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Bob Clapp
Robert John Clapp, known as Bob Clapp (born 12 December 1948 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England) is a former English cricketer.
He played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1972 and 1977 but was more prolific in one-day cricket. A right-arm medium pace bowler, Clapp holds the record for the most List A wickets in one season for Somerset, with the 51 that he claimed in 1974. In the same year he also broke the record for the most wickets taken in a season in the John Player league (34).
However, Clapp only played 15 first-class matches for Somerset. His 25 first-class wickets were taken at an average of 29.36. Despite his successful 1974 season, Clapp enjoyed only mediocre success in his other seasons of one-day cricket. He claimed 25 wickets in his three other seasons. In 1977 the bulk of Clapp's cricket was for Somerset's Second XI, and he retired from county cricket at the end of the 1979 season. | WIKI |
Can I take 2 zopiclone 7 5 mg?
Can you take 2 zopiclone 7.5 mg?
It is usual to be prescribed one tablet (7.5 mg) to be taken just before going to bed. Do not take more than one dose during a single night.
Is it safe to take 10 mg of zopiclone?
Volunteers were aware of a decline in psychomotor performance, of some sleepiness on awakening, and decreased alertness after previous night doses of 7.5 and 10 mg. It is concluded that a dose of 7.5 mg is optimal, producing significant hypnotic effect with minimal residual impairment.
What is the maximum zopiclone you can take?
The approved data sheet for Imovane advises no more than 4 weeks continuous treatment, and a maximum dose of 7.5mg (1 tablet) a day.
Can I take 15mg of Zopiclone?
Although zopiclone was well tolerated at 3.75 mg and 7.5 mg, an increase in side-effects occurred at 11.25 mg and 15 mg, which favours the use of 7.5 mg zopiclone as the optimum dose for most patients, although certain patients may benefit from a higher dose of the drug when well tolerated.
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What happens if you take Zopiclone and stay awake?
Mental effects Zopiclone helps you sleep, though users who manage to stay awake on it can feel drowsy and calm.
How long does zopiclone 7.5 take to wear off?
Zopiclone does not stay in your system for more than about 12 hours. But some people feel sleepy the next morning when they wake up. If this happens to you, do not do any activities that require you to be fully alert, such as driving, cycling, or using tools or machinery.
Does zopiclone make you hallucinate?
Take your medicine with you. Other rare but serious side effects include amnesia (poor memory) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real).
What are the long term side effects of zopiclone?
Long term use of zopiclone may cause tolerance and dependence, leading to withdrawal and rebound insomnia if the medicine is stopped abruptly. A gradual reduction in dose and/or frequency of use can reduce the likelihood of withdrawal effects after long-term use1–3.
What is a good substitute for Zopiclone?
Eszopiclone, a stereoisomer of zopiclone, is a non-benzodiazepine hypnotic agent of the cyclopyrrolone family. Similar to zopiclone, eszopiclone is a synthetic compound shown to be effective in treating insomnia ,11-13.
Why is zopiclone banned in US?
Due to the highly addictive nature of this drug, it is no longer legal in the United States. Zopiclone became available in 1986.
Is it safe to take Zopiclone every night?
You do not need to take zopiclone every night. Only use zopiclone if you have to. Try to fall asleep first using sleep hygiene techniques and then use zopiclone only if you remain awake. Swallow the whole tablet, do not crush or chew it.
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Can you wake up after taking sleeping pills?
2. Do time your medications properly before bedtime and plan for a full night’s sleep. Make sure that you’ve scheduled enough time for a full night’s sleep, typically seven to eight hours for most people. If you take a sleep drug and wake up after only a few hours, you may still feel groggy.
What is the best way to come off Zopiclone?
From zopiclone 7.5mg per day or less:
1. Reduce the daily dose by half of a 3.75 mg tablet (1.875 mg) every 2 weeks.
2. The target dose for when to stop is when the person is taking only half of a 3.75 mg tablet.
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Data from: Enhanced ecosystem functioning following stream restoration: the roles of habitat heterogeneity and invertebrate species traits
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Frainer, André; Polvi, Lina E.; Jansson, Roland; McKie, Brendan G. (2018). Data from: Enhanced ecosystem functioning following stream restoration: the roles of habitat heterogeneity and invertebrate species traits [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.46pg9
Abstract
1. Habitat restoration is increasingly undertaken in degraded streams and rivers to help improve biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Follow-up assessments focused on outcomes for biodiversity have often found scant evidence for recovery, thus raising concerns about the efficacy of habitat restoration for improving ecological integrity. However, responses of other ecological variables, such as ecosystem process rates and the functional trait composition of biological assemblages, have been little assessed. 2. We assessed how the restoration of habitat heterogeneity affected multiple functional parameters in 20 boreal stream reaches encompassing both more and less extensively restored sites, as well as channelised and natural reference sites. We further assessed relationships between our parameters and a fluvial geomorphic measure of habitat heterogeneity. 3. Leaf decomposition was positively related to habitat heterogeneity. This was associated with shifts in the functional composition of detritivore assemblages, with the most obligate litter consumers more prominent in reaches showing higher habitat heterogeneity. The deposition of fine particulate organic matter was consistently higher in restored than channelised sites, and was positively related to the heterogeneity gradient. Algal biomass accrual per unit area did not vary either with restoration or the heterogeneity gradient. 4. Synthesis and applications: Our findings demonstrate that restoration of river habitat heterogeneity can enhance retention and decomposition of organic matter, key ecosystem processes underpinning ecosystem functioning and service delivery. Significantly, enhanced litter decomposition was linked with a change in the functional composition rather than diversity of detritivore assemblages. Future evaluation of the success of habitat restorations should incorporate quantification of ecosystem processes and the functional traits of biota, in addition to measures of fluvial geomorphology and the more traditional biotic metrics, to facilitate a more comprehensive and mechanistic assessment of ecological responses.
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The Western Express
The Western Express was a country-music radio show transmitted by KCNC in Fort Worth, Texas. The show started in 1947, hosted by disk jockey Charlie Williams. In 1956, the station later hired Willie Nelson, then a struggling singer-songwriter who previously worked on different radio stations. Nelson hosted the three-hour-long show singing his original songs, taking calls and playing records.
After moving to Portland, Oregon, Nelson hosted the show for KVAN, in Vancouver, Washington. Initially on a morning one-hour slot, Nelson limited the format to only play records. Through public appearances, he became a popular DJ, eventually moving to a four-hour-long slot. The show was cancelled in 1957, after KVAN switched the programming format from country music to rock and roll.
Beginnings
The Western Express started in 1947, being aired by KCNC in Fort Worth, Texas and hosted by disk jockey Charlie Williams. Upon Williams' sudden move to California in 1956, the station hired Willie Nelson, who previously worked short stints in local stations. Besides of sign-on shift, Nelson took The Western Express, the three-hour afternoon show that ran from 12:00 to 15:00.
During the first half-hour, he performed his original songs with the accompaniment of his guitar, while he played records for the remaining of the show. Nelson was also joined on the show by his guitarist, Oliver English; drummer Tony Roznozky; and Nelson's later to-be drummer and Oliver's brother, Paul English. The program also featured Nelson taking calls from his listeners on the area.
Texas Willie Nelson
Later the same year, Nelson moved to Portland, Oregon. He was hired by KVAN in Vancouver, Washington, where he hosted the show from 13:30 to 14:30. Nelson removed his singing from the format, and limited himself to only play records. While he was off-the-air, Nelson sold airtime for publicity on his show. Dubbed, "Wee Willie Nelson" and "Texas Willie Nelson", he started to make public appearances. Due to his high popularity, Nelson's time slot was changed to 10:00 – 14:00, becoming the most listened radio personality on the Portland-Vancouver area.
In February 1957, Nelson used the studios of the radio make his first recordings. He cut his original "No Place for Me", along with Leon Payne's "Lumberjack". Upon sending the recordings to Starday Records in Houston, Texas, he sold the records pressed under the "Willie Nelson label" on The Western Express. Nelson also made extra profits by promoting other acts on the air, while he earned US$40 a week.
Nelson met and interviewed on his show publicist and songwriter Mae Boren Axton. After expressing his admiration for Boren, Nelson played for her on his reel-tape recorder the work in progress of his original "Family Bible" to know her opinion. Impressed, Axton encouraged Nelson to continue to pursue his songwriting career by going to Nashville. By this time, and due to his high popularity, Nelson demanded a raise that was denied by the station. He quit the show soon after. The Western Express was cancelled and KVAN later changed its programming format from country music to the newborn rockabilly. Nelson left the radio business, focusing on his recordings and live performances. | WIKI |
Navistar Slips to Loss in 4Q - Analyst Blog
Navistar International Corporation ( NAV ) recorded a loss of $2.8 billion or $40.13 per share in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 (ended October 31, 2012), in contrast to a profit of $255 million or $3.48 million reported a year ago. The bottom line was hit by adjustments associated with pre-existing warranties and the charges related to the company's cost-reduction actions.
Excluding one-time charges, net loss was $517 million or $7.89 per share in the quarter compared with an adjusted profit of $247 million or $3.37 per share in the corresponding quarter of 2011. The loss per share was wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $1.08 per share.
Revenues declined 24.1% year over year to $3.3 billion in the quarter, yet surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3.2 billion. The year-over-year decline in revenues was due to lower sales volume.
Segment Details
Revenues from the Truck segment declined 31.1% to $2.2 billion. The segment recorded a loss of $160 million compared with a profit of $287 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011.
Revenues from the Truck segment declined 6.9% to $9.1 billion in fiscal 2012. The segment recorded a loss of $320 million compared with a profit of $336 million in fiscal 2011. The year-over-year decline was due to a decrease in military sales and product mix, together with higher commodity costs and warranty expense related to extended warranty contracts on 2010 emission engines. This was partly offset by the benefits from manufacturing cost efficiencies.
Revenues from the Engine segment fell 26.2% to $801 million in the quarter. The segment registered a loss of $287 million compared with a profit of $58 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
Revenues from the Engine segment declined 10.5% to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2012. The segment incurred a loss of $562 million compared with a profit of $84 million in fiscal 2011. The year-over-year decline was due to a hike in warranty expense for 2010 emission engines and lower sales volume in South American operations.
Revenues from the Parts segment rose 5.2% to $612 million. Profits from the segment decreased 12.6% to $76 million from $87 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Revenues from the Parts segment fell 1.7% to $2.1 billion in fiscal 2012. The segment's profit declined 16.4% to $240 million from $287 million in fiscal 2011. The drop was due to lower military volume, which was partly offset by an increase in commercial sales and lower SG&A expense.
Revenues from the Financial Services segment slipped 3.2% to $60 million. Segment's profit plummeted 40.7% to $16 million from $27 million in the corresponding quarter last year.
Revenues from the Financial Service segment decreased 11% to $259 million in fiscal 2012. The segment's profit declined 29.5% to $91 million from $129 million in fiscal 2011.
Fiscal 2012 Results
Navistar reported a loss of $3 billion or $43.56 per share in fiscal 2012, in sharp contrast to a profit of $1.7 billion or $22.64 per share in fiscal 2011. Revenues declined 7.2% to $12.9 billion from $13.9 billion in fiscal 2011.
Financial Position
Navistar had cash and cash equivalents of $ 1.1 billion as of October 31, 2012, up from $539 million as of October 31, 2011. Total debt was $4.77 billion as of October 31, 2012, compared with $4.86 billion as of October 31, 2011.
Net cash flow from operations decreased to $610 million in fiscal 2012 from $880 million a year ago. Capital expenditure declined to $309 million in fiscal 2012 from $429 million in fiscal 2011.
Our Take
Warrenville, Illinois-based Navistar International manufactures and sells commercial trucks, mid-range diesel engines, buses, military vehicles and chassis for motor homes and step-vans. It also provides service parts for various trucks and trailers.
Navistar benefits from leading market position in the global truck market besides Daimler AG ( DDAIF ) and PACCAR Inc. ( PCAR ). The company also enjoys a steady stream of revenues from government contracts. However, we are concerned about the significant supplier risk, owing to higher dependence on few suppliers of components together with its mounting research and development expenses on the back of stricter government regulations.
Currently, Navistar retains a Zacks #3 Rank, which translates into a short-term (1 to 3 months) Hold rating. We have a long-term (more than 6 months) Neutral recommendation on the stock.
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Configure BASH, KSH, TCSH, ZSH Shell To Logout User Automatically After Idle Time
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tmout on a Linux/Unix shell
How can I configure the bash or ksh shell to logout any user automatically after a period of idle time under a Debian Linux or any other UNIX-like operating system?
BASH, zsh, and ksh shell allows to logout all idle user setting a shell variable. The procedure is as follows to automatically log users out after a period of inactivity on a Linux or Unix-like system.
Bash, Zsh or Ksh shell logout inactivity users
You need to set TMOUT variable in seconds. For example, if set TMOUT to 300 seconds (5 minutes) to automatically logout users.
tcsh/csh shell user
You need to set autologout variable in seconds.
Append the following line to your shell startup file (bash/ksh/zsh only):
export TMOUT=300
readonly TMOUT
export TMOUT
If you are using tcsh shell (must be in minutes), enter:
set -r autologout 5
Save and close the file.
Posted by: Vivek Gite
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1. We run this script from cron every ten minutes, killing off idle sessions that are older than 30 minutes.
Note the list of exempt users. We wouldn’t want to kill the CEO’s session.
#########################
#! /usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {
system("who -u | sort +5 > /tmp/loginfile");
system("echo User Sessions Killed > /tmp/killedlogins");
system("echo `date` >> /tmp/killedlogins");
while (getline = 1) || (timearray[2] >= 30)) &&
# list of exempt users below
($1 != "root") &&
($1 != "legacy") &&
#($1 != "ceo") &&
#($1 != "cio") &&
#
{ {
system("ps -ef | grep " $1 " | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -KILL");
print $1, "[Idle " $6 "] Session terminated from " $8 >> "/tmp/killedlogins";
};
};
}
system("rm /tmp/loginfile");
system("chmod 644 /tmp/killedlogins");
}
2. Note that the tcsh example should be
set autologout=5
for consistency – here the time is expressed in minutes, not seconds.
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Taxonomy Section
Are we just using sentence fragments for wikipedia now? I would change it, but I'm not exactly sure what the author intended. Especially with the phrase "Besides..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:22, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
* Now re-written. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:31, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2017 puts Hylocereus into Selenicereus, with all the species moved to that genus. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:27, 3 March 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Health that Intoxicates with Its power and intensity, is within the reach of all who are willing to reason for themselves, and begin that activity of muscle, mind and body without which there can be no health, for stagnation always means disease and death.
Activity is the law of life. A machine made of the finest steel will rust and decay if not used, and the human body is not stronger than steel. | WIKI |
Neil Gorsuch Articles - Breitbart
Democrat presidential candidates and senators this week renewed their threats that unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues liberal rulings on the Second Amendment and other issues, that Democrats will fundamentally restructure the nation's highest court, a shocking threat to judicial independence not seen since the 1930s. Trump 2020 campaign Senior Adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle joined Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas on Friday where she discussed the current state American politics and the future success of America under the Trump administration. Senators on Thursday confirmed the 100th judge nominated by President Donald Trump, marking a major milestone in the president's pledge to replenish the federal courts with judges like the late originalist icon Antonin Scalia. The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the 2020 census can ask every person in this country whether they are an American citizen, a question with implications for legislative redistricting, voting rights, and presidential politics. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that the Constitution's protection against excessive fines blocked Indiana from seizing a high-end vehicle, but Justice Clarence Thomas would have reached the same result by another route, with Justice Neil Gorsuch signaling support for Thomas's originalist argument. President Donald Trump has had as much impact on the third branch of government in two years as most presidents have in two full terms, and the new Senate opens the door for the second half of his first term to be even more significant than the first half. President Donald Trump's impact on the federal judiciary was recently on display when three judges he appointed to one federal appeals court quoted a fourth Trump judge on another court, rejecting arguments that courts should defer to federal authorities on how to interpret immigration laws. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) may say this week if he will leave his post as the leading member of the powerful Judiciary Committee. Montana state auditor and Senate Republican candidate Matt Rosendale told Breitbart News Saturday that Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) invented the character assassination tactics used during the Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) talked about hunting during an October 25 interview without mentioning that he has not had a Montana hunting license in six years. If you want the fake news to finally investigate Hillary Clinton, we will have nominate Hillary Clinton to the United States Supreme Court, Trump said. How do you like that idea? President Donald Trump broke the all-time two-year record last week for appointing judges to the federal appeals court, and immediately nominated over a dozen more, while the Senate Judiciary Committee continued this Wednesday to advance still more nominations ahead of the midterm elections, and will hold another hearing next week. The Indiana Republican Party will, on Thursday, slam Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), a vulnerable Democrat up for re-election, for what it says–and Donnelly's own campaign spokesman admitted–is an illegal use in a campaign ad of an official U.S. Senate photograph of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Donnelly standing together before Gorsuch's confirmation. Newly-minted Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday made his presence felt in his first day on the Supreme Court, peppering counsel with questions amid a jovial mood inside the Supreme Court, according to reports. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) voted with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) against President Trump's pro-gun Supreme Court nominees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) admitted on Sunday that she did not make the smart political move by voting against Supreme Court Justice then-nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat Party's rising socialist star running to represent New York's 14th District in Congress, called for the electoral college to be abolished on Saturday, moments after then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate. Supporters of President Trump broke into a We want Kavanaugh! chant during a rally in Southaven, Mississippi, Tuesday evening. Senate Democrats are condemning Judge Brett Kavanaugh's association with the Federalist Society, ignoring the fact that every current Supreme Court justice – including all the liberals – speak at Federalist Society events, and Justice Elena Kagan says, I love the Federalist Society! Judge Brett Kavanaugh laid out his philosophy on one of the most prominent legal issues of his long career, the role of the administrative state, in his questioning by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination to the Supreme Court Tuesday. Mike Braun's campaign told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement on Friday that Hoosiers support President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but Sen. Joe Donnelly continues to wait for permission from Chuck Schumer. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) became the second Senate Democrat to meet with President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday. Montana state auditor Matt Rosendale launched a new website on Monday detailing how Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has supported 99 percent of Barack Obama's judicial nominees, while he has opposed President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. National pro-life leaders are praising President Donald Trump for keeping his promise to them in his choice of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The three Democrats who voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch have declined to attend the White House ceremony where President Donald Trump will announce his choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Clearly, saying 'precedent' alone can no longer be an acceptable answer or standard by which senators can accurately judge, said Dawn Laguens at a press conference. Republican Senate candidate and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley launched a new website on Tuesday attacking incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) for her past and future votes on candidates nominated by President Trump for the Supreme Court. Three Democratic senators from red states won by President Trump in 2016 who voted to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in 2017 are dodging definitive responses on where they stand regarding President Trump's pending nomination to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Had the National Review, the Weekly Standard, David Frum, Rick Wilson, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Joe Scarborough, and the rest of this morally bankrupt crew called Never Trump won the day, Democrats would be looking at a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. With news of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, pro-gun voters took a deep breath and understood a more secure Second Amendment could lie ahead. Copyright 2019 Breitbart | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Bertoldsbrunnen
The Bertoldsbrunnen ("Bertold's Fountain") is a monument in the historic city of Freiburg im Breisgau. It is situated at the crossing of the Salz- and Bertoldsstraße with the Kaiser-Joseph-Straße. The fountain is one of the central locations of the city. A tram station with the same name is situated at the Bertoldsbrunnen where four of the five tramways of the Freiburger Verkehrs AG stop.
History
The Fischbrunnen ("Fish Fountain") was situated at the crossing of the Kaiser-Joseph-Straße and the Salzstraße until 1806. It was then moved north to the Münsterstraße because a new fountain was to be constructed. As it was destroyed during World War II, a copy of the Fischbrunnen was built on the northern side of the Minster Square.
The new fountain at the crossing of the Salzstraße and Kaiser-Joseph-Straße was built in 1807 in remembrance of May 5, 1806, when Freiburg swore its oath to the new territorial lord, the prince-elector Karl Friedrich von Baden, who was promoted to grand duke in June 1806. However, the monument of the dukes of Zähringen was not only for Friedrich, who had the titles of grand duke of Baden and duke of Zähringen. It was also a symbol of the worship of duke Berthold III — the founder of Freiburg, Conrad I — who built the Münster, and Albert of Austria — the donor of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. All this was expressed through Latin inscriptions at the pedestal of the fountain, which read:
"CARLO FREDERICO MAGNO BADENSIUM DUCI, DUCUM ZARINGIAE PROLI, INTER IMPERANTES NESTORI, PRINCIPI OPTIMO GRATA CIVITAS FRIBURGENSIS MDCCCVII.
* North Face:
'To Charles Frederick of the Grand Duchy of Baden, descendant of the line of the Dukes of Zähringen, the oldest of the best of dukes, Freiburg's grateful citizens dedicate this memorial in the year of 1807 A.D.'" "EN BERTOLDUM III ZARINGIAE DUCUM QUI FRIBURGUM CONDIDIT LIBERAM CONSTITUIT, PRIMAM CISRHENAM SUIS LEGIBUS VIVERE JUSSIT MCXX.
* East Face:
'Behold Berthold III, Duke of Zähringen, who founded Freiburg, made it a free city and endowed it with municipal laws – the first on this side of the Rhine – in 1120 A.D.'"
* South Face:
"CONRADUS ZARINGIAE DUX, BERTOLDI III FRATRER, BURGUNDIAE RECTOR HUIUS URBIS TEMPLUM TURRIMQUE, AETERNUM ZARINGICAE PIETATIS MONIMENTUM, CONDERE COEPIT MCXXIII.
'Conrad, Duke of Zähringen, brother of Berthold III, regent of Burgund, commenced the erection of the temple and tower of our city – this eternal monument of his ancestry's piety – in 1123 A.D.'"
"BERTOLDI I PRONEPOS XXIV SCIENTIARUM ACADEMIAM AB ALBERTO AUSTRIACO MCCCCLVI FRIBURGI FUNDATAM FIRMAVIT LEGIBUS, REDITIBUS AUXIT MDCCCVI.
* West Face:
'Berthold II's [sic] twenty-and-fourth great-grandson was sustainer and expander of the academy, which was founded by Albert, duke of Austria, in 1456, in 1806 A.D.'"
The monument was designed in accordance with the plans of the Freiburg municipal council Ferdinand Weiß, which were examined and modified by the Baden construction director, Friedrich Weinbrenner. The fountain was built by the mason and stone carver Johann Georg Riescher (1759–1827), while the sculptor Franz Xaver Hauser executed the model, the inscriptions and the statue. The latter showed Bethold III. of Zähringen, depicted as an armoured knight with a shield and a spear. The statue was east-facing, facing the neighbouring ancestral Zähringen castle. It was mounted on a pedestal, for which Rischer had to use contractually, the large $10 1/2$ foot unit long, and, $5 1/2$ foot width and, 1 foot thick altar stone from the broken Dominican church.
The other stones originated in the stone mine of Mussbach, which today belongs to Freiamt. The costs added up to 3806 guilder. Riescher, who was working on the trough and the pillar, was supported by Hauser, who as a consequence was blamed for the delay of the completion of the statue. Vinzenz Hauser, a brother of Franz Xaver, was responsible for the gilding of the monument. Vinzenz Hauser (1759-1831), a brother of Franz Xaver, was responsible for gilding the monument.
In 1888 the former octagonal basin of the fountain was removed to ease the traffic flow. The sculptor Julius Seitz replaced the octagonal basin by attaching a basin to each side of the substructure, whose girders symbolise the four elements in stylized animal figures. Moreover, in 1904 the fountain was shifted 2,50 metre northwards in order to cope with the shift of rails for the electrical tram. The statement by the Freiburger Newspaper, that the Bertholdsbrunnen is still named Fischbrunnen by the vernacular is erroneous, since the Fischbrunnen was shifted as neighbour fountain northbound and continuously retained its name.
The fountain of Zähringen was completely destroyed by bombers during a British airstrike on November 27, 1944. The offer of the sculptor Hugo Knittel to make a replica of the old figure for free was turned down by Joseph Schlippe who was responsible for the reconstruction for he wanted to construct a "timeless" fountain. Knittel's draft was based partly on prewar pictures made by the spouse of the company Annemarie Brenzinger.
In the end, the curatorship of Bertoldsbrunnen, which was founded in 1957, agreed on the design by Nikolaus Röslmeir (1901 – 1977). It provided for a relatively abstract monument: a pedestal made out of limestone, approximately 12 feet tall, which is positioned in a shallow water basin (fountain) and which carries an equestrian statue. The overall shape of the fountain with its sculpture is inspired by gothic pointed arches, which is supposed to establish a connection to the Freiburg Minster. The pedestal bears the inscription "For the Dukes of Zähringen, founders and men of Freiburg im Breisgau" (Den Herzögen von Zähringen, Gründern und Herren von Freiburg im Breisgau). The crests of the (Swiss) Zähringer cities were not incorporated in the pedestal as this would have weakened the overall impression. An emblem from the Middle Ages served as basis for the equestrian statue.
The fountain was financed with donations which had been collected after the city council had conditioned it in February 1958. Overall, it cost 120,000 Deutsche Mark. On November 15, 1965, Lord Major Eugen Keidel laid the foundation stone. On November 27, 1965, the anniversary of the bomb attack of 1944, the fountain was presented to the public. However, due to the abstract design of the knight cast in bronze, the people were not pleased with it.
In the year 1972, the Kaiser-Joseph-Straße was pedestrianized. Because of this, the fountain was moved from the tram station north of the crossroads to its present locating in its middle. At the same time, the fountain basin was taken off, and the monument was placed in a water basin embedded in the ground. In 1979, the fountain had to be moved from the tram junction point north of the intersection to its present-day location right in the middle of the intersection.
Due to road works carried out by Freiburg Verkehrs AG and Badenova, a municipal energy provider, to modernize the rails and the sewers in this area, the fountain was not accessible from June to October 2014. In addition, the lighting of the memorial was modernized: Bertold is now illuminated by four LED lights incorporated in the water basin of the fountain. | WIKI |
NASA says moon rocket could cost as much as $1.6 billion per launch
New York (CNN Business)After nearly a decade of funneling money into a project to build a gargantuan rocket that NASA hopes will return astronauts to the moon, the launch vehicle is finally assembled and ready for testing. But the rocket, called SLS or Space Launch System, is still haunted by critiques of long delays and cost overruns. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Monday revealed his latest guess at how much SLS will cost each time it launches: $800 million per rocket for a bulk order and $1.6 billion if NASA purchases just one, Bridenstine, told CNN Business' Rachel Crane. That's just an estimate, Bridenstine noted, because the space agency "needs to sit down with its primary contractor, Boeing (BA), and negotiate the best solution to getting the right mix of the number of rockets and the cost per rocket." Boeing declined to comment on those negotiations and referred questions to NASA. SLS promises to be the mightiest rocket ever built, able to produce up to 20% more thrust than the Saturn V rocket that powered the Apollo missions 50-or-so years ago. But the project is controversial because Boeing has spent far more time and money building the rocket than it initially promised it would. Critics have long pointed out that commercial rockets, like those built by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, are a fraction of the price and can still accomplish many of the tasks lined up for SLS. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, for example, has a sticker price of about $90 million per launch and only slightly less lift capacity than SLS. United Launch Alliance — a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing — also builds a rocket called Delta IV Heavy that costs about $300 million. But Bridenstine and a band of federal lawmakers have staunchly defended SLS. They point out those commercial rockets are not quite as powerful as SLS and neither is currently qualified to fly humans. The rocket will be able to in a single trip get Orion, the spacecraft that will carry astronauts, and large cargo to the moon. So SLS is essential to the Trump Administration's goal of returning humans to the moon by 2024. "Yes, it has taken a long time to develop, and of course the American taxpayer has invested a lot into it, but this is a key capability for America to lead in space," Bridenstine told Crane. "And that's what we intend to do." NASA's lunar program, dubbed Artemis, has plenty of critics in Congress that Bridenstine will need to win over to secure funding. (He previously told CNN that NASA will need $20 billion to $30 billion over the next five years, on top of its standard annual budget, to fund the program). Bridenstine's remarks also come about one month after a letter from the White House's Office of Management and Budget suggested SLS would cost more than $2 billion per launch. Laura Forczyk, the founder of space industry analysis firm Astralytical, told CNN Business that Bridenstine likely shared an estimated price per launch for SLS on Monday to ease some of the sticker shock lawmakers may have felt after seeing the White House's $2 billion-plus per launch estimate. But, Forczyk added, it's unrealistic to think NASA will be able to buy SLS rockets for as cheap as $800 million. "Where is NASA going to get the money for 10 to 12 launches for [a bulk order] for SLS? NASA is struggling to get the money it needs for Artemis as it is," Forczyk said. She acknowledged that the Saturn V rocket launched 13 times last century. "But we were in the Cold War when NASA's budget was much higher due to geopolitical motivations," she said. "Congress doesn't have incentive to provide NASA $8 billion to 9.6 billion to a bulk purchase" rockets. Bridenstine did not say whether NASA will actually need 10 or more SLS rockets. The Artemis program will require three rockets — two for test flights and another for the 2024 lunar landing — and "maybe more after that." NASA has also frequently talked about SLS's usefulness for launching robotic exploration missions deep into the solar system. But those tasks, critics say, can likely be accomplished by cheaper commercial rockets. For example, Europa Clipper, a spacecraft that will study one of Jupiter's Moons, is slated to fly on an SLS rocket in 2025. But the White House OMB, in its recent letter, asked Congress to use a commercial rocket instead. That would provide "over $1.5 billion in cost savings," the letter states. Boeing was contracted in 2012 to build SLS's main components, and the rocket was expected to start flying in December 2017. It's now more than two years behind schedule and Congress has allocated $14.6 billion for SLS development and construction of the first two rockets — far more than originally predicted. Boeing promised to get the project back on track after Bridenstine publicly threatened to sideline the SLS rocket earlier this year. The administrator was at Boeing's facility in New Orleans on Monday where the company just finished assembly of SLS's core stage. The rocket will next move to a testing site in Mississippi. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Vue Documenter
An automatic, living Vue component documenter - yes - a component that documents components, with no build step (ie Webpack or Rollup or extra commands to run, because it's just another component).
Usage
// YourVueDocumentationPage.vue
<template>
<div>
// Initially works with Bootstrap 4 classes
<vue-documenter>
<some-component></some-component>
<another-component></another-component>
</vue-documenter>
// But you can also remap your own (these are defaults)
/*
<vue-documenter
:css-override-classes="{
badgeDeprecated: 'badge badge-warning',
badgeOptional: 'badge badge-secondary',
badgeRequired: 'badge badge-danger',
card: 'card card-body',
componentsColumn: 'col-sm-9',
componentsColumnComponent: 'card card-body',
componentsColumnComponentTableWrapper: 'table-responsive',
componentsColumnComponentTable: 'table table-striped',
container: 'container-fluid',
exampleMinimal: 'col-sm-6',
exampleFull: 'col-sm-6',
instructions: 'alert alert-info',
tableOfContentsColumn: 'col-sm-3',
tableOfContentsColumnList: '',
row: 'row'
}"
>
<some-component></some-component>
<another-component></another-component>
</vue-documenter>
*/
</div>
</template>
<script>
import VueDocumenter from 'vue-documenter';
import SomeComponent from './components/SomeComponent.vue';
import AnotherComponent from './components/AnotherComponent.vue';
export default {
components: {
VueDocumenter,
SomeComponent,
AnotherComponent,
},
data () {
return {}
}
}
</script>
Output
vue-documenter
Why?
For when you don't always have time to keep secondary documentation updated, or aren't able to roll out something like Storybook for everybody on your team.
GitHub | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:quicio
Is this a noun or a verb? Transitive/intransitive? Or should the separate phrases just have their own entries? --Connel MacKenzie T C 20:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
* How's this? Rod (A. Smith) 02:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
quicio
Sense 2. Hinge ?? -- Algrif 17:47, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
* A far as I know, "hinge" is actually the more common meaning. It appears in dozens of dictionaries. Dmcdevit·t 11:57, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
* Not very impressed by that selection, I'm afraid. A lot of examples of "sacar de quicio" = "un-hinge", and some Portuguese rather than Spanish. It's possible that it has some usage in S.American Spanish, but not in European Spanish, which is why the question. I've never heard in all my years in Spain anyone refer to a hinge as un quicio. I mean never. Not in any of my dictionaries either. Perhaps keep with an S.A Spanish tag? -- Algrif 14:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
* First sense RAE lists is consistent with definition. - 04:16, 31 May 2009 (UTC) | WIKI |
List of comedy films of the 1970s
This is a list of comedy films released in the 1970s.
1970s
1970
* The Boatniks
* Catch-22
* The Cheyenne Social Club
* The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
* Doctor in Trouble
* Hi, Mom!
* Hoffman
* Kelly's Heroes
* Little Big Man
* M*A*S*H
* Myra Breckinridge
* The Out-of-Towners
* The Owl and the Pussycat
* Start the Revolution Without Me
* There's a Girl in My Soup
* The Twelve Chairs
* There Was a Crooked Man...
* Which Way to the Front?
1971
* Dollars
* 200 Motels
* And Now For Something Completely Different
* Bananas
* The Barefoot Executive
* Bedknobs and Broomsticks
* B.S. I Love You
* The Battle of Love's Return
* Bunny O'Hare
* Carnal Knowledge
* Drive, He Said
* Happy Birthday, Wanda June
* Harold and Maude
* The Hospital
* How to Frame a Figg
* Melody
* The Million Dollar Duck
* Mrs. Pollifax-Spy
* A New Leaf
* Plaza Suite
* Scandalous John
* The Skin Game
* Such Good Friends
* Support Your Local Gunfighter!
* Taking Off
* They Might Be Giants
* Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972
* Another Nice Mess
* Avanti!
* Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
* Every Little Crook and Nanny
* Fritz the Cat
* The Heartbreak Kid
* Now You See Him, Now You Don't
* Pink Flamingos
* Play It Again, Sam
* Pulp
* Snowball Express
* The Thing with Two Heads
* Up the Chastity Belt
* Up the Front
* What's Up, Doc?
* Where Does It Hurt?
* With Children at the Seaside
1973
* 40 Carats
* American Graffiti
* Blume in Love
* Charley and the Angel
* Class of '44
* Cops and Robbers
* Five on the Black Hand Side
* Harry in Your Pocket
* The House in Nightmare Park
* Kid Blue
* The Last Detail
* The Naked Ape
* Oklahoma Crude
* One Little Indian
* The Paper Chase
* Paper Moon
* Shamus
* Sleeper
* Slither
* Soft Beds, Hard Battles
* Steelyard Blues
* The Sting
* Superdad
* The Thief Who Came to Dinner
* The Train Robbers
* The World's Greatest Athlete
1974
* Blazing Saddles
* Dark Star
* Down and Dirty Duck
* Flesh Gordon
* Ginger in the Morning
* The Girl from Petrovka
* The Great McGonagall
* The Groove Tube
* Harry and Tonto
* Herbie Rides Again
* The Longest Yard
* Man About the House
* The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
* Phantom of the Paradise
* Rhinoceros
* The Thorn
* Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
* Uptown Saturday Night
* Young Frankenstein
1975
* Aaron Loves Angela
* The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
* The Apple Dumpling Gang
* At Long Last Love
* The Black Bird
* Blazing Stewardesses
* Cooley High
* Crazy Mama
* Dolemite
* Fore Play
* Funny Lady
* The Fortune
* Hearts of the West
* It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
* Let's Do It Again
* Lisztomania
* Love and Death
* Lucky Lady
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Moonrunners
* One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
* Peeper
* The Prisoner of Second Avenue
* Rancho Deluxe
* The Return of the Pink Panther
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show
* Rooster Cogburn
* Shampoo
* Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
* Sixpack Annie
* Smile
* The Strongest Man in the World
* The Sunshine Boys
* Whiffs
* W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1976
* Adiós Amigo
* The Bad News Bears
* The Big Bus
* The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
* Cannonball
* Car Wash
* Chesty Anderson, USN
* Confessions of a Driving Instructor
* Confessions of a Pop Performer
* Confessions of a Window Cleaner
* The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
* Family Plot
* The First Nudie Musical
* Freaky Friday
* The Gumball Rally
* Gus
* Keep It Up Downstairs
* Mother, Jugs & Speed
* Murder by Death
* Network
* Nickelodeon
* No Deposit, No Return
* The Pink Panther Strikes Again
* The Shaggy D.A.
* Silent Movie
* Silver Streak
* Tunnel Vision
1977
* Annie Hall
* The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
* The Billion Dollar Hobo
* Candleshoe
* The Chicken Chronicles
* Confessions from a Holiday Camp
* Desperate Living
* The Goodbye Girl
* Grand Theft Auto
* The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
* Handle with Care
* Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
* High Anxiety
* Jabberwocky
* The Kentucky Fried Movie
* The Last Remake of Beau Geste
* Oh, God!
* A Piece of the Action
* Semi-Tough
* Slap Shot
* Smokey and the Bandit
* Thieves
* Thunder and Lightning
* Which Way Is Up?
* The World's Greatest Lover
1978
* A Wedding
* Almost Summer
* The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
* The Big Fix
* California Suite
* The Cat from Outer Space
* The Cheap Detective
* Corvette Summer
* Every Which Way But Loose
* Foul Play
* Goin' South
* The Great Bank Hoax
* Harper Valley PTA
* Heaven Can Wait
* Here Come the Tigers
* Hooper
* Hot Lead and Cold Feet
* Loose Shoes
* Movie Movie
* National Lampoon's Animal House
* Rabbit Test
* Revenge of the Pink Panther
* Sextette
* Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
* Somebody Killed Her Husband
* Thank God It's Friday
* They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way
* The End
* Up in Smoke
* Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1979
* 10
* 1941
* Americathon
* The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
* Being There
* Breaking Away
* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
* The Electric Horseman
* Fast Break
* The Frisco Kid
* Hot Stuff
* The In-Laws
* The Jerk
* Love at First Bite
* Lovers and Liars
* The Main Event
* Manhattan
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* The Muppet Movie
* The North Avenue Irregulars
* North Dallas Forty
* A Perfect Couple
* The Plank (1979) — remake of the 1967 film
* Porridge (1979)
* The Prisoner of Zenda
* The Prize Fighter
* Real Life
* Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
* Rock 'n' Roll High School
* Starting Over
* The Villain
1970's British films
* And Now For Something Completely Different (1971)
* Bless This House (1972)
* Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
* Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976)
* Confessions of a Pop Performer (1976)
* Confessions of a Window Cleaner and other sex comedies supported by the Eady levy
* Dad's Army (1971)
* Doctor in Trouble (1970)
* Hoffman (1970)
* The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
* Jabberwocky (1977)
* Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
* The Likely Lads (1976)
* Man About the House (1974)
* Melody (1971)
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
* Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
* On the Buses (1972) (and two sequels)
* The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
* The Plank (1979) — remake of the 1967 film
* Porridge (1979)
* Pulp (1972)
* The Return of the Pink Panther (1974)
* Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1973)
* Steptoe and Son (1972) and sequel Steptoe and Son Ride Again
* There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
* Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
* Up the Front (1972)
* Up Pompeii! (1971)
Comedy-horror
1971
* The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1972
* Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
* Dr. Phibes Rises Again
* The Gore Gore Girls
* Please Don't Eat My Mother
* Private Parts
1973
* Theatre of Blood
* The Werewolf of Washington
1974
* The Cars That Ate Paris
1975
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976
* Murder By Death
1977
* House
1978
* Piranha
1979
* Love at First Bite
Comedy-drama
* Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
* Carnal Knowledge (1971)
* The Longest Yard (1974)
* Female Trouble (1975)
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
* Cannonball (1976)
* Don's Party (1976)
* The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
* Convoy (1978)
* Autumn Marathon (1979) (USSR)
* Breaking Away (1979)
Parody films
* Blazing Saddles (1974)
* Hardware Wars (1977)
* High Anxiety (1977)
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1970s)
* Young Frankenstein (1970s) | WIKI |
Getting Data In
Splunk forwarder throughput to indexer doesn't improve even after giving unlimited bandwidth maxKbps=0
rajakannan
Engager
Splunk heavy forwarder throughput to indexer doesn't improve even after giving unlimited bandwidth maxKbps=0 , it's only getting 4MBps on a 24 core box with 128 GB RAM reading from nfs mount and forwarding to indexer on a 2x 10Gbps on a bonded interface.
Reading from NFS is not an issues as we were able to read/write at 30MB/s outside the forwarder using typical copy (cp)
What are the other limiting factors and what else can we tune from the Splunk side ? Please advise.
Also we noted it's using only 1 TCP connection to indexer.
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rajakannan
Engager
MaxQueueSize=30MB was increased from the default values in the output.conf increased the performance significantly. I Would expect the forwarder to auto tune itself to meet the demand based on the system capacity and configurations, not really impressed with the defaults.
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rajakannan
Engager
MaxQueueSize=30MB was increased from the default values in the output.conf increased the performance significantly. I Would expect the forwarder to auto tune itself to meet the demand based on the system capacity and configurations, not really impressed with the defaults.
martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
Check what's the bottleneck by using the forwarder's metrics logs in _internal. Possible culprits include inefficient regular expressions for filtering/routing/masking.
Also check if your indexer is busy or not, the distributed management console will help there.
Once that's checked and optimized, you can tell the forwarder to use multiple pipeline sets to parallelize ingestion, processing, and indexing.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/6.4.3/Forwarder/Configureaforwardertohandlemultiplepi...
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Washing Your Car
What is the best way to wash your car?
The exception is “fibreglass” or “composite” bodywork, which has a single thick solid-colour “gel coat” as its outer layer. This is 0.6 mm thick (‘25 thou’ in old terms) and can be sanded and repolished many times without risk of wearing through it. Using scrub-type commercial car washes will matt your paint if done regularly, due to abrasion from the brush bristles and coarse dirt. Commercial ‘touch-less’ car washes, which use pressure jets, just don’t work well – your car still has a fine film of dirt when they have finished. Using the incorrect tools for the job when washing at home – stiff brushes, hard towels, high detergency soaps, dirty cloths- will easily cause the same type of damage. You can accidentally remove the paint protecting finishes, and the clear coat itself, from the panels, resulting in a spoiled finish from clear coat damage, oxidisation, abrasion, scratching and corrosion.
Washing Your Car
Washing your car is essential to preserve its value. A car with a freshly cleaned and detailed finish always seems to run much better, too. I always imagine my bodywork slicing through the air when it is shiny, waxed, slippery and glistening. When it’s matt and filthy, this is rather hard to conjure up! Regular washing will highlight minor defects requiring repair and provide the fastidious owner with close feedback on the condition of his pride and joy.
Washing up liquid is a good example. Did you know it usually contains large quantities of salt (sodium chloride) in order to boost the viscosity of the detergent and make it look more concentrated and better value? Salt is the last thing you need to put on your car body. In addition, the high stripping power of a dishwasher liquid will leave your paint coat unprotected unless you re-wax or protect it again immediately. Definitely, DO NOT use any washing up liquid on your car paint.
Auto-Chem recommends the use of a high-pressure (100-150 bar) water blaster for the safest, quickest and most economical way of washing your car. The benefits of pressure washing include; economical and rapid application of the wash chemicals – if the water blaster has a detergent suction hose feature or a foam gun accessory- with no risk of scratching by grinding dirt into the paint surface with a sponge or wash mitt; and the ability to get into hard to reach areas without the use of special brushes or detailing tools.
Fancy mag and spoked wheels and white-wall tyres are especially easy to clean with a pressure washer, particularly the rear wheels of touring motor bikes, which are hard to reach otherwise. There is also no kneeling, groping, bending, and damaged hands from sharp surfaces involved with a pressure washer, as there is with a sponge mitt or brush. Motorcyclists will know this one best.
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Kleinschmidt Inc
Kleinschmidt Inc. was established in 1931 by Edward Kleinschmidt. It is a privately owned firm that provides electronic commerce, electronic data interchange, and value-added network services. Its headquarters are in Deerfield, Illinois.
Edward Kleinschmidt was one of the inventors of the teleprinter, one of the first electronic commerce devices.
History
1893 - Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt started working with telegraphy;
1898 - Edward E Kleinschmidt opened his own experimental shop;
1906 - George Seely joined Kleinschmidt’s shop with a partially developed block system for electric trolley car railways;
1910 - Exhibited at the Association of American Railroads Communications Convention;
1910 - Kleinschmidt started to receive multiple patents;
1914 - Kleinschmidt Electric Company was founded;
1924 - Kleinschmidt Electric merged with the Morkrum Company to form Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Corporation;
1928 - The company name was changed to Teletype Corporation;
1930 - The Teletype Corporation was sold to AT&T for $30,000,000 in stock;
1931 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. was founded;
1944 - Edward E. Kleinschmidt demonstrated his lightweight teleprinter at the Chief Signal Officer;
1949 - The Kleinschmidt 100-words-per-minute typebar page printer was made the standard for the Military;
1956 - Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. merged with Smith Corona which merged with Marchant Calculating Machine Company shortly thereafter, forming SCM;
1979 - Started to provide Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Car Location Message (CLM) services;
1986 - Hanson Trust acquired SCM Corporation. Harry S. Gaples, then Kleinschmidt division president, purchased the division from Hanson Trust. | WIKI |
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Geofencing – A Modern Home Fencing Solution
What Is Geofencing?
Geofencing is a tool used in security and home automation that uses location to give you greater control over your home. Geofencing works in a very similar way to modern features you might find in a new car. Cars nowadays can turn on the cabin lights, start the engine, and unlock the doors all from just sensing that you are in the range of the vehicle. Geofencing can give your home similar functionality when incorporated into a smart home hub or smart security system.
Geofencing sets a virtual perimeter using GPS, RFID, WIFI, or cellular signals. The perimeter is highly customizable, although the most common form is a circle around your property. When you cross that perimeter your phone or another connected device sends a signal to the hub, letting it know that you are near.
Geofencing provides a serious upgrade in the field of home automation & security. Most home automation/security relies on events that either happens inside your home, just outside or on a connected device. Geofencing allows the events that would usually be triggered by those things close to your house, to be triggered further away.
Applications - Security
Once the perimeter is crossed, the returned signal can be used in a multitude of ways, depending on the parts of your house the hub is connected to. A common security application is linking a geofence to automatic locks. This works by setting the locks once the hub knows you have gone out of range of the geofence. No more worrying about whether the door is locked or not! You can even get notifications saying that your door has been locked successfully. Cars also use geofencing for security. Some newer cars have an available feature that sends out an alert if the car goes beyond a certain distance without the keys being present. This same idea can be applied in your home by using geofencing to protect your family.
Actions in the hub can be triggered by anyone who has a phone or device and is connected to the hub. When they go in/out of the perimeter you can receive notifications or execute a set of commands through the hub. This could be you, renters, your kids, or even your dog (If you fancy the idea of getting them a smart dog collar).
Applications - Home Automation
Geofencing is not only useful for security purposes. It can also impact the everyday aspects of life at home. The way a thermostat warms/cools a house is a great example. Your thermostat may have a set temperature, or even change that temperature during the different parts of the day. If your thermostat isn’t set when you get home, and it’s frightful cold outside, you will have to wait for the house to warm up. With a house that has its thermostat connected to geofencing software, you won’t have to wait at all! As soon as you cross the virtual boundary, a signal will be sent to the thermostat that lets it know it’s time to change the temperature. This system will save you the time it takes to configure your thermostat, money in energy savings, and make sure you’re comfortable the second you step in the door. Thermostats are just a particularly brilliant example. Essentially any part of your home that can be connected to a smart home or smart security system has the ability to be controlled through geofencing. This technology may seem confusing and even scary at first, but users report that once they start using it, they never want to go back to the old way. Geofencing is just another tool for homeowners to increase their security and peace of mind. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ballystrudder
Ballystrudder or Ballystruder is a small village and townland (of 255 acres) on Islandmagee in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Belfast Lower and the civil parish of Islandmagee. It is part of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. It had a population of 992 people in the 2011 Census. | WIKI |
User:SahaANour/Sakhavat Nur
Nurullayev Sakhavat Khudabakhish oglu - radio and TV presenter, actor.
Sakhavat Nur (Sakhavat Nurullayev) was born on January 25, 1979 in Guba, in 1996 he graduated from school No. 109 in Baku. In 2000 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Tafakkur University.
In 1999, he began radio hosting for Burch FM radio. In 2001, he first began to broadcast on STV (now Khazar TV). He was the host of the musical entertainment show "Cocktail" for some time. In 2003, he was invited to the intellectual and entertainment program Teletime, which was broadcast on Leader TV, and until May 2007, in addition to being the radio host on Burch FM, he was the host of Teletime. From 2007-2009 he was the host of the program "Morning" on AzTV, as well as the program "Mugham Television Competition" on AzTV in 2007
He held several mass events and holidays.
In 2009, he was one of the hosts of the "International Mugham Festival" held in Baku.
He worked as the head of Khazar FM radio, established in 2008, and was the author of many projects broadcast on this radio.
In 2010, he prepared and presented the program “Why not” on the Khazar TV channel.
Since August 2010, he has been the host of the "Nush Olsun" program on the Khazar TV channel.
From 2007 to 2011, he acted as the host of the "Mugham Television Competition", a project of Azerbaijan Television and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
In 2012, he was a director and editor-in-chief of Araz FM radio.
In 2012, he was appointed manager and editor-in-chief of Araz FM radio.
He moved to the United States in 2014 and currently lives in Washington DC.
In 2018, he returned to Baku at the invitation of Khazar TV and Radio and temporarily rebranded Khazar FM and Araz FM radio stations.
In 2019-2020, he worked as a correspondent for the American office of REAL TV.
* 1) Jackal breath(tv series, 2013) | WIKI |
Rethinking retreads
Regular tire pressure maintenance results in longer casing life and better fuel economy.
Would you replace an expensive shoe just because it had a worn heel or sole, or get a shoemaker to resole it and replace the heel? The same thinking applies to tires, says Harvey Brodsky, managing director of the Tire Retread Information Bureau. Like a high-quality shoe, tire casings are designed for a far longer life than the original tread, Brodsky says.
What’s the biggest reason to use retreads? Your tire costs are second only to your fuel costs, and retreading substantially cuts those costs. While a new tire will cost more than $400, a retread costs only $150, Brodsky says.
Of course, everyone has heard retread failure horror stories. Proper retreading is no simple matter, so occasionally things go wrong, especially if the job was done by one of the few “bums” in the business that Brodsky admits still exist. However, there is one simple key to avoiding retread failure, or indeed tire failure in general: the casing.
The most common myth about retreads is that roadside “alligators” are tread sections a retreader failed to attach securely. In fact, independent surveys confirm that most rubber pieces left on the road are casing failures, not tread failures, and they are as likely to come from new tires as from retreads.
The vast majority of these tire shreds contain wire, which retreaders don’t insert in the first place, says Brad Reiners, marketing communications manager at Bandag. That wire is part of the original tire maker’s casing, the inner portion that supports the load and that the tread is attached to. If you can see wire protruding, it’s a casing failure.
New tires and retreads are identical in structure. The original tire manufacturer builds up the casing out of many rubber compounds and then attaches the tread. Much the same thing occurs in “pre-cure” retreading, in which a previously molded tread section is installed on a tire casing. The only visible difference is a small seam where the new tread meets the casing. A casing that has been kept in proper condition nearly eliminates many of the causes of retreaded tire failure.
How do you care for casings? Proper inflation is by far the main thing. Underinflation and its close cousin, overloading, account for the lion’s share of tire abuse.
While thumping a tire may tell you whether it’s absolutely flat, it cannot accurately read the pressure. “It’s almost like pounding on the hood to see if your engine needs oil,” Brodsky says. “Use a gauge and check the tires when they’re cold so you get the most accurate reading.”
Running a tire even 10 to 15 pounds too low will greatly increase the flexing and heating of the casing as you drive. A tire that’s 20 pounds underinflated has been subjected to so much stress it should be removed and inspected, says Goodyear’s Pat Demianenko, North American retread business development manager. Overloading causes similar damage because it also increases the flexing of the casing.
Inflation is critical because air gives the tire its strength. Air is elastic, efficiently absorbing road shocks and rolling effects so that little heat is generated. Reduce that air pressure, and the tire flexes, generating a great deal of internal friction because rubber is far less malleable than air.
Both new and retreaded tires are put together by “vulcanization,” which uses heat to fuse the parts together with rubber-based adhesives. Vulcanization occurs at 280 to 300 degrees; run a tire when it is underinflated or overloaded, and its highway temperature approaches the vulcanization temperature. This can reverse the process that put it together, so that the tire comes apart.
The heat doesn’t affect only the vulcanized parts. Severe overheating causes the steel cords to lose their strength, too, so they begin to move out of their proper relationship to one another. The extreme result is the broken cords sprouting from alligators. The flexing has heated and softened the wire until it broke apart, as a coat hanger bent back and forth eventually will snap. And this is not easily done with the high-quality, flexible wire used to construct casings, so an alligator on the roadside likely is a relic of a severely abused tire.
If inflation maintenance is driving you batty, look at a tire inflation system. Many will pay for themselves in less than two years because of savings in emergency calls, the manufacturers say.
They also save fuel. Al Cohn of Pressure Systems International, which makes the Meritor Tire Inflation System, reports that fuel economy drops by 1 percent if pressure is 10 percent low, 2 percent if 20 percent low, and more than 4 percent if 30 percent low.
Tire casings also can be injured by running mismatched tires in dual positions. The tire with the larger diameter ends up overloaded, while the smaller one eventually experiences scrubbing of the tread. When both tires overheat, energy and gobs of fuel are wasted.
Significant misalignment, a critical issue on 18-wheelers because of the length of the trailer, often has a similar effect because the tread actually scrubs sideways, Brodsky says.
A helpful way to preserve a casing is to make sure the tread never wears too thin – below 4/32 on steers and 2/32 on the other tires. This also will keep DOT inspectors happy. Several tire experts, however, advocate retreading well before reaching those limits. Demianenko thinks observing at least 3/32 as an overall limit pays off in added casing protection.
One obvious reason a little extra rubber goes a long way is that the typical puncture is caused by objects, such as carpet tacks, that would never reach the casing if the tread were thick enough. Preventing punctures not only eliminates leaks but protects the casing from the damage that would occur from running underinflated until the leak was detected.
If the casing is penetrated, you still can save it most of the time – if you take it to the right tire repair shop that won’t just plug it and call it done. A high-quality repair means the tire is removed from the wheel and repaired with a vulcanizing process that seals the inner liner. Plugs just seal in moisture; they often result in rusted cords and catastrophic failure. “I’m dead set against plugs,” Brodsky says. “Fix the casing from the inside.”
A high-quality casing, properly maintained and properly repaired as needed, is good for two more cycles after its first life. Retreads are legal on steer tires, though it’s more common to run virgin tires there and then retread them at other positions. Drive tires often will be retreaded once or even twice, then switched to the trailer for one more cycle.
Take care of the casing and pick the right retreader, and you’ll greatly enhance your chances of cutting tire costs to the bone without risking an expensive and dangerous failure.
TAILOR RETREADS TO YOUR APPLICATION
As a group, retreads have one advantage over new tires other than cost. The pre-cure process, in which tread is molded by itself and later vulcanized to the tire, has enabled the creation of a bonanza of new tread designs you can get only on retreads.
In fact, you can select among application-specific tread designs that last longer because they are ideally configured for certain uses. “Choosing the ideal tread pattern – rib-or lug-type tread design – depends on the type of operation and traction requirements, as well as other similar factors,” says Glenn Stockstill of Michelin.
This is one area that separates responsible retreaders from the others, says Harvey Brodsky of the Tire Retread Information Bureau. “Don’t just let them pick up your tires,” he says. “Spend time with the retreader so you can learn something about tread design and you can tell them about how you use your vehicles. Deal only with people who know what you are doing in your operation.”
A Bandag dealer, for example, “will look at wear, appearance, snow or mud starting traction, ice or wet stopping traction, and fuel efficiency needs to identify an application-specific tread suitable for your needs,” spokesman Brad Reiners says.
On trailers, tread pattern is less of a concern. Trailer tires often are on the last of three cycles, which means they receive a thinner tread anyway. This minimizes friction and heat on the casing, which is older by the time it gets back there.
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Though they are often a frustrating, painful injury, most stubbed toes are not serious. However, in severe cases, an injury that at first seems to be an ordinary stubbed toe may actually be something more serious, like a toe fracture or ligament sprain. Since these problems carry the risk of complications like osteoarthritis, knowing how to recognize (and treat) both types of stubbed toe can be a valuable first-aid skill.[1]
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Basic Stubbed Toe Treatments
1. 1
Check the condition of the toe immediately after the injury. The first step to treating a stubbed toe is to see how bad the damage is. Carefully and gently remove the shoe and sock on the injured foot. Examine the injured toe, taking care not to injure it further by handling it roughly (a friend can help here). Look for the following signs:
• A "bent" or "misaligned" appearance
• Bleeding
• A broken or misplaced nail
• Heavy swelling and/or discoloration
• Depending on which (if any) of the above signs you see, the treatment for your toe can differ. See below for specific suggestions.
• If it is too painful to remove your shoe and sock, you probably have a fracture or sprain in your toe and/or foot. This is not a dangerous condition, but you should still see a doctor to receive treatment.
2. 2
Clean and disinfect any abrasions or cuts. If you notice any spots on the toe where the skin has been broken, you will want to clean them promptly to avoid infection. This includes cuts, scrapes, abrasions, and breaks in the nail. Carefully wash the toe with soap and warm water. Dry the toe gently with a clean cloth or paper towel, then rub a little anti-bacterial cream onto any breaks in the skin. Protect the toe with a clean bandage.
3. 3
Apply ice to reduce swelling. Most stubbed toes will be followed by at least a little painful swelling. This can make the toe awkward, unwieldy, and even more vulnerable to pain. Luckily, it's easy to reduce the swelling with a cold compress. There are many ways to do this — for instance, you can use a gel ice pack, a bag of ice or even an unopened bag of frozen vegetables.
• Whatever you use for your cold compress, wrap it in a towel or rag before pressing it into the skin. Apply the ice pack for 15 to 20 minutes at a time, waiting about 10 to 15 minutes before applying it again. Direct, prolonged ice-on-skin contact can further damage the skin, making your injury worse.[3]
• See our article on cold compresses for more detailed information.
4. 4
Avoid putting pressure on the toe. Even mundane, day-to-day activities can be painful when you're walking on a stubbed toe. To reduce further pain and swelling, try to shift some of your weight to your heel as you walk and stand. This can be a difficult balance to strike, as putting all of your weight on your heel can make walking awkward and cause soreness over time. Try to take just enough pressure off of your toe to avoid pain when walking.
• Once the swelling has subsided in your injured toe, light cushioning (for instance, a gel insole) can help minimize pain from walking.
• If the pain in your toe doesn't subside after an hour or two, you may want to take a break from physical activities like sports, etc. for a few days until you no longer feel pain.
5. 5
Make sure your shoe has enough space for the toe. Tight shoes can make a painful, swollen toe even more irritated. If you can, wear a loose, comfortable pair of shoes after your injury to protect the toe from more pressure. If you don't have a replacement pair of shoes available, you can try loosening the laces.
• Open-toed shoes like sandals and flip-flops can be the best choices of all — not only do they put no pressure on the top and sides of the toe, but they also allow easy access for cold compresses, bandage changes, and so on.
6. 6
Treat lingering pain with over-the-counter medications. If the pain from the stubbed toe doesn't subside on its own, over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers can be a good temporary solution. Here, you have many choices. Acetaminophen (paracetamol) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen are both available in many varieties from nearly any grocery store or pharmacy.[4]
• Be sure to follow any and all dosage instructions on the medicine's packaging. Even (OTC) medicines can have dangerous side effects when taken in large doses.
7. 7
Elevate especially bad toes. Another great way to reduce swelling is to elevate the injured toe above the body when you are sitting or resting. For instance, you might try propping it up on a stack of pillows when you lay down. Putting a swollen injury above the rest of your body makes it more difficult for the heart to pump blood to it. This causes blood to gradually flow out of the swollen area, reducing swelling. While it's basically impossible to do this while standing and walking, it's smart to take the time to elevate your injured toe whenever you plan on sitting or laying down for a long time.
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Recognizing Serious Problems
1. 1
Be wary of lingering pain and inflammation. As noted in the introduction, most stubbed toes are not serious injuries. Thus, a good indication that your stubbed toe is something more serious is if it does not seem to get better right away. Pain that doesn't get better in the same amount of time as an ordinary bruise is often a sign of an underlying problem that requires special treatment. Specifically, be on the lookout for the following signs:[5]
• Pain that doesn't lessen within an hour or two
• Pain that fully returns whenever pressure is put on the toe
• Swelling and/or inflammation that makes it difficult to walk or wear shoes for a few days
• Bruise-like discoloration that doesn't go away within a few days
2. 2
Look for signs of fracture. Especially-bad stubbed toes often result in a fracture (a break in the toe's bone). In this case, it's usually necessary to receive an X-ray, cast, or foot brace. Signs of a fracture include:[6]
• An audible "crack" or "pop" at the time of injury
• A toe that visually appears "bent," "kinked," or "crooked"
• Being unable to move the injure toe
• Prolonged pain, inflammation and bruising.
• Note that many broken toes don't prevent the injured person from walking. Being able to walk isn't a sign that a toe isn't broken.
3. 3
Look for signs of subungual hematoma (blood under the nail). Another injury that's common from a stubbed toe is for blood to gather under the toenail. The pressure between the built-up blood and the nail can lead to prolonged inflammation and swelling, making recovery a long, uncomfortable process. In this case, a doctor can make a small hole in the nail, allowing the blood to drain and relieving the pressure. This procedure is called a trephination.[7]
4. 4
Check for breaks in the nail. A toe injury that causes part or all of the nail to detach from the nail bed can be extremely painful. While treatment at home may be possible in some cases, seeing a doctor will give you access to treatments for reducing pain, protecting the wound, and fighting infection that may not be available to you otherwise.
• In addition, if an injury is serious enough to break your nail, it is possible that it has also caused a fracture or another problem that requires a doctor's help.
5. 5
If the toe injury appears serious, see a doctor. All of the problems mentioned above — toe fractures, hematomas, and nail breakages — are good reasons to see a doctor. A medical professional can use X-ray machines and other equipment to accurately diagnose your problem. In addition, doctors and nurses have the training necessary to instruct you how to protect your toe as it heals. Again, it's important to remember that most stubbed toes won't require medical attention. However, if you have reason to believe that yours is serious, don't be afraid to make an appointment.
• Always follow your doctor's advice over advice you find online. If anything your doctor tells you contradicts something you've read in this article, listen to your doctor.
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• I stubbed my toe and it was bleeding pretty bad and part of the skin was over the front of toe - what does that mean?
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If the bleeding does not stop, see a doctor. Keep the wound clean to avoid infection as it heals.
• It's been almost a month now, and I still have pain in my stubbed toe. The bruising and swelling has since subsided. How do I end this pain?
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Schedule a doctor's appointment as soon as possible, as it may be a fracture.
• What should I do to make the bleeding stop after stubbing my toe?
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Apply a small amount of pressure and put some sort of plaster or bandage on the toe.
• I think I have stubbed my toe but it's not bleeding or changing colors, what does it mean that my pinkie toe is swollen and it hurts every time I walk?
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If it's been more than a day or two, you should go to the doctor and get an X-ray just to be sure. I waited two weeks to get mine looked at and it was broken, now I'm in a foot boot.
• I stubbed my toe and it is black and blue. I don't know if there is any blood under the nail because I can't see it. Should I go to the doctor?
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Go to the doctor as soon as you can. It could be a serious injury or maybe just a bad bruise.
• What should I do if I stubbed my toe and the bone is lifted up?
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Seek help immediately. You could have broken your toe or displaced your toe bone.
• What should I do if I have to play volleyball tomorrow and I stubbed my toe badly on a door, making it hurt to walk?
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Use a combination of gauze and athletic tape and see if that helps reduce the pain.
• I am a 63 year old male. Two weeks ago, I hit my five toes accidentally. I went to the doctor, but they want to amputate my toes even though I have feeling in them. What should I do?
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If you aren't feeling any pain and the skin wasn't broken, you should probably see another doctor to get a second opinion.
• What could cause your toe to bleed from the top?
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This is probably just a small injury to the nail bed.
• Can I tape to the other toes to help it?
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Yes you can but you should go to the doctor to know how to tape them together properly. You should also make sure that you ask the doctor or nurse to show you how to re-tape it every few days. Do not do this without professional advice and explanation.
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• Take a brief break from whatever you were doing after you stub your toe — even if you have no reason to believe your injury was serious. The swelling from even a minor stubbed toe can make it much easier to stub the same toe again.
• The reason that it can be so difficult to tell whether a stubbed toe is serious or not is that feet are packed with sensitive nerve endings — in other words, even minor foot injuries can hurt like serious ones.[8] This makes it especially important to check for signs of serious injury after stubbing your toe.
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Stock Market News For Today October 4, 2021
Stock Market Futures Edge Lower Ahead Of China Trade Policy Update
Stock market futures are edging lower on Monday morning as we kick start the first full week of October. The concerns about slowing growth and persistently high inflation continue to keep investors awake at night. Both Asian and European markets were mixed earlier today, with the debt crisis from China Evergrande (OTCMKTS: EGRNF) continuing to haunt investors. The trading of China Evergrande shares was halted in the Hong Kongstock market today That was ahead of an announcement of a transaction, potentially a sale of part of its property services unit.
“The global chip and energy shortage is getting worse, the inflation is rising, the recovery may be slowing, and that puts central banks between a rock and a hard place … The best they could do is to do nothing, or to tighten their monetary policy to avoid losing control of the economy.”- Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote
Meanwhile, investors are also keeping an eye on the potential unveiling of the Biden administration’s China trade policy. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be speaking on the administration’s trade policy in a speech to a Washington think tank at 10 a.m. ET today. As of 7.06 a.m. ET, the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq futures are trading lower by 0.30%, 0.36%, and 0.48% respectively.
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With the global shortage of semiconductor chips straining the production of electric vehicles, it’s natural that EV makers will report a lower number in their production. But that appears to have not much impact on Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). On Saturday, Tesla announced that it delivered 241,300 electric vehicles during the company’s third fiscal quarter. It’s a record number for the largest EV maker that not only topped analyst expectations. But it also suggested that Tesla weathered the chip shortage better than more established rivals.
For instance, major automakers including General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Toyota (NYSE: TM) said they had suffered sales decline due to semiconductor chip shortages. Tesla’s deliveries, on the other hand, rose 20% from the second quarter and 73% from the previous-year quarter. Though far outsold by more established companies, investors also need to watch the EV space closely as competition heats up.
The American electric truck maker Rivian, backed by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Ford Motor (NYSE: F), is going public. And Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) will soon deliver a luxury sedan capable of travelling up to 420 miles on a single charge by the end of this month. Considering all this competition, will an investment in TSLA stock be worth the risk in the stock market today? If you consider the factory expansion and the handling of the chip shortage, there are certainly reasons for optimism with Tesla stock.
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A Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) whistleblower brought internal documents, research reports and online employee discussions detailing the company’s research to The Wall Street Journal. The whistleblower was revealed on ‘60 Minutes’ as Frances Haugen. The 37 year-old former Facebook product manager joined the company to protect against election interference on Facebook. According to Frances, Facebook’s lack of openness about its platforms’ potential for harm and unwillingness to address its flaws is putting people’s lives at risk. And as a last resort and at great personal risk, Frances decided to blow the whistle on Facebook.
The social media company has since been under fire after documents showed that Facebook was aware that Instagram has had negative impacts towards the mental health of young users. Haugen also shared new allegations about Facebook allegedly relaxing its standards on misinformation after the 2020 presidential elections. That was shortly ahead of the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. It’s no secret that Facebook has faced public relations issues over the years. Investors may be keen to see how this latest development could affect FB stock. But if history is of any guide, any impact would likely be temporary.
“The thing I saw at Facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money,” Haugen told ‘60 Minutes’.
Merck’s Antiviral Pill Success Sparks Vaccine Stocks Selloff
Merck (NYSE: MRK) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics have developed a drug that reduces the risk of hospitalizations or death by around 50%. The drug, molnupiravir, is administered orally and works by inhibiting the replication of the coronavirus inside the body. More importantly, data suggests that it is consistently effective in treating all variants of Covid. Merck said it would seek emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA as soon as possible.
“The news of the efficacy of this particular antiviral is obviously very good news … The company, when they briefed us last night, had mentioned that they will be submitting their data to the FDA imminently … The FDA will look at the data and in their usual, very efficient and effective way, will examine the data as quickly as they possibly can, and then it will be taken from there,”- Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a Covid briefing Friday.
Certainly, Merck’s news appears to be a positive development in the fight against the pandemic. But it fueled fears that COVID-19 vaccine sales will decline in the upcoming months. Following this announcement, shares of Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX), BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) came under severe pressure on Friday’s trading. This shows that investors have decided to take some profit given the current elevated valuation levels of vaccine stocks.
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El Salvador was the first country to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. Now, the country has just started mining the cryptocurrency using the energy from volcanoes. The country’s president Nayib Bukele has banked his political future on a nationwide Bitcoin experiment. He tweeted on early Friday morning on the country’s maiden voyage into volcano-powered bitcoin mining. Bukele then posted a photo displaying an account balance that showed his country successfully mined 0.00599179 Bitcoin. That equates to about $280.
The volcano-derived energy is one solution to address the environmental concerns that come in tandem with the production of Bitcoin. The tech-savvy 40 year-old president aims to use Bitcoin to transform his poverty-stricken country. What’s more, he could also leverage the adoption of cryptocurrency to tap on the unbanked population. Of course, it is unclear how the initiative would play out eventually. But the president remains firm with his decision to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender.
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Video: Calculating the Potential Difference across a Charged Capacitor
Calculate the voltage applied to a 2.00-𝜇F capacitor when it holds 3.10 𝜇c of charge.
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Calculate the voltage applied to a 2.00-microfarad capacitor when it holds 3.10 microcoulombs of charge.
In this example, we have three quantities that we want to connect: charge, capacitance, and voltage, what we want to solve for. And indeed, there is a relationship that brings all these three together. The capacitance of a capacitor is equal to the charge on the capacitor divided by the voltage across the plates.
We don’t want to solve for capacitance. But we do want to solve for voltage, which we can do by rearranging this equation. Cross multiplying, we find that the voltage across the capacitor is equal to the charge on the capacitor divided by its capacitance 𝐶. And these two quantities, charge and capacitance, are given to us in the problem statement. We write out the charge 𝑄 as 3.10 times 10 to the negative sixth coulombs and the capacitance 𝐶 as 2.00 times 10 to the negative sixth farad.
To three significant figures, this fraction is equal to 1.55 volts. That’s the voltage applied to this capacitor.
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House of Ill Fame is the first full-length album by Canadian hard rock band The Trews. It was released in 2003 by the label Epic Records. The group issued a music video for the more-alternative rock sounding song "Not Ready to Go". The album was certified Platinum (100,000 copies) in Canada in 2023, the band's first album to do so.
Track listing
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Gung Ho (TV series)
Gung Ho is an American sitcom based on the 1986 film of the same name. The series aired for one season on ABC from December 5, 1986, to February 9, 1987.
Synopsis
Just like in the movie, the TV series follows the exploits of Hunt Stevenson (here, played by Scott Bakula as opposed to Michael Keaton in the movie), a laid-back American employee liaison of a Japanese car company (Assan Motors) in the fictional city of Hadleyville, Pennsylvania. Much of the humor arises from the abounding clashes between Hunt and the new Japanese plant manager, Kaz Kazuhiro (Gedde Watanabe, reprising his role from the movie) while looking for ways to bridge the culture gap between one another.
Cast
Besides Watanabe, many of the other Japanese actors from the movie also reprised their roles for the series. Clint Howard (brother of Gung Ho movie director Ron Howard) was the only Caucasian actor from the film to also appear in the TV series.
* Scott Atari as Kenji
* Scott Bakula as Hunt Stevenson
* Heidi Banks as Randi
* Clint Howard as Googie
* Rodney Kageyama as Ito
* Stephen Lee as Buster
* Gedde Watanabe as Kaz Kazuhiro
* Patti Yasutake as Umeki Kazuhiro
* Sab Shimono as Saito
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* Wendy Schaal As Kelly
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The former United States Post Office in Punxsutawney is an historic, American post office building that is located in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
History and architectural features
Designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James Knox Taylor, this historic structure was built between 1912 and 1914 and is a two-story brick building with a raised basement that was created in the Neo Classical Revival style. It features a full Ionic order, octastyle, limestone portico with a coffered ceiling and single-step parapet gable. It housed the post office until 1998.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The building now houses the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center.
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List of awards and nominations received by Imelda Staunton
* Nominator(s): Jovian Eclipse (talk) 14:31, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Imelda Staunton is an English actress. Recognised internationally for portraying Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter film series, Staunton has earned numerous accolades in her forty-year career including four Olivier awards for her work in London theatre. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 14:31, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
* Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:38, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
* Lead: remove those references that are already in the article's body;
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Lead: add the films' year after their names, like you did with Vera Drake;
* But won't that look redundant? "In 2007, Staunton received international mainstream recognition for playing the antagonist Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)..." Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* You're right. My bad. Gaga Nutella talk 16:45, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Infobox: there's nothing when I click the show button, fix it;
* Should I list only the more prestigious awards there or everything that already is there in the body? Or is there any way to remove that thing altoghether if it's not needed? Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* It's optional per Template:Infobox awards list, but I strongly recommend you to add it using . Gaga Nutella talk 16:45, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* See Template:Compact TOC to know how to omit non-existent letters;
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Refs section: when you have two or more refs, please separate them with ;
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Remove Gold Derby Film Awards per Articles for deletion/Gold Derby Awards (2nd nomination);
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Notes: also add the films' year after their names;
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* References: wikilink all the work/publisher at least once;
* Done. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* References: not italicized: PBS, Official London Theatre, Fox News, CNN, BBC News, Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, Rotten Tomatoes, AARP, National Film Academy, Online Film Critics Society, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, IndieWire, WhatsOnStage.com;
* Done. Should it be the same for Movie City News? There's no Wikipedia article on that website for reference. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
I think that's it. Gaga Nutella talk 22:06, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
* Thanks for your feedback GagaNutella. Jovian Eclipse (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
* Support, my pleasure. Gaga Nutella talk 16:45, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
Support – from what I can tell, this is your first FLC; well done! RunningTiger123 (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Table accessibility review (MOS:DTAB): The tables are missing a caption (they have the line but it's empty).
* Please add `|+ table caption` to the top of the tables, or if it would duplicate a nearby section header you can visually hide the caption as `|+ `
* -- Pres N 14:31, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
* Done. Thanks PresN! Jovian Eclipse (talk) 17:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
* Sorry, I meant you should put in an actual caption, like Awards and nominations, not table caption. -- Pres N 22:15, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
* @PresN Oops! My bad. Fixed it :) Jovian Eclipse (talk) 11:17, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Source review passed; promoted. -- Pres N 22:41, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
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The Battle of Salamis
The Greek fleet had assembled at the island of Salamis, but an agreement on strategy was far from united. To make matters worse, Xerxes had arranged for a show of force outside the straits which saw a few contingents panic and set sail at once. For the rest who remained a decision was made that the fleet would withdraw back to the Peloponnese the next morning.
This would see Athens lost for good and the rest of Greece more vulnerable than ever. Themistocles, though had other ideas and now arranged a ruse, bordering on treason, to try and unite the Greeks to fight at Salamis. He would send a messenger to Xerxes to try and entice him into action before the Greeks had a chance to depart.
Xerxes would act on the information that Themistocles had sent him, mobilising his entire fleet to try and defeat the Greek navy once and for all. The movements become a little confused but appears that both openings of the striates would be blocked in in one way or another. The Greeks would learn of their dire position, which would now see only one option open to them now, to fight.
The battle of Salamis would see the Greek fleet far outnumbered, but the vast number of the Persians would see this inhibit their movement within the striates. With Xerxes looking on, the commanders aboard the Persian ships would foul themselves on one another as they attempted to get into action to impress their king.
The Greeks would suffer many losses in the long days fighting, but the Persians had suffered far worse and were in full retreat out of the striates. As they fell back yet more carnage would follow as Greek ambushes were launched. The Persian fleet was now a spent force and the Greeks had won the battle of Salamis. Though, the level of their victory was not immediately apparent, also the Persian land forces were yet undefeated and the campaign would continue on.
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Campaign Map of the Second Persian Invasion
The Battle of Salamis map
Victory monument at Salamis | FINEWEB-EDU |
The Tiger is a poem written by William Blake. It is about a tiger and how God created all living creatures including the lamb which the tiger eats.
I think that the poet calls the tiger's body fearful because it strikes fear into the hearts of all who see it in waiting for prey, and because its claws can rip you up in a matter of seconds.
I believe that what the poet means when he wrote the metaphor about the tiger “burning bright” in the nighttime forest is that the tiger's fur is visible while it is in the forest at nighttime when there are not many colors.
The other creature that the poet tells us about in this poem is the peaceful lamb which is in stark contrast with the ferocious tiger.
A question which the poet asks in this poem is why did the Lord create the tiger that would cause such pain to the lamb. The answer to this question is that it was not made to kill lambs or other animals, but because of Adam and Eve's sins death entered into the world, and the tiger and other predators became meat eaters.
A personification used in this poem is "When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears," is a poetic way to say that the stars give off light that looks like tears and spears.
The rhyme for this poem is AABB which means that the first two lines of each stanza rhyme and the second two lines of the stanza also rhyme. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Matrix Expressions
The Matrix expression module allows users to write down statements like
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, Matrix
>>> X = MatrixSymbol('X', 3, 3)
>>> Y = MatrixSymbol('Y', 3, 3)
>>> (X.T*X).I*Y
X^-1*X'^-1*Y
>>> Matrix(X)
Matrix([
[X[0, 0], X[0, 1], X[0, 2]],
[X[1, 0], X[1, 1], X[1, 2]],
[X[2, 0], X[2, 1], X[2, 2]]])
>>> (X*Y)[1, 2]
X[1, 0]*Y[0, 2] + X[1, 1]*Y[1, 2] + X[1, 2]*Y[2, 2]
where X and Y are MatrixSymbol‘s rather than scalar symbols.
Matrix Expressions Core Reference
class sympy.matrices.expressions.MatrixExpr
Superclass for Matrix Expressions
MatrixExprs represent abstract matrices, linear transformations represented within a particular basis.
Examples
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 3)
>>> y = MatrixSymbol('y', 3, 1)
>>> x = (A.T*A).I * A * y
Attributes
is_Identity
T
Matrix transposition.
as_explicit()
Returns a dense Matrix with elements represented explicitly
Returns an object of type ImmutableMatrix.
See also
as_mutable
returns mutable Matrix type
Examples
>>> from sympy import Identity
>>> I = Identity(3)
>>> I
I
>>> I.as_explicit()
Matrix([
[1, 0, 0],
[0, 1, 0],
[0, 0, 1]])
as_mutable()
Returns a dense, mutable matrix with elements represented explicitly
See also
as_explicit
returns ImmutableMatrix
Examples
>>> from sympy import Identity
>>> I = Identity(3)
>>> I
I
>>> I.shape
(3, 3)
>>> I.as_mutable()
Matrix([
[1, 0, 0],
[0, 1, 0],
[0, 0, 1]])
equals(other)
Test elementwise equality between matrices, potentially of different types
>>> from sympy import Identity, eye
>>> Identity(3).equals(eye(3))
True
class sympy.matrices.expressions.MatrixSymbol
Symbolic representation of a Matrix object
Creates a SymPy Symbol to represent a Matrix. This matrix has a shape and can be included in Matrix Expressions
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, Identity
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 4) # A 3 by 4 Matrix
>>> B = MatrixSymbol('B', 4, 3) # A 4 by 3 Matrix
>>> A.shape
(3, 4)
>>> 2*A*B + Identity(3)
I + 2*A*B
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.MatAdd
A Sum of Matrix Expressions
MatAdd inherits from and operates like SymPy Add
>>> from sympy import MatAdd, MatrixSymbol
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 5, 5)
>>> B = MatrixSymbol('B', 5, 5)
>>> C = MatrixSymbol('C', 5, 5)
>>> MatAdd(A, B, C)
A + B + C
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.MatMul
A product of matrix expressions
Examples
>>> from sympy import MatMul, MatrixSymbol
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 5, 4)
>>> B = MatrixSymbol('B', 4, 3)
>>> C = MatrixSymbol('C', 3, 6)
>>> MatMul(A, B, C)
A*B*C
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.MatPow
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.Inverse
The multiplicative inverse of a matrix expression
This is a symbolic object that simply stores its argument without evaluating it. To actually compute the inverse, use the .inverse() method of matrices.
Examples
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, Inverse
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 3)
>>> B = MatrixSymbol('B', 3, 3)
>>> Inverse(A)
A^-1
>>> A.inverse() == Inverse(A)
True
>>> (A*B).inverse()
B^-1*A^-1
>>> Inverse(A*B)
(A*B)^-1
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.Transpose
The transpose of a matrix expression.
This is a symbolic object that simply stores its argument without evaluating it. To actually compute the transpose, use the transpose() function, or the .T attribute of matrices.
Examples
>>> from sympy.matrices import MatrixSymbol, Transpose
>>> from sympy.functions import transpose
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 5)
>>> B = MatrixSymbol('B', 5, 3)
>>> Transpose(A)
A'
>>> A.T == transpose(A) == Transpose(A)
True
>>> Transpose(A*B)
(A*B)'
>>> transpose(A*B)
B'*A'
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.Trace
Matrix Trace
Represents the trace of a matrix expression.
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, Trace, eye
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 3)
>>> Trace(A)
Trace(A)
See Also:
trace
class sympy.matrices.expressions.FunctionMatrix
Represents a Matrix using a function (Lambda)
This class is an alternative to SparseMatrix
>>> from sympy import FunctionMatrix, symbols, Lambda, MatMul, Matrix
>>> i, j = symbols('i,j')
>>> X = FunctionMatrix(3, 3, Lambda((i, j), i + j))
>>> Matrix(X)
Matrix([
[0, 1, 2],
[1, 2, 3],
[2, 3, 4]])
>>> Y = FunctionMatrix(1000, 1000, Lambda((i, j), i + j))
>>> isinstance(Y*Y, MatMul) # this is an expression object
True
>>> (Y**2)[10,10] # So this is evaluated lazily
342923500
Attributes
is_Identity
class sympy.matrices.expressions.Identity
The Matrix Identity I - multiplicative identity
>>> from sympy.matrices import Identity, MatrixSymbol
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 5)
>>> I = Identity(3)
>>> I*A
A
class sympy.matrices.expressions.ZeroMatrix
The Matrix Zero 0 - additive identity
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, ZeroMatrix
>>> A = MatrixSymbol('A', 3, 5)
>>> Z = ZeroMatrix(3, 5)
>>> A+Z
A
>>> Z*A.T
0
Attributes
is_Identity
Block Matrices
Block matrices allow you to construct larger matrices out of smaller sub-blocks. They can work with MatrixExpr or ImmutableMatrix objects.
class sympy.matrices.expressions.blockmatrix.BlockMatrix[source]
A BlockMatrix is a Matrix composed of other smaller, submatrices
The submatrices are stored in a SymPy Matrix object but accessed as part of a Matrix Expression
>>> from sympy import (MatrixSymbol, BlockMatrix, symbols,
... Identity, ZeroMatrix, block_collapse)
>>> n,m,l = symbols('n m l')
>>> X = MatrixSymbol('X', n, n)
>>> Y = MatrixSymbol('Y', m ,m)
>>> Z = MatrixSymbol('Z', n, m)
>>> B = BlockMatrix([[X, Z], [ZeroMatrix(m,n), Y]])
>>> print(B)
Matrix([
[X, Z],
[0, Y]])
>>> C = BlockMatrix([[Identity(n), Z]])
>>> print(C)
Matrix([[I, Z]])
>>> print(block_collapse(C*B))
Matrix([[X, Z*Y + Z]])
transpose()[source]
Return transpose of matrix.
Examples
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, BlockMatrix, ZeroMatrix
>>> from sympy.abc import l, m, n
>>> X = MatrixSymbol('X', n, n)
>>> Y = MatrixSymbol('Y', m ,m)
>>> Z = MatrixSymbol('Z', n, m)
>>> B = BlockMatrix([[X, Z], [ZeroMatrix(m,n), Y]])
>>> B.transpose()
Matrix([
[X', 0],
[Z', Y']])
>>> _.transpose()
Matrix([
[X, Z],
[0, Y]])
class sympy.matrices.expressions.blockmatrix.BlockDiagMatrix[source]
A BlockDiagMatrix is a BlockMatrix with matrices only along the diagonal
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, BlockDiagMatrix, symbols, Identity
>>> n,m,l = symbols('n m l')
>>> X = MatrixSymbol('X', n, n)
>>> Y = MatrixSymbol('Y', m ,m)
>>> BlockDiagMatrix(X, Y)
Matrix([
[X, 0],
[0, Y]])
sympy.matrices.expressions.blockmatrix.block_collapse(expr)[source]
Evaluates a block matrix expression
>>> from sympy import MatrixSymbol, BlockMatrix, symbols, Identity, Matrix, ZeroMatrix, block_collapse
>>> n,m,l = symbols('n m l')
>>> X = MatrixSymbol('X', n, n)
>>> Y = MatrixSymbol('Y', m ,m)
>>> Z = MatrixSymbol('Z', n, m)
>>> B = BlockMatrix([[X, Z], [ZeroMatrix(m, n), Y]])
>>> print(B)
Matrix([
[X, Z],
[0, Y]])
>>> C = BlockMatrix([[Identity(n), Z]])
>>> print(C)
Matrix([[I, Z]])
>>> print(block_collapse(C*B))
Matrix([[X, Z*Y + Z]])
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Chester Cross
Chester Cross may refer to:
* Chester Cross (junction), a staggered crossroads in the centre of Chester, Cheshire, England
* Chester High Cross, a reconstructed medieval cross standing in the junction | WIKI |
Testing same named AUTs in Squish
Testing same named AUTs in Squish
We often get asked what is the best approach for testing two AUTs with same name in Squish.
Consider an example where a user wants to test two different versions of an AUT located at two different paths and both AUTs are calledfoo.exe.
The information about the registered AUTs is stored in the filesquishserver.ini found at %APPDATA%\froglogic\Squishver1\server.ini (Windows) or « $HOME/.squish/ver1/server.ini » (Unix)).
The registered entry for AUT foo version in the file squishserver.ini looks like below:
AUT/foo = « C:\applications\version1 »
After registering the AUT foo for version2 in squish, the previously registered entry for foo.exe version1 will get overwritten by the entry for foo.exe version2. The registered AUT entry for foo in thesquishserver.ini will now look like below:
AUT/foo = « C:\applications\version2 »
This causes only the last registered AUT to be tested, and switching between the two AUTs requires re-registering the AUTs each time which can be inconvenient.
The following approach can be taken to testing different versions of an AUT with same name:
One can write an alternative function to startApplication() which takes an absolute path to some executable. This alternative function (startExecutable() in our example below) first registers an AUT by calling squishrunner and then launches it via startApplication() :
function startExecutable(path)
{
// Split given path into directory and filename components by looking for last backslash
var lastSlash = path.lastIndexOf('\\');
var directory = path.substring(0, lastSlash);
var fileName = path.substring(lastSlash + 1);
// Register AUT in squishserver by invoking squishrunner
OS.system("\"" + OS.getenv("SQUISH_PREFIX") + "/bin/squishrunner\" --config addAUT " + fileName + " " + directory);
// Launch AUT
return startApplication(fileName);
}
function main()
{
startExecutable( "C:\\applications\\version1\\foo.exe" );
snooze(1)
// Or: startExecutable( "C:\\applications\\version2\\foo.exe" );
}
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66 Yacco, were freely described as the Henry Irving and Ellen Terry of the Far East. Most of the critics, expecting too much and understanding too little, went empty away, or if they derived any pleasure from the entertainment, derived it from purely æsthetic and undramatic qualities. For a week the stars shone on empty benches; but then the fashionable and artistic public, which has a habit of ignoring the professional critic, became aware of the fact that a miniature comedy and tragedy of rare delicacy and charm, as naïf as they were beautiful, could be seen, and seen only for a few afternoons, in the prosaic neighbourhood of Netting Hill. Success was assured, and we are promised a return visit in the autumn. But the critics were partly justified in their cold reception of alien art. They had come for drama and been put off with pantomime. "If this be Japanese drama," they said, "a little of it goes a long way. We have had enough." Had they been given drama as it is played in Tōkyō, with long, irrelevant scenes and a plot requiring four hours to unravel, how much more discontented they would have been!
It is a pity that the advertising note was pitched too high. Good wine needed less bush. There is no "Japanese Court Company," but his Majesty the Emperor was once present at a performance by Mr. Kawakami during a garden-party in the grounds of the Marquis Kuroda. Mr. Kawakami is certainly not the "Henry Irving of Japan," for that title, whatever be its precise meaning, belongs rather to Ichikawa Danjuro, associated for more than half a century with the impersonation of historical and mythical heroes. But he holds a high and honourable position among actors of the sōshi school, as they are called—a school | WIKI |
YouTube cracking down on conspiracy, other misleading videos
Google-owned YouTube said Friday that it will suggest fewer controversial videos as a means to improve its recommendation system. The company has come under fire in recent months for highlighting conspiracy theories and politically-motivated attack ads alongside otherwise unassuming content. YouTube has seen particular criticism for suggesting extremist videos alongside children's content and for featuring misinformation around national tragedies. Any improvements to the recommendation system will likely be well-received, although difficult to maintain amid a general polarization of online content. Google-owned YouTube will begin "taking a closer look at how we can reduce the spread of content that comes close to—but doesn't quite cross the line of — violating our Community Guidelines," the company said in a blog post. "To that end, we'll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways — such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11." This isn't the first time the company has addressed the problem of misleading videos. Last year, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcikci announced that YouTube would start featuring links to Wikipedia and other reliable sources on videos that promoted conspiracy theories. The tactic has not stopped the spread of those videos, however, as YouTube's recommendation algorithm still sends people to a wide variety of bizarre and misleading content, as a recent test from BuzzFeed showed. In limiting the videos that are recommended, YouTube could face similar backlash to the type Facebook and Twitter have faced from conservative posters and political pundits who claim the companies are intentionally restricting their reach. "To be clear, this will only affect recommendations of what videos to watch, not whether a video is available on YouTube," the company said. "We think this change strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users." Ultimately, YouTube said, the change will only affect a "very small set of videos." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Can I Use Any Charger for My Lenovo Laptop? A Guide to Compatible Charging Options
In today’s tech-savvy world, owning a laptop has become a necessity for many. However, one common concern that laptop users often face is the compatibility of charging options. Specifically, Lenovo laptop users often wonder whether they can use any charger to power up their device. In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to help you understand the compatible charging options for your Lenovo laptop, ensuring that you never have to deal with the hassle of a dead battery again.
Understanding The Importance Of Compatible Chargers For Lenovo Laptops
Using a compatible charger for your Lenovo laptop is crucial for maintaining the device’s performance and longevity. Choosing the wrong charger can result in multiple issues that may affect the laptop’s functionality and even cause damage.
Lenovo laptops have specific charging requirements, including voltage, amperage, and wattage, which vary depending on the model. The charger needs to match these specifications to provide the correct power supply to the laptop. Using an incompatible charger with higher or lower power output can lead to overheating, battery damage, or even electrical shorts.
Furthermore, using non-genuine or third-party chargers may also compromise the safety of your Lenovo laptop. These chargers may not adhere to safety standards and can pose a risk of electrical hazards, such as short circuits or fires.
To ensure compatibility and safety, it is recommended to use the charger that came with your Lenovo laptop or purchase an original replacement from a reliable source. While third-party chargers may seem cost-effective, they are not guaranteed to meet the necessary specifications and can potentially harm your laptop.
By understanding the importance of using compatible chargers, you can protect your Lenovo laptop from potential damage and ensure its optimal performance.
Identifying The Correct Charger Specifications For Your Lenovo Laptop Model
When it comes to charging your Lenovo laptop, it is crucial to identify the correct charger specifications for your specific laptop model. Using the wrong charger can potentially damage your device or cause it to charge slowly.
To identify the correct charger specifications, you should first check the label on the original charger that came with your laptop. Look for the voltage (V) and amperage (A) ratings. These numbers indicate the electrical power output required by your device.
Next, you need to ensure that the charger connector is compatible with your laptop. Lenovo laptops typically use a rectangular connector known as a “Lenovo Square Tip.” However, some older models might use different connector types, so it is essential to double-check before making a purchase.
It is worth noting that not all Lenovo laptops have the same charging requirements. Some models, such as ultrabooks, require lower power output, while gaming laptops may demand higher voltage and amperage.
By correctly identifying the charger specifications for your Lenovo laptop model, you can ensure safe and efficient charging without risking any damage to your device.
Exploring Different Charging Options For Lenovo Laptops
When it comes to charging your Lenovo laptop, you may be wondering if you can use any charger that fits the power port. While it may be tempting to grab any charger that is compatible physically, it is important to explore the different charging options available for Lenovo laptops.
Firstly, it is essential to know that Lenovo laptops primarily use AC adapters to charge. These adapters convert the AC power from the wall outlet to the DC power required by the laptop. Most Lenovo laptops come with their own specific AC adapter, which is recommended for optimal charging.
However, there are alternative options available. Universal chargers are designed to work with multiple laptop brands, including Lenovo. These chargers usually come with interchangeable tips to fit various laptop models. It is crucial to ensure that the output voltage and amperage of the universal charger align with the specifications required by your Lenovo laptop.
Another option to explore is USB-C charging. USB-C ports can be found on newer models of Lenovo laptops and provide a versatile solution for charging. With USB-C, you can use a compatible charger, power bank, or even a USB-C dock to charge your laptop. However, it is important to check if your laptop supports USB-C charging and to use a charger with sufficient power delivery capabilities.
In conclusion, while it is best to use the recommended AC adapter provided by Lenovo, there are alternative charging options available, such as universal chargers and USB-C charging. However, it is crucial to ensure compatibility and adhere to the required specifications to safely and efficiently charge your Lenovo laptop.
Original Vs. Third-Party Chargers: Which Is The Best Choice?
When it comes to charging your Lenovo laptop, one of the crucial decisions you need to make is choosing between an original charger or a third-party one. Both options have their pros and cons, and understanding them can help you make an informed decision.
Original chargers, also known as OEM chargers, are specifically designed for Lenovo laptops. They are manufactured by Lenovo or an authorized manufacturer, ensuring compatibility and reliability. Original chargers often come with a higher price tag, but they offer peace of mind and are generally considered to be of higher quality.
On the other hand, third-party chargers are produced by independent manufacturers and are usually more affordable. While they may be compatible with your Lenovo laptop, there is a risk of compatibility issues or even damage to your device. It’s important to do thorough research and choose a reputable third-party charger that is known for its quality and compatibility.
Ultimately, the choice between an original charger and a third-party charger depends on your budget, preferences, and level of risk tolerance. If you prioritize reliability and compatibility, investing in an original charger is recommended. However, if budget is a concern and you find a reputable third-party charger that meets your needs, it can be a viable alternative.
Common Compatibility Issues To Keep In Mind When Charging Your Lenovo Laptop
When it comes to charging your Lenovo laptop, compatibility issues can sometimes arise, causing frustration and inconvenience. Understanding these common compatibility issues is crucial to ensure a smooth charging experience.
One of the most common compatibility issues is using a charger with the wrong voltage or wattage. Lenovo laptops typically require a specific voltage and wattage to charge efficiently, so it’s essential to check your laptop’s specifications and match them with the charger you are using.
Another compatibility issue is using a charger with the wrong connector. Lenovo laptops come with different types of charging connectors, such as Rectangle Tip, Round Tip, USB-C, or Thunderbolt. Using a charger with an incompatible connector can lead to charging problems or even damage your laptop.
Additionally, using a charger with a lower amperage rating than your laptop requires can result in slower charging or an insufficient power supply. It’s crucial to ensure that the charger you are using can provide the necessary amperage to charge your Lenovo laptop effectively.
Lastly, compatibility issues can also arise when using third-party chargers. While these chargers may seem like a cost-effective option, they might not meet the necessary standards and specifications of Lenovo laptops, resulting in compatibility problems.
To avoid these compatibility issues, always check your laptop’s specifications, use the correct charger model, connector, voltage, wattage, and amperage rating. Additionally, it is recommended to stick with original chargers or reputable third-party chargers specifically designed for Lenovo laptops to ensure safe and efficient charging.
Exploring USB-C Charging As An Alternative Option For Lenovo Laptops
USB-C charging has become increasingly popular in recent years, offering a convenient and versatile charging solution for Lenovo laptops. Unlike traditional chargers, USB-C chargers are reversible, making it easy to plug in without having to worry about the orientation.
One of the significant advantages of USB-C charging is its ability to deliver higher power output compared to standard chargers. This means that your Lenovo laptop can charge faster and more efficiently, saving you valuable time. USB-C charging also supports faster data transfer speeds, allowing you to transfer files and sync your devices at lightning-fast speeds.
Another benefit of USB-C charging is its universality. USB-C ports can be found not only on laptops but also on smartphones, tablets, and other devices. This means that you can use the same charger to power up multiple devices, eliminating the need for carrying multiple chargers while traveling.
However, it is essential to ensure that the USB-C charger you choose is compatible with your Lenovo laptop. Checking the wattage and voltage requirements of your laptop model and selecting a charger that meets these specifications will prevent any compatibility issues and ensure safe and efficient charging.
Tips And Best Practices For Safe And Efficient Charging Of Your Lenovo Laptop
Charging your Lenovo laptop efficiently and safely is essential for the longevity and performance of your device. Here are some tips and best practices to follow:
1. Use the recommended charger: Always use the charger provided by Lenovo or a compatible charger recommended by the manufacturer. Using an incompatible charger may damage your laptop’s battery or even cause overheating.
2. Check the charger’s voltage and amperage: Ensure that the charger’s voltage and amperage output match your laptop’s requirements. Using a charger with higher or lower specifications can affect the battery’s lifespan and may cause charging issues.
3. Avoid charging from non-certified sources: It is recommended to charge your Lenovo laptop directly from a power outlet rather than using USB ports on other devices or generic USB chargers. Non-certified charging sources may not provide sufficient power or deliver it at the right voltage, potentially damaging your laptop.
4. Charge in a cool and ventilated area: Avoid charging your laptop in hot environments, as excessive heat can harm the battery’s lifespan. Additionally, ensure proper ventilation around your laptop while charging to prevent overheating.
5. Disconnect when fully charged: Overcharging can reduce your laptop’s battery life. Once your laptop reaches 100% charge, unplug it from the charger to prevent unnecessary strain on the battery.
6. Maintain a healthy battery level: For optimal battery performance, it’s recommended to keep your battery level between 20% and 80%. Frequent full discharges or charging to 100% can shorten the battery’s lifespan.
By following these tips and best practices, you can ensure the safe and efficient charging of your Lenovo laptop, promoting its longevity and reliable performance.
Conclusion: Making An Informed Decision For Your Lenovo Laptop Charger
In conclusion, when it comes to choosing a charger for your Lenovo laptop, it is crucial to make an informed decision to ensure compatibility and optimal performance. Start by understanding the importance of compatible chargers for Lenovo laptops and the potential risks associated with using incompatible ones.
Next, identify the correct charger specifications for your specific Lenovo laptop model. This information can usually be found in the user manual or on the manufacturer’s website.
Consider the different charging options available for Lenovo laptops, including original and third-party chargers. While original chargers are generally recommended for the best performance and compatibility, third-party chargers can be a more affordable alternative.
Be aware of common compatibility issues to keep in mind when charging your Lenovo laptop. These may include wattage, voltage, and connector compatibility.
Explore the USB-C charging option as a versatile and convenient alternative for Lenovo laptops that support this technology.
Finally, follow tips and best practices for safe and efficient charging of your Lenovo laptop, such as avoiding overcharging, keeping the charger and laptop well-ventilated, and using surge protectors.
By considering these guidelines and factors, you will be able to confidently choose the right charger for your Lenovo laptop and ensure a reliable and efficient charging experience.
FAQs
1. Can I use any charger for my Lenovo laptop?
Yes, you can use any charger as long as it meets the required specifications for your Lenovo laptop. It is important to ensure that the charger has the correct voltage and amperage to avoid damaging your laptop’s battery or components.
2. What are the compatible charging options for Lenovo laptops?
There are several compatible charging options for Lenovo laptops. You can use the original charger that came with your laptop, purchase a replacement charger from Lenovo or an authorized reseller, or use a universal laptop charger that supports the required voltage and amperage for your specific model.
3. Are third-party chargers safe to use with Lenovo laptops?
While some third-party chargers may be safe to use with Lenovo laptops, it is important to exercise caution. It is recommended to use chargers from reputable and trustworthy brands that adhere to safety standards. Cheaper or low-quality chargers may not provide sufficient power or have built-in safety features, potentially leading to damage to your laptop’s battery or electrical components.
Verdict
In conclusion, it is important to note that while some chargers may be compatible with Lenovo laptops, it is always advisable to use the charger specifically designed for your particular model. This ensures the highest level of compatibility and performance, while also minimizing any potential risks of damage to your device. It is worth investing in the appropriate charger to maintain the longevity and functionality of your Lenovo laptop.
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Merkel's Bavarian allies insist on conservative unity before coalition talks
BERLIN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The head of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) has insisted Angela Merkel’s conservatives must agree policies on immigration limits, pensions and healthcare before they can open coalition negotiations with two other parties. CSU leaders - stung by a drop in support of more than 10 percent in the Sept. 24 elections - have redoubled their insistence on a 200,000 per year cap on immigration, a demand that Merkel has rejected, complicating her efforts to form a new government. CSU leader Horst Seehofer told a group of politicians that the conservative allies could not begin negotiating with the environmental Greens and pro-business Free Democrats until the issues were resolved, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday. It said the Bavarian premier, who is fending off calls for his own resignation, said the two parties faced their biggest challenge since 1976 - when his predecessor, Franz-Josef Strauss, threatened for weeks to break up the alliance. Seehofer, whose biggest challenger is Bavarian finance minister Markus Soeder, is due to meet with Merkel and other top officials on Sunday, the paper said. The conflict inside the conservative camp is straining Merkel’s already difficult task of bringing together parties with big differences on energy, Europe, migration and taxes. Armin Laschet, premier of Germany’s most populous region, North Rhine-Westphalia, said at the weekend that Merkel’s -Christian Democratic Union (CDU) would not make a coalition at any cost, and that the Greens would have to step back from some of their demands. Merkel has sought to keep the door open for a renewal of her “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats that has ruled for the past four years, but the SPD is determined to stay in opposition after suffering its worst result since 1933. “We got 20.5 percent of the vote. That is not a mandate to govern,” SPD Secretary General Hubertus Heil told broadcaster ARD on Monday. He accused the other parties of “theatrics” and stalling coalition negotiations until after state elections on Oct. 15 in Lower Saxony. “They want to govern, now they should govern,” he said. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Robin Pomeroy) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Fred Bould
Fred Bould (born 1964) is an American product designer. He is the founder and owner of Bould Design, the company which designed both the thermostat and smoke alarm for Nest Labs, and the Hero3 action camera for GoPro. Bould helped to design a weather and crop data sensor for Arable Labs. | WIKI |
OPC Client Apps
Hello world! Launch the Processing (2.2.1) IDE and load the first of our example programs: OPCstrandtest.
At the top of the code are these two lines:
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OPC opc = new OPC(this, "192.168.0.60", 7890);
int numPixels = 256; // Set this to actual strand length
The first line holds the address of your OPC server device. We previously configured that in the Arduino code. The format here is just a little different though…instead of four comma-delimited values (192, 168, 0, 60), here it’s a string with period separators "192.168.0.60". Edit the numbers to match the Arduino sketch.
Next line is the number of LEDs in your DotStar chain. This might be 64 for an 8x8 matrix, or 60 (or 144, etc.) for one meter of DotStar strip.
When you run this code (the top-left icon in the Processing window), after just a moment’s delay you should see the message “Connected to OPC server” and get a “chaser” down the DotStar chain that cycles between red, green and blue for each pass. Press the ESC key to stop the program.
If the colors appear in the wrong order (not red, green, blue), you’ll need to edit the Arduino sketch to match your particular DotStar hardware. This is explained near the bottom of the “Software” page.
If it runs slowly or stutters, especially with long LED runs, you may need to reduce the frame rate. Inside the setup() function you’ll see a call to frameRate(). It takes a single argument, the number of frames per second. The default (if not specified) is 60 frames per second…that’s usually fine with small projects, but with lots of LEDs you may need to dial it back, to perhaps 30 frames per second.
If you don’t see the “Connected” message and don’t get any LEDs: either the Server sketch on the Arduino can’t connect to the wireless network, or the address at the top of the Processing sketch is incorrect.
Do not continue until you have the led “chaser” working, and it’s cycling from red to green to blue.
Animation Without Programming
Now load the second example: OPCpianoRoll. Make similar edits to the IP address and LED chain length at the top of the code. When run, this will prompt you for an image file. A moving cross-section (one horizontal line) of this image is then “played” on the LED chain.
What this basically enables you to do is use your favorite image editor (Photoshop or most anything else) to create animation sequences. Create a new image whose pixel width is equal to the number of LEDs in the chain, and the height is the animation length in seconds times the number of frames per second (which can be controlled with the slider at the bottom of the window). For example: 60 DotStar LEDs, with a 15-second animation at 30 frames/second (the default) = 60 pixels wide x 450 pixels high (15 x 30). Make the background black, then try using the pencil or airbrush tools to paint some colorful lines. Save the result as a lossless 24-bit image (like PNG or TIFF…do not use GIF or JPEG, they’ll degrade with each successive edit)…then run the OPCpianoRoll sketch and select this file when prompted.
The topology (a straight line) won’t necessarily match the physical layout of your LEDs, but once you understand the “mapping” between the two different spaces it’s pretty easy to use.
Here’s an image equivalent to the RGB chaser code along a 144 pixel strip. Right click and “Save Image” to save this to your computer for use with the OPCpianoRoll sketch:
Video Playback
Last example is “OPCvideo.” This works best with LED matrices. Edit the IP address at the top of the code to point to the OPC server, then edit the values of “arrayWidth” and “arrayHeight” to match the LED matrix (assumed to be a “zigzag” layout…if not, there’s an opportunity to change that a little further down in the setup() function). When run, you’ll be prompted to select a movie file (e.g. .MOV, .MP4, .AVI) which then plays on the LED matrix, hot damn.
Video decoding and playback is unfortunately not always reliable in Processing…it can be incredibly persnickety about codecs, plug-in libraries, 32-bit vs 64-bit and other things. If a certain video file doesn’t work, your only recourse may be to try other videos using different codecs, or sometimes a different version of Processing…or you may just have to skip this one and try the other demos (and start writing some of your own).
Some of the dimmer LEDs flicker!
This is normal and by design. DotStar LEDs have a finite number of discrete brightness levels, and our eyes perceive disproportionally large steps toward the low end of the brightness range. Borrowing an idea from Fadecandy, our code uses temporal dithering to approximate in-between brightness levels that would otherwise be too dim or too bright…it quickly alternates between the two. It’s less noticeable at a distance and/or with some diffusion over the LEDs, like paper or white acrylic.
Creating New OPC Clients in Processing
Notice that all of the example sketches have a second tab called “OPC.” This is an Open Pixel Control library for Processing, written by Micah Scott (Fadecandy’s creator). To create a new OPC sketch, or adapt an existing Processing sketch to add OPC output, make a new tab called “OPC” and then copy-and-paste that code from any of the existing OPC examples.
Processing is way too deep to summarize here. Entire books have been written on the subject. If you’d like to get started writing new sketches of your own, look through the Examples they include, or skim the Reference and Tutorials pages on the Processing web site.
The OPC library allows you to create an “overlay” atop the screen output of any existing Processing sketch, redirecting specific pixels to an OPC server. Several functions allow you to position lines or grids (even circles) of LED pixel locations within the Processing output window. After this one-time setup, your sketch just draws animation as it would normally…no per-frame processing is required…and the LED pixels follow suit. So you can write animation code first (no hardware required), then worry about the LED placement later.
What’s exciting about this is that you’re not constrained to pixel grids. Your art can take whatever shape you feel it needs…this isn’t necessarily dictated by the physical hardware.
Here’s an example using one of our 255-pixel DotStar LED discs:
And the corresponding source code. Notice the “circumference” array, which lists the number of pixels in each concentric ring around the DotStar disc, and the calls to opc.ledRing() which overlay these points atop the program’s display window. The draw() function then handles the animation…it doesn’t have to think about networking or data packets at all, it just happens.
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// OPC example scrolls text on a 255-pixel DotStar disc
OPC opc = new OPC(this, "192.168.0.60", 7890);
PFont f;
void setup() {
size(400, 400);
frameRate(60);
int circumference[] = { 12*4, 11*4, 10*4, 8*4, 7*4, 6*4, 5*4, 3*4, 6, 1 };
int i = 0;
for(int j=0; j<10; j++) {
opc.ledRing(i, circumference[j], width/2, height/2, width/20*(9-j), 0);
i += circumference[j];
}
printArray(PFont.list()); // Show available fonts, if you need to change:
f = createFont("HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic", 450);
textFont(f);
textAlign(LEFT);
colorMode(HSB, 100, 100, 100);
}
int hue = 0, x = -1800;
void draw() {
background(0);
fill(hue, 100, 50);
text("Adafruit", x, 360);
x -= 12;
if(x < -1800) x = width;
hue++;
if(hue >= 100) hue = 0;
}
Not Done Yet
Things get really interesting when you realize it’s possible to create arrays of OPC objects, each one pointed to a different remote OPC device…
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OPC opc[] = {
new OPC(this, "192.168.0.60", 7890),
new OPC(this, "192.168.0.61", 7890),
new OPC(this, "192.168.0.62", 7890)
};
void setup() {
size(400, 400, P3D);
opc[0].ledGrid8x8(0, 100, 200, 10, 0, true);
opc[1].ledGrid8x8(0, 200, 200, 10, 0, true);
opc[2].ledGrid8x8(0, 300, 200, 10, 0, true);
...
…once set up, the remainder is “automagic.” The animation is synchronized across all the OPC devices on the wireless network, which are free to move around (within range of the WiFi router). This could make for some very potent and interesting performance art. Also, it’s “self-healing”…if a device loses its connection, animation continues across the others, and the missing device will pick up at the right spot once a network connection is reestablished.
Python Too…and More to Come!
The Open Pixel Control protocol itself is fairly straightforward, and most any programming language with network support could conceivably be used to write clients.
The canonical OPC code repository on Github includes some examples written in Python.
Google around, you may find libraries for other languages as well. Or read the OPC stream specification (incredibly simple!) and implement your own.
This guide was first published on Feb 01, 2016. It was last updated on Feb 01, 2016. This page (OPC Client Apps) was last updated on Jul 15, 2019. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Kentucky Route 79
Kentucky Route 79 (KY 79) is a 102 mi north–south state highway that traverses five counties in west-central Kentucky. It can be seen as an extension of U.S. Route 79 (US 79), as they have the same number and once intersected; KY 79 begins in the same city that US 79 ends, and both travel on a northeast–southwest diagonal path.
Logan County
KY 79 starts at an intersection with KY 3519, an old alignment of US 431, Main Street in downtown Russellville, while US 79's end is currently at an intersection with US 68 and KY 80 on the eastern side of Russellville. KY 79 has an intersection with the four-lane divided US 68/KY 80 alignment. The two routes once met at the intersection of Main Street and Ninth Street, which carried the US 79 route to US 68 before the bypass.
KY 79 traverses northeastern Logan County, with intersections with KY 1038 and KY 2377.
Butler County
After entering Butler County, KY 79 has intersections with KY 626 in Davis Crossroads and KY 1153. It then joins into a concurrency with US 231 just south of Morgantown; the two routes go into downtown Morgantown shortly after their interchange with I-165, the former William H. Natcher Parkway, and then meets KY 403 in downtown, and then KY 70 on the north side. KY 70 joins KY 79 and US 231 and all three routes are carried over the Green River from Morgantown to Aberdeen.
KY 79 departs at the Aberdeen Grocery, but KY 70 does not break up until reaching an intersection one mile north on US 231. After the split from US 231 and KY 70, KY 79 has an intersection with KY 1328 not more than 0.25 mi from the split from US 231. Kentucky Route 79 crosses KY 70 for a final time, and becomes known as Caneyville Road.
KY 79 passes through Butler County's northern communities of Welcome and Welch's Creek where it meets up with KY 340.
Grayson County
After KY 79 enters Grayson County and has access to the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway on the south side of Caneyville and would also intersect KY 185 at that route's northern terminus, and immediately after that, it crosses US 62 in downtown Caneyville.
KY 79 then goes north towards Pine Knob and Short Creek, where it intersects KY 54 at Short Creek, goes through the developed portion of Falls of Rough, and then passes the Rough River Dam State Park.
Breckenridge and Meade Counties
While traversing the Rough River Dam, KY 79 crosses into Breckinridge County, where it intersects with KY 105, and then meets up with KY 259. KY 79 joins KY 259 from the lake area until they both reach the intersection with U.S. Highway 60 at Harned, southeast of Hardinsburg. While KY 259 makes a left turn to join US 60 westbound, KY 79 turns onto eastbound US 60, and stays with US 60 until reaching Irvington, where KY 79 enters Meade County, and heads for Brandenburg. On the southwest side of Brandenburg, KY 79 ends at an intersection with KY 313 and KY 448. The route once went to the nearby Ohio River bridge, but that was superseded with the completion of KY 313, the Joe Prather Highway, through Meade County.
History
From 1929 until 1944, KY 79 was originally assigned to a rural highway in Simpson County. That route ran from the Tennessee state line, continuing south as Tennessee State Route 49, northeastward to Franklin; this route later became Kentucky Route 383.
From 1944 until 1958, the KY 79 designation only existed on its course from Irvington to Brandenburg; the current alignment of KY 79 from Russellville to Axtel was signed as KY 105. With the 1958 extension of U.S. Route 79 into Kentucky from Clarksville, Tennessee, KY 79 was extended to its length to serve as an unofficial extension of US 79 about eight years later.
In Meade County, KY 79 previously ran around the west side of Brandenburg to the Matthew E. Welsh Bridge across the Ohio River, where it terminated on the Indiana state line to become Indiana State Road 135. However, in 2018, the designation was replaced by KY 313, truncating KY 79 to its current terminus.
Kentucky Route 79 Truck
Kentucky Route 79 Truck (KY 79 Truck) is a truck route in Morgantown, Kentucky. It runs concurrently with the entire route of US 231 Truck as the main KY 79 alignment runs concurrently with US 231's main alignment throughout the city. It serves as a by-pass route around Morgantown. Its component routes include I-165 from the Main Street interchange to the KY 70 interchange, and KY 70 (Veterans Way) from the I-165 junction to the US 231/KY 79/KY 403 junction on the north side of town. | WIKI |
Extending age ranges in breast cancer screening in four european countries: Model estimations of harm-to-benefit ratios
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The main benefit of breast cancer (BC) screening is a reduction in mortality from BC. However, screening also causes harms such as overdiagnosis and false-positive results. The balance between benefits and harms varies by age. This study aims to assess how harm-to-benefit ratios of BC screening vary by age in the Netherlands, Finland, Italy and Slovenia. Using microsimulation models, we simulated biennial screening with 100% attendance at varying ages for cohorts of women followed over a lifetime. The number of overdiagnoses, false-positive diagnoses, BC deaths averted and life-years gained (LYG) were calculated per 1000 women. We compared four strategies (50–69, 45–69, 45–74 and 50–74) by calculating four harm-to-benefit ratios, respectively. Screening women at 45–74 or 50–74 years would be less beneficial in any of the four countries than screening women at 45–69, which would result in relatively fewer overdiagnoses per death averted or LYG compared to the reference strategy of 50–69. At the same time, false-positive results per death averted would increase substantially. Adapting the age range of BC screening is an option to improve harm-to-benefit ratios in all four countries. Prioritization of considered harms and benefits affects the interpretation of results.
Original languageEnglish
Article number3360
JournalCancers
Volume13
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jul 2021
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
Funding: This modelling study is part of the EU-TOPIA project, funded by the EU-Framework Programme (Horizon 2020) of the European Commission, project reference 634753. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this manuscript.
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Bob Laden
Bob Laden (AKA Robert Laden) is a makeup artist who has been nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Oscar nominations
* 1987 Academy Awards, nominated for Happy New Year. Lost to Harry and the Hendersons.
* 1995 Academy Awards, nominated for Roommates, nomination shared with Colleen Callaghan and Greg Cannom. Lost to Braveheart.
Selected filmography
* Amistad (1997)
* Thinner (1996)
* Roommates (1995)
* Wolf (1994)
* Chaplin (1992)
* Scent of a Woman (1992)
* Happy New Year (1987)
* Prizzi's Honor (1985)
* The Wiz (1978) | WIKI |
Facebook's Data Transfer Practice to be Examined by ECJ
Per media reports, Irish High Court has now approached, European Court of Justice (ECJ), to decide if Facebook IncFB can continue thepractice of transferring data of its European users to the United States. Notably, Facebook's European headquarters are located at Dublin.
The Irish Court Judge Caroline Costello was quoted by media reports stating that "European Union law guarantees a high level of protection to EU citizens. They are entitled to an equivalent high level of protection when their data is transferred outside of the European Economic Area."
Costello also underscored the Irish Data Protection Commissioner's concerns which stemsfrom absence of a "remedy" in the U.S law which is attuned with the EU charter of Fundamental Rights that protects EU citizens against the unlawful access of their data by U.S state agencies.
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Analysts observe that European regulators have been scrutinizing the data transfer practice by American companiesstringently following WikiLeaks' Edward Snowden's explosive revelations of mass U.S surveillance.
Following that, Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer filed a complaint with Dublin over "illegal" access of his Facebook account data by U.S. Security agencies, serving as another big trigger to step up privacy laws, adds media reports. Schrems persistent efforts at safeguarding the privacy rights of European citizens led to the ban of Safe Harbor agreement two years back which then stated that U.S privacy laws were "adequate" to protect the right of the European citizens.
Per Reuters, this time around Schrems expects the top court to work in favor of European citizens and also work on making laws sterner, at par with what the Facebook's U.S. users enjoy.
Meanwhile, reportedly, Facebook spokesperson has said thatEurope's top court must take in to consideration the "extensive evidence demonstrating the robust protections in place under standard contractual clauses and US law, before it makes any decision that may endanger the transfer of data across the Atlantic and around the globe."
The ruling by ECJ can have a tremendous impact on many companies whichtransfer data from Eurpe to U.S on a daily basis.
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150 I appealed to Doran, and he has written to Lake, to the editor, whom he happens to know."
"It would be hard to find hereabouts a man of any importance whatever whom Sam Doran does not know. He grew up in Lake County, and has held half the offices in the county's gift."
"There may be a clue for us in that clipping. I discovered another thing in that room. The dead man wrote, or began, a letter to his brother. I learned this from a scrap, dated and addressed, which I found in the waste basket, and I am led to believe the letter was re-written, or rather begun anew, and sent, from the fact that a fresh blotter showed a fragment of Brierly's name, and the city address. That letter, if mailed, must have passed him as he came down. Did he mention getting it?"
Doctor Barnes shook his head.
"He said nothing about such a letter," he replied. "Does he know about this—this newspaper business?"
"Not a word. No one knows it but yourself. If it should prove to be a clue in my hands, it may be better, it will be better, I am sure, to keep it at present between us two. I think, however, that I may decide to show Miss—my cousin—that anonymous letter, and tell her something about that mysterious boy and his visit to her lover's rooms." And then Ferrars | WIKI |
Producer Consumer Problem Java : Detailed Explaination
Producer Consumer Problem is well-known example of multi-process synchronization problem. It is described as synchronization problem over a fixed size data buffer implemented as queue being modified by two or more different processes referred as producers and consumers. For a data buffer, we can have multiple number of producers and consumers. Producers task is to keep generating data and place it into buffer while Consumers task is to keep consuming data from buffer. Problem is to ensure that Producers do not add data into buffer if its full and Consumer do not consumer data if buffer is empty.
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For resolving above problem, Producer and Consumer should behave as below.
Producer
1. Check if Buffer is full or not. If full, then wait() for buffer items to get consumed.
2. Generate data and put it into Buffer.
3. Notify Consumer that Data has been placed into Buffer.
4. Repeat step 1-3
Consumer
1. Check if Buffer has items. If empty, then wait() for buffer to get filled.
2. Consume data from Buffer.
3. Notify Producer that Data has been consumed from Buffer
4. Repear step 1-3
We will implement Producer Consumer Problem Java using two approaches.
1. Synchronized Instance Methods
A synchronized instance method in Java is synchronized on the instance (object) owning the method. Thus, each instance has its synchronized methods synchronized on a different object: the owning instance. Only one thread can execute inside a synchronized instance method.
Producer Consumer Problem Java Source Code Using Synchronized Instance Methods
2. BlockingQueue (java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue)
BlockingQueues are thread-safe. They wait for the queue to become non-empty when retrieving and removing an element, and wait for space to become available in the queue when adding an element. For this purpose we will use put() to add data to buffer and take() to remove data from buffer.
Producer Consumer Problem Java Source Code Using BlockingQueue
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Rh owed this turn of events to the premature surrender she had made in defiance of his sound worldly advice. Father and daughter alike were left to assign the Marquis' desertion, naturally enough, to the riot at the Feydau. They laid that with the rest to the account of Scaramouche, and were forced in bitterness to admit that the scoundrel had taken a superlative revenge. Climène may even have come to consider that it would have paid her better to have run a straight course with Scaramouche and by marrying him to have trusted to his undoubted talents to place her on the summit to which her ambition urged her, and to which it was now futile for her to aspire. If so, that reflection must have been her sufficient punishment. For, as André-Louis so truly says, there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.
Meanwhile the fiercely sought André-Louis Moreau had gone to earth completely for the present. And the brisk police of Paris, urged on by the King's Lieutenant from Rennes, hunted for him in vain. Yet he might have been found in a house in the Rue du Hasard within a stone's throw of the Palais Royal, whither purest chance had conducted him.
That which in his letter to Le Chapelier he represents as a contingency of the near future was, in fact, the case in which already he found himself. He was destitute. His money was exhausted, including that procured by the sale of such articles of adornment as were not of absolute necessity.
So desperate was his case that strolling one gusty April morning down the Rue du Hasard with his nose in the wind looking for what might be picked up, he stopped to read a notice outside the door of a house on the left side of the street as you approach the Rue de Richelieu. There was no reason why he should have gone down the Rue du Hasard. Perhaps its name attracted him, as appropriate to his case.
The notice written in a big round hand announced that a | WIKI |
COMPANY NEWS - Facing Heavy Losses, Tonka Seeks a Buyer - NYTimes.com
MINNETONKA, Minn., Jan. 28 The Tonka Corporation, the nation's third-largest toy maker, predicted substantial losses today for the fourth quarter and for 1990 and said it had been involved in talks about a possible sale of the company. Tonka did not identify any potential buyer. The company said the discussions were preliminary. Analysts said a sale of Tonka might be necessary because of its heavy debt load and expected losses. Tonka, maker of Tonka trucks and Play-Doh, took on $555 million in debt when it acquired Kenner Parker Toys Inc. in 1987. Another toy maker, Lewis Galoob Toys Inc., said on Friday that it had retained Bear, Stearns & Company to explore financial alternatives, including the possible formation of strategic alliances. Citing slow retail sales, Galoob reiterated a forecast of a significant loss for the year. Galoob makes Micro Machines miniature vehicles. News that its rivals were involved in possible buyout talks sent Tyco Toys Inc. stock higher, analysts said. Tyco makes the Ideal toy line. Its shares rose $1.625 today, to $10, in over-the-counter trading. On the New York Stock Exchange, Galoob fell 25 cents, to $3, and Tonka slipped 75 cents, to $4.375. Analysts said it was unclear whether Hasbro Inc. and Mattel Inc., the largest and second-largest toy makers, respectively, would try to acquire Tonka. A Mattel spokesman would not comment, and a Hasbro representative could not be reached. Carol Palmer, an analyst at Duff & Phelps, said Tonka's troubles stemmed partly from the economy and partly from the fact that it does not have a hit toy. Tonka estimated its sales for 1990 would be about $786 million, down from $870.5 million in 1989. For the first nine months of 1990, Tonka reported a loss of $25.4 million, on sales of $541.3 million. For all of 1989, Tonka reported a profit of $7.7 million, or 90 cents a share. Room for Debate asks whether shorefront homeowners should have to open their land to all comers. New York City's top public schools must become more diverse. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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5 Ingredient Fix
5 Ingredient Fix is a television series starring Claire Robinson, the premise of which is that she creates entrées solely from five main ingredients. | WIKI |
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Parking
Parking this here, for ongoing project
California's 1st State Senate district & California's 1st State Assembly district
'' In the state legislature, ____ is in, and.
Federally, ____ is in. ''
DONE:
* Lassen County
* Modoc County
* Nevada County (not Kingvale which is split)
* Plumas County
* Shasta
* Sierra
* Siskiyou
DO NOT DO (splits):
* Butte County
* Placer County
California's 2nd State Senate district & California's 2nd State Assembly district
'' In the state legislature,___ is in, and.
Federally, ____ is in. ''
DONE
* Hum Co ALL
* Mendocino County ALL
* Trinity County ALL
QUESTION:
* Del Norte County is being done by Stephen
DO NOT DO (splits)
* Sonoma County | WIKI |
Festive Forest Fruits
Skyrail Nature Diary: December 2009
The World Heritage Rainforest is themed for a tropical Christmas this month, its green foliage contrasting with an array of red fruits, seeds and berries.
The Fibrous Satinash, also known as the Rain Cherry, is just one of many species bursting with clusters of red fruit in December. The fruits of this lilly pilly are edible, but are very sour and best used for jam.
The Fibrous Satinash (Syzygium fibrosum) grows up to 15 meters high in the rainforest (usually much smaller when cultivated for gardening) and prefers warm, wet sites at lower altitudes. New leaf flush varies in colour from red to purple and brown, before maturing to shiny, dark green. Its flowers are quite inconspicuous, ranging from white, to apricot and dull orange. Its fruits are popular with many birds, including the Torres Strait Pigeon.
Another fruit popular with rainforest birds are those of the Glossy Laurel (Cryptocarya laevigata), which is an understorey plant growing between 3-5 metres tall.
Considered one of the most handsome of the rainforest shrubs, the Glossy Laurel has glossy, dark green leaves that can grow up to 15cm long and contrast beautifully with its bright orange to red fruits, which measure approximately 1.5cm in diameter.
This is an excellent garden plant: indeed, the Glossy Laurel has been grown in glasshouses in England since the early 19th century . Quite compact and hardy once established, the Glossy Laurel produces perfumed flowers which are followed by its red-ribbed fruits, which are very poisonous to humans.
The Candleberry (Pothos longipes) is another plant fruiting this month; its red berries grow in clusters or singularly and often accompanied by the long-lasting, white flowers. These fruits are edible, raw or cooked, but are quite tasteless. They are popular with Flying foxes, Fawn-footed Melomys and many birds.
Unlike many other rainforest vines, the Candleberry thrives in the rainforest understorey, cloaking the lower trunks of many trees. This hemi-epiphyte uses its wiry, claw-shaped rootlets to climb trees, braches and rocks in moist rainforest from northern New South Wales to north-east Queensland. The common name comes from its leaves, which look like candles, with a flame on them.
Finally, we look at an unusual rainforest plant, the Scarlet Bean (Archidendron lucyi). Thriving in the warm, wet lowland rainforests from Mission Beach to Cape Tribulation, the Scarlet Bean is a spectacular species which is also a great ornamental for gardens.
Growing anywhere between 5-20 metres tall, depending on soil and conditions, the Scarlet Bean has stunning, white, honeysuckle-scented flowers which are followed, many months later, by a very unusual fruit. The fruits are curled pods, which start green, before 'ripening' to orange and red and then splitting down one side to reveal a brilliant yellow interior with black seeds.
These and many more rainforest species can be seen flowering and fruiting in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Rainforests this month. Skyrail Rainforest Cableway provides the perfect vantage point, gliding just metres over the canopy and then allowing closer inspection on the forest floor, at its two rainforest mid-stations. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Fort William, Scotland
Cromwell
I know the article was short and vague, but - correct me if I'm wrong - I thought Cromwell built a small citadel in the Lochaber region, which was about 50 years later superseded by a stone fort built with the more specific aim of controlling the region in mind. --Dweir
Errr, could be. I know Cromwell built a wooden stockade, and I assumed that was "Fort William" too. I'm not familiar with the circumstances with the changeover to the stone structure. -- Paul Drye
* Can't find a book on the subject at the moment but the Inverlochy Castle website has Cromwell building his "Citadel" in 1654 and Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scourie raising a fort on the foundations of Cromwell's citadel in 1690. It was rebuilt in stone over the next four years.
* There are some excellent plans of Fort William on the National Library of Scotland website . There is also further information in CANMORE on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland site jmb
Article title
Do we need this level of disambiguation? I wouldn't have thought there were that many Fort Williams in the world. --John (talk) 22:05, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
French claim
"French loan-words in the Gaelic language are very rare" - There are actually quite a few. Not very common, but not uncommon either.--MacRùsgail (talk) 15:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
* Do you think 'rare' by itself is best? Removing 'very' wouldn't find very (ha!) much disagreement from me, but it is a significant fact that French loan words are really not as common in Gaelic as they were in the Norman impact on Anglo-Saxon. Essentially modern English is Norman Anglo-Saxon. Scottish Gaelic is Gaelic with Welsh inflection, and, you are right, more than a few French loan words. Felis Read (talk) 10:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Lol, you should maybe take a look at the English, Norse and Latin loanwords into Gaelic, as well as Brittonic ones. Gaelic is not some "pure" language anymore than English is. English is just English. Gaelic is just Gaelic. They're not 'essentially' anything other than what they are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:13, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 26 July 2023
The result of the move request was: moved to Fort William, Scotland. (closed by non-admin page mover) The Night Watch (talk) 19:37, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Fort William, Highland → Fort William, Lochaber – Per WP:SCOTLANDPLACE. Convention is to disambiguate settlements in the Highland Council area by their district rather than the council area as a whole. Stevie fae Scotland (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
* Support, there are plenty of Highland & Fort William entries at Highland (disambiguation) and Fort William respectively, so potentially, Highland may be ambiguous dab. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 20:43, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
* I'm also now opting for Fort William, Scotland instead of Lochaber but the reason I gave does not change that much. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 17:30, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose. Move to Fort William, Scotland. There aren't any other Fort Williams in Scotland. Geographical names should be disambiguated by the most recognizable unambiguous larger administrative unit, which in this case is the country. If the naming convention is promoting absurd titles, ignore it. Policies supersede local guidelines. Recognizability is the primary consideration at Article titles, which is a policy. The naming convention is a local guideline. DrKay (talk) 08:35, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
* Oppose. Move to Fort William, Scotland. -- Devoke water 12:23, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Litter on the streets....the bins are full
Empty the bins 2A00:23EE:13D0:6844:FB93:D73D:9B02:53CD (talk) 14:39, 21 April 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
BL 12-inch Mk I – VII naval gun
The BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I was a British rifled breech-loading naval gun of the early 1880s intended for the largest warships such as battleships and also coastal defence. It was Britain's first attempt to match the large guns being installed in rival European navies, particularly France, after Britain transitioned from rifled muzzle-loading guns to the modern rifled breech-loaders somewhat later than the European powers. Mks I - VII all had a barrel of approximately 303 inches in length (25.25 calibres) and similar performance.
Naval service
Mk II was installed on battleships HMS Colossus (1882) from 1882, HMS Collingwood (1882) and the coastal service ironclad HMS Conqueror (1881). Mk II guns failed in service and were quickly replaced by Mks III. IV and V, with many changes and improvements. The later marks were also mounted on HMS Hero (1885), sistership of Conqueror, and on HMS Edinburgh (1882), sister ship of Colossus.
Coast defence gun
Mks I, VI and VII were coast defence versions with trunnions for mounting on recoil slides. They were installed in forts in England at Spitbank Fort, No Man's Land Fort and Horse Sand Fort from 1884 onward and were in active service during World War I. | WIKI |
Prince Yongsan
Prince Yongsan (1325–1341) was a Goryeo Royal Prince and the heir successor to the throne as the only son of King Chungsuk of Goryeo and Princess Joguk. However, his mother died at 17 years old not long after he was born.
According to Goryeosa records written by Jeong Bang-gil in 1330, it was said that the Prince didn't have a good relationship with his half older brother, the 16 years old Prince Wang Jeong who was 10 years older than Yongsan. Then, Bang-gil told Wang Jeong who wanted go to Yuan dynasty for join with Prince Yongsan to go there, but Jo Ik-cheong said "It's Impossible" and he then stopped it. Meanwhile, considering that Yongsan was in Yuan until his death, it is highly probable that he went to the Yuan dynasty between 1330 and 1341 and died in there during his stay. After his death, his body was transported to Goryeo for the funeral, but his tomb site was unknown because no records left about that. | WIKI |
Page:North Dakota Reports (vol. 3).pdf/162
to contracts. But reference to the averments of the amended answer shows that the idea of a special custom is distinctly negatived by the answer; nor would counsel contend that a mere special custom should receive judicial sanction as a means of building up title to land. A description in the tax roll, adjudged to be valid, in one county or locality in the state, must be held good in all parts of the state; otherwise, chaos in tax proceedings and in land titles would supervene.
The considerations already advanced have satisfied a majority of this court that the averments as to a general usage of language pleaded in the amended answer present a state of things which ought not to be left to the chances of nisi prius trials, and be permitted to be proved or disproved, as it might turn out. Hence we shall sustain plaintiff's assignment of error predicated upon the order of allowing the amended answer to be served and filed. The. chief justice, (Judge Bartholomew, ) while fully agreeing with the majority of the court in holding that the descriptions in question are without the sanctions of any general custom or law, and hence are insufficient as a basis of taxation, prefers to rest his concurrence on this branch of the case upon a somewhat different line of reasoning. I quote his language: “A description of realty in an assessment roll, to be sufficient, must be such a one as the law recognizes. It is not enough that it be such as may be, in fact, understood, or often or generally used. It must be such as must be understood in the sense that the law will not listen to the declaration that it is not understood. A defective or ambiguous description in a deed or contract may be cured by ascertaining the intention of the parties to the instrument, and giving effect to such intention. But this cannot apply to an assessment. Tax proceedings are in invitum, and there are no contracting parties. Primarily, the description must be such that it must be understood by, and will not mislead, the owner. It must also go further, and be such as must be understood by all persons desiring to purchase at tax sale. Theoretically this includes all persons capable of contracting. | WIKI |
Talk:Gnaeus Julius Agricola
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The conquest of Scotland
Recent dating evidence of Roman sites in central Scotland show conclusively that the area was occupied for some time before Agricola ever became the British governer - I don't mean visited, I mean truely occupied. In other words, his "conquest of Scotland" (such as it was) was accomplished by one of his predecessors. It is now thought among many historians even that the battle of Mons Graupus did not actually even take place, or was simply a minor skirmish. See here, for example. Lianachan 12:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
* I was just reading that link for another reason, this and associated articles need a bit of editing!
* "and they were put to flight." - Who? Caledonians or cavalry?Kdammers (talk) 05:28, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Governor of Britain
He also expanded Roman rule north into Caledonia (modern Scotland). In the summer of 80 he pushed his armies to the estuary of the river Taus, virtually unchallenged, and established forts there. This is often interpreted as the Firth of Tay, but this would appear to be anomalous as it is further north than the Firths of Clyde and Forth, which Agricola did not reach until the following year. Others suggest the Taus was the Solway Firth
I would suggest that the assumption that Agricola did not reach the Clyde/Forth isthmus until the year following his expedition to the Taus is a misreading of Tacitus, and for these reasons:
* Tacitus 22 : "The third year of his campaigns opened up new tribes, our ravages on the native population being carried as far as the Taus". New tribes - so he's talking about a large area.
* Tacitus 23 : "The fourth summer he employed in securing what he had overrun", He then goes on to talk about Agricola defending the narrow strip of land between two estuaries "which the tides of two opposite seas carry far back into the country". This can only mean either the Solway/Tyne isthmus, or the Clyde/Forth isthmus, It cannot be the Solway/Tyne isthmus, which had been reached in the earlier 70s - a timber fort was founded at Carlisle (Lugovalium) in 72.
* Since Agricola was securing this territory which had been overrun, his army must have explored further north than the Clyde/Forth line, and retreated to that line to build the series of forts. The northernmost point reached was the Taus, so the Taus must be to the north of the Clyde/Forth line.
* There is only one significant river to the north of the Clyde/Forth isthmus - the Tay
Rambler24 (talk) 19:08, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Having read further, It appear that there is evidence for the establishment of the Gask Ridge frontier in Scotland as early as 70, but certainly by the late 70s. In that case, there can be little doubt that Agricola, if he WAS campaigning in Scotland, and if he WAS "opening up new tribes" as Tacitus says, must have been operating far to the north of the Clyde/Forth Line, let alone the Solway/Tyne line,by 80. Rambler24 (talk) 19:58, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
* Reliable Sources by academic scholars to support your assertions? Because our personal research is valueless to the Wiki project.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Date conflict
The introduction says Agricola was recalled from Britain in 83. The "Later Years" section says that he was recalled in 85. I don't have the knowledge or time for research to correct it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esobocinski (talk • contribs) 10:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
* Yes, I noticed that too! But fortunately that has been fixed. Also, I saw that the 84 A.D. article said that he (Agricola) was recalled in 84! Something is definitely wrong. Could someone please clear this up? Rsercher (talk) 02:58, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Original source for family
Editors are often callous about sourced text and sources get moved around, which is pretty dreadful but happens. The original source was the top entry here: Agricola and the conquest of the north - Page 33 W. S. Hanson - 1987.Here's another. ¬¬¬¬ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 14:58, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
Gallo-Roman is a bit confusing...
The term Gallo-Romans is used to describe Romanized Gauls. Gaius Julius Agricola was a Roman citizen from branch settled in Gaul (stirpes Agricola) of an Italic clan (gens Julia). Hence, if we want to be precise, we should call him a Roman Italo-Gallic general. Or say that he was a Roman born in Gaul from a Latin dynasty that settled there. The point is that he wasn't a Celt nor a member of the Gallic peoples. Barjimoa (talk) 10:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Dates
Dates are not postfixed by AD or BC or BCE. 2601:547:C000:7850:7FC8:E2BD:DC13:9DED (talk) 09:46, 22 November 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Das Kapital (Moore, 1906).pdf/150
144. It can therefore be replaced by paper symbols. If, on the other hand, all the conduits of circulation were to-day filled with paper money to the full extent of their capacity for absorbing money, they might to-morrow be overflowing in consequence of a fluctuation in the circulation of commodities. There would no longer be any standard. If the paper money exceed its proper limit, which is the amount of gold coins of the like denomination that can actually be current, it would, apart from the danger of falling into general disrepute, represent only that quantity of gold, which, in accordance with the laws of the circulation of commodities, is required, and is alone capable of being represented by paper. If the quantity of paper money issued be double what it ought to be, then, as a matter of fact, £1 would be the money-name not of $1⁄4$ of an ounce, but of $1⁄8$ of an ounce of gold. The effect would be the same as if an alteration had taken place in the function of gold as a standard of prices. Those values that were previously expressed by the price of £1 would now be expressed by the price of £2.
Paper-money is a token representing gold or money. The relation between it and the values of commodities is this, that the latter are ideally expressed in the same quantities of gold that are symbolically represented by the paper. Only in so far as paper-money represents gold, which like all other commodities has value, is it a symbol of value.
Finally, some one may ask why gold is capable of being replaced by tokens that have no value? But, as we have already seen, it is capable of being so replaced only in so far as it functions exclusively as coin, or as the circulating | WIKI |
The Only Planets That Have No Moons
Moons are one of the most abundant types of celestial objects in our solar system. There are over 200 moons in our solar system alone, the majority of which orbit only two planets, Jupiter and Saturn. Almost every planet in our solar system has at least one moon, and it is possible that moons are a natural aspect of planet formation. However, there are two exceptions to this in our solar system. Neither Mercury nor Venus has any moons, and they are the only planets in our solar system that have no natural satellites. Why do Mercury and Venus not have any moons?
Distance From the Sun
Solar system, Sun, mercury, Venus, planet earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Mercury and Venus are the two innermost planets.
One major factor contributing to the fact that neither Mercury nor Venus has moons is likely the distance between these worlds and the sun. Since Mercury and Venus are the two innermost planets, they experience a higher gravitational pull from the sun than the other planets. The sun’s gravity likely prevented the formation of any moons around Mercury and Venus.
If any natural satellites did form around these two planets, chances are that the sun’s gravity would have prevented them from entering stable orbits. In the case of Mercury, any moon would have to orbit so close to Mercury that it would probably impact the planet’s surface, and if a moon formed too far away, it would be captured by the sun’s gravity. However, given Mercury’s distance from the sun, it is unlikely that the debris needed to form a moon would even fall into orbit around Mercury, and instead, it would be captured by the sun’s gravity.
What About Venus?
Solar System, Venus
Venus is the second planet from the sun.
While Venus is the second closest planet to the sun, it is still far enough away that a moon could form in Venus’s orbit. Interestingly, astronomers believe that Venus may have had a moon in the past, and the evidence for this comes from Venus’s rotation. Venus has the slowest rotation of any planet, and it takes 243 days for Venus to complete one rotation about its axis. Furthermore, Venus experiences what’s called retrograde motion. While every other planet rotates counterclockwise, Venus rotates clockwise. While this may not seem significant, Venus is the only planet that rotates in retrograde, and it suggests some interesting implications about Venus’s past.
When the solar system was young and the planets first formed, there were likely as many as a hundred planets in our solar system. Gradually, these planets collided with one another, and astronomers believe that every planet likely underwent one or more collisions. Models suggest that Venus likely underwent two collisions with other planets. The first collision would have ejected a tremendous amount of debris into Venus’s orbit, which later could have later formed a moon. A second collision impacted Venus in the opposite direction of its rotation, causing Venus to start rotating clockwise.
However, Venus’s moon would have continued orbiting the planet in a clockwise direction. If a planet rotates in the opposite direction of its moon’s orbit path, the planet will absorb orbital energy from the moon, causing the size of its orbit to decrease over time. Eventually, the moon becomes so close that the planet’s gravity rips the moon apart and the debris rains toward the surface. This is likely the reason behind the lack of natural satellites orbiting Venus.
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Leopoldstadt (play)
Leopoldstadt is a dramatic stage play written by British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard. The original production premiered on 25 January 2020 at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. The play is set among the wealthy Jewish community in Vienna, in the first half of the 20th century and follows the lives of "a prosperous Jewish family who had fled the pogroms in the East".
According to Stoppard, the play "took a year to write, but the gestation was much longer. Quite a lot of it is personal to me, but I made it about a Viennese family so that it wouldn't seem to be about me." All four of Stoppard's grandparents were Jews murdered by Nazis in concentration camps. On 2 October 2022, the production opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre with Marber directing.
A National Theatre Live recording was screened in over 380 cinemas on 27 January (Holocaust Memorial Day), 2022 and topped that night's UK and Ireland box office. The play's second preview performance had also taken place on Holocaust Memorial Day, in 2020, when each audience member was given a memorial candle as they left the theatre.
Background
Patrick Marber, who worked with Stoppard on the revival of Travesties in London and New York, commented that "It's a big company play which as a director is incredibly exciting to do. It's got the lot." During rehearsals he "instituted a fabulous regime of lectures" given by cast members, allotting each a subject relevant to the play's themes to investigate.
West End (2020–2021)
Leopoldstadt 's original run at Wyndham's — which had no seat unsold at any performance — was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the production temporarily shut down on 16 March 2020. On 25 October 2020 Leopoldstadt won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, and Adrian Scarborough won for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. After Covid restrictions were lifted in England the play re-opened and ran from 7 August to 30 October 2021.
Stoppard told BBC Radio 4 that Leopoldstadt may be his last play — though in October 2021 he acknowledged, in a CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour, that he was reconsidering: “I'm a playwright, by more than, as it were, labeling. I feel like somebody who writes plays while they're still alive.”
The Wyndham's production's set design was by Richard Hudson, costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel, lighting by Neil Austin, sound and original music by Adam Cork and movement by EJ Boyle. Leopoldstadt is the sixth collaboration between Sonia Friedman Productions and Stoppard. The 41 actors performing in the 2020 production were cast by Amy Ball (adults) and Verity Naughton (children). The initial cast list was announced on 25 October 2019 and included Adrian Scarborough, Alexis Zegerman, Luke Thallon and Stoppard's son, Ed.
Broadway (2022–2023)
The play had its North American premiere on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre when it started previews on 14 September 2022 and opened on 2 October. Its originally intended North American premiere was to have taken place at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, for a seven-week engagement with the London cast, however it was announced that the run would no longer go ahead because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The theatre's owner, David Mirvish, said "... I'm not giving up on Leopoldstadt. I'm determined to present this magnificent play in Toronto sometime in the future when it is safe to do so." Originally scheduled to run through March 2023, the Broadway run was extended to July 2023. The production played its final performance on July 2, 2023.
Non-English productions
John Malkovich staged the first Latvian language production of the play at Dailes Theatre which opened on 15 September 2023 in Riga, Latvia. Malkovich, having previously acted on the same stage, was approached by the theater's director who inquired about his interest in directing a play. “We spoke about a number of plays, but he was most excited about doing Leopoldstadt. And since I’m someone who has spent a lot of time in Vienna, have worked there many times, and have spent a good deal of time reading and experiencing Viennese history and culture, it was quite a natural thing for me to do,” Malkovich stated. On this production he worked with the Dailes Theatre repertoire company, but employed his own frequent collaborators Pierre-François Limbosch & Birgit Hutter in the art department.
The play was staged in Israel at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, where it premiered on April 1, 2023. The translation belonged to Dori Parnes and the stage director was Ilan Ronen.
Synopsis
Leopoldstadt frames the narrative of a Jewish family in Vienna over a period of some 50 years. The main set is the drawing room of a wealthy family. There are five acts occurring in the years 1899, 1900, 1924, 1938 and 1955.
* 1899: the family gathers for Christmas, discussing ideas ranging from Theodore Herzl's Zionism to Jewish and Viennese arts and culture. Family members have integrated well with Viennese society, and enjoy their rights and civil liberties. Hanna asks Gretl to chaperone her on a date with a non-Jewish cavalry officer, Fritz. Hermann’s nephew, Pauli, expresses an interest in becoming a soldier.
* 1900: Gretl and Fritz strike up an affair, which Gretl eventually ends. Hermann gains knowledge of this, but ultimately dismisses Gretl's infidelity. The family gather for Passover Seder, celebrating the birth of Hermann’s niece, Nellie.
* 1924: Jacob, the son of Hermann and Gretl, fought in World War I alongside Pauli. Pauli was killed in battle; Jacob survived but lost an eye and has one useless arm. The family gather for a bris ceremony. This act explores the impacts of the Great War and the rise of Bolshevism. Fearing for the worst, Hermann meets with a banker to discuss transferring the family business to Jacob.
* 1938: the year of Anschluss. The family are gathered, with the company of a British journalist who is engaged to one of the girls in the family. The family discuss escape plans, including visas to England. The Nazis enter the property, harassing the family and seizing their belongings. The family's home is requisitioned by the Nazis and the family must leave to be transported the following day. Hermann is forced to sign the family business away to the Nazis, but Jacob retains legal ownership. It is revealed that Jacob is the legal son of Gretl and Fritz; Hermann planned and acknowledged the affair so that Jacob would not face antisemitism since he would be legally recorded as a gentile.
* 1955: the survivors of the Holocaust gather in the family home. Only three family members survived: Leo, who successfully gained a British visa and assimilated into British culture; Rosa, who moved to New York before the Holocaust; and Nathan, who survived Auschwitz. Leo has no memory of his life in Vienna as a Jew; the family painfully recollect their memories and acknowledge their murdered family members.
Critical reception
The play has received critical acclaim. Theatre critic and journalist Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Telegraph, "So here it is. Tom Stoppard's last play. Very possibly. Britain's greatest living dramatist has said that Leopoldstadt is likely to be the end of the road – given his age (82) and how long it takes him to write. Almost every major work he has produced since he burst onto the scene with his Hamlet spin-off Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1966 has been met with high anticipation."
Whilst Lloyd Evans wrote in The Spectator, "History will record Leopoldstadt as Tom Stoppard's Schindler's List. His brilliant tragic-comic play opens in the Jewish quarter of Vienna in 1899. We meet a family of intellectuals and businessmen who are celebrating their very first Christmas. (...) At press night, the critics were busy scribbling one-liners which are destined to reach the dictionary of quotations. ‘Why do Jews have to choose between pushy and humble?’ ‘Today's modern is tomorrow's nostalgia: we missed Mahler when we heard Schoenberg.’"
Greg Evans wrote in Deadline that with Leopoldstadt Stoppard delivered "a late career masterpiece." Evans added that "any summary of scenes and timeline descriptions of Leopoldstadt can’t begin to convey the richness of Stoppard’s work," noting that "mathematics, not surprisingly, comes into play, as it so often does with Stoppard, but so too does Zionism and modern art and so many other aspects of 20th Century political history that Leopoldstadt can at times seem like a right and proper companion piece to Ken Burns’ wonderful The U.S. and the Holocaust documentary."
Adaptations
A live performance of the play was recorded towards the end of its second run and was screened as a film in UK cinemas (and some international locations) on 27 January 2022 (Holocaust Memorial Day) through National Theatre Live. | WIKI |
Vista Equity explores options for PowerSchool, PeopleAdmin: sources
(Reuters) - Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners Management LLC is exploring options for two software companies it owns, PowerSchool and PeopleAdmin, that could involve combining them in a deal worth between $2 billion to $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Any deal would come as schools use more digital tools to enhance learning and reduce operational costs. Private equity firms have been taking advantage of the high valuations in the educational technology sector to cash out on their holdings. Vista is working with investment bank UBS Group AG to evaluate its options for the two companies, the sources said this week, asking not to be named because the matter is confidential. Vista is exploring a full range of options for the companies which could involve selling a minority or majority stake, a recapitalization, merging the two companies, an initial public offering or using the companies as a vehicle to buy another target, according to the sources. Vista would like to keep a significant stake in the companies in whatever transaction it chooses, and no deal is imminent, the sources added. UBS and Vista declined to comment. PowerSchool and PeopleAdmin did not respond to requests for comment. PowerSchool, based in Folsom, California, provides education technology to schools and is projected to generate $280 million in revenue this year, according to one of the sources familiar with the companies. PeopleAdmin’s revenue was not known. Vista bought PowerSchool for $350 million in 2015 from Pearson Plc and has spent more than $1 billion on subsequent acquisitions that it combined with the company including SunGard’s public sector and education business which closed last year. It struck an agreement with Microsoft Corp earlier this week to combine their products in K-12 schools. PeopleAdmin, a talent management software firm based in Austin, Texas, was acquired by Vista in 2014 for an undisclosed sum. Vista has previously combined educational assets only to sell them on to another company. In 2014, it sold Relias Learning, a combination of two companies, to Europe’s largest media group, Bertelsmann SE & Co. It completed a $1.55 billion deal to buy Advisory Board’s education business last year. Deal activity has been strong in the education sector. Reuters has reported that Baring Private Equity Asia is in talks to buy testing firm Prometric for about $1 billion, while Blackstone Group LP bought Ascend Learning LLC from Providence Equity last year for more than $2 billion. Reporting by Liana B. Baker and Andrew Berlin in New York; editing by Diane Craft | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Let us say I've 10 books, each book has designated some groups (ex. :php, programming, cooking, snacks etc).
After storing this data inside a DB I wish to search the books that match some groups, as well as output the matched up groups for every set of books.
What will be the ultimate way for a quick and simple to code search:
1) Create a column with all of groups for every book, it rows could be unique (categs separated by comma in every row ) -> denormalisation from 1NF
2) Create a column with only one category in every row and multiple rows per book
It is simpler for other queries basically keep groups one at a time (method 2), but harder for your specific kind of search. Is correct?
I'm using PHP and MySQL.
PPS : i understand multi relational design , i favor not joining each time the tables ... im using different connection for many tables but this isn't the issue... Im asking what is a great way for any db design for this kind of search : a person type cooking, snacks, taters and i wish to output pairs of books which have 1,2 more or all matched up categs. Im searching for a quick qurie, or php matching way of this factor... Let me know your pint of view. Hope i am understood
What for you to do is have one table for books, one table for groups, and something table for hooking up books and groups. Something similar to this:
books
book_id | title | etc
groups
category_id | title | etc
book_groups
book_id | category_id
This really is known as a many-to-many relationship. You need to most likely google it to find out more.
Use method 2 -- multiple rows per book, storing one category per row. It's the only method to make hunting for a given category easy.
This design eliminates repeating groups within a column, therefore it is great for First Normal Form.
But it's not only an academic exercise, it is a practical design that's great for all kinds of things. See my response to Is storing a comma separated list in a database column really that bad?
I would suggest approach number two. The reason being approach 1 takes a full text search from the category column.
You might have some success by splitting up into two tables: One table has one line per book along with a unique id (call the table books), and also the other has one line per book per category and references it id in the first table (call the table bookcategories). Then should you just have book data you utilize table books, where if you want groups you join both tables.
This relationship is really a Many-To-Many (a magazine might have multiple groups along with a category may be used in a number of books).
Only then do we possess the following:
Diagram
First got it?
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MEISTER--Jack B. 78, Morristown, NJ. Adored by his wife, Lucille, and daughters, Andrea and Barbara. CCNY grad, WWII Navy vet, inventor, engineer, business owner. Respected for his integrity, ingenuity, talent and vision. Loved for his sense of humor and generous, sensitive spirit, his photography and poetry show-cased his soul. He loved travel, the arts, his home in Nantucket, crabcakes and, most of all, his family. Thank you, Jack, thank you, Daddy, for being the best, most loving husband and father in the world; for protecting, supporting, caring for and believing in us. Thank you for never letting us down, your strength and wisdom and the roses. We will always be proud of you and we love you with all our hearts. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
List of Oricon number-one albums of 1998
These are the Oricon number one albums of 1998, per the Oricon Albums Chart.
Trivia
* Number one album of 1998: B'z The Best "Pleasure" by B'z.
* Most weeks at number-one: B'z with a total of 7 weeks. | WIKI |
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Thirdly, I am to consider the execution of these sentences, of which our Saviour Christ says, " Et ibunt hi in supplicium seternum, justi autem in vitam aeternam;" " And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the just into life everlasting."
1. I will consider the execution of the sentence given against the wicked; for in the instant that it is given, without any delay, in the sight of the righteous, the earth will open under their feet, and the devils laying hold on them, they will all together descend to hell; and the earth immediately closing up again, they will remain for ever buried in that abyss of fire. Then shall be fulfilled that malediction written in the Psalm, " Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell and that which St. John speaks of in his Apocalypse, that " hell and death," and whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the "pool of fire" and brimstone, where, with Antichrist and the false prophets, they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. " This is the second death, bitter and eternal, which encompasses the souls and bodies that died the first death of sin and the corporal death that followed. Oh, what a furious raving will possess the damned, seeing themselves not able to resist nor to impeach the execution of this sentence! Oh, what a bitter envy will penetrate their bowels, to behold the glory of the righteous from whom they are divided! Oh, what a desperate sadness will they receive by this " second death," and in their first entrance into that stinking infernal pool! Oh, what raging agonies, beholding themselves covered with mountains of earth, bolted up with eternal bolts, and bound hand and foot with chains of perpetual damnation! Then shall they see by experience " that it is an evil and a bitter | WIKI |
Here's what Madeleine Westerhout, director of Oval Office ops, earns
Madeleine Westerhout, 28, is one of the longest-tenured members of President Trump's White House staff, a group often noted for its high turnover rate. That's up from the $130,000 salary she earned last year as Trump's assistant. It's also significantly higher than the annual median income of $69,000 that most millennial households bring in, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. Anita Decker Breckenridge, who started as former President Barack Obama's executive assistant during his second term, at age 32, also made $95,000 during her two years in the White House. Meanwhile, Obama's first executive assistant, Katie Johnson, who started in 2009, made $90,000 during her second year in the role. Originally from California, Westerhout first caught media attention in 2016 when she was photographed escorting high-profile individuals through the hallways of Trump Tower. At the time, she was an assistant to Republican National Committee chief of staff Katie Walsh. She graduated from the College of Charleston in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in political science. According to her college's website, the young politico took the fall semester off in her senior year to intern for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. After graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., to intern for former California Republican Rep. John Campbell, before taking on a staff role with the Republican National Committee. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Tcl - Tool Command Language
SYNOPSIS
Summary of Tcl language syntax.
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DESCRIPTION
The following rules define the syntax and semantics of the Tcl language:
[1] Commands.
A Tcl script is a string containing one or more commands. Semi-colons and newlines are com-mand command
mand separators unless quoted as described below. Close brackets are command terminators dur-ing during
ing command substitution (see below) unless quoted.
[2] Evaluation.
A command is evaluated in two steps. First, the Tcl interpreter breaks the command into words
and performs substitutions as described below. These substitutions are performed in the same
way for all commands. The first word is used to locate a command procedure to carry out the
command, then all of the words of the command are passed to the command procedure. The com-mand command
mand procedure is free to interpret each of its words in any way it likes, such as an integer,
variable name, list, or Tcl script. Different commands interpret their words differently.
[3] Words.
Words of a command are separated by white space (except for newlines, which are command sepa-rators). separators).
rators).
[4] Double quotes.
If the first character of a word is double-quote (""") then the word is terminated by the next
double-quote character. If semi-colons, close brackets, or white space characters (including
newlines) appear between the quotes then they are treated as ordinary characters and included
in the word. Command substitution, variable substitution, and backslash substitution are per-formed performed
formed on the characters between the quotes as described below. The double-quotes are not
retained as part of the word.
[5] Argument expan- |
sion. | |
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ing "{*}" is removed and the rest of the word is parsed and substituted as any other word. |
After substitution, the word is parsed as a list (without command or variable substitutions; |
backslash substitutions are performed as is normal for a list and individual internal words |
may be surrounded by either braces or double-quote characters), and its words are added to the |
command being substituted. For instance, "cmd a {*}{b [c]} d {*}{$e f "g h"}" is equivalent to |
"cmd a b {[c]} d {$e} f "g h"".
[6] Braces.
If the first character of a word is an open brace ("{") and rule [5] does not apply, then the
word is terminated by the matching close brace ("}"). Braces nest within the word: for each
additional open brace there must be an additional close brace (however, if an open brace or
close brace within the word is quoted with a backslash then it is not counted in locating the
matching close brace). No substitutions are performed on the characters between the braces
except for backslash-newline substitutions described below, nor do semi-colons, newlines,
close brackets, or white space receive any special interpretation. The word will consist of
exactly the characters between the outer braces, not including the braces themselves.
[7] Command substitution.
If a word contains an open bracket ("[") then Tcl performs command substitution. To do this
it invokes the Tcl interpreter recursively to process the characters following the open
bracket as a Tcl script. The script may contain any number of commands and must be terminated
by a close bracket ("]"). The result of the script (i.e. the result of its last command) is
substituted into the word in place of the brackets and all of the characters between them.
There may be any number of command substitutions in a single word. Command substitution is
not performed on words enclosed in braces.
[8] Variable substitution.
If a word contains a dollar-sign ("$") followed by one of the forms described below, then Tcl
performs variable substitution: the dollar-sign and the following characters are replaced in
the word by the value of a variable. Variable substitution may take any of the following
forms:
$name Name is the name of a scalar variable; the name is a sequence of one or more
characters that are a letter, digit, underscore, or namespace separators (two
or more colons).
$name(index) Name gives the name of an array variable and index gives the name of an element
within that array. Name must contain only letters, digits, underscores, and
namespace separators, and may be an empty string. Command substitutions, vari-able variable
able substitutions, and backslash substitutions are performed on the characters
of index.
${name} Name is the name of a scalar variable. It may contain any characters whatso-ever whatsoever
ever except for close braces.
There may be any number of variable substitutions in a single word. Variable substitution is
not performed on words enclosed in braces.
[9] Backslash substitution.
If a backslash ("\") appears within a word then backslash substitution occurs. In all cases
but those described below the backslash is dropped and the following character is treated as
an ordinary character and included in the word. This allows characters such as double quotes,
close brackets, and dollar signs to be included in words without triggering special process-ing. processing.
ing. The following table lists the backslash sequences that are handled specially, along with
the value that replaces each sequence.
\a Audible alert (bell) (0x7).
\b Backspace (0x8).
\f Form feed (0xc).
\n Newline (0xa).
\r Carriage-return (0xd).
\t Tab (0x9).
\v Vertical tab (0xb).
\<newline>whiteSpace
A single space character replaces the backslash, newline, and all spaces and tabs after
the newline. This backslash sequence is unique in that it is replaced in a separate
pre-pass before the command is actually parsed. This means that it will be replaced
even when it occurs between braces, and the resulting space will be treated as a word
separator if it is not in braces or quotes.
\\ Backslash ("\").
\ooo The digits ooo (one, two, or three of them) give an eight-bit octal value for the Uni-code Unicode
code character that will be inserted. The upper bits of the Unicode character will be
0.
\xhh The hexadecimal digits hh give an eight-bit hexadecimal value for the Unicode character
that will be inserted. Any number of hexadecimal digits may be present; however, all
but the last two are ignored (the result is always a one-byte quantity). The upper
bits of the Unicode character will be 0.
\uhhhh The hexadecimal digits hhhh (one, two, three, or four of them) give a sixteen-bit hexa-decimal hexadecimal
decimal value for the Unicode character that will be inserted.
Backslash substitution is not performed on words enclosed in braces, except for backslash-new-line backslash-newline
line as described above.
[10] Comments.
If a hash character ("#") appears at a point where Tcl is expecting the first character of the
first word of a command, then the hash character and the characters that follow it, up through
the next newline, are treated as a comment and ignored. The comment character only has sig-nificance significance
nificance when it appears at the beginning of a command.
[11] Order of substitution.
Each character is processed exactly once by the Tcl interpreter as part of creating the words
of a command. For example, if variable substitution occurs then no further substitutions are
performed on the value of the variable; the value is inserted into the word verbatim. If
command substitution occurs then the nested command is processed entirely by the recursive
call to the Tcl interpreter; no substitutions are performed before making the recursive call
and no additional substitutions are performed on the result of the nested script.
Substitutions take place from left to right, and each substitution is evaluated completely
before attempting to evaluate the next. Thus, a sequence like
set y [set x 0][incr x][incr x]
will always set the variable y to the value, _12.
[12] Substitution and word boundaries.
Substitutions do not affect the word boundaries of a command, except for argument expansion as
specified in rule [5]. For example, during variable substitution the entire value of the
variable becomes part of a single word, even if the variable's value contains spaces.
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Maurice Krishaber
Maurice Krishaber, born Krishaber Mór in Feketehegy in Vojvodina (Hungary, now Serbia) on 3 April 1836 and died in Mulhouse (France) on 10 April 1883, was a naturalised French Hungarian otorhinolaryngologist.
Biography
Born into a Hungarian Jewish family, Mór Krishaber was the son of Leonore and Guillaume Krishaber. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and the University of Prague and completed his studies in Paris in 1859 where he defended a thesis on 31 August 1864, entitled: Considérations sur l'historique et le développement de l'encéphale (Considerations on the history and development of the encephalon).
On 9 April 1872 he was naturalised as a French citizen. On 10 June 1875 he married Berthe-Elise Kullmann (1835–1883), daughter of Anna Kitz and Pierre Kullmann (a Swiss, trader in Mulhouse), widow of Jean-Charles Baumgartner, also a trader.
He died on 10 April 1883, at the age of 47, just over a fortnight after his wife, of a rheumatic fever aggravated by double pneumonia.
He is buried in the central cemetery of Mulhouse and above his grave, a plaque with a quotation in Hungarian has been affixed: "May the peace of the dreams of the dead never be disturbed, may their graves be protected from storms for centuries!"
Professional life
He became an active member of the German Medical Society in Paris on 11 May 1865. His publications, which appeared in Paris, were clearly oriented towards the ENT sphere, which he practised. He published in the Dictionary of Medical Sciences: "Diseases of the larynx" in 1868, "Diseases of singers" in 1873; and numerous writings on laryngeal tumours, tracheotomy and thyrotomy: Rhinoscopy (1875), Laryngopathology during the early stages of syphilis (1876), Cerebro-cardiac neuropathy (1873), Laryngeal cancer (1880), etc.
He perfected the tracheotomy cannula that bears his name.
He gave his name to Krishaber's disease, characterised by a combination of tachycardia, vertigo and insomnia also known as cerebro-cardiac neuropathy and classified by Freud as an "obsessive neurosis".
Maurice Krishaber, "under the category Cerebro-Cardiac Neuropathy (Névropathie Cérébro-Cardiaque) reported 38 patients showing a mixture of anxiety, fatigue and depression. Over one-third of these patients complained of baffing and unpleasant mental experiences, consisting of the loss of a feeling of reality. Krishaber suggested that these phenomena resulted from a sensory dysfunction." He proposed depersonalization was the result of pathological changes to the body's sensory modalities which lead to experiences of "self-strangeness" and the description of one patient who "feels that he is no longer himself".
In 1874, Émile Isambert, son of François-André Isambert, opened the first laryngology clinic at Lariboisière Hospital and at his death in 1876, he was succeeded by Maurice Raynaud then by Adrien Proust, the writer's father, who was especially interested in hygiene and the fight against cholera, the laryngology room being directed by his assistant Krishaber.
In 1875, together with Jules Ladreit de La Charrière and Émile Isambert, he founded theAnnales des maladies de l'oreille et du larynx (Otoscopie, laryngoscopie, rhinoscopie).
He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by decree of 30 July 1878 and was awarded the Montyon Prize for Medicine and Surgery in 1882.
Eight days before his death, he received a prize of 20,000 francs from the French Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific discoveries.
Works
* Dans le Dictionnaire des Sciences médicales :
* Maladies du larynx (1868)
* Maladies des chanteurs (1873)
* Rhinoscopie (1875)
* Laryngopathologie pendant les premières phases de la syphilis (1876)
* De la névropathie cérébro-cardiaque (1873)
* Le cancer du larynx (1880)
Distinctions
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by decree dated 30 July 1878. | WIKI |
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PHYSIOLOGY 485 effervescence and fermentation of the fluids, entirely excluding the solids from his physio- logical scheme ; food fermented in the stomach under the influence of the gastric fluids, and digestion was perfected by the actions estab- lished by the addition of the bile and the pan- creatic secretion ; the movement of the blood in the, heart was due to the effervescence ari- sing from the meeting of an oily volatile salt of the bile with a saccharine acid of the lymph, producing at the same time the animal heat; the vital spirits, entirely material, were pre- pared in the brain by distillation, having much of the properties and nature of alcohol; all diseases were caused by the predominance of this or that chemical element in the fluids, and to counteract a supposed acidity very power- ful chemical preparations were rashly admin- istered. While Sylvius taught these doctrines upon the continent, Willis promulgated similar ones in Great Britain ; he also made the chyle effervesce in the heart under the influence of salt and sulphur, which took fire together and produced the vital flame. According to Haller, even the great mind of Newton was led astray by such vagaries as these. Many of the popular ideas of peccant humors, for which a multitude of empirical remedies are continually extolled and exhibited, date back to the chemical theories of the 17th century. Boerhaave and his school, early in the 18th century, substituted mechanical for chemical forces in physiology, explaining the pheno- mena of life on the principles of mechanics and mathematics, according to the idea of Des- cartes. The then admitted doctrine of Harvey of the circulation of the blood and the discov- eries of Galileo favored the progress of this school. Food was reduced in the stomach to minute particles by trituration ; the circulation was a complete hydraulic machine, and the heart a perfect sucking and forcing pump ; the weight of the blood and the loss of its motive power from friction in the vessels were exactly calculated, and the force of the heart's contrac- tion estimated at 180,000 Ibs. ; the differences in the secretions were explained by the diame- ter, foldings, and number of the divisions of the vessels in the secreting organs, and by the diverse forms of the molecules, some of which were admitted and others excluded by these kinds of organic sieves ; animal heat was the result of the friction of the blood globules against each other and against the walls of the minute vessels. Electricity was at one time considered the active agent of the vital func- tions, and certain analogies indeed favored this view ; electricity dethroned the vital principle, and the barrier erected with so much labor between living and inorganic bodies was again thrown down. Glisson, in England, toward the middle of the 17th century, while the phys- ical theories of life were in vogue, maintained the activity of matter, and that all the func- tions of life depend on a property of living animal substance which he calls irritability, entirely independent of physical or mechanical forces all parts of the body, even the bones and the fluids, possessing this property. This theory was completely forgotten until toward the middle of the 18th century, when various authors made use of the terms contractile force and tonicity. Haller (1747) admitted two prop- erties, irritability and sensibility (vis insita and ms nervosa). This irritability is the property of contracting under stimuli (the will for the ordinary muscles and their contents for the hollow ones), now styled contractility, distinct from and more powerful than elasticity, in- dependent of the nervous force, and improp- erly called vital inasmuch as it is manifested after death. Sensibility is the power of per- ceiving the impressions derived from contact. This theory gave a great impulse to physio- logical science, which before this was in a very confused state. Barthez, in the last half of the 18th century, adopted the phrase vital principle, which he regarded as distinct from the soul, and as having its own proper exis- tence and its motor and sensitive forces, the former residing in the muscles, the latter in the fluids and especially in the blood ; this system met with great favor. Bichat, a quarter of a century later, reduced the vital properties to two, contractility and sensibility, each divided into the animal or voluntary and the organic or involuntary. Brown, a few years before this, had elevated the property of excitability in the tissues into the vital principle; according to him, all diseases are either sthenic or asthenic, the vital force being increased in the former and diminished in the latter; the doctrine gave rise to the contra-stimulant practice of Rasori and others. Blumenbach, toward the end of the 18th century, attributed all the formative actions to a force which he called nisus forma- tions. Broussais, early in the 19th century, made pathology a branch of physiology, and gave to his system the name of physiologi- cal doctrine of disease ; his celebrated theory placed essential fevers among the inflamma- tions of the digestive tube, as forms of gastro- enteritis. Gerdy admitted 17 vital principles, or so many distinct series of phenomena inex- plicable by physical laws, a list which on his principles might be very greatly and incon- veniently extended. Modern physiology rec- ognizes the fact that many of the phenomena presented by living bodies are purely physical or chemical, and are to be studied by pre- cisely the same methods as any other phys- ical or chemical phenomena. Such are the mechanism of the joints and the movements of the limbs upon the trunk ; the extent, force, and rapidity of muscular contraction in gen- eral .; the changes which take place in the food during digestion and in the air during respira- tion ; the exhalation and imbibition of various matters by the blood vessels in the course of the circulation; the pressure and velocity of movement of the blood itself, and its changes of color and constitution. Not that these | WIKI |
Abstract
The development of fiber-optic chemical sensors (FOCS) has been actively pursued over the last decade, and an exhaustive summary of this work has recently appeared in a two-volume monograph by Wolfbeis. Many FOCSs have utilized fluorescence to sensitively detect analytes of interest. In some fluorescence sensor applications, chromochemical reactions yielding fluorescent products have been slaved to the sensor to circumvent the exclusion of analytes which do not fluoresce. However, there have also been several fiber-optic absorbance sensors reported. In one general type of sensor optical design, the absorbance or fluorescence measurement depends on the ability of a <i>single</i> multimode fiber optic to conduct light to, as well as to transport light from, the sensor tip. In this sensor configuration a coupler/ splitter is required for the separation of the entry and emergent sensor light. Hirschfeld and co-workers first described an effective geometric coupler/splitter to be used with single-fiber-optic sensors. Their coupler/splitter incorporated an angled plane mirror with a centrally bored hole for entry light passage. The Hirschfeld configuration, and variants of it, have subsequently been used extensively with laser sources which are easily coupled with the fiber optic of the sensor. However, when extended (incoherent) sources are used, it becomes difficult to efficiently couple to fiber-optic sensors with the use of the Hirschfeld configuration. In our experience, this difficulty is mainly due to the need to image an extended source near the surface of the small-diameter (typically 100-200 μm) sensor fiber optic with the use of a long-focal-length lens.
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Richard I, king of England, and duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony is the quintessence of an English historical hero and yet he is much more strongly associated with France.
He was born in Oxford in 1157 and crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1189 but after that it is estimated he spent no more than six months in the British Isles.
His two native tongues were French and Occitan and there is no evidence that he spoke English.
After a short eventful life which included fighting in the Holy Land in the third crusade and being imprisoned in Germany on his return, he died in battle in the Limousin where there is a tourist route of Richard the Lionheart to explore.
Here are five key places associated with him, including his three tombs, in various parts of France.
Richard and his brothers rebelled against their father, Henry II, demanding that he give his possessions to them.
In defeat he went to his father’s court in Poitiers in 1174 where he fell at Henry’s feet, weeping and begging forgiveness.
Henry gave Richard the kiss of peace but Richard continued to challenge his father.
2. Château de Taillebourg, Charente-Maritime
Richard won famous victories in the Holy Land and his siege at Château de Taillebourg in 1179 was no less impressive.
The well-defended fortress on a rock outcrop was said to be impregnable, having cliffs on three sides.
Richard laid waste to the farmlands around it to prevent reinforcements arriving under cover and in so doing he provoked the defenders into coming out to attack him.
In two days of fighting, Richard had taken the castle.
3. Martel, Quercy, Lot
Richard was only the second son of Henry II to survive childhood and was not expected to inherit.
Then, in 1183, his 28-year-old elder brother was pillaging monasteries in the Limousin to pay for his mercenary troops when he contracted dysentery.
He was taken to Martel, in the Lot, where he died.
Richard became heir apparent but wouldn’t succeed his father for another six years.
4. Châlus Chabrol, Limousin
In 1199, Richard was hit in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt.
The wound turned gangrenous and a few days later he died in front of the fireplace of the guardroom in Châlus Chabrol castle.
His entrails lie buried in the chapel; the rest of him is elsewhere (see number five).
5. Rouen cathedral, Normandy
As Richard was duke of Normandy it was decided to create another tomb for him in Rouen cathedral, beside the choir, in which lies his heart embalmed with frankincense. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Yambaó
Yambaó (also known as Cry of the Bewitched ) is a 1957 Mexican-Cuban drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Ninón Sevilla.
In other media
On June 27, 2014, Yambaó was released as a VOD title by RiffTrax.
Plot
The story takes place in Cuba in 1850, in the era of the Atlantic slave trade. In a sugar cane plantation, Captain Jorge (Ramón Gay) and his wife, Beatriz (Rosa Elena Durgel) live happily and are expecting a child. Their slaves live at quiet peace with them but are not above being punished for their disobedience. One night, as the full moon appears, the sound of drums rises in the air. Yambao (Ninón Sevilla), the granddaughter of a witch named Caridad (Fedora Capdevila) supposedly murdered 15 years ago, has reappeared. The plantation slaves are superstitious and fear her, believing she will place curses on them as her grandmother supposedly did. Yambao's arrival coincides with a new outbreak of black vomit that had not occurred on the plantation for decades, and is now attributed to her using black magic. Though Yambao is not really evil, Caridad constantly pressures her to take revenge on the plantation.
Jorge, who normally stays out of the traditions and customs of his slaves, discovers that they want to sacrifice Yambao and intervenes. Yambao swears eternal gratitude for the gesture but also starts to fall for him. Caridad sees this as an opportunity and weaves it into her plan for revenge. Yambao decides to perform a magic ritual of Santeria over Jorge to make him love her. Her magic spell coincides with Jorge contracting the disease and falling ill. The only medical doctors in the area are themselves ill and cannot come to treat Jorge's critical condition. Yambao offers to cure him in gratitude for saving her life and is permitted to try despite some initial protest from his slaves. The prolonged contact with Jorge cements Yambao's feelings for him and is reciprocated when he recovers, which leads her to believe her love spell worked.
For several weeks Jorge is infatuated with Yambao, forgetting his wife, his plantation and shirking all his duties. However, when Jorge is informed that his wife is about to give birth, he rushes to her side and clears all thoughts of lust and infidelity from his mind. Yambao, heartbroken and jealous, is advised by Caridad to kill Beatriz and her child to get back at Jorge. Yambao takes a dagger and rushes towards the plantation, eventually cornering Beatriz and her child. But before she can complete her crime, Caridad is discovered by the foreman of the plantation and swiftly killed with a machete. Yambao shudders momentarily as Caridad's evil influence fades away and then comes to her senses. Realizing what she was about to do, she flees in horror and promises not to cause any more harm. Caridad's body is then subject to a funeral ceremony with exotic rituals which Jorge attends. As the ceremony nears its climax, Yambao is possessed by Caridad's spirit and rushes over to Jorge in an attempt to stab him. Yambao, however, cannot bring herself to do it and instead runs to the edge of a nearby stone gorge and hurls herself into it. The film ends with Jorge cradling her corpse as a handful of his slaves quietly look on.
Production
Yambao was a co-production between Mexico and Cuba and was shot entirely in Cuba. Yambao is played by the Cuban dancer Ninon Sevilla, who had a long career in the Cinema of Mexico of the 1940s and 50s, particularly in the subgenre known as the Rumberas film. The Mexican actors Ramon Gay and Rosa Elena Durgel interpreted the characters of Jorge and his wife Beatriz. Yambaó was released in black and white for the Latin American market, and in color with a dubbed English track in the American market under the title Cry of the Bewitched.
Reception and legacy
It was nominated for three Ariel Awards winning two for Best Cinematography and Sound Recording.
It was the first Mexican film that openly referenced the Afro-Cuban culture, particularly magical and religious rituals, such as Santeria.
Cast
* Ninón Sevilla as Yambaó
* Ramón Gay as Jorge
* Rosa Elena Durgel as Beatriz
* Fedora Capdevila as Caridad
* Olga Guillot as Singer slave
* Martha Jean-Claude as Singer in Sacrifice | WIKI |
NBC Cancels 'The West Wing' | Fox News
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User:Ppramanik/sandbox
Panchpargania: The name is derived from the area where it is spoken. It is a common language for communication for all the village masses as well as suburban area belonging to Bundu, Tamar, Silli, Sonahatu & Arki blocks of undivided Ranchi district. As now, Ranchi is divided to form new district i.e. Khunti; Tamar & Arki blocks of former Ranchi are now part of this new district. Recently a new block is formed named "Rahe" block, which was formerly a part of Sonahatu Block. The Panchpargania language has a rich and sound heritage of its own identity though much influenced by the other languages spoken in Jharkhand. You may find many similar words & phonetics in Panchpargania language resembling to that of Nagpuriya, Kurmali, Bengali & Oriya languages spoken in the state. This language has excellent heritage of folktales & folklores as well as many of remarkable play-writes, stories, poems & novels contributed by renowned Panchpargania writers. This language is becoming richer day by day, making its distinct place in the regional languages of Jharkhand which may be evidenced by its inclusion in the new syllabus of UGC NET June 2012 (Syllabus for Tribal and Regional Language / Literature has added Panchpargania Language as Elective – IX). This mother tongue of millions of people of Panchpargana who love & care for it as their mothers.. The Panchpargania language speaking people include Sadan people such as Rajputs,Brahmins, Teli & Baniyas, Kumhar, Nai (Pramaniks), Gosai, Ghasi, Mahli,Tanti, Kurmi(Mahto), Bedia, Munda tribe of Tamar, Sonahatu, Silli, Rahe, Bundu & Arki blocks of Ranchi & Khunti districts of Jharkhand state.
Alternate names given for Panchpargania language by MultiTree: A digital library of language relationships are- Tamaria; Tair; Tamara; Temoral; Tumariya; Tanti; Chik Barik; Bedia; Pan; Pan Sawasi etc.It belongs to the family -Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) It was subdivided under Bihari language and the estimated number of speakers as on 1997 was around 274,000 but actual number is far more than this figure because the total population of the Panchpargania speaking blocks of Ranchi, Khunti & West Singhbhum district districts of Jharkhand state is more than 1,000,000 (One Million) and 75% people of these areas use this language as common language of communications. Its dialects are related to Sadri, Possibly the same as Kudmali, "Sonahatu" variety considered most pure, Lexical similarity: 77%–94% between dialects, 61%–86% with Kudmali, 68%–76% with Khortha, 61%–70% with Sadri, 48%–52% with Oriya [ori], 45%–58% with Bengali, 50% to 60% with Hindi. | WIKI |
Webhooks
When you run pipelines, you can register to webhooks in order to get status/results notification.
The WebHooks are an HTTP callbacks, the system can send request to the client when something happens.
Consider it like push notifications.
There are two types of webhooks, progress and result.
You can also fetch the same data from the API:
• progress - /api/v1/exec/status
• result - /api/v1/exec/results
The webhooks are optional
Progress#
The purpose of the progress webhook is to update the client
when the state of the pipeline is changed.
"name": "batch",
"nodes": [{
"nodeName": "green",
"algorithmName": "green-alg",
"input": ["#[1,2,3]"]
}],
"webhooks": {
"progress": "<URL>",
"result": "<URL>"
}
And this is the progress webhook payload
{
"jobId": "batch:672a8b0e-c0b0-486e-bb2b-4571b0805f29",
"timestamp": "2018-01-16T14:47:04.142Z",
"pipeline": "batch",
"level": "info",
"status": "completed",
"data": {
"progress": "100.00",
"details": "100.00% completed, 3 succeed"
}
}
Result#
The purpose of the result webhook is to update the client when the pipeline is completed.
By running the following batch pipeline, the system will send the result to the specified address.
"name": "batch-pipeline",
"nodes": [{
"nodeName": "green",
"algorithmName": "green-alg",
"input": ["#[1,2,3]"]
}],
"webhooks": {
"progress": "<URL>",
"result": "<URL>"
}
This is the result webhook payload, notice that there is a result for each batch node.
{
"jobId": "batch-pipeline:e51c8dd7-7a7b-4d65-ad36-d1a919a9dee1",
"timestamp": "2018-01-16T15:15:00.369Z",
"pipeline": "batch-pipeline",
"status": "completed",
"data": [{
"nodeName": "green",
"batchID": "green#1",
"algorithmName": "green-alg",
"result": 10
},
{
"nodeName": "green",
"batchID": "green#2",
"algorithmName": "green-alg",
"result": 20
},
{
"nodeName": "green",
"batchID": "green#3",
"algorithmName": "green-alg",
"result": 30
}
]
}
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Kleicha
Fig Newtons
Those cookies kind of look like fig newtons. Any similarities? Are they possibly the cookie that Fig Newtons are based on? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:22, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
* I don't know, the ones in that photo don't look like the traditional ones that I've had. Maybe they are a commercial variety. But you can bet your last cent the Iraqis were the first to combine dates and figs with dough/pastry. Izzedine 14:44, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
Merge
This article should probably be merged with Koloocheh (or the other way around). It is the same word (only pronounced slightly differently) and they are effectively the same thing.--الدبوني (talk) 17:55, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Etymology
I removed the Etymology section. As written, it was not verified in the cited source, an old web page by Nawal Nasrallah. Also, Nasrallah is a food writer, not an etymologist, and her arguments are clearly entirely speculative; she also completely contradicts the conclusions (that it comes from a dry measure called keilacha) in a later text. In both cases she begins by saying we don't actually know the origin or meaning of the word: "We have all wondered, at one point or another, where the name kleicha came from, but have not got a satisfactory explanation. However, I think I have put my finger on a clue." and "I find it rather puzzling that people are in the dark when it comes to the origin of this cookie or how it came to beassociated with religious festivals, not to mention what it means." The arguments that follow are interesting, but go too far, and there are no other sources that give the same analysis or etymology (that are not based on hers). Some parts of the second text could maybe be used, like the name of cookie molds being qalab al-kalija in the medieval cookbooks, even though the cookie is called something else. But most of it should be treated with skepticism and not stated as facts, as I don't think either of these can be considered reliable sources for the etymology. --IamNotU (talk) 23:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
The etymology for this word is well known and has been stated in the wiktionary page with sources. "A concise Pahlavi dictionary" by Mackenzie, D.N is one of the, if not the most reliable Pahlavi dictionaries in academia today. This source states that kliecha comes from the middle persian word kuluchag. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:27, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
Assyrian influence
The article starts with:
Kleicha (Syriac: ܟܠܝܟ̰ܐ killecha, Arabic: كليچة,Turkish: kiliçe ) is sometimes considered to be the national cookie of Iraq, due to Assyrian influence of the country.[2]
But the reference contains no indication that the Kleicha has any Assyrian influence, nor is there any other reference confirming this. The last part of the sentence should be removed. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:12, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Origins of the cookie
I could not find any sources in the article written by Nawal Nasrallah supporting the fact that these cookies originated in Mesopotamia. The source claims that similar cookies were called "Irnin" in 13th-century Arabic sources. However, there is no evidence suggesting that these cookies are the same as Kleicha. Nasrallah herself admits that the names are not similar at all. In fact, Nasrallah also states that "Ibn Battuta, in his famous 14 -Century travel book, mentioned that he was offered Kalija in Khuwarizm, a Persian province now in Uzbekistan. He further explained that they were pastries kneaded with samn (clarified butter), so it should have been some sort of rich pastry." "Kalija" is obviously an Arabized version of koloocheh/klieche, since Arabic does not have a "ch" sound. The Iraqi dialect also did not have the 'ch" sound at the time, it was later added to the Iraqi dialect due to Persian influence. This suggestion seems more plausible since the word Kleicha originates from Middle Persian and because the Abbasid cuisine was largely based on Persian cuisine, which is something Nasrallah even noted in her article. Due to this, I think it is misleading to have two separate articles for "Koloocheh" which is stated to be of Iranian origin on the Wikipedia page, and "Kliecha," when it is evident that they are both different variations of the same cookie. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:23, 1 December 2022 (UTC) | WIKI |
multcompare for vartestn?
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Hi,
Is there a way to know which of the groups being compared vartestn is the one that differs from the rest? The function multcompare does not admit the stats output from the vartestn function. Thanks.
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Scott MacKenzie
Scott MacKenzie on 29 Jul 2021
Edited: Scott MacKenzie on 29 Jul 2021
@Tahariet Sharon It is true that multcompare cannot work with input from vartestn. A frustration with multcompare is that it cannot work as a standalone test; that is, it cannot receive as input a matrix of column data and perform a pairwise comparisons test on that data. That's unfortunate, in my view. However, multcompare can receive as input a stats object created from anova1.
Below is a script that performs a pairwise comparisons test on a matrix of column data. The script loads some test data, creates a stats object from that data, then passes that object in to multcompare. Mission accomplished!
The 16x4 test data are in testdata.txt, which is attached. The file contains 16 marks on 4 tests. The last column of output produced by multcompare is the p-value for the hypothesis test that the corresponding mean difference is not equal to 0 for the pairs tested in that row. As seen below, the marks were significantly different (p < .05) between tests 1 and 3 and tests 2 and 3.
multcompare uses the Tukey-Kramer test by default, but other tests (e.g., Bonferroni) can be specified via the 'CType' option.
% load test data: 16 marks on 4 tests
y = readmatrix('testdata.txt'); % 16x4
% do the anova -- just to get a stats object
[~, ~, stats] = anova1(y, {'t1' 't2' 't3' 't4'}, 'off');
% pass stats object into multcompare (p-value in last column of output)
multcompare(stats, 'display', 'off')
ans = 6×6
1.0000 2.0000 -3.9088 -0.8750 2.1588 0.8711 1.0000 3.0000 -7.5338 -4.5000 -1.4662 0.0013 1.0000 4.0000 -4.8463 -1.8125 1.2213 0.3983 2.0000 3.0000 -6.6588 -3.6250 -0.5912 0.0130 2.0000 4.0000 -3.9713 -0.9375 2.0963 0.8464 3.0000 4.0000 -0.3463 2.6875 5.7213 0.1002
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Tahariet Sharon on 31 Jul 2021
Thanks, I will accept your answer, becuase it is currently the one way to do this :)
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Investigation of plastic deformation of aluminum alloys using wavelet transforms of acoustic emission signals
A. Dmitriev, V. Polyakov, A.A. Lependin show affiliations and emails
Received: 30 June 2017; Revised: 08 September 2017; Accepted: 05 October 2017
This paper is written in Russian
Citation: A. Dmitriev, V. Polyakov, A.A. Lependin. Investigation of plastic deformation of aluminum alloys using wavelet transforms of acoustic emission signals. Lett. Mater., 2018, 8(1) 33-36
BibTex https://doi.org/10.22226/2410-3535-2018-1-33-36
Abstract
In this paper, we present a method for processing an acoustic emission signal using a discrete wavelet transform. The figure shows an example of an acoustic emission signal and strain hardening curve obtained from an aluminum alloy under tensile loading.On the example of aluminum alloy AMg5м plastic deformation and fracture under static loading was investigated. For the material being loaded, a stage of linear hardening, two stages of parabolic hardening and a fracture stage were identified. A change in the form of acoustic emission signals was established with a change in the region of strain hardening. The plastic yielding in the first region was accompanied by the formation of an acoustic emission peak, which was replaced in the next stage by high-amplitude oscillations. Further, for the region of discontinuous yielding, bursts of signals of different amplitude were observed, reflecting the dynamics of the formation of localized deformation bands. The change in the acoustic emission signals reflected the evolution of the deformation hardening processes. To describe the effect of the stagedness of deformation processes on the parameters of acoustic emission, the initial acoustic-emission signal was divided into separate time blocks. To each of these blocks, a discrete wavelet transform was applied. It characterized the time dependence of the waveform on the specific section of the strain hardening curve corresponding for each block. The obtained wavelet decomposition coefficients were processed using principal component analysis. They were plotted on the plane of the first principal components. The points of the multidimensional space corresponded to different regions were divided into partially overlapping clusters. The results of the work showed that the wavelet decomposition coefficients of acoustic emission signal could be used for diagnostics of the stages of strain hardening in aluminum alloys.
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Meyr v. Board of Education of Affton School District/Opinion of the Court
[p1230] VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is a timely appeal from the final judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiff's complaint on defendants' motion for summary judgment and denying plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff, Mrs. Meyr, was employed as a teacher by the defendant school district by separate annual contracts for the school years commencing in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 under probationary contracts which recited that the contracts shall be continued from year to year until modified or terminated under Mo. Ann. Stat. §§ 168.101 et seq. (Vernon 1965 & Supp. 1977) and that they also are subject to the rules, regulations and policies of the Board, receipt of copies of which was acknowledged by the plaintiff.
On April 7, 1976, during the plaintiff's fourth year as a probationary teacher, a notice was personally served upon her which read:
"The Affton Board of Education, at its March 30, 1976 meeting, unanimously voted to terminate your employment by not retaining your contract as a probationary teacher in the Affton School District effective the end of this current school year, June 4, 1976."
Plaintiff in Count I of her complaint asserted that her right to due process under the fourteenth amendment was violated. After depositions were taken, Count VI was added by leave of the court asserting that her first amendment right of free speech was violated. Jurisdiction under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 is asserted. Jurisdiction of this court is not contested. Counts II through V alleged claims of violation of Missouri statutes and invoked pendent jurisdiction.
In passing on the summary judgment motions, the court had before it depositions of the defendants, affidavits of the parties, interrogatories and answers thereto, and numerous exhibits.
The court (Judge Regan), for reasons set forth in a memorandum opinion reported at 435 F. Supp. 1155 (E.D. Mo. 1977), found plaintiff was not a tenured teacher, that she had no property rights, that her liberty rights were not violated, and that violation of her free speech rights was not established.
For a reversal the plaintiff urges that the trial court erred in the following respects:
* I. Holding plaintiff had no property interest in continued employment.
* II. Holding that plaintiff's liberty interests had not been infringed by the defendants.
* III. Holding that termination was not based, even partially, upon plaintiff's exercise of her first amendment free speech rights.
We affirm for the reasons hereinafter set out.
The facts are fairly set out in the trial court's opinion and additional facts to the extent necessary will be set out in the course of this opinion.
I.
The court committed no error in determining plaintiff had no property right in [p1231] continued employment. The plaintiff in effect concedes that she had not obtained tenure under Mo. Ann. Stat. § 168.104(5) (Vernon Supp. 1977), which reads:
"(5) 'Probationary teacher', any teacher as herein defined who has been employed full time in the same school for five successive years or less. A teacher recognized as a full-time teacher by a public school retirement system shall be recognized as a full-time teacher under sections 168.102 to 168.130. In the case of any probationary teacher who has been employed in any other school system as a full-time teacher for two or more years, the board of education shall waive one year of his probationary period."
It is conceded that plaintiff had many years of prior teaching experience and that she would acquire tenure after completing four years of service unless appropriate notice of non-renewal was served upon her as provided by Missouri law.
Plaintiff states:
"However, the Court wrongly suggests that plaintiff urged the Court to rule that she had obtained tenure pursuant to state statute. . . . This is not her position. Joyce Meyr alleged in her Complaint and in her Motion for Summary Judgment that she was entitled to certain due process protections because of the notice requirements of the Rules and Regulations of the school board, and that these notice requirements were not met."
In any event, the record reflects that the plaintiff had not acquired tenure at the time notice of non-renewal was served.
Plaintiff urges that the Board is required to provide the benefits conferred by Board Policy No. 4118 III D, which reads:
"If the Board determines that a teacher is not doing satisfactory work, the Board through its administrative representative shall give the teacher a written statement definitely setting forth his alleged incompetency and specifying the nature thereof. . .."
and by Board Policy No. 4119 which reads:
"Teachers not considered satisfactory shall be notified by their supervisor and be given such reasonable time to improve as the Board of Education may determine."
Board Policy No. 4118 III D is substantially identical to Mo. Ann. Stat. § 168.126 (Vernon Supp. 1977), which the Missouri Court of Appeals in White v. Scott County School District, 503 S.W.2d 35 (Mo. App. 1973) holds to be applicable only to termination within the contract period and not to a failure to renew an existing contract of a probationary teacher.
We find nothing in Policy No. 4119 which indicates that it is applicable to probationary teachers whose contracts are not renewed. As a probationary teacher under Missouri law plaintiff has no property interest in continued employment. Plaintiff was properly notified that her contract would not be renewed as required by Missouri law. The Board is entitled to refuse to renew a probationary contract without assigning reasons therefor and without affording a due process hearing.
The Board's minutes of March 30, 1976, show:
"It was tentatively agreed that both Mrs. Joyce Meyr and Mr. Michael Wieter not be re-hired and that their contractual relationship with the district be terminated."
Since Mrs. Meyr was about to leave early for Easter vacation, the superintendent received oral directions from all Board members on April 7 to serve notice upon her that her contract would not be renewed. The Board minutes of April 8 show:
The record clearly reflects that the school had suffered a substantial decrease in enrollment, [p1232] that it was economically necessary to substantially reduce the teaching staff and that the policy of the Board was to limit acquisition of tenure to exceptionally qualified teachers. Such policy was reasonable under the circumstances to protect the rights of teachers who had attained tenure. Many probationary contracts were not renewed in pursuance of this policy.
The Board's minutes reflect a clear intention not to renew plaintiff's contract for the school year commencing in the fall of 1976. The Board had a right to do so without a finding of incompetency and without assigning any other reason for its action. Plaintiff continued to serve under her existing contract until its expiration.
II.
Plaintiff has not in her affidavit or otherwise set out any material facts as distinguished from legal conclusions to support her contention that her liberty interests have been violated by the Board's failure to renew her teaching contract.
The failure to receive tenure does not constitute the deprivation of a liberty interest protected by the fourteenth amendment. Buhr v. Buffalo Public School District, 509 F.2d 1196 (8th Cir. 1974); Calvin v. Rupp, 471 F.2d 1346 (8th Cir. 1973).
Plaintiff has failed to show that she has any evidence to support her claim that she was stigmatized by any action of the defendants in refusing to renew her probationary contract.
The record reflects that when the President and President-elect of the Affton school teachers acting as a grievance committee, at the request of the plaintiff, went to the superintendent to investigate the non-renewal of plaintiff's contract, they were told that many probationary teachers were not re-employed by reason of the economic necessity of reducing the teaching staff, and that Mrs. Meyr was not re-employed for the additional reason that she was not considered a satisfactory teacher because of excessive absences and tardiness and poor staff relations. Nevertheless, economic necessity for reduction of the teaching staff remained the prime reason for not renewing plaintiff's contract. The Board's minutes above quoted do not set forth the additional factors as a basis for not rehiring, and as heretofore emphasized the Board's action was not to renew and was not termination of the plaintiff's existing contract prior to expiration. Such does not constitute the publication by defendants of stigmatizing information. The posting of the vacancy in the position held by Mrs. Meyr does not, standing alone, support stigmatization. Mrs. Meyr herself told many people she had not been re-employed.
In any event, the burden is on Mrs. Meyr to prove the charges made by the superintendent were false. Plaintiff admits that she had a substantial number of absences and tardiness and has set out no facts in her affidavits to disprove such charges. Plaintiff has not shown that she has any evidence to establish the falsity of any charges made against her. See Codd v. Velger, 429 U.S. 624, 51 L. Ed. 2d 92, 97 S.C.t. 882 (1977). Plaintiff has not indicated that she has any evidence that stigmatizating information was given to school districts in which she applied for employment. She admits in her deposition the fact that she had too many years of experience, which resulted in entitlement to a higher salary and was a substantial factor in her failure to obtain a teaching contract. She admits that she was employed as a substitute teacher by several school districts.
We recognize that cases should not be disposed of by summary judgment if any dispute exists as to a material fact. The record here is voluminous and extensive. We believe the court properly concluded that no dispute as to material facts existed. We believe the court properly determined plaintiff has suffered no deprivation of her liberty rights on the basis of the extensive record before it.
III.
The trial court committed no error in determining that plaintiff's exercise of her right of free speech was not a substantial factor in the non-renewal of her contract. In Mt. Healthy City Board of Education v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287, 50 L. Ed. 2d 471, 97 S.C.t. 568 (1977), the Court holds:
"[p1233] Initially, in this case, HN4Go to the description of this Headnote.the burden was properly placed upon respondent to show that his conduct was constitutionally protected, and that this conduct was a 'substantial factor' - or, to put it in other words, that it was a 'motivating factor' in the Board's decision not to rehire him."
Judged by such standard, we are satisfied that the plaintiff by affidavit or otherwise has failed to establish that her exercise of free speech was a substantial or motivating factor in the Board's decision not to renew.
Plaintiff in a speech to the mothers' club in January 1976 criticized the Board for not supplying equipment the plaintiff deemed essential for her physical education classes. Board member Lemp was present at this meeting and was upset by such remarks and reported the incident to Superintendent Onkle. Plaintiff under the first amendment had a right to make such remark. School boards and other public boards are as a matter of public knowledge frequently subjected to public criticism for making or failing to make appropriations for various projects or for failure to grant salary increases. The statement made by the plaintiff is not the kind of statement that could be reasonably supposed to upset the school board officials.
The power to determine whether a contract should be renewed is in the school board. The superintendent can make recommendations which the board can accept or reject.
Each of the board members serving at the time here material, except Mrs. Lemp, filed affidavits stating that they had no knowledge of plaintiff's statement at the time they voted not to renew plaintiff's contract and that no consideration was given to such statement. Mrs. Lemp in her affidavit states plaintiff's speech was not a factor in her vote not to renew, and Superintendent Onkle filed a similar affidavit.
Plaintiff in her affidavit has merely claimed by way of conclusion that the speech was a substantial factor in inducing the Board's action. She points to no evidence available to her to disprove the sworn statements made by the Board members, and we consequently see no reasonable possibility that plaintiff could meet the burden of refuting these statements. The trial court on the basis of the extensive record before it properly determined:
"Thus, this court must conclude that the School Board did not base its decision to terminate Ms. Meyr, even partially, upon the exercise by her of her First Amendment rights. Additionally, the plaintiff has not provided in her testimony and affidavits any evidence that conflicts with School Board's account."
435 F. Supp. at 1159.
The judgment is affirmed. | WIKI |
What is telnet?
Telnet is a client-server protocol based on character-oriented data exchange over TCP connections. Telnet enables remote control of computers via text-based inputs and outputs. For this reason, a client-server connection is established as a default via the TCP protocol and port 23, where the remote-controlled device acts as a server and waits for commands. The Telnet client, the controlling instance in this process (also referred to as remote access or login), can be installed on a particular device, as well as on an ordinary computer. However, the presentation of the transmitted information differs, depending on the device. This protocol can also be used to manage applications that do not have a graphical interface.
As early as 1969 (during the nine months of work on ARPANET), the development of Telnet (Teletype Network) was practically completed. But it was only in 1973 that the protocol allowing access to remote computers first received its final specification in RFC 495 (Request for Comments). It was implemented by most platforms as the official standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The kernel protocol and the basic working methods and extensions are characterized in the more recent standards RFC 854 and RFC 855.
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How and where is Telnet used?
One of the main reasons for developing the remote protocol was that computer systems at that time were still really expensive and not easily accessible for everyone. Another reason was their extreme size, which meant that they were bound to specific locations. In order to make computer resources available at universities and companies, Unix was developed at the end of the 1960s as a suitable operating system and Telnet as an appropriate protocol service. This meant that any user that had the right authorization, could start, manage, and use applications on the powerful large computers for their own personal use.
Access to databases
Over many years, Telnet also played a crucial role for institutions that work with large databases: for example, in libraries, the protocol was an elementary building block of online catalogs published in the 1980s, which are better known as OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog). Initially, these digital publication databases, which followed the traditional card catalogs, were still accessible in the libraries’ local networks via terminals. As the internet started becoming more and more successful, it was also possible to access them via locally usable web interfaces, whose communication means was supported by the Telnet protocol in many cases.
Interaction with programs on application servers
Another deployment scenario, for which Telnet clients were typical, was the access to text-based programs on an application server. For example, the Free Internet Chess Server can still be used today via Telnet connections. Using text input, you can select from the available opponents and also move your pieces around the board. Meanwhile, graphical interfaces such as the Jin Applet or Javaboard, which enable playing pieces to be moved with the mouse, have replaced the text-based input.
Administration of networks and servers
Telnet has always been a practical protocol for network and server administrators. The ability to remotely manage devices on the network is ideal for administration tasks, especially because the protocol is supported by almost all devices. It can also be used to check the availability of certain ports or to detect errors on e-mail servers (SMTP, port 25) by sending an e-mail directly from the server. The Telnet solution is an effective method for configuring servers e.g. a web server: changes to the directory structure, the file access rights, or the password, can be implemented quickly and easily.
The Telnet standard commands
There are some generally valid commands for the connection protocol that clients implement by default. They are usually the same or similar on Telnet-supported platforms such as Unix, Windows, and Linux. Using the command
telnet hostname
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the connection setup is started, which is completed after the username and password have been entered. The prerequisite for using Telnet is that the control device has user recognition. The entry hostname represents the device name in the network, and you can also specify the correct IP address and connection request through the desired port:
telnet ip-address port number
The following table shows the other standard commands that you can partially extend with arguments and execute using the Telnet client:
Command Description
? Calls up the help menu
close Ends the Telnet session
display argument Displays the various parameters for the current connection (port, terminal type, etc.)
environ argument Defines variables for the respective operating system environment
logout Ends the current Telnet session as long as the remote host supports the logout option
mode type Specifies the transmission type (text file, binary file)
open hostname Builds an additional connection to the selected host on top of the existing connection
quit Ends the Telnet client connection including all active connections
send argument Sends selected, typical Telnet character strings to the host
set argument Changes the connection parameters
unset Loads the pre-defined connection parameters
The advantages and disadvantages of the Telnet protocol
Since Telnet connections are practically standard TCP connections, the client can be employed to use or test other services that rely on TCP as a transport protocol. For example, with a simple request, you can check the functionality of an HTTP server or (as mentioned earlier) the status of an e-mail server. This versatility is enhanced by the fact that the connection protocol can be used across platforms. There are only a few devices that do not support the official IETF standard. Whether or not the client and server computers rely on the same operating system is also irrelevant. A further advantage of Telnet is that it allows unrestricted access to a controlled system’s resources if permission has been given.
The latter point, however, presents a high-security risk when combined with a previously unmentioned disadvantage: neither the connection setup nor the data transmission is encrypted when the Telnet protocol is used. All information you send can, therefore, be intercepted by third parties in plain text, including the login information required for remote access. This means that hackers won’t have much trouble taking over the system.
An overview of the advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages Disadvantages
Telnet client is versatile Unencrypted data exchange
Can be used cross-platform Full access makes it easier for hackers
Unlimited access to target resources Only few servers can be reached via Telnet
How to activate Telnet and use in on your system
Simple Telnet clients are installed by default and are usable on many popular, network-capable operating systems. However, different steps are required to start the respective application, depending on which system you have. For example, the client needs to be activated first on Microsoft operating systems, at least since Windows Vista. In the following paragraphs, we have summarized some step-by-step instructions for the most important systems.
Telnet on Windows 7
If you are using Windows 7 and are trying to connect to a Telnet server through the input request, you are likely to encounter an error message explaining that the Telnet command is not recognized or could not be found. The reason for this notification is that the service is disabled by default. However, you can activate it in just a few simple steps:
• From the Start Menu, open the Control Panel and click on 'Programs', or 'Programs and Features' if you are using the classic display version. In the newly opened window, select 'Turn Windows features on or off'.
• After it’s loaded, the list of available Windows services will open. Search for the 'Telnet Client' item, check the box, and confirm the selection by clicking on 'OK'.
• The client is now activated, although this can take a few moments.
• Now you can connect to the Telnet server of your choice. To do this, first, open the command prompt and enter 'Telnet' in order to start the client. Alternatively, you can find it via the search box entitled 'Search programs/files'. Then, start the connection setup as you desire e.g., by specifying the IP address of the target device just as in the following screenshot.
Telnet on Windows 8
Telnet is also disabled by default on Windows 8. Attempting to access the client or establish a connection will result in you receiving the same error message as Windows 7 users receive, stating that the Telnet command is either misspelled or cannot be found. Even when the remote service is activated, the approach is essentially the same.
• From the Start Menu, go to the Control Panel, select the 'Programs' or 'Programs and Features' option and click on 'Turn Windows Features on or off'.
• In the features overview, search for the Telnet Client and check the box next to it.
• The activation process will begin after clicking on 'OK'. Once this has been completed, the system will send you a success report.
• The client is activated and can be accessed and operated using search commands or the input prompt.
Telnet on Windows 10
Like its predecessors, Windows 10 has the remote program by default, but it’s disabled. You can set up the client and operate it using the tried and tested pattern.
• The first step is to open the overview of installed programs and features. For this purpose, access the system control via the start menu or enter [Windows key] + [X] on your keyboard. Next, select 'Programs and Features'.
• Select 'Turn Windows features on or off' and activate the Telnet Client by checking the appropriate box and confirming your selection by clicking 'OK'.
• After a short loading process, you will be notified that Telnet has been successfully activated and is ready for use.
• Start the client, just like with the previous versions, by using the input prompt or the search box.
Telnet on macOS
As a macOS user, you can also access the Telnet Client’s services to remotely control selected computer systems. Unlike the Microsoft systems, the service is enabled by default here, so you can start using it right away. For this purpose, you only need the terminal application – Apple system’s command line tool.
• To open the terminal application, first, open the Finder and select 'Programs' or 'Applications' in the left-hand menu. In the 'Utilities' folder, you will find the terminal connection, which enables you to open the command line by double-clicking.
• Now you can create the desired remote connection by entering the 'Telnet' command in combination with the respective host address. Alternatively, you can set up a connection via the 'Shell' item in the top menu bar. To do this, select the 'New Remote Connection…' option from the drop-down menu, and then select 'Telnet' as the desired service.
Summary
When it comes to remote connections, the Telnet protocol has been top of the list for a long time thanks to being practical and simple to operate. However, growing demands regarding the security of managed and transmitted data have made the protocol unsuitable and unacceptable for many scenarios. Remote connections on the internet today are mainly based on the encrypted SSH protocol (Secure Shell), which is a much safer protocol thanks to its public-key authentication. However, Telnet is still a suitable solution for devices with limited operating systems that do not enable SSH server operation. A popular client software that simplifies remote access based on both protocols is PuTTy.
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fold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdom, for in this case there can be no artificial increase of food and no prudential restraints upon marriages." We have here Darwin's tacit recognition of the fact that, while this theory fits in so well with biological phenomena, it may be largely offset, so far as human society is concerned, by the intelligent volitions of mankind. And yet, not a few economists have continued to insist upon the theory of "the survival of the fittest " as a good and sufficient explanation of all social progress ; and this despite its signal failure to explain the more complex phenomena of a modern society.
As a matter of fact, progress depends as much upon pressure from below as upon pressure from above. Instead, for example, of the upper industrial classes crowding the lower down and out, it quite as frequently happens that the lower crowd the upper up. Mr. Darwin's theory of evolution does not attempt to account for such a com- plex social situation, while Lamarck's theory of a more or less conscious adjustment of the organism to the environment finds its fullest application in such a society. The historical school is convicted of assuming universal validity for the Darwinian theory, which is only true in any complete sense for the earlier stages of social evolution.
Social progress must take place, if at all, under the law of decreasing returns, under the law of increasing returns, or under the law of constant returns. In a society progressing under the law of diminishing returns, population presses hard upon sub- sistence, and those below are apt to be pressed down and out by those above. Such progress as takes place in such a society is probably due to " the survival of the fittest." In a society progressing under the law of increasing returns, the struggle for existence is not so severe, population no longer presses so hard upon subsistence, and the lower classes here crowd the others up. The explanation of progress is no longer found in Darwin's theory, but in Larmarck's conscious adjustment of the indi- vidual to his environment. In a society progressing under the law of constant returns every increase in the productive power of society results in a corre- sponding advance in the standard of life of the whole society. Production and con- sumption here tend to keep pace with each other. There is a tendency to uniform improvements in method and technique throughout the entire field of industry ; this tends to eliminate monopoly advantage and to effect a more equitable distribution. This brings about a progressing equilibrium between production and consumption, and so substitutes a constant rate of increase for the alternating periods of boom and depression. Under the " law of decreasing returns " the welfare of others is com- pletely ignored ; under the law of increasing returns a pseudo-altruism is forced upon the entrepreneur; while under the law of constant returns further progress is made toward altruism. The welfare of society becomes a condition precedent to the suc- cess of those who would exploit that society.
Society seems to have progressed from the domination of a landed aristocracy to the domination of the bourgeoisie, and the further evolution of society will probably see the fourth estate coming into its own. These forms correspond quite closely with societies progressing under the laws of decreasing, increasing, and constant returns, respectively. While a modern society may be dominated by any one of the three laws of progress, according to the stage of its development, it is not probable that it will ever be entirely free from the action of the other two laws. This means that in any modern society all three forms of evolution are in operation at one and the same time, and it is this that must always render the study of social evolution such a difficult prob- lem. A recognition of these three forms of progress and their mutual interaction will be found necessary to any hopeful investigation in the field of social evolution. CHARLES W. MACFARLANE, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September, 1902.
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* This is an article on the voice type. For information about the musical instrument, see Baritone horn. For other instruments, see Baritone instruments.
Baritone (French: baryton; German: Bariton; Italian: baritono) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. Originally from the Greek βαρυτονος, meaning 'deep sounding', it is typically written for in the range from A one octave and a third below middle C to the F above middle C (i.e. A2-F4 or A-f1), though it can be extended at either end. In addition to describing a voice, baritone can also be used as a descriptive classifier for certain types of instruments, such as the Baritone horn or Baritone saxophone.
Classification
While baritone refers to a type of male voice, there are varying subtypes within the range of the baritone.
Dramatic baritone
A voice with a somewhat heavier, darker quality. This category corresponds roughly to the Heldenbariton in the German fach system except the Verdi baritones have been separated. Roles for this voice are also called bass-baritone and are typically dramatic in their tone. Roles such as these tend not to rise above an F so as not to extend past the accepted top of the baritone range.
Lyric baritone
A voice that is lighter and perhaps mellower than the dramatic baritone. It is probably the most common of the baritone voice types and is typically assigned to comic roles.
Verdi baritone
A more specialized voice category, Verdi baritone refers to a voice capable of singing consistently and with ease in the highest part of the baritone range, sometimes even up to the A above middle C.
The baryton-noble
French for noble baritone and describes a part that requires a noble bearing, smooth vocalisation and forceful declamation, all in perfect balance. This category originated in the Paris Opéra, but it greatly influenced Verdi (Don Carlo in Ernani and La forza del destino; Count Luna in Il trovatore; Simone Boccanegra) and Wagner as well (Wotan; Amfortas).
The Martin baritone
A lighter, almost tenor-like voice developed at the Opéra Comique. Quite common in operetta and in French chamber music.
History
The first use of the term "baritone" emerged as baritonans late in the 15th century, usually in French sacred polyphonic music. At this early stage it was frequently used as the lowest of the voices (including the bass), but in 17th century Italy the term was all-encompassing and used to describe the average male choral voice.
The baritone took the range we know today in the beginning of the 18th century but was still referred to as bass until the 19th century; many works of the 18th century have roles marked as bass that in reality are baritone roles, such as Figaro and Count Almaviva from Le nozze di Figaro or many of Handel's works.
19th century
The bel canto style of singing that had been so popular in the early 19th century gave rise to the acceptance of the baritone as a separate voice part from the bass. Traditionally, bass roles tended towards father figures like the king or the high priest, but with the more fluid baritone voice the roles expanded toward traditionally tenor roles of romantic leads or trusted companions as well as villains.
The early 19th century development of the baritone in opera was primarily due to the bel canto style, with Donizetti, Bellini and of course Verdi opening up new avenues of performance for male voice. There are occasional references to additional baritone subtypes such as the high baritone (French: baryton Martin, after Jean-Blaise Martin ), the Heldenbaritone of Wagner's operas and the Verdi baritone. A slightly higher voice type of period was the Hoher Bass, but the term is applied more often to the bass-baritone instead of the baritone proper. Lyric baritones made strides in art song and oratorio during this period as well, with Schubert favoring several baritones for his music, in particular Johann Michael Vogl.
Use of the baritone in operetta became the domain of lighter voices and were typically comic parts in the tradition of the buffo bass, a typical characterization by Gilbert and Sullivan in many of their productions, but French composers such as Massenet and Offenbach used them to great effect as villains in Manon and Les contes d'Hoffmann, respectively.
20th century
The 20th century led to even more opportunities for baritones than before. New operas such as Pelleas et Melisande featured two baritones, Jean Périer and Hector Dufranne, who had differing vocal qualities. Singers such as Giuseppe De Luca, Mario Sammarco and Titta Ruffo also made great strides in originating many 20th century baritone roles; Leo Schützendorf premiered the title role in Wozzeck in addition to his performances of Boris Godunov, Beckmesser, Faninal, and Mefistofele.
Characteristic of the Wagnerian baritones of the mid-20th century was a general progression of a single singer from higher lyrical bass to lower bass-baritone and bass roles, such as Hans Hotter; over 60 years, he created the Comandant in Strauss's Friedenstag and Olivier in Capriccio and was widely hailed in the 1950s as the top Wagner bass-baritone in the world.
One of the foremost Verdi baritones, Mariano Stabile sang Falstaff at La Scala in the 1920s and performed Iago, Rigoletto and Scarpia. He was followed by Tito Gobbi, who was regarded as an actor capable of both powerfully comic and tragic performances. He learned over 100 roles in his lifetime and was mostly known for his roles in Verdi and Puccini operas, including performances as Scarpia opposite Maria Callas as Tosca at Covent Garden.
Gobbi's frequent collaborator Geraint Evans, a Welsh baritone, first sang the role of Falstaff at Glyndebourne and created the roles of Mr. Flint and Mountjoy. In addition to work in several pieces of Benjamin Britten's, many consider his best work to be Wozzeck. The next significant Welsh baritone was Bryn Terfel, who made his premiere at Glyndebourne in 1990.
Despite the European dominance of classical singing, American baritones Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill became renowned singers in their own right. Continuing the success of these singers was Sherril Milnes, who in addition to becoming famed for his Verdi performances was as just as successful in French opera including Hamlet.
The leading Italian Verdi baritone of the 1970s and 1980s was Piero Cappuccilli, while Britain's Thomas Allen was considered the most versatile baritone of his generation in regards to repretoire, spanning the literature from Mozart to Verdi, French, Russian and modern English music. Many other 20th century baritones became widely noted for their interpretations of Verdi's works, including Britain's Thomas Allen, and one of the first singers from the former USSR, Vladimir Chernov.
In the realm of French literature, few surpassed the interpretation of Gérard Souzay, whose range spanned from the Baroque works of Lully to modern composers like Poulenc. Pierre Bernac, Souzay's teacher, was a primary interpreter of Poulenc's songs. Others excelling in the style include Australian John Brownlee and Russia's Sergey Leiferkus.
Prior to World War II, Germans Heinrich Schlusnus, Gerhard Hüsch and Herbert Janssen, became celebrated for their lieder work. In addition, each one was noted for their onstage contributions to Verdi, Mozart and Wagner, respectively. After the end of the war, Hermann Prey and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau emerged as the most renowned. In addition to his interpretations of lieder and the works of Mozart, Prey displayed talent in pieces by Verdi, Strauss and Wagner as well. Fischer-Dieskau created several new roles as well as performing in the classical repertory. Younger German and Austrian lieder singers include Olaf Bär, Matthias Goerne, Wolfgang Holzman and Stephan Genz.
Popular music singers of the 20th century
Baritones are as at home in the world of popular music as they are in classical. On the Broadway stage, Alfred Drake (Kismet, Kiss me Kate and Oklahoma) and Robert Goulet (notable as Lancelot in Camelot) became especially known for their sound. For pop music interpreters, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole are just a few of the best-known baritones.
Barbershop baritone
In barbershop music, the baritone part sings in a similar but somewhat lower range to the lead (singing the melody), but has a specific and specialised role in the formation of the four-part harmony that characterises the style. Because barbershop singers can also be female, there is consequently such a singer (at least in barbershop singing) as a female baritone. The baritone singer is often the one required to support or 'fill' the bass sound (typically by singing the fifth above the bass root). On the other hand, the baritone will occasionally find himself harmonising above the melody, which calls for a tenor-like quality. Because of the nature of barbershop arrangements the baritone part is invariably the most challenging to learn and the hardest to improvise. | WIKI |
Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade
The Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade is an American television special that airs on Christmas Day annually on ABC, airing live and taped, primarily inside the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, approximately one month prior to Christmas Day.
Past shows have included segments from the three other Walt Disney World theme parks (Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park), water parks and other entertainment areas, as well as the original Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park, and all the overseas Disney parks - Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland. Other segments of the annual broadcast included The Walt Disney Studios, Disney Adventures, Disney Institute and Disney Cruise Line. The program has aired annually since 1983, except for 2000, when Disney aired Walt Disney World 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, a Santa tracking special featuring parade excerpts that aired in primetime on Christmas Eve.
Description
The parade goes down Main Street, U.S.A. It features appearances of Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Pluto, Scrooge McDuck, and Chip 'n Dale, as well as floats featuring celebrities, musical performances, marching bands from various schools and community groups across the USA, and highlights of events and properties at Disney theme parks and other Disney productions, in addition to those of the other components of the Walt Disney group (like Star Wars, Marvel Studios and Pixar) that are featured in the event. Like the Macy's Parade, it concludes with the arrival of Santa Claus and one of the most anticipated highlights every year is seeing Walt Disney's iconic Babes in Toyland soldiers from the 1961 film.
Currently, most of the program is taped in November (in the 2000s, even until early December) for broadcast on Christmas Day. However, until the early 1990s, the parade was broadcast live on Christmas Day on CBS, with whom Disney had partnered for Thanksgiving and New Year celebrations as well. In 1996, the program moved to ABC after Disney bought the network through its acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC that year. The parade continued to broadcast live on ABC on Christmas Day with another show recorded two days earlier for international use and/or as a back-up in case of weather issues.
The recorded segments of the parade show feature highlights of the activities through the Walt Disney Company including motion pictures, television, home entertainment and streaming, music, cruises, world tours, and the newest attractions and resort hotels slated for future launches in its various resort locations in the United States and around the world.
Starting in 2016, the Disney/ABC family of networks have aired companion specials in the weeks leading up to the parade. That year, The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration and Disney Parks Descendants Magical Holiday Celebration aired November 24 on ABC and November 25 on Disney Channel respectively, featuring many of the same personalities as the Christmas parade, tying into the Descendants TV-movie franchise. Some segments and performances in that year's Christmas parade were even recycled from the two earlier specials. The following year, Freeform announced that they would not only air the second Magical Holiday Celebration after its original airing on ABC, but premiere a new hour-long special entitled Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic, which goes behind the scenes of the Disney parks' holiday festivities. This move coincides with the channel's popular 25 Days of Christmas event expanding to many of the other Disney-owned networks. The Disney Channel special from the parks, now titled Disney Parks Presents a Disney Channel Holiday Celebration, also returned for the 2017 holiday season. To reflect the huge part played in the production of the event, beginning in the parade of 2017, the prerecorded holiday greetings that air during the broadcast have been made not just by talents from both Walt Disney Pictures and the Disney Channel and the online streaming service Disney+, but also from the ABC Network, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, the Muppets and other entities owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company in the United States and around the world. Usually, the parade opens with the opening message from the CEO of Walt Disney welcoming television viewers to the broadcast, this was a tradition that began in 2002.
The special has been carried by the American Forces Network. Telemundo has aired Spanish-language versions of the special under the titles Desfile de Navidad Disney, (Feliz) Navidad Disney, and Navidad Mágica Disney, which typically feature Latin musicians. Until 2018, the special was also simulcast by CBC Television in Canada.
The 2005 edition of the parade won Harborlight Entertainment and ABC the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special.
History
Walt Disney himself presented the first holiday parade from Disneyland Park in 1962 on the NBC network as an episode of his weekly anthology series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color entitled "Holiday Time at Disneyland." This was also the television parade debut of the Babes in Toyland soldiers, replicated exactly from the 1961 Disney musical feature, The soldiers, later seen in Mary Poppins, continue to be highly recognizable symbols of Disney Parks holiday parades and shows.
Walt Disney World's Very Merry Christmas Parade began on the ABC network 1983 with Joan Lunden as the first (and longest-running to date) host and Mike Douglas as co-host. Alan Thicke later replaced Douglas, and Regis Philbin was later added as an on-street interviewer. In 1991, the first year there was a parade from both Magic Kingdom Park and (then) Disney-MGM Studios, Philbin and Lunden began a five year run as co-hosts, before both were replaced by a series of rotating hosts for the next four years. Over time, the Disneyland Park in California gained more prominence, going from segments to parade coverage.
After experimenting with airing the parade in primetime in 1999, the parade was replaced by Walt Disney World 'Twas The Night Before Christmas in 2000, which aired on Christmas Eve in the same timeslot. While parade footage was seen in excerpts, the special served to track Santa Claus' voyage, a'la NORAD Tracks Santa as he made his way to Walt Disney World, with the repertory cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway as hosts. The parade returned as a Christmas morning special in 2001, with Philbin returning as co-host, now alongside his colleague Kelly Ripa from Live with Regis and Kelly.
Over the years, the program has gone through a number of name changes. During the 1980s and 1990s, the program was known as The Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade. The program's name was then changed to Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade. From 2009 through 2013, the program was referred to as the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade. For a few years after that, the program's name would change on a yearly basis, being known as Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration in 2014, Disney Parks Unforgettable Christmas Celebration in 2015, Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration in 2016 and 2017, and finally Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade in 2018 and 2019.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the 2020 edition (branded as the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Celebration) was stated by ABC to have been "reimagined", with plans to include highlights from past editions among other features. A limited in person parade would return in 2021.
The parade celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 2008. The 2023 ruby jubilee celebrations also mark one final event in a year long celebration of the Walt Disney Centennial celebrations marked by the wider Walt Disney group.
Hosts and entertainers
* Announcer: Original announcer, Dick Tufeld; Joe Hursh, current voice of Walt Disney World
* 1983: Hosts Joan Lunden & Mike Douglas. Carol Lawrence promotes Disney's World Showcase Program at the EPCOT Center
* 1984: Hosts Joan Lunden; Bruce Jenner & Regis Philbin;
* 1985: Hosts Joan Lunden and Ben Vereen; on-street interviewer Regis Philbin. Regis Philbin previews The Living Seas at EPCOT Center and Ben Vereen previews Captain EO. Ben Vereen sings Go Tell It on the Mountain. Special holiday messages from US President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, as well as from World Showcase Cast Members from France, China, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco and Japan.
* 1986: Hosts Ben Vereen; Joan Lunden; & Regis Philbin;
* 1987: Host Alan Thicke; Joan Lunden; & Regis Philbin; portions of the parade were aired live.
* 1988: Hosts Alan Thicke; Joan Lunden; & Regis Philbin at Walt Disney World, and Sarah Purcell & Scott Valentine at Disneyland.
* 1989: Hosts Alan Thicke; Joan Lunden; Regis Philbin; & Kermit the Frog at Walt Disney World, Joanna Kerns; & Marc Price at Disneyland
* 1990: Hosts Alan Thicke, Joan Lunden and Regis Philbin at Walt Disney World and Sarah Purcell at Disneyland. Entertainers: Christa Larson; Amy Grant; Lee Greenwood; & Jaleel White;
* 1991: Hosts Regis Philbin and Joan Lunden; featuring Mayim Bialik, Entertainers: Lee Greenwood; & Sandi Patti; This was the first year there were two Walt Disney World parades: the Surprise Celebration Parade from Magic Kingdom Park and the Very Merry Christmas Parade (just for the broadcast) from (then) Disney-MGM Studios, in addition to Disneyland and coverage of international celebrations. It was also the first year Regis Philbin moved from on-the-spot interviews to the co-host position with Joan Lunden.
* 1992: Hosts Regis Philbin and Joan Lunden; Co-Hosts Ed McMahon, & John Davidson, featuring Jodi Benson, Cheech Marin, Betty White, Earl Hindman, Leanza Cornett Richard Karn, The Great Gonzo
* 1993: Hosts Regis Philbin and Joan Lunden; on-street interviewer Robby Benson. The parade was broadcast live. Appearances by Kathie Lee Gifford John Davidson & Bill Nye The Science Guy. Reading of The Night Before Christmas by President Bill Clinton. Announcer: Dick Tufeld.
* 1994: Hosts Regis Philbin and Joan Lunden; featuring Margaret Cho, Nancy Kerrigan and Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
* 1995: Hosts Regis Philbin and Joan Lunden; featuring Richard White, Jodi Benson, Brad Kane, Brianne Leary, J.D. Roth and Ben Savage & Rider Strong; portions of the parade were aired live.
* 1996: Hosts Jerry Van Dyke and Suzanne Somers; entertainment by Gary Beach, Brianne Leary, Sandi Patti, J.D. Roth, Ernie Sabella, and Samuel E. Wright. Brianne Leary goes backstage on the production of 101 Dalmatians.
* 1997: Hosts Melissa Joan Hart and Ben Savage. Entertainment by Jodi Benson, Harlem Globetrotters, Downtown Julie Brown, Ernie Sabella, Paige O'Hara, and the Backstreet Boys. A Magical Walt Disney World Christmas.
* 1998: Hosts Caroline Rhea and Richard Kind. Entertainment by Justin Cooper, Wayne Brady, *NSYNC, Martina Mcbride, and Donny Osmond.
* 1999: Hosts Mitchell Ryan and Susan Sullivan; co-host Wayne Brady; performances by *NSYNC, 98 Degrees, Harry Connick, Jr., SHeDAISY, & James Ingram.
* 2000 (Walt Disney World 'Twas The Night Before Christmas): Hosts Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles; co-host Frankie Muniz; performances by 98 Degrees, *NSYNC, Billy Gilman, SHeDAISY, Jessica Simpson, and Monica.
* 2001: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa; co-host Wayne Brady; performances by Aaron Carter, Charlotte Church, Mandy Moore, Baha Men, Aaron Tippin, City High,
* 2002:Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa; on-street interviewer and entertainer Wayne Brady; entertainment by The Wiggles, Bear From Bear in the Big Blue House, Jump 5, John Rzeznik, Heather Headley, Lee Ann Womack, Hilary Duff, Alexis Kalehoff, Andrea McArdle; appearances by John Ritter, George Lopez, Meredith Vieira, Eric Roberts & Sara Rue, Robin Roberts and Star Jones. Rename: Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
* 2003: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at Walt Disney World; George Lopez at Disneyland. On-street interviewer Robin Roberts. Entertainment by Disney Channel's Christy Carlson Romano, Raven-Symone, Anneliese van der Pol, and Orlando Brown; American Idol 's Clay Aiken; Playhouse Disney's Bear in the Big Blue House; Jump 5, Lance Bass, Florence Henderson, Enrique iglesias, Star Jones, Carlos Ponce, Rascal Flatts, Jessica Simpson, Wayne Brady, Ericka Dunlap, Michelle Kwan, and Gregory Michael.
* 2004: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at Walt Disney World; Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, and on-street interviewer Gonzo the Great at Disneyland. Music performances by: Mariah Carey, Wynonna Judd, Ashanti, Kelly Clarkson, Juanes, Jump 5 and Diana DeGarmo. Plus: Zach Braff, Jesse McCartney, Erik von Detten, Meredith Vieira and ABC's stars. Disney Channel Stars: Raven-Symone, Christy Carlson Romano and Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House. Also: SHeDAISY, Waneze and America's Funniest Home Videos's Tom Bergeron. Special guest appearance: Julie Andrews.
* 2005: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at Walt Disney World; Ryan Seacrest at Disneyland. Entertainment by Diana Krall, MercyMe, Brian Setzer Orchestra; Lonestar; Paulina Rubio; Vanessa Williams; Star Jones; Tiger Woods; Julie Andrews; John O'Hurley; Fantasia; Aly & AJ; The Cheetah Girls; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe's stars Anna Popplewell, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, and William Moseley.
* 2006: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at Walt Disney World; Ryan Seacrest at Disneyland. Entertainment by American Idol stars Ace Young, Kevin Covais, Paris Bennett, and Mandisa; Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana; RBD; Playhouse Disney's The Doodlebops; Daniel Powter; Disney Channel's Brenda Song; High School Musical stars Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, and Lucas Grabeel; Beyoncé; Andrea Bocelli; Bianca Ryan; Aly & AJ; Michael Bolton; Dancing With the Stars winner Emmitt Smith; and Tiffany's Dance Academy. Appearances by Extreme Makeover: Home Edition's Ty Pennington, Eduardo Xol, and Paige Hemmis; Johnny Depp and Travel Channel's Samantha Brown.
* 2007: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at Walt Disney World; Ryan Seacrest at Disneyland. Entertainment: Patti LaBelle, the cast of "Dancing With the Stars" (Sabrina Bryan, Hélio Castroneves, Drew Lachey, Joey Fatone, Cheryl Burke, Julianne Hough, Derek Hough), Jon Secada, Jessica Simpson, Katharine McPhee, Jonas Brothers, the cast of Disney's Animal Kingdom's Festival of the Lion King, Miley Cyrus, and the cast of High School Musical. Giselle from Enchanted was featured with the Disney Princesses in the parade for the first time.
* 2008: Hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, with Ryan Seacrest. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Sarah Brightman, José Feliciano, David Cook, the Imagination Movers, Corbin Bleu (who debuted a new song) and Dance the Magic dancers from dance studios from all over the country. Since this was the 25th anniversary of the parade, clips of previous years were shown (usually directly after commercial breaks) featuring Beyoncé (2006), Kermit the Frog (1989), Amy Grant, (1990) Nancy Kerrigan (1994) and Jodi Benson (1997), and a repeat of Vanessa Williams' entire performance from 2005 closed the telecast.
* 2009: Hosts Kelly Ripa and Nick Cannon at Walt Disney World, with Ryan Seacrest at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Demi Lovato, Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, Imagination Movers, Jonas Brothers, Yanni, Kris Allen, Steve Rushton, Selena Gomez, Anika Noni Rose, and Dance the Magic dancers which include dance schools from all over the country. Regis Philbin did not host this year due to hip surgery a week before taping the parade. 2009 marked the show's change in title to Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade as part of a branding consolidation announced in February.
* 2010: Hosts Ryan Seacrest and Maria Menounos at Walt Disney World, with Nick Cannon at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Mariah Carey, Selena Gomez, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with Dancing with the Stars dancers, Debby Ryan, Amber Riley, Jackie Evancho, Sean Kingston, Darius Rucker, and American Idol season 9 winner Lee DeWyze. Kelly Ripa did not host this year due to a stress fracture.
* 2011:Hosts Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos at Walt Disney World, with Nick Cannon and Marlee Matlin at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Justin Bieber, Jennifer Hudson, Scotty McCreery, Cee Lo Green, The Muppets, Christina Aguilera, OneRepublic, Phineas and Ferb, China Anne McClain, McClain Sisters, Bella Thorne and Zendaya, Katie Leclerc and Sean Berdy, and singer-songwriter Nathan Pacheco with Welsh mezzo-soprano vocalist Katherine Jenkins.
* 2012: Hosts Mario Lopez at Disneyland, Maria Menounos and Nick Cannon at Walt Disney World. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Backstreet Boys, tobyMac, Ross Lynch, Colbie Caillat, Lady Antebellum, Phillip Phillips, The Cast of Modern Family, Gabby Douglas, Sophia Grace & Rosie, Brad Paisley, and Yolanda Adams.
* 2013: Hosts Nick Cannon at Disneyland with Neil Patrick Harris and Lara Spencer at Walt Disney World. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Demi Lovato, Jason Derulo, Jordin Sparks, the cast of "Teen Beach Movie" (Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Grace Phipps and Garrett Clayton), Mary J. Blige, Il Volo, The Wanted, Ne-Yo, Candice Glover, Dove Cameron, and Samantha Brown. Darth Vader and some Stormtroopers also tried to take over the parade.
* 2014: Hosts Rob Marciano at Disneyland and Robin Roberts with Tim Tebow at Walt Disney World with Sarah Hyland at Aulani. Airs on ABC. Renamed Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration. Entertainment: Alex & Sierra, Gavin DeGraw, Lucy Hale, Train, Laura Marano, Trey Songz, Sabrina Carpenter, Prince Royce, Lexi Walker, Trisha Yearwood, and Ariana Grande.
* 2015: Hosts Robin Roberts, Jesse Palmer and Janel Parrish. Airs on ABC. Renamed Disney Parks Unforgettable Christmas Celebration. For the first time since the 1980s, all of the major broadcasting elements are at Walt Disney World (despite the title insisting that both major parks would be involved as they have for over 25 years). Entertainment: Jason Derulo, Ariana Grande, Seal, Jhene Aiko, Charles Perry, Tori Kelly, Reba McEntire, Andy Grammer, Charlie Puth, Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart, and Cameron Boyce. A number of the performances for this year are based around the album We Love Disney, which was released the previous October.
* 2016: Hosts Derek Hough and Julianne Hough at Walt Disney World and Jesse Palmer at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Renamed Disney Parks Magical Christmas Celebration. Starting this year, the parade returns to being filmed from both major Disney parks, with the musical performances being filmed at Walt Disney World (across all four of the main parks) and the parade segments being filmed at Disneyland. Entertainment: Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks, Kelly Clarkson, Sofia Carson, Jordan Fisher, Mariah Carey, Gavin DeGraw, OneRepublic, Alessia Cara, Flo Rida.
* 2017: Hosts Julianne Hough and Nick Lachey at Walt Disney World and Jesse Palmer at Disneyland. Airs on ABC and Disney Channel. For the first time since 2013, the broadcast retains the name and format it had the previous year. Entertainment: Ciara, Darius Rucker, Fifth Harmony, Fitz and the Tantrums, Jason Derulo, Lea Michele, 98 Degrees, Telly Leung and Arielle Jacobs, Sofia Carson, Idina Menzel.
* 2018: Hosts Jordan Fisher and Sarah Hyland at Walt Disney World and Jesse Palmer at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Renamed Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade. Entertainment: Gwen Stefani, Brett Eldredge, Andrea Bocelli, Mateo Bocelli, Jordan Fisher, Aloe Blacc, Olivia Holt, Maddie Poppe, DCappella, Why Don't We.
* 2019: Hosts Matthew Morrison and Emma Bunton at Walt Disney World and Jesse Palmer at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Sting, Shaggy, Meg Donnelly, Pentatonix, Ingrid Michaelson, Grace VanderWaal, Portugal. The Man, Ally Brooke, the cast of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
* 2020: Hosts Tituss Burgess and Julianne Hough at Walt Disney World. Airs on ABC. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the 2020 edition (branded as the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Celebration) was stated by ABC to have been "reimagined", with plans to include highlights from past editions among other features. All major broadcast elements took place at Walt Disney World. Entertainment: Becky G, Florida A&M University Gospel Choir, Jon Batiste, Keedron Bryant, Maddie & Tae, Tituss Burgess, Tori Kelly, Trevor Jackson.
* 2021: Hosts Derek Hough and Julianne Hough at Walt Disney World and Trevor Jackson and Sherry Cola at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Brett Eldredge, Chance The Rapper, Darren Criss, Gwen Stefani, Jimmie Allen, Kristin Chenoweth, Meg Donnelly, Norah Jones, Pentatonix.
* 2022: Hosts Derek Hough and Julianne Hough at Walt Disney World and Sherry Cola and Marcus Scribner at Disneyland. Airs on ABC. Entertainment: Black Eyed Peas, Chloe Flower, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Maren Morris, Meghan Trainor, Ne-Yo, Il Volo, Trevor Jackson.
* 2023: Hosts Derek Hough and Julianne Hough with Mickey Guyton at Walt Disney World and Jesse Palmer at Disneyland: Entertainers By Ariana DeBose, Chrissy Metz, The Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Bolton, Meg Donnelly, Iam Tongi, The Broadway and North American Tour Cast’s Of Disney's Aladdin.
* 2024: Hosts TBA | WIKI |
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Daniel Collins (born September 22, 2000), known professionally as DThang Gz, is an American rapper. Hailing from the Bronx, he began his musical career in August 2020. | WIKI |
Tiger rockfish
The tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus), also called tiger seaperch, banded rockfish and black-banded rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America.
Taxonomy
The tiger rockfish was first formally described in 1859 by the American zoologist William Orville Ayres with the type locality given as San Francisco, California. Some authorities place this species in the monotypic subgenus Sebastichthys. The specific name nigrocinctus is a compound of nigra meaning "black" and cinctus meaning "band" or "girdle" a reference to the 5 or 6 black bands on the body of this fish.
Description
The tiger rockfish is a large, heavy bodied species of rockfish with a large mouth. There are 13 robust spines and between 13 and 15 soft rays in the dorsal fin while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 6 or 7 soft rays. There are robust spines on the head and these are the nasal, preocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, coronal, parietal and nuchal spines. The space between the eyes is very depressed and the parietal ridges are very wide and rough. The caudal fin is rounded. This species grows to a maximum total length of 61 cm with a maximum published weight of 2.2 kg. Normally they have five vertical bars along the body, these vary in color from red to purple, brown, and black on a pink to white background color. There are also two bars radiating rearwards from the eyes. A few individuals can appear to have had the rearmost pair of bars merged. In younger fishes the tips of the pelvic and anal fins are dark.
Distribution and habitat
The tiger rockfish is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the western coast of North America from Cape Resurrectionon the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska to Point Buchon on the central coast of California. It is associated with reefs at depths between 10 and 275 m. It can be found on rock reefs and among kelp forests.
Biology
The tiger rockfish is a solitary and territorial species which defends a shelter, usually a crevice in rocky areas. The juveniles are pelagic. This species can rapidly change color when alarmed or when the light changes. This species is a generalist and is dependent on the currents to bring food to its home range. This food consists of young fishes, especially herring and juvenile rockfish, and crustaceans caridean shrimp, the yellow rock crab (Metacarcinus anthonyi), the brown rock crab (Romaleon antennarium), and the red rock crab (Cancer productus). The maximum reported age for a tiger rockfish is 116 years. Like its congeners, this is an ovoviviparous fish in which the oocytes are fertilized internally and the eggs remain within the females for some time before live larval fish are born. The larval stage lasts for around two months, after which they settle on the bottom as juveniles. Females attain sexual maturity between 27.9 and 45.7 cm in length and for males it is reached between 35.6 and 48.3 cm and they may not attain sexual maturity until they are at least eight years old. | WIKI |
Vicar Hope Foundation
Vicar Hope Foundation(VHF), is a non-governmental organization founded by Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu and registered in Nigeria as a not-for-profit. It has a nine-member board of trustees. It was incorporated on 11 November 2015. The Foundation has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC)
Vicar Hope Foundation is involved in health, education, gender based violence, climate and environment, poverty reduction, skills acquisition and development for the indigent, housing for indigent people, welfare, youth and women empowerment. It has headquarters in Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria where it runs a youth centre and also operates one of its two medical centre that focuses on sickle cell disorder, care for elderly people, maternal and childcare. The second medical and diagnostic centre is located in the city of Aba, Nigeria.
Health
The Foundation runs deworming of school kids in community schools. and promotes sensitization and awareness on preventable diseases as ‘’’diabetes and ‘’’cancer’’’ while its medical centres provides early detection services for breast cancer including screening and examination. Vicar Hope Foundation piloted a collaboration of the |Abia State Ministry of Health, Nestle Nutrition Institute of Africa, and Nigeria Society for Neonatal Medicine to train 100 medical personnel drawn from private and public health institutions. Medical doctors, nurses, midwives, community health extension workers and a couple of local birth attendants were amongst persons who benefited from the two-day intensive training course on NEONATAL RESUSCITATION AND ESSENTIAL NEWBORN CARE, a critical intervention procedure applied in the first minute after birth which is critical for helping the baby to start breathing especially where medical facilities are unavailable in rural Africa. The Foundation also support indigent new mothers. The Foundation operates two medical centres that provide care for the elderly, sickle cell disorder and maternal and child care. The Sickle Cell Care department of the Centre apart from disease management and care also offers counselling and outreach services. It is the most functional in a region that has a combined population of about 16 million people. Its location gives it proximity to the rural areas of Abia State, where there is minimal presence of specialized health centres. It also makes it accessible to rural dwellers that form the bulk of people who are most vulnerable to multiple economic and physical effects of sickle cell disease. The Foundation sponsored the passage of a legislation in the State Legislature that seeks to reduce the prevalence of sickle cell disorder.
Education
The Foundation has constructed classroom blocks and donated school furniture and books to rural communities in Bende Local Government Area and Obingwa Local Government Area. It also delivers scholarships to students through its subsidiary programme, ISLEF.
UN Habitat’s Urban Thinkers Campus
Working with the Abia State Government, professional and community-based organizations, Vicar Hope Foundation put together an Urban Thinkers Campus, an activity of the UN Habitat’s New Urban Agenda that featured workshops, discussions, and activities in 2017, setting the stage for many engagements between the UN-Habitat and Abia State Government, leading up to concrete actions to tackle key urban challenges such as housing, transportation, environmental sustainability, climate change and social inclusivity in Abia State. The Urban Thinkers Campus is as a platform for individuals, organizations, and stakeholders to come together and discuss urban issues, share ideas, and collaborate on solutions for sustainable urban development and slum recovery.
Gender Based Violence
VHF GBV Response Programme assists survivors entering the referral pathways to access appropriate health, legal and psycho-social support and services. . This Focal Desk provides support for rapid response to GBV as they occur. Vicar Hope Foundation is also committed to developing strategies and guidelines while collaborating with implementing partners to organize trainings and public awareness programs and enhanced partnership with key stakeholders to curb GBV. Vicar Hope Foundation coordinated a stakeholder movement that led to the introduction of the Abia State Violence Against Persons Prohibition(VAPP) Law. VHF Founder, Nkechi Ikpeazu led a coalition of groups to the State House of Assembly to advocate for its passage
Youth and Women Empowerment
The Foundation maintains a hub for young people at its headquarters. It also utilizes a programmatic approach to engaging with young people and women, organizing boot camps and workshops that create growth opportunities The organization runs Springboard an initiative to train and empower indigent people with skills and equipment to make them self-reliant. It draws inspiration from “GOAL1” and “GOAL5” of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is funded by Vicar Hope Foundation and partners. Vicar Hope Foundation has at various times distributed empowerment equipment to help rural people start up small businesses.
Housing for Indigent
The Foundation runs a programme named Widows-Indigent Shelter Scheme (WISS) which has provided homes for over 180 persons as at October 1, 2023. | WIKI |
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Greatest Hits (1998 Mötley Crüe album)
Greatest Hits (stylized as GREATE$T HIT$) is the third compilation album by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. It was released on October 27, 1998.
Background
Tommy Lee recorded his drum tracks for the album's two new songs, the single "Bitter Pill" and the promo single "Enslaved" and then started a prison sentence of five months. Additionally, a remix version of "Glitter" is included. The tour for the album began after Lee's release from prison. It would be his last with the band before his return in 2004. The album does not feature any material from John Corabi's five-year tenure with the band.
The album is an updated version of the original compilation Decade of Decadence released in 1991, which is currently out of print. Its cover art features a caricature of the band by artist/designer Erik Casillas.
Although this compilation won a 1998 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for "Best Compilation", it misses out on some Mötley Crüe hits, such as "Live Wire", "Piece of Your Action", and "Too Young to Fall in Love".
The original pressing is now out of print and in 2009, the album was reissued with "Enslaved", "Bitter Pill" and the "Glitter" remix excluded, "Too Young to Fall in Love" and songs from Red, White and Crue and Saints of Los Angeles included and the 1997 remix of "Shout at the Devil" replaced with the original version.
Commercial performance
The album charted at number 20 on the Billboard 200. The compilation featured two newly recorded songs: the singles "Bitter Pill" which charted at number 22 on the Mainstream rock charts and "Enslaved" which charted at number 34 on the Billboard Heritage charts.
Track listing
* 1) "Bitter Pill" (Sixx, Lee, Mars, Neil) – 4:27
* 2) "Enslaved" (Lee, Mars, Sixx) – 4:30
* 3) "Girls, Girls, Girls" – 4:30
* 4) "Kickstart My Heart" – 4:44
* 5) "Wild Side" – 4:37
* 6) "Glitter" (Remix) – 5:40
* 7) "Dr. Feelgood" – 4:43
* 8) "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)" – 4:14
* 9) "Home Sweet Home" – 3:57
* 10) "Afraid" – 4:08
* 11) "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" – 4:40
* 12) "Without You" – 4:29
* 13) "Smokin' in the Boys Room" – 3:27
* 14) "Primal Scream" – 4:46
* 15) "Too Fast for Love" – 3:21
* 16) "Looks That Kill" – 4:01
* 17) "Shout at the Devil '97" – 3:42 | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 26
Footballers by club
* The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was rename. Syrthiss 14:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
* Category:Aberdeen F.C. footballers → Category:Aberdeen F.C. players
* Category:Alloa Athletic F.C. footballers → Category:Alloa Athletic F.C. players
* Category:Celtic F.C. footballers → Category:Celtic F.C. players
* Category:Dundee F.C. footballers → Category:Dundee F.C. players
* Category:Dundee United F.C. footballers → Category:Dundee United F.C. players
* Category:Dunfermline Athletic F.C. footballers → Category:Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
* Category:East Fife F.C. footballers → Category:East Fife F.C. players
* Category:Falkirk F.C. footballers → Category:Falkirk F.C. players
* Category:Greenock Morton F.C. footballers → Category:Greenock Morton F.C. players
* Category:Heart of Midlothian F.C. footballers → Category:Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
* Category:Hibernian F.C. footballers → Category:Hibernian F.C. players
* Category:Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. footballers → Category:Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. players
* Category:Livingston F.C. footballers → Category:Livingston F.C. players
* Category:Motherwell F.C. footballers → Category:Motherwell F.C. players
* Category:Partick Thistle F.C. footballers → Category:Partick Thistle F.C. players
* Category:Rangers F.C. footballers → Category:Rangers F.C. players
* Category:St Johnstone F.C. footballers → Category:St Johnstone F.C. players
* Category:St Mirren F.C. footballers → Category:St Mirren F.C. players
Reason in brief: For consistency with the majority of Category:Footballers by club subcategories, so that all football player categories are of the form Category:Foo F.C. players, where Foo F.C. is exact title of the club article.
Reason in detail: This is the first chunk of moves within Category:Footballers by club. Currently, the supercategory contains 29 intermediate country categories, which in total contain 336 subcategories. Of these, 270 are named Category:Foo F.C. players, and 65 are named Category:Foo F.C. footballers (plus there is Category:Alhilal which is neither). It seems most obvious then to move the "footballers" categories to "players". An alternative would be to leave all the above categories where they are, and move all the "players" categories to "footballers". This would obviously involve a lot more moves, and be potentially more disruptive, since more people are presumably used to using the "players" categories.
After a brief discussion on WikiProject Football, it seems (to me at least) that moving all categories to "players" should not cause any serious problems of ambiguity, since in those cases where one club plays more than one sport (e.g. Barcelona), there are separate articles for the separate teams (e.g. FC Barcelona, Winterthur FCB, and FC Barcelona-Cifec), and separate categories for each sport can be named in line with the articles.
Consistency is the important thing; for example, when a new footballer article is created, the author should not have to look up each category separately to find what the correct form is. Either "players" or "footballers" would do equally well from this viewpoint.
The other point to note is that the category name should exactly match the article name, and this is not the case for several of the existing categories (I'm in the process of working out exactly how many, but it is no more than 83, and probably a lot less). The reason why I haven't yet nominated all the other "footballers" categories in other countries is that there seems to be a lot of inconsistency in club article names, and it makes no sense to move the categories now just to have to move them again if the club names change. There's a full list of categories in my Playpen.
Finally, and this is not a particularly important consideration, but several other sports that categorise players by club or team (including NHL, NFL, NBA and MLB, but not cricket) use "players" in category names.
In summary: I propose moving the above 18 categories from "footballers" to "players" for consistency. — sjorford (talk) 17:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Support. Yes, please.--Mike Selinker 00:16, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Rename per nom; thanks for effort taken. (Alternate reason in brief: Prefer "X F.C. players" as "X F.C. footballers" implies "X Football Club footballers".) David Kernow 01:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Support - makes sense for consistency, and to avoid the tautology. —Wh o uk (talk) 14:56, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Obvious support - Consistency is God, Redundancy is Satan. -- Cyde Weys 03:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
* Support all per nom. Qwghlm 18:44, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
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Category:Right-wing populists to Category:Far-right politicians or Category:Right-wing politicans
* The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was delete. Syrthiss 14:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
We have Category:Far-left politicians but Category:Right-wing populists. Now, to my mind, deciding whether someone is "Far-left" (or "Far-right") is inherently a bit POV, but calling one sort of political extremist a "politician" and another sort a "populist" is even worse. (An old CFD debate from a year or so ago is archived on the talk page, closed with a "keep" on the basis that external sources can tell us who are extreme right-wingers.) -- ALoan (Talk) 16:29, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Ah - I have just notice the CFD nominations of Category:Far-right politicians and Category:Far-left politicians below... -- ALoan (Talk) 10:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete as left-wing and right-wing are too vague to be useful. Second choice rename as per nom. Scranchuse 01:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose. There may be a better name for this cat, but "Far-right politicians" is not it. A clear consensus to delete Category:Far-right politicians is building up below. "Far-right" and "Far-left" are Words to avoid. Valiantis 14:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Fair enough. I only suggested it as I noticed those categories already existed, whereas my first choice, Category:Right-wing politicans, does not. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Category:Right-wing politicans is far too broad a group title. This could cover a third to a half of all politicians. The politicians in this group are a specific subset, generally strongly nationalist (to the point where some may argue that they are "racist") and often anti-establishment (as the article populist describes, such politicians tend to set themselves up as the voice of the "ordinary man" against the supposed position of the state). I'd be strongly opposed to a delete of this cat, as it serves to usefully group people with strong similarities to each other (and quite different positions to other "right-wing" politicians ), but agree a better name may be possible. Valiantis 13:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. Really, "right" and "left" seem to be less useful than "liberal" and "conservative", or something more specific. siafu 02:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* I disagree. Does "liberal" mean socially liberal, politically liberal or economically liberal, or some combination of the above. Does "conservative" mean wishing to minimise change or does it mean wishing to roll-back social liberalisation? "Liberal" and "Conservative" are fairly clear labels when they are used by Americans talking about US politics ("liberal" means the left-wing of the Democrats, "conservative" means the right-wing of the Republicans - who are generally economic liberals!) but this standard doesn't work internationally. Valiantis 13:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Those are just examples, but the point is that a more specific and accurate set of terms based on the actual political philosophies of the politicians in question is better than using the unwieldy (and very poorly-defined) terms "right-wing" and "left-wing". siafu 16:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* So what is the correct term for the politicians in this category? They are neither liberals nor conservatives in the way those terms are normally used in the US or Europe. If you think the cat is misnamed because it uses the term "right-wing" that would be a basis for renaming, not deleting! Valiantis 21:29, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
* If I believe that the terms are inaccurate or incorrect that is absolutely a valid reason to vote delete. siafu 22:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep I think there's a valid category here, although there needs to be a description added to the category page of what a right-wing populist is. --JeffW 17:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Imprecise and only likely to be used by opponents of people placed in it. Sumahoy 02:01, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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Imdb and Amg templates
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The result of the debate was delete all. Syrthiss 14:57, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Category:Imdb name This was added to the imdb template, I'm not sure there is any point in having it. Arniep 16:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind - I've expanded this to include Category:Imdb title, Category:Amg name and Category:Amg movie. All of them are redundant - their use on the templates doesn't allow proper sorting, there are already film and actor categories, and "What links here" shows the template usage. Delete all. —Wh o uk (talk) 17:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* What's the point of this category? (rhetorical question) Hunny467 18:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete all - pointless categories that serve no practical use to the articles. (Ibaranoff24 18:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC))
* Delete all We are not here to promote imdb, which is a profit making concern infested with ads. Scranchuse 01:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete all per nom. - EurekaLott 03:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep all - For some reason I think that I'm going to be the only one to vote to keep this, but thats ok (but I hope I'm wrong). I believed that since everyone uses the IMDb template this would be the best effort to list every movie inside of wikipedia. There are many other templates out there to help organize movies, but not all are categorized and not all are done correctly. By using this template it would be a great way to list all movies in wikipedia. The "what links here" option is quite limited so I don't think it is a really good alternative to this. -- UKPhoenix79 19:36, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete all Putting all the movies in one category is a very bad idea. What makes it worse is that categories added by template appear first, even if they are not at all important. Sumahoy 17:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete all per nom. —Doug Bell talk•contrib 18:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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Category:Writers who committed suicide
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The result of the debate was keep. Syrthiss 14:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
See previous CfD at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Writers who have killed themselves Pjacobi 15:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* This is not a useful navigational or classification aid
* It's like turning the article inside out by translating every fact in the article in a category assignment. This would be a nice experiment in AI knowledge representation, but we are writing an encyclopedia
* And it's only the tip of the iceberg, there is an entire elaborated category hierarchy below Category:Suicides
* Delete, maybe listify.
* Absolutely keep. The whole purpose of this category and its brethren is to break up what was a colossally overcrowded category:Suicides. Putting them all back into the main category would be terrible. Removing the entire Suicides category concept would be even worse. Leave it alone.-- Mike Selinker 16:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Comment: There are precisely two articles in Category:Suicides at present, so no need to declare the sky is falling. siafu 02:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* When I got there, there were about 100. Before I got involved, there were probably 1,000, which other users put into the subcategories they created (see the entertainers subcategories alone). So I'd humbly submit that the sky is no longer falling. [[Image:Smile.png|16px]] --Mike Selinker 02:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep - what Mike said. (Ibaranoff24 18:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC))
* Strong keep per Mike Selinker Scranchuse 01:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep as above and also as an interesting and potentially useful biographical filter. David Kernow 01:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Absolutely keep. Same strong arguments as both Mike Selinker & David Kernow. Leave it alone!!
* Michael David 16:57, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep Golfcam 22:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep, weakly. Not necessarily all that helpful, but no less valid than any of the other subcats of Category:Suicides. siafu 02:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* I didn’t know quite where to post this comment, but since the issue here is Wiki Categories, it seemed as good a place as any. [ David Kernow: You might find some other interested parties at Wikipedia talk:Categorization.]
I am frustrated with the seeming cavalier attitude some of the Users in Wikipedia seem to have regarding categorization. To some it seems to be a nuisance; to a researcher it is crucial.
No matter what else it may be to some, an Encyclopedia is primarily a research tool, and the convenience of the researcher must be in mind when it is constructed and maintained.
And, concerning Subcategories, I keep running into a particular issue. This was recently included in a message to me regarding an edit I had made to an Article. I had included both the Main Category and it’s appropriate - to the Article – Subcategory : “Normally articles that are in subcategories should not be in the parent category as well.”
It shouldn’t matter how many Categories are included in a given Article, if they are relevant to the subject so be it. Again, an Encyclopedia is primarily a research tool. I do not see where it matters how many Categories are included in a particular Article - if each is relevant to that Article - each needs to be included for it to be complete.
If all of the entries in a given Subcategory fed into the main Category, and this main Category could be viewed as a separate and complete list – this would be fine. But without this, if, for example, I wanted to have a list of all persons who were the victims of firearm deaths I would have to locate all of the subcategories, view each as a separate list and collate them myself. This seems rather foolish when this could be accomplished for me by including all of the relevant Articles into a main Category and its appropriate Subcategory in the first place. In this way I could view all of them, or just a subset.
Wikipedia has come to be a valuable first-level research tool for me; and I am trying to encourage my colleagues to use it as well.
Frustrated,
Michael David 12:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Your advanced query capabilties for categories are provided on the tools server: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
* I stand by my above statement, that for everyday use there is sensible upper limit how many categories should be attached to a page and what to categorify.
* Pjacobi 15:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* When articles become exceptionally large, there is a warning presented at the top when editting them. For categories, this does not happen. Given that there is a point at which categories, as lists, become relatively difficult to use (e.g., truncation, load times on slow connections, etc. etc. etc.) it's necessary to create subcategories to make them more manageable. The complaint your are putting forward seems to be primarily a software issue, that is that there is no quick tool for producing a complete list built-in to the current version. This, however, is not a fundamental problem with the categorization philosophy on wikipedia. siafu 16:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* You are right; my comments did stray from the original issue. But I didn’t know where else to go with my problem. As it turns out I’m very glad I did ventilate my frustrations (which in Psych is highly encouraged). By doing so I learned, thanks to Pjacobi, of ‘Cat Scan’. Problem solved!!
* I still believe the Category:Writers…Suicide should be kept. By the way, why aren’t we looking at such absurd Categories as “Eccentrics”, or “People diagnosed with clinical depression” – they are both minefields. Michael David 17:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* The number of categories on each article needs to be kept under control precisely so that the category system remains useful as a research tool. Sumahoy 17:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
* It is not the number of Categories that is at issue here. It is which specific, relevant, appropriate and helpful Categories are included in a given Article that is at issue here. How could 'too many' Categories be a negative thing for a researcher when all they have to do is choose which ones they want to explore.
* Michael David 11:29, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
* Apart from issues people might have with "category overload" when categories are listed at the bottoms of pages etc, I believe a compromise has to be made between the (understandable) desire to multiply categories and the demands this makes on the MediaWiki software and on those folk trying to administer them. This is an area where, for example, I believe the "notability" criterion outranks the "potentially useful/interesting" criterion (whether intentional or by evolution), leading to decisions such as the exclusion of categories such as "Famous people's relatives who have committed suicide" but (I hope) the retention of categories such as "Writers who have committed suicide". Regards, David Kernow 12:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep per Mike Selinker, and obviously. Carlossuarez46 19:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was keep/withdrawn. —Wh o uk (talk) 08:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Category:Literary critics of English to Category:Literary academics of English and sub-cats (are no direct sub-cats)
Rename. the point was made that not all "English Professors" are critics but that some are writers or poets. (another point is that having literary academics and linguists together seems to me not to reflect accurately on how university departments are generally arranged) Mayumashu 14:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose The proposed name reflects a purely contemporary perspective. Some of the greatest literary critics of all time never held an academic position. Scranchuse 01:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Keep per Scranchuse. David Kernow 01:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* i failed to mention, i meant to base the nomination on the pages presently populating the page, and these articles are of English professors. it s true isn t it that a cat page with this name should exist; i ll take a look at purging non- literary critics from the page and creating a new cat page. the question remains then though what should we call academics who are your typical English profs (if indeed they are academics)Mayumashu 01:59, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Nomination withdrawn. Apologies Mayumashu 02:25, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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Category:Cougar Women
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The result of the debate was del. Syrthiss 15:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Main article is being considered for deletion. Category not really useful. Possible POV. Joelito 13:40, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete Recreation of a previously deleted category I believe. Bhoeble 14:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. Scranchuse 01:02, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete per Bhoeble. See Categories for deletion/Log/2006 March 3. - EurekaLott 03:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete These women have got problems, but not as bad as the guys who let themselves be preyed on. Golfcam 22:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Speedy delete with extreme prejudice. Bhoeble is right; I remember seeing a "Cougar" or "Cougars" category on the same topic that was also the subject of a CFD. Please, please put this category out of its misery NOW!! — Dale Arnett 22:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was delete. Syrthiss 15:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Empty category that will never get more than one or two articles. Currently the only article that should go here is Hydra 70
* Delete per nom. Josh 01:05, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. No argument. siafu 02:41, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
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Category:Programming language dialects to Category:Programming language families
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The result of the debate was merge. Syrthiss 15:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Merge was suggested on the dialects talk page (here). No vote. SeventyThree(Talk) 09:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Merge. "Language families" seems more sensical, especially to non-experts. siafu 02:42, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Merge These are basically the same thing. --JeffW 18:04, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was delete. Syrthiss 15:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Empty, and not linked to according to What Links Here. According to the talk page, empty as of July 2005. I doubt it's been used in the meantime. If the project/template which populated this category is resurrected, it'll be easy enough to recreate, so we might as well delete. SeventyThree(Talk) 08:57, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete This was not a good idea. Anyone who might add the tag would be better advised to start a description, as you don't need to be an expert to at least link to a relevant article. Bhoeble 14:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per Bhoeble. Cat descriptions are usually just fine with a single sentence or wikilink (when they're not completely obvious from the title), so the effort of populating and managing the category is much greater than adding the actual descriptions. siafu 02:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was delete. Syrthiss 15:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
"Major" is a vague term for cities. This category has got places like Cuttack and Guwahati which are really small places. There is already another proper category called Category:Cities_and_towns_in_India, which has got entries for big cities like Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore. I'd suggest moving the entries from "Major Cities in India" to "Cities and towns in India". We can of course sub-categorize the cities category later, but we need to give a specific title for area or population. I can't think of a proper title though. Jay 05:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete - The category was actually part of a template Template:Major Cities in India, which had been deleted. Hence the category is now not in use by a good number of these "major" cities. Besides, the Category:Cities_and_towns_in_India seems to provide a good enough classification. thunderboltza.k.a.D e epu Joseph 12:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete POV category. Bhoeble 14:11, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Miscapitalized too. Scranchuse 01:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. No argument. siafu 02:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete no objective criteria for inclusion or exclusion. Carlossuarez46 19:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
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Category:Northern States
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The result of the debate was delete. Syrthiss 15:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
The category purports to group together "Northern States" of the U.S. The category is altogether vague. In the first place, it is unclear from the name what country the grouped items are states of; moreover, it is unclear as to what these states are "north" of. The category is populated arbitrarily. Many citizens of Delaware and Maryland, for example, would be surprised to learn they are in "northern states"; and why have Montana, Idaho, Washington, etc. been excluded? It makes no sense. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:55, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Support, i agree with premise of your idea, the major question would be is how to define what state is in what region, use a personal opinion, as is currently, or use a official def as provided by census, even so their are going to be "split states", like Maryland and Delaware which could easily fit into both a Northern and Southern region for a variety. Basically though the category was created by a suer who does not like the idea of Maryland having any inclusion as a "Southern State", some comments that he has made can be seen on the article and talk page for . --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Support (i.e. Delete or Rename to Northern States of the United States, or similar.) Ian Cairns 10:14, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete Insufficiently well defined region. Bhoeble 14:13, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Rename Category:Northern states of the United States. Thinking about it, if I was a non-Confederate sympathiser in Maryland, I would feel demeaned by having my state, and hence myself, defined only as a Southerner, so this category is needed for balance. And include all states which anyone would consider northern, which is how Maryland comes to be classified as Southern.
* Support (delete). The OR intent is clear given the description "This category includes those U.S. states considered to be Northern in both culture and climate. Some states, such as Montana, have been excluded despite the fact that some would consider them Northern." This category does not correspond to any understanding of U.S. regions you would find in a modern geography textbook. And "Southern" is not a pejorative.-choster 14:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. No argument. siafu 02:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete. Rfrisbietalk 02:10, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
* Delete as per nom and also as it is wholly americocentric: Northern states of what? Valiantis 01:31, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
* Rename and KEEP Now, honestly! This is a legitimate category, being as it is a region of the United States. To those like Valantis who are trying to make a statement by deleting something that they see as embodying "Amerocentrism," I would ask that you please set aside the politics. Thank you very much. Joan53
* Not an issue of politics. This is an issue of clarity and the effects of lazy naming - all cats should be named so that it is clear what is being categorised from the titles alone. The fact that the creator of this cat failed to follow this basic rule is in itself enough to mean the cat must as a minimum be renamed. The cat may have been named "Northern States" due to Americocentrism or it might just be due to dumbness; I am making no assumptions about the motives of the cat creator. The result of the naming decision is however Americocentric i.e. it implies that no other country in the world might have Northern States. As to your comment that "Northern States" is "a region of the United States" can you provide some evidence of this? I was under the impression that the US was divided into states not regions. (I believe for government statistical purposes states are sometimes grouped together; I am not aware that they are ever grouped into a "region" called "Northern States" which contains all the states in this cat). If by region you mean "ill-defined arbitrary area that no two people will agree on" then you may be correct, but that is not much of a basis for a category. Valiantis 19:08, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
* Delete No need for this. Remember, wikipedia is not just a U.S. site. Or should it include Norway, Greenland and Finland? --rogerd 03:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
* Rename to Category:States that remained with the Union during the United States Civil War Carlossuarez46 19:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
* Why would we want to do that? There is no similar category for the Confederate states, and this is definitely a topic best served by a list. siafu 20:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
* As best I can discern, Northern States refers more to the Civil War divide than to its number of degrees latitude. Along the same lines, I hardly think that Hawaiians consider themselves as a 'Southern State'. Carlossuarez46 22:03, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
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Talk:Sister Rosetta Tharpe/Archive 1
References, citations
I notice that this largely lacks inline citations, though the references given seem to be pretty much the right ones. If someone wants to try citing more precisely for some of this, but doesn't want to slog through entire biographies, Tharpe's biographer Gayle Wald also wrote a shorter piece:
* Gayle Wald, "Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Prehistory of 'Women In Rock'", p. 56–67 in Eric Weisbard, ed., This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01344-1 (paper).
I hope that might be useful to someone. - Jmabel | Talk 22:09, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Birth year discrepency
Tharpe's IMDb listing gives her year of birth as 1921; did she ever trim a few years off her age (as so many other performers did)? <IP_ADDRESS> 04:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a great woman.She love tho sing.She was boron on 1915 —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:40, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Link is incorrect
As of 29 April 2012, the only album referenced under the Discography heading, Gospel Train, points to Gospel_Train, an article about a traditional African-American spiritual, not about her album, and not mentioning her or her album. As my inaugural wiki edit, this is all I can manage; I hope someone else will fix the actual problem. Couldn' git my real name (talk) 04:47, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks - I've corrected the link, but there is a job there waiting for someone, to create a decent discography for her. I may make a start on it later. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:57, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Who is Sister Katy Marie?
Is this another name for Sister Rosetta Tharpe? The rest of the internet thinks so but it's not mentioned anywhere on her Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 04:18, 5 January 2015
* Apparently so - "Around the time Rosetta first recorded with Marie Knight for Decca, she cut two titles in Los Angeles for Down Beat/Swing Time as Sister Katy Marie, one of which was a re-recording of the duo's first number for Decca: When I Come To The End Of My Journey." The reason was that she was exclusively contracted to Decca at the time. Probably worth a sentence, in my view. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
"Godmother of Rock and Roll"
This source says she "played a vital role in the conception of Rock & Roll as a genre of music." Is that a WP:RS? Martinevans123 (talk) 13:49, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* In what sense? We can say that a site describes her as "the Godmother of Rock and Roll", but I don't know whether any other sites use the same term... and articles here should not make such a claim themselves. She was definitely a "godmother", and certainly played a vital role in the emergence of r&r... but she was not unequivocally the godmother. If "the conception of rock & roll as a genre" can be said to have started anywhere, it was with Alan Freed - but there were many parents and grandparents. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:44, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* I've just added her at Honorific nicknames in popular music, where there are no requirements for exclusivity. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* ..and as my good deed for the day I've put her in the correct alphabetical order. : - ) Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:59, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
* You just have to be clever don't you, Ghm!! (Obviously I had to leave something for you to do....) Martinevans123 (talk) 15:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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"Down by the Riverside" recording date
The text says she recorded it on December 2, 1948, but also describes it as a 1944 hit. The Library of Congress gives the date of the record as 1944. Is the 1948 date a mistake, or did she re-record it then? Unless the correct date is December 2, 1944, the parenthetical statement is irrelevant. Jwicklatz (talk) 21:49, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
I found that confusing as well, and for an introductory paragraph, that level of discographical detail bogs down the flow for the reader. One could simply say "her 1940s recording of Down by the Riverside" if it looks like the Library of Congress made an error with respect to the year. Also, in the "Recording Career" section, people who are not record collectors (and especially readers who have English as a second language) probably won't understand the jargon "sides" to refer to individual recorded performances. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
needs cleanup
Unfounded hyperbole is not protected by being in the lede section.
Hyperbolic statements in the article body (e.g. "It has been suggested Tharpe had little choice in the material") need to be not just ascribed to a source but directly (and briefly) quoted. Barring that, paraphrase the statement such that it is simple and factual, lacking in melodrama and speculation. Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:36, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
Gospel Train?
The article said this:
* "In 1946, Tharpe saw Marie Knight perform at a Mahalia Jackson concert in New York. Tharpe recognized a special talent in Knight. Two weeks later, Tharpe showed up at Knight's doorstep, inviting her to go on the road. They toured the gospel circuit for a number of years, during which they recorded hits such as "Up Above My Head" and "Gospel Train". "
But I can see no evince that Tharpe ever recorded a single by that name; the EP and the album that she did record don't actually include that song. However, the Marie Knight article says this: ".. and Knight's solo version of "Gospel Train" reached No. 9 on the R&B chart in 1949." It's here (apparently properly licensed to YouTube and which seems to have been this Decca – 48092 Shellac 10"), but that's not the one described at The Gospel Train. So I have removed the link. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:33, 1 July 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Newbie question: how can I broadcast Master SSID if Client SSID not associated?
Hello,
I have been using OpenWRT for a while on my single-port HooToo TM06. My use case is as a portable wireless AND wired router, using the wireless CLIENT as WWAN (internet connection) and wired ethernet as "WAN" (no internet), both routed through the second wireless MASTER SSID that I connect my laptop to. This works great, until I forget to disable the wireless CLIENT before leaving a site, and then am unable to reconnect to OpenWRT because the MASTER SSID isn't broadcast unless the CLIENT SSID is connected.
This always necessitates a reload of the firmware, as the reset button on my TM06 doesn't enter OpenWRT recovery mode (at least I haven't been able to get it to work).
For a while I settled on a separate USB wireless radio that broadcasts another MASTER SSID at all times, since it doesn't have a CLIENT to connect to, but if I forget to remove the USB radio, it drains the battery on the router, (USB port is powered as a power-bank even if router is off). This is very frustrating.
Is there a way to ensure the MASTER SSID is always broadcast, even if the CLIENT SSID is not associated? Or maybe just a way to disable the CLIENT SSID if it doesn't connect after some time, so that the MASTER SSID can then begin to broadcast?
When you say that master ssid isn't broadcasted, do you mean the it is hidden or completely disabled?
You can connect to hidden ssids without issues.
If it is disabled, then how about faking the ethernet wan connection with your laptop and letting ssh from wan to be able to connect to the router and fix the issue?
For more automated solution I can think of a script running in cron every 5 minutes or so, checking for wwan association and disabling if none is present.
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Since the master channel is dependent on the client association, it's not possible to raise the master until the client has associated with its AP - and hence knows what channel to use for the master AP on the OpenWrt.
You would have to use a separate USB for the client association to raise your master WiFi without it.
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there's got to be a way to script disabling the client ssid if it isn't found in x time?
Travelmate should fulfill your needs, see here
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Add a tagged vlan to the wired interface and have ssh listen there, when you need to admin set your laptop to join the tagged vlan and connect to ssh via wired
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Talk:Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips
Untitled
Chas, you're not supposed to write your own article :-) This is plainly WP:COI, but as you've not attempted to hide that fact, we can let it pass --gilgongo (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
* Following the | deletion discussion, I'm going to do a first pass over this to weed out the worst bits. --gilgongo (talk) 11:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
* OK done that. I didn't remove much of the actual content apart from this para:
"He is a frequent commentator on issues concerning international criminal and humanitarian law on television, radio and in publications. His trials have been the subject of extensive coverage and review within the international media such as: CNN, The BBC; The Guardian; The Times; the Sunday Times; The Financial Times; The Daily Telegraph; Le Monde; The Washington Post, The New York Times; Vietnam’s VN Express; South Africa’s Sunday Times; The East African Times, and Australia’s Herald Sun."
A fairly casual search for citations on the above "extensive coverage" came up with nothing. If anyone else can find any, you're welcome to try. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gilgongo (talk • contribs) 12:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
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%0 Journal Article %A Chang, M F %A Chang, S C %A Chang, C I %A Wu, K %A Kang, H Y %T Nuclear localization signals, but not putative leucine zipper motifs, are essential for nuclear transport of hepatitis delta antigen. %D 1992 %J Journal of Virology %P 6019-6027 %V 66 %N 10 %X Hepatitis delta antigen (HDAg) is the only known protein of hepatitis delta virus and was previously shown to localize in the nucleoplasm of infected liver cells. In this study, nuclear localization signals of HDAg were defined by expressing various domains of the antigen in both hepatic and nonhepatic cells as beta-galactosidase fusion proteins. A cytochemical staining assay demonstrated that a domain from amino acid residues 35 to 88 of HDAg was able to facilitate transport to the nucleus of the originally cytoplasm-localized protein beta-galactosidase. Two nuclear localization signals, NLS1 and NLS2, which are similar to those of simian virus 40 T antigen and polyomavirus T antigen, respectively, were identified. Either NLS1 or NLS2 alone was sufficient for the nuclear transport of HDAg. However, a fusion protein (N65Z) containing beta-galactosidase and the N-terminal 65 amino acids of HDAg, containing NLS1, was localized exclusively in the cytoplasm and perinuclear region. A possible hydrophobic subdomain between amino acid residues 50 and 65 may block the function of NLS1. Nevertheless, N65Z could enter the nuclei of transfected cells when it was coexpressed with full-length HDAg. Entry into the nucleus may be mediated by the coiled-coil structure rather than the putative leucine zipper motif located between amino acid residues 35 and 65. The existence of two independent nuclear localization signals may ensure the proper functioning of HDAg in the multiplication of delta virus in the nucleus. In addition, two putative casein kinase II sites (SRSE-5 and SREE-126) that may be important in controlling the rate of nuclear transport were found in HDAg. %U https://jvi.asm.org/content/jvi/66/10/6019.full.pdf | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The Maker (film)
The Maker is a 1997 American drama film written by Rand Ravich and directed by Tim Hunter. It premiered in the United States on October 17, 1997.
Plot
Josh is a high school boy who lives with his adoptive parents and is involved in little crimes with his friends, including young lesbian Bella. His elder brother, Walter, returns home after leaving home ten years prior when he was 18 and not being heard of all those years. Walter starts to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.
Cast
* Matthew Modine as Walter Schmeiss
* Mary-Louise Parker as Officer Emily Peck
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Josh Minnell
* Fairuza Balk as Bella Sotto
* Michael Madsen as Skarney
* Kate McGregor-Stewart as Mother Minnell | WIKI |
Estádio Romário de Souza Faria
Estádio Romário de Souza Faria, also known as Marrentão, is a football (soccer) stadium located in Xerém, a district of Duque de Caxias, Brazil. It is named after Brazilian footballer Romário de Souza Faria. The stadium is owned by Duque de Caxias. It replaced Estádio Mestre Telê Santana, nicknamed Maracanãzinho, as Duque de Caxias' home ground.
History
The stadium was inaugurated in December 2007, when Duque de Caxias and Vasco da Gama drew 1–1. The first official game was played on January 30, 2008, when Cardoso Moreira beat Duque de Caxias 2–1.
On October 2, 2008, the Brazilian Fire Department approved the use of all 10,000 stadium seats. The stadium's capacity was previously limited to 4,000 people. | WIKI |
Chanch
Chanch is a village in Molekhal (Salt) tehsil of Almora district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Chanch is at 16.7 km distance from tehsil Molekhal, which too is small market. It is 180.8 km distant from its district main city Almora.
The Chanch village has population of 270 of which 120 are males while 150 are females as per Population Census 2011. In Chanch village population of children with age 0-6 is 32 which makes up 11.85% of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Chanch village is 1381 which is much higher than Uttarakhand state average of 963. Child Sex Ratio for the Chanch as per census is 882, lower than Uttarakhand average of 890.
Though the village boasts of producing engineers, doctors, lawyers, writers, teachers and businessmen, Chanch village has lower literacy rate compared to Uttarakhand. In 2011, literacy rate of Chanch village was 74.37% compared to 78.82% of Uttarakhand. In Chanch Male literacy stands at 93.20% while female literacy rate was 60.00%.
Demographically, there are only two castes in this village, Brahmins and Scheduled Castes. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 18.89% of total population in Chanch village. The gram-panchayat of Chanch has developed very good forests in three directions of the village, which provide fodder, fuel, and fresh air.
With the composite efforts of Devidutt Jukundia, Bachiram Kaini, Gangadutt Kaini, Gangadutt Garhkoti, Durgadutt Isral, etc., the people of the earlier generations, who were migrant workers in Delhi, formed a socio-religious organization by the name of "Shree Dharm Seva Society Chanch" established in Delhi in the year 1946. This organization is still continuing with the zeal of the new generation and carrying out social activities and annual get together.
Chanch Mahotsav is an annual get together cultural event organized by village people's with help of an active youth group Nav Yuvak Mangal Dal, Chanch in every year from 6 to 7 June, this cultural get together events celebrate in village temple. | WIKI |
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg denies monopoly in EU testimony
European lawmakers aggressively questioned Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday in Brussels about whether his company's social networking empire poses a competitive problem, but Facebook's CEO got out unscathed. The bigger picture: Lawmakers scolded and needled Zuckerberg. But the meeting's format — which allowed him to address most of the questions in one big statement at the end — meant he didn't really have to give them answers. What they're saying: EU lawmakers weren't satisfied with Zuckerberg's contention that Facebook isn't a monopoly. "It’s like somebody who has a monopoly in making cars saying, look I have a monopoly making cars but there is no problem, you can take a plane," said Guy Verhofstadt, a member of the European Parliament, taking on the idea that Google or other companies could be seen as Facebook competitors. Multiple lawmakers asked about the prospect of breaking up Facebook's services, which progressive groups in the United States have also called for. What he said: "So from where I sit, it feels like there are new competitors coming up every day," Zuckerberg said. He argued that Facebook faces robust competition both in the market for consumer communications tools (a claim some have taken issue with, because Facebook owns many of the top apps in the space) and in advertising. Lawmakers also asked about a range of other topics, including the upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation and the conservative contention that right wing viewpoints have seen their reach limited on Facebook. But the format worked to Zuckerberg's advantage, letting him get away with generalities. What's next?: Zuckerberg is likely to have to answer some specific questions in writing. Lawmakers in the United Kingdom also continue to push for him to testify before a key Parliament committee. One reason Zuckerberg may be avoiding the U.K. Parliament: there, he might face expert questioners a la the EU lawmakers in a format more like the U.S. congress's rapid-fire interrogations. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Lululemon price target lowered to $290 from $297 at Truist
Truist lowered the firm’s price target on Lululemon (LULU) to $290 from $297 but keeps a Buy rating on the shares after its soft Q2 guidance and reduced FY25 outlook. While the company is seeing a positive response to newer assortments, it has not been enough to move the needle on comps in the tougher macro, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The stock’s historical trough valuation after the post-earnings decline should provide some downside support however, with upside opportunities as Lululemon scales its new and more popular product through the Fall, the firm added.
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