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sentiment. All the strength of his will is directed to support the sentiment. The more intensely and steadfastly a man loves a person or institution, the more completely he organises his whole life round this sentiment.
For further reading: A. F. Shand: The Foundations of Character; W. James: Principles of Psychology, ii. ch. xxv.; W. M'Dougall: Social Psychology, ch. v.-vii.; H. H. Horne: Psychological Principles of Education, part iii. | WIKI |
The Secret to Zadie’s Poached Oysters? Seaweed
Marco Canora, the chef at Hearth in the East Village, has been interested for years in the oyster rooms and cellars that used to dominate New York in the 1890s and early 1900s. “They were everywhere,” he said. “They were like the hot-dog stands of New York today. They were really raucous places where people brought their mistresses and threw their shells on the floor. It was like a big party with booze and oysters.” Mr. Canora liked the sound of that, so he decided to convert Fifty Paces, his wine bar on East 12th Street, into Zadie’s Oyster Room, a boozy temple to the bivalve that will open June 16. As a nod to the vintage menus that he has come across, he and his crew will serve oysters in a wide range of styles: not just raw, but also pickled, fried, broiled, baked, steamed and poached. “I think cooked oysters in general are something we don’t do much in the Northeast, and I don’t really understand why,” he said. “In the South, cooked oysters are huge.” To make his rendition of poached oysters, Mr. Canora heats up a pan of heavy cream, butter from grass-fed cows, dry sherry, sherry vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, spring onions and spring garlic from the greenmarket and wild wakame seaweed from the Atlantic. When that beurre fondue has come to a boil, he takes the pan off the heat and slides in raw oysters with their liquor. “I let the residual heat warm the oysters,” he said. “They plump up and get warm and become really succulent.” Topped with fresh herbs and sourdough croutons, the dish calls out for bread to be dunked in the buttery sauce after the oysters are finished off. Mr. Canora says the secret weapon in the sauce is the wakame. “Oysters and seaweed, they obviously go really well together,” he said. Seaweed is intricately woven into the menu at Zadie’s. “I almost called it an oyster and seaweed room,” Mr. Canora said. “I thought that would be cute and cool. I kind of wimped out and didn’t do that.” cooking cooking | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Kingdom of Tonga (1900–1970)
Why do we need this page? It adds nothing to the existing page on Tonga. Roundtheworld (talk) 18:58, 13 June 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
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In the references throughout the web and also in printed books I have available, there is a lot of misinformation, as lots of authors seem to have quoted from fourth-hand sources of her time period. But here is the only place where I could find the wrong name of Lou[i/y][s/z]e Bourgeois' husband: Fellow. Even the biographies cited here, he was a Martin Boursier (although he might have been a nice fellow ;), so I'm changing that detail. That also means, at the moment there are two surnames in this article title, Bourgeois and Boursier. It seems that she practiced under her birthname, so that Louise Bourgois is the correct lemma. Otherwise, if you go strictly after marriage (and IF it was a custom in France at that time to change your name after marriage, which I can't judge) the article should be Louise Boursier. For the german article, I also relied on a french source, that adds lots of details to her life. --Enyavar (talk) 00:22, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Cleanup performed
I was thinking of picking this up for GA review, but I then I thought it needed significant cleanup and that it would not pass GA nomination in that state. I decided it would be better to just help it along. I have done nothing to check sources or look for anything else required for a GA. However, this may help it get past a hump for the next round. Hope it helps and I hope someone will pick it up soon for another review. --Eewilson (talk) 07:27, 31 January 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
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���"Snow of the Penitents" these peaks are called in the Andes. The snow is first blown into waves by the wind, and the hollows are deepened by sunshine
��One plausible suggestion is that dust lying on the snow is blown into patches by the wind, and acceler- ates the melting of the snow be- neath it, for the same reason that any dark object laid on a* bed of snow sinks more or less rapidly under sunshine, its color causing it to absorb more solar heat than does the snow. An abundance of dust is deposited in mountainous 'regions from meteors.
Though the most perfect exam pies of "penitents" are found in the Andes, more or less similar forma- tions occur in other mountains. Some remarkable snow "honey- combs" approaching the form of nieve penitente are produced in hot, dry summer weather among the glacier fields of Mount Rainier. The cups or hollows are a foot or more in diameter, and no water is seen any- where, as evaporation is rapid.
