non-expert witnesses testifying to the insanity of the accused must state the facts upon which that conclusion is based so that the jury may have the benefit of those facts in weighing the testimony of the witnesses. See 24 Tex. Jur. p. 430, sec. 45; Walthall v. State, 144 Tex. Cr. R. 585, 165 S. W. (2d) 184; also Newchurch v. State, supra.
Nonexpert witnesses are confined to their opinions only at the time of their observations of the accused person and cannot be allowed to project their opinions as to the mental condition of such accused at a future time. It is noted by us that although the witness Aronstein, a nonexpert, testified relative to certain conditions and changes in appellant on Wednesday evening, May 21, 1947, four days prior to this killing, yet nowhere therein was he questioned relative to appellant’s insanity on such Wednesday. He was asked the question as to his opinion of appellant’s mental condition on Sunday, May 25, 1947, the day Mrs. York was killed. A nonexpert insanity wdtness cannot be allowed to give his opinion on a question of insanity at a future date. To thus allow would place him in the category of an expert. We do not think that the nonexpert witnesses, Aron-stein and Jordan, should have been allowed the prediction that appellant would have been insane on May 25, 1947, as shown in the question which is the basis of Bills Nos. 11 and 13.
The question propounded to Aronstein was as follows:
“Q. And you have already testified to what he said and what he did at that time. Now, based on that and the prior observations of him and the acquaintance you had with him that you have testified to here, on May the 25th, 1947, the time this offense is alleged to have occurred, what is your opinion as to whether or not Lloyd I. Ross was sane or insane?”
The question propounded to Mr. Jordan was as follows:
“Q. Based on what you knew of Dr. Ross for approximately seven years or six years and your observation of him on Wednesday prior to the killing, state whether or not in your opinion, at the time of the homicide, Dr. Ross was sane or insane?”
We do not find any analogy between the lay witnesses of the state being allowed to testify as to appellant’s condition on the day of the killing and soon thereafter, a portion of which took place within practically a few minutes of the killing, and on the same day; the difference being four days prior to the killing and a few minutes thereafter. The witnesses, Aronstein and Jordan, gave the facts upon which they could doubtless have based an opinion as of date the day of their observations, but were not asked to do so. They could not invade the realm of expert testimony as to the future.
The rule seems to be well established that a nonexpert witness may delineate his observation of an accused, his attitude, both mental and physical, as compared to his previous attitude, etc., and draw his general conclusion or opinion therefrom, but nowhere have we been able to find any opinion that would allow such nonexpert to say what such opinion would be at a future time such as at the commission of the offense, if such be at a different time from his observation. To allow such an opinion would invade the realm of experts who, from their knowledge, study, and long experience, could therefrom fix a prognosis of such diseased condition of the mind and prophesy its future probable outcome.
We are not willing to say that it was error to refuse to allow these two nonexpert witnesses to testify that they thought appellant was insane on May 25, 1947, basing such opinion on what they had observed on May 21, 1947.
The enormity of this offense might have some weight in evidencing a troubled mind, nevertheless, there might also be found some significance in the fact that had the shots fired at the little girl taken her life, there would have been no witness left to tell of this Sunday morning tragedy.
In submitting the defense of insanity, the trial court gave the following instruction:
“A safe and reasonable test in all cases would be that whenever it should appear from all the evidence, that at the time of doing the act, the defendant was not of sound mind, but was affected with insanity, and such affection was the cause of the act, and that he would not have committed the act but for that affection, he ought to be acquitted, for in such a case the reason would be at the time dethroned, and the power to exercise judgment would be wanting, but this unsoundness of mind or affection of insanity must be of such a degree as to obliterate the sense of right and wrong, depriving the accused of the power of choosing between right and wrong as to the particular act done.”
Specific objection was leveled at that part of the charge which reads, “that at the time of doing the act, the defendant was not of sound mind, but was affected with insanity, and such affection was the cause of the act, and that he would not have committed the act but for that affection,” the objection being that such was not the law and placed a greater burden upon appellant than that required by law in that it required the jury to believe, before acquitting appellant upon the ground of insanity, that his insanity was the cause of his committing the murder and that he would not have committed the murder unless he was insane. The paragraph quoted appears in substance, but not in the exact form, as in the charge set forth in Form No. 930, Willson’s Texas Criminal Forms, (4th Edition). Such form of charge was expressly approved by this court in Shield v. State, 118 Tex. Cr. R. 509, 38 S. W. (2d) 76.
It would be impossible to write on each and every bill of exception presented to us, the last of said bills being numbered 70, the transcript containing 213 pages, and the statement of facts consisting of 317 pages. To write upon each bill would unduly lengthen this opinion.
The complained of remarks of counsel for the state has been considered and without writing on each bill, we do not see any error evidenced therein.
There are other bills which, while not written on, have been considered and no error found therein.
While appellant had many witnesses who testified to his lack of sanity, yet the state countered with others who testified to the contrary; and this court does not feel called upon to say that the verdict of the jury is not supported by the evidence herein. • •
We adhere to the conclusions announced in our original opinion, and the motion for a rehearing will therefore be overruled. | CASELAW |
Talk:Haubits FH77
FH77 is now inactive
The FH77A and B versions have been discontinued by the Swedish Armed Forces in favor of the new Archer Artillery System. The remaining FH77B have either been scrapped or converted into Archers. I would have included this in the article but I dont have any sources readily available. Fred26 (talk) 15:48, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
* So where did you get this info from? That should be the source to quote. DPdH (talk) 02:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Born:31th January, 2003(Real) 31th January, 2004(Official) North Lakhimpur, Assam, India.
Residence:-Doom Dooma,Assam,India. Education:-Don Bosco High School, Doom Dooma. Occupation:-Student. Net Worth:-Zero(Currently) | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlasview Ltd v Brightview Ltd
The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) D u s t i *poke* 05:38, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Atlasview Ltd v Brightview Ltd
* – ( View AfD View log )
Does not appear to be a notable court case, as establised by WP:N; I see no evidence that this case is the subject of indepth coverage by reliable sources. I am, of course, willing to be proven wrong here, but I can't find anything myself. Jayron 32 06:24, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
* I'm not really sure why, just because YOU see no evidence that the case is the subject of indepth coverage by reliable sources, that you need to put up one of these pages. There is the neutral citation: as a case in the High Court, it's notable alone. And, Jayron, you can't have looked very hard, I'm afraid! But it is a reasonably important precedent anyway. Hope that clears it up. Wik idea 10:51, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Keep article is notable but needs cross referencing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meritstarzzz (talk • contribs) 15:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
* Keep as in the first paragraph, there is a good explanation of why this is an important legal precedent. Kansan (talk) 16:17, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
* Withdraw nomination Because of added citations. Thanks for making Wikipedia better and more complete, to whomever did so! -- Jayron 32 22:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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Biology Test (Cancer info) Jan. 16
1. What is cancer?
Loss of control of normal cell growth & division
2. Apoptosis
Loss of a cell's ability to undergo cell suicide/ death (old/damaged cells naturally break down in body)
3. Tumors or Neoplasms
• -Mass of cells
• -Cell growth/ division is rapid
• -No signals for cell death
4. Benign tumor
• -Cannot spread
• -Grows locally
• -Non-cancerous
5. Malignant tumor
• -Cancerous; draws it's own blood supply for needed nutrients & oxygen to continue to grow & divide uncontrollably
• -Capable of spreading by invading nearby tissues or metastasis
6. Metastasis
Cells from tumor break away from original site and travel via bloodstream or lymphatic system to adjacent tissue/ organs or far away organs (this is how cancer spreads through the body; becomes very dangerous)
7. Biopsy
Surgical removal of a sample of affected cells & tissue or blood from the body to examine under the microscope
8. Causes of Cancers
• -Environmental factors (chemicals, radiation)
• -Genes (diet, hormones)
• -Viruses & Bacteria
• -Carcinogen (cancer causing agent)
9. Carcinogen
Cancer causing agent
10. Pap Test
(For females): to detect cervical cancer (cervix)
11. Mammogram
To detect breast cancer
12. Colonoscopy
To detect colon cancer
13. PSA
(For males) to detect prostate cancer
14. Oncogenes
Genes, if present, in certain forms can stimulate the development of cancer; can signal normal cells to make proteins that stimulate excessive cell growth & division
15. Tumor suppressor genes
• -Normal genes who's ABSENCE can lead to cancer; if these genes are affected by mutation then the development of cancer is possible
• -These cells are inherited so if they are defective they can lead to cancer
16. p53
• -a protein that is coded for by a tumor suppressor gene
• -can trigger cell death; if a cell has damaged DNA , p53 can stop cell growth & division & cause cell death
• -p53 can prevent uncontrolled cell growth & division
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Barcode Scanning Made Easy with ZXing.Net Mobile
James
Barcode scanning is a common functionality in many mobile applications. From checking attendees into an event and opening web pages to creating a conference scavenger hunt, there are plenty of use cases. ZXing.NET Mobile (Zebra crossing) is an open source library that makes scanning barcodes as effortless and painless as possible in your Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms applications.
Getting Started
ZXing.Net Mobile is available for your traditional Xamarin applications as both a component and a NuGet package that can be installed in your iOS, Android, Windows, and PCL projects. For this post I’m going go focus on the new ZXing.Net package enhanced for Xamarin.Forms. This is a special component and NuGet package that can easily be installed in your Xamarin.Forms projects that adds all the great functionality from the original library, but integrates deeply into Xamarin.Forms by allowing you to customize Xamarin.Forms pages with an embedded scanner. Ensure that you add the package or NuGet to all of your projects to get started.
Create a Scanner Page
You are able to get barcode scanning in your application with as little as two lines of code. First, create a new ZXingScannerPage and then push the page onto the navigation stack:
var scanPage = new ZXingScannerPage ();
// Navigate to our scanner page
await Navigation.PushAsync (scanPage);
This will bring up the barcode scanner and put it into scanner mode immediately.
Checking results
Of course, you’ll want to check the results of what was actually being scanned. You can do this when the OnScanResult event is fired to stop scanning, pop the scanner page, and check the result:
scanPage.OnScanResult += (result) =>
{
// Stop scanning
scanPage.IsScanning = false;
// Pop the page and show the result
Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread (async () =>
{
await Navigation.PopAsync ();
await DisplayAlert("Scanned Barcode", result.Text, "OK");
});
};
Handling Permissions
On Android ZXing.Net requires the Camera and Flashlight permission to function, so you’ll need to check these permissions in the project settings or add them to your Android Manifest:
When Android Marshmallow was released it added new runtime permissions when apps need to use features such as the camera or geolocation, similar to iOS. ZXing.Net will handle the runtime permissions in your app automatically by simply adding the following code to your MainActivity.cs:
public override void OnRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, string[] permissions, Permission[] grantResults)
{
global::ZXing.Net.Mobile.Forms.Android.PermissionsHandler.OnRequestPermissionsResult (requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
}
On Windows apps you’ll need to ensure that you select the Webcam permission. On iOS, ZXing handles everything.
Customization
There are several ways to customize the scanner pages. The easiest thing to do is to simply set additional properties on the default scanner page and pass it scanning options. This will allow you to customize the text on the page, but also adjust things such as scanning speed, types, and rotation:
//setup options
var options = new MobileBarcodeScanningOptions
{
AutoRotate = false,
UseFrontCameraIfAvailable = true,
TryHarder = true,
PossibleFormats = new List
{
ZXing.BarcodeFormat.Ean8, ZXing.BarcodeFormat.Ean13
}
};
//add options and customize page
scanPage = new ZXingScannerPage(options)
{
DefaultOverlayTopText = "Align the barcode within the frame",
DefaultOverlayBottomText = string.Empty,
DefaultOverlayShowFlashButton = true
};
Learn More
This is just a sample of everything that ZXing.Net Mobile has to offer. You can continue to customize with custom overlays and even generate and display your very own Barcode with just a few lines of code. Be sure to read through the ZXing.Net Mobile Getting Started guide to learn more.
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• Brian Savage
Hi James,
I realise this is an old post, but this is the simplest version of ZXing that I found, and I got it to work on Android and iOS. So thanks for that. If anyone reads this, the requirement is to now to install both ZXing Nuget Packages for .Mobile and .Mobile.Forms. Other examples I tried to follow were more complex, creating services or separate Xamarin pages which just confused me even more.
I have an issue with ZXing that I would be grateful for some guidance on. I believe it is something to do with threading but I am not sure and I am outside the edge of my knowledge envelope.
Here is my working ZXing code section, based on your example:
ZXingScannerPage scanPage = new ZXingScannerPage();await Navigation.PushModalAsync(scanPage);scanPage.OnScanResult += (result) =>{ // Stop scanning scanPage.IsScanning = false;
// Pop the page and show the result Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(async () => { await Navigation.PopModalAsync(); await DisplayAlert(“Scanned code”, result.Text, “OK”); companyDetails.RecordingDeviceID = result.Text; App.Database.SaveCompanyRecord(companyDetails); recordDeviceButton.Text = result.Text; });};
If I take out the await DisplayAlert line it doesn’t work.
The recordDeviceButton.Text is the button the user clicks to read the qr code, and I really want to have the device recognise a QR code and replace the text on the button with the code to show it has been read, without the user having to click “OK” on the DisplayAlert. Trying to keep it simple.
If you could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful
• TexAN Lee
Did you find the solution?
based on my understanding,
if you want to delete the ‘await DisplayAlert’ line, you need to add await in your result.Text.
companyDetails.RecordingDeviceID = await result.Text; | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Covington Students ‘Did Not Instigate’ Lincoln Memorial Encounter, Bishop Says
The Roman Catholic bishop of Covington, Ky., released an investigative report on Wednesday that he said showed a group of high school students from his diocese “did not instigate” a widely publicized encounter with a Native American man outside the Lincoln Memorial last month. “Our students were placed in a situation that was at once bizarre and even threatening,” the bishop, Roger J. Foys, said in a statement with the report. “Their reaction to the situation was, given the circumstances, expected and one might even say laudatory.” Bishop Foys said the report realized his hope that an investigation would “exonerate” the students. The diocese hired a private detective agency that developed a detailed account of an encounter that was captured on video and quickly became a lightning rod for political and racial tensions in America. The mostly white students, many of them wearing “Make America Great Again” gear, were in Washington on Jan. 18 to attend an anti-abortion March for Life rally when they intersected with a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, and others from an Indigenous Peoples March. Nearby, a group of black Hebrew Israelites were shouting slurs at the boys and Native Americans on the scene. Covington Catholic High School and the diocese, along with a chorus of political commentators, had at first condemned the behavior of the students after a short clip spread rapidly on social media that showed an apparent standoff between Mr. Phillips and an unidentified teenager in a MAGA hat. The diocese even said the students could face expulsion. But within a day, longer videos began to circulate that showed a more complicated scene at the memorial, and supporters of President Trump rallied to their side. Through a public relations firm, the teenager in the MAGA hat put out a statement identifying himself as Nick Sandmann and stating that he had been confused by the encounter and had been trying to avoid conflict. Bishop Foys later apologized for rushing to judgment, telling parents in a letter, “We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely.” The agency hired by the diocese, Greater Cincinnati Investigation, said it had spent about 240 hours on the investigation, including examining online video and interviewing 43 students and 13 adult chaperones, including educators and parents. Investigators could not reach Mr. Phillips for an interview, despite traveling to his home in Michigan, and had to rely on Mr. Sandmann’s written statement, according to the final report. Among the findings: • When Mr. Phillips approached the students, students told investigators, they thought he was coming to join in their school cheers, which they had begun to drown out “offensive statements” by the Hebrew Israelites. “None of the students felt threatened by Mr. Phillips and many stated they were ‘confused,’” the report said. • Investigators found “no evidence of offensive or racist statements by students to Mr. Phillips or members of his group.” But the report said some “joined in” with his chanting and some performed a “tomahawk chop.” • Some boys said a chaperone warned them they would face detention “if they engaged in a verbal exchange” with the Hebrew Israelites. • Most students bought their “Make America Great Again” apparel while in Washington. In past years, chaperones said, some students had bought “Hope” hats in support of President Barack Obama. Investigators said there was no school policy prohibiting political apparel on school trips. • Investigators did not find evidence that the students chanted about building a wall at the border with Mexico, as Mr. Phillips had said. “The immediate worldwide reaction to the initial video led almost everyone to believe that our students had initiated the incident and the perception of those few minutes of video became reality,” Bishop Foys wrote. L. Lin Wood, a lawyer for Mr. Sandmann, said the report released by the diocese confirmed the truth of the teenager’s account. Lawyers for Mr. Sandmann have pledged to examine the actions of the school, diocese, various commentators and news organizations, including The New York Times. “Every member of the mainstream and social media mob who falsely attacked, disparaged, or threatened this 16-year-old boy should hang their heads in shame and be held fully accountable in a court of law for their wrongdoing,” Mr. Wood said in an email. Mr. Phillips could not be reached for comment about the report, which said there were inconsistencies in his accounts of what happened. On Wednesday, Chase Iron Eyes, a spokesman for the Indigenous Peoples Movement, which organized the march, criticized the investigation as showing “a serious lack of understanding about the intrinsic, racist culture” in the United States. “We feel that our elder is vindicated by the videos that are out there right now,” he said. “We would expect the adults that are responsible for these children to take responsibility for the racism, or ignorance, that is represented by their children doing the tomahawk chop.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:Barbara (WVS)/monarch consv table
There are many organizations and programs that exist to promote the preservation of the monarch and its migration. 3-letter codes, explained in the linked footnotes, are used to head the table compactly. | WIKI |
Hunguhungu
Hunguhungu or fedu is a form of traditional swaying circular dance performed by the women of the Garifuna people of Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The music for the dance is composed of rhythmic themes performed by three drummers with alternating call-and-response chanting, and displays a clear African heritage. It is sometimes combined with punta.
The hunguhungu is sometimes performed during a ritual called the adugurahani, or dugu, used by the Garifuna to communicate with their deceased ancestors. The dance is also performed by adult Garifuna women during the Holy Week of Easter to indicate sorrow or lamentation, and often contains topical elements expressive of the women's feelings toward current situations in their communities, with serious messages such as "A man who commits a crime, will only end up dead", or "A man who commits a crime, some day by the vultures circling overhead, we will find his body." | WIKI |
BBC Radio 2 Country
BBC Radio 2 Country was a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12:00 on Thursday 5 March 2015. The station covered the Country2Country Festival and was on air for the festival's duration.
On its debut, the station broadcast for twelve hours each day until Sunday 8 March 2015. It was relaunched for the 2016 festival, held between 10 March 2016 and 13 March 2016, and again from 9 March 2017 to 12 March 2017.
The station did not return after the 2017 festival and has not returned since.
Special Programmes
A number of famous country singers have presented one-off shows for Radio 2 Country or have given hour-long interviews to be broadcast on the station:
* Live from Country to Country - presented by Bob Harris, Jo Whiley, Patrick Kielty, Alex Lester, Paul Sexton, Baylen Leonard and Bobbie Pryor (2015–present)
* C2C Unplugged - presented by Bob Harris (2015–16)
* Patrick Kielty meets Garth Brooks (2015)
* Bob Harris meets Miranda Lambert (2015)
* Johnnie Walker meets Dolly (2015)
* Taking back the country - presented by Wynonna Judd (2015)
* Country Duos - presented by Kristian Bush of Sugarland (2015)
* Songwriters - presented by Trisha Yearwood (2015)
* Classic Country - presented by Suzy Bogguss (2015)
* Loretta Lynn in conversation - presented by Bob Harris (2016)
* Gospel Hour - presented by Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum (2016) and Reba McEntire (2017)
* On the road with Little Big Town (2016)
* Sad songs make me happy - presented by Gretchen Peters (2016)
* Country Playlist - presented by The Shires (2017)
* Bluegrass and beyond - presented by Alison Krauss (2017)
* Country Pickers - presented by Marty Stuart (2017) | WIKI |
Crystal Bowl Healing and Hot Stone Massage
By Paulette O’Neil, Registered Massage Therapist
Crystal Bowl Healing
The concept of vibrational/sound therapy is based on the idea that every part of your body creates a vibration or resonates in some way. Sound therapy works by sending sound waves throughout your body. It is believed that our bodies are made of crystalline structures. For this reason, it is believed that crystal singing bowls significantly affect the organs and cells of the body, resonating the energy chakra.
Vibrational therapy helps to create a harmonious balance in our bodies. As our nervous system relaxes we can move into a better state of balance. Specific sound waves produced by the bowl are the same as the alpha waves produced by our brain, giving a feeling of relaxation. There is some evidence that vibrational therapy will reduce the levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, which makes you feel more relaxed. Singing bowls can be used differently. The practitioner uses the mallet to strike then circle the bowl creating sound waves and vibration.
Incorporating Crystal Bowl healing into a massage therapy treatment is a wonderful way to get the advantages of both. Registered Massage Therapists in Ontario are able to combine these treatments as long as it falls under the guidelines and scope of the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO).
Hot Stone Massage
Hot stone massage is a form of massage therapy that involves the use of smooth, heated stones. The therapist may place the stones on specific spots or hold them while giving the massage. The heat of the stones warms and relaxes the muscles, allowing the therapist to work deeper with less pressure. Hot stone massage helps promote the flow of oxygen. Swedish massage techniques are typically used, which may include long strokes and kneading. The therapist uses gliding movements along the muscles. The typical length of a treatment is 60-75 minutes.
People tolerate heat differently so it is important to let the therapist know if the stones are too hot.
Benefits of massage therapy:
• Pain relief
• Stress relief
• Decreased muscle spasm
• Better sleep
People frequently describe hot stone massage as deeply relaxing.
Massage is generally safe. However hot stone massage should be avoided for children and pregnant women and for people with the following medical conditions:
High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Heart disease
• Varicose veins
• Autoimmune disease
• Cancer
• Use of blood thinners
Women who are pregnant should book a specific Prenatal Massage Therapy treatment so they are scheduled for a treatment specifically with someone with the right training for this stage. In addition, when booking an infant for a massage, ensure the massage therapist has training and experience in infant massage. There can be great benefits to massage for infants and children, but ensuring you are scheduled with the right therapist is important.
For more on stress relaxation, check out
Why Mindfulness? What is the hype all about?
The above is an informative summary written by Paulette O’Neil, Registered Massage Therapist, who is a member of our Registered Massage Therapy team at Compass Rose Wellness. Paulette’s clients include men, women and children (age 8 years plus) at Compass Rose Wellness Inc in Komoka, ON. She has been practicing Registered Massage Therapy for over a decade and is known for her amazing treatments in foot massage, as well as legs. She keeps her Crystal Singing Bowl in the centre for clients who want her to incorporate some Crystal Healing in their massage therapy treatments. She also is always seen in the centre setting up her hot stones, to ensure they are properly disinfected and the appropriate temperature for her clients who come in for Hot Stone Massage Therapy. Paulette works closely with Sarah Zadorsky, RMT, who specializes in prenatal massage and infant massage. She also works closely with Lindsey Cherrett, RMT, who also does prenatal massage as well sees men, women and children ages 8 years plus. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Berge: Theory of Graphs
It seems that the concept of incidence matrix was started by Kirchoff.
Representation of a graph: A graph can be represented as a pair (X,Gamma) or (X,U). Gamma is a function from X -> X. This encodes multi-graphs and infinite graphs (if we allow Gamma to be a multi-function). U is a subset of the possible arc sets. If U is a symmetric set, then the graph is undirected.
Chapter 3
Core concept: bounded is different from finite. Finite is different from infinite.
If a set has bounded number of elements, its cardinality is finite and not infinite.
If a set has unbounded number of elements, its cardinality could be finite, or infinite.
If a set has finite-unbounded number of elements
A good example is the 1-d graph which starts at origin and extends unboundedly towards right. Each node on the graph has edges to its immediate left neighbour and all the nodes to its left. For such a graph, the outdegree of any given vertex is unbounded. Still it is finite!!!
Also, a set could have unbounded number of elements and still be finite.
• Finite Graphs: A graph is called finite if |X| is finite.
[If there exists a function that maps a vertex of the graph to a natural number, then the graph is not finite. Further, it is an infinite graph. Also, there seems to be many types of infinite graphs. However, Berge gives talks about certain types of infinite graphs meaning ones that satisfy some conditions, esp. the early theorems so that the results of finite graphs can be extended to those types of infinite graphs.]
• Gamma-finite: A graph is Gamma-finite, if Gamma(x) < inf for all x in X. (This means that every vertex has finite number of edges out it.)
• Gamma^-1-finite: A similar definition about Gamma^-1 rather than Gamma (Gamma^-1 is the inverse of the function Gamma.)
• A graph is called locally finite if it is both Gamma-finite and Gamma^-1-finite. Also, a finite graph is locally finite.
• Gamma-bounded: A graph is said to be Gamma-bounded if there exists a m such that Gamma(x)<=m for all x in X.
• Progresssively finite: A vertex v is progressively finite if no paths of inf length start at v. A graph is progressively finite if is is progressively finite at each of its vertices. [see a note below about progressively finite and having no circuits.]
• Progressively bounded: A graph is progressively bounded at vertex v if a number m exists such that the length of all paths starting from v is less than or equal to m. A graph is progressively bounded if it is progressively bounded at each of its points.
• The relations regressively finite and regressively bounded are similar to the definitions of progressively finite and progressively bounded. The later deal with the graph (X,Gamma), while the former deal with the graph (X,Gamma^-1).
Relevant examples
RDG: An RDG is a finite graph. So it is Gamma-finite and Gamma^-1-finite. It is also Gamma-bounded and Gamma^-1 bounded. It is usually has cycles, as we deal with a strongly connected component of the RDG. So, it is not progressively bounded. Neither is it progressively finite. It is also not usually regressively bounded and not regressively finite.
EDG of a RDG defined across a finite domain: Such a graph is a finite graph. It is also Gamma-finite and also Gamma^-1 finite. It is also Gamma-bounded and Gamma^-1-bounded. It is progressively finite, if its associated SURE is computable and there exists a schedule. It is progressively bounded if the SURE has a bounded schedule. What about regressively bounded and regressively finite???
[actually the graph theoretic definitions preceed the definitions of computability and schedules. Here we will allow circular definitions.]
EDG of a RDG defined across the entire positive orthant: Such an EDG is an infinite graph. It is Gamma-finite and also Gamma^-1 finite. It is also Gamma-bounded and Gamma^-1 bounded. It is not progressively finite and so is not progressively bounded. It is also not regressively finite and so is not regressively bounded.
EDG of a RDG of a SARE defined over a finite domain: Such a graph is a finite graph. It is Gamma-finite, Gamma-bounded and so Gamma^-1-finite and Gamma^-1-bounded. It is progressively bounded, and progressively finite. It is regressively bounded and regressively finite.
EDG of a RDG of a SARE defined across the entire positive orthant: Such a graph is not finite. It is not Gamma-bounded. Neither is it Gamma^-1-bounded. It is Gamma-finite and Gamma^-1-finite.
I donot know about the computability conditions of either of the types of SAREs. So, no statements about the progressively.* and regressively.* for now.
Theorems
Theorem 1: If a graph is finite, the properties progressively finite, progressively bounded and 'without circuits' are equivalent.
[Note the implication of 'without circuits': If a graph is finite and it is progressively finite, it cannot have any circuits, as that will lead to having infinite path lengths beginning at any of the vertices participating in the circuit. A similar statement can be said about the progressively boundedness of a finite graph.]
Proof of therorem 1: Direct from applying the definitions to a finite graph.
[This proof is kind of easy, because, for a finite graphs |X| < inf. Also, if it does not have any circuits, there exists a bound on the maximum length of a path from each vertex. So, the graph is progressively bounded and is trivially progressively finite. As Berge himself says, infinite graphs are more interesting.]
Questions on the wording of theorem 1: Theorem 1 talks about the equivalence of 'progressively finite' and 'without circuits' for finite graphs. When are the properties not equivalent for infinite graphs?
[which of the 'progressively finite', 'progressively bounded' and 'without circuits' implies the other? It seems that 'progressively finite' combined with 'the graph is finite' is enough. The other two properties seem a little too strong.]
Answer: My current answer is the following: It does not seem that we can give a statement about all paths of an infinte graphs. Why not?
Answer 2: Is one of the conditions 'progressively finite' necessary for the other? and that the other is a sufficient condtion? Is it that the necessary condition and sufficient conditon are satisfied by finite graphs and only one of them is satisfied by infinite graphs?
Meaning of infinite path: What does an infinite path mean? When is a path infinite and when is it finite? Suppose we had just three vertices and a circuit along them, how many paths are there? Suppose we have an infinte number of vertices and the graph does not have loops and circuits. Does the graph have any infinite paths?? NO????? Are we getting confused between an infinite path [meaning a path of infinite length] and infinite number of paths?
Infinite sets: Here are two defs of infinite sets. 1 , 2.
A circuit induces an infinte number of paths on each of the vertices participating in it. Each of the infinite paths is of finite length. An infinte graph (for example the 1-d graph) has infinite number of paths, each of finite length. THEN WHAT IS AN INFINITE PATH? A path whose length is neither bounded by any integer nor there exists a finite number which can specity its length. What is such an example?
Theorem 2: If a graph is progressively finite and Gamma-finite, we have Gamma-hat(x) < inf for all x in X.
The theorem is kind of disturbing. This is because, it states that even in a graph with infinite number of nodes, it gives a statement about the cardinality of the set Gamma^hat. It says that the cardinality is a number, which is possibly unbounded. However, it is a finite number. See the definition of Gamma^hat.
Proof of theorem 2: Suppose the graph is progressively finite and Gamma-finite and that we had a vertex such that Gamma-hat(x)=inf. As the graph is Gamma-finite, x should be adjacent to a vertex x1 such that Gamma-hat(x1)=inf. by similar reasoning, x1 must be adjacent to x2 such that Gamma-hat(x2)=inf. etc... The path [x,x1,x2...] is therefore of inf length. Which contradicts that the graph is progressively finite.
Proof for necessity of theorem 1's premise: The method followed is proof by contradiction. The technique is the following: The theorem statement is of the form: A => B => C. With A being 'graph is Gamma-finite', B being 'graph is progressively finite', C being 'for all x in X, |Gamma^hat(x)| < inf '. B=>C is equivalent to NOT(B) OR C. We assume its contradiction is true; i.e., B AND NOT(C) is true and get a contradiction with A. proof method is: B and NOT(C) means, 'the graph is progressively finite' and 'there exists a vertex x (in X) such that |Gamma^hat(x)| = inf'. To get: contradiction with 'Gamma-finiteness of any vertex of the graph'.
let v be the vertex such that |Gamma^hat(x)| = inf. Let k be the number of paths out of v [objective: k is infinite] The graph is progressively finite meaning 'there exist no paths of infinite length' => all paths out of v are of finite length => There exists a path of maximum length (this is because, in a set of numbers of which infinity is not a member, we can always select an maximum). Then k*length_of_the_max_length_path is the upper bound on the number of vertices reachable by v. By hypothesis, this number is infinite.
Corollary 1: A Gamma-finite which is progressively finite at a vertex x0 is also progressively bounded at x0.
[The real punch line to this benign looking proof is applying the absolutely harmless looking theorem 1 to the subgraph induced by Gamma-hat(x) which happens to be finite.]
Proof of Corollary 1: The subgraph determined by the set Gamma^hat(x) is finite! So, applying the theorem1 to this subgraph, the terms 'progressively finite', 'progressively bounded' and 'without circuits' are equivalent.
[note the equivalence of 'without circuits' and 'cardinality of Gamma^hat(x)' as implied by the statement of this theorem.]
Fillable Holes in the proof of Corollary 1: from G to G' and back again. How can we make a statement about the graph G' when all we are talking about is about the subgraph induced by Gamma^hat(x0). Also, when and how are theorem 2, theorem 1 used? At what particular locations? How is the result for G' extensikble to G? remember, we are talking about two graphs here, G and G'. Also about two theorems 1 and 2. The statement of corollary 1, from the outside is more general, but needs to be taken care of.
Proof by contradiction: If
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Structural Biochemistry/Diverse Interctions of retroviral Gag proteins with RNAs
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Retroviruses are created by Gag, a single virus-encoded protein. Assembling an infectious particle means there are very diverse interactions (specific and nonspecific) between Gag proteins and RNA. These interactions are vital for the particle construction, packing of viral RNA in the particle, and how the primer is placed for viral DNA synthesis.
Gag proteins: the building blocks of retroviruses[edit]
Retroviruses are composed of 6 genera (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-, epsilon-, and lenti-retrovirsuses) and also a subfamily called Spumaviridae. Th Gag protein is the building block for retrovirus particles; expression of this protein allows for efficient assembly of virus-like particles in most, if not all, mammalian cells. When viruses are being assembled, Gag proteins interact with lipids in the plasma membrane with RNAs and other Gag molecules. These interactions involve the formation of the particle, selecion of what RNA species will be included in the particle, and the refolding of the packages RNAs.
A nonspecific interaction with RNAs drives virus particle assembly[edit]
Purified, recombinant Gag proteins are soluble in aqueous solutions so they aren't interested for protein-protein interactions that needs to occur for virus particle formation. However, if a single-stranded nucleic acid is added, it triggers in vitro assembly on the Gag proteins into VLPs. In vivo, particle assembly is dependent on Gag-nucleic acids (NA) ineractions because NAs are about 20-40 nucleotides, so they can support assembly in vitro. The NAs are so short, though, that they can only bind to a few Gag molecules. The NC domain of Gag is where the site of interaction is at with NAs.When the NC domain binds with NA, the conformation is altered of the capsid domain. This ultimately exposes new interfaces for protein-protein interaction. In many retroviruses, the NC domain of Gag is most attracted to RNA.However, the matrix domain at the N-terminus is positively charged and is also able to interact with RNAs.
Reference[edit]
Rein, Alan, et al. "Diverse interactions of retroviral Gag proteins with RNAs" Trends in Biochemical Sciences 36.7 (2011) 373-379. Academic Search Complete. Web. 21 Nov. 2012. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Returning into clause for insert select statements
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I want to capture the some back ground activity when one insertion is going on with the help of insert select statement with the help of
RETURNING INTO Clause .
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Code (Text):
DROP TABLE t1;
DROP TABLE t;
DROP SEQUENCE t1_seq;
CREATE TABLE t1 (
id NUMBER(10),
description VARCHAR2(50),
CONSTRAINT t1_pk PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
CREATE TABLE T AS
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE 1=2;
CREATE SEQUENCE t1_seq;
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (t1_seq.nextval, 'ONE');
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (t1_seq.nextval, 'TWO');
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (t1_seq.nextval, 'THREE');
COMMIT;
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
DECLARE
l_id t1.description%TYPE;
BEGIN
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (t1_seq.nextval, 'FOUR')
RETURNING (SELECT CURRMVNAME FROM V$MVREFRESH WHERE CURRMVNAME ='MV_NAME') INTO l_id;
COMMIT;
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('ID=' || l_id);
END;
/
Above code was working fine . But our requirement was INSERT SELECT should also give the support for this RETURNING Clause
Code (Text):
INSERT INTO t1 select * from MV_NAME
RETURNING (SELECT CURRMVNAME FROM V$MVREFRESH WHERE CURRMVNAME ='MV_NAME') INTO l_id;
This is not working.
Can we capture the same mv refresh was going on or not when we are performing the DML operations from the same table.
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500 In order for these periods to be equal we must have which is the same relation as that between the longitudinal and transverse masses of Lorentz's electron. That the variation with the velocity of $$\scriptstyle{m_1}$$ or $$\scriptstyle{m_2}$$ for ordinary matter is also the same as for Lorentz's electron may be shown in many ways; the following simple example will suffice for the purpose. Consider an elastic rod with its length perpendicular to the motion of the earth and making longitudinal vibrations. If its period of vibration is $$\scriptstyle{T}$$ we shall have where $$\scriptstyle{m_2}$$ is the transverse mass of any particle and $$\scriptstyle{\kappa}$$ is the coefficient of stretching of the rod. We must also have, by Einstein's transformation, where $$\scriptstyle{T_0}$$ is the period of the rod when at rest. The constant $$\scriptstyle{\kappa}$$ depends on the intermolecular forces in the direction of the length of the rod, that is perpendicular to the earth's motion; and these must vary with the velocity in the same manner as electrical forces. If we have two point charges moving through the ether in a direction perpendicular to the line joining them, the force between them is where $$\scriptstyle{E_0}$$ is the force when they are at rest. Thus we have and whence It follows therefore from our hypothesis not only that all mass is electromagnetic but also that it varies with the speed in the specific manner of Lorentz's electron. | WIKI |
Mordacia lapicida
Mordacia lapicida, also known as the Chilean lamprey, is a species of southern topeyed lamprey endemic to southern Chile, where it can be found in riverine and marine habitats. This species is anadromous. This parasitic lamprey can reach a length of 54 cm SL. Ammocoetes and adults of this species are found in rivers, and occur in fine sand along river banks. The life cycle of a Mordacia lapicida is divided into three life stages: freshwater rearing, an ocean parasite and an adult spawning stage. Once in the adult stage, individuals migrate into marine waters where they attack and attach themselves to marine fishes. | WIKI |
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Nutritional research during the early and mid-20th century was heavily engaged in establishing which nutrients were essential to life, which had to be ingested via the diet and which could be made in the body. By definition, essential vitamins and minerals of which there are 14 and 15 respectively, and essential amino acids, of which there are 9, need to be ingested via the diet. We now know more about essential fats, and call these essential fatty acids (or EFAs) and they include certain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
As more and of these essential nutrients were discovered, it became evident that they had the ability to resolve many illnesses. Therefore, diseases like scurvy, beriberi, pellagra and rickets, caused by vitamin C, thiamine (vitamin B1), niacin (vitamin B3) and vitamin D deficiency respectively, were soon largely consigned to the history books.
What we now recognise as the pharmaceutical industry also emerged in Germany, France and Switzerland shortly post-WWII. The huge growth of this industry was driven both by developments in organic chemistry—the chemistry of carbon—as well as recognition that new-to-nature molecules could be patented. These patented molecules, or drugs, had to be different from natural products to be eligible for patents. While this remains the principle business model of today’s Big Pharma, the fact our bodies have not had millennia to adapt to patented drugs means they often disrupt aspects of our physiology—hence the common side effects and poor safety record of pharmaceutical medicine. In fact, the unintended side effects of properly prescribed drugs makes them one of the leading causes of death in modern society.
In its infancy in the pre-WWII period, the embryonic pharmaceutical industry was busy finding ways to produce vitamins, amino acids and other essential nutrients synthetically. The two main perceived advantages were low cost and high stability, which also has a bearing on keeping shelf lives long, reducing distribution costs, increasing profit margins — and generally contributing another vital piece to the highly viable business model of the rapidly growing pharma industry.
With the wind in its sails after global sales of broad spectrum antibiotics like penicillin and pain relievers like aspirin, 1965 saw pharma’s first big shock. It was the thalidomide disaster. This spawned the first attempt to comprehensively regulate drugs and, in Europe, regulation took the form of the its first pharmaceutical directive, Directive 65/65/EEC. Existing EU medicines law is still based on this first Europe-wide medicinal code.
Dr. Robert Verkerk, Executive and Scientific Director
Robert is an internationally acclaimed scientist with over 25 years experience in the field of agricultural and healthcare sustainability, having worked in academia, industry and the not-for-profit sector. He has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas as well as Europe. After leaving Imperial College London in 2002, he founded the Alliance for Natural Health, which he has headed since. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Azure Automation runbook types
Azure Automation supports several types of runbooks that are briefly described in the following table. The sections below provide further information about each type including considerations on when to use each.
Type Description
Graphical Based on Windows PowerShell and created and edited completely in graphical editor in Azure portal.
Graphical PowerShell Workflow Based on Windows PowerShell Workflow and created and edited completely in the graphical editor in Azure portal.
PowerShell Text runbook based on Windows PowerShell script.
PowerShell Workflow Text runbook based on Windows PowerShell Workflow.
Python Text runbook based on Python.
Graphical runbooks
Graphical and Graphical PowerShell Workflow runbooks are created and edited with the graphical editor in the Azure portal. You can export them to a file and then import them into another automation account, but you cannot create or edit them with another tool. Graphical runbooks generate PowerShell code, but you can't directly view or modify the code. Graphical runbooks cannot be converted to one of the text formats, nor can a text runbook be converted to graphical format. Graphical runbooks can be converted to Graphical PowerShell Workflow runbooks during import and vice-versa.
Advantages
• Visual insert-link-configure authoring model
• Focus on how data flows through the process
• Visually represent management processes
• Include other runbooks as child runbooks to create high-level workflows
• Encourages modular programming
Limitations
• Can't edit runbook outside of Azure portal.
• May require a Code activity containing PowerShell code to perform complex logic.
• Can't view or directly edit the PowerShell code that is created by the graphical workflow. Note that you can view the code you create in any Code activities.
PowerShell runbooks
PowerShell runbooks are based on Windows PowerShell. You directly edit the code of the runbook using the text editor in the Azure portal. You can also use any offline text editor and import the runbook into Azure Automation.
Advantages
• Implement all complex logic with PowerShell code without the additional complexities of PowerShell Workflow.
• Runbook starts faster than PowerShell Workflow runbooks since it doesn't need to be compiled before running.
Limitations
• Must be familiar with PowerShell scripting.
• Can't use parallel processing to perform multiple actions in parallel.
• Can't use checkpoints to resume runbook in case of error.
• PowerShell Workflow runbooks and Graphical runbooks can only be included as child runbooks by using the Start-AzureAutomationRunbook cmdlet which creates a new job.
Known Issues
Following are current known issues with PowerShell runbooks.
• PowerShell runbooks cannot retrieve an un-encrypted variable asset with a null value.
• PowerShell runbooks cannot retrieve a variable asset with ~ in the name.
• Get-Process in a loop in a PowerShell runbook may crash after about 80 iterations.
• A PowerShell runbook may fail if it attempts to write a very large amount of data to the output stream at once. You can typically work around this issue by outputting just the information you need when working with large objects. For example, instead of outputting something like Get-Process, you can output just the required fields with Get-Process | Select ProcessName, CPU.
PowerShell Workflow runbooks
PowerShell Workflow runbooks are text runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow. You directly edit the code of the runbook using the text editor in the Azure portal. You can also use any offline text editor and import the runbook into Azure Automation.
Advantages
• Implement all complex logic with PowerShell Workflow code.
• Use checkpoints to resume runbook in case of error.
• Use parallel processing to perform multiple actions in parallel.
• Can include other Graphical runbooks and PowerShell Workflow runbooks as child runbooks to create high-level workflows.
Limitations
• Author must be familiar with PowerShell Workflow.
• Runbook must deal with the additional complexity of PowerShell Workflow such as deserialized objects.
• Runbook takes longer to start than PowerShell runbooks since it needs to be compiled before running.
• PowerShell runbooks can only be included as child runbooks by using the Start-AzureAutomationRunbook cmdlet which creates a new job.
Python runbooks
Python runbooks compile under Python 2. You can directly edit the code of the runbook using the text editor in the Azure portal, or you can use any offline text editor and import the runbook into Azure Automation.
Advantages
• Utilize the robust Python libraries.
Limitations
• Must be familiar with Python scripting.
• Only Python 2 is supported at the moment, meaning Python 3 specific functions will fail.
• In order to utilize third-party libraries, you must import the package into the Automation Account for it to be used.
Considerations
You should take into account the following additional considerations when determining which type to use for a particular runbook.
• You can't convert runbooks from graphical to textual type or vice-versa.
• There are limitations using runbooks of different types as a child runbook. See Child runbooks in Azure Automation for more information.
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2023 Dutch island council elections
Island council elections were held in the Caribbean Netherlands on 15 March 2023 to elect the members of the island councils of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. The elections were held on the same day as the 2023 electoral college elections, and the 2023 provincial and water board elections in the European Netherlands. | WIKI |
Talk:List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2018
Entries by artist section
This is really an unnecessary extension of the article ... or any article in the "List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles..." series (2017 also has this). While it's debatable whether summarizing each artist's tally of songs is acceptable (WP:CALC allows some latitude on "counting", as long as there is consensus among editors), the tally of each artist's weeks in the top 10 (or any song's weeks for that matter) is completely different. The source for these counts - the collection of Hot 100 charts during the year - is completely separate from this article, and tallies are subject to error by the one compiling the information. This is pretty much similar to "counting" how many episodes a guest actor appears in a TV series, and then placing the count in a Wikipedia article about the actor or the TV series. That kind of tally has been seen in Wikipedia's TV project as being original research since reliable sources generally don't exist to back the count. Likewise, aside from various achievements that Billboard publishes about artists from time to time, such as Katy Perry's 69 consecutive weeks in the top 10 a few years ago or Drake's recent 431 consecutive weeks on the Hot 100, they can't publish statistics for everything happening on the Hot 100. (Case in point: Did anyone know that BlocBoy JB's recent chart bow in the top 10, on February 24, 2018, with "Look Alive" was the 200th Hot 100 debut in that tier of the chart? Billboard didn't publish anything about that, and I'd likely have this trivia reverted for at least being unsourced or original research.)
While it is difficult/nearly impossible to find reliable sources to back the tally of weeks in the top 10 for songs or artists, one of Joel Whitburn's series of Record Research books called Pop Annual managed to do that for songs, up thru at least 2011. I do have one edition of that book (which goes to that year), and it may be easier to combat vandals who change the tallies in the earlier articles of the series. Even with the sources, there has been debate about the existence of this series of articles, but I'm not here to address that. But this "Entries by artist", as well as not having a source to support the weeks in the top 10 tallies, becomes indiscriminate information and shouldn't exist in the articles without WP:CONSENSUS that this, or some part of the table represented in the section, is noteworthy. I am, thus, removing the section (diff) and it should not be restored without consensus that its inclusion is noteworthy. MPFitz1968 (talk) 21:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
* I do think these top ten lists present a collection of indiscriminate information and even more so a topic that is not generally discussed in independent sources. If one considers Whitburn's books as a reliable, independent source, then an entire List of Hot 100 songs of 2018 could be created, rather than arbitrarily stopping at 10. His books do summarize the number ones of each year and there are list articles for each of those, and I believe that is sufficient for an encyclopedia for this type of chart info. There is consensus that lists of number twos shouldn't exist per WP:IINFO, yet for some reason these top 10 songs lists survived an AfD.
* With that being said, if they are going to exist, I thought one way to reduce the amount of indiscriminate information in these lists would be to take out the "weeks in the top ten" column (per WP:CHARTTRAJ, "number of weeks in total on the chart...should not be included as routine data for all charts") and the separate tables for peaking in a different year, and just keep the scope on songs in the top 10 during the year ordered by issue date rather than when a song entered the top 10. So it starts with the top ten for the first week of the year and for each subsequent issue, songs that are new to the top ten are added. It will also be easier to maintain. Check out User:Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars/List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2018 for what it could look like. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 23:42, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Requested move 14 July 2018
Moved as proposed. Perhaps a different method is in order for determining if any should be moved to "songs". bd2412 T 03:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
– I'd like to change this class of articles to use "top-ten" because hyphenation indicates an adjective which refers to "singles", whereas "top ten" could be mistaken to mean "the 10 most popular singles in that year". I do not mind if others prefer "top-10". It might also be helpful to change "singles" to "songs" from 1998 onwards, since Billboard changed their charting criteria in that year, but I haven't done this for consistency with the lists of number-one songs. Jc86035 (talk) 11:14, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1958 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1958
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1959 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1959
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1960 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1960
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1961 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1961
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1962 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1962
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1963 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1963
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1964 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1964
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1965 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1965
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1966 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1966
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1967 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1967
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1968 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1968
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1969 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1969
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1970 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1970
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1971 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1971
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1972 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1972
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1973 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1973
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1974 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1974
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1975 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1975
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1976 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1976
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1977 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1977
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1978 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1978
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1979 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1979
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1980 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1980
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1981 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1981
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1982 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1982
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1983 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1983
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1984 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1984
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1985 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1985
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1986 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1986
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1987 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1987
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1988 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1988
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1989 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1989
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1990 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1990
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1991 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1991
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1992 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1992
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1993 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1993
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1994 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1994
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1995 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1995
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1996 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1996
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1997 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1997
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1998 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1998
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1999 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1999
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2000 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2000
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2001 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2001
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2002 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2002
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2003 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2003
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2004 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2004
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2005 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2005
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2006 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2006
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2007 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2007
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2008 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2008
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2009 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2009
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2010 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2010
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2011 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2011
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2012 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2012
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2013 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2013
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2014 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2014
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2015 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2015
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2016 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2016
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2017 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2017
* List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2018 → List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2018
* The reasoning behind this nomination is sound, the idea being that the List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1982 could be confused with the top 10 of the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1982 (although that subset would be the "Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles of 1982"). — AjaxSmack 15:18, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
* Support per nom and per AjaxSmack. The hyphen helps a lot, and spelling out ten is a bit better, too. Dicklyon (talk) 05:40, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
* Should "singles" be changed to "songs" for any of the titles? Jc86035 (talk) 06:56, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" - two different holiday seasons, and making the top 10 in those years
Last holiday season (2017), Mariah's song made the top 10 for the first time, peaking at #9. This holiday season (2018), it is back in the top 10, and as of December 15, 2018, it has achieved an even higher position at #7. Since this song is seasonal, and only appears on the Hot 100 during the holidays, these two different peaks are considered separate, and should be listed separately. Thoughts? MPFitz1968 (talk) 18:50, 10 December 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
The Two Norries
The Two Norries is a weekly podcast hosted by Timmy Long and James Leonard that focuses on trauma, mental health, addiction, prison systems, recovery and access to education. The podcast series was recorded and released between June 2020 and January 2024.
The podcast in part resulted from Leonard's January 2020 interview on the Saturday night Tommy Tiernan Show broadcast on RTÉ Television. The podcast's title is an pun on 1980s comedy duo The Two Ronnies; both hosts are from the working class suburbs in the Churchfield, Hollyhill and Knocknaheeny areas of the north-side of Cork city, and Norry is a colloquial, often derogatory, word for Cork city north-siders.
Origins and format
James Leonard made national headlines in January 2020 when, as a former heroin addict now holding a Master's degree in criminology, he gave an extended interview with Tommy Tiernan on the national broadcaster channel RTÉ One. The slot was widely and supportively commented upon by national media, to the extent that someone from the office of the Irish President Michael D. Higgins contacted Leonard. Reflecting on the coverage, Leonard said despite being reluctant to appear, fearing he would be forever and thereafter branded as just an addict, he went ahead as he had "a feeling that my story would resonate with people, but I had no idea of the scale of it".
The podcast, which was broadcast weekly, featured interviews with recovering Irish sport-stars, musicians and comedians, as well as a cancer patient, a therapist, a psychologist, a prison governor and a doctor commenting on the availability of prescription barbiturates in Cork's northside during the 1990s and 2000s.
Hosts
The hosts James Leonard and Timmy Long, aged 35 and 40 respectively as of 2021, were previously addicted to drugs which led them to prison and institutional care, but both have been in recovery since the early 2010s. Through their organising of education and community support for other addicts in Cork and Ireland, and the launch of their the podcast in the summer of 2020, they gained widespread attention.
Timmy Long
Long said that as a young teenager in the 1990s he was dealing pills at the "Sweat" nights at Sir Henry's but had been "an alcoholic before I touched any drug. When I was young I'd drink seven nights a week, then it was ecstasy for years, then tablets, then drink again, and then heroin came into my life. That was the end of it all. It completely robbed my soul. It took over my entire life, my thinking." Long has severe dyslexia which went undiagnosed until after his recovery. He said that for years "pictures were my understanding of what was going on. In a newspaper, I'd be able to read, maybe, the headline."
Long completed his Leaving Cert while in prison, after which he enrolled at St. John's Central College, Cork. Long graduated from Cork Institute of Technology in January 2021 with an honours degree in construction management. Of his own and his brother's recoveries, he admits that he is "glad that we reached our rock bottom. For many of our friends that died, their rock bottom was a box. We live for them and want to show others that there is a way back."
James Leonard
Leonard was raised in Knocknaheeny, which he describes as "probably the most deprived area in Cork". He in part ascribes his spiral into heroin addiction due to his father being in prison during his childhood. Leonard's break with drugs and intermittent homelessness came after an overdose where he was found by two Garda Síochána (Irish police). He explains that "at that stage I was looking for a way out, and that way was death. When these Guards – who I didn't have a great relationship with by the way – showed me compassion and empathy, it really struck a chord with me. The next day, I rang to get on a list for a treatment centre."
As of March 2021, Leonard was working towards a PhD in criminology at University College Cork (UCC), having already achieved a Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree in the subject. He says of his former view of the college: "You could walk to UCC in about fifteen minutes from my house, but it may as well have been a million miles away". Reflecting on the poverty gap in Ireland he said: "I had no stake in my own education [as a teenager]. CAO points, never heard of them...all this was never on my radar, so college was never given a second thought". | WIKI |
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* 17:45:10, Wed Apr 23, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Imad_Moustapha - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 17:27:46, Wed Apr 23, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Roy_Ferguson - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 15:33:25, Wed Apr 23, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Arturo_Sarukhán - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 15:26:02, Wed Apr 23, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Zoran_Jolevski - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 15:22:25, Wed Apr 23, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Joseph_Weyland - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:21:48, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Zamira_Sydykova - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:20:20, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Lee_Tae-sik - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:18:51, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Erlan_Idrisov - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:17:35, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Zeid_Raâad_Zeid_Al-Hussein - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:16:28, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Ryozo_Kato - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:14:23, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Sallai_Meridor - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:13:14, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Samir_Sumaidaie - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:10:44, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Ronen_Sen - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:05:57, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Ferenc_Somogyi - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 19:00:47, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Klaus_Scharioth - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:58:45, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Pierre_Vimont - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:56:08, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Jesoni_Vitusagavulu - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:50:26, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Carolina_Barco - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:44:19, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Elena_Poptodorova - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:42:45, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Bisera_Turkovic - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:32:29, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:YaÅar_Aliyev - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:30:27, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Eva_Nowotny - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
* 18:25:38, Fri Apr 18, 2008 en:user:Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com (100%/80%/80% - calculated overlap Washdiplomat <-> washdiplomat.com) - en:Aleksander_Sallabanda - diff (undo) - COIBot UserReport - en:Special:Contributions/Washdiplomat.
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* 1) 2008-02-28 15:51:09 (UTC): User <IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 5) to Adel al-Jubeir (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/DPouch/2007/September/091307lifestyle.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/DPouch/2007/September/091307lifestyle.html (5, 44, 1, 1)
* 2) 2008-04-18 18:32:27 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Eva Nowotny (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Austria.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Austria.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 3) 2008-04-18 18:44:17 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Bisera Turkovic (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Bosnia.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Bosnia.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 4) 2008-04-18 19:00:43 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Pierre Vimont (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/France.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/France.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 5) 2008-04-29 11:06:43 (---): User Accountedit1 (talk - contribs; 1) to ATSPI (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/September%202007/c2_09_07.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/September%202007/c2_09_07.html (1, 44, 1, 1)
* 6) 2008-05-01 06:36:22 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Klaus Scharioth (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Germany.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Germany.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 7) 2008-05-04 05:25:17 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Elena Poptodorova (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Bulgaria.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Bulgaria.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 8) 2008-05-12 23:15:01 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to YaÅar Aliyev (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Azerbaijan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Azerbaijan.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 9) 2008-05-13 23:14:01 (UTC): User Obrien79 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ben Chang (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/01/13/2008-01-13_for_ (13, 3263, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1)
* 10) 2008-05-13 23:14:01 (UTC): User Obrien79 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ben Chang (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/01/13/2008-01-13_for_ (13, 3263, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1)
* 11) 2008-05-13 23:14:01 (UTC): User Obrien79 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ben Chang (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/01/13/2008-01-13_for_ (13, 3263, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1)
* 12) 2008-05-13 23:14:01 (UTC): User Obrien79 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ben Chang (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/01/13/2008-01-13_for_ (13, 3263, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1)
* 13) 2008-05-13 23:14:01 (UTC): User Obrien79 (talk - contribs; 13) to Ben Chang (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/b3_08_01.html (13, 44, 5, 1)
* 14) 2008-05-18 06:12:30 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Imad Moustapha (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/syria.html . * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/syria.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 15) 2008-05-23 20:32:21 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Zamira Sydykova (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Kyrgyzstan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Kyrgyzstan.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 16) 2008-05-28 06:24:34 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Aleksander Sallabanda (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/albania.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/albania.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 17) 2008-05-30 17:29:17 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Ferenc Somogyi (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Hungary.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Hungary.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 18) 2008-06-04 05:32:29 (UTC): User AgnosticPreachersKid (talk - contribs; 774) to Embassy of Colombia in Washington, D.C. (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/colombia.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/colombia.html (774, 44, 1, 1)
* 19) 2008-06-06 19:22:19 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Jesoni Vitusagavulu (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Fiji.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Fiji.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 20) 2008-06-06 19:22:20 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Samir Sumaidaie (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Iraq.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Iraq.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 21) 2008-06-06 19:25:08 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Joseph Weyland (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/luxembourg.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/luxembourg.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 22) 2008-06-11 17:18:15 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Ronen Sen (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/India.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/India.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 23) 2008-06-14 00:47:05 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Arturo Sarukhán (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/mexico.html . * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/mexico.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 24) 2008-06-14 15:35:41 (UTC): User pl:TomasoAlbinoni (talk - contribs; 810) to pl:Brytyjscy ambasadorzy (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/uk_nire.html. * Links added in this diff: www.britainusa.com/index.asp (810, 66, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/uk_nire.html (810, 44, 1, 1)
* 25) 2008-06-15 15:36:22 (UTC): User Footlightck (talk - contribs; 16) to Jenna Elfman (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/dpouch/2007/may/050207lifestyle.html. * Links added in this diff: www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080409-2.html (16, 5570, 1, 1) www.upi.com/photo/details/703babddcdd1c953f3680160c7361471/bush (16, 1062, 2, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/dpouch/2007/may/050207lifestyle.html (16, 44, 1, 1)
* 26) 2008-06-15 21:28:10 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Sallai Meridor (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Israel.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Israel.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 27) 2008-06-16 22:07:31 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Erlan Idrisov (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Kazakhstan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Kazakhstan.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 28) 2008-06-18 14:03:20 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Dominique Struye de Swielande (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Belgium.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Belgium.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 29) 2008-06-20 04:52:41 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Ryozo Kato (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Japan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Japan.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 30) 2008-06-27 05:00:17 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Roy Ferguson (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/newzealand.html . * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/newzealand.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 31) 2008-06-27 22:32:02 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Lee Tae-sik (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Korea.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Korea.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 32) 2008-06-29 01:18:44 (UTC): User Rize Again (talk - contribs; 3) to Mahmud Ali Durrani (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/September%202006/a2_09_06.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/September%202006/a2_09_06.html (3, 44, 1, 1)
* 33) 2008-06-29 02:10:06 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Zoran Jolevski (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/macedonia.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/macedonia.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 34) 2008-06-29 14:17:03 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Zeid Raâad Zeid Al-Hussein (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Jordan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Jordan.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 35) 2008-07-03 17:35:36 (UTC): User VoABot II (talk - contribs; 129394) to Falls Church, Virginia (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/03-09/a6_03_09.html.
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* 1) 2008-07-05 09:45:38 (UTC): User Washdiplomat (talk - contribs; 25) to Carolina Barco (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Colombia.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/Colombia.html (25, 44, 24, 1)
* 2) 2008-07-12 11:09:58 (UTC): User <IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 4) to The Washington Diplomat (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/lebanon.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/lebanon.html (4, 44, 1, 1)
* 3) 2008-07-14 18:46:25 (UTC): User <IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 2) to Falls Church, Virginia (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/03-09/a6_03_09.html. * Links added in this diff: www.vcsmw.org/index.html (2, 2, 1, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/03-09/a6_03_09.html (2, 44, 1, 1)
* 4) 2008-07-21 07:45:42 (UTC): User fr:<IP_ADDRESS> (talk - contribs; 3) to fr:Jean-David Levitte (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/france.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/france.html (3, 44, 1, 1) fr.novopress.info/?p=8299 (3, 23, 1, 1) www.lefigaro.fr/debats/20070530.fig000000029_un_conseil_de_securite_nationale_oui_mais_a_la_francaise.html (3, 1812, 1, 1)
* 5) 2008-08-02 09:23:03 (UTC): User IFaqeer (talk - contribs; 8) to Husain Haqqani (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/pakistan.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/pakistan.html (8, 44, 1, 1) pakistan-embassy.org/ambbio.php (8, 1, 1, 1)
* 6) 2008-08-21 14:53:06 (UTC): User de:XDavidBerlin (talk - contribs; 3) to de:Vladracul (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/04-07/b10_07_04.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/04-07/b10_07_04.html (3, 44, 1, 1) www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=28762 (3, 114, 1, 1) www.johnnydebrest.de/ (3, 1, 1, 1)
* 7) 2008-08-29 11:46:11 (UTC): User ClueBot (talk - contribs; 1076231) to Abdulaziz Komilov (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/ambprof/uzbekistan.html.
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* 1) 2008-09-03 21:56:29 (UTC): User D (talk - contribs; 2967) to Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/a2_08_01.html. * Links added in this diff: www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,434691,00.html (2967, 6313, 6, 2) www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/extreme_makeover.html (2967, 727, 3, 1) www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/64434.htm (2967, 6994, 9, 1) www.washdiplomat.com/01-08/a2_08_01.html (2967, 44, 1, 1) www.iasps.org/strategic/africawhitepaper.pdf (2967, 8, 2, 1) www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/01/12_400.html (2967, 727, 3, 1)
* 2) 2008-09-20 09:17:32 (UTC): User de:Jón (talk - contribs; 44) to de:Johnny de Brest (diff - undo) - Link: www.washdiplomat.com/04-07/b10_07_04.html. * Links added in this diff: www.washdiplomat.com/04-07/b10_07_04.html (44, 44, 1, 1) | WIKI |
Talk:Omnitruncated 5-cell
permutahedron statement
I removed this added line:
* Just as the truncated octahedron is the 4 - permutahedron the omnitruncated 5-cell is the 5 - permutahedron.
I've not heard of this terminology before. Please expand with source references, if you want to restore this. Best of all create the linked article permutahedron as a stub with sources. Tom Ruen 02:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
* Adding back with a wikilink and a web page as reference. —David Eppstein 04:25, 13 August 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Rh mostly confined to the one wide pavement to the west; the other pavement was well-nigh deserted, save by porters, waiters, and parcel-carriers of the shops. On the west pave, up and down, for three long miles, two streams of glossy, shawled, or broadcloth life unceasingly brushed by each other, as long, resplendent, drooping trains of rival peacocks brush.
Mixing with neither of these, Pierre stalked midway between. From his wild and fatal aspect, one way the people took the wall, the other way they took the curb. Unentangledly Pierre threaded all their host, though in its inmost heart. Bent he was, on a straightforward, mathematical intent. His eyes were all about him as he went; especially he glanced over to the deserted pavement opposite; for that emptiness did not deceive him; he himself had often walked that side, the better to scan the pouring throng upon the other.
Just as he gained a large, open, triangular space, built round with the stateliest public erections;—the very proscenium of the town;—he saw Glen and Fred advancing, in the distance, on the other side. He continued on; and soon he saw them crossing over to him obliquely, so as to take him face-and-face. He continued on; when suddenly running ahead of Fred, who now chafingly stood still (because Fred would not make two, in the direct personal assault upon one), and shouting 'Liar! Villain!' Glen leaped toward Pierre from front, and with such lightning-like ferocity, that the simultaneous blow of his cowhide smote Pierre across the cheek, and left a half-livid and half-bloody brand.
For that one moment, the people fell back on all sides from them; and left them—momentarily recoiled from each other—in a ring of panics.
But clapping both hands to his two breasts, Pierre, on both sides shaking off the sudden white grasp of two | WIKI |
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SCENE I. The kitchen of a Country Inn: David and Jenkins discovered sitting by the fire-side.
ohn Thomson, says I, why do you put yourself into a passion? an angry man, says I, John, may be compared to three things.
Yaw! yaw! (yawning very wide) how thick that snow falls! (looking to the window.)
Well, well! let it fall as thick as it pleases!—To three things, John. In the first place, in respect that he is very hot and very restless and all that, he may be compared to the boiling of a potno, no! that was the third thing.
Never mind, man, put it first this time for a variety. | WIKI |
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"No, it is well enough to have a friend's interest at heart, and you won't cut him off if you hear it—you are not that sort. I know you are clever and thoughtful, and all that, but you possess the forgiving spirit. Now, unlike some men, I judge people gently, don't come down on other men's failings. Who are we, any of us, that we shoud be hard on others?"
"Judge gently," she replied.
"I hope I always do that."
"If I only dared tell her now," said Frost to himself, "but it's not my affair."
He saw the feminine droop of her head, and the dainty curve of her beautiful arm.
"She is about to weep," he muttered.
Miss Baxter, who had been amusing herself with other revelers, turned to interrupt: "Mr. Frost, you haven't given him dead away?"
This, so recklessly spoken, only added to Cherokee's discomfort. A flush rose to her cheek. She asked, with partial scorn:
"Do you think he should have aroused my interest without satisfying it?"
"Please forgive him, he didn't intend to be so rude; besides, he would have told you had I not interrupted. It was thoughtless of you to make mention of it," she said, reproachfully, to the artist. | WIKI |
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Monday, May 17, 2010
How do I make a 'list' of contacts to send email to all at one time?
I would like to send holiday cards to a bunch of people at one time. I remember seeing something about 'making a list' but can't seem to find it anymore on Yahoo email. Does anyone know how to make a list on Yahoo email? Thank you. Ronni
How do I make a 'list' of contacts to send email to all at one time?
If you are trying to make a mailing list and you are using Yahoo!Mail beta, first click on the "Contacts" link. At the top you will see a button labled "Add List." Click on that, type in a name for the list in the top box.
In the second box start typing an email address. The auto complete feature will start showing any address already in your address book. Select the one you want and then click the "Add Contact to List" button.
Keep adding addresses unitl you have entered everyone you want to include. Then click the "Save" button and you are done.
Now whenever you want to send a message to that group you just type in the name of your list and everyone on the list will receive it.
Hope this helps!
Reply:When you go into your email to compose and when it says who to send it to go to contacts and press every ones email address you want to send the email to. Then go to your message write it and send and every one on the list will get the email.
Reply:easiest way is to type in the people's names/email addresses separated by a semicolon (;) try and do it on the BCC line so that others that recieve the message do not know the addresses of who it was sent to wherever possible. if the message is forwarded from someone else because it's cute... a joke... or someone reading it is infected with a virus all of the addresses in that email could be snatched up by less than desirable parties since it shows the other person's email addresses if just on the to or cc lines.
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Issue No. 05 - September/October (2004 vol. 21)
ISSN: 0740-7475
pp: 450-451
Victor Berman , Cadence
Erich Marschner , Cadence
The role of standards in EDA has evolved through the years, and it continues to evolve as the industry matures. Understanding how the role of EDA standards has changed over time can help us see where standards will be going in the future.
The EDA industry has existed for only about 25 years. In the early 1980s, there were no standards; or, rather, there were only ad hoc standards—from the technology of Daisy, Mentor, and Valid, the big-three EDA companies at the time. As more and more companies began offering tools, each with its own input language, users ran into interoperability issues and issues of obsolescence—design data became useless if the tool it was written for was no longer available. In response, the US Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored the development of a standard hardware design language, VHDL, which became the first IEEE standard for EDA (VHDL 1076-1987). In parallel, Verilog was growing in popularity, and it became an IEEE standard in 1993 (Verilog 1364-1993).
Standards have always benefited users, and EDA standards are no exception. However, in the late 1980s, most EDA vendors viewed standards with some degree of suspicion and trepidation. Many believed that standardization meant lack of differentiation, and that standardizing design languages would quickly lead to commoditizing the tools that those languages drive. In those early years, many vendors also argued that standardization would stifle innovation. To some degree, they may have been right—simulators have certainly become commoditized during the past decade. At the same time, standard hardware description languages (HDLs) provided fertile ground for the growth of synthesis technology, which delivered a huge productivity increase in chip design.
In the 1990s, the existing two IEEE standard RTL design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and various other standards such as the Electronic Design Interchange Format (EDIF) led one commentator to note, "the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." The not-so-nice thing about having multiple standards was that it led to "standards wars" between organizations trying to prove that one language or another was the best language for design. If anything stifled innovation during the 1990s, the competition between the VHDL and Verilog camps was probably to blame. Even so, both standards evolved further during that time, largely by borrowing from each other: VHDL developed the VHDL Initiative Towards ASIC Libraries (Vital, or IEEE 1076.4) to define a Verilog-like standard bit type and operations; Verilog, in turn, added new operators borrowed from VHDL. But most importantly, EDA vendors began to recognize the competitive advantage of supporting standards during this period.
As the VHDL-Verilog standards war wound down, the energy that had been committed to competition needed a new outlet. The war officially ended when the marketing organizations for VHDL and Verilog—VHDL International (VI) and Open Verilog International (OVI)—merged to form Accellera, an organization dedicated to accelerating the development of EDA standards. Previous IEEE standards were based on existing technology (VHDL 1076 on the DoD-sponsored VHDL development effort, and Verilog 1364 on the original Gateway-Cadence Verilog-XL language), but Accellera took this process a step further by actively soliciting proprietary technology donations to serve as the basis for a standard. Leveraging EDA vendors' newfound appreciation for the competitive value of being the first to implement a standard, this approach has led to more rapid evolution of Verilog (in the form of SystemVerilog) and to new standards in other areas, such as Accellera's Property Specification Language (PSL). At the same time, it has raised concerns for ensuring that companies develop standards fairly, so that no one company or block of companies can control the standard definition to serve their own proprietary interests.
This issue is an element of recent decisions made in various IEEE working groups. Historically, most EDA standards have developed under the aegis of the Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC), where working groups consist of individual IEEE members, and each individual has a single vote. In contrast, some other standards have developed under the aegis of the Corporate Advisory Group (CAG), where working groups consist of corporate representatives, and each corporation has a single vote. Accellera has a similar structure in which only certain classes of Accellera corporate members are allowed to vote on standards. The question is, Which structure—individual or corporate entity voting—leads to a more fair decision-making process for standards development? Or, perhaps the question should be, Is fairness the correct metric, or should the higher good of market relevance prevail?
The new SystemVerilog working group for IEEE P1800, cosponsored by the DASC and the CAG, has elected to adopt corporate voting. In contrast, the DASC-sponsored VHDL 1076-200x working group has just voted almost unanimously to reject corporate entity voting and continue with individual voting. Critics of individual voting argue that the individual voting approach used in DASC working groups has led to companies trying to dominate the voting by "packing" a committee with its individual representatives, whereas the corporate entity voting approach used in CAG working groups is not subject to the same manipulation. Other critics argue that corporate entity voting tends to make standards developments more of a proprietary battleground, and that it effectively disenfranchises the individuals who provide the technical expertise required to create a standard.
In any case, the focus of the discussion is already moving from fairness to funding: Which approach is more likely to garner enough interest and support to cover the cost of developing a new standard? Will corporate entity voting encourage corporations to join the CAG, and also to donate funds to the working group to pay for technical editing, technical consultants, and meeting infrastructure? Or will standards development based on volunteer efforts of individuals (each with a vote) remain economically viable? At this point, these questions remain unanswered.
Conclusion
One thing history shows is that standards and standards development are never boring. In fact, the nice thing about standards (and standards development processes) is that they keep changing to address new problems and new issues, both technological and political. As observers of this process, we look forward to reporting on the relative success of each of these approaches and discovering which is seen to best suit the needs of an evolving industry.
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NEW BOOKS. 125 under three heads, the Natural laws of the will, laws according to which the movements of the will are determined. The second part deals with the Normal laws of the will, and centres round the conception of choice or preference. Here, again, Mr. Schwarz's main endeavour is to show that choice or preference are not acts of Reason or Judgment, but acts of Will. Preference is a volitional act governed by normative laws, laws, that is, which guide us in determin- ing what is better and what is worse. It may be either analytic or synthetic. In the case of analytic preference all we do is to sanction the better course ; in the case of synthetic preference we dictate it. Such dictation becomes imperative when we have to decide between values of different orders. In every such act of preference our decision is regulated by two principles, the one bidding us love our neighbours better than ourselves, the other bidding us love ourselves better than our pleasures. These principles do not merely ratify rules held good before, but provide out of their own normative essence an entirely new conception of what is the better. The distinctions of moral worth which they make originate from themselves. In a word, they create morality. The study of Ethics, as our author conceives it, is based on these two laws. As based on the one, it becomes the Theory of Moral Self-Asser- tion ; as based on the other, the Theory of Moral Self-Denial. Restricting our criticism to an essential point, we may question whether our author's concern to secure the.authoritativeness of the laws of synthetic preference by making them authoritative in their own in- alienable right is really well-advised. The ultimate question ' Wherein consists the sanction of these ultimate laws ? ' is a question that will not be put by. Must we not ask, ' What is the end towards which human nature by its very constitution is destined to strive ? ' and is not this end the ultimate standard of action rather than the bare fiat of certain solemn irresponsible laws ? The main gap in this striking work is the author's neglect to consider in his criticism the standpoint of modern Idealism, and yet Mr. Schwarz displays at every turn keen critical capacity. He has also the con- structive gift ; his distinctions are fine, his illustrations numerous and excellent. The Psychologic des Willens is the work of an earnest and gifted thinker ; it is stimulating and suggestive, and can be cordially recommended. It is a first instalment. Mr. Schwarz promises us the Ethics to which this Psychology is but the prelude. W. R. BOYCE GIBSON. Experimented Psychologische Untersuchungen uber das Urtheil. Eine Ein~ leitung in die Logik. Von Dr. K. MARBE, Privat-dozent der Philo- sophic in Wiirzburg. Leipzig: Engelmann. 1901. Pp.103. Price 3 m. The author rightly emphasises the fact that logical treatises at present contain a large quantity of psychological matter, much of which is too often the result of very casual introspection. What is by nature psychological ought to be examined without prejudice under conditions which ensure accuracy of observation, and these conditions he has attempted to attain in certain investigations upon the Judgment. He does not confine this name to true or false propositions, but regards as a judgment any mental process which can be characterised as correct or incorrect (richtig oder falsch). This assumption determines his whole procedure. Not only sentences can "become judgments," but words, | WIKI |
Sherman L. Hill
Sherman L. Hill (December 4, 1911 – March 8, 1984) was a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Hill was born in Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA. He graduated from Penn Manor High School, Millersville State College, and Temple University. Hill was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a republican in 1965. He was then reelected for 4 consecutive terms. | WIKI |
Knowledge of a language
Knowing a specific programming language doesn't necessarily mean that you also know it well. For JavaScript, if you can write programs in it doesn't really imply that you can also write any program in it. It is highly possible that you don't know many of the tricky and vital concepts in the language, therefore continue reading this article to check out if you really know JavaScript or not!
Closures
If you've ever tried to assign different elements some given events under a loop, which utilised the loop's counter in the event handler functions, you may have have encountered some trouble in the process due to closures.
The following code is of a correct syntax, but still doesn't get our job done:
for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
ele[i].onclick = function() {
alert(i);
}
}
What we want to do over here is simply alert a number on each button's click, which is similar to its index (relative to its parent). For example, for the first button element we want to alert 0, for the second one we want to alert 1 and so on. However this code returns the same alert of 3 regardless of whichever button we click. Why?
This behavior, not a fault in JavaScript, is referred to by the term lexical scoping - the variable i, in the function definition above on line 3, points to a global variable i. After the final run of the loop's header, it becomes equal to 3 and hence we get 3 returned in all our alerts.
So what's the solution then? Closures!
for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
ele[i].onclick = (function(index) {
return function() {
alert(index);
}
})(i);
}
In the code above, we return a function that remembers its argument and hence for every button we have a seperate function with a different value of index.
Now we won't be going into the details of closures and how they work over here - if you want to understand them you can check out our JavaScript Functions Introduction chapter to start on the topic.
IIFE's
IIFE's or Immediately Invoked Function Expressions are simply anonymous functions invoking immediately after their creation. Consider the following code with an IIFE.
(function(i) {
alert(i);
})(10);
Remember two things about an IIFE:
1. It can only be invoked once
2. It needs enclosing parentheses ( ) around the function definition.
If you want to learn more about IIFE's check out our Creating Functions in JavaScript chapter where we discover IIFE's.
Touch Events
It is surprising to know that some, if not many, JavaScript developers, who know about JavaScript events, aren't very familiar with touch events. If you're building mobile-based web apps then knowing JS touch events would be extremely handy.
There are only three events in the touch category - touchstart, touchend and touchmove - and hence it won't be much difficult to understand them unlike the mouse category of events in JavaScript.
Prototypes and Inheritance
Objects are undoubtedly the supreme power of JavaScript, and you might have known this (well you did now at least....). But did you know that the supreme power of JavaScript objects is prototypes?
Unlike the regular class behavior in classic OOP languages, like C++, Java etc, prototypes work as inherting machines for objects. Instead of having a function for each of a constructor's instance, we can define it on the prototypes and likewise get it inherited down the tree.
function Book(name, genre, pages, id) {
this.name = name;
this.genre = genre;
this.pages = pages;
this.id = id;
}
// displayInfo() method on the prototype object
Book.prototype.displayInfo = function() { return "Name: " + this.name + " Genre: " + this.genre + " Pages: " + this.pages; }
var book1 = new Book("Web Designing Guide", "General Knowledge", 156, 3156); // has a displayInfo() method, but not its own
var book2 = new Book("JS Skills", "General Knowledge", 500, 1052); // has a displayInfo() method, but not its own
Now prototypes are one of the trickiest concepts of JavaScript and hence require a really good explanation to be understood to the core. And this is where our chapter JavaScript Object Prototypes comes to the rescue!
In conclusion
JavaScript is an easy-to-learn language but with a vast amount of spread in its learning region. There is so much to learn in JavaScript that getting all that done in a short time is literally impossible!. If you've gotta master JS, then consider spending a good amount of three to four months, or maybe even more, on working with different aspects of the language. If you're relatively new to JavaScript, you can go over our JavaScript Course.
Just remember one rule of thumb - practice makes perfect!. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ardozyga acroleuca
Ardozyga acroleuca is a species of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1904. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Victoria.
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are purplish-fuscous with a moderate irregular-edged oblique ochreous-white fascia from two-thirds of the costa, reaching three-fourths across the wing. There is a white dot on the costa beyond the middle and an ochreous-white patch occupying the apical fourth of the wing, but mixed with dark fuscous scales on the margins. The hindwings are fuscous. | WIKI |
Purity Testing GC/MS
What is GC/MS testing?
Gas Chromatography (GC) is a method of separating the volatile compounds in essential oils into individual components and produces a linear graph that charts these components. Mass Spectrometry (MS) identifies each of these components and their percentages. This process can identify if adulteration has happened to the essential oil tested. Additionally, the precise breakdown of the chemical components in each oil given to us by GC/MS reports is significant because the therapeutic benefits and safety issues of essential oils are, in large part, determined by their chemical makeup.
Purity is essential for potency and safety
For essential oils to have a therapeutic effect, we believe they must be pure plant extracts. Adulterated oils or perfume oils will not offer therapeutic results and may, in fact, cause allergies, headaches, and chemical sensitivities.
All our essential oils are fully tested
We have every batch of oil we purchase from a distiller or distributor GC/MS tested. Once an essential oil is tested, we format the chemical constituents into chemical families for therapeutic blending purposes. All the main components and some of the trace components are listed on these reports. The chemical family information is written for the oils sold on Aromatic International’s website and is specific for each batch of oil we buy. You can see each essential oil’s GC/MS report by going to the essential oil’s page and clicking on GC/MS report. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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The sheence of a weather station in the Visinity of Saronno does not permit ascertainment of any further data.
Conditions likely to cause disturbances, electric discharges and ice formations *
Because of the frequency of strong upward and downward vertical air currents that accompany them, formations of storm clouds are always accompanied by disturbances, even of great Violence, and the existence
of strong electric charges with wide differences in potential and consequent discharges. Inside these formations, icing will occur at heights above the level of the thermic Zero, which according to the soundings made by the Linate station at 12:00 noon was in the neighborhood of 11,500 ft. However, this altitude may vary inside the storm cloud; hence it is permissible to assume that in our case ice might have formed imediately above 10, 000 ft. As to the highest limit for ice formation,
still on the basis of the hosts soundings, we may assume a height of about 20,000 ft.
Documents and weather information supplied to the crew before departure
The documents and the weather information supplied by the Malpensa air- port weather station to the crew of NA Flight 891 on June 26, 1959 before taking off were the following:
(1) Routing papers, including:
[a] (Anna: VI-l) Forecast chart of significant weather - ICAO Form SW, valid from 2:00 pm. to 8:00 pm. of June 26, 1959 (weather conditions plus pos1tion and type of fronts or meteorological phenomna of particular interest);
[13] (Annex 171-2) Prognostic charts for 700, 500, hOO NIB levels - ICAO
Form P, with validity as above (winds and temperatures at the levels indicated);
[C] (Annex III-3} Landing forecasts covering airports along the route, the
terminal point and alternate airports (Aerodrome Forecasts, ICAO Form A).
(2) Verbal explanations of the documents mentioned above and information on general and local weather conditions based on latest available data.
[3] (Annex VII-h) Excerpts from conversations between aircraft in flight and Eilan Control relating to requests for route changes in order to avoid storm zones;
[b] (Annex v1-5) Statement by the SABENA Co. and their Capt. Caughan who took off from the Malpensa airport on a DC-6B plane at 14:33 p.1n. | WIKI |
Dugagjin Dedaj
Dugagjin Dedaj (born 15 September 1989) is a Swiss footballer.
Career
In 2014, straight after Grenchen lost 10–0 to Swiss Super League club Luzern's youth team, Dedaj was released from Grenchen along with the rest of the starting eleven. However, he stated that his and the rest of the players' names were "publicly exposed on a list". He also claimed that the way they were fired was "completely ridiculous and borders on character assassination". | WIKI |
Smiths Hall
Smiths Hall, known as West Farleigh Hall from the early 20th century until the 1990s, is an 18th-century country house in West Farleigh, Kent.
History
A house on the site of Smiths Hall was owned by the Brewer family from the mid-15th century until 1762 when the house and estate was left by Jane Brewer to her cousin Rev. John Davis, Rector of Hamsey, East Sussex. Davis died in 1766 and the estate passed to his son Sir John Davis who sold it in 1774 to William Perrin. Perrin died in 1820. By 1838, the house was owned by Sir Henry FitzHerbert, son of Sir William FitzHerbert and his wife Sarah FitzHerbert (née Perrin, and probably William Perrin's niece). Around 1921, Henry Arthur Hannen son of the Baron Hannen was living in the hall.
Buildings
The current house was constructed in 1719 as recorded in the dated rainwater hoppers. It is two-storeys and brick-built with a plain tile roof. The main façade on the west side is nine bays wide arranged symmetrically around a central doorway. The pale red brick façade is divided by projecting brick pilasters of darker red rubbed bricks into three equal sized sections. The first floor has nine sash windows of twelve panes with curved tops - three in each section. the ground floor window arrangement repeats that of the first floor except that the central doorway replaces the central window. The windows on both floors are framed in dark red rubbed bricks with the central voussoir brick enlarged to appear as a keystone. Recessed panels of brickwork are placed beneath the windows on each floor. The dark red brick detailing continues up the façade past the cornice into the brick parapet. The central doorway is a pair of doors in a later 18th century porch with a modillioned open pediment. The doors are larger than the opening with the upper panels concealed behind a lowered lintel.
The north and south side façades follow the pattern of the west façade but in red and grey brickwork, with pilasters at each side and the panelled parapet. The north façade is five bays wide with twelve pane sash windows on each floor constructed from a galletted ragstone plinth. The south façade has a brick plinth and the windows here are less regular with blocked windows on the west side at both levels and smaller six pane windows. A projecting bay fills the centre of the façade. The rear façade is divided by a central wing projecting eastwards which turns to the south to form the north and east sides of a courtyard. The rear of the main block has a cornice and two six pane windows. The central wing and its returns have six pane windows on the south side and twelve pane windows on the north side.
Internally, the house has a two-storey timber panelled entrance hall with a balustraded timber gallery along the wall opposite the door supported by a large fluted Corinthian column. Steps lead up from each end of the gallery to the first floor. The gallery bridges the main stairs which extends into the central wing. Rooms on the ground floor and first floor off of the hallway feature 17th and 18th century panelling. A room to the rear of the ground floor has 18th century library shelving.
The house is a Grade I listed building. A separate 18th century red and grey brick house in the garden that was formerly the coach house is listed Grade II as is the wall around the grounds. | WIKI |
Tri-City Christian School
Tri-City Christian School may refer to:
* Tri-City Christian School (California), a private Christian school located in Vista
* Tri-City Christian School (North Carolina), a pre-K–12th grade private Christian school located in Conover | WIKI |
woman fibromyalgia symptoms
Fibromyalgia affects an estimated 2-5 in 100 people in Australia, with women being more likely to experience the condition. Fibromyalgia pain and tenderness can occur throughout the body, and can lasts days, weeks, months, or longer. Fibromyalgia is considered to be a “pain regulation” or “neurosensory” disorder because people with fibromyalgia seem to experience more pain and a higher intensity of pain than others, even under gentle pressure. Fibromyalgia symptoms can come and go in “flares” and often include pain, stiffness, fatigue, “fibro fog,” and mental health issues. If you have fibromyalgia, you know it can feel debilitating and cause a lot of distress for you, and even those you love.
Researchers don’t know exactly what causes fibromyalgia, and there’s no evidence it’s the result of physical damage to the bones, joints, or muscles. We do know, however, fibromyalgia pain may be triggered and worsened by infections, injury, inflammation, or emotional stress and tends to occur in families, but so far, no specific genes have yet been found that predispose someone to getting it. And while low levels of oestrogen have been linked to pain perception in perimenopause and menopause, research so far hasn’t found a connection between oestrogen deficit and the development of fibromyalgia.
Common fibromyalgia symptoms.
Fibro Fog word cloud on a white background.
Some of the common symptoms of fibromyalgia include
• Pain or tenderness in the muscles, soft tissues, and/or bones throughout the body, including the arms, legs, head, chest, abdomen, back, and buttocks
• Numbness or tingling in the arms and legs
• Fatigue, inability to get a good night’s sleep, restless leg syndrome, feeling stiff on waking
• “Fibro fog” (memory problems, confusion, inability to pay close attention or concentrate)
• Headaches
• Pain in the face or jaw, TMJ syndrome
• Increased sensitivity to light, odors, noise, and temperature
• Mental health issues (anxiety, depression)
• Digestive issues (bloating, constipation, IBS, GORD, difficulty swallowing)
• Painful menstrual periods
• Overactive bladder, pelvic pain
The risk for fibromyalgia is higher in people who experience other conditions such as chronic back pain, lupus, polymyalgia rheumatica, spondyloarthritis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, endometriosis, and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). Because it’s possible to experience several of these at the same time, your doctor will try to determine which of these you may be experiencing
Supporting fibromyalgia with exercise and nutrition.
While there currently isn’t a cure, there are ways to manage symptoms and reduce the impact fibromyalgia has on your life and self-care plays an important role. The first thing is to know that even though fibromyalgia is difficult to diagnose and doesn’t have a definitive test, it is a real condition and research is being done to try to better understand it and eventually find a cure.
Physical Exercise. While more research is underway, physical exercise is currently considered to be the most effective treatment for fibromyalgia. Cardiovascular fitness training (“cardio”) can ease symptoms by helping with pain and improving sleep. Ideally, doing 30 minutes of cardio three times each week is recommended. Low-impact exercises like walking, biking, stretching, yoga, tai chi, and water-based exercises are helpful. If regular exercise is new for you or feels like a lot, simply start low and go slow to create a comfortable routine. It may take time to build up your endurance and the intensity of physical activity that you can do.
Nutrition. Eating a healthy and nutritious diet is also highly recommended. While there currently isn’t a huge amount of strong evidence to recommend any one dietary strategy to help with fibromyalgia symptoms, a few small studies show promising results for the following nutrition recommendations:
• Different types of elimination diets have helped different people– the vegetarian diet (eliminates meat, poultry, and fish), vegan diet (eliminates all animal products including dairy and eggs), the low FODMAP diet (reduces intake of short-chain carbohydrates that are fermentable oligo-di-mono-saccharides and polyols), gluten-free diet, a diet free from both MSG (monosodium glutamate) and aspartame (an artificial sweetener).
• The Mediterranean diet has been shown to decrease fatigue and improve moods.
• The replacement of some foods may also help, including replacing non-olive oil fats with olive oil and replacing non-ancient grains with ancient grains such as Khorasan wheat.
• If you are low in vitamin D, taking a supplement can help reduce fibromyalgia pain.
• Additional supplements that may help include Chlorella green algae, Coenzyme Q10, acetyl-L-carnitine, magnesium, iron, vitamins C and E, probiotics, and Nigella sativa (Black cumin) seeds Note: My clinical approach to fibromyalgia often includes supplementation shown to help modulate pain and inflammatory pathways and is discussed as part of an individual’s treatment strategy.
This is a long list of potential dietary strategies and more research is needed. Working with a degree-qualified nutritionist will help ensure you find the best path forward with a dietary approach that’s right for you as an individual.
Lifestyle strategies to support fibromyalgia symptoms
Practices that support the natural circadian rhythm and your sleep/wake cycle may be beneficial if you’re experiencing fibromyalgia symptoms. One of my favourite practices to sync the circadian rhythm is to begin the day by getting 15-30 minutes of natural, morning light on waking—before exposing myself to artificial indoor lights and the blue lights of electronics. This is based on the scientific work of Dr Samer Hattar (credited with co-discovering the neurons in the eye that set our circadian clocks), on how viewing light at particular times of the day adjusts our mood, ability to learn, stress and hormone levels, appetite/feeding cycles, and our mental health. Additional practices include:
• Go to bed and wake at the same time each day.
• Limit stimulants like caffeine and nicotine as much as possible, especially in the evenings. Establish a relaxing nightly routine that includes reduced screen time, dimmed lights, soft music, meditation, and a warm bath.
• Keep your bedroom comfortable for sleeping by keeping it dark, quiet, and cool. If you suspect you may have a sleep disorder such as sleep apnea, reach out to your healthcare provider.
Managing stress and moods can also help you relieve symptoms. Pace yourself and balance your need to work and rest by taking breaks when necessary. Also, make time to relax each day and try deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and stress reduction techniques. If you feel lonely or isolated, consider joining a support group that you find to be positive and encouraging—one that shares helpful coping techniques. Cognitive behavioral therapy (with a qualified therapist or counselor) may help you by focusing on how your thoughts and behaviors affect pain and other symptoms. If you have any mental health concerns such as anxiety or depression, seek out professional help.
If necessary, consider reaching out to your healthcare provider about prescription medications that may help with fibromyalgia.
The Bottom Line.
Fibromyalgia is a complex condition of chronic widespread pain—you’re not making it up and it’s not “all in your head”. Self-care is the mainstay for improving symptoms of fibromyalgia and current research suggests that the most effective treatment is physical activity. In addition to that, there are several dietary and lifestyle strategies that can help, including certain diets and supplements, improving sleep, and managing stress. While there may not be a cure for the condition yet, you don’t have to suffer in silence.
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T-Men
T-Men is a 1947 semidocumentary and police procedural style film noir about United States Treasury agents. The film was directed by Anthony Mann and shot by noted noir cameraman John Alton. The production features Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart and Charles McGraw. A year later, director Mann used the film's male lead, Dennis O'Keefe, in Raw Deal.
The film was endorsed by the U.S. Treasury Department: the opening credits are displayed over an image of the department's seal, then former Chief Coordinator of the department's six agencies Elmer Lincoln Irey delivers a monologue describing the objectives of those agencies and lauding their accomplishments. He describes the movie as a composite case from its files entitled "The Shanghai Paper Case".
Plot
In order to convict a counterfeiting ring, two United States Treasury agents are chosen to go undercover and infiltrate the Vantucci gang in Detroit. Dennis O'Brien and Anthony Genero are the agents, and they are to start at the bottom and work their way up the gang's hierarchy. To infiltrate the gang they must appear to be criminals from the Detroit milieu, so they study the history of Detroit crime in order to create reliable false identities. They declare themselves to be the last two members of the moribund River Gang, and that they are "on the lam". They become Vannie Harrigan (O'Brien) and Tony Galvani (Genaro), and convince Pasquale, the proprietor of a notorious hotel that they are real criminals.
Pasquale sends them to Vantucci, who uses counterfeit revenue stamps for his hijacked liquor. He surreptitiously quizzes them about local crime history, offering up incorrect facts which the agents are able to correct, and they are "hired." They hear the name of a gangster, "Schemer", and learn that he is the gang's West Coast liaison. They secretly obtain a pair of his overalls and send them to the bureau's crime lab for analysis, where his size, weight, the fact he smokes cigars, and the fact he chews Chinese health herbs are ascertained. Armed with this information, O'Brien heads for Los Angeles.
O'Brien searches Chinatown following the herb lead, where he discovers that Schemer frequents steam baths. He finds a man fitting Schemer's description who goes to a hotel where there's a backroom craps game. O'Brien bluffs his way in, then introduces a counterfeit bill into play. The phony bill is discovered and O'Brien is blamed; they beat him and throw him into the alley. O'Brien shows Schemer his fake bill (which he has recovered). His bill is well-printed since hand-engraved plates were used, but it has inferior paper. The gang's counterfeit bills are the opposite: lesser quality printing due to mere photoengraving, but on superior stock. Schemer offers to approach a higher-up about a collaboration.
Gangsters await O'Brien in his apartment and rough him up, wanting to know his "game". They suspect he is a Treasury agent, so he tells them to check with Detroit. O'Brien is eventually taken to an exclusive home in Beverly Hills, where he meets a Mr. Triano. O'Brien proposes a merger, but Triano says he is all set, so O'Brien threatens to start his own operation.
O'Brien returns to Detroit and is given a sample of the gang's paper so he can print a bill on it using his plates. The result is acceptable, so O'Brien turns over the back plate, but says they'll get the front one when he meets the boss.
Tony's wife is out shopping with a friend who identifies Tony on the street. She attempts to engage him, but Tony claims he isn't married and doesn't know them. Tony's wife knows to deny it's Tony, but Schemer, who is with him, is suspicious.
Moxie locks Schemer into a steam room and turns up the heat, cooking him alive. Tony is overheard on a call asking about his wife. His cover blown, he is murdered in front of O'Brien. It is revealed that the gang's technician, Paul Miller, had worked with August Bauman, the engraver of the plates the bureau is using, so Miller would be able to identify the true engraver. O'Brien discovers a claim check in Schemer's room. It produces Schemer's coded documentation of all the gang's illegal activities, which he had kept as insurance.
O'Brien is taken to the gang's base of operation, a docked ship, in order to meet the Chief. Miller is summoned in order to verify the provence of the plates, but actually covers for O'Brien; Miller did recognize the plates, but he had realized that O'Brien was an agent early on, and spares him because he wants to become a government witness. Miller is shot; O'Brien is wounded but survives. The police arrive, raids are conducted, and the Chief is apprehended.
Cast
* Dennis O'Keefe as Dennis O'Brien, a.k.a. Vannie Harrigan
* Mary Meade as Evangeline
* Alfred Ryder as Tony Genaro – aka Tony Galvani
* Wallace Ford as The Schemer (as Wally Ford)
* June Lockhart as Mary Genaro
* Charles McGraw as Moxie
* Jane Randolph as Diana Simpson
* Anton Kosta as Vantucci
* Art Smith as Gregg
* Herbert Heyes as Chief Carson
* Jack Overman as Brownie
* John Wengraf as 'Shiv' Triano
* Jim Bannon as Agent Lindsay
* William Malten as Paul Miller
Playing the role of Dennis O'Brien proved to be a breakthrough for Dennis O'Keefe. Before T-Men, he was known mainly as a light comedic actor. The decision to cast him against type as a tough cop was not entirely an objective one; producer Small was also O'Keefe's agent, and they hoped to bolster his career. The plan succeeded, and after the success of T-Men, they immediately paired again for 1948's Raw Deal. O'Keefe would go on to play in many films noir, as well as other genres.
Production
The film was the first of a series of film noirs from Eagle Lion. Edward Small provided the finance and Eagle Lion took 25% of the profits.
Anthony Mann called the film "the first big one" in his career. "I worked on the script from scratch, and it was the first film on which I was able to do this. The others were given to me... T Men was originally only an idea, and I was able to work with William Eirie from the Treasury Department. He brought all the files, so that we could devise and create a story with John Higgins that at least had some potency and value. This is what I really call my first film. I was responsible for its story, for its structure, its characters and for actually making it. This was my first real break towards being able to make films the way I wanted."
T-Men was partially financed by organized crime. John Roselli, Hollywood labor racketeer for the Chicago mob and a movie aficionado, formed a silent partnership with Joseph Breen, head of the Production Code Office, to invest in the movie. (Roselli had met Breen when he had worked in the Office ten years earlier.)
Although the film was a success it led to a breach between Small and Eagle Lion, as Small was unhappy with the way his contribution to the film was minimized in its advertising.
Locations feature the old Los Angeles Plaza area. The undercover cop, seeking his contact, leaves Union Station, crosses Alameda and walks up notorious Ferguson Alley (once full of brothels and opium dens in L.A.'s "old Chinatown") and by the Lugo adobe (all torn down for "The Slot", L.A.'s first downtown freeway). Next, he goes into a Chinese apothecary (once L.A.'s first fire station and now restored as part of the Plaza).
It is the first of five creatively successful collaborations between director Mann and acclaimed cinematographer John Alton, and features "some of the most distinctive stylistics of the film noir movement." Because Mann and Alton "trusted each other, the film has intense, almost unbearable mood and texture".
Reception
The film was successful at the box office. It earned $3,000,000 on a $425,000 budget, a significant profit for a B movie in 1947.
Critical response
The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, gave the film a positive review, "Hand it to Mr. Small's craftsmen: they have turned out a cops-and-robbers film in this new 'semi-documentary' format which, for action, is one of the best ... Made in part on locations in Detroit and Los Angeles, it does have a look of reality not often encountered in such films ... And Anthony Mann has directed the action, of which there is more than enough, with a fine sense of melodramatic timing and a good eye for sharp, severe effects."
Contemporary film critic, Dennis Schwartz, praised the film, writing, "The compelling well-made fake realism of the small studio sleeper semi-documentary crime thriller, T-Men, brought to wider attention the immense skills of B-film director Anthony Mann (Desperate/The Tin Star/The Man from Laramie) and cinematographer John Alton ... John Alton's brilliant camerawork makes the mise en scène dramatically grander than the matter-of-fact tone of the narration."
Accolades
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound (Jack Whitney).
Adaptation and remake
A radio adaptation on Lux Radio theatre was broadcast February 23, 1948. It too starred Dennis O'Keefe. The film was remade in 1969 as The File of the Golden Goose, directed by Sam Wanamaker and starring Yul Brynner and Edward Woodward and this time set in London, England instead of the United States.
In 1970 Small announced he intended to turn the film into a TV series but it did not materialize. | WIKI |
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Delete Azure stacks
To delete a scanner stack, you must first delete all storage stacks associated with the scanner stack.
1. Sign in to File Storage Security. The console appears.
2. Select the Stack Management page.
3. In the table, select a stack.
4. Select the Delete button at the top. The Delete Stack dialog box appears.
5. Select the arrow to expand the Delete with Azure CLI (Recommended) instructions.
6. Select the Copy button to copy the script to the clipboard.
7. Open a Azure CLI window.
If you haven't already installed the Azure CLI, read about that here.
8. Paste the script you copied from the console into the Azure CLI window, then press the Enter key to delete the Stack from Azure.
9. Return to the File Storage Security console.
10. In the Delete Stack dialog box, click the Delete button to delete the stack from File Storage Security.
Alternate method of deleting a stack
1. From the File Storage Security console, select the Stack Management page
2. In the table, select a stack.
3. Select the Delete button at the top. The Delete Stack dialog box appears.
4. Select the arrow to expand the Delete with Azure Portal instructions.
5. Click the Copy button to the right of the Resource Group Name.
6. From the Azure portal, in the search bar at the top of the window, paste the resource group name from the clipboard with Ctrl-V, then press Return.
7. Once you locate the resource group, delete it.
8. From File Storage Security, click the Copy button to the right of the Storage Account Name.
9. From the Azure portal, in the search bar at the top of the window, paste the storage account name from the clipboard with Ctrl-V, then press Return.
10. Once you locate the storage account, delete it.
11. From the storage account page, go to the Access control (IAM) tab.
12. Delete the role assignments listed in the File Storage Security Delete Stack dialog box.
13. Delete the roles for the above role assignments.
14. Go to the Events tab.
15. Delete the event subscription listed in the File Storage Security Delete Stack dialog box.
16. Return to the File Storage Security console.
17. In the Delete Stack dialog box, click the Delete button to delete the stack from File Storage Security.
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Talk:Harderian gland
Are Harderian glands considered part of the tear apparatus?
For animals that have a harderian gland and/or prominent nictitating membranes, is there a consensus among biologists that the fluid produced by those is part of tears? And is the fluid produced in the eyes of animals without lacrimal glands considered tears, or is it just an [unnamed] protective coating on the eye?
The nictitating membrane article refers to harderian gland secretions as part of tears, but I didn't know if that's actually a common terminology.
Harder's gland is attached to the nictating membranes of some animals and may produce up to 50% of the tear film.
If these are widely considered part of the tearing apparatus, they should probably at least be mentioned in tears article. The void century (talk) 23:38, 17 July 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
Setting Holds and Using the Hold Manager
The Jedox In-Memory DB offers the ability to define holds on cube cells. When a hold is defined, the value in the cell is fixed and will not be affected by write-back operations. However, values can still be splashed on cells above a held cell in the hierarchy; in that case, the value changes are applied only to sibling elements of the held element. Holds obtain a continuous ID number after their chronological creation. Every user attempting write-back is affected by holds, and they carry over across sessions in the server. Multiple holds can be set on the same cell. Holds can be set from reports in both Jedox Web and Excel.
Cell value holds can be defined using the context menu of a PALO.DATA* cell (unlocked) and in the Planning Assistant. You can also open the Hold Manager in the Modeler, under the Advanced section of a cube's properties. Note: for attribute cubes, the Hold Manager can only be called from the context menu in a Jedox View, not from the Modeler.
Once defined, holds do not react to changes in dimension hierarchy. If the child element of an element that was held is moved into a different branch of a dimension hierarchy, that element will still be held. The hold on the consolidated element has to be reset (removed and set again) in this scenario. Similarly, if an element is added as a child to a held, consolidated element, it will at first not be held.
If an element that was explicitly held is deleted, the hold is removed. If the element was only part of a hold with multiple other elements from the same dimension, the hold is kept; only the deleted element is removed in this case.
Holds are also accessible from Jedox Integrator via Groovy scripting.
Using the Hold command to create a hold
For this example, create the following view:
Next, splash 100,000,000 in cell C11 and define holds in C15 and in E11 using the Create Hold command from the context menu:
To display the holds that affect a PALO.DATA* cell, open the Hold Manager for that cell. For example, in the example above
• Cell D12 isn’t affected by any hold.
• Cell E12 is only affected by one hold: this cell has children in “East” region. Splashing another value in C12 will not change the value in E12.
• Cell E11 is affected by both defined holds:
The Hold Manager displays the cell coordinates, the creation time, and the creator of the hold.
Note that if more than 1000 holds are defined in a cube, only the first 1000 holds will be displayed in the Hold Manager in Jedox Web or the Modeler on the cube.
Splashing another value in cell E11 will result in an error message:
To delete holds, select them in the Hold Manager and click Release.
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Severe Leg Pain In Both Legs When Lying Or Sitting?
If you have a neurological disorder that affects the nerves in your legs, you may have painful legs when you lie down.Conditions such as vitamin shortages, physical traumas, and infections that directly infect the nerves are examples of this type of disease.In other cases, such as in the case of sciatica, the leg discomfort might be caused by transferred pain.
• The inflammation of the sciatic nerve is the cause of this disorder.
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is characterized by leg and foot pain that occurs at night or while you are attempting to sleep (PAD). It is possible to have pain anywhere on your leg as a result of peripheral artery disease, but the most typical locations to experience discomfort are the muscles of your calves, thighs, and buttocks.
Why do my legs hurt when I Lay on my Side?
Leg discomfort when laying on the side of the bed Leg discomfort can be caused or exacerbated by lying on one’s side in a number of ways.By putting direct pressure on a nerve root while laying on the leg that is experiencing sciatic pain, you can reduce the severity of the discomfort.Lingering in bed with one’s hips tilted too much to one side causes the spine to bend, compressing the nerve roots and resulting in leg discomfort.
What does it mean when your legs Ache?
If your leg discomfort is accompanied by swelling, redness, or warmth, you should seek medical attention. The presence of blood clots in the legs is another ailment that can cause leg discomfort; blood clots in the legs are considered a medical emergency. These are most commonly experienced after lengthy journeys or following recent surgery, and they manifest as calf soreness or cramping.
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Is it normal to have leg pain while sitting or sleeping?
It is a symptom that is not uncommon. Lower leg discomfort is the most common symptom, however it can also manifest itself in the foot. Leg discomfort when sitting or sleeping can be caused by a variety of disorders, the majority of which affect the circulation and nerves of the leg.
What causes leg pain when sitting or lying down?
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is the cause of restless leg syndrome (RLS). Chronic Venous Insufficiency is a medical condition that affects the veins. Another injury is causing radiating pain.
Why are both of my legs hurting at night?
Even if you are having nightly leg pain that is interfering with your sleep, it might be an indication of Peripheral Artery Disease.If you have been experiencing nightly leg pain that is interfering with your sleep, you should see your doctor (PAD).PADI is a cardiovascular condition characterized by fatty deposits in the walls of your arteries.
• It is also known as peripheral artery disease (PAD).
How do I know if my leg pain is serious?
Despite the fact that leg pain isn’t normally considered an emergency, you should seek medical assistance as soon as possible if any of the following apply to your discomfort:
1. You are unable to walk or stand on your own
2. It is possible to have leg soreness and edema as well as redness and warmth.
3. You have suffered an unexpected injury resulting in a deep incision or exposed tissue
Why am I getting pain in both legs?
The majority of leg pain is caused by wear and tear, overuse, or injury to joints or bones, as well as to muscles, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues of the leg. There are some forms of leg discomfort that may be linked back to issues with your lower spine. It is also possible that leg discomfort is caused by blood clots, varicose veins, or poor circulation.
How do I stop my legs from hurting at night?
Treating RLS
1. Avoid caffeinated beverages, nicotine, and alcoholic beverages, especially within few hours of going to bed.
2. Massage your leg muscles before bedtime, perform mild stretches, soak in a warm bath, or use heating pads to help you sleep better.
3. Exercise on a regular basis, as it may help to alleviate the symptoms of RLS
How can I stop my legs from hurting at night?
Here are some basic things you may do to avoid cramping in the future:
1. Stretching should be done throughout the day and before bed. Concentrate on the muscles in your leg and foot
2. Drink lots of water, and move around during the day to keep your feet and legs active.
3. Dress in shoes that are both comfy and supportive.
4. Sleep with your blankets pulled loosely over your shoulders, especially if you sleep on your back
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What deficiency causes leg pain at night?
Potassium. When potassium is present in the body, it aids in the maintenance of proper cell function, notably in the nerves and muscles. Potassium insufficiency is a reasonably common occurrence in the general population. Individuals who suffer from severe deficiency symptoms, such as cramping in the legs, should seek medical attention right once.
Can spinal stenosis cause leg pain at night?
Leg soreness when sleeping on one’s back is common. It has been shown that holding the spine in this posture reduces the size of the pathways (foramina) via which nerve roots escape the spinal column. It is possible that this posture will cause sciatic leg discomfort in the presence of a herniated disc or an osteophytic bone spur (called lumbar spinal stenosis).
What are the symptoms of a blocked artery in your leg?
1. What Are the Signs and Symptoms of a Blocked Artery in the Lower Extremity? Cramping pain in one or both of your hips, thighs, or calf muscles after engaging in physical activity such as walking or stair climbing
2. The presence of persistent discomfort on the bottoms of your feet, legs, and toes that does not heal or heals slowly
3. Legs have become discolored.
How do you relieve severe leg pain?
Home Care
1. Rest as much as you possibly can.
2. Elevate your leg, and apply ice for up to 15 minutes to reduce swelling. Carry out this routine four times each day, more frequently in the first few days.
3. Stretching and massaging cramping muscles is a gentle technique.
4. Take over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen to relieve your discomfort.
What is vascular leg pain like?
An disruption of blood flow to a tissue or muscle results in the sensation of pain. Vascular pain is one type of pain. Having vascular pain is a condition in which you have poor blood circulation, soreness, or heaviness in certain places of your body. Additionally, numbness, weakness, or a tingling sensation may be experienced in the afflicted area.
What kind of doctor do you see for leg pain?
Orthopedic specialist or orthopedic surgeon are both terms used to refer to the same person. Surgeon specializing in vascular surgery. Rheumatologist. Rehabilitation specialist who specializes in physical medicine (physiatrist)
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When should I be concerned about leg pain at night?
It is important to be worried about your leg discomfort and make an appointment with your doctor if you have any of the following symptoms: Pain that intensifies when you walk or do other physical activity. Treatments at home have failed miserably. Varicose veins are quite uncomfortable.
Why do my legs throb at night?
1. Our blood is driven back to our hearts by the pumping action of our hearts, as well as by the contraction of our leg and foot muscles when we walk and move our ankles.
2. That blood is driven into the skin’s tissue, causing it to expand as a result.
3. Our legs may get fatigued, throbbing, and uncomfortable as a result of this.
4. In some cases, you may notice that your ankles swell, particularly at night.
How can you tell the difference between muscle pain and bone pain?
1. Bone pain is typically felt as deeper, sharper, and more powerful than muscular pain, and it can last longer.
2. Pain in the muscles is also more distributed across the body, and it usually subsides after a day or two, whereas bone pain is more targeted and lasts for a longer period of time.
3. It is also less prevalent than joint or muscle pain, and should always be treated as a serious medical condition.
Why do you have painful legs while lying down?
1. What is causing my hip and leg pain at night?
2. Tendons in the hip may become inflamed or rupture as a result of compression or overloading that does not allow for adequate recovery time.
3. Hip discomfort might result as a result of this during night.
4. Tendinopathy and hip discomfort can also be caused by often sitting with legs crossed or standing with all of one’s weight on one hip, among other things.
Leg cramps throughout the night are an indication of what?Leg cramps at night are common in general.
Why do I always shake my leg when sitting down?
1. Recognize the factors that contribute to your habit of shaking your leg.
2. Make adjustments to your seating position, reading posture, chair, or lighting circumstances.
3. Change your surrounding environment.
4. You Can Be Your Own Coach Out of this habit, employ a mnemonic to assist you in breaking the habit.
5. When you experience a relapse of shaky legs, conduct a review.
What causes severe leg pain while standing?
1. Dehydration. Inadequate water consumption can result in a variety of negative health consequences for your body.
2. There is a physical strain on the body. Leg strain can occur as a result of prolonged physical activity or exercise.
3. Anxiety-inducing sitting positions
4. Poorly controlled diabetes
5. Previous inflammation
6. Clot in the bloodstream
7. Constricted blood vessels
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Pavel Bure
Pavel Vladimirovich Bure (Па́вел Влади́мирович Буре́, ; born 31 March 1971) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played the right wing position. Nicknamed "the Russian Rocket" for his speed, Bure played for 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers between 1991 and 2003. Trained in the Soviet Union, he played three seasons with the Central Red Army team before his NHL career.
Selected 113th overall in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by Vancouver, he began his NHL career in the 1991–92 season, and won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie before leading the NHL in goal-scoring in 1993-94 and helping the Canucks to the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals. After seven seasons the Canucks traded Bure to the Panthers, where he won back-to-back Rocket Richard Trophies as the league's leading goal-scorer. Bure struggled with knee injuries throughout his career, resulting in his retirement in 2005 as a member of the Rangers, although he had not played since 2003. He averaged better than a point per game in his NHL career (779 points with 437 goals in 702 NHL games) and is fourth all-time in goals per game. After six years of eligibility, Bure was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in June 2012. In 2017, an NHL panel named Bure one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
Internationally, Bure competed for the Soviet Union and Russia. As a member of the Soviet Union, he won two silver medals and a gold in three World Junior Championships, followed by a gold and a silver medal in the 1990 and 1991 World Championships, respectively. After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, Bure competed for Russia in two Winter Olympics, claiming silver at the 1998 Games in Nagano as team captain, and bronze at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Following Bure's retirement in 2005, he was named the general manager for Russia's national team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Bure was later recognized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for his international career, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2012.
Early life
Bure was born in Moscow in 1971 to Vladimir and Tatiana Bure. Vladimir Bure, a Russian swimming legend, had dreams of Pavel becoming a professional swimmer, but he aspired to play hockey at an early age. He attended his first tryout with the CSKA Moscow hockey school at the age of six, despite his limited skating ability. Until that point, Bure had only played ball hockey on the streets. After Bure failed to impress in his first tryout, his father told him that if he did not show significant improvement within two months, he would withdraw him from the hockey school. By age 11, he was named the best forward in his league. Around that time, in July 1982, Bure was selected as one of three young Russian players to practice with Wayne Gretzky and Soviet national goaltender Vladislav Tretiak in a taped television special.
At age 12, his parents separated, and he remained with his mother. By the time he was 14 years old, he was named to the Central Red Army's junior team. In 1991, he joined his father and brother, Valeri in moving to North America as he embarked on a National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks. His mother arrived two months later. They settled initially in Los Angeles where Vladimir continued to train and coach both Valeri and Pavel in hockey and physical conditioning. However both became estranged from their father, along with his second wife and their half-sister Katya, by 1998. Neither brother has explained a reason for the split.
In December 1986, he embarked on a tour of Canada with the Soviet national midget team from Ottawa to Vancouver. Nearly five years before Bure made his NHL debut with the Vancouver Canucks in 1991 at the Pacific Coliseum, he played his first game at his future home rink as part of the tour. Bure also earned another opportunity to meet Gretzky, as well as defenceman Paul Coffey, when his team stopped in Edmonton to play at the Northlands Coliseum.
CSKA Moscow (1987–1991)
At age 16, Bure began his professional hockey career playing for CSKA Moscow. He was invited to the senior club's training camp for the 1987–88 season. Although he was deemed too young and not yet ready for the Soviet League, Bure earned minimal playing time filling in for absent regulars. He made his debut in September 1987, and played five games for the senior team, scoring his only goal in his first game.
Bure joined the club full-time in 1988–89 and amassed 17 goals, a Soviet League record for rookies. The record would last for 18 years until Alexei Cherepanov scored 18 goals in 2006–07. Bure added 9 assists for 26 points to earn the league's rookie of the year honours. His individual success helped CSKA Moscow capture their thirteenth consecutive Soviet championship and twelfth consecutive IIHF European Cup in 1989 (they repeated as European champions the following year).
As a member CSKA, Bure joined a lineup that featured several future NHL players, including linemates Sergei Fedorov and Alexander Mogilny, as well as Igor Larionov, Viacheslav Fetisov, Sergei Makarov, and Vladimir Konstantinov. The combination of Bure, Fedorov and Mogilny formed a promising combination for head coach Viktor Tikhonov, with expectations to replace the previous top Soviet line, the K-L-M combination of Vladimir Krutov, Larionov and Makarov. The trio was short-lived, as Mogilny defected to play for the Buffalo Sabres in 1989, and Fedorov joined the Detroit Red Wings the following year.
In his third and final season with the Red Army, Bure tied for the lead in team-scoring with Valeri Kamensky, tallying 46 points. His 35 goals was second in the league, one goal behind Ramil Yuldashev of Sokil Kyiv. Bure turned down a three-year contract extension in August 1991, which resulted in him being left off the roster of the Soviet team for the Canada Cup.
Transfer to the NHL (1989–1991)
Prior to the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, William Houston of The Globe and Mail wrote, "The best of the group is Soviet star winger Pavel Bure, a spectacular player with outstanding speed. He is compared to Vladimir Krutov and also the late Soviet superstar of the 1970s, Valeri Kharlamov." NHL organizations were afraid he would not leave the Soviet Union to play in the NHL thus deterring teams from selecting him early, although scouts and analysts believed he could have been selected as high as the second round had he defected. Many analysts compared him to Valeri Kharlamov. Edmonton Oilers' scout Barry Fraser commented, "From what I've seen of him, Bure can play on any team in the NHL right now... he's quick, real quick, small and very exciting. He may be the top player in this year's draft, but because he is from the Soviet Union, we don't analyze him the same way as a kid from the West... I don't expect him to go really early because it is still too much of a gamble to hope he will defect."
Bure was selected 113th overall in the sixth round Draft by the Vancouver Canucks, following his rookie season with CSKA Moscow. The pick was controversial, as the Canucks had chosen him seemingly a year ahead of his eligible draft season. At the age of 18, he was available to be chosen in the first three rounds of the draft, but to be selected any later, he would have needed to play at least two seasons—with a minimum of 11 games per season—for his elite-level Soviet club, the Central Red Army. While most teams believed he was ineligible, the Canucks' head scout at the time, Mike Penny, discovered Bure had played in additional exhibition and international games to make him an eligible late-round draft choice a year early. Jack Button, the Washington Capitals' director of player personnel, admitted "everybody would have taken him earlier. We assumed he was not eligible... you've got to give the Canucks credit for doing their homework."
Several other teams either had similar knowledge or had pursued Bure but there was confusion as to the legitimacy of the extra games. The Detroit Red Wings had asked league vice president Gil Stein about Bure's availability before their fifth-round pick but were told he was not eligible. They later decided to select him with their sixth-round pick, 116th overall, and settle his eligibility later. The Canucks selected Bure three picks ahead of Detroit's turn. Meanwhile, Winnipeg Jets general manager Mike Smith, claimed he made an offer to the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation that would involve three years of transfer payments before Bure would be allowed to join the Jets; however Smith did not have any plans to draft Bure in 1989 as he believed he was ineligible.
Canucks' general manager Pat Quinn originally intended to draft Bure in the eighth round but after receiving word the Oilers had similar intentions selected him in the sixth. Following the announcement of Bure's draft, several other team representatives reportedly stormed the Met Center stage in Minnesota, where the draft was being held. Formal complaints were filed resulting in an investigation into the selection. After the pick was deemed illegal by league president John Ziegler in a press release on May 17, 1990, the Canucks appealed the decision, procuring game sheets proving Bure's participation in the additional games with the help of recent Soviet acquisition Igor Larionov. It was not until the eve of the 1990 NHL Entry Draft, in which Bure would have been re-entered that the draft choice was upheld. Although Larionov and Fetisov had successfully spearheaded the rebellion against Soviet ice hockey officials in the late 1980s that led to Soviet players joining the NHL, Bure's transfer to the Canucks was met with resistance, and the Soviet authorities forbade the Canucks to contact Bure personally. During the 1991 World Junior Championships, he said in an interview that he was hesitant to defect for fears the Soviets would make things difficult for his younger brother Valeri Bure, who was 15 at the time and playing in the junior league.
Bure left Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, 1991, staying temporarily in Los Angeles. His mother arrived shortly afterward. The Canucks began negotiating a contract with Bure, but before one could be finalized, the issue of his existing contract with the Central Red Army had to be settled. The Canucks management and officials from the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation met in late-October 1991 in a Detroit court, where they bartered for a cash settlement. After the Canucks offered US$200,000, Bure stood up in the courtroom to offer an additional $50,000, bringing the total to $250,000. The Soviet officials accepted, and Canucks management paid the full $250,000. Bure signed a four-year contract worth a reported $2.7 million with an $800,000 signing bonus. The deal made Bure the Canucks' second highest paid player behind team captain Trevor Linden.
Vancouver Canucks (1991–1999)
Due to the court proceedings, Bure's debut with the Canucks was delayed until a month into the 1991–92 season. Garnering much attention in Vancouver, his first practice with the club on November 3, 1991, was attended by approximately 2,000 fans. He played his first game for the Canucks on November 5, 1991, in a 2–2 tie against the Winnipeg Jets. Despite not scoring a point, Bure showcased his talent and speed with several end-to-end rushes, carrying the puck past several defenders from near his defensive zone to the opposing net. Following the game, Vancouver Sun columnist Iain MacIntyre compared him to a rocket, calling him "the fastest Soviet creation since Sputnik". MacIntyre's comments are credited for laying the groundwork for Bure's moniker as the "Russian Rocket," which echoed the nickname of Maurice "Rocket" Richard, who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s. In his third game, Bure recorded his first point, an assist against the New York Islanders on November 10. He scored his first two NHL goals in the next game, on November 12, against Daniel Berthiaume of the Los Angeles Kings. He finished with 34 goals and 60 points in 65 games that season, including 22 goals in his final 23 games. In the last game of the regular season, Bure scored a goal to tie Ivan Hlinka's 1981–82 team mark for most points by a rookie.
As the Canucks opened the 1992 playoffs against the Winnipeg Jets, Bure recorded his first NHL hat trick in game six to help force a seventh and deciding game. Vancouver won the series to advance to the second round, but were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers. Bure finished his first Stanley Cup playoffs with six goals and 10 points in 13 games. At the end of the season, he was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year. His 60 points were second among first-year players to Tony Amonte's 69 points with the Rangers, although Bure played in 14 fewer games. When accepting the award, Bure thanked Canucks linemate Igor Larionov for his guidance. On arriving in Vancouver, his former Red Army teammate took him into his home for two weeks before Bure moved into his own apartment; the two also roomed together on the road. Bure's Calder Trophy, along with head coach Pat Quinn's Jack Adams Award as the league's top coach, marked the first major individual NHL awards in Canucks' team history. However, despite being named the league's top rookie, Bure was left off the NHL All-Rookie Team, making him the only Calder recipient not to be named to the lineup. This was because he split his time playing both left and right wing. When it came to voting for the players, Bure had the most total votes, but not enough at either position to claim a spot.
Bure improved on his rookie season in 1992–93 with the first of two consecutive 60-goal seasons. In the third game of the season, he scored a career-high four goals against the Winnipeg Jets. His three goals and one assist in the second period set a pair of Canucks' records for most goals and points in a period, in addition to the team mark for most goals overall in a game (for which he is tied with several players). Furthermore, Bure scored two of his goals on the penalty kill to set a fourth team record for most short-handed goals in one contest. He appeared in his first NHL All-Star Game in 1993, being named to the Clarence Campbell Conference Team as the lone Canucks' representative, and scored two goals. Shortly after the All-Star break, Bure established a new franchise record for goals in a season during a 5–1 win over the Quebec Nordiques, surpassing Tony Tanti's 45-goal mark. The next month, on March 1, he reached the 50-goal mark for the first time in his career, scoring against Grant Fuhr of the Buffalo Sabres in a neutral-site game in Hamilton, Ontario. He also surpassed Patrik Sundström's franchise record of 91 points. Bure finished the season with 110 points in 83 games, and became the first Canuck named to the NHL first All-Star team. His 110 points stood as the team record until it was broken by Henrik Sedin's 112 points in 2009–10.
A groin injury early in the 1993-94 season limited Bure's production for the first half of the season. Even so, he improved in the second half, and led the league in goal-scoring by repeating his 60-goal feat of the previous season. In doing so, he became the eighth player in NHL history to record back-to-back 60-goal seasons. He concluded the season with a streak of 49 goals and 78 points in his final 51 games, and earned player of the month honours in March 1994 after scoring 19 goals and 30 points in 16 games. His March scoring burst was just one point shy of Stan Smyl's 31-point March in 1983 for the most productive month by a Canucks player. Bure's 154 NHL goals at that point in his career put him behind only Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy for the most in any NHL player's first three seasons. He recorded 49 goals in the club's final 51 games, and contributed to 46.45% of his team's goals in the final 47 games of the season to carry the Canucks into the 1994 postseason.
Entering the 1994 Stanley Cup Playoffs as the seventh seed, the Canucks went on a run to the Stanley Cup Finals. In the seventh game of the opening-round series against the Calgary Flames, Bure scored one of the most significant and well-known goals in Canucks' history. After receiving a breakaway pass from defenceman Jeff Brown, he deked and scored on Flames' goalie Mike Vernon in the second overtime to win the series. In game two of the second round against the Dallas Stars, Bure knocked enforcer Shane Churla to the ice with an elbow to the jaw. He also scored two goals in the game to help Vancouver to a 3–0 win. Although Bure was not initially penalized for the play, he was later fined $500 by the league. He recorded six goals and eight points in five games against the Dallas Stars, and against the Toronto Maple Leafs the following round scored four goals and six points in five games.
After defeating Dallas in five games, the Canucks eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Campbell Conference Finals to meet the New York Rangers in the Finals, where the Canucks lost in seven games. Bure finished with a team-high 16 goals and 31 points in 24 games, second in playoff scoring only to Conn Smythe Trophy winner Brian Leetch. His points total also remained the highest by any Russian player until Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins recorded 36 in 2009.
In the next off-season, the Canucks announced they had re-signed Bure to a five-year, $24.5 million contract on June 16. The deal was reported to have been signed before game three of the Stanley Cup Finals against New York. It also included Bure's marketing rights and put his father, Vladimir, on the team payroll as a fitness and marketing consultant. The average annual salary of $4.9 million made Bure the league's third highest-paid player, behind Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. In fact, Bure and the Canucks had entered into contract negotiations at the beginning of the 1993–94 season, although two years remained in his original deal. Neither side could come to an initial agreement; one of the major factors was the Canucks' demands for the contract to be in Canadian dollars on account of the American exchange rate. Numerous accusations were made in the media during the Canucks' playoff run that Bure threatened not to play if a contract could not be agreed upon. A Toronto Star article, published before the first game of the Finals on May 31, 1994, claimed Bure had signed a five-year, $30 million contract that, if the Canucks had not agreed to, would have seen him pull out of game five of the Conference Finals against the Maple Leafs. The article was followed by two additional claims in the following two days in the Vancouver-based newspaper The Province and Toronto Sun. The Toronto Sun held the contract was a five-year, $22.5 million deal, and that it was signed before either game six or seven of the opening round against the Flames after Bure's agent, Ron Salcer, told general manager Quinn that Bure would not play if the deal was not made. As the story continued well into the next season, Pat Quinn appeared in a segment on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)'s Hockey Night in Canada on March 27, 1995, publicly denying the claims.
Due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout, Bure spent single-game stints with Spartak Moscow of the Russian Super League and EV Landshut of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He joined a team of Russian NHL players organized by Slava Fetisov that returned to Russia to play a five-game charity tour against local clubs. On the team, Bure reunited with former Central Red Army linemates Mogilny and Fedorov. When the NHL Players Association (NHLPA) and owners came to an agreement on January 12, 1995, NHL play was set to resume. However, there were unresolved contract issues, as Salcer claimed the Canucks promised they would pay Bure's full salary, despite the lockout, which cancelled nearly half of the 1994–95 season. Bure held out for four days as a result (the amount claimed to be owing was $1.7 million), before the two sides reached an agreement. The Canucks would put the disputed amount in escrow and would continue discussions. He soon reported to Vancouver and went on to tally 43 points in 44 games of the shortened season. In the 1995 playoffs, Bure set franchise records for most goals and points in a series with seven and 12 respectively in a seven-game series victory against the St. Louis Blues (Mikael Samuelsson tied Bure's goal-scoring record in 2010 against the Los Angeles Kings). The Canucks, however, failed to defend their Clarence Campbell Conference championship title, being swept by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round. The Canucks' elimination in 1995 marked the last time Bure appeared in the post-season with the club. He finished with a career playoff total of 66 points with the Canucks, including 34 goals, which remained the highest club total until Linden tied the mark in 2007.
At the start of the 1995–96 season, Bure changed his jersey number from 10 to 96. The switch commemorated September 6, 1991, the day on which he first landed in North America from Moscow—9th month, 6th day. He had originally asked to wear the number when he first joined the Canucks, but was not permitted to do so by head coach Pat Quinn, who did not approve of high jersey numbers. After the Canucks traded with the Buffalo Sabres for Alexander Mogilny, reuniting the two Russian players, the jersey number was deemed acceptable because Mogilny had used number 89 since defecting to North America in 1989.
Early in the season, Bure sustained the first of several serious knee injuries during his career. On November 9, 1995, in a game against the Chicago Blackhawks, Bure was grabbed around the head by defenceman Steve Smith while approaching the end boards. Falling to the ice, he caught his skate against the boards, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee. Requiring arthroscopic surgery, in which tendon was removed from his hamstring to repair the ACL, he was sidelined for the remainder of the season. Bure returned to the Canucks' lineup with his knee fully recovered in the 1996–97 season. In the season opener against the Flames on October 5, 1996, Bure was pushed into the boards head-first. He continued to play after the hit, but experienced headaches in the following weeks. As Bure's play dropped early in the season, the media speculated that he was playing injured. After he went eight games without a goal, head coach Tom Renney claimed Bure was not playing with a head injury, but instead had injured his shoulder in a game against the New York Rangers on November 23. Nevertheless, he continued to play. With under a month left in the season, he received another hit, during a game against the Avalanche on March 3, 1997. Bure left the game and did not return for the remainder of the season. Afterwards, he admitted he was playing with a neck injury, having sustained whiplash from the first game against Calgary, but did not want to take himself out of the lineup after missing 62 games the previous season. With Bure's reduced playing capacity, he managed 55 points in 63 games, well below his usual pace, and the Canucks missed the playoffs for the first time since he joined the team. In a 2012 interview, Bure admitted having sustained a head injury on the initial hit against Calgary and that "he should not have played through it".
In the off-season, the Canucks made another significant move, signing Rangers' captain Mark Messier during free agency on July 26, 1997. Despite finally having a high-profile centre to play with, media reports soon appeared claiming that Bure was asking to be traded. The Canucks opened the season with two games against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in Tokyo – an event organized by the league to market hockey for the upcoming 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. After two injury-plagued seasons with the number 96 on his jersey, Bure switched back to his familiar number 10, explaining: "I'm not superstitious, but the last two seasons have been bad memories." Although the Canucks missed the playoffs for the second straight year, he returned to his previous form in 1997–98, scoring 51 goals for his first 50-goal season since 1993–94, and third overall. Bure later recalled that with the Canucks out of playoff contention with a handful of games left, head coach Mike Keenan told him he could play as much as he wanted to reach the milestone. Scoring 50 goals was also implicit in a contract bonus for Bure. With an additional 39 assists, his 90 points ranked him third in the NHL, behind Peter Forsberg and Jaromír Jágr.
Following the 1997–98 season, Bure told newly appointed general manager Brian Burke that he would not play for the Canucks again, despite still having a year left in his contract worth $8 million. He then went public with the declaration, stating he intended to leave the club for "personal reasons". Bure did not report to the club the following season. Instead, he returned to his hometown Moscow to practise with his former Central Red Army club. During this time, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko offered Bure a tax-free $4 million salary to play in Belarus, which he turned down.
Florida Panthers (1999–2002)
Bure held out well into the 1998–99 season until he was traded on January 17, 1999, to the Florida Panthers, with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference, and Vancouver's third-round choice in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft (Robert Fried) for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes, and Florida's first-round choice in the 2000 draft (Nathan Smith). Talks between Burke and Bryan Murray, general manager of the Panthers, had begun in late-December. After the trade was completed, Bure explained that he felt alienated from Canucks' management after arriving in North America having defected from Russia. He claimed he had been in Los Angeles for two weeks before any Canucks' representative came to see him, as well as several bitter contract negotiations—particularly those of 1994. He also claimed that someone within the Canucks' management planted the constant allegations that he threatened not to play during the 1994 playoff run. Bure's agent at the time, Ron Salcer, also believed the story.
Meeting the Panthers in New York for a game against the Islanders, Bure debuted with his new club on January 20, 1999. He played on an all-Russian line with Viktor Kozlov and Oleg Kvasha and scored two goals. In his first six games with the club, Bure scored eight goals and three assists for eleven points. Less than a month into his Panthers debut, he reinjured his knee, keeping him out for three weeks. Despite the injury, the Panthers signed him to a five-year, $47.5 million contract (with an option for a sixth year at $10.5 million), the most lucrative in team history. Another injury ended Bure's season after just 11 games with Florida, though he scored 13 goals and three assists in that time.
In 1999–2000, his first full season as a Panther, Bure led the league in goal-scoring to capture his first of two consecutive Rocket Richard Trophies with a 58-goal season. It marked the second time Bure led the league in goal-scoring, but his first Rocket Richard Trophy as the award had been introduced the previous season. Combined with 36 assists, his 94 points came within two of Art Ross Trophy winner Jaromír Jágr as the league's leading point-scorer. His 58 goals and 94 points both set franchise records. He helped Florida to a fifth-place finish in the Eastern Conference to earn their first post-season berth in three seasons, though they were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champions, the New Jersey Devils. Bure finished third for the Hart Memorial Trophy winner behind Chris Pronger and Jágr. He was named to the NHL second All-Star team for the first time.
Bure was set to make his much-anticipated return to Vancouver to play the Canucks on November 5, 1999, but was kept out of the lineup due to a broken finger. A prior groin injury had also forced him out of a Panther's home game against the Canucks earlier in the season. During the season, he was named to the 2000 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto, where he recorded an assist and the eleventh hat trick in the history of the All-Star Game. Of Bure's three goals, two were assisted by his brother Valeri, who played on the same line with him, along with his Panthers linemate, Viktor Kozlov. Helping lead the World team to a 9–4 victory over North America, Bure was named the All-Star Game MVP.
Bure repeated as league scoring champion in 2000–01 with 59 goals, reaching the 50-goal plateau for the fifth and final time in his career, as well as bettering his franchise single-season, goal-scoring record. However, the Panthers missed the playoffs, finishing 12th place in the East. Bure set a league record that season by scoring 29.5% of his team's total goals over the course of the season. He was named to the NHL second All-Star team, behind Jágr in the right wing position for the second consecutive year.
Before the 2001–02 season, the Panthers acquired Valeri Bure from the Calgary Flames in a trade, putting the brothers on the same team for the first time. However, Bure suffered a setback in the pre-season re-injuring his groin. Bure recalled having "good relations" with Panthers' management, who often consulted with him on team matters, including the acquisition of his brother. At the trading deadline, Bure was traded to the New York Rangers. During his 56 games for the Panthers that season, he led the team in scoring for the third consecutive season with 49 points.
New York Rangers (2002–2003)
The New York Rangers acquired Bure on March 18, 2002, along with Florida's second-round pick in the 2002 draft (Lee Falardeau) for Igor Ulanov, Filip Novak, as well as the Rangers' first and second-round choices in the 2002 draft (Petr Tatíček and Rob Globke, respectively) and a fourth-round choice in the 2003 draft. The Rangers had shown interest in Bure when he requested a trade from the Canucks in 1997. After losing their initial bid for Bure, Wayne Gretzky, who retired the same season Bure was traded to Florida, announced prior to the 1999–2000 season he would have extended his career had the Rangers been able to pull off the trade. Bure made his Rangers debut against the Vancouver Canucks the day after his trade on March 19, scoring a goal against his former team. He scored 12 goals and 20 points in 12 games after being traded, bettering his pace with Florida that season. Between the two teams, he finished the season with 34 goals and 69 points.
Bure suffered another knee injury in the 2002–03 pre-season; combined with a case of strep throat, he missed the first three games of the regular season. After returning to play, he had 14 goals and 21 points in his first 27 games, including two goals and an assist in his first game back, before a knee-on-knee collision in December forced him back out. After undergoing surgery 10 days later, it was revealed that there was no damage to the ACL as previously feared, but instead a tear to the meniscus in his left knee, which was repaired. Bure returned that season to appear in 39 games, managing 19 goals and 30 points.
Even after two operations, Bure did not play in 2003–04 due to the lingering effects of the knee injury. He failed a pre-season physical and was declared medically unable to play. Left with his fully insured $10 million salary (80 percent of which would be reimbursed to the team), the Rangers left him unprotected in the NHL's Waiver Draft, where he was unclaimed.
Retirement
Bure remained inactive for another season due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the NHL resumed play for the 2005–06 season, he announced his retirement from professional hockey at a press conference in Moscow on November 1, 2005, citing complications with his chronic knee injuries. In an interview Bure explained that he did not want to extend his playing career without being able to play at an elite level.
Because Bure had been inactive since the 2002–03 season, he was eligible for selection into the Hockey Hall of Fame (which requires players to wait three years after their last game) immediately following his retirement. After being passed for induction in his first six years of eligibility, Bure was voted in on June 27, 2012, alongside Joe Sakic, Adam Oates and Mats Sundin. He became the fifth Soviet or Russian player (after Vladislav Tretiak, Viacheslav Fetisov, Valeri Kharlamov and Igor Larionov) and the first player to spend the majority of his career with the Canucks to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
His non-selection in previous years was widely debated in the media. Bure was often compared with Cam Neely, a player who also waited six years for induction; he recorded similar goals-per-game numbers in a career that was also shortened to 700-plus games. It had been often rumoured that Pat Quinn, Bure's former head coach and general manager in Vancouver, who became co-chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame's selection committee, opposed Bure's induction. However, in a conference call following his selection, Quinn was among the most prominent figures he thanked. Quinn criticized the Canucks organization for not yet retiring Bure's jersey.
In his retirement, he remained publicly steadfast in his dissatisfaction with the way he was treated by the Canucks organization during his playing career. While Bure admitted to "a lot of disagreements with the Canucks management," he maintained that he "never had any problems with the Canucks fans". The Canucks retired Bure's 10 jersey on November 2, 2013. The day before the Canucks announced they would rename the team's Most Exciting Player Award to the Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award in his honour. Bure renounced his US citizenship in 2016.
Junior
Prior to joining the NHL in 1991, Bure competed for the Soviet Union in several junior, international tournaments. The first was the 1988 Quebec Esso Cup, an under-17 tournament (now known as the World U-17 Hockey Challenge) held in Quebec City, where he earned a gold medal. That same year, he competed in his first of two consecutive European Junior Championships, winning a bronze medal.
The following year, Bure debuted at the world under-20 level as a 17-year-old at the 1989 World Junior Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. The top line of CSKA Moscow teammates Bure, Alexander Mogilny and Sergei Fedorov led the Soviet Union to a gold medal. Bure's eight goals tied him for the tournament lead with Jeremy Roenick of the United States; he led the Soviet team with 14 points. He was named to the Tournament All-Star team, and earned Best Forward honours. He again participated in the 1989 European Junior Championship, helping the Soviet Union win the gold medal.
Bure competed in his second World Juniors in 1990, winning a silver medal in Helsinki, Finland, and scoring seven goals in seven games. Later that year, he made his senior debut with the Soviet national team as a 19-year-old at the 1990 World Championships in Switzerland. He scored two goals and four assists in ten games to help the Soviets to a gold medal finish. The Soviet team also won silver in the European Championship, which was decided from games played among the European teams at the tournament. Several months later, in July, Bure took part in his third international tournament of the year at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. Bure scored four goals and an assist in five games, and the Soviets won the gold medal.
In 1991, Bure appeared in his third and final World Junior Championships. Bure finished the tournament as the leading scorer with 12 goals in 7 games and the Soviets won the silver medal. He finished his three-year World Junior career with a tournament-record 27 goals, to go with 39 points, in 21 games. Bure later competed in the 1991 World Championships, his second international appearance of the year. He improved on his previous year's total with 11 points in 11 games, tied for the team lead with Valeri Kamensky, and helped the Soviets to a bronze medal finish. Bure was named to the tournament's second All-Star team. The 1991 team marked the last World Championships for the USSR, as the country was dissolved later that year.
Senior
Bure was set to represent the Soviet Union at the 1991 Canada Cup, however after turning down a three-year contract with his Russian club, CSKA Moscow, he was left off the final roster.
Bure played his first international tournament for Russia in preliminary games for the inaugural 1996 World Cup (the successor tournament to the Canada Cup). Bure had recently recovered from reconstructive surgery to his right knee, and had begun practicing with the Russian national team where he was reunited on a line with Fedorov and Mogilny, the first and only time the three of them would play together at the senior level; the line was considered "perhaps the best forward line on earth" at the time. However Bure bruised a kidney in one of the games and was forced to miss the main tournament.
As with the 1991 Canada Cup, controversy ensued when Bure refused to sign a petition organized by national team veteran Viacheslav Fetisov. With the Russian Ice Hockey Federation dealing with internal corruption, the petition called for the ouster of a few select Russian ice hockey officials. In response, Bure explained, "I do not sign petitions. I believe I should work – play hockey. Petitions to the federation or to Olympic committees do not interest me."
Two years later, Bure made his Olympic debut with Russia at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano. He helped his team to advance to the gold medal game after a five-goal game in Russia's 7–4 semifinal win against Finland. The Russians lost the gold medal game to the Czech Republic, ending with silver. Bure finished with a tournament-high nine goals to be named the top forward, and though he recorded no assists, placed third in point-scoring with nine points in six games.
Bure's next international tournament was the 2000 World Championships, held in Saint Petersburg. The Russians had a disappointing tournament and finished eleventh. In six games, Bure managed four goals and an assist. Two years later, Bure made his second Olympic appearance at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, playing with a fractured hand. Bure finished his final international tournament as a player with two goals and an assist in six games while Russia won the bronze medal.
On the announcement of his retirement in 2005, Bure was named Russia's Olympic general manager, succeeding Viacheslav Fetisov. He promised to put an end to the Russian Hockey Federation's history of internal conflict and player boycotts, saying, "You won't see such a mess with the national team that you've seen here before," and that "You won't see grouchy players here anymore. Only those who really want to play for Russia will be called into the team." As general manager, Bure chose the team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. The Russians failed to win a medal, losing to the Czech Republic in the bronze medal match. Leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, former Soviet national goaltender Vladislav Tretiak was named Bure's successor as Olympic general manager.
In December 2011, Bure was announced as one of the 2012 inductees into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame. He was named alongside American Phil Housley, Finn Raimo Helminen and Czechoslovak Milan Nový in the annual class. The players were inducted in a ceremony in May 2012.
Playing style
Bure's playing style reflected the speed, skill and puck possession that was prominent in Soviet Union hockey programs. The most prevalent aspects of his game were his skating speed, agility, and acceleration, which earned him his nickname the "Russian Rocket". He was able to use his quickness to separate himself from defenders, to retrieve pucks before the opposition could in all zones of the ice, and to skate the length of the ice on many occasions. In a 1993 poll of NHL coaches conducted by hockey writer Bob McKenzie, Bure was named the league's best skater with eight of twenty-one votes, twice as many votes as any other player. One coach noted: "Bure has the best combination of speed, agility and balance ... He can also use change of speed better than anybody in the league right now."
During Bure's rehabilitation period, following his first major knee injury in 1995, Canucks' conditioning coach Peter Twist noticed that his skating style was distinct in comparison to typical North American players. He explained: "Most players skate on their inside edge and push off at a 45-degree angle, but Bure starts on his outer edge and rolls over to his inside edge and pushes back straighter on his stride ... he gets more power and force in his stride to get up to top speed quicker." his skating was also complemented by his ability to deke out defenders and goaltenders at top speeds, making him capable of routinely starting end-to-end rushes. However, several knee injuries, and the resulting reconstructive surgeries, compromised the speed that defined Bure's game, ultimately leading to his retirement.
Early in Bure's career, he was noted for playing a strong two-way game. Having joined Pat Quinn's defensive-minded Canucks in 1991, Bure's transition to the NHL was cited as being easier than that of his countryman, Igor Larionov, due to his quick adjustment to the team's defensive demands. Regarding Bure's first NHL game against the Winnipeg Jets, reporter Mike Beamish explained that "hockey fans marvelled at his offensive thrusts, but hockey people were taken by a singular display of jet-powered defensive diligence. On one play, after the Canucks were caught deep in the Winnipeg zone, the Russian winger raced back and almost single-handedly foiled a two-on-one Jets' rush, making up a half-rink disadvantage." Bure was used on the team's penalty kill for his entire tenure with the Canucks, and was proficient at generating shorthanded chances, pressuring the opposition with his quickness and positioning in the defensive zone. During the 1992 Stanley Cup playoffs, commentator and ex-NHL coach Harry Neale commented, "I like the effort he gives it when he doesn't have the puck. We all know what he can do when he thinks he can score, but he's killing penalties, he's checking, doing a lot of things." Bure tied for second-place on Bob McKenzie's 1993 coaches poll for the NHL's best penalty killer. He was also voted the league's second-best stickhandler that season and garnered recognition as one of the smartest players in the NHL.
Sports journalists Damien Cox and Stephen Brunt wrote about Bure during the 1994 Stanley Cup playoffs that he was a "two-way dynamo," accounting for "several bodychecks he handed out on the night" and for his defensive abilities as he stayed on the ice in the last minutes of a one-goal playoff match against the Toronto Maple Leafs. They spoke highly of his creativity as well, recognizing him as "someone who sees in his game a world of possibilities that just never occur to others," praising his "sheer elegance and imagination" and characterizing his hockey sense as "ho-hum brilliance from the most explosive player in the sport". Brunt called him "a nonpareil, a van Gogh, a Picasso, a Charlie Parker". During the 1993-94 season, Bure demonstrated his strong playmaking abilities, helping linemate and friend Gino Odjick score a career-high 16 goals in a single season, more than twice the number of goals Odjick would score in any other year separated from Bure, and doubling his career goal totals up to that point in his career. According to teammate Cliff Ronning in 1994, "we play a much sounder game defensively when Pavel's flying, as he was in the first period". Former Canuck teammate Jyrki Lumme spoke of Bure as a player and teammate, "That guy does something spectacular every time ... it's frustrating to go against him in practice because he's all over the place. He makes everybody on our team better."
During his time with the Canucks, Bure won the team's Most Exciting Player Award, as voted by the fans, a record five times (tied with Tony Tanti), from 1992 to 1995, and once more in 1998. Trevor Linden, who had played with Bure for seven seasons, said following Bure's retirement, "I don't know if I've ever seen or played with a player that's brought people out of their seats like that." During the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, Rangers coach Mike Keenan, who later coached Bure for one-and-a-half seasons in Vancouver, called him "perhaps the most electrifying forward in the league". The Canucks renamed the award the Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award in his honour in 2013.
Bure has been described as a pure goal scorer and is statistically among the top players in NHL history in that regard. In addition to having reached the 50-goal mark in his career five times, and the 60-goal mark twice, his .623 goals per game average is third among the top 100 goal scorers in NHL history, behind Mike Bossy and Mario Lemieux. Michael Farber of the Montreal Gazette described Bure as "the most dangerous scorer in the National Hockey League with the continued absence of Mario Lemieux because Bure can beat a defence with his speed, his strength, his mind. Bure isn't a scorer as much as he is a permanent late-night television guest; he is to highlight packages what Terri Garr is to Letterman."
Family
Bure comes from an athletic family; his father Vladimir, who is of Swiss descent (his side of the family originated from Furna, Switzerland), was an Olympic swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympic Games, where he won four medals. Bure retained his father as his personal trainer well into his playing career, before severing ties with him in 1997. Bure's paternal grandfather, Valeri Bure, played goalkeeper for the national water polo team. Both Pavel and his younger brother Valeri became estranged from their father and his second wife, Julia, along with their half-sister Katya, by 1998. Neither brother has explained a reason for the split.
Named after their grandfather, Bure's younger brother, Valeri, was also a hockey player, spending 10 years in the NHL. The two siblings played with each other briefly as members of the Florida Panthers, after Valeri was traded there in 2001, and played together at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.
The Bure family made precious watches for the Russian tsars from 1815 until 1917, and Bure was named after his great-grandfather, a watchmaker to Tsar Alexander III. As craftspersons to the imperial family, the Bures were granted noble status. After Bure sustained his first serious knee injury in 1995, he pursued the watchmaking business during his rehabilitation period in an attempt to revive the family business. Fifty replicas of the same watches his ancestors made for the Russian imperial family were made and sold at US$30,000 each. Bure presented three of the gold replicas to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Moscow mayor Yuriy Luzhkov.
Relationships
Five days after arriving in North America from Moscow with his father and brother on September 6, 1991, (his mother Tatiana arrived two months later), Bure married an American fashion model, later revealed to be Jayme Bohn, in a civil ceremony. The marriage was allegedly set up by Bure's agents as a preventative measure against deportation in the event he and the Canucks could not come to terms with a contract. Bure derived no immigration benefit from the marriage, which was dissolved the following year. Bohn became a costume designer in the film and television industry.
After being linked to girlfriend Dahn Bryan, a model and actress, early in his NHL career, Bure shared a relationship with tennis star and fellow Russian Anna Kournikova. The two met in 1999 when she was still linked to Bure's former Russian teammate Sergei Fedorov. Bure and Kournikova were reported to have been engaged in 2000 after reporter Andrew Greven took a photo of them together in a Florida restaurant where Bure supposedly asked Kournikova to marry him. As the story made headlines in Russia, where they were both heavily followed in the media as celebrities, Bure and Kournikova both denied any engagement. Kournikova, 10 years younger than Bure, was 18 years old at the time. The following year, Kournikova and Fedorov were married in Moscow, though they soon divorced.
Bure married 23-year-old model Alina Khasanova on October 10, 2009, in Moscow, with 300 guests present. Pravda has reported, however, that the couple, who had known each other for four years, had officially married on October 10, 2008, in Miami. Together they have three children: Pavel Jr., Palina and Anastasia. Pavel Jr. was born on April 23, 2013; Palina was born on July 20, 2015. Their third child, a daughter named Anastasia, was born on 28 December 2018.
Politics
Bure is known to have frequently played ice hockey with Russian president Vladimir Putin, but has denied having any political ambitions himself in an interview with a Swedish newspaper in 2019.
Legal activity
In 2002, Bure sued the Russian newspaper the eXile for publishing an article stating he broke up with Kournikova because she had two vaginas. Although the newspapers' editorial staff claimed the story was a mere joke, the court ruled in favour of Bure in the amount of 500,000 rubles (US$17,770), and ordered a retraction to be printed. Two years later, on December 27, 2004, the Russian cosmetics chain Arbat Prestige published a story in their free promotional paper that Bure had bragged about Kournikova losing her virginity to him. Shortly thereafter, on January 31, 2005, Bure sued Arbat Prestige for 300 million rubles (US$10.65 million) in a court in Moscow. He also demanded the company print a retraction and apology in a future paper. The court ruled in favour of Bure in November 2005. However, the amount was reduced from 300 million to approximately 320,000 rubles.
On October 31, 2006, nearly a year after his retirement, Bure filed another suit after being kicked off a British Airways flight by the pilot, having been mistaken for a rowdy soccer fan. Despite an apology from the airline company in June 2007, Bure took the issue to court, suing British Airways for 20 million rubles. In late August 2007, a Russian court ruled in favour of Bure in the amount of 67,000 rubles.
Alleged Mafia connections
During Bure's playing career, much speculation surrounded Russian NHL players and their potential ties to the Russian mafia both as victims and associates. As Soviet players began defecting to the NHL, many cases of extortion began surfacing. The Russian mafia was targeting the players' families still living in Russia. Former teammate Alexander Mogilny was a victim of such an extortion attempt in 1994, while Bure was reported to have made payments amounting to several thousand dollars to Russian extortionists in 1993. Three years later, in 1996, American sports network ESPN aired reports alleging Bure was a potential associate of the Russian mafia because of his relationship with friend and business partner Anzor Kikalishvili, known to both Russian and American police as a suspected criminal and possible Russian mob boss. Bure was revealed to hold a position as vice president in the sports company Twenty First Century Association, owned by Kikalishvili, and reportedly believed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to be a mafia front worth at least US$100 million in illicit funds. While Bure did not deny his business and personal relationships with Kikalishvili, he refuted reports Kikalishvili was involved in any criminal activity.
Speculation resurfaced in 1999, as Bure was included in an investigation aired by the CBC investigative news program The Fifth Estate that made several supposed associations between Soviet NHL players and the Russian mafia. An allegation arose that Bure's former CSKA teammate Viacheslav Fetisov used a company, of which he was president, to launder money for Vyacheslav Ivankov, considered the "Russian godfather" in North America. Bure's relationship with Kikalishvili continued to be questioned. Bure denied Kikalishvili's involvement in any criminal activity, dismissing the allegations as "rumours".
Regular season and playoffs
Bold indicates led league
International
a does not include 1988 Quebec Esso Cup (U17) b does not include the 1990 Goodwill Games
Team
* Vancouver Canucks' single-season record, most points by a rookie – 60 in 1991–92 (tied with Ivan Hlinka, 1981–82 and Elias Pettersson, 2018–19)
* Vancouver Canucks' single-season record, most goals – 60 in 1992–93 and 1993–94
* Vancouver Canucks' all-time playoffs record, most goals – 34 (tied with Trevor Linden)
* Vancouver Canucks' all-time record, most shorthanded goals – 24
* Vancouver Canucks' single-game record, most goals – four versus the Winnipeg Jets on October 12, 1992 (tied with Rosaire Paiement, Bobby Schmautz, Rick Blight, Petri Skriko, Greg Adams, Tony Tanti, Martin Gélinas, Markus Näslund and Daniel Sedin)
* Florida Panthers' single-season record, most goals – 59 in 2000–01
International
* World Junior Championships all-time record, most goals – 27 in 21 games (1989–1991)
* Winter Olympics single-game record, most goals – five (1998; semifinal vs. Finland)
NHL
* NHL record, most goals scored in proportion to team – 29.5% of the Florida Panthers' goals in 2000–01.
Transactions
* June 9, 1989 – Drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the sixth round, 113th overall, in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft.
* October 31, 1991 – Signed by the Vancouver Canucks to a four-year, $3.5 million contract.
* June 16, 1994 – Re-signed by the Vancouver Canucks to a five-year, $24.5 million contract.
* January 17, 1999 – Traded by the Vancouver Canucks, along with Bret Hedican, Brad Ference and Vancouver's third-round draft choice (Robert Fried) in 2000, to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Ed Jovanovski, Dave Gagner, Mike Brown, Kevin Weekes and Florida's first-round draft choice (Nathan Smith) in 2000.
* February 8, 1999 – Signed by the Florida Panthers to a five-year, $47.5 million deal.
* March 18, 2002 – Traded by the Florida Panthers, along with Florida's second-round draft choice in 2002 (Lee Falardeau), to the New York Rangers in exchange for Igor Ulanov, Filip Novak, the Rangers' first-round draft choice in 2002 (Eric Nystrom), the Rangers' second-round draft choice in 2002 (Rob Globke) and the Rangers fourth-round draft choice in 2003 (later traded to the Atlanta Thrashers; Atlanta selected Guillaume Desbiens). | WIKI |
How Do Deer Survive Winter: Ingenious Strategies for Survival
How Do Deer Survive Winter
Deer are fascinating creatures that have developed remarkable adaptations to help them survive the harsh conditions of winter. In this article, we will explore the ways in which deer are able to thrive during this challenging season.
1. Thick Winter Coats
One of the most important ways deer protect themselves from the cold is by growing a thick winter coat. This insulated layer helps to keep them warm by trapping air close to their bodies. It also acts as a natural camouflage, allowing them to blend in with their surroundings.
2. Layered Fat Deposits
In order to sustain their energy levels during the winter months, deer accumulate fat deposits. These layers act as an additional source of insulation and provide a reserve of energy when food becomes scarce. By metabolizing these fat reserves, deer are able to survive for prolonged periods without eating.
3. Efficient Digestive Systems
Deer have digestive systems specifically designed to extract maximum nutrients from their food. During winter, when food is scarce, deer switch to a diet of woody browse and dried grasses. Their digestive systems break down these fibrous materials to extract nutrients efficiently, enabling them to thrive on limited food sources.
4. Snow as a Water Source
Water is essential for survival, even in the winter. Deer have the remarkable ability to obtain water from the snow they consume. They have adapted to a lower metabolic rate during winter, minimizing the amount of water they need to survive. By eating snow, they can replenish their hydration needs without the risk of dehydration.
5. Grouping Together
Deer have a natural instinct to group together during winter, creating a mutual advantage for their survival. By huddling together, they can share body heat and conserve energy. This also provides protection against predators, as there are more eyes and ears to detect potential threats.
6. Seeking Shelter
During harsh winter conditions, deer seek shelter in areas that provide some form of protection. They may take refuge in dense forests, thickets, or hilly terrains where they can find cover from the wind and snow. This shelter helps them conserve energy and stay warm, reducing their exposure to the elements.
7. Behavioral Adaptations
Deer exhibit behavioral adaptations to survive winter. For instance, they conserve energy by reducing their activity levels and slowing down their movements. This helps them conserve the limited energy reserves they have. They also tend to feed during periods when the temperatures are slightly warmer, such as in the early morning or late afternoon.
8. Migration
In regions with extremely harsh winter conditions and limited food availability, some deer undertake long-distance migrations. They travel to areas where food is more abundant and the climate is relatively milder. Migration allows them to access better resources, increasing their chances of survival during the winter months.
Frequently Asked Questions Of How Do Deer Survive Winter: Ingenious Strategies For Survival
How Do Deer Survive Winter?
Deer survive winter by growing a thicker coat, finding shelter, and conserving energy through hibernation-like behavior.
What Do Deer Eat During The Winter Months?
During winter, deer mainly survive on bark, twigs, and buds of trees and shrubs, as well as leftover crops from farmers’ fields.
Are Deer Active During Winter?
Yes, deer remain active during winter, but they conserve energy by reducing their movement and staying close to food sources and shelter.
How Do Deer Handle Extreme Cold Temperatures?
Deer have adapted to extreme cold temperatures by increasing their metabolic rate, storing body fat, and growing a thick layer of insulating fur.
Conclusion
Deer have evolved various strategies to withstand the challenges of winter. Their thick coats, layered fat deposits, efficient digestive systems, and ability to find water from snow help them endure the cold. By grouping together, seeking shelter, and exhibiting behavioral adaptations, they conserve energy and reduce exposure to harsh conditions. In extreme cases, migration provides a means for deer to access better resources and increase their chances of survival. Nature has equipped these beautiful animals with the tools necessary to thrive even during the harshest of winters.
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Topic Last Modified: 2011-04-28
After you install the Unified Messaging server role on a computer running Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and enable and configure Unified Messaging, you can use multiple diagnostic tests and a software-based telephone application to test telephony connectivity and the operation of the Unified Messaging server. This topic gives you information about the diagnostic tests for testing a Unified Messaging server.
Test-UMConnectivity
There are three diagnostic tests that can be used to test the functionality of an Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging system and a Unified Messaging server: Local, Local with a TUILogon, and Remote. The Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet can be used to check connectivity to Unified Messaging servers in several ways, depending on the parameters used with the cmdlet. For testing Unified Messaging functionality, you can use these tests:
• Local The Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet verifies Voice over IP (VoIP) communication with the Unified Messaging server running on the same local computer.
• Local with TUILogon The Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet tries to establish VoIP communication with the Unified Messaging server running on the same computer. If it connects, it tries to sign in to one or more UM-enabled mailboxes by sending the extension number and PIN of the mailbox. If the –TUILogon parameter is supplied, the following parameter values must also be supplied for the test to complete successfully. You must supply the following parameters with the appropriate information for the test mailbox:
• –Phone This parameter must contain the extension number for the test mailbox.
• –PIN This parameter must contain the PIN of the UM-enabled mailbox.
• –UMDialPlan This parameter must contain the dial plan associated with the test mailbox.
When you use this diagnostic test, you must create a test mailbox using the New-TestCasConnectivity.ps1 script located in the %ExchangeRoot%\Scripts folder. Mailboxes created using this script can also be used for other kinds of connectivity testing, for example, with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. When you create the test mailbox, you have the option to also enable the test mailbox for Unified Messaging by specifying the -UMDialPlan and -UMExtension parameters. If you created the test mailbox but didn't enable it for Unified Messaging, you can use the Enable-UMMailbox cmdlet or the Exchange Management Console to enable the test mailbox.
If the –TUILogonAll parameter is supplied with the Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet, the Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet will try to log on to each Client Access server connectivity test mailbox created using the New-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1 script in the current Active Directory site.
• Remote The Test-UMConnectivity cmdlet tries to connect to a remote Unified Messaging server by placing a call through an IP gateway. After it connects, it performs connectivity checks on the remote Unified Messaging server and the media paths.
Note:
If you receive the following message, you should restart the Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service because it has stopped or is not responding: "The Test-UMConnectivity task encountered an error while trying to make a call. Details: Unable to establish a connection." | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Oldenburgische Landesbank
Oldenburgische Landesbank AG (OLB) is a private financial institution from north-west Germany that serves its customers under the two renowned brands OLB Bank and Bankhaus Neelmeyer throughout Germany and in selected neighbouring European countries. Its headquarters are in Oldenburg.
OLB was founded in 1869 by the Frankfurt-based bank Erlanger & Söhne with the privilege of issuing banknotes. Their first director was Lorenz Zuckermandel. Today, the universal bank is partner for its clients in two strategic business segments: Private & Business Customers including high-net-worth customers in the field of Wealth Management, and Corporates & Diversified Lending including for instance Corporate Finance, Commercial Real Estate, Acquisition Finance and Football Finance.
OLB maintains a wide network of locations, which focuses on the northwestern part of Germany, known as Weser-Ems (comprising Osnabrück Land, Emsland, County of Bentheim, East Frisia, Ammerland, Friesland, Oldenburg (Oldenburg), and Oldenburg Münsterland), as well as Bremen (since 1 July 2009). Its first branch in North Rhine-Westphalia opened 7 November 2011 in Rheine, yet has been closed again in the meantime.
Currently, OLB operates 40 branches in north-west Germany, including 16 competence centres serving as anchor points for personal customer relationship management and regional advisory services. In addition, the Bank operates about a dozen self-service branches in north-west Germany (all figures as of 31 March 2023). The bank bundled its advisory services at these larger locations, which led to smaller branches being closed or converted to self-service branches, while at the same time OLB is also continuing to expand its business across Germany via digital channels, platforms and partners.
On 23 June 2017, Bremer Kreditbank AG acquired a majority stake in OLB from Allianz. The parent company Bremer Kreditbank was merged with OLB in 2018. In addition, Wüstenrot Bank was acquired by Wüstenrot & Württembergische in 2018. This was followed by the signing of an agreement to purchase Degussa Bank in September 2022. With the official closing on April 30, 2024, OLB became the new owner of Degussa Bank.
OLB’s shares are largely held by shareholders associated with Teacher Retirement System of Texas, the private equity firm Apollo. and Grovepoint Investment Management.
Board of Managing Directors
* Stefan Barth (CEO)
* Dr Rainer Polster (CFO)
* Chris Eggert (CRO)
* Aytac Aydin (COO, Head of Retail)
* Marc Ampaw (CIO)
* Giacomo Petrobelli (CIO) | WIKI |
treating insomnia
How and When to Take Melatonin – Your Best Sleep Aid for Treating Insomnia
Melatonin is the naturally producing hormone, which is taken in the pill form and as over-the-counter drug to aid sleep. This is very helpful in the circadian rhythm disorders, however it is often taken to ease difficulty falling and staying asleep. Suppose you’re interested in using the melatonin supplement to help you sleep, you might wonder how you can safely use melatonin as the sleep aid for treating insomnia and appropriate timing and dose. Discover how you can avoid the side effects or reduce likelihood of the overdose.
What Melatonin Dose to Take?
Melatonin is actually believed to be very safe, and therefore it is available as over-the-counter in many pharmacies & health supplement stores. This can be compounded in many ways, and sometimes it is added to many other supplements meant to aid in sleep. The pure melatonin drug is often sold as the capsule or pill, but you may buy this in the liquid or spray form.
Advertised melatonin dose strength will range from 1 mg to 10 mg and more. It’s important to know that using melatonin as a sleep aid isn’t regulated by Food & Drug Administration. As such, the production & quality standards aren’t enforced, thus the dose will actually differ from listed strength. So, it is suggested that it is bought from the reputable source.
Does melatonin help you sleep better? The research suggests that low doses of the melatonin drug can be very effective, particularly in the circadian rhythm disorders. Thus, it is tough to determine optimal dose for a person. Given such limitations, probably it is good if you take lowest possible dose. (It will mean taking 1 mg or 2 mg daily day for sleep aid.) The higher doses can be used for treating the sleep behaviors that happen as a part of the REM sleep disorder.
Timing of this dose is important and the high blood levels in wrong times can be the problem. Thus, if you take a lot of this dose, you might actually flood the system and benefits can get counteracted. There’re not any reports of the fatal overdose on the melatonin supplement alone. Although it can cause some morning hangover effects in case optimal dose gets exceeded, since it wears off, the symptoms must relent.
When to Take Melatonin?
Role of melatonin supplement in regulating the biological clock, and circadian rhythm, seems to be very important. Thus, timing of when to take is very important. It is generally produced in one part of brain called pineal gland and gets released during period of the darkness from night to morning.
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Antonio María Pico
Don Antonio María Pico was a Californio politician, ranchero, and a signer of the California Constitution in 1849. He also served twice as Alcalde of San José.
Biography
Antonio María Pico, a member of the prominent Pico family of California, was born in 1808 in Monterey, California. He was a son of José Dolores Pico and his wife, the former Maria Ysabel de la Asención Cota.
In 1824, Pico left Monterey to serve as a bookkeeper at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
He served as Alcalde of San José (mayor of San Jose) in 1835 and 1844–1845.
Governor Manuel Micheltorena granted Rancho Pescadero (present day city of Tracy, California) in 1843.
He was elected as a delegate for Santa Clara County to the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849 and was a signer of the California Constitution.
In 1859, he led a petition of Californio rancheros to the U.S. Congress describing their taxation as unduly high.
He was elected to the Electoral College in 1860 as an elector for Abraham Lincoln.
Pico died in San José on 23 May 1869. | WIKI |
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86 "But she isn't a lass to cry over a few shillings."
"Not her, indeed. It is about t' christening she's crying, thou knows."
"Nay, I know nowt about christening."
"Well, then, t' little lass hed to be made a Christian, thou sees, and last Sunday t' job were done in fine style at t' parish church. Sarah had taken wonderful to t' baby, and she thought no less than it would be called after her, 'specially as Steve's mother and Joyce's mother had both t' same name. But Joyce wouldn't hev it. She said, 'There hed been Sarahs enough in t' family, and she had chosen Charlotta Victoria, and it would be a varry queer thing if a mother couldn't call her daughter t' name she liked best.'"
Ben laughed sarcastically; he could not control this expression of his opinion, "You women are a queer lot," he said; "whativer did she want a name like that for?"
"Victoria was for t' queen, thou sees, and Charlotta for old Lotta Asketh, who is aunt to Joyce's mother. Folks think as old Lotta hes saved a goodish bit of brass in her little shop; and Joyce said she wanted a godmother | WIKI |
Rodney Chatman
Rodney Chatman III (born August 24, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski of the Polish Basketball League (PLK).
Playing career
After graduating from college, Chatman signed with Team FOG Næstved to start off his professional career in the Danish Basketligaen. With 19.1 points per game he led his team in scoring, as Næstved went to the first finals in its history.
In the summer of 2023, Chatman signed with Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski in the Polish Basketball League.
Personal
Rodney's father, Rodney Chatman Jr., played college basketball for USC from 1990 to 1993. His mother played for Bethune–Cookman. He has two siblings, Bryce and Alexis. | WIKI |
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236 Outside the gate leading to the Castle is a beggar man sitting on the ground between two trees; he has two wooden legs. Beside him is a crutch, and a satchel hangs round his neck. A man dressed in something of a Puritan style is dropping alms into the cap held in the beggar's outstretched hand. I may mention here that the costumes do not indicate the date of the events portrayed. It was usual in the seventeenth century to represent all characters more or less in the dress of the day. There is nothing about the beggar in Hooker's account.
Beyond the tree on the beggar's left is a pack-mule toiling up the hill to the Castle gate with a load of wood, driven by a boy who comes behind with an uplifted stick in his hand. This may indicate the attempt of the rebels to burn the city gates.
Below the beggar and his benefactor is a gabled house, very delicately and elaborately carved, with a doorway at the side cut in the thickness of the stone. The house has two chimneys; on one side is a penthouse, on the other a square sign, hanging in the usual way from a horizontal cross-piece. It is probably an inn.
At the centre of the whole composition is a battlemented building with two large square windows; the seam where two parts of the stone are joined comes vertically between these windows. The design is not continuous across the seam, and some figures are incomplete; a strip of the stone is missing here. In the left-hand window a man is standing; the legs below the knees are out of sight, but what is shown of the figure fills the whole depth of the window. The man has both arms extended, he is delivering an harangue. Outside the window to the right of the orator is a man designed on a larger scale than the others; he has a moustache and beard and wears a full robe with a fur tippet over and a round cap. He also is making a speech; he gesticulates with his right hand, his left rests on the helmet of a soldier with a halberd. I take this to represent Sir Peter Carew. Behind him appear the head and shoulders of another man with moustache and pointed beard, holding his right hand extended.
In front, moving towards the bottom of the stone, there is a procession of citizens in furred cloaks, two and two, | WIKI |
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eventually as 4th earl of Abercorn. This earl, taking the side of James II., was with him in Ireland, his estate and title being afterwards forfeited, while his kinsman Gustavus Hamilton, afterwards first Lord Boyne, raised several regiments for William III., and greatly distinguished himself in the service of that monarch. His brother Charles, 5th earl of Abercorn, who obtained a reversal of the attainder, died without issue surviving in 1701 when the titles passed to his kinsman James Hamilton, grandson of Sir George Hamilton of Donalong in Ireland and great-grandson of the first earl. This branch, most faithful to the house of Stuart, counted among its many members distinguished in military annals Count Anthony Hamilton, author of the Mémoires du comte de Gramont and brother of “la belle Hamilton.” James, 6th earl of Abercorn (whose brother William was ancestor of Hamilton of the Mount, baronet), was a partizan of William III., and obtained in 1701 the additional Irish titles of lord of Mountcastle and viscount of Strabane.
The 8th earl of Abercorn, who was summoned to the Irish house of peers in his father’s lifetime as Lord Mountcastle, was created a peer of Great Britain in 1786 as Viscount Hamilton of Hamilton in Leicestershire, and renewed the family’s connexion with Scotland by repurchasing the barony of Duddingston and later the lordship of Paisley. His nephew and successor was created marquess of Abercorn in 1790, and was father of James, 1st duke of Abercorn.
See the article Hamilton and other articles on the different branches of the family (e.g. Haddington and Belhaven) in Sir J. B. Paul’s edition of Sir R. Douglas’s Peerage of Scotland; and also G. Marshall, Guide to Heraldry and Genealogy.
HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF. The holders of these titles descended from Sir James Hamilton of Cadzow, who was made an hereditary lord of parliament in 1445, his lands and baronies at the same time being erected into the “lordship” of Hamilton. His first wife Euphemia, widow of the 5th earl of Douglas, died in 1468, and probably early in 1474 he married Mary, daughter of King James II. and widow of Thomas Boyd, earl of Arran; the consequent nearness of the Hamiltons to the Scottish crown gave them very great weight in Scottish affairs. The first Lord Hamilton has been frequently confused with his father, James Hamilton of Cadzow, who was one of the hostages in England for the payment of James I.’s ransom, and is sometimes represented as surviving until 1451 or even 1479, whereas he certainly died, according to evidence brought forward by J. Anderson in The Scots Peerage, before May 1441. James, 2nd Lord Hamilton, son of the 1st lord and Princess Mary, was created earl of Arran in 1503; and his son James, who was regent of Scotland from 1542 to 1554, received in February 1549 a grant of the duchy of Châtellerault in Poitou.
, 1st marquess of Hamilton (c. 1542–1604), third son of James Hamilton, (q.v.) and duke of Châtellerault, was given the abbey of Arbroath in 1551. In politics he was largely under the influence of his energetic and unscrupulous younger brother Claud, afterwards Baron Paisley (c. 1543–1622), ancestor of the dukes of Abercorn. The brothers were the real heads of the house of Hamilton, their elder brother Arran being insane. At first hostile to Mary, they later became her devoted partisans. Their uncle, John Hamilton, archbishop of St Andrews, natural son of the 1st earl of Arran, was restored to his consistorial jurisdiction by Mary in 1566, and in May of the next year he divorced Bothwell from his wife. Lord Claud met Mary on her escape from Lochleven and escorted her to Hamilton palace. John appears to have been in France in 1568 when the battle of Langside was fought, and it was probably Claud who commanded Mary’s vanguard in the battle. With others of the queen’s party they were forfeited by the parliament and sought their revenge on the regent Murray. Although the Hamiltons disavowed all connexion with Murray’s murderer, James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, he had been provided with horse and weapons by the abbot of Arbroath, and it was at Hamilton that he sought refuge after the deed. Archbishop Hamilton was hanged at Stirling in 1571 for alleged complicity in the murder of Darnley, and is said to have admitted that he was a party to the murder of Murray. At the pacification of Perth in 1573 the Hamiltons abandoned Mary’s cause, and a reconciliation with the Douglases was sealed by Lord John’s marriage with Margaret, daughter of the 7th Lord Glamis, a cousin of the regent Morton. Sir William Douglas of Lochleven, however, persistently sought his life in revenge for the murder of Murray until, on his refusal to keep the peace, he was imprisoned. On the uncertain evidence extracted from the assassin by torture, the Hamiltons had been credited with a share in the murder of the regent Lennox in 1571. In 1579 proceedings against them for these two crimes were resumed, and when they escaped to England their lands and titles were seized by their political enemies, James Stewart becoming earl of Arran. John Hamilton presently dissociated himself from the policy of his brother Claud, who continued to plot for Spanish intervention on behalf of Mary; and Catholic plotters are even said to have suggested his murder to procure the succession of his brother. Hamilton had at one time been credited with the hope of marrying Mary; his desires now centred on the peaceful enjoyment of his estates. With other Scottish exiles he crossed the border in 1585 and marched on Stirling; he was admitted on the 4th of November and formally reconciled with James VI., with whom he was thenceforward on the friendliest terms. Claud returned to Scotland in 1586, and the abbey of Paisley was erected into a temporal barony in his favour in 1587. Much of his later years was spent in strict retirement, his son being authorized to act for him in 1598. John was created marquess of Hamilton and Lord Evan in 1599, and died on the 6th of April 1604.
His eldest surviving son, 2nd marquess of Hamilton (c. 1589–1625), was created baron of Innerdale and earl of Cambridge in the peerage of England in 1619, and these honours descended to his son James, who in 1643 was created (q.v.). William, 2nd duke of Hamilton (1616–1651), succeeded to the dukedom on his brother’s execution in 1649. He was created earl of Lanark in 1639, and in the next year became secretary of state in Scotland. Arrested at Oxford by the king’s orders in 1643 for “concurrence” with Hamilton, he effected his escape and was temporarily reconciled with the Presbyterian party. He was sent by the Scottish committee of estates to treat with Charles I. at Newcastle in 1646, when he sought in vain to persuade the king to consent to the establishment of Presbyterianism in England. On the 26th of September 1647 he signed on behalf of the Scots the treaty with Charles known as the “Engagement” at Carisbrooke Castle, and helped to organize the second Civil War. In 1648 he fled to Holland, his succession in the next year to his brother’s dukedom making him an important personage among the Royalist exiles. He returned to Scotland with Prince Charles in 1650, but, finding a reconciliation with Argyll impossible, he refused to prejudice Charles’s cause by pushing his claims, and lived in retirement chiefly until the Scottish invasion of England, when he acted as colonel of a body of his dependants. He died on the 12th of September 1651 from the effects of wounds received at Worcester. He left no male heirs, and the title devolved on the 1st duke’s eldest surviving daughter Anne, duchess of Hamilton in her own right.
Anne married in 1656 William Douglas, earl of Selkirk (1635–1694), who was created duke of Hamilton in 1660 on his wife’s petition, receiving also several of the other Hamilton peerages, but for his life only. The Hamilton estates had been declared forfeit by Cromwell, and he himself had been fined £1000. He supported Lauderdale in the early stages of his Scottish policy, in which he adopted a moderate attitude towards the Presbyterians, but the two were soon alienated, through the influence of the countess of Dysart, according to Gilbert Burnet, who spent much time at Hamilton Palace in arranging the Hamilton papers. With other Scottish noblemen who resisted Lauderdale’s measures Hamilton was twice summoned to London to present his case at court, but without obtaining any result. He was dismissed from the privy council in 1676, and on a subsequent visit to London Charles refused to receive him. On the accession | WIKI |
Migrations
Migrations are mutations to your database as you keep evolving your application. Think of them as step by step screenshot of your database schema, that you can roll back at any given point of time.
Also, migrations make it easier to work as a team, where database changes from one developer are easily spotted and used by other developers in the team.
Creating migrations
Let’s start from the beginning where we want to create a users table with the help of migrations.
Make sure the migrations provider is registered inside aceProviders array inside start/app.js file.
We make use of the adonis make:migration command to create a schema file for us.
adonis make:migration users
On prompt choose Create table option and press Enter
Output
✔ create database/migrations/1502691651527_users_schema.js
Defining schema
Now quickly open the created file and write some code inside it.
'use strict'
const Schema = use('Schema')
class UsersSchema extends Schema {
up () {
this.create('users', (table) => {
table.increments()
table.string('username').unique()
table.string('email').unique()
table.string('password', 80)
table.timestamps()
})
}
down () {
this.drop('users')
}
}
module.exports = UsersSchema
As you can see, it is so simple to create/alter database tables using schema files, since you can chain different methods to define the field attributes.
The schema file is a Javascript ES6 class with two required methods called up and down on it.
up
The up method is used to take action on a table. It can be creating a new table or altering the existing table.
down
The down method is the reverse of the up action. When up method creates a table, you simply drop it inside the down method.
Run migrations
Finally, we need to call another command to run the migrations, which executes the up method on this class.
adonis migration:run
Output
migrate: 1502691651527_users_schema.js
Database migrated successfully in 117 ms
Migrations status
Also, you can check the migration status by running migration:status command.
adonis migration:status
Output migration status zajqib
There is a Batch next to each migration so that you can rollback to a given batch without manually altering the database tables.
That is how migrations work under the hood.
1. Every time you run adonis migration:run, a new batch is created for all the pending schema files.
2. Files which are migrated once, are not executed again.
3. Running adonis migration:rollback rollbacks the last batch migrations in reverse order.
Do not create all tables in a single schema file, instead create a new file for each database change. This way you keep your database atomic and can roll back to any version.
Migrations commands
Below is the list of available command with their description. Also, make sure to append --help to the command name to see a list of available options. For example:
Commands list
Command Description
make:migration
Create a new migration file,
migration:run
Run all pending migrations.
migration:rollback
Rollback last set of migrations.
migration:refresh
Rollback all migrations to the 0 batch and then re-run them from the start.
migration:reset
Rollback all migrations to the 0 batch.
migration:status
Get status of all the migrations.
Command help
adonis migration:run --help
Output
Usage:
migration:run [options]
Options:
-f, --force Forcefully run migrations in production
--log Log SQL queries instead of executing them
About:
Run all pending migrations
Table’s API
Below is the list of methods available to interact with database tables.
create
Create a new database table
up () {
this.create('users', (table) => {
})
}
createIfNotExists
Create a new database table only if it doesn’t exists
up () {
this.createIfNotExists('users', (table) => {
})
}
rename(from, to)
Rename existing database table
up () {
this.rename('users', 'my_users')
}
drop
Drop database table
down () {
this.drop('users')
}
dropIfExists
Drop database table only when it exists
down () {
this.dropIfExists('users')
}
alter
Select database table for alternation.
up () {
this.alter('users', (table) => {
// add new columns or remove existing
})
}
raw
Run an arbitrary SQL query.
up () {
this
.raw("SET sql_mode='TRADITIONAL'")
.table('users', (table) => {
table.dropColumn('name')
table.string('first_name')
table.string('last_name')
})
}
hasTable
Tells whether a table exists or not. It is an async method.
async up () {
const exists = await this.hasTable('users')
if (!exists) {
this.create('up', (table) => {
})
}
}
Extensions
Below is the list of extension methods you can execute when running migrations.
Extension only works with PostgreSQL database.
createExtension(extensionName)
Create a database extension.
class UserSchema {
up () {
this.createExtension('postgis')
}
}
createExtensionIfNotExists(extensionName)
Only creates the extension if it does not exists, otherwise silently ignores the createExtension command.
class UserSchema {
up () {
this.createIfNotExists('postgis')
}
}
dropExtension(extensioName)
Drop an existing database extension.
class UserSchema {
down () {
this.dropExtension('postgis')
}
}
dropExtensionIfExists(extensionName)
Drop database extension only if it exists, otherwise silently ignores the dropExtension command.
class UserSchema {
down () {
this.dropExtensionIfExists('postgis')
}
}
Schema builder API
The schema builder API is exactly same as the knex api, so make sure to read their documentation.
fn.now()
Knex has a method called knex.fn.now(), which is used to set the current timestamp on the database field.
In AdonisJs, you reference this method as this.fn.now().
up () {
this.table('users', (table) => {
table.timestamp('created_at').defaultTo(this.fn.now())
})
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Walmart, Home Depot, Roku, Shale, Eateries Lead Investing Action Plan
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[ibd-display-video id=3151711 width=50 float=left autostart=true] The focus of earnings season in the coming, holiday-shortened week shifts away from the tech sector and pivots toward retail heavyweights like Walmart ( WMT ) and Home Depot ( HD ), restaurant chains, and shale producers like Continental Resources ( CLR ). Still, some notable tech companies will also report, including Roku ( ROKU ) and Universal Display ( OLED ).
Walmart: Goliath Vs. Goliath
When the largest brick-and-mortar retailer reports Q4 results Tuesday morning, analysts expect a 4.6% EPS increase to $1.36 on 3% revenue growth to $135.01 billion. Walmart has been plowing money into online and delivery efforts as it bolsters its digital defenses against Amazon (AMZN) and other e-commerce players. Walmart is also reportedly revamping its private-label apparel offerings as Amazon gains market share in that category and as consumers shift away from pricier name-brand clothing labels.
Home Depot
The home improvement retailer reports Q4 numbers early Tuesday, and analysts see EPS shooting up to $1.62 from 11 cents a year ago, as revenue climbs 6.6% to $23.67 billion. The report comes during a pivotal period in the housing market. Mortgage rates are climbing, and costs for labor and materials continue to pressure homebuilders' margins. But demand is being helped by millennials finally shifting to homeownership and away from rentals, and confidence among builders remains high. Housing starts also surged in January with permits hitting the highest level since 2007.
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Roku Report To Focus On User Numbers
The streaming video platform is scheduled to report Q4 results after the market close on Wednesday. Analysts expect Roku to post an adjusted loss of 11 cents a share on sales of $183 million. Key for investors will be growth metrics such as the company's active user base, streaming hours and average revenue per user. In the September quarter, Roku said active accounts increased 48% year over year to 16.7 million, streaming hours grew 58% to 3.8 billion hours, and average revenue per user climbed 37% to $12.68.
Universal Display To Shed Light On Q4
The provider of technology and materials for OLED displays and lighting is set to announce Q4 results after the close Thursday. Analysts expect Universal Display to earn 82 cents a share, up 49%, on sales of $98 million, up 31%. A big overhang on the company was removed when Universal Display announced new long-term supply and license agreements with major customer Samsung on Feb. 14.
Shale Earnings
Continental Resources and Parsley Energy (PE) will report Q4 results after the market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect Continental to swing to a profit of 28 cents per share vs. a loss of 7 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. Revenue is seen climbing 70% to $935 million. Parsley's EPS is expected to jump 200% to 18 cents with revenue up 91% to $298 million. Cabot Oil & Gas 's (COG) EPS is seen soaring 1,100% to 12 cents when it reports results Friday. Revenue is expected to rise 35% to $426 million. Concho Resources (CXO) and Devon Energy (DVN) are scheduled to report quarterly results after the market closes Tuesday.
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Sprouts Farmers Market
The natural foods grocery chain reports Thursday, and the consensus is for Q4 EPS to rise 25% to 15 cents, with revenue up 16% to $1.14 billion. The grocery space is heating up as supermarkets dive into the online delivery arena, with Amazon now promising Whole Foods Market deliveries in two hours in four markets. Kroger (KR), Walmart and others are similarly exploring home delivery. But for now, Sprouts Farmers Market 's (SFM) results don't seem to have been hit since Amazon's takeover of Whole Foods last summer.
U.S. Casino Leaders On Deck
MGM Resorts International (MGM), whose casinos dominate the Las Vegas Strip, reports Q4 results early Tuesday. Wall Street expects a 36% drop in EPS to 7 cents, as revenue creeps up 1.5%. The earnings will follow a mass shooting in October, in which a gunman killed nearly 60 people after firing on them from a window at MGM's Mandalay Bay hotel. Penn National Gaming (PENN) said the shooting left business at its Tropicana resort "very challenged." MGM this month also opened its second resort in Macau, the world's largest gaming market. Boyd Gaming (BYD) also reports on Tuesday. Pinnacle Entertainment (PNK), which Penn plans to buy, reports on Friday.
Restaurant Earnings Sandwich
Domino's Pizza (DPZ), which reports Q4 results on Tuesday, is expected to show EPS of $1.94, a 31% jump. Revenue is seen climbing 10% to $903 million. Also set to report Tuesday is Texas Roadhouse (TXRH). Analysts expect a 24% pop in EPS to 36 cents, as revenue increases 12% to $544 million. Wingstop (WING) is set to report Thursday, with Wall Street expecting a 6% EPS gain to 16 cents on revenue of $28 million, up 12%. Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI) and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN) also report.
First Solar
The solar technology leader reports Q4 earnings after the market close Thursday, during a disruptive time in the solar power industry. Analysts expect a loss of 31 cents per share, compared with a profit of $1.24 a share in the year-ago period. The consensus on revenue is $434 million, a drop of 9.5%. First Solar[ ticker symb=FSLR] has recently launched new solar-panel technology, known as Series 6, which has several competitive advantages, but the industry overall is facing declining prices for solar panels and overproduction.
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On October 24th, 1975, the women of Iceland gathered in throngs to protest against gender inequality. From not going to work, to not doing household work, hundreds of women left to fight for their place in the world. This day became known as Women’s Day Off or Kvennafrídagurinn.
Not only was this a huge event, but the fact that it was taken seriously by men of Iceland also made the impact that much bigger. Reportedly, men were seen taking their children to work, along with their kids’ colour pencils and food snacks. And the strike led to many significant changes, one of which being the world’s first female president being elected.
In present day, even though Iceland is at the helm of gender equality internationally, there are certain professions where women earn 21% less than men, and the fact that more than 40% Icelandic women face gender-based or sexual violence issues proves that there is still a long way to go.
The country has been organising ‘Women’s Day Off’ strikes for decades. And such is the case this year as well. This year, on the 24th of October, Iceland’s women and non-binary people showed up for a 24-hour strike. The libraries and schools remained closed, and hospitals announced that they’d only be accepting emergency cases.
Freyja Steingrímsdóttir, one of the organisers of the strike said that since Iceland has been leading gender equality globally, it’s its responsibility to live up to the reputation. Which is why the country continues to protest and fight for the cause.
How inspirational is this? Many times we’re told that women are living the dream (in terms of equality) presently, but that doesn’t change the fact that we still have a long way to go. Does it? | FINEWEB-EDU |
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How to Learn Machine Learning From Scratch?
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To learn machine learning from scratch, it is important to first understand the basic concepts and principles of machine learning. This includes understanding algorithms, statistical techniques, and programming languages commonly used in machine learning.
It is recommended to start by learning programming languages such as Python and R, which are commonly used in machine learning. There are plenty of online tutorials and courses available that can help you get started with these programming languages.
Next, it is important to understand the different types of machine learning algorithms, such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. It is important to understand how these algorithms work and when to use them in different scenarios.
You can also practice by working on real-world projects and datasets to gain practical experience in machine learning. There are many online platforms such as Kaggle, GitHub, and Coursera that provide datasets and projects for beginners to work on.
It is also important to stay updated with the latest trends and research in the field of machine learning by reading research papers, attending conferences, and following experts in the field.
Overall, learning machine learning from scratch requires dedication, practice, and a willingness to continuously learn and improve your skills in the field.
How to implement machine learning algorithms from scratch?
1. Choose a machine learning algorithm: Depending on your problem statement, choose a suitable machine learning algorithm such as linear regression, decision tree, support vector machine, etc.
2. Gather and preprocess data: Collect relevant data for your problem and preprocess it by handling missing values, scaling features, encoding categorical variables, etc.
3. Split data into training and testing sets: Divide your data into training and testing sets to evaluate the performance of your model.
4. Initialize model parameters: Initialize the model parameters (weights and biases) with random values.
5. Define a loss function: Define a loss function that measures the error between the actual and predicted values.
6. Implement gradient descent: Implement the gradient descent algorithm to update the model parameters in the direction that minimizes the loss.
7. Train the model: Iterate through the training data and update the model parameters using gradient descent to minimize the loss function.
8. Evaluate the model: Use the testing data to evaluate the performance of the trained model.
9. Fine-tune hyperparameters: Experiment with different hyperparameters such as learning rate, batch size, number of iterations, etc., to improve the model performance.
10. Repeat steps 6-9 until satisfactory results are achieved: Iterate through steps 6-9 until the model performs well on unseen data.
By following these steps, you can implement machine learning algorithms from scratch and gain a deeper understanding of how they work.
How to interpret machine learning models’ results?
Interpreting machine learning models' results can be done in several ways, depending on the type of model and the specific problem being solved. Here are some common techniques for interpreting the results of machine learning models:
1. Feature importance: One common way to interpret the results of a machine learning model is to determine the importance of each feature in predicting the target variable. This can be done using techniques such as feature importance scores or SHAP values.
2. Model performance metrics: Another way to interpret a machine learning model is to look at its performance metrics, such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, or area under the ROC curve. These metrics can give you an idea of how well the model is performing in terms of predicting the target variable.
3. Visualization: Visualizing the results of a machine learning model can also help in interpreting its results. This can include techniques such as plotting the predicted values against the actual values, creating confusion matrices, or using dimensionality reduction techniques to visualize the data.
4. Prediction explanations: Some machine learning models, such as tree-based models or neural networks, provide explanations for their predictions. These explanations can help in understanding how the model is making its predictions and can provide insights into the underlying patterns in the data.
5. Domain knowledge: Finally, interpreting the results of a machine learning model often requires domain knowledge. By understanding the specific problem being solved and the context in which the model is being used, you can better interpret the results and make informed decisions based on the model's predictions.
Overall, interpreting machine learning models' results requires a combination of technical knowledge, domain expertise, and critical thinking skills. By using a combination of these techniques, you can gain valuable insights from your machine learning models and make informed decisions based on their predictions.
What are some popular machine learning libraries and frameworks?
Some popular machine learning libraries and frameworks include:
1. TensorFlow
2. scikit-learn
3. PyTorch
4. Keras
5. Apache Spark MLlib
6. Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)
7. Theano
8. MXNet
9. H2O.ai
10. TensorFlow.js
How to troubleshoot machine learning models' performance issues?
1. Analyze the data: Make sure the data you are using is clean, relevant, and diverse enough to train and test your model effectively.
2. Revisit the model architecture: Check if the model you are using is appropriate for the problem you are trying to solve. Experiment with different algorithms, hyperparameters, and architectures to see if they improve performance.
3. Evaluate feature selection: Make sure the features you have selected are the most relevant and informative for your model. Consider different feature selection techniques and explore new features that might improve performance.
4. Address overfitting: If your model is overfitting the training data, try techniques like regularization, cross-validation, early stopping, or pruning to prevent it from memorizing noise in the data.
5. Handle class imbalance: If your dataset is imbalanced, consider techniques like oversampling, undersampling, or using different evaluation metrics to account for the class distribution.
6. Hyperparameter tuning: Experiment with different hyperparameters like learning rate, batch size, and number of layers to find the optimal configuration that improves model performance.
7. Consider ensemble methods: Combine multiple models together through techniques like bagging, boosting, or stacking to improve overall performance.
8. Investigate data leakage: Check for any data leakage, such as target leakage or information leakage, that could be affecting your model's performance. Ensure that your training and testing data are properly separated.
9. Monitor training and validation metrics: Keep track of key performance metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score during training and validation to identify where the model is underperforming or overfitting.
10. Seek external help: If you are still having trouble improving your model's performance, consider seeking help from experts in the field, attending workshops or conferences, or consulting online resources and communities for advice and insights.
What is the difference between deep learning and machine learning?
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where artificial neural networks with multiple layers are used to model and represent complex patterns in data. Deep learning algorithms attempt to learn feature hierarchies and representations through a series of layers in a neural network to make predictions and decisions.
Machine learning, on the other hand, is a broader concept that refers to algorithms and techniques that allow machines to learn from data and improve their performance without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning includes a variety of algorithms such as decision trees, support vector machines, and clustering algorithms, in addition to deep learning.
In summary, deep learning is a specific type of machine learning that uses neural networks with multiple layers to learn complex patterns, while machine learning encompasses a wider range of algorithms and techniques for algorithms to learn from data.
How to build a strong foundation in machine learning?
1. Learn the basics: Start by understanding the basics of machine learning concepts, algorithms, and techniques. This includes understanding linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and probability theory.
2. Learn programming languages: Develop proficiency in programming languages commonly used in machine learning such as Python, R, and Java. Gain experience in handling data manipulation, visualization, and modeling tasks.
3. Take online courses: Enroll in online courses, tutorials, and resources to gain a solid understanding of machine learning concepts and techniques. Platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and edX offer a range of courses from beginner to advanced levels.
4. Practice with projects: Apply your knowledge by working on real-world machine learning projects. Build a portfolio showcasing your work and demonstrate your skills in data preprocessing, model building, evaluation, and deployment.
5. Read research papers: Stay updated with the latest advancements in machine learning by reading research papers, articles, and blog posts. Join online communities and forums to discuss new trends and research findings.
6. Collaborate with others: Collaborate with other data scientists, researchers, and practitioners in the field of machine learning. Join hackathons, workshops, and meetups to exchange ideas, share experiences, and learn from others.
7. Experiment with different algorithms: Explore a variety of machine learning algorithms and techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, reinforcement learning, and deep learning. Experiment with different models, optimization methods, and hyperparameters to improve performance.
8. Develop critical thinking skills: Develop strong analytical and problem-solving skills to effectively analyze data, identify patterns, and make informed decisions. Practice asking the right questions, framing problems, and developing solutions in a structured and logical manner.
9. Stay consistent and persistent: Machine learning is a complex and rapidly evolving field that requires continuous learning and practice. Stay motivated, dedicated, and perseverant in your pursuit of building a strong foundation in machine learning.
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776 Captain Berry in possession of the poop, and the Spanish ensign hauling down. I passed with my people, and Lieutenant Pearson, on the larboard gangway, to the forecastle, where I met two or three Spanish officers prisoners to my seamen – they delivered me their swords. A fire of pistols, or muskets, opening from the Admiral’s stern-gallery, of the San Josef, I directed the soldiers to fire into her stem; and calling to Captain Miller, ordered him to send more men into the San Nicholas, and directed my people to board the first rate, which was done in an instant, Captain Berry assisting me into the main chains. At this moment a Spanish officer looked over the quarter-deck rail, and said they surrendered. From this most welcome intelligence, it was not long before I was on the quarter-deck, where the Spanish Captain, with a bow, presented me his sword, and said the Admiral was dying of his wounds. I asked him on his honour, if the ship was surrendered? he declared she was; on which I gave him my hand, and desired him to call on his officers and ship’s company, and tell them of it; which he did: – and on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen; who put them, with the greatest sang froid, under his arm. I was surrounded by Captain Berry, Lieutenant Pearson, of the 69th regiment, John Sykes, John Thomson, Francis Cooke, all old Agamemnons, and several other brave men, seamen and soldiers. Thus fell these ships!
“N.B. In boarding the San Nicholas, I believe we lost about 7 killed and 10 wounded; and about 20 Spaniards lost their lives by a foolish resistance. None were lost, I believe, in boarding the San Josef.
Captain Berry’s post commission bears date March 6, 1797. In the course of the same year he appeared at Court with Sir Horatio Nelson; and it has been said that after the King had complimented the latter on account of his exploits, and condoled with him on his misfortune in losing a limb at the attack upon Santa Cruz, that hero introduced his companion to his Majesty, with the remark, “that he had not experienced great loss, as this officer was his right hand!” On the 19th Dec. following, Captain Berry commissioned the Vanguard, of 74 guns, fitting for the flag of his friend Nelson, with whom he soon after returned to the Mediterranean station.
The proceedings of the squadron detached from the fleet off Cadiz to watch the armament about to sail from Toulon, under General Buonaparte, and which ended in the total defeat of the enemy, on the glorious 1st Aug. 1798, have | WIKI |
Skyline (band)
Skyline was a newgrass group active in the 1970s and 1980s headed by Tony Trischka. The band consisted of Trischka, Danny Weiss on guitar and vocals, Dede Wyland on guitar and vocals, Larry Cohen on bass, and Barry Mitterhoff on mandolin. In the last year of their career Dede Wyland left the band and was replaced by Rachel Kalem. They were a major proponent of the "newgrass" sound, known for jazz-infused riffs and extensive use of harmony in their singing. Their first album, Skyline Drive, was released in 1977. The band released several more albums over the next few years, culminating with their final release, Fire of Grace, in 1989. In 1999, they released a retrospective album called Ticket Back.
Some members of the band still play together at times. Weiss, Cohen, and Mitterhoff performed as Silk City, a band named after an old nickname for Paterson, New Jersey. The band was active around 2000–2004, before Mitterhoff left to join Hot Tuna. | WIKI |
Talk:Mastermind (song)
Requested move 11 November 2022
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 20:00, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Mastermind (Taylor Swift song) → Mastermind (song) – No other song of the title "Mastermind" has a Wikipedia article. aaronneallucas (talk) 17:52, 11 November 2022 (UTC) 📝 "Don't get complacent..." 06:24, 13 November 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
* Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:07, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
* Support per nom. Shwcz (talk) 21:28, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
* Mastermind (disambiguation) In ictu oculi (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
* Support nothing else to add as the nom's rationale says enough. Your Power 🐍 💬 "What did I tell you?"
* Support - As none of the other songs named "Mastermind" have been deemed notable enough to have an article created.--NØ 18:55, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
* Support unless others are notable. Crouch, Swale ( talk ) 19:25, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
* Support per nom. Aoba47 (talk) 20:37, 13 November 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
Falklands fritillary
Noun
* 1) A species of butterfly found in the Falkland Islands.
Usage notes
* has two subspecies: cytheris (found on the Falklands) and siga (found in Chila and Argentina). It is unclear whether Yramea cytheris siga are considered to be Falklands fritillaries.
* Often referred to with variations of "Queen of the Falklands fritillary" (see quotes). | WIKI |
A legacy of economic oppression
Political activists criticize the growing wealth disparity in America. In 2019, the 10% richest families owned 70% of the wealth while the poorest 50% owned less than 2%. Almost as an afterthought, progressives in the Democratic primary pointed out that blacks were disproportionately at the lower end of this statistic. Mike Bloomberg, who is unquestionably a billionaire, pointed out, with reference to the 1921 Greenwood Riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that there has been a repression of black economic development in America, and this practice has historically become accepted.
Wilmington Massacre of 1898
After the Civil War, whites who had defected and joined the Confederacy were generally removed from government posts. In some cities such as Wilmington, North Carolina, this created an extraordinary opportunity for business development by blacks. Around 1868, Wilmington was the largest city in North Carolina, and 55% of its population was black. The Republican Party, which ran the government, was biracial. As skilled craftsmen and some qualified professionals, blacks were able to develop businesses.
In opposition to the black economic growth, whites decided to form a “White Supremacy” campaign in 1898. On Nov. 10, a group of 2,000 armed whites organized a coup and took over the duly elected interracial government of Wilmington. They are reported to have killed 60 to 300 people, and they also destroyed businesses and personal homes belonging to blacks.
Elaine Arkansas Massacre 1919
Phillips County, Arkansas is cotton country. Sharecroppers farm all year on the landlord’s land and receive payment for their services after harvest. Often the landlord adds questionable fees to increase the amount of his share. In order to avoid these phantom expenses, the sharecroppers decided to join the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America that could more efficiently arrange for the sale of the crops. The union was essentially an agricultural co-op.
When the sharecroppers came to a meeting in Elaine, Arkansas, in September 1919, the landowners had arranged for armed men to massacre them as they attempted to organize. Records indicate that five whites and 200 blacks were killed. Thereafter, the government prosecuted the black survivors as criminal assailants.
Tulsa Massacre in Greenwood on May 31, 1921
After the Civil War, blacks who had been living in the Confederacy states decided to move to a new life in Oklahoma, which did not even become a state until 1907. Until then, it was the Indian Territory, the place where Native American tribes from the South were forced to live.
Blacks built such a thriving community that it was called Black Wall Street, which became the envy of Tulsa. When blacks intervened to prevent the lynching of a young black man accused of sexual assault, a heated battle ensued. An estimated 50 whites and 150 blacks were killed, and 1,256 houses were looted and burned. The Greenwood district was destroyed.
Wilmington, Elaine Arkansas and Greenwood created historical records because they were racist massacres of substantial size. There were other similar events that created less attention because they were not as large. One example is the Rosewood Massacre on Jan. 1, 1923. A small village of black residents in Florida were slaughtered and their houses were burned to the ground by rampaging white extremists. The conflict was allegedly based upon a false contention.
In all of these accounts, the primary objective was to prevent or destroy economic progress by blacks. In Greenwood, the objective of white assailants was not to steal from blacks but to destroy the comfortable standard of living that blacks had established. The self-esteem of some whites seemed to require the penury of blacks.
There can be little progress for Democrats to close the wealth disparity of blacks without a dynamic plan to stimulate black entrepreneurship. Bloomberg’s Greenwood Initiative represents the only proposal for the development of a plan for black economic justice. It is specious to campaign for an end to the wealth disparity while also being hostile to business success.
It is well recognized that business growth in a capitalistic system is a major way to create wealth. It should come as no surprise to Bernie Sanders that his support of democratic socialism as opposed to capitalism has alienated many African Americans. | FINEWEB-EDU |
What are the benefits of industrial switches?
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What is the Industrial Switch?
Industrial switches, also known as industrial Ethernet switches, were developed to meet the specific requirements of industrial networks, which were not originally considered in the design of standard Ethernet. When deployed in industrial environments, network devices face harsh working conditions and significant electromagnetic interference, posing great challenges to the stability of commercial switches. In response to this, industrial Ethernet switches with high reliability, stability, and security have emerged as powerful transmission tools that can adapt to complex industrial environments and facilitate the deployment of industrial automation networks.
Industrial switches offer advantages over regular commercial switches due to their ability to withstand harsh working environments, a wide range of product options, and flexible port configurations, meeting the diverse needs of industrial control fields. With the rapid development of industries such as power, metallurgy, petrochemicals, environmental protection, transportation, and construction, there is an increasing demand for industrial Ethernet switches in various sectors’ information technology infrastructure.
Let us take a look at the advantages of industrial switches.
Advantages of Industrial Switch
1. Industrial Grade Switch Components
Industrial switches require high standards for component selection and must undergo rigorous testing in harsh environments. They are designed to excel in industrial-grade environments and support a wide range of industrial applications under adverse conditions. By using industrial-grade components, these switches can effectively adapt to demanding environments and ensure reliable and stable performance.
2. Ring Network and Redundancy
Industrial switches typically feature fast ring and fast redundancy functions, with system redundancy times of less than 50ms. While commercial switches can also be used to create redundant networks, their self-recovery time exceeds 10-30s, which is insufficient for industrial environments. For example, our industrial ring switches are specifically designed with a self-recovery time is less than 20ms, ensuring quick network restoration in case of failures. These fast recovery capabilities are crucial in industrial settings where downtime can result in significant production losses or safety risks.
3. Anti-interference performance
Industrial switches exhibit exceptional resistance to interference. They are designed to operate reliably in harsh electromagnetic environments. These switches often have high protection ratings in terms of lightning protection, water resistance, corrosion resistance, impact resistance, and electrostatic discharge protection. In contrast, commercial-grade switches do not possess these features and are not engineered to withstand such demanding conditions. The robust design and specialized shielding of industrial switches ensure their performance remains stable and uninterrupted, even in the presence of strong electromagnetic interference, making them ideal for industrial environments where electrical noise and interference are common.
4. Operating Environment
Industrial switches usually use corrugated metal enclosures, which provide better heat dissipation and stronger protection. They are designed to operate reliably within a wide temperature range of -40°C to +75°C, allowing them to withstand extreme temperature variations and humidity levels. In contrast, commercial switches are typically designed to operate within a narrower temperature range of 0°C to +50°C, which may not meet the requirements of working in harsh weather conditions. The robust construction and wider temperature tolerance of industrial switches make them suitable for deployment in environments with challenging temperature and humidity conditions, ensuring their performance remains stable and uninterrupted.
5. Redundant Power Supply
The redundant power supply is a crucial feature of industrial switches. Power outage faults often account for more than 35% of equipment failures. To mitigate the inconvenience caused by power interruptions, industrial switches employ dual power supply redundancy, ensuring stable and reliable operation of the system. In contrast, commercial switches use a single AC power supply, which is not suitable for applications in industrial environments where power reliability is critical. By incorporating redundant power supplies, industrial switches can maintain continuous operation even if one power source fails, minimizing downtime and enhancing the overall reliability of the network infrastructure.
6. Service Life
Industrial switches are built with industrial-grade solutions, ensuring higher reliability and longer lifespan compared to commercial switches. From the materials used in their enclosures to the components they incorporate, industrial switches are designed to withstand the rigors of industrial environments and provide extended operational lifetimes. Typically, industrial switches have a lifespan of over 10 years, while regular commercial switches typically have a lifespan of 3-5 years. The robust construction, superior components, and rigorous testing of industrial switches contribute to their longevity, making them a reliable and durable choice for industrial applications.
Conclusion
In summary, industrial switches offer significant advantages as robust transmission tools for industrial automation networks. With their industrial-grade components, they provide high reliability, stability, and security. Industrial switches can withstand harsh environments, resist interference, and feature fast ring and redundancy capabilities. Their durable construction, wide temperature range, and redundant power supply design contribute to their longevity and reliability. In industries such as power, metallurgy, petrochemicals, and transportation, industrial switches meet the demand for reliable and efficient data transmission. Overall, industrial switches play a vital role in industrial control and automation, ensuring reliable connectivity for industrial networks. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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privileged position enjoyed by Great Britain in the Persian Gulf. Foreign merchants might be admitted to a share in the Gulf trade, but the existence of a port under foreign control hardly could be approved.[24]
Lord Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking before the House of Lords, on May 5, 1903, made the position of the Government clear: "I do not yield to the noble Lord [Lord Ellenborough] in the interest which I take in the Persian Gulf or in the feeling that this country stands, with regard to the navigation of the Persian Gulf, in a position different from that of any other power The noble Lord has asked me for a statement of our policy with regard to the Persian Gulf. I think I can give him one in a few simple words. It seems to me that our policy should be directed in the first place to protect and promote British trade in those waters. In the next place I do not think that he suggests, or that we would suggest, that those efforts should be directed towards the exclusion of the legitimate trade of other powers. In the third place—I say it without hesitation—we should regard the establishment of a naval base, or of a fortified port, in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal. I say that in no minatory spirit, because, as far as I am aware, no proposals are on foot for the establishment of a foreign naval base in the Persian Gulf."[25]
Lord Lansdowne might have reminded his hearers that, although the British Government was disposed to be friendly toward the Bagdad Railway, measures already had been taken which effectively precluded any possibility of the construction by the concessionaires, without British consent, of terminal and port works at Koweit. In 1899, when the first announcements came from Constantinople regarding the Bagdad project, Lord Curzon, then Viceroy | WIKI |
1969 Denver Broncos season
The 1969 Denver Broncos season was the team's tenth season as a franchise, and their final season in the American Football League (AFL) before the league merged with the National Football League (NFL). Led by third-year head coach and general manager Lou Saban, the Broncos were 5–8–1, fourth place in the AFL West for the seventh straight season.
Denver opened with two victories at home, but were winless in their previous five games entering the season finale; they avoided the division cellar with a home win over Cincinnati in the final AFL game for both.
Of the original eight franchises, Denver was the only one to never play in the AFL postseason. Six of the teams won league titles; the other exception was Boston, who won their sole division title via a tiebreaker game in 1963. The Broncos posted their first winning record in 1973 and made their first postseason in 1977, advancing to Super Bowl XII.
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Installing Caligrafy on RackSpace?
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To install Caligrafy on RackSpace, you can follow these general steps:
1. Connect to your RackSpace server: Access your server using SSH or any other preferred method to establish a connection.
2. Set up a virtual environment (optional): It is recommended to create a virtual environment to isolate the Caligrafy installation and avoid conflicts with other packages. You can use tools like virtualenv or conda to create a virtual environment.
3. Install the required dependencies: Caligrafy relies on certain dependencies to function properly. Make sure you have the necessary packages installed on your RackSpace server. These dependencies typically include Python and its related libraries.
4. Download Caligrafy: Clone or download the Caligrafy repository from the official repository on a location on your RackSpace server.
5. Install Caligrafy: Navigate to the downloaded Caligrafy directory and run the installation using a package manager like pip. Use the command "pip install ." to install Caligrafy using the setup.py file.
6. Verify the installation: After the installation completes, you can verify if Caligrafy is installed correctly by importing it in a Python script without any errors.
Remember that these steps are general guidelines, and the actual process may vary depending on your specific setup and requirements. It is always recommended to refer to the official documentation or readme file provided by Caligrafy for detailed installation instructions specific to RackSpace.
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What is the recommended server maintenance strategy for Caligrafy on Rackspace?
The recommended server maintenance strategy for Caligrafy on Rackspace would typically involve the following steps:
1. Regular Updates: Ensure that the server operating system, software stack, and applications are kept up to date with the latest patches and security fixes. This can be achieved through regular system updates using package managers such as yum or apt-get.
2. Automated Backups: Implement a backup solution to automatically back up the server's data and configuration regularly. Rackspace provides various backup services, including Cloud Backup, which can be configured to take regular snapshot backups of the server.
3. Monitoring: Set up monitoring tools or services to continuously monitor the server's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. Rackspace offers monitoring solutions like Cloud Monitoring, which can provide real-time insights and alerts.
4. Security Hardening: Apply security best practices to secure the server, such as implementing firewalls, configuring access controls, disabling unnecessary services, and enabling authentication mechanisms. Rackspace provides security services like Cloud Firewalls, which can help protect the server from unauthorized access.
5. Regular Audits: Conduct periodic audits to review the server's configurations, security policies, and access controls. This helps identify any potential vulnerabilities or misconfigurations that need to be addressed.
6. Disaster Recovery Planning: Develop a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes backup restoration procedures, failover mechanisms, and replication strategies. Rackspace offers services like Site Recovery, which can assist in building a robust disaster recovery solution.
7. Scalability Planning: If your Caligrafy application is expected to experience increasing traffic or data growth, consider implementing scalability measures, such as load balancing, auto-scaling, and database optimization. Rackspace has services like Auto Scale that can help manage scale-out scenarios efficiently.
It is important to note that specific maintenance strategies may vary based on your specific requirements and the hosting environment.
How to choose the appropriate server image for Caligrafy installation?
To choose the appropriate server image for Caligrafy installation, follow these steps:
1. Identify your server's hardware requirements: Check Caligrafy's system requirements and make sure your server meets or exceeds them. Take note of the minimum specifications for CPU, RAM, storage, and operating system.
2. Determine the purpose of your server: Decide on the specific use case for your server. For example, if you are setting up a web server, you may need an image that includes a web server stack such as Apache or Nginx. If you are setting up a database server, you might require an image with a database management system like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
3. Consider the operating system: Choose an image that is compatible with your preferred operating system. Caligrafy may have specific requirements for operating systems such as Linux distributions, so ensure you select an image that aligns with those requirements.
4. Evaluate the software dependencies: Analyze the software dependencies required for Caligrafy. Make sure the server image you choose includes all the necessary software libraries, frameworks, and tools needed by Caligrafy. This could include programming languages like PHP or Python, database connectors, and other dependencies mentioned in Caligrafy's documentation.
5. Check for pre-installed packages: Determine if the server image comes with any pre-installed packages or configurations that could be beneficial for Caligrafy. This could save you time and effort in setting up additional software or implementing certain configurations.
6. Assess security features: Verify that the server image includes security measures such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or encryption tools. This is crucial for safeguarding your Caligrafy installation and protecting sensitive data.
7. Consider community support and updates: Research the community support and update frequency for the server image. Opt for images that are actively supported and regularly updated with security patches and bug fixes. This ensures a stable and secure environment for your Caligrafy installation.
8. Test and evaluate: Before deploying the server image, perform a test installation on a local environment or staging server. Verify that Caligrafy functions properly and meets your requirements. If any issues arise, consider trying a different server image or seeking assistance from the Caligrafy community or support channels.
By following these steps, you can choose an appropriate server image for Caligrafy installation that matches your hardware, software, and security needs.
How to configure the database for Caligrafy on Rackspace?
To configure the database for Caligrafy on Rackspace, you can follow these steps:
1. Log in to your Rackspace account and navigate to the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel.
2. Click on the "Databases" tab and then click "Create Database."
3. Choose the type of database you want to create (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and select the appropriate version.
4. Enter a name for your database and choose an availability zone.
5. Specify the size of the database and the storage type (performance or standard) based on your requirements.
6. Set up a database user by providing a username and password. Make sure to choose a strong password for security.
7. Configure any additional options for your database, such as backup settings, server capacity, and network access.
8. Review your configuration settings and click on "Create Database" to proceed.
9. Once the database is created, make a note of the database connection details like the hostname, port number, and credentials.
10. Now, you can configure Caligrafy to use the Rackspace database. Typically, you will need to update the database connection details in a configuration file of Caligrafy.
11. Access the Caligrafy configuration file (e.g., caligrafy.config) and locate the database configuration section.
12. Update the hostname, port number, database name, username, and password with the details of your Rackspace database.
13. Save the configuration file and restart the Caligrafy application for the changes to take effect.
By following these steps, you should be able to configure the database for Caligrafy on Rackspace successfully.
How to monitor the performance of Caligrafy on Rackspace?
To monitor the performance of Caligrafy on Rackspace, you can follow these steps:
1. Implement a monitoring tool: Choose a monitoring tool that can track and analyze the performance of your Caligrafy application on Rackspace. Some popular options include New Relic, Datadog, and Nagios.
2. Define performance metrics: Determine the key performance indicators (KPIs) that you want to monitor for Caligrafy. These may include response time, CPU and memory usage, throughput, error rates, and network latency.
3. Set up monitoring agents: Install monitoring agents on your Caligrafy servers hosted on Rackspace. These agents will collect performance data and send it to your chosen monitoring tool.
4. Configure alerts: Configure alerting rules based on predefined thresholds for the monitored metrics. This ensures that you are notified when any performance metrics go beyond acceptable limits.
5. Create dashboards: Use your monitoring tool to create customized dashboards to visualize the real-time performance data of Caligrafy. This can help you quickly identify any performance bottlenecks or anomalies.
6. Conduct regular performance analysis: Regularly analyze the collected performance data to identify patterns, trends, and areas for improvement. Look for any correlations between specific events and performance issues.
7. Perform load testing: Periodically perform load testing on your Caligrafy application to simulate the behavior of many users accessing it simultaneously. Monitor and analyze the performance during this testing to ensure the system can handle expected loads.
8. Optimize and troubleshoot: Use the insights gained from monitoring and analysis to optimize the performance of Caligrafy. Identify and resolve any bottlenecks or errors that may be impacting its performance.
9. Regularly review and update: Over time, review your monitoring setup and metrics to ensure they remain relevant and aligned with your application's needs. Make updates as necessary to continuously monitor and improve performance.
By following these steps, you can effectively monitor and optimize the performance of Caligrafy on Rackspace, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.
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And his eyes glittered at the thought of new adventures in the marvelous country Bridger had so often described.
Lander wanted above all things to return to St. Louis in the fall. To go until another summer without seeing Susette was sickening to contemplate. Yet a dead man and the inimical shadow of the A. F. C. barred his homeward path.
"I'll think about it," he sighed. "I suppose it's the only thing I can do."
"I'll throw in a suit of black broadcloth—the best you can buy in St. Louis," added Bridger.
"It's a trade," sighed Lander, "unless my knife-medicine makes it possible for me to go back to St. Louis."
Bridger was highly pleased. He had reached the rendezvous ahead of the A. F. C. outfit and had secured the cream of the trade. He had made the Upper Missouri outfit admit his importance by sending their men to head him off and to compete with him. Now by extraordinary luck he stood in position to secure the bulk of the rich Crow trade. While enjoying these delectable feelings one of his men rode up and announced a small band was coming down the river with a white man in the lead. | WIKI |
» New Relic Provider
New Relic offers a performance management solution enabling developers to diagnose and fix application performance problems in real time.
Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.
» Example Usage
# Configure the New Relic provider
provider "newrelic" {
api_key = "${var.newrelic_api_key}"
}
# Create an alert policy
resource "newrelic_alert_policy" "alert" {
name = "Alert"
}
# Add a condition
resource "newrelic_alert_condition" "foo" {
policy_id = "${newrelic_alert_policy.alert.id}"
name = "foo"
type = "apm_app_metric"
entities = ["12345"] # You can look this up in New Relic
metric = "apdex"
runbook_url = "https://docs.example.com/my-runbook"
term {
duration = 5
operator = "below"
priority = "critical"
threshold = "0.75"
time_function = "all"
}
}
# Add a notification channel
resource "newrelic_alert_channel" "email" {
name = "email"
type = "email"
configuration = {
recipients = "paul@example.com"
include_json_attachment = "1"
}
}
# Link the channel to the policy
resource "newrelic_alert_policy_channel" "alert_email" {
policy_id = "${newrelic_alert_policy.alert.id}"
channel_id = "${newrelic_alert_channel.email.id}"
}
» Argument Reference
The following arguments are supported:
• api_key - (Required except for newrelic_insights_event resource) Your New Relic API key. Can also use NEWRELIC_API_KEY environment variable.
• api_url - (Optional) Possibility to change the API url (default is https://api.newrelic.com/v2). This is for instance relevant if the New Relic account is in the EU. The API url must then be set to https://api.eu.newrelic.com/v2. Can also use NEWRELIC_API_URL environment variable.
• infra_api_url - (Optional) Possibility to change the Infra API url (default is https://infra-api.newrelic.com/v2). This is for instance relevant if the New Relic account is in the EU. The Infra API url must then be set to https://infra-api.eu.newrelic.com/v2. Can also use NEWRELIC_INFRA_API_URL environment variable.
• insecure_skip_verify - (Optional) Trust self-signed SSL certificates. If omitted, the NEWRELIC_API_SKIP_VERIFY environment variable is used.
• insights_account_id - (Optional) Your New Relic Account ID used when inserting Insights events via the newrelic_insights_event resource. Can also use NEWRELIC_INSIGHTS_ACCOUNT_ID environment variable.
• insights_insert_key - (Optional) Your Insights insert key used when inserting Insights events via the newrelic_insights_event resource. Can also use NEWRELIC_INSIGHTS_INSERT_KEY environment variable.
• insights_insert_url - (Optional) Possibility to change the Insights insert url (default is https://insights-collector.newrelic.com/v1/accounts). This is for instance relevant if the New Relic account is in the EU. The Insights API url must then be set to https://insights-collector.eu.newrelic.com/v1. Can also use NEWRELIC_INSIGHTS_INSERT_URL environment variable.
• cacert_file - (Optional) A path to a PEM-encoded certificate authority used to verify the remote agent's certificate. The NEWRELIC_API_CACERT environment variable can also be used. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Capytalk logic in creating an array
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I'm running into something I really don't understand why it isn't working.
I'm trying to create an array with
{
(1 to: 128) collect: [ :i | ((i mod: !N) eq: 0) true: 1 false: 0 ]
}
Which is supposed to generate a 1 every N place in the array the rest should be 0... But when running it only works when !N is 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on. With any other number it just becomes a big array of 1. I tried this as well
{
(1 to: 128) collect: [ :i | ((i mod: !N) eq: 0) ]
}
When I realised that true or false is just 1 and 0 anyway.
If i write
{
(1 to: 128) collect: [ :i | ((i mod: 3) eq: 0) true: 1 false: 0 ]
}
Everything is fine, so i expect to be something with turning it in to a eventvalue that causes the trouble, but i have no idea why. Am i doing something wrong with the logic, or breaking some rule about array creation?
Thanks!
asked Apr 5, 2018 in Capytalk & Smalltalk by anders-skibsted (Adept) (1,170 points)
Hi Anders, How are you using the Array? Are you using them as triggers in a Gate or Trigger field?
I use it in an SyntheticSpectrumFromArray.
I want to cancel out amplitudes in a spectral analysis signal.
So i kind of try to create a pulsetrain, but one that, for this purpose, is a bit easier to control than a real pulsetrain module.
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We have found and fixed a problem with the Capytalk mod: function when the receiver is a constant value and the argument is an Event Expression. This fix will be in the next update of Kyma (avaiable sometime in the next few days).
Thanks for pointing this out!
answered Apr 7, 2018 by ssc (Savant) (113,610 points)
selected Apr 7, 2018 by anders-skibsted
Thank you! I thought I was going crazy not getting it to work... nice to hear that it was mod: and not me.
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Banana Framework Agreement
The Banana Framework Agreement (BFA) outlines regulations on the treatment, sharing, and production of bananas and other various banana related activities. It was concluded in 1993 between the European Union and Costa Rica, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela, following a dispute in the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) on the EU's banana import regime (this dispute sometimes referred to as "the Banana Wars").
Five Latin American countries (Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela) had forwarded a complaint against the EU's banana import regime in 1993, stating that it violated fundamental GATT principles. The panel established in the GATT framework confirmed this view, but its report was not adopted, as the required unanimity was prevented by the EU and countries belonging to the group of ACP states, who were receiving preferential treatment under the EU's importation regime. In the following year negotiations were held, after which four of the five complaining parties concluded the BFA with the EU, which granted them specific shares of the bound tariff quota they were subject to when exporting bananas to the EU.
On 9 June 2010, the EU and Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Venezuela entered into the Geneva Agreement on Trade in Bananas, which agreed a scale of diminishing tariffs on EU fresh banana imports applicable from 2009 until 1 January 2017 and extinguished all continuing disputes between the EU and these nations, referred to as the "Latin American MFN ('most favoured nation') banana suppliers". | WIKI |
Talk:Loffenau
Hello Wikipedians! I made several small changes to this article on Loffenau. I decided to do this simply because I stumbled across this page after reading that the American actress Meryl Streep's family came from Loffenau. It was well written already, but as I assume the target audience is English speakers, I decided to polish it up and make it more flowing. I also corrected minor grammatical and punctuation mistakes, such as capitalizing the names of proper nouns. I love Germany, so anything to get mroe people interested is sehr gut, ich denke! — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:26, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
Oh, I also didn't know whether or not the 12 members of the local government were elected or appointed, so please correct me if I was wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:27, 30 March 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
James C. White
James Charles White, Jr. (April 6, 1937 – September 2, 2009) was an American radio talk-show host. He is best known for his 30 years of work at KMOX, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Youth and early radio career
Jim White began his radio career in 1953 (age 16) at radio station WHJB (now WKHB in Irwin, Pennsylvania), at studios then in his hometown Greensburg, Pennsylvania. White was also an amateur radio operator and built his own radio transmitter when he was a teenager. After he graduated from high-school in 1955, White worked at station WDFM at Penn State University. White also served in the U.S. Army. In 1958 White worked at stations WAKU in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and at WMCK in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, both in western Pennsylvania. In 1959 White moved up to work as a rock jock at station WJAS, in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1966-1968 White worked at KDKA Radio and Television, in Pittsburgh. anchoring newscasts on the radio, and doing feature stories for Eyewitness News.
White's amateur radio call signs were W3TNY, W0NJB and later KM0X (with a zero to be similar to the alphabetic O in the St. Louis commercial radio station KMOX).
KMOX in St. Louis
During 1969–1999 White worked for 30 years at radio station KMOX, St. Louis, Missouri where he was a talk show host. He referred to himself as "The Big Bumper", because of his height and weight and late-night program shift (10 pm - 2 am) - and also alluding to "things that go bump in the night." Like other people at KMOX, he worked many different jobs and shifts. At one time he was program director, news director, and program host. His irascibile personality was his trademark and he often cut off callers in mid-sentence, if he considered them boring or he disagreed with their opinion.
Because KMOX had 50,000 watts of power and clear channel status, his radio show could be heard at night over much of North America. White retired April 7, 1999.
Personal life
With his wife Pat, White had two daughters, Heidi Horn and Holly Skubiz, and four grandchildren. White had a sister, Ann, who resided in Maui, Hawaii and Phoenix, Arizona.
White sang bass in the church choir and performed singing parts on stage in amateur shows.
After his retirement from KMOX in 1999, Jim White and his wife moved to Orange Beach, Alabama. About May 2005 White had quad bypass surgery on his heart. He lived for another four years, until his death on September 2, 2009 from complications following surgery.
Awards
* A.I.R. Awards for Best Talk Show Host and Lifetime Achievement
* University of Missouri Media Hall of Fame.
Expressions
Some of Jim White's favorite expressions were:
* "You can't fix stupid."
* "Don't trust anyone who doesn't have at least two hobbies."
* "Do two nice things for yourself each day."
* "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
* "These are the good old days."
* "Protect me from the GOOD people."
* “For every complex problem there is a simple solution that is wrong.” | WIKI |
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[Greek: baktron, akêptron]); he is clothed in the blanket (pallium, [Greek: chlaina, tribôn]) with one end, which is covered, over his left breast, and another hanging behind over his left shoulder; he wears the beard (barba, [Greek: pôgôn]); his head is protected by the simple skull-cap (pileus, [Greek: pilos]). All these were distinct characteristics of the philosopher, and more especially of the Cynic . The dog also probably marked his sect. Leonidas of Tarentum, in his enumeration of the goods belonging to the Cynic Posochares, including a dog-collar ([Greek: kynouchon]), mentions, [Greek: kai pilon kephalas ouch osias skepanon], i. e. "The cap of felt, which covered his unholy head." This passage may be regarded as a proof, that among the Greeks, though not among the Romans, the cap of felt was worn by very poor men. It also proves that this cap, which was the fess of the modern Greeks, was worn by philosophers, and therefore throws light on a passage of Antiphanes (''ap. Athen.'' xii. 63. p. 545 a) describing a philosopher of a different character, who was very elegantly dressed, having a small cap of fine felt ([Greek: pilidiôn hapalon]), also a small white blanket, a beautiful tunic, and a neat stick. When Cleanthes advanced the doctrine, that the moon had the shape of a skull-cap ([Greek: piloeidê tô schêmati], Stobæi ''Ecl. Phys.'' 1. 27. p. 554, ed. Heeren), he probably intended to account for its phases from its supposed hemispherical form. A cap of a similar form and appearance, though perhaps larger and not so closely fitted to the crown of the head, was worn by fishermen . In an epigram of Philippus, describing the apparatus of a fisherman, the author mentions [Greek: pilon amphikrênon hydasissegê], "the cap encompassing his head and protecting it from wet." Figure 2. in Plate VIII. represents a small statue of a fisherman belonging to the Townley Collection in the British Museum. His cap is slightly pointed and in a degree, which was probably favorable to the discharge of water from its surface. Hesiod recommends, that agricultural laborers should wear the same defence from cold and showers (Op. et | WIKI |
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has become one of the most controversial diagnosis’s and disorders to treat. The diagnosis has been around for over half a century; however, its prevalence has increased so dramatically in recent years that the legitimacy of the diagnosis has come to be debated.
The center of the ADHD controversy seems to center around the most common form of treatment for the disorder, namely prescription drugs. The nature of the prescription drugs used to treat ADHD make having a diagnosis of the disorder an advantage, at least in the eyes of some. Prescription amphetamines are the most commonly used type of pharmaceutical in ADHD treatment and these drugs will give anyone an edge.
The question arose regarding whether the mass influx of new ADHD diagnosis was really prompted by detrimental symptoms or by drug-seeking behavior.
Millions of kids go to school taking the drug, making using pharmaceuticals to get ahead in school and life a near commonplace scenario. It might not be surprising, then, when the next kid sees how much better he or she can do with the help of prescription ADHD medication.
The biggest problem of all may not be the terrible life lesson that turning to drugs to fix a problem teaches, but instead, it’s that drugs used to treat ADHD are highly addictive. People start them early in school and may spend the remainder of their lives trying to manage a complex system of substances just to function, believing that they are necessary.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
ADHD is a complex psychological disorder affecting children and adults. The disorder is characterized by inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are thought to be unable to sit still, pay attention in class and act out in distracting and impulsive ways. Stereotypically, those with ADHD are often in trouble with teachers or routinely perform below their capability as these children’s symptoms cause distress and potentially ostracize them from their peers.
This mental disorder is not yet fully understood; however, research suggests that genetics and child development play a role in the causes of ADHD.
Children are usually prompted by the school or the counselors to be tested for ADHD in cases where the symptoms are clearly present. More and more frequently, older adolescents are seeking the diagnosis without outside motivation to do so.
The symptoms of ADHD may be just as harmful in adulthood; adults diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are usually struggling with some area of their life, such as work or relationships. By the time an individual enters the workforce, most employers except him or her to be able to sit quietly for long periods of time.
The treatment often involves drug therapy, using one of several stimulant compounds. These potent drugs are increasingly causing life-threatening problems for those who use them.
What Medications are Prescribed for ADHD?
Most medications used to treat ADHD are stimulants. The most commonly used include Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse and Concerta.
The most commonly prescribed drugs are all either one or a combination of a few amphetamine compounds, namely dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate, lisdexamfetamine, amphetamine sulfate, or Dexmethylphenidate. These compounds all work similarly with minor differences in how they are metabolized and handled by the individual.
The addition of an amphetamine for a person already struggling with hyperactivity may seem perplexing; it seems to simply have been what worked and no clear reason for why has yet been discovered.
For adolescents and children, however, supplying a person with a steady stream of addictive amphetamines from an early age may seem like a disaster waiting to happen, and it is for many people.
The addictive nature of these drugs is not overcome by using the medication as prescribed. Using an addictive substance for an extended time is likely to end in addiction. Though not everyone becomes addicted, many do struggle with their ADHD medication and eventually have to choose between sobriety and death.
Another common problem is that underage teenagers are prone to experiment with substances. However, mixing ADHD medication and anything not prescribed by a knowledgeable doctor can easily result in a person ending up in the emergency room or dead.
According to SAMHSA’s DAWN report, in 2010, nearly half (45%) of all emergency room visits involving ADHD stimulant medication also involved another substance.
More Teens are Abusing ADHD Medications
The Potential for Misdiagnosis: Are Your Children Faking It to Get Better Grades in School?
An issue more common than many may think is pre-teens and teens faking an ADHD diagnosis simply to obtain the drugs that come with it.
Many school-aged students see the benefits of having an amphetamine prescription. With Adderall or Vyvanse, one can stay up all night studying without feeling sleep deprived. And who wouldn’t want to do better without hardly feeling like you’re trying?
People who take the drugs are given a clear advantage over those without them—increased energy and attention mean that you can listen through the entire seminar and study well past midnight, then get up early the next morning and continue functioning with superhuman attention, focus, and energy.
Weight loss is another popular side effect of the medication and has many using the drugs solely to reach their desired size. Using medications like Adderall to lose weight may seem like a good idea to some; however, the long-term consequences drastically outweigh the perceived benefits.
Keeping Up with the Bell Curve: ADHD Medication Abuse in High School & College
The higher the pressure to succeed, the higher the percentage of students taking ADHD medications. It’s a lot like pro-sports, but with a different type of performance-enhancing substance.
Both high school and college-aged students are prone to use and abuse ADHD medications. The trend in kids initiating the testing for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is definitely on the rise, according to the principal of New York Admissions.
The reason why students use ADHD drugs is to essentially increase performance at school and on entrance exams. When it feels as though your life depends on your score, would you consider using anything to gain an advantage?
Many will answer yes, but then what about the next test? And the next? They all seem pretty important after all. Maybe a full prescription and daily use are better than just one time. Eventually, though, the drugs don’t work as well and you’ll need more of it and more often. Then, after a while, you can’t function normally without it.
More and more high school and college-aged kids are using such study-aids. More kids who start in high school continue into college with their prescriptions. Many, however, are finding that the drugs are too much and stop using before they enter college, but there are some that increase their use and wind up abusing illegal substances within a relatively short time.
Performance Enhancements in Society: CNS Stimulant Medication Abuse
Kids aren’t the only ones who see the upside to carrying a legal amphetamine prescription. Many adults are turning to ADHD medications to boost performance and meet the expectations of society.
Take the “super mom” who is up at dawn and stays up long after the kids have gone to bed, working in the office or at home to help the family. In a fast paced society and even faster paced children, mothers are turning to medications like Focalin XR to be able to do that much, day after day, failing to realize the dependency.
The Wall Street broker, who, similarly, is awake most hours of the day, producing reports from dawn to dusk, and analyzing market trends.
Where sports like football and baseball run into steroid abuse, esports has breaking headlines of Adderall abuse. The use of stimulants like dextroamphetamine in esports has emerged as a concern, with one professional stating, ‘we are all on Adderall.’ To combat this reality or perception, some leagues have begun to implement drug testing to level the playing field.
The more society expects of people, the more people turn to enhancements like Vyvanse. However, these drugs come with serious, long-term consequences and those who have witnessed how destructive they can invariably attest to one’s health is more important than whatever you think you will gain.
Good Grades are Not Worth an Addiction
When Substance Abuse Addiction to ADHD Medication Manifests
Addiction to ADHD medication is becoming one of the most common reasons people find themselves in need of addiction treatment. Not only are the prescription drugs highly addictive, but in many cases, they lead to the abuse of other substances as well; most people who start using meth were first users of prescription stimulant drugs.
Even those who don’t end up on the most toxic and destructive substances known to man, namely meth and heroin, do find themselves wondering how their lives became so difficult.
The problem usually starts with a tolerance to the prescription drug, prompting the individual to get an increase in his or her dose. Eventually, you reach a maximum dosage. When that happens, it may feel like the world is working against you. You need more, so why won’t they just prescribe more?
Some people find a way around this problem: they find another doctor to prescribe their medication and continue getting the other prescription from the original doctor. This is called “doctor shopping” and some have managed to accumulate an enormous quantity of drugs doing this.
Others may try to boost the effectiveness of their medications by altering other habits. Maybe they stop eating while they take the medication and only eat at night before bed, this way the drug’s effect is not dampened by food.
And yet another way of getting more when there is no more to be had from doctors is to buy the drug illegally, either by buying from friends or by someone on the street.
All of these ways of lessening the dwindling effects of ADHD medication is exhausting and time-consuming. Eventually, it becomes too much and each individual is faced with a decision: continue spiraling down the rabbit hole or get help.
Seeking Treatment for ADHD Medication Addiction
Prescription drug addiction has seen one of the greatest increases in any addiction. These potent chemical compounds are given out with seemingly little consideration or warning of their potential hazards.
Many people who become addicted to prescription medication find it hard to wrap their heads around the situation. After all, the person may be a law-abiding citizen who doesn’t have even a speeding ticket and makes straight A’s. How could he or she be a drug addict?
The reality is that these prescription nightmares have opened the gates of addiction to many unsuspecting persons. The “medicine” was being taken as directed, so it’s not possible to be addicted, many may believe.
But regardless of how you took your pills, or of how far down the path of addiction you have gone, if you can’t live or function normally or happily without your prescription, then you probably need help.
The consequences of waiting can be truly disastrous, even deadly. How far into despair and demoralization you go is entirely up to you.
There is no shame in having become addicted to your medication—it has happened to millions of people in the U.S. alone. Stories of the destruction that prescription drugs have caused are all over the headlines. Anyone can fall prey to these substances and needing help is not a fault.
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The Mondrians
The Mondrians are a four-piece indie rock band from Switzerland. The band formed in the summer of 2005 after recording their first four-track home-made demo, including the songs "Pearl Of The Lake" and "The Shout."
Before recording an album, the Mondrians spent three years on the road, touring Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom. They played in the Paléo and Eurockéennes festivals, among others, and opened for The Kooks in Zurich. In 2007, they recorded a high-quality demo in Bavois. In summer 2008, The Mondrians recorded their first album in Spain with producer Gordon Raphael. The Mondrians' album was released on November 5, 2009, and included the songs Reason to live, Fresh Music and Llew the kid.
In early 2010, Cedric left the band for his solo project, Buvette, and Laurent came on as the new drummer. In that summer, they played at the Café of the Montreux Jazz Festival. At this time, The Mondrians decided to stop playing live shows before recording new materials and 11 new songs were written for an up-coming album. In November 2011, the band released To The Happy Few only in Switzerland, with no label. The album was produced by Swiss producer and sound engineer Benjamin Bard, who had already been working with the band for several years as their live sound engineer. The album received generally good reviews from critics. Pat V from Überreel realised two short videos to announce the album and one for the promo of the song Rainbow.
In August 2014, the band is back in studio in Leysin to record new stuff with Benjamin Bard who produced the previous album, "To The Happy Few". The Mondrians finally mixed the tapes with Patrick Matthey who recorded their first home demo, "Reason To Live" in Bavois in 2007. New titled album "Avalanche" is released in October 2015 for the first time in vinyl and digital.
Members
* Maxime – guitar, vocals
* Alric – guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Laurent – drums, keyboards, vocals
* Louis – bass, vocals
Old member:
* Cedric – drums, vocals (2004-2010 drummer)
Demo recordings
* Pearl of the Lake (2005)
* Reason to Live (2006)
* Extra-time Monotony (2006)
* Bavois (2007)
Albums
* The Mondrians (2009)
* To the Happy Few (2011)
* Avalanche (2015) | WIKI |
What Is a Medical Abortion?
A medical abortion involves taking two powerful drugs that work together to terminate and then expel a pregnancy through the vagina.
If you’re facing an unexpected pregnancy and considering a medical abortion, it’s essential to understand how it works and the associated risks to make an informed decision.
Do you want to talk to someone about medical abortion and your other pregnancy options? Contact Attleboro Women’s Health to be connected to our caring team. We’re here to answer your questions and provide information. All appointments and resources are free and confidential.
How Does Medical Abortion Work?
A medical abortion is an option if your pregnancy is under ten weeks gestation. It involves taking two drugs at home. These drugs are mifepristone and misoprostol
Mifepristone is taken first. It interferes with your body’s absorption of progesterone, an essential hormone during pregnancy. Without it, your pregnancy will be starved of nutrients and end.
Misoprostol is taken next. It causes uterine contractions which forces your pregnancy from your uterus.
How Might Medical Abortion Affect Me Physically?
After taking the medical abortion drugs, you will experience vaginal bleeding and abdominal cramping. However, you might also experience the following risks:
• Incomplete abortion, which is when parts of the terminated pregnancy remain in your uterus
• An ongoing pregnancy if the procedure doesn’t work
• Heavy and prolonged bleeding
• Infection
• Fever
• Digestive system discomfort
You’re more likely to experience these risks if your pregnancy is over ten weeks gestation when you take these drugs. This is why mifepristone is only FDA-approved if your pregnancy is under ten weeks gestation.
Ultrasound Can Protect Your Health
Before seeking a medical abortion, taking steps to protect your health is essential. Getting an ultrasound is the best way to ensure you have all the information you need to decide how to move forward.
An ultrasound can reveal:
• The gestational age of your pregnancy. This is vital since taking the abortion pill drugs when your pregnancy is past ten weeks gestation puts you at a greater risk for complications.
• The location of your pregnancy. This ensures that you’re not experiencing an ectopic pregnancy, which is when the embryo attaches and grows outside the uterus—and it’s a life-threatening situation that a medical abortion can’t treat.
• The viability of your pregnancy. Roughly 26% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, so it’s essential to know whether you’ve had one—if so, you will need follow-up care and not a medical abortion.
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At Attleboro Women’s Health, we understand what you’re going through and are here to help. We offer pregnancy resources, like free limited ultrasounds and information, that can help you make an informed decision about how to move forward. Contact us today to schedule your free, confidential appointment. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Imam Hossein University
The Imam Hossein Comprehensive University (also referred to as IHU or Imam Hossein University,, Dāneshgāh-e Emām Hosein) is a public university located in Tehran, Iran.
The university was opened in 1986, and is located in Babayi Expressway near Tehranpars and Hakimiyeh in northeastern Tehran. The university is affiliated with IRGC, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran), and Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran). It is sometimes referred to as "IHU". The university's official title is the Imam Hossein Comprehensive University (Persian: دانشگاه جامع امام حسین, Dāneshgāh-e Jām-e Emām Hossein). It is named after Imam Hossein, a grandson of the Islamic prophet, who was martyred in 680.
IHU provides undergraduate and postgraduate programs in 15 departments. The student body consists of 6,000 students and cadets. The procedure for accepting and processing requests at IHU is different from other universities. Regular students can get admission by passing Iranian University Entrance Exam which is done yearly by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran). Those students are without scholarship and will not be employed by IRGC. They should also pay tuition fees. However, students with scholarship are accepted by IRGC after passing ideological interviews and medical tests, and being a member of Basij will be an advantage for getting scholarship. Those students are not permitted to go abroad or work for private companies. For many years, IRGC Cadet College and IHU academic division were in the same place. But, Imam Hossein Cadet College was separated from the academic division in 2005. Then, the academic division was relocated to another recently built infrastructure, and was renamed to the "Imam Hossein Comprehensive University".
History
The university was established in 1986 by IRGC Commander Seyed Mehdi Mousavi Zare, named Imam Hossein Higher Education and approved as a university by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran). It included faculty of engineering science, faculty of natural science, faculty of social science, and faculty of medicine in 1987. Later, it also included faculty of military science. In 1994, the faculty of medicine seceded to become the Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, which is the primary medical institution, and currently trains students up to PhD levels in three faculties, namely: Nursing, Allied Health, and Medicine, as well as the Institute of Research for Military Medicine.
Background
In 1963, Iran placed all military factories under the Military Industries Organization (MIO) of the Ministry of War. Over the next fifteen years, they produced small arms ammunition, explosives, and mortar rounds and fuses. They furthermore produced rifles and machine guns under West German license. Additionally, they assembled helicopters, jeeps, trucks, and trailers from imported kits. However, the Iran Revolution stopped all activities. The MIO was unable to operate without foreign experts, so it had lost much of its management ability and control over its industrial facilities by 1981.
In late 1981, the revolutionary government brought together all military industrial units and placed them under the Defense Industries Organization (DIO). By 1986, a large number of infantry rifles, machine guns, and mortars and some small-arms ammunition were being manufactured locally. However, they required some specialists and technicians. For this purpose, they opened several universities and colleges e.g. Imam Hossein University, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, and Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, directly or indirectly linked to DIO by mid-1980s.
Prior to 1989, they began working on the ballistic missiles program was responsibility of the missile unit in IRGC. In 1989, the Ministry of Defense and the Guards merged to form the Ministry of the Armed Forces Logistics, and the IRGC's facilities were merged into the Defense Industry Organization. By the mid-1990s, they were reportedly responsible for Iran's missile programs, headed by the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).
Research
It has a scientific group and a nuclear physics department. Imam Hossein University, which is particularly run on military lines by IRGC, is the center for experiments on nuclear research. Iranian scientists are conducting nuclear research and development using university laboratories.
However, it is not only a main center for nuclear research. It also has a place for biological research. Imam Hossein University has a biological section that conducts microbial research. Nonetheless, nuclear enrichment at Imam Hossein University is the mother of all research at what called a nuclear weapons university. Prof. Raymond Tanter, of Georgetown University, an expert on Iran, claimed that this university has become the center for all of Iran's secret nuclear programs. In February 1998, Imam Hossein University was identified by the British government as having procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programs, in addition to doing non-proliferation related business. It was named by the German government as an Iranian military procurement organization working toward acquiring weapons of mass destruction; reportedly conducts nuclear development activities separate from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to US officials produces anthrax and aflatoxin. It was added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 8 November 2012, freezing its assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, and also listed by the Government of Japan in 2012 as an entity of concern for proliferation relating to missiles and biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
During the 1990s, the Iran centralized several centers for nuclear research programme under a single unit. They transferred all of their nuclear facilities around the country to the Defense Ministry and also to Imam Hossein University. The announcement on the university's now defunct website shed light on one of Iran's developing nuclear programme and the laser enrichment technique. Prof. Raymond Tanter said that it particularly is importance to mention laser enrichment as a mean to create nuclear fuel. One of the most critical projects is conducted at Imam Hossein University on use of lasers for enrichment. In addition to laser enrichment, the university carried out a test on neutron generator that can also trigger the fission chain reaction.
In January 2006, the university had the third nationwide congress on the modern defensive wars in the field of chemical, biological, nuclear wars as announced on the university's website, which is no longer online. According to the announcement, the congress discussed the new types of bombs, such as: electromagnetic, air fuelled, graphite, laser and enfeebling bombs. Prof. Raymond Tanter argued the conference was a part of the accelerating research and development on nuclear programme.
Physics Research Center
According to the ElBaradei's report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the university (called a "technical university" in the report) houses the Physics Research Center (PHRC), which controls the Iranian nuclear program, once under the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Iran's civilian nuclear agency. One of the principal sources of nuclear experts has been Imam Hossein University. Part of the takeover of the Iranian nuclear program also necessarily included transferring experts from around the country into this university. The IAEA stated the IRGC is believed to have co-opted the nuclear research facilities and experts of the university system in order to conceal and cloak the true military aspect of the Iranian nuclear program. For example, an Iranian company, Kimia Maadan (KM) Company, made use of experts from this university. The IAEA had also questions regarding the role and origin of KM Company. The company was founded by nuclear experts, a core staff about half a dozen experts who had previously worked for the Iranian Ore Processing Center (OPC). There are relationships among various university research teams, PHRC of Imam Hossein University, the Education Research Institute (ERI) and the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) and KM Company, each working on different aspects of the Iranian nuclear program.
One of the research projects addressed in the IAEA report is the Iranian Green Salt Project, apparently managed by KM Company. The project performed a flowsheet of bench scale conversion of uranium oxide (UO2) into 1 ton of UF4 per year, also known as Green Salt. It is an early step in an enrichment process, beyond the capacity or scope of the Uranium Ore Concentration (UOC) plant. According to the IAEA report, KM Company designed and built a turnkey (flowsheet). The document also referred to the project concerning the missile re-entry vehicle. However, Iran answered that the flowsheets and allegations were baseless and fabrications, and the only project that the KM Company worked on was the UOC plant.
The IAEA has also reported the Iranian testing of multiple high-explosive detonators designs and documents the layout for an underground nuclear blast test facility in this university. In 2006, a senior US official revealed the Washington Post a diagram being schematically consistent with a nuclear test-site schematic in Iran. Later in 2006, a contingent of senior officers from Iran travelled to North Korea to see an underground facility to test explosion. IAEA also made question about the Iranian Shahab-3 missile designs. Specifically, re-entry vehicle designs are believed to be engineered for the ability to carry nuclear warheads.
The various scientific research groups of Iran's nuclear program, run from this university under the direction of the IRGC, are including efforts to obtain training courses and software on spark gaps, shock wave software, neutron sources, special steel parts, radiation measurement equipment, including borehole spectrometers. Nonetheless, Iran answered that it sought PAM shock software to study aircraft, collision of cars, airbags and for the design of seatbelts.
Biological Research Center
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) made a report about the biological activities in Iran, which are centered on the productions of microbial bombs using anthrax, smallpox virus, typhoid fever, high dosage of aflatoxin, plague microbes, and chloromicrobes, done at Imam Hossein University in Tehran. Genetic cloning is also being carried out at Malek-Ashtar University of Technology. These claims were provided by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in a press conference at the Willard Hotel in Washington on 15 May 2003. The activities about biological weapons began in 1985, during the Iran–Iraq War. In 1985 and 1986, they established a research center in the Pasteur Institute of Iran in Tehran to work on toxic fungus and microbial substances. The center succeeded in producing toxic fungus, including aflatoxin. In the next years, as they succeeded in mass production of microbial material, they moved the production centers to Imam Hossein University. Centers such as Pasteur Institute are now being used for research purposes.
A number of foreign microbial experts from China, North Korea, India, and Russia are cooperating with the Ministry of Defense of Iran. A number of them have been hired by this organization. The Biological Research Center of Special Industries Organization is located at Shahid Meisami and Martyr Meisami complex. Also, students are given scholarships to study and use technology. The Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, affiliated with the Baqiyatallah Hospital, is another center which works on microbial works. The Research Center for Direct Biotechnology does not directly work on microbial bombs, but it is used as the research supplement for biological weapons and actively works with Malek-Ashtar University of Technology and Imam Hossein University, as well as the Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University. Notwithstanding, the Centers for Science and Technological Growth of the Biological Research Center of Malek Ashtar, affiliated with the defense industries, are in charge of mass production of biological weapons.
In addition, the Sina Industry (previously named Vira Laboratories) are concentrated on production of the biological materials. It is a center that has been active since 1990. It is one of the most important biological and chemical laboratories of Iran. It seems that basically used as a front, as a cover for doing their research and their activities on biological weapons under the cover and the name of medical research.
Chemical Research Center
Imam Hossein University is involved in chemical technology, offering scholarships in this subject. Since 1999, they have pursued the chemical research in a much larger scale. One of the projects was to build a fermentor. The 24th Bessat group linked to this university produces a significant amount of nerve gas in liquid, vapor, and powder form. Cyanide, tri-glycol, and sodium cyanide are produced for chemical purposes as well.
Another organization run by the Defense Ministry is one of the agencies involved in producing chemical products. They have more than 4,000 employees, a chemical laboratory named Vira Laboratories, and a chemical material storage known as Shahid Meisami. The Parchin Chemical Industries, located in south of Tehran, is another center of chemical products. It includes storage and glass body equipment to produce lethal nerve gas. Much of the equipment has been received from Hungarian manufacturer Lampert. Another complex manufacturer near the city of Semnan is also engaged in producing nerve gas.
The center for chemical research and chemical engineering located in west of Tehran is also used for a joint research and technological study of Imam Hossein University and Malek-Ashtar University of Technology. The Chinese experts are supervising some research projects.
Aerospace Research Center
Imam Hossein University offers Aerospace Engineering degree programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is among some universities in Iran, where provide the Aerospace Engineering degrees. These universities includes K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Imam Hossein University, and Malek-Ashtar University of Technology. The Sharif University of Technology is the first university, where offers bachelor's degree and master's degree in the field of Aerospace Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering since 1987. The K.N. Toosi University of Technology has also PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Joint program with Moscow State Aviation Technological University in Russia). The Malek-Ashtar University of Technology is also involved in Aerospace research and programs related to Aerospace engineering.
Iran established the Iranian Space Agency in an uninhabited desert area in Semnan Province, south-east of Tehran in April 2003. The center has a remote satellite command-and-control facility and a satellite launch pad. The Remote Space Sensing Center affiliated to the Ministry of Post and Telegraph and Technology launched three decades ago. The Aerospace Research Institute affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology is another active organization in the space science and technology applications. The Meteorological Organization performs atmosphere analysis in support of agriculture, transportation, water, energy, and environment. Five public Universities, one private university (Azad University Science and Research Branch), and one college (Civil Aviation Technology College) provide higher education and research in aerospace engineering.
Iran started its scientific aerospace cooperation with China following the establishment of its Aerospace Organization in 2000. China has successfully launched forty satellites since 1996. In May 2005, Iran signed a regional research cooperation with China for the designing and launching satellites for long distance surveillance, subterranean resources, agrometeorology, and aerospace training at Iranian universities. Iran's Aerospace Organization's has been getting engaged in designing and manufacturing of a small multi-mission satellite with China and Thailand since 2005.
Since the 1990s, Iran started to develop a launch vehicle based on Shahab-3. The Shahab-3 is a liquid-fueled single-stage missile. The Iran Space Research Center started testing launch capabilities since early 2007 reaching 150–200 km altitude. These rockets were based on Shahab-3 series and were typically equipped with wind, air and temperature instruments. In August 2008, Iran developed a two-stage launch vehicle Safir-1 which launched a dummy satellite. In February 2009, Iran launched a satellite named Omid into orbit using the domestically built launch vehicle Safir-2, thus becoming the 9th nation to do so on Timeline of first orbital launches by country. Their Aerospace engineering achievement appears as the country has been under nearly 30 years of sanctions.
Admissions
Undergraduate admission to Imam Hossein University is limited to those students who pass the Iranian University Entrance Exam, known as Konkour (from the French Concours) administered annually by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. First priorities are given to those top students who had grade point averages (GPA) of at least 17 from 20 (equivalent to 85%) in high school, those top 100 of the 500,000 students who pass the national entrance examination, and those who select Imam Hossein University among their leading five choices.
Rankings
According to the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) partnered with Scopus and maintained by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Imam Hossein University was ranked in Iran as 30th for research, 9th for education, 3rd for international reputation, 1st for facilities, and 2nd for economic activities in 2018. According to the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), Imam Hossein University has 38th percentile in Overall, 18th percentile in Research, and 61st percentile in Innovation, and has an international rank of 663, and a national rank of 11 among 157 ranked Iranian institutions in 2020. In 2020, the SCImago Institutions Rankings also gives an international rank of 339 and a national rank of 5 in Research, an international rank of 493 and a national rank of 28 in Innovation, an international rank of 238 and a national rank of 25 in Societal. CIVILICA, Publisher of Iran conferences and scientific journal papers, also gave a total university rank of 64th and a state rank of 39th based on published papers in Iran conferences and scientific journals.
Postgraduate programs
Imam Hossein University has 33 Master's programs and 9 PhD programs approved by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran).
Master's programs
* Logistics
* Strategic Information Intelligence
* Strategic Defense Studies
* Military Geography
* Cell and Molecular Biology Sciences
* Organic Chemistry
* Analytical Chemistry
* Physical Chemistry
* Inorganic Chemistry
* Nuclear Physics
* Electrical Engineering (Electronics)
* Mechanical Systems Engineering (Applied Design)
* Telecommunication Engineering (Coding Theory)
* Mechanical Engineering (Applied Design)
* Aerospace Engineering (Aerodynamics)
* Aerospace Engineering (Aircraft Structures)
* Spacecraft propulsion (Liquid-propellant rocket)
* Spacecraft propulsion (Solid-fuel rocket)
* Systems Sciences
* Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
* Crisis Management
* Defense Management (Education)
* Defense Management (Human Resources)
* Defense Management (Logistics and Commerce)
* Defense Management (Finance and Accounting)
* Defense Management (Navy)
* Defense Management (Army)
* Defense Management (Special Force)
* Defense Management (Basij Force)
* Defense Management (Air Force)
* Civil Defense (Design)
* Civil Defense (Aircraft Structures)
* Civil Defense (Cooperative Cyber Defense)
PhD programs
* Aerospace Mechanical Engineering (Applied Design)
* Industrial Engineering (Systems Engineering Research)
* Molecular Biotechnology
* Laser Physics
* Applied Mathematics (Coding Theory)
* Sociometry
* Crisis Management
* Military Intelligence
* Security Intelligence
Publications
A number of journals and books are published by Imam Hossein University. Among those:
* IHU Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics
* IHU Journal of Radar
* IHU Journal of Electromagnetism
* IHU Journal of Mechanics and Aerospace
* IHU Journal of Electronic Defense and Cyber
* IHU Journal of Civil Defense
* IHU Journal of Science and Culture
* IHU Journal of Defense Policy
* IHU Journal of Military Geography
Faculties
Initially Imam Hossein University included four faculties:
* Faculty of Engineering Science
* Department of Mechanical Engineering
* Department of Civil Engineering
* Department of Electrical Engineering
* Department of Computer Science Engineering
* Department of Industrial Engineering
* Department of Chemical Engineering
* Department of Aerospace Engineering
* Faculty of Natural Science
* Department of Physics
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Biology
* Faculty of Social Science (1987)
* Department of Management
* Department of Economics
* Department of Information Technology Management
* Faculty of Medicine (1987)
Later another faculty was founded:
* Faculty of Military Science (1990)
In 1994, faculty of Medicine seceded to become the Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University.
Facilities
The main buildings are located in Tehran, Shahid Babaei Highway near Tehran Pars Fourth Square, Hakimiyeh and Mini-city, include:
* Department of Mechanical Engineering
* Department of Electrical Engineering
* Department of Computer Engineering
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Physics
* Department of Military Science
* Central Library
* Publication Office
* Restaurant
Associated institutes
* Physics Research Center (PHRC)
* Biological Research Center
* Chemical Research Center
* Aerospace Research Center
* Education Research Institute (ERI)
* Institute of Applied Physics (IAP)
The university cooperates with several institutes related to IRGC and Defense Industries Organization. Among those:
* Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University
* Malek-Ashtar University of Technology
* Centers for Science and Technological Growth
* Biological Research Center of Malek Ashtar University
* Research Center for Direct Biotechnology
* Sina Industry (Vira Laboratories)
* Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG)
* Parchin Site
* Lavizan II Site
* Sanam College
* Tehran's Gostaresh Research Center
* Ya Makhdi industrial complex
* Pasteur Institute of Iran
* Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO)
* Shahid Meisami Complex
* Ore Processing Center (OPC)
* Biological Research Center of SIO
* Sanam Industrial Group/Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO)
* Damghan's Weapons Industry
* Kimia Maadan (KM) Company
* Baltic State Technical University (until 1998)
* China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
* National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research
* The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB)
* Tehran's Biochemical and Bioenvironmental Research Center
* Group of Fermentation and Biological Technology
* Shahid Khassan Bagheri Industrial-factory Program (SHBIFG)
* Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group (SBIG)
* Instrumentation Factories Plant (IFP)
* Shahid Shafizadem Industrial Complex
* Missile Industrial Group at Parchin
* Shahid Babaye Industrial Complex (SBIC)
* Mechanical Systems Industrial Group (MIG)
* Special Industrial Groups of the Ministry of Defense (MIDSPCIG)
Lavizan Technical Research Center
Originally Lavizan was a heavily fortified Army Garrison housing Shah's Imperial Guards. During the Iranian Revolution, the garrison fell to Revolutionaries after a fight in which several officers of the guard were killed. The site was later on converted to a research facility. The Lavizan Technical Site includes faculties of installations industries and metallurgy. According to a document, the alleged Iranian nuclear warheads were being stored in the Lavizan military camp in the Teheran area in 1992. Another document discusses the production of a solid fuel missile prototype completed in Lavizan.
A satellite image of 10 May 2004 showed that Iran had almost totally razed part of the Lavizan Technical Research Center. It showed Iran had been demolishing buildings at Lavizan. The Lavizan Center had imported a whole-body counter (WBC), a device used to identify and measure the radioactive material in the body of human beings and animals. On 29 June 2004, El Baradei said that Iran had accepted that the alleged concealed nuclear site in Tehran was a military-research complex before it was razed. The Iranian authorities stated that this was a physics institute later on turned to be a biotechnology research and development center.
Aerospace Industries Organization
Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) is a leading industrial subsidiary of the Ministry of Defense. More than 13 large factories with over 10,000 expert personnel are occupied in manufacturing a vast variety of military and non-military purposes. Products include different types of weapons such as guns, rockets, missiles, mortars, bombs, rocket launchers, field kitchens, gyroscopes, transportation means, police equipment, and helmets. Engineering services include precision machining, metal forming, software services, quality control test, dimensional measurement, CNC machine, and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM).
The Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO), also known as the Sanam Industrial Group, is the Defense Industries Organization (DIO) Missile Industries Group. Sanam Industries Group is said to be the lead organization for the development of the Shahab-3 missile. In 1998, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation had reportedly negotiated an agreement with Sanam Industries Group to provide telemetry infrastructure for Iran's Shahab-3 and Shahab-4 ballistic missile.
Baltic State Technical University in Saint Petersburg has allegedly contracted with the Sanam Industrial group to train Iranian students in order to design long-range solid fuel rocket boosters. They together created a center known as Persepolis as part of a contract concluded in 1996. On 22 June 1998, Iranian students were expelled from Baltic State Technical University as part of Russia's international obligations to control the spread of missile technology.
In addition to military products, the Sanam Industrial Group also produces non-military products to convene domestic and export markets demands including TVs, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, various types of grinding wheels, stainless steel dishes, industrial fans, motor pumps, and automotive parts. The Sanam Washing Machine use Korean SAMSUNG technology, by which it becomes a powerful, economic and durable washing machine. Sanam Industrial Group in Parchin is licensed by the Italian company Lombardini to fabricate internal combustion engines, that are used in automotive, agricultural, industrial and marine applications.
Parchin site
Parchin Complex, 30 kilometers southeast of Tehran, was the site for the implementation of a variety of defense projects. Parchin was the center of the Defense Industries Organization's (DIO) Chemical industry, and, possibly, the home of the main producers of the Iran's missiles. Parchin was opened in 1939, and was in operation since before the Second World War. Very few information was available about the post-Revolutionary Iranian arms industry. On 25 August 1999, it included the Parchin Chemical Factories (PCF). PCF was equipped with modern technology producing various commercial explosives, and chemical material.
Parchin is one of Iran's major chemical weapons facilities, along with the facilities located at Damghan, Esfahan and Qazvin. US intelligence said Iran has been continuing to improve and develop its chemical warfare production infrastructure and munitions arsenal until 2003. US intelligence reporting Iran tries to dual-use facilities could quickly field chemical agents, but are not mainly active in military. It made also question the character of the facilities at Parchin.
On 29 December 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported that, Ahmad Shirzad, a deputy from the city of Isfahan, stated that there was a large nuclear underground facility in Parchin. In an article in the Washington Times, on 7 March 2004, claimed that Iran's nuclear weapons program included use of Belarus-Russian filtering and high-temperature melting technologies for uranium enrichment. The accurate technique supposedly involved was unclear, but would appear to have been thermal diffusion.
The generally Parchin institute represents the chief center of Iran's military industry, so a nuclear program would by now include all the proficiency required within commuting distance. The suspect area was physically isolated from other components, which implies that it was not part of the ammo, chemical or missile programs. The United States made also questions whether Iran is testing high explosives at Parchin. Nonetheless, Hossein Mousavian, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, rejected all claims about a nuclear testing area at Parchin. He categorically denied any nuclear activities in Parchin. He accused the US of deliberately using misinformation to embarrass Iran at IAEA hearings.
Jay C. Davis, former head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the US Department of Defense, said neither the design of the facility nor the nature of the tests is unique to nuclear weapons. Davis added that environmental sampling done by IAEA inspectors could detect the presence of by-products used in the testing of high explosives for a nuclear weapon. On 17 September 2004 IAEA head El Baradei said his organization had found no sign of nuclear-related activity at the Parchin site in Iran, which several US officials had said might be to secret nuclear weapons research. Iran allowed IAEA inspectors to visit the Parchin military site in the interests of transparency, but the visit was limited to only few areas.
On 1 March 2005, Iran abandoned a second request by the IAEA to visit again the Parchin site. However, the IAEA was eventually allowed entrance to the Parchin facility in November 2005. The IAEA did not observe any unusual activities in the buildings visited, and the results of the analysis of environmental samples did not indicate the presence of nuclear material.
Notable alumni and staff
* Fereydoon Abbasi, a nuclear physics professor at Shahid Beheshti University, the head of the physics department at Imam Hossein University, and the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).
* Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, a professor of nuclear physics at the Imam Hussein University, a senior nuclear physicist at Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and former head of the Physics Research Center (PHRC) at the Imam Hussein University.
* Masoud Alimohammadi, a particle physics professor at the University of Tehran and Imam Hossein University.
* Majid Shahriari, a nuclear engineer at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a professor at Shahid Beheshti University and Imam Hossein University.
* Ardeshir Hosseinpour, an assistant professor at Malek Ashtar University of Technology, also taught at Shiraz University and Imam Hossein University.
* Mohsen Rezaee, one of co-founders of the university and a lecturer at Imam Hossein University.
* Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, graduated from Sharif University, an Iranian nuclear physicist and a professor at Imam Hossein University, and a deputy secretary of commerce at Natanz uranium enrichment facility
* Parviz Fattah, an Iranian politician, former member of Revolutionary Guard and former minister of energy in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, got a master's degree in systems engineering from the Imam Hussein University
* Masoud Mir Kazemi, an Iranian politician, former minister of Petroleum of Iran, former minister of commerce of Iran, a member of Parliament of Iran, and a lecturer at Imam Hossein University.
* Mohammad Soleimani, a former Minister of Communication and Information Technology of Iran in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology and Imam Hossein University.
* Mohammad Ardakani, a former Minister of Cooperatives in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, a professor at University of Tehran and Imam Hossein University.
* Mehdi Isazadeh, an Iranian politician, a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly, a member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society, got a master's degree in defense management from the Imam Hussein University
* Hossein Saffar Harandi, a former Minister of Culture of Iran in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet, graduated from the Iran University of Science and Technology with a degree in civil engineering, and got a degree on strategic management.
List of chancellors of Imam Hossein University
The chancellors of Imam Hossein University since its foundation:
* Masoud Hajarian (1986-1990)
* Ali Hosseini-Tash (1990-1992)
* Alireza Andalib (1992-1994)
* Alireza Afshar (1994-1996)
* Ahmad Fazaeli (1996-2000)
* Ali Akbar Ahmadian (2000–2004)
* Alireza Tamizi-Far (2004–2008)
* Morteza Safari (2004–2008)
* Hossein Zarifi-Manesh (2008–2012)
* Mohammad-Reza Hassani Ahangar (2012–present) | WIKI |
Celebrity Stylist Lindsey Dupuis Shows Her Southern Style
What They're Wearing Name Lindsey Dupuis Age 33 Profession Stylist. “I do a lot of red carpet and commercials and advertising. I work with Peyton List, Nikki Reed, Brittany Snow and Kat Graham,” she said. Provenance Lafayette, La., although she is now based in Los Angeles. “Lafayette is like New Orleans in that it has this very French-influenced culture.” Show Lela Rose. “She actually is one of my longest designer relationships. Hers is the first show I went to when I started styling years and years ago. After, we went to lunch, and we just hit off from there. She’s from Texas, so we have that Southern connection.” Outfit “My style is ladylike and elegant. It’s so Southern. The dress is by COS. I love the color, a mustard, because you can always play it up with a lip. I’m wearing two longer necklaces, which are constellations that represent my husband and me — I’m carrying him today. The bigger gold necklace is by Isharya. “The shoes are Kurt Geiger, and the clutch is a Christian Louboutin that I got at a sample sale. I’m keeping warm with a Thomas Wylde coat. It actually has sleeves that can zip off. But honestly, I’m dashing from car to the door. It’s too cold to even walk outside for five minutes.” An earlier version of this article’s headline misspelled the surname of the article’s subject. As noted in the article itself, she is Lindsey Dupuis, not Depuis. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
What is propulsion?
What Does propulsion Mean
Propulsion is the process and result of propelling . A verb this that has its etymological origin in Latin, in "propulsare". This term means “to forcefully push something to move it forward” and is the result of the sum of the following elements:
-The prefix “pro-”, which can be translated as “forward”.
-The verb "pulse", which is synonymous with "beat".
Propulsar, therefore, verb refers to the impulse that is given to something to advance or move, either in a physical or symbolic sense. Propulsion, therefore, is a displacement that occurs through the action of a force .
Human propulsion is known as that which is generated by the force of a person's muscles . This type of traction is present in canoes, skateboards, bicycles, and many other vehicles. Human propulsion is not only economical, it is also healthy since physical activity brings benefits to the body.
Specifically, among those other types of vehicles that work by means of what has been called human propulsion, we find boats that go rowing, the case of pirogues, or in-line skates.
In one of the sports where propulsion is most important is swimming. And it is that the person in question needs to carry it out to be able to move in the water thus overcoming the resistance that it presents. In order to achieve this displacement, it is essential that the swimmer perform certain movements with both their lower and upper extremities.
More specifically, we can point out that in the field of swimming, it is considered that there are different types of propulsion:
-Taking into account the kind of movement, there are scissors, pedaling, kick ... Moreover, this classification can be subdivided if part of the number of members that are used to perform that, which would lead to propulsion of one or two arms and one or two legs.
-Based on the actions carried out with the arms, they can be simultaneous, alternative, long, short, aerial…
-If what is taken into consideration is the position of the body, it can be determined that the propulsion can be lateral, ventral, dorsal or vertical.
The jet , meanwhile, is performed by a jet engine. This class of engines works with the discharge of fluids at high speed: these jets cause the thrust that allows a vehicle to be mobilized. Jet- type airplanes , for example, run on jet propulsion.
Another class of propulsion is nuclear propulsion . As its name indicates, in this case the propulsion is caused by a nuclear reaction , which takes place in a chain and in a controlled manner by means of devices known as reactors . There are ships and submarines that move thanks to nuclear propulsion.
When the propulsion is developed by means that, at least at present, are not conventional or their use is not massive, we speak of alternative propulsion . Vehicles that run on solar energy or hydrogen are examples of this propulsion.
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Great Papago Escape
The Great Papago Escape was the largest Axis prisoner-of-war escape to occur from an American facility during World War II. On the night of December 23, 1944, twenty-five Germans tunneled out of Camp Papago Park, near Phoenix, Arizona, and fled into the surrounding desert.
Over the next few weeks, all of the escapees were eventually recaptured without bloodshed. Although most were apprehended within Maricopa County, a few nearly made it to the border of Mexico, which is about 210 km (130 miles) south of the camp.
Background
Camp Papago Park was built in 1943 and located in Papago Park, a public recreational area in eastern Phoenix. Initially, the camp was to be used for Italian prisoners of war, but by January 1944 it had been designated for German prisoners only, most of whom were from the Kriegsmarine. The camp consisted of five separate compounds; one for officers and the rest for enlisted men. At its peak, the population of the camp was about 3,100, excluding the 371 American guards and officers.
Camp Papago Park was a typical prison camp in terms of appearance, surrounded by barbed wire and watch towers, but it was unusual in that prisoners were not required to work or study. To combat boredom, many of the Germans volunteered to work, and were assigned as laborers in the nearby cotton fields and the like.
Many of the men in the officers' compound were U-boat sailors, including the commander, Captain Jürgen Wattenberg, who was the highest-ranking German prisoner at the camp. He was a veteran of the Battle of the River Plate, as well as the commander of GS U-162 (1941), which was sunk off Trinidad by the Royal Navy in September 1942. Because by that date the United States and Germany were at war, the British transferred Wattenberg and his crew into American custody.
According to author Cecil Owen, "Wattenberg was shuffled from one camp to another, for nobody wanted to keep him. He was considered a 'Super Nazi' because he caused trouble everywhere he was sent. Finally he was transferred to Papago Park prisoner of war camp, in the Arizona desert." Wattenberg was not alone though: The American commander of the camp made the mistake of putting all of the most troublesome and escape-prone inmates in the officers' compound together, instead of dispersing them. The camp's provost marshal, Captain Cecil Parshall, was the only one to see a problem with this arrangement. Parshall pointed out that there was a spot in the officer's compound that could not be seen from the guard towers, making it ideal for an escape. He also said that the "German [prisoners] were a fine bunch of men, smart as hell, [a]nd it made no sense to put the smartest of them in Compound 1 [officer's compound]. I knew they would discover that blind spot."
Wattenberg began planning an escape as soon as he arrived at the camp, and he chose the blind spot to be the site of the tunnel's entrance. The blind spot was next to a bathhouse, the structure closest to the camp's eastern perimeter. Wattenberg had his men start the tunnel from inside the building. When the Germans went to take a shower, they could easily enter the tunnel to dig instead. To hide the entrance of the tunnel, the Germans removed part of the wooden wall inside the bathhouse and placed a large box full of coal in front of it. Wattenberg asked the Americans to give his men tools, such as shovels, ostensibly for work in their gardens and the construction of a volleyball field, but really for use in the tunnel. Because Arizona's soil is known for being rocky and compact, the Americans never expected that the Germans might use the tools for digging a tunnel. They assigned the prisoners two shovels and two rakes, which were to be turned in at the end of every day.
Work on the tunnel began sometime in September 1944 and was carried out by three groups of three men, who worked for ninety-minute shifts during the night. One man would dig with a pick and coal shovel, the second would gather the dirt with a bucket, and the third would pull the dirt out of the shaft and keep watch. A fourth group would get rid of the dirt. At first, the Germans flushed the dirt down the toilets, hid it in the attics, or dropped it down their pant legs into the gardens, but after the tunnel started getting long they began spreading it out on the volleyball field. The Americans never noticed the disturbed dirt. Because the volleyball field was under construction, the guards became used to seeing piles of dirt and thought nothing of them. When the Germans completed their tunnel on December 20, it measured 178 ft long, from the bathhouse east to the Cross Cut Canal, with a 1.8 m vertical entrance shaft. They made related preparations. Wattenberg managed to secure new clothing and fake documents for his men, including contact information for people in Mexico who would help them get back to Germany. He also rationed food in order to save some for the escape, and made arrangements to have other prisoners who were staying behind to create a distraction with loud celebrations on the night of December 23.
Wattenberg's plan was to get as far away from the camp as possible before the guards realized the men were gone. To buy time, four U-boat captains informed the Americans that they and the other officers would no longer appear for roll call unless it was conducted by an officer. The American commander did not accept this and put the entire compound on a restricted diet for every day the officers refused to appear. The roll call strike lasted 16 days and ended with a compromise: all men, regardless of rank, would be present for roll call every morning except Sunday at 9:00 AM, and every afternoon at 4:15 PM. By tacit agreement, those above the rank of a lieutenant captain could stand in the doorways of their barracks to be counted. The Germans got what they wanted, so the date of the escape was set for Saturday, December 23, 1944.
The escape
The escape began at 9:00 PM on December 23. By 2:30 AM on December 24, Wattenberg and twenty-four other men had made it through the tunnel without alarming the guards. Inside the Cross Cut Canal, the Germans headed south toward the Salt River. Captain Wilhelm Günther and Lieutenants Wolfgang Clarus and Friedrich Utzolino built a collapsible raft out of wood and scraps of rubber, hoping to float their way down the Salt River, to the Gila River, to the Colorado River, and into the Gulf of California. But they found there was very little water in the Salt River and they abandoned the raft after a short time. The others split up into pairs and small groups and went separate ways, avoiding trains and buses.
By 7:00 PM on December 24, Captain Parshall was certain that some prisoners were missing. Soon after, several hundred soldiers, FBI agents, and Papago Indian scouts were mobilized for what the Phoenix Gazette called "the greatest manhunt in Arizona history." Most escapees were recaptured because of hunger, the cold and rainy weather, and being unfamiliar with the terrain. Many surrendered within the first few days after escaping, but a few others held out for much longer. On January 1, 1945, two unnamed prisoners were captured by Papago scouts less than 48 km (30 miles) from the Mexican border. Soon after, Captain Lieutenants Friedrich Guggenberger and Jürgen Quaet-Faslem were captured within 16 km (10 miles) of the border. Günther, Clarus, and Utzolino, were caught on January 8 after the latter decided that a canal near the town of Gila Bend would be a good place to wash his underwear. Some cowboys spotted the group at the canal and alerted the military.
The final holdout was Captain Wattenberg, who was captured over a month after the escape on January 28, 1945. Instead of heading south, Wattenberg and two of his subordinates, Walter Kozur and Johann Kremer, made shelter in a cave in the mountains north of Phoenix. From there they explored the area and ventured into the city. According to author Ronald H. Bailey, Kremer "pulled off the most bizarre caper of the entire escape." Every few days he would make contact with one of the German workers sent outside the camp's perimeter and exchange places with him. The exchanged prisoner would spend the night in the cave with Captain Wattenberg while Kremer slipped back into camp. Inside, Kremer would gather food and information. To deliver the food he would either join a work detail and escape again, or send it out with another worker. This continued until January 22, when a surprise inspection revealed Kremer's presence in camp. Kremer must have given his captors information, because the next night Kozur was captured by three soldiers at the abandoned car used to hide the provisions. Four days later, on January 27, 1945, Wattenberg cleaned up and hiked into Phoenix. He had 75¢, most of which he spent on a meal at a restaurant. He slept in a chair in a hotel lobby for a few hours, and then walked around the streets at night. While walking, he asked for directions from a member of a street cleaning crew. The cleaner found Wattenberg's accent to be suspicious, called the police, and Wattenberg was arrested by 9 AM the next morning.
Aftermath
At least some of the escapees expected severe punishment for escaping; they were aware that 50 Allied prisoners of war had been executed after escape by their German captors in Stalag Luft III. However, the Camp Papago Park escapees were only limited to bread and water rations for as many days as they were absent from camp. None of the American guards were seriously punished, but the FBI launched an investigation into lax security at Arizona's prisoner of war camps.
Today, the site of Camp Papago Park is used in part as an Arizona National Guard base. The Arizona Military Museum, located on the base, features a display describing the camp and the story of the escape. | WIKI |
Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics
Center for Nephrology and Metabolic Disorders
Acro-renal-ocular syndrome
Acro-renal-ocular syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations of the SALL4. Malformations include the radial ray, urogenital system (malrotation, ectopia, horseshoe kidney, hypoplasia, vesico-ureteral reflux, bladder diverticula), and eyes (colobomas, microphthalmia, ptosis, and Duane anomaly).
Systematic
Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract
Acro-renal-ocular syndrome
SALL4
Aplasia of lacrimal and salivary glands
Autosomal dominant Robinow syndrome 1
Autosomal recessive Robinow syndrome
BMP7
BNAR syndrome
Brain malformations with urinary tract defects
Branchio-oculo-facial syndrome
Branchiootic syndrome
Branchiootorenal dysplasia
CHARGE syndrome
CHD1L
Congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract 1
Congenital anomalies of kidney and urinary tract 2
Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with anosmia 1
Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism without anosmia 5
Denys-Drash syndrome
Fraser syndrome
Frasier syndrome
Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome
IVIC syndrome
Ivemark syndrome
Kabuki syndrome
Lacrimoauriculodentodigital syndrome
Mowat-Wilson syndrome
Papillorenal syndrome
Renal cysts and diabetes (RCAD)
Renal dysplasia with hypopituitarism and diabetes
Renal hypodysplasia/aplasia
Renal tubular dysgenesis
SERKAL syndrome
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
Somatic nephroblastoma
Susceptibility to cystic renal dysplasia
Syndromic microphthalmia 6
Urofacial syndrome
Vesicoureteral reflux
WAGR syndrome
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Herland/Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Our Relations and Theirs
What I'm trying to show here is that with these women the whole relationship of life counted in a glad, eager growing-up to join the ranks of workers in the line best loved; a deep, tender reverence for one's own mother--too deep for them to speak of freely--and beyond that, the whole, free, wide range of sisterhood, the splendid service of the country, and friendships.
To these women we came, filled with the ideas, convictions, traditions, of our culture, and undertook to rouse in them the emotions which--to us--seemed proper.
However much, or little, of true sex-feeling there was between us, it phrased itself in their minds in terms of friendship, the one purely personal love they knew, and of ultimate parentage. Visibly we were not mothers, nor children, nor compatriots; so, if they loved us, we must be friends.
That we should pair off together in our courting days was natural to them; that we three should remain much together, as they did themselves, was also natural. We had as yet no work, so we hung about them in their forest tasks; that was natural, too.
But when we began to talk about each couple having "homes" of our own, they could not understand it.
"Our work takes us all around the country," explained Celis. "We cannot live in one place all the time."
"We are together now," urged Alima, looking proudly at Terry's stalwart nearness. (This was one of the times when they were "on," though presently "off" again.)
"It's not the same thing at all," he insisted. "A man wants a home of his own, with his wife and family in it."
"Staying in it? All the time?" asked Ellador. "Not imprisoned, surely!"
"Of course not! Living there--naturally," he answered.
"What does she do there--all the time?" Alima demanded. "What is her work?"
Then Terry patiently explained again that our women did not work--with reservations.
"But what do they do--if they have no work?" she persisted.
"They take care of the home--and the children."
"At the same time?" asked Ellador.
"Why yes. The children play about, and the mother has charge of it all. There are servants, of course."
It seemed so obvious, so natural to Terry, that he always grew impatient; but the girls were honestly anxious to understand.
"How many children do your women have?" Alima had her notebook out now, and a rather firm set of lip. Terry began to dodge.
"There is no set number, my dear," he explained. "Some have more, some have less."
"Some have none at all," I put in mischievously.
They pounced on this admission and soon wrung from us the general fact that those women who had the most children had the least servants, and those who had the most servants had the least children.
"There!" triumphed Alima. "One or two or no children, and three or four servants. Now what do those women DO?"
We explained as best we might. We talked of "social duties," disingenuously banking on their not interpreting the words as we did; we talked of hospitality, entertainment, and various "interests." All the time we knew that to these large-minded women whose whole mental outlook was so collective, the limitations of a wholly personal life were inconceivable.
"We cannot really understand it," Ellador concluded. "We are only half a people. We have our woman-ways and they have their man-ways and their both-ways. We have worked out a system of living which is, of course, limited. They must have a broader, richer, better one. I should like to see it."
"You shall, dearest," I whispered.
"There's nothing to smoke," complained Terry. He was in the midst of a prolonged quarrel with Alima, and needed a sedative. "There's nothing to drink. These blessed women have no pleasant vices. I wish we could get out of here!"
This wish was vain. We were always under a certain degree of watchfulness. When Terry burst forth to tramp the streets at night he always found a "Colonel" here or there; and when, on an occasion of fierce though temporary despair, he had plunged to the cliff edge with some vague view to escape, he found several of them close by. We were free--but there was a string to it.
"They've no unpleasant ones, either," Jeff reminded him.
"Wish they had!" Terry persisted. "They've neither the vices of men, nor the virtues of women--they're neuters!"
"You know better than that. Don't talk nonsense," said I, severely.
I was thinking of Ellador's eyes when they gave me a certain look, a look she did not at all realize.
Jeff was equally incensed. "I don't know what `virtues of women' you miss. Seems to me they have all of them."
"They've no modesty," snapped Terry. "No patience, no submissiveness, none of that natural yielding which is woman's greatest charm."
I shook my head pityingly. "Go and apologize and make friends again, Terry. You've got a grouch, that's all. These women have the virtue of humanity, with less of its faults than any folks I ever saw. As for patience--they'd have pitched us over the cliffs the first day we lit among 'em, if they hadn't that."
"There are no--distractions," he grumbled. "Nowhere a man can go and cut loose a bit. It's an everlasting parlor and nursery."
"and workshop," I added. "And school, and office, and laboratory, and studio, and theater, and--home."
"HOME!" he sneered. "There isn't a home in the whole pitiful place."
"There isn't anything else, and you know it," Jeff retorted hotly. "I never saw, I never dreamed of, such universal peace and good will and mutual affection."
"Oh, well, of course, if you like a perpetual Sunday school, it's all very well. But I like Something Doing. Here it's all done."
There was something to this criticism. The years of pioneering lay far behind them. Theirs was a civilization in which the initial difficulties had long since been overcome. The untroubled peace, the unmeasured plenty, the steady health, the large good will and smooth management which ordered everything, left nothing to overcome. It was like a pleasant family in an old established, perfectly run country place.
I liked it because of my eager and continued interest in the sociological achievements involved. Jeff liked it as he would have liked such a family and such a place anywhere.
Terry did not like it because he found nothing to oppose, to struggle with, to conquer.
"Life is a struggle, has to be," he insisted. "If there is no struggle, there is no life--that's all."
"You're talking nonsense--masculine nonsense," the peaceful Jeff replied. He was certainly a warm defender of Herland. "Ants don't raise their myriads by a struggle, do they? Or the bees?"
"Oh, if you go back to insects--and want to live in an anthill--! I tell you the higher grades of life are reached only through struggle--combat. There's no Drama here. Look at their plays! They make me sick."
He rather had us there. The drama of the country was--to our taste--rather flat. You see, they lacked the sex motive and, with it, jealousy. They had no interplay of warring nations, no aristocracy and its ambitions, no wealth and poverty opposition.
I see I have said little about the economics of the place; it should have come before, but I'll go on about the drama now.
They had their own kind. There was a most impressive array of pageantry, of processions, a sort of grand ritual, with their arts and their religion broadly blended. The very babies joined in it. To see one of their great annual festivals, with the massed and marching stateliness of those great mothers, the young women brave and noble, beautiful and strong; and then the children, taking part as naturally as ours would frolic round a Christmas tree--it was overpowering in the impression of joyous, triumphant life.
They had begun at a period when the drama, the dance, music, religion, and education were all very close together; and instead of developing them in detached lines, they had kept the connection. Let me try again to give, if I can, a faint sense of the difference in the life view--the background and basis on which their culture rested.
Ellador told me a lot about it. She took me to see the children, the growing girls, the special teachers. She picked out books for me to read. She always seemed to understand just what I wanted to know, and how to give it to me.
While Terry and Alima struck sparks and parted--he always madly drawn to her and she to him--she must have been, or she'd never have stood the way he behaved--Ellador and I had already a deep, restful feeling, as if we'd always had one another. Jeff and Celis were happy; there was no question of that; but it didn't seem to me as if they had the good times we did.
Well, here is the Herland child facing life--as Ellador tried to show it to me. From the first memory, they knew Peace, Beauty, Order, Safety, Love, Wisdom, Justice, Patience, and Plenty. By "plenty" I mean that the babies grew up in an environment which met their needs, just as young fawns might grow up in dewy forest glades and brook-fed meadows. And they enjoyed it as frankly and utterly as the fawns would.
They found themselves in a big bright lovely world, full of the most interesting and enchanting things to learn about and to do. The people everywhere were friendly and polite. No Herland child ever met the overbearing rudeness we so commonly show to children. They were People, too, from the first; the most precious part of the nation.
In each step of the rich experience of living, they found the instance they were studying widen out into contact with an endless range of common interests. The things they learned were RELATED, from the first; related to one another, and to the national prosperity.
"It was a butterfly that made me a forester," said Ellador. "I was about eleven years old, and I found a big purple-and-green butterfly on a low flower. I caught it, very carefully, by the closed wings, as I had been told to do, and carried it to the nearest insect teacher"--I made a note there to ask her what on earth an insect teacher was--"to ask her its name. She took it from me with a little cry of delight. `Oh, you blessed child,' she said. `Do you like obernuts?' Of course I liked obernuts, and said so. It is our best food-nut, you know. `This is a female of the obernut moth,' she told me. `They are almost gone. We have been trying to exterminate them for centuries. If you had not caught this one, it might have laid eggs enough to raise worms enough to destroy thousands of our nut trees--thousands of bushels of nuts--and make years and years of trouble for us.'
"Everybody congratulated me. The children all over the country were told to watch for that moth, if there were any more. I was shown the history of the creature, and an account of the damage it used to do and of how long and hard our foremothers had worked to save that tree for us. I grew a foot, it seemed to me, and determined then and there to be a forester."
This is but an instance; she showed me many. The big difference was that whereas our children grow up in private homes and families, with every effort made to protect and seclude them from a dangerous world, here they grew up in a wide, friendly world, and knew it for theirs, from the first.
Their child-literature was a wonderful thing. I could have spent years following the delicate subtleties, the smooth simplicities with which they had bent that great art to the service of the child mind.
We have two life cycles: the man's and the woman's. To the man there is growth, struggle, conquest, the establishment of his family, and as much further success in gain or ambition as he can achieve.
To the woman, growth, the securing of a husband, the subordinate activities of family life, and afterward such "social" or charitable interests as her position allows.
Here was but one cycle, and that a large one.
The child entered upon a broad open field of life, in which motherhood was the one great personal contribution to the national life, and all the rest the individual share in their common activities. Every girl I talked to, at any age above babyhood, had her cheerful determination as to what she was going to be when she grew up.
What Terry meant by saying they had no "modesty" was that this great life-view had no shady places; they had a high sense of personal decorum, but no shame--no knowledge of anything to be ashamed of.
Even their shortcomings and misdeeds in childhood never were presented to them as sins; merely as errors and misplays-- as in a game. Some of them, who were palpably less agreeable than others or who had a real weakness or fault, were treated with cheerful allowance, as a friendly group at whist would treat a poor player.
Their religion, you see, was maternal; and their ethics, based on the full perception of evolution, showed the principle of growth and the beauty of wise culture. They had no theory of the essential opposition of good and evil; life to them was growth; their pleasure was in growing, and their duty also.
With this background, with their sublimated mother-love, expressed in terms of widest social activity, every phase of their work was modified by its effect on the national growth. The language itself they had deliberately clarified, simplified, made easy and beautiful, for the sake of the children.
This seemed to us a wholly incredible thing: first, that any nation should have the foresight, the strength, and the persistence to plan and fulfill such a task; and second, that women should have had so much initiative. We have assumed, as a matter of course, that women had none; that only the man, with his natural energy and impatience of restriction, would ever invent anything.
Here we found that the pressure of life upon the environment develops in the human mind its inventive reactions, regardless of sex; and further, that a fully awakened motherhood plans and works without limit, for the good of the child.
That the children might be most nobly born, and reared in an environment calculated to allow the richest, freest growth, they had deliberately remodeled and improved the whole state.
I do not mean in the least that they stopped at that, any more than a child stops at childhood. The most impressive part of their whole culture beyond this perfect system of child-rearing was the range of interests and associations open to them all, for life. But in the field of literature I was most struck, at first, by the child-motive.
They had the same gradation of simple repetitive verse and story that we are familiar with, and the most exquisite, imaginative tales; but where, with us, these are the dribbled remnants of ancient folk myths and primitive lullabies, theirs were the exquisite work of great artists; not only simple and unfailing in appeal to the child-mind, but TRUE, true to the living world about them.
To sit in one of their nurseries for a day was to change one's views forever as to babyhood. The youngest ones, rosy fatlings in their mothers' arms, or sleeping lightly in the flower-sweet air, seemed natural enough, save that they never cried. I never heard a child cry in Herland, save once or twice at a bad fall; and then people ran to help, as we would at a scream of agony from a grown person.
Each mother had her year of glory; the time to love and learn, living closely with her child, nursing it proudly, often for two years or more. This perhaps was one reason for their wonderful vigor.
But after the baby-year the mother was not so constantly in attendance, unless, indeed, her work was among the little ones. She was never far off, however, and her attitude toward the co-mothers, whose proud child-service was direct and continuous, was lovely to see.
As for the babies--a group of those naked darlings playing on short velvet grass, clean-swept; or rugs as soft; or in shallow pools of bright water; tumbling over with bubbling joyous baby laughter-- it was a view of infant happiness such as I had never dreamed.
The babies were reared in the warmer part of the country, and gradually acclimated to the cooler heights as they grew older.
Sturdy children of ten and twelve played in the snow as joyfully as ours do; there were continuous excursions of them, from one part of the land to another, so that to each child the whole country might be home.
It was all theirs, waiting for them to learn, to love, to use, to serve; as our own little boys plan to be "a big soldier," or "a cowboy," or whatever pleases their fancy; and our little girls plan for the kind of home they mean to have, or how many children; these planned, freely and gaily with much happy chattering, of what they would do for the country when they were grown.
It was the eager happiness of the children and young people which first made me see the folly of that common notion of ours --that if life was smooth and happy, people would not enjoy it.
As I studied these youngsters, vigorous, joyous, eager little creatures, and their voracious appetite for life, it shook my previous ideas so thoroughly that they have never been re-established. The steady level of good health gave them all that natural stimulus we used to call "animal spirits"--an odd contradiction in terms. They found themselves in an immediate environment which was agreeable and interesting, and before them stretched the years of learning and discovery, the fascinating, endless process of education.
As I looked into these methods and compared them with our own, my strange uncomfortable sense of race-humility grew apace.
Ellador could not understand my astonishment. She explained things kindly and sweetly, but with some amazement that they needed explaining, and with sudden questions as to how we did it that left me meeker than ever.
I betook myself to Somel one day, carefully not taking Ellador. I did not mind seeming foolish to Somel--she was used to it.
"I want a chapter of explanation," I told her. "You know my stupidities by heart, and I do not want to show them to Ellador --she thinks me so wise!"
She smiled delightedly. "It is beautiful to see," she told me, "this new wonderful love between you. The whole country is interested, you know--how can we help it!"
I had not thought of that. We say: "All the world loves a lover," but to have a couple of million people watching one's courtship--and that a difficult one--was rather embarrassing.
"Tell me about your theory of education," I said. "Make it short and easy. And, to show you what puzzles me, I'll tell you that in our theory great stress is laid on the forced exertion of the child's mind; we think it is good for him to overcome obstacles."
"Of course it is," she unexpectedly agreed. "All our children do that--they love to."
That puzzled me again. If they loved to do it, how could it be educational?
"Our theory is this," she went on carefully. "Here is a young human being. The mind is as natural a thing as the body, a thing that grows, a thing to use and enjoy. We seek to nourish, to stimulate, to exercise the mind of a child as we do the body. There are the two main divisions in education--you have those of course?--the things it is necessary to know, and the things it is necessary to do."
"To do? Mental exercises, you mean?"
"Yes. Our general plan is this: In the matter of feeding the mind, of furnishing information, we use our best powers to meet the natural appetite of a healthy young brain; not to overfeed it, to provide such amount and variety of impressions as seem most welcome to each child. That is the easiest part. The other division is in arranging a properly graduated series of exercises which will best develop each mind; the common faculties we all have, and most carefully, the especial faculties some of us have. You do this also, do you not?"
"In a way," I said rather lamely. "We have not so subtle and highly developed a system as you, not approaching it; but tell me more. As to the information--how do you manage? It appears that all of you know pretty much everything--is that right?"
This she laughingly disclaimed. "By no means. We are, as you soon found out, extremely limited in knowledge. I wish you could realize what a ferment the country is in over the new things you have told us; the passionate eagerness among thousands of us to go to your country and learn--learn--learn! But what we do know is readily divisible into common knowledge and special knowledge. The common knowledge we have long since learned to feed into the minds of our little ones with no waste of time or strength; the special knowledge is open to all, as they desire it. Some of us specialize in one line only. But most take up several --some for their regular work, some to grow with."
"To grow with?"
"Yes. When one settles too close in one kind of work there is a tendency to atrophy in the disused portions of the brain. We like to keep on learning, always."
"What do you study?"
"As much as we know of the different sciences. We have, within our limits, a good deal of knowledge of anatomy, physiology, nutrition--all that pertains to a full and beautiful personal life. We have our botany and chemistry, and so on--very rudimentary, but interesting; our own history, with its accumulating psychology."
"You put psychology with history--not with personal life?"
"Of course. It is ours; it is among and between us, and it changes with the succeeding and improving generations. We are at work, slowly and carefully, developing our whole people along these lines. It is glorious work--splendid! To see the thousands of babies improving, showing stronger clearer minds, sweeter dispositions, higher capacities-- don't you find it so in your country?"
This I evaded flatly. I remembered the cheerless claim that the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed--a statement I had never believed.
"We try most earnestly for two powers," Somel continued. "The two that seem to us basically necessary for all noble life: a clear, far-reaching judgment, and a strong well-used will. We spend our best efforts, all through childhood and youth, in developing these faculties, individual judgment and will."
"As part of your system of education, you mean?"
"Exactly. As the most valuable part. With the babies, as you may have noticed, we first provide an environment which feeds the mind without tiring it; all manner of simple and interesting things to do, as soon as they are old enough to do them; physical properties, of course, come first. But as early as possible, going very carefully, not to tax the mind, we provide choices, simple choices, with very obvious causes and consequences. You've noticed the games?"
I had. The children seemed always playing something; or else, sometimes, engaged in peaceful researches of their own. I had wondered at first when they went to school, but soon found that they never did-- to their knowledge. It was all education but no schooling.
"We have been working for some sixteen hundred years, devising better and better games for children," continued Somel.
I sat aghast. "Devising games?" I protested. "Making up new ones, you mean?"
"Exactly," she answered. "Don't you?"
Then I remembered the kindergarten, and the "material" devised by Signora Montessori, and guardedly replied: "To some extent." But most of our games, I told her, were very old--came down from child to child, along the ages, from the remote past.
"And what is their effect?" she asked. "Do they develop the faculties you wish to encourage?"
Again I remembered the claims made by the advocates of "sports," and again replied guardedly that that was, in part, the theory.
"But do the children LIKE it?" I asked. "Having things made up and set before them that way? Don't they want the old games?"
"You can see the children," she answered. "Are yours more contented--more interested--happier?"
Then I thought, as in truth I never had thought before, of the dull, bored children I had seen, whining; "What can I do now?"; of the little groups and gangs hanging about; of the value of some one strong spirit who possessed initiative and would "start something"; of the children's parties and the onerous duties of the older people set to "amuse the children"; also of that troubled ocean of misdirected activity we call "mischief," the foolish, destructive, sometimes evil things done by unoccupied children.
"No," said I grimly. "I don't think they are."
The Herland child was born not only into a world carefully prepared, full of the most fascinating materials and opportunities to learn, but into the society of plentiful numbers of teachers, teachers born and trained, whose business it was to accompany the children along that, to us, impossible thing--the royal road to learning.
There was no mystery in their methods. Being adapted to children it was at least comprehensible to adults. I spent many days with the little ones, sometimes with Ellador, sometimes without, and began to feel a crushing pity for my own childhood, and for all others that I had known.
The houses and gardens planned for babies had in them nothing to hurt--no stairs, no corners, no small loose objects to swallow, no fire--just a babies' paradise. They were taught, as rapidly as feasible, to use and control their own bodies, and never did I see such sure-footed, steady-handed, clear-headed little things. It was a joy to watch a row of toddlers learning to walk, not only on a level floor, but, a little later, on a sort of rubber rail raised an inch or two above the soft turf or heavy rugs, and falling off with shrieks of infant joy, to rush back to the end of the line and try again. Surely we have noticed how children love to get up on something and walk along it! But we have never thought to provide that simple and inexhaustible form of amusement and physical education for the young.
Water they had, of course, and could swim even before they walked. If I feared at first the effects of a too intensive system of culture, that fear was dissipated by seeing the long sunny days of pure physical merriment and natural sleep in which these heavenly babies passed their first years. They never knew they were being educated. They did not dream that in this association of hilarious experiment and achievement they were laying the foundation for that close beautiful group feeling into which they grew so firmly with the years. This was education for citizenship. | WIKI |
An introduction to the basics of VpCI corrosion protection product
on October 23, 2013
VpCI stands for Vapor Phase Corrosion Inhibitors; it comprises a unique family of corrosion protection products made by Cortec. The generic name for VpCI is VCI which stands for Volatile Corrosion Inhibitors. VpCI molecules react with metal in a way that prevents corrosion; it forms a thin barrier on the surface of the metal.
Corrosion is a chemical reaction that slowly degrades the metal. In order for this chemical reaction to occur there are three critical elements needed: Moisture, oxygen and electrolytes. Electrolytes are substances that contain free ions such as salts, acids or bases. In order to retard corrosion one must prevent one or all of three of the critical elements from reacting with the metal.
High temperature and humidity or the presence of salt, sulfur or corrosive gases can accelerate the corrosion process.
While VpCI is actually a variety of different chemical formulations, they all work the same way in terms of preventing corrosion. VpCI are molecules that contains both positive and negative charge ions that deposit themselves on the metal surface forming a one-molecule ionic-bonded film which prevents oxygen in the surrounding atmosphere from interacting with the metal. The VpCI is essentially a vapor that disperses through the air. Because of its small molecular size VpCI can attain very high concentration levels. This allows it to vaporize and saturate the air as it disperses. It has a very high affinity for metal so when the surrounding air reaches a saturation point, the molecules attach themselves to metal. VpCI works best in a fully sealed environment as a certain vapor pressure is required for the molecules to effectively disperse.
Cortec has chosen to designate some of its contact corrosion inhibitor products as VpCI. Vapor phase is a very different process than contact where the product is applied by spray, foam or immersion. The actual corrosion protection is similar in that molecules are bonding to the metal to form a barrier. However with vapor phase, the molecules are dispersed in the air around the metal.
Cortec has created a large variety of VpCI corrosion inhibitor products that work with a variety of metal types. There is no one product that works in every situation. For more information on VpCI products, please go to Packnet’s corrosion inhibitor products page.
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Nutrition analysis
Nutrition analysis refers to the process of determining the nutritional content of foods and food products. The process can be performed through a variety of certified methods.
Laboratory analysis
Traditionally, food companies would send food samples to laboratories for physical testing. Typical analyses include: Carbohydrates and energy values are normally calculated from these analytical values.
* moisture (water) by loss of mass at 102 °C
* protein by analysis of total nitrogen, either by Dumas or Kjeldahl methods
* total fat, traditionally by a solvent extraction, but often now by secondary methods such as NMR
* crude ash (total inorganic matter) by combustion at 550 °C
* estimated dietary fibre by various AOAC methods such as 985.29
* sodium (and thereby salt) either by flame photometry, AA or ICP-OES;
* total sugars, normally by a liquid chromatography technique, such as IC-HPAED or HPLC-RI;
* fatty acids by GC-FID.
Software
Software is available as an alternative to laboratory nutrition analysis. This software typically utilizes a database of ingredients that have previously been laboratory tested. The user can input ingredient data by matching their ingredients to ingredients found in the database; the analysis can then be calculated.
Online nutrition analysis
In recent years, web-based nutrition analysis software services have become more popular. Online nutrition analysis allows users to access online databases and draw from certified ingredients to produce instant nutrition information.
Turnkey nutrition analysis services
Another emerging trend is the use of nutritional analysis services that do a complete analysis of any recipe by using their proprietary database. Users provide recipes, cooking methods and serving sizes. In turn, the service provides a complete nutritional analysis.
Applications
In the United States, nutrition information is required on packaged retail foods in the form of nutrition facts panels as a result of food labeling regulations. In recent years, many restaurants have begun posting nutrition information as a result of both customer demand and menu-labeling laws.
Menu-labeling
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law March 23, 2010, includes a provision that creates a national, uniform nutrition-disclosure standard for food service establishments.
The nutrition-disclosure provision requires chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or more locations to provide specific nutrition labeling information. Those establishments must post calories on menus, menu boards and drive-thru boards. Buffets, salad bars and other self-service items are also included and will be required to provide caloric information adjacent to the item.
Recently many state and local menu-labeling laws have been passed requiring restaurants to post nutrition information on menus and menu boards, or have it readily available upon customer request. Restaurants have had to perform nutrition analysis in order to generate nutrition information and conform to these laws. More recently national legislation has been introduced that would set a national standard for menu labeling, the most popular of which is the LEAN act.
Animal feed
The reported analysis of animal feed typically uses raw values from laboratory results, commonly listing the moisture content, crude fat, crude protein, crude ash, fibers, and net energy. Some nutritionally-important values such as chloride, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, and copper may also be reported. | WIKI |
Jax-p Jax-p - 6 months ago 32
jQuery Question
SlideUp more elements as one element
I am trying to make
slideUp()
table rows as a one element, and another rows as different element.
Example - I am having something like this:
<table>
<tr> .. </tr> <!-- slideUp -->
<tr> .. </tr> <!-- slideUp -->
<tr> .. </tr> <!-- I will click on this -->
<tr> .. </tr> <!-- slideUp -->
<tr> .. </tr> <!-- slideUp -->
</table>
But I don't want to slide every row as element, but every rows group as one element
Another example: P.S.: I can click on any DIV! After click every div which is behind will act as one element and every div after will act as one element
<div>
<div> .. </div> <!-- slideUp -->
<div> .. </div> <!-- slideUp -->
<div> .. </div> <!-- I will click on this -->
<div> .. </div> <!-- slideUp -->
<div> .. </div> <!-- slideUp -->
</div>
I want to have it acting like this (but this is not valid HTML):
<table>
<div class="this-will-slide-up>
<tr> .. </tr>
<tr> .. </tr>
<tr> .. </tr>
</div>
<div class="I-will-click-on-this>
<tr> .. </tr>
</div>
<div class="this-will-slide-up>
<tr> .. </tr>
<tr> .. </tr>
<tr> .. </tr>
</div>
</table>
<script>
$('I-will-click-on-this').click(function() {
$('this-will-slide-up').slideUp();
});
<script>
I need it dynamicaly, not staticaly, so I CAN'T surround elements with something, I can click on any row!! I am looking for Javascript solution, not HTML.
I hope you will understand it :)
Thank you for any ideas.
Answer
You can use .nextUntil()
Get all following siblings of each element up to but not including the element matched by the selector, DOM node, or jQuery object passed.
$('.I-will-click-on-this').click(function() {
$(this).nextUntil('.I-will-click-on-this').slideToggle();
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
<div class="I-will-click-on-this">
I-will-click-on-this
</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div class="I-will-click-on-this">
I-will-click-on-this
</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
<div>xxxx</div>
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What examples of citizenship education do you remember from your K-12 schooling? What types of citizenship (e.g. which of the three types mentioned in the article) were the focus?
From my experience throughout Kindergarten to Grade 12, I would say that the Personally Responsible concept of citizenship was the focus. The Personally Responsible Citizen’s role in society is to help others, be responsible for themselves and their actions, and to abide by government laws. In my experience at school, there were definitely set standards of how we were expected to behave. One of the examples in this week’s article suggests that a personally responsible citizen would “pick up litter.” The school that I attended had a population of fewer than 100 students from K-12. Our community had a population of about 360 people. Every year on World Environment Day, the town would be divided up into sections for each grade of the school. We would all go out together to pick litter, doing our part as a citizen in the community.
Explore what this approach to the curriculum made (im)possible in regards to citizenship.
The Personally Responsible citizen approach to the curriculum taught us how to take responsibility and care for ourselves and our community. We all wanted to have a good reputation through the eyes of the older community members. One downfall of this approach is that we were not pushed to be better. Maintaining the Status Quo was enough. We were not encouraged to be creative regarding how we could make the world a better place. Unfortunately, this is acceptable in our community because nobody wants to be uncomfortable here.
What does the approach we take to citizenship instruction in any given place tell us about that place? About what the curriculum makers value? About what kinds of citizens they want to produce?
The approach we take to citizenship instruction in a place tells us the values and goals that the given place has. When the Personally Responsible citizen is produced, they are expected to take care of themselves and those around them. They clean up after themself and simply abide by the “common sense” laws established in their community. A Personally Responsible citizen has a good reputation. The Participatory citizen wants to make a difference in their community. Their schools have produced citizens who are capable of planning things for themselves. The schools that produce Justice-Oriented citizens could make the greatest positive change in our society. These members challenge themselves to figure out the source of a problem. Perhaps they will figure out what would actually help the community or perhaps a more effective method in doing so. Regardless of the citizen that is produced, I believe they are trying their best. If a school could produce citizens of all three types, they could all work together to make their society strong. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Asian Currencies Decline as Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea Hold Rates
The Philippine peso and South Korean
won led losses among Asian currencies as regional central banks
left borrowing costs unchanged amid signs the global economic
recovery is faltering. The won extended the week’s decline as concern growth
around the world is stalling prompted the Bank of Korea to leave
the seven-day repurchase rate at 3.25 percent. Bank Indonesia
and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas kept their benchmark interest
rates at 6.75 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively. Malaysia is
also expected to follow suit today as Europe ’s escalating debt
crisis and the risk of a recession in the U.S. divert attention
away from the battle to contain inflation. “Asian currencies will have a flat to weakening bias,”
said Radhika Rao, an economist at Forecast Pte in Singapore.
Most traders were waiting for the Asian central bank meetings,
she said. The Philippine peso dropped 0.5 percent to 42.465 per
dollar at the 4 p.m. close in Manila, according to Tullett
Prebon Plc. The won slipped 0.3 percent to 1,075.13, after
erasing a gain of as much as 0.3 percent. Malaysia’s ringgit
fell 0.1 percent to 2.9905, while Indonesia’s rupiah held at
8,564. The MSCI World (MXWO) Index of shares climbed 0.4 percent to
1,178.22 before today’s meetings of central bank officials in
the U.K. and European Union. President Barack Obama is also set
to address a joint session of Congress on proposals to speed up
job creation. ‘Gloomy Picture’ An Australian government report today showing companies
unexpectedly cut workers for a second month in August also
“reinforces the basic gloomy picture on global growth,” said
Rao. The peso fell the most in a month on speculation the
central bank will loosen restrictions on dollar purchases to
help stem appreciation in the local currency that poses a risk
to exports. Policy makers may further liberalize currency rules,
including allowing companies with dollar requirements to buy
without obtaining prior approval from the regulator, Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco said this week.
The measures will increase demand for the greenback and help
temper gains in the peso “to a certain extent,” he said. “The market may be anticipating that the central bank will
issue some rules,” said Roland Avante, treasurer at Sterling
Bank of Asia in Manila . ‘Higher Uncertainty’ South Korea ’s won reversed early gains and the Kospi index
of shares pared its advance as the central bank said today it
will closely monitor financial and economic risk factors at home
and abroad for its future policy. “The won reversed movements as the central bank made
comments that the global economy faces higher uncertainty,
making market players more cautious,” said Jeon Seung Ji, a
currency analyst at Samsung Futures Inc. in Seoul . Malaysia’s central bank will likely keep its policy rate at
3 percent today, according to all 18 economists surveyed by
Bloomberg. Obama will call on Congress to offset the cost of the
short-term jobs measures by raising tax revenue in later years.
He plans to inject more than $300 billion into the economy next
year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and
direct aid to state and local governments. ‘Some Cautiousness’ “Some people are focusing on Obama’s short-term fiscal
stimulus but other people are quite doubtful about the
possibility of the implementation,” said Tetsuo Yoshikoshi, a
senior economist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. in Singapore .
“There is still some cautiousness among investors in the Asian
currency market, especially on the European fiscal problems.” The yuan advanced, snapping a five-day drop, on speculation
policy makers will allow currency gains to tame the fastest
inflation in three years. The currency climbed 0.16 percent to
6.3840 per dollar, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade
System. The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate 0.12
percent stronger at 6.3889. Official data tomorrow may show consumer prices in China
climbed 6.2 percent from a year earlier in August after rising
6.5 percent the prior month, according to the median forecast of
analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The increase in July was the
most since June 2008. “Inflation is still hovering at a high level even if it’s
easing,” said Kenix Lai, a senior market analyst at Bank of
East Asia Ltd. in Hong Kong . “Yuan appreciation is a better
inflation-curbing tool than interest-rate hikes for China as the
global economic outlook remains unclear.” Elsewhere, Taiwan’s dollar and Thailand’s baht fell 0.1
percent to NT$29.150 and 30.03, respectively. Singapore’s dollar
dropped 0.1 percent to S$1.2101 and India ’s rupee weakened 0.1
percent to 46.2350. To contact the reporter on this story:
Lilian Karunungan in Singapore at
lkarunungan@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Sandy Hendry at
shendry@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:Kunirasem
Nfmia is the nickname of Nur Fahmia. She is Indonesian. She studies Indonesian literature in Universitas Gadjah Mada. | WIKI |
SQL 所有数据只保留一条，其他重复数据删除
爬的免费代理ip，去重
CREATE TABLE `iproxy` (
`id` int(5) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`ip` varchar(15) DEFAULT NULL,
`port` varchar(11) DEFAULT '',
`protocol` varchar(5) DEFAULT 'http',
`status` char(1) DEFAULT 'Y',
`bySite` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=15427 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
查询所有数据（保留一条），其他重复数据
SELECT * from iproxy where (ip,port) in (select ip,port from iproxy group by ip,port having count(*) > 1) and id not in (select min(id) from iproxy group by ip,port having count(*)>1)
所有数据只保留一条，其他重复数据删除
DELETE from iproxy where (ip,port) in (select ip,port from iproxy group by ip,port having count(*) > 1) and id not in (select min(id) from iproxy group by ip,port having count(*)>1)
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Facebook’s user growth has hit a wall
Facebook’s string of screwups may finally be coming back to hurt the company where it counts — its user growth. The social media giant reported second-quarter results today, revealing that it is no longer growing in the United States and Canada, by far Facebook’s most valuable geographic region. It also added just 22 million new daily active users worldwide, its lowest quarter-over-quarter jump since at least early 2011, when we first have data on the metric. Facebook has 185 million users for the U.S. and Canada — the same as it had last quarter. That’s four straight quarters that it’s been stuck around 185 million users. It also lost users in Europe for the first time. Facebook reported 279 million daily active users in Europe in the second quarter, down from 282 million users in the first. Update: After Facebook’s hour-long earnings call with analysts, the stock was down more than 20 percent. That global slowdown in user growth is terrifying if you’re Facebook. The company has been hampered by scandal after scandal for the past 18 months, but until now, it hasn’t seen an impact on user growth or revenue. Today’s earnings report appears to show that those scandals may finally be catching up with the company. The growth plateau in the U.S. and Canada is also bad news, though it makes sense. About half of the entire population of the U.S. and Canada use Facebook every day, and that includes everybody, from infants to members of America’s Greatest Generation. Eventually, you just reach a saturation point, and Facebook seems to have found it. But it’s also bad news for Facebook investors, primarily because this user group is so valuable to the company. The average user in the U.S. and Canada generated $25.91 in revenue for Facebook last quarter, almost three times the amount generated by users in the company’s next most valuable region, Europe. What’s unknown is why Facebook has finally plateaued. Is it because it’s adding new users at the same rate as deserters? Or has Facebook stopped appealing to young internet users coming online for the first time? (It’s likely a combination of both.) In either case, leveling off in the the U.S. and Canada means that Facebook’s growth is coming elsewhere — in markets where the company can’t make as much money from ads. The rest of Facebook’s earnings report wasn’t great, either. The company missed on revenue projections, albeit slightly, and the stock was down more than 8 percent in early after-hours trading. This article originally appeared on Recode.net. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Listed buildings in Litton, Derbyshire
Litton is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 27 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Litton and Cressbrook and the surrounding area. The listed buildings in Litton are grouped around the village green, and include houses, cottages, farmhouses and a barn, a public house, a school, and a village cross. The listed buildings in Cressbrook are mainly associated with the former cotton mill, Cressbrook Mill, which is listed, together with Cressbrook Hall and its lodges, which were built for the owner, workers' cottages, a former apprentices' house, a war memorial, and a telephone kiosk. Between the villages, in an otherwise isolated position, are two terraces of workers' cottages. | WIKI |
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#2038 closed bug (Fixed)
Chrome 17 disconnecting from webui
Reported by: Cas Owned by: damoxc
Priority: major Milestone: 1.3.4
Component: Web UI Version: 1.3.3
Keywords: Cc: bobbyrward@…
Description
A recent update to Chrome 17 has caused the webui to timeout after several minutes. From what I can tell the problem is actually a bug in deluge where a json request 'web.get_events' never gets a response.
I don't fully understand this part of the code but my testing has found that returning a callback of None instead of continuing seems to keep Chrome connection alive and has no effect on receiving future plugin enabled events.
diff --git a/deluge/ui/web/json_api.py b/deluge/ui/web/json_api.py
index 4bbcf9a..cb5e8fc 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/web/json_api.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/web/json_api.py
@@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ def _get_events(self, listener_id, count, d):
if count >= 3000:
d.callback(None)
else:
- reactor.callLater(0.1, self._get_events, listener_id, count + 1, d)
+ d.callback(None)
+ #reactor.callLater(0.1, self._get_events, listener_id, count + 1, d)
def remove_listener(self, listener_id, event):
"""
Attachments (1)
fix-chrome-17.patch (2.3 KB) - added by bobbyrward 12 years ago.
Changes get_events to timeout after 5 seconds
Download all attachments as: .zip
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by damoxc
Hi,
I'm sorry but that is a completely incorrect patch, that is how the web interface handles doing push notifications of events throughout the deluge system. The way it works is by opening a HTTP connection to the deluge-web webserver and then the server waits until either the connection times out or the server gets an event and returns the response. I'm not sure what you are experiencing but I'm afraid your patch simply removes functionality rather than solving anything. You'll have to give more information if you want to help resolve this issue.
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by Cas
Someone has posted this issue with Google so if it is a Deluge issue and we fix it probably worth mentioning that there.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by bobbyrward
• Cc bobbyrward@… added
If any XMLHttpRequest times out and abort is called on it, that request seems to use up one of the 6 available XMLHttpRequests for the page permanently.
That being said, I've been looking for someone else running into this problem with long polling and haven't been able to.
As a compromise, it would be possible to timeout get_events after something like 5 seconds.
Changed 12 years ago by bobbyrward
Changes get_events to timeout after 5 seconds
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by Cas
• Resolution set to fixed
• Status changed from new to closed
Fixed 1.3-stable: 8db789ff
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Installing Drupal Console on Windows
The Drupal Console has become a great command-line tool for managing Drupal 8 sites. In our Drupal 8 Module Development Trainings, we use it to automatically generate boilerplate code, so our trainees can get a quick start! Even though Drupal Console has been out for just one year, it already has over four hundred thousand downloads.
Unfortunately, getting Drupal Console running on Windows can be quite difficult. So we thought we'd help! We helped fix Drupal Console's integration with Acquia Dev Desktop on Windows, and we wrote this step-by-step guide to help you get it working too.
Getting started
To follow this guide, you'll need the following:
1. A recent version of Windows. I've done my testing on Windows 10, but Vista or newer should work.
2. An installation of Acquia Dev Desktop. It's typically installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop, so if you installed it at a different path, you may have to alter these instructions.
Watch out if you've installed other web development or command-line environments in Windows—they might interfere. For these instructions, make sure in particular to only use the command-line that Dev Desktop gives you, and no other. Try to run Drupal Console in its own command-line window, since other commands might modify your command-line's environment.
Installation steps
1. We'll need to use a recent version of PHP for Drupal Console to work. Open Dev Desktop, select Acquia Dev Desktop ➡ Settings. On the Config tab, set the Default PHP version to the recommended version of PHP 7.Set default PHP version
2. Drupal Console works with Drupal 8 only, so you'll need a Drupal 8 site to work with. If you already have a working Drupal 8 site in Dev Desktop, just make sure it's using PHP 7.x.
If you don't have a Drupal 8 site, install one with Dev Desktop. Click + ➡ New Drupal site… and use the latest version of Drupal 8. Choose whatever site name and database settings you like, the defaults are probably fine—but make sure to use PHP 7. Once the site is finished downloading, visit the site and follow the Drupal installation process.
3. Since Drupal Console is a command-line tool, we'll need to use a command line to run it. Even if you have one open already, it's safest to open a brand new one. You can get a Windows console for your site by clicking the Open Drush console button in Dev Desktop:
Console button
4. We'll be using Composer to install Drupal Console. Unfortunately, Dev Desktop installs Composer in a strange way, and just running composer does not work. We'll have to modify its batch file by running the following command:
echo @php "C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\tools\composer.phar" %* > "C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\tools\composer.bat"
Note: To run a command, just copy it from this webpage, paste it into your command-line window, and press Enter. Or if it's short, you can just type it in and then press Enter.
5. Now let's finally install Drupal Console. Make sure your current directory is your site root, and then run the following:
composer require drupal/console:~1.0 --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader --sort-packages
This will download Drupal Console and all its dependencies.
6. Let's test out Drupal Console! Run:
vendor\bin\drupal site:status
You should see a list of information about the site. If that doesn't happen, check out our troubleshooting steps.
Note: Make sure you get the correct slash. Windows uses \ unlike unix systems which use /.
7. To make it easier to run Drupal Console without having to type vendor/bin/drupal all the time, we can install the Drupal Console Launcher. First, download the launcher:
php -dopenssl.cafile= -r "readfile('https://drupalconsole.com/installer');" > "C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\tools\drupal.phar"
Then, create a batch file so we can run the console easily:
echo @php.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\tools\drupal.phar" %* > "C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\tools\drupal.bat"
Now you should be able to just run drupal site:status from anywhere inside your site root, and it will automatically find and run the Drupal Console.
Note: If the instructions for this step don't work for you, you will have to run vendor/bin/drupal instead of just drupal.
8. If you want Console to work on another Drupal site, you'll need to install Drupal Console again for that site. Don't forget to make sure the site is using PHP 7!
Troubleshooting
Did something go wrong? Our troubleshooting page might help you figure out what happened.
If that still didn't help, let us know! Email us, or leave a comment on this post. Please point us to a Gist containing the complete log of what happened at the command-line, so we can diagnose the problem, and update our instructions.
Where to go next?
If these instructions worked for you, spread the word! We want to get as many people as possible using Drupal and Drupal Console. Also let us know if there's another Drupal environment for Windows that you'd like instructions for—Bitnami? XAMPP? Something else?
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The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that originate from the neck’s cervical vertebrae and run down both sides of the upper thoracic spinal column located in the chest. These nerves control the arms and hands.
Brachial Plexus Injury
Damage to the brachial plexus is typically a result of a motor vehicle accident, motorcycle accident or fall. In its more mild form, symptoms may include shoulder pain and numbness, and a burning/tingling sensation or weakness in the arm or hand. In more severe forms of brachial plexus injury, however, the entire arm may be non-functional. This type of injury most likely requires surgery for reconstruction of the elements of the plexus. Prognosis is variable according to the severity of the injury.
Erb’s Palsy
This condition results when a newborn’s brachial plexus is damaged during birth. Whether from a breech birth or the position of the baby’s shoulders in the birth canal, there can be a broad range of damage to the nerves, from relatively minor (the nerves are damaged, but not torn), to a complete tearing of the nerve from the spine.
Symptoms are noticed immediately or soon after birth, and may include impaired reflexes, abnormal positioning of the arm, decreased grip, and impaired spontaneous movement of the arm, hand or shoulder.
The vast majority of these babies will regain normal or near normal function of their arms via prescribed range-of-motion exercises. However, surgical intervention may be recommended if improvement isn’t detected by the time the baby is six to eight months old. When necessary, surgery may include using other nerves from other parts of the baby’s body to repair the damaged ones, or removing scar tissue from the nerves. If such early surgery isn’t successful, a tendon transfer may be recommended before the child reaches seven years of age.
Klumpke’s Palsy
Klumpke’s palsy, like Erb’s palsy, results from damage to the brachial plexus during a complicated birth, for instance, when the baby’s arm is pulled in an upward motion during delivery.
This specific damage causes paralysis of the muscles focused in the forearm and/or hand. Horner’s syndrome may also be present, which is a clinical syndrome that results in one side of the face drooping due to paralysis.
As with Erb’s palsy, prescribed exercises and surgery that targets the specifics of the brachial plexus damage are usually the recommended course of action in the baby’s early months.
Radiation-Induced Brachial Plexopathy
Radiation-induced brachial plexopathy can arise as a complication from local radiation treatment (such as from lung or breast cancer treatment). Symptoms from this entity may include pain, numbness and/or weakness of the arms. Frequently, surgery can be offered to alleviate pain or improve function.
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
This syndrome occurs when a rib or a fibrous band of tissue compresses the brachial plexus. Patients most vulnerable to thoracic outlet syndrome are those who have received neck or thoracic injuries (such as those from car accidents), those who have anatomical abnormalities (such as an extra rib or an abnormally tight fibrous band connecting spine to ribs), and those who repetitively use certain postures that affect this area of the body (such as swimmers or people with jobs that require continuous heavy lifting).
The symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome include pain, numbness, and/or tingling in the neck and shoulder, as well as weakness in the hands.
Improved posture and exercises to strengthen the neck and shoulders are beneficial to some patients and are usually the first line of defense. However, in other cases, surgery may be needed to remove parts of or the entire rib or tissue that is causing pressure on the brachial plexus.
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