��Snow Honeycombs and "Penitents" of South America
rHE most bizarre of all forms assumed by snow is probably that known as nieve penitente. In the high Andes of tropical Argentina and Chile are found in- numerable pointed or jagged blocks of snow or glacier ice, which at a distance — especially in the moonlight — bear an un- canny resemblance to throngs of white-robed human beings. This appearance has given them their Spanish name, nieve de los penitentes, "snow of the penitents," and the international name nieve pen- itente. These figures are from four to seven feet high, on an average, though they are sometimes twenty feet.
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of much contro- versy. Probably the snow is first blown into waves by the wind, and the hol- lows are undoubt- edly deepened by strong sunshine, but it is not easy to see
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���Hatching Chickens in Glass Globes by Electricity
THERE is always a certain element of risk in hatching chickens in an incu- bator, for unless the incubator is watched very carefully the temperature may get too low and the eggs spoil.
Electricity may be depended upon more than any other form of heat. A new in- cubator has been perfected which is heated by elec- tricity. It offers an ideal method of hatching and brooding chicks. The in- cubator may be attached to any electric light socket. The distribution of heat in the egg chamber is always very even and there is a welcome absence of gases and fumes. The electric incubator is provided with a glass globe so th[e chicken fancier may see just what is going on in- side the incubator. The heat is given by an electric light which is so regulated that it gives the re- quired heat inter-
��The incubator globe and stand may be con- nected with any electric light socket
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Area connections to the Star-Spangled Banner
by James Rada, Jr.
Frederick County native Francis Scott Key was a lawyer, who is not remembered for his legal expertise, but for a poem he wrote.
In 1814, the War of 1812 was still raging. Some historians call it the second American Revolution. Less than a generation after America won her independence, she once again battled Great Britain. It was a war that neither side wanted because both countries were still recovering from the original American Revolution.
The British fought a defensive war early in the War of 1812 because they were also fighting against Napoleon Bonaparte and the French army and navy in Europe. By 1814, Britain defeated Napoleon and turned her attention to ending the war with the United States. Up to this point, most of the fighting had been around the Canadian and U.S. border to the north. In the mid-Atlantic, the British started a blockade in 1813. British troops invaded and burned Washington in August 1814.
On September 7, 1814, Key and Col. John Stuart Skinner sailed to the British ship HMS Tonnant near Baltimore under a flag of truce. They dined with Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross, and they made the case for the release of Dr. William Beanes, a friend of Key’s and a prisoner of the British. The British had captured him after they had burned Washington and accused him of aiding in the arrest of British soldiers who had been pillaging homes as they left Washington.
The negotiations went well, and Beanes was released. He, Key, and Skinner were allowed to return to their ship, but they weren’t allowed to leave the British fleet for a time. They had learned too much about the fleet strength and intended British attack on Baltimore.
So, Key wound up watching the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry from dawn on September 13 until the morning of September 14.
At dawn on September 14, he saw the large American flag still waving over the fort, and it inspired him to write a poem on the back of a letter he had in his pocket.
The Americans were released on September 16, and Key finished the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel. He did not title it or sign it. It was given the name “The Defence of Fort M’Henry” when he published it as a broadside.
However, the National Songster of 1814 published “The Defence of Fort M’Henry” that year as a song. This Hagerstown publication, owned by the Hagerstown Town and County Almanack, was the first place to publish what would eventually become our national anthem.
The almanac’s website notes, “is that though it appeared in many songsters, the VERY FIRST appearance of the poem as a song under the title, ‘Defence of Fort M’Henry’, was in ’The National Songster’, Hagerstown, Maryland in 1814 with the direction that it be sung to the tune of To Anacreon of Heaven. This publication was the product of John Gruber, founder of The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack! This has been corroborated by many bibliographies of American Songsters from 1734 to 1820.”
As the song was reprinted in publications across the country and gained popularity, it was renamed “The Star-Spangled Banner.” By the time of the Mexican-American War, it was often sung as the unofficial national anthem.
Congress made things official in 1931, and President Herbert Hoover signed it into law.
John Gruber owned both the National Songster and the Hagerstown Town and County Almanack, which is the second oldest almanac in the country. The almanac is still published and sold by descendants of its founder. | FINEWEB-EDU |
3 Common Under Sink Water Filter Problems
Most under sink water filter problems can be easily resolved without calling a professional plumber. Common issues include clogged filters, tank damage, and water type. To assess the problem, get an old towel to catch any drips and a flashlight, because areas under sinks are usually fairly dark.
Problem 1: Clogged Filter
When is the last time the filter was changed? The job of a filter is to trap particles in water to keep them from coming out the tap. Most water filtration system manufacturers recommend changing the filter screen out at specific regular intervals, such as monthly or every 90 days. If the filter has done its job for too long, it may simply be clogged up with gunk. This is an easy fix: replace the filter. If the filter is reusable, then clean it thoroughly, put it back, and it should be good to go.
Once the filter has been replaced, run water through it to make sure the system is now working as it should. If there still seems to be a problem, there may be a component within the filter pump that has gone bad or simply needs cleaned. If you can easily take the system apart, check for gunk build-up inside that might be restricting water flow. If there is no corrosion or clogging, the pump may be bad. Sometimes they just wear out, and working hard against a clogged filter for too long will wear them out more quickly.
Problem 2: Tank Damage
Most water filters require the water to be moving through it at a good clip in order for the filtration system to work properly. The water tank may have hit the end of its life span, or may be overly corroded and simply cannot deliver the water to the filter at a high enough pressure, and may need to be replaced. There may also be a problem with the pressure the tank is receiving. Check the pressure of the tank and make sure it is set correctly for the area's municipal water pressure. This pressure can vary from block to block in a neighborhood, and may make a difference in the functioning of your unit. If the pressure to the dwelling is low, this may be a larger problem with clogged pipes from the street, such as debris build-up or tree roots.
Problem 3: Water Type
Sometimes water in the area is just too difficult for a filter to manage and work correctly. This could be caused by extreme hard or soft water, which often causes mineral sediment build-up in pipes and filters quite quickly. In this case, a water purifier system might be the answer. Water purifiers tend to have a longer life span than water filters. Some purifiers are filter free, and others still have a filtering system within it, and so a filter may still have to be changed regularly, but the unit itself may be more reliable in the long run. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Thomas McCrae (physician)
Thomas McCrae (December 16, 1870 – June 30, 1935) was professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, and student and later colleague of Sir William Osler. Often quoted in medical training for his remark "more is missed by not looking than not knowing". He was the brother of John McCrae, author of "In Flanders Fields".
Early life and medical training
Thomas McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford McCrae.
McCrae trained in medicine at the University of Toronto, obtaining his Doctorate of Medicine in 1903.
He became an assistant resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland and was later joined by his brother in 1899. It was there that he became associated with Dr William Osler (later Sir William) who was the "pre-eminent medical educator of his time".
McCrae's association with Osler continued with their collaboration in The Principles and Practice of Medicine, an authoritative medical text at the time. McCrae was initially assistant editor, but later became the editor of this text upon Osler's death.
Later career
In 1912 he became Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1914.
"In 1924, he was Lumleian lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians in London. He was chairman of the Section on Practice of Medicine of the American Medical Association, 1914–1915. From 1916 to 1925 he was secretary of the Association of American Physicians and in 1930 its president."
McCrae died in 1935 in Philadelphia with no children to survive him and wife Amy Marian Gwyn. He is described in an obituary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal as a "deep student, a fine clinician, a great teacher". | WIKI |
The institution of American slavery was fraught with many heart wrenching tails of inhuman treatment endured by those of African descent. In his autobiography Frederick Douglass details the daily horrors slaves faced. In Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave he depicts the plight of slavery with such eloquence that only one having suffered through it could do. Douglass writes on many key topics in slave life such as separation of families, punishment, and the truth that would lead him to freedom, and how these things work to keep slavery intact. In the words of Frederick Douglass, “My mother and I were separated when I was only but an infant…It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.” (22) The bond between mother and child was broken before it had chance to form.
Misery of Slavery Exposed in Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beacher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin addresses the issue of slavery in close accordance with the style of Frederick Douglas' narrative. A theme that Stowe impresses strongly upon the reader is the degenerative effects of slavery upon both the slave and the master. Frequently in the novel the issue is raised . Even Mrs. Shelby recognizes the depravity and admits that slavery, "is a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing- a curse to the master and a curse to the slave!"(45). The injustices of slavery are frequently identified in the novel but, of course, the practice is continued.
The characters are used to show that northerners are contributing to the growth of slavery just like the southerners. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Uncle Tom is the central figure and he possesses a trait that makes him different from the rest of the characters. Uncle Tom 's faith is his source of strength throughout the novel that helps him through all the suffering, grief, and hardships. Stowe uses Tom to show that if the horrible white slaveholders of the novel were to achieve Tom’s faith of Christianity that slavery would be impossible. Stowe attack the institution of slavery by showing that being a Christian would not allow such cruelty of other human beings despite their color.
Stowe emphasizes that these women had to painf... ... middle of paper ... ...rk is painful, but also enduring a mean master. Lastly Stowe portrays that slavery is wrong by describing the moral qualities in slaves. A good example is Uncle Tom a hardworking, trustworthy, good-hearted man who was sold into slavery (42). Uncle Tom was also a religious man that truly believed in God, and because of his beliefs he obeyed his master, except when it was immoral (507). Though Tom was such a down to earth man, he was still beaten because he didn’t give into his master Legree wrongdoings when he told him to beat a woman (507).
Ever trusting in the Lord, he is assured that he will always be protected. "There'll be the same God there, Chloe, that there is here." (Stowe, 95) His reluctance to renounce his religion ultimately leads to his persecution and death, however his piety remains an inspiration for other slaves. In contrast, for the Caucasian Americans, their religion and Christian values are the source of their struggle to overcome the social norms that oppose their beliefs. Miss Ophelia's character is one that develops greatly throughout her role in the story, ultimately deciding to adopt a Negro child and raise her Christian.
Her narrative focuses on the domestic issues that faced African-American women, she even states, “Slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women”. Therefore, gender separated the two narratives, and gave each a distinct view toward slavery. Douglass showed “how a slave became a man” in a physical fight with an overseer and the travel to freedom. Jacobs’s gender determined a different course, and how women were affected. Douglass and Jacob’s lives might seem to have moved in different directions, but it is important not to miss the common will that their narratives proclaim of achieving freedom.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to perceive a clear image of slavery through Douglass' words. His writings explain the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed.
Many economic and political factors lie behind the cause of the American Civil War. Among such causes, the issue of slavery is raised repeatedly. Many men and women sacrificed all that they had in opposition to the evils of slavery. Through these hardships comes the inspiration for such an epic of American literature as Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her novel, a stirring indictment of slavery, truly captures the scathing realities of life in the south for a black slave.
In the well-written narrative The Life of Fredrick Douglass, the author, and former slave known as Fredrick Douglass, uses multiple examples of brutal whippings and severe punishments to describe the terrible conditions that African American slaves faced in the south. Douglass’s purpose for writing this narrative was to show the physical and emotional pain that slaves had to endure from their owners. According to Fredrick Douglass, “adopted slaveholders are the worst” and he proves his point with his anecdotes from when he was a slave; moreover, slave owners through marriage weren’t used to the rules of slaveholding so they acted tougher. He also proves that Christian slave owners weren’t always holier, they too showed no mercy towards their slaves and Douglass considered them religious hypocrites. Like most southern slave owners Thomas Auld was a cruel master who always disciplined his slaves for their wrong doings.
Dr. Miller, Josh Green, and Jerry, three diverse black characters from The Marrow of Tradition, exhibit different effects of slavery and racism throughout the book. Dr. Miller gets his hard working qualities from his slavery influence, but racism makes him feel inferior. Josh Green, on the other hand, is socially subordinate because of slavery, and the racism makes him extremely violent towards whites. Lastly, Jerry is so influenced by white men that he still thinks he is under their control and conforms to everything they do; racism affects him by making him racist against blacks. The Civil War, though it supposedly ended slavery, monumentally impacted the blacks through racism and the long term consequences of slavery. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Rh often be seen in the streets of Jaffa going from shop to shop neighing. Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Rabah', originally from Beit Dejan, now one of the notables of Jaffa, is Khalify of the four Orders of Derwishes, i.e., he can deliver the diplomas. He has the power to work miracles; as already mentioned, his mare fought in the Turco-Russian War. Many Derwishes also, as grey falcons, used to hover above the Turkish army, and catch the shells or musket-balls as they flew. The general idea of these Derwishes, and the reason why they exist, is that they may not sin. By wearing bad clothing, being absorbed in prayer, having no earthly comfort, and going about asking alms, they are supposed to keep their souls pure, and the more welies, nebies, and holy places they visit, the more they have "merit before God,"
A Derwish in my service was trying to qualify himself for becoming a wandering Derwish. But he was irascible, and that would not do for a good Derwish. He was fond of arms and shooting; but extinguishing life, even that of a caterpillar, was sinful in a Derwish. He was also fond of good dress, and was sorry for it. He went twice on foot from Jaffa to Bagdad to visit as many welies as possible, and he hoped, by the grace of 'Abd el Kader, in Bagdad, to become converted. On one trip he was absent eight months, suffered hunger and thirst and fatigue through the Syrian desert, even wore bad clothing in the time of his pilgrimage, never omitted the five regular prayers and his own voluntary prayers, but after all returned to his passions—good clothing, bearing arms, and ill-temper. The poor fellow was much perplexed about it, and told me he could be no real good Derwish as long as he did not put aside all these sins, that he knew Derwishes who even let themselves be beaten without reply. He even went further and said the 38th to 42nd verses of the fifth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel seem to be wholly written for, and ought to be kept by, a real Derwish. A Derwish is never completely sanctified till he has done all, and then he may even see angels. Angels communicate with and minister to Derwishes. They have shining faces, as the full moon, and have green veils, but this is a secret which may not be divulged. A Derwish who had regular visions, invited another Derwish in Ramleh to come and see in what company he passed his time. When alone on his way home the spectator thought to tell what he had seen, but on beginning, was struck dumb, became insane and died, and the first one soon died also, because | WIKI |
Telluric iron
Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore. Telluric iron is extremely rare, with only one known major deposit in the world, located in Greenland.
Introduction
With the exception of its molten core, nearly all elemental iron on Earth is found as iron ores. All metallic iron was thought to have been transformed into iron oxides during the Great Oxidation Event, beginning roughly 2 billion years ago, among other theories. Until the late 1800s, iron as a native metal was only a matter of speculation, outside of isolated Greenland. The only known, terrestrial iron in metallic form were found as meteorites, which were deposited onto the Earth from outer space.
Telluric iron is so named after the Latin word Tellus, meaning "Earth" (the planet, as opposed to terra meaning "earth": the land, ground or soil), combined with the suffix -ic meaning "of" or "born from", differentiating it from meteorites. Telluric iron resembles meteoric iron, in that it contains both a significant amount of nickel and Widmanstatten structures. However, telluric iron typically contains only around 3% nickel, which is too low for meteorites, of which none have been found with less than 5%. There are two types of telluric iron: Both type 1 and type 2 contain comparable amounts of nickel and other impurities. The main difference between the two is the carbon content, which greatly affects the hardness, workability, and melting point of the metal.
Material properties
Telluric iron is metallic iron that formed within the Earth's mantle and crust. Although minor deposits of telluric iron have been found around the world, the west shores of Greenland hold the only known major deposits. However, these deposits may vary drastically in shape and composition, even in the same region, as well as drastic variations between different regions such as Uivfaq, Asuk, Blaafjeld, and Mellemfjord. The common factor is that all Greenlandic deposits tend to be found in dikes (lava-filled fractures in the bedrock) or extrusions where molten rock was able to flow out onto the surface. Another commonality is that all deposits are found in association with graphite-rich feldspar, likely contributing to the high carbon-content and low oxide presence in the metal, although it is unknown if the metal managed to escape being oxidized with the rest of Earth's iron, or if it began as beds of ore and coal that subducted and then were naturally smelted in the lava due to the reducing environment provided by the carbon-rich, graphitic feldspar.
Telluric iron in Greenland is unique, in that it can be found in nearly all phases of iron-carbon alloys, and with drastically varying crystalline structures. In some rock it is found mixed with basalt as very small grains with sharp corners and irregular shapes, whereas in others the small, grain-sized droplets in the molten magma were able to coalesce into larger, pea-sized droplets that crystallized with a mostly spherical or oblong shape. Still in others the dike or extrusion may be made almost entirely out of very high-carbon cast-iron, which could more easily coalesce within the magma and flow into cracks due to its lower viscosity and melting point. This cast iron is often crusted with or contains inclusions of basalt, as it extruded out of the ground as very large, globular masses within the lava, out of which large boulders formed due to natural erosion of the surrounding basalt.
Telluric iron is largely divided into two groups, depending on the carbon content. Type 1 is a cast-iron typically containing over 2.0% carbon, while type 2 ranges somewhere between wrought iron and a eutectoid steel. Both types tend to handle weathering in the elements very well, but tend to decompose and crumble very quickly in the dry, controlled atmosphere of a museum, although type 2 is far more prone to this kind of damage.
Type 1
Type 1 telluric iron contains a significant amount of carbon. Type 1 is a white nickel cast-iron, containing 1.7 to 4% carbon and 0.05 to 4% nickel, which is very hard and brittle and does not respond well to cold working. The structure of type 1 consists mainly of pearlite and cementite or cohenite, with inclusions of troilite and silicate. The individual ferrite grains are typically about a millimeter in size. Although the composition of the grains may vary, even within the same grain, they are mostly composed of fairly pure nickel-ferrite. The ferrite grains are connected with cementite laminations; typically 5–25 micrometers thick; forming the pearlite.
Type 1 is found as massive extrusions or very large boulders, typically ranging from a few tons to tens of tons. The metal could not be cold worked by the ancient Inuit, (the local inhabitants of Greenland), and proves extremely difficult to machine even with modern tools. Machining of type 1 is possibly best accomplished with a carborundum wheel and water cooling. However type 1 was possibly used as hammer and anvil stones by the Inuit.
When sawed in half, boulders of type 1 tend to have a thick shell of cast-iron on the outside that can barely be broken with pneumatic jackhammers, but inside a much more brittle construction of iron grains in an almost powdery form, sintered together to form a porous, sponge-iron type of material that pulverizes at the strike of a hammer.
Type 2
Type 2 telluric iron also contains around 0.05 to 4% nickel, but typically less than 0.7% carbon. Type 2 is a malleable nickel-iron which responds well to cold working. The carbon and nickel content have a great effect on the final hardness of the cold-worked piece.
Type 2 is found as small grains mixed within basalt rock. The grains are usually 1–5 millimeters in diameter. The grains are usually found individually, separated by the basalt, although they are sometimes sintered together to form larger aggregates. The larger pieces also contain small amounts of cohenite, ilmenite, pearlite, and troilite. Type 2 was used by the Inuit to make items such as knives and ulus. The basalt was usually crushed in order to release the pea-sized grains, which were then hammered into discs about the size of coins. The metal is very soft and can be hammered into very thin plates. These flat discs were usually inserted into long slits carved into bone handles, in rows so that they slightly overlapped each other, forming an edge that resembled a combination of a knife and a saw (an inverted scalloped edge).
History
Aside from a very small deposit of telluric iron in Kassel, Germany, which has now been depleted, and a few other minor deposits from around the world, the only known major deposits exist in and nearby the area of Disko Bay, in Greenland. The material was found in the volcanic plains of basalt rock, and used by the local Inuit to make cutting edges for tools like knives and ulus. The Inuit were the only people to make practical use of telluric iron.
In 1870, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld discovered large boulders of iron near the Disko Bay area of Greenland. Knowing that the Inuit had made tools from the Cape York meteorite, mainly due to Sir John Ross' discovery that the natives of Greenland used iron knives, Nordenskiöld landed at Fortune Bay on Disko Island to search for the material. The Inuit had told Ross that they got the iron from high on a mountain, at a site where two large boulders lay. One was very hard and could not be broken, but the other was chipped into smaller pieces from which balls of iron were extracted and hammered into flat discs for the knives. Nordenskiöld searched unsuccessfully for the site, until being led by some of the local Inuit to a place called Uivfaq, where large masses of metallic iron were strewn about the area. He assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstätten patterns. Most scientists at the time believed that no un-oxidized telluric iron existed, and few questioned Nordenskiöld's finding.
Gustav Nauckhoff made an expedition to Greenland in 1871. Armed with dynamite and lifting equipment, his expedition collected three large samples of telluric iron, also believing them to be meteoric, per Nordenskiöld's examination, and brought them back to Europe for further study. These samples can be found currently in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. A 25-ton block now rests outside of the Riksmuseum in Stockholm, a 6.6 ton block outside the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and a 3-ton block can be found in the Museum of Natural History in Kumpula, Helsinki.
Accompanying Nauckhoff in 1871 was K. J. V. Steenstrup. Due to circumstances like the shape of the boulders, which often had sharp corners or jagged edges that are not characteristic of meteorites (which ablate considerably during atmospheric entry), or the fact that many had areas that were encrusted with basalt, Steenstrup disagreed with Nordenskiöld about the origin of the boulders, and set out on an expedition of his own in 1878. In 1879, Steenstrup first identified the type 2 iron, showing that it also contained Widmanstätten structures. Steenstrup later reported what he found:
In the autumn of 1879, I made a discovery in connection with this matter, for in an old grave at Ekaluit ... I found 9 pieces of basalt containing round balls and irregular pieces of metallic iron. These pieces were lying together with bone knives, similar to those brought home by Ross, as well as with the usual stone tools ... whereas the 9 pieces of basalt with the iron balls were evidently the material for the bone knives. This iron is soft and keeps well in the air, from which reason it is fit for use in the manner described by Ross. The rock in which the iron appears is a typical, large-grained felspar-basalt. The discovery has a double significance, firstly, because it is the first time we have seen the material out of which the Esquimaux made artificial knives, and secondly, because it showed that they have used telluric iron for that purpose.
After the discovery in the grave at Ekaluit, Steenstrup found many large outcrops of basalt containing the type 2 iron. Since the type 2 grains are embedded within volcanic basalt that matches the underlying bedrock, Steenstrup was able to show that the iron was from terrestrial, or telluric, sources. In his report, Steenstrup added, This peculiar layer of basalt is filled from top to bottom with iron-grains of all sizes from a fraction of a millimeter to a length of 18 mm with a breadth of 14 mm, which is the greatest I have found. ... When polished, this iron shows beautiful Widmannstätten figures. ... Metallic nickel-iron with Widmannstätten figures has now been proved to be also a telluric mineral, and the presence of nickel together with a certain crystalline structure are consequently not sufficient to give the character of meteorites to loose iron blocks.
Steenstrup's findings were later confirmed by meteorite expert J. Lawrence Smith in 1879, and then by Joh Lorenzen in 1882. The extremely rare telluric iron found in western Greenland has been under study ever since.
Occurrence
In addition to the Disko Island deposit native iron has been reported from Fortune Bay, Mellemfjord, Asuk, and other locations along Greenland's west coast. Other locations include:
* Ben Breck, Scotland in granite with magnetite
* in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
* occurs in basalt at Bühl, near Ahnatal-Weimar, Hesse, and associated with nodules of pyrite within limestone at Muhlhausen, Thuringia, Germany
* near Rivne, Volhynia, Ukraine
* in trachyte at Auvergne, France
* in Russia at Grushersk in the Don district southern Urals associated with pyrite; in the Huntukungskii (Khungtukun) massif, Krasnoyarsk Kray; and on the Tolbachik fissure volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula
* in the Hatrurim Formation, Negev, Israel
* In the United States occurrences have been reported from coal beds near Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri; and from carboniferous shale near New Brunswick, Somerset County, New Jersey
* In Ontario it has been reported from Cameron Township, Nipissing District, and on St. Joseph Island in Lake Huron.
Native nickel-iron alloys with Ni3Fe to Ni2Fe occur as placer deposits derived from ultramafic rocks. Awaruite was described in 1885 from New Zealand. | WIKI |
Talk:Hindu Rashtra
problems
Two things about this page: (1) It still has NPOV problems. Any inexperienced editors should look at Zionism, for example. Observe the way that neutrality is observed. In addition, the eidtors own arguments should not be state. Only report arguments that you can cite as coming from other sources.
(2) I still dont see why we have Hindu Nationalism, Hindu Rashtra and Hindutva, all making the same arguments. They should be merged, or at least, if they deserve three diffrent articles, they should be sufficiently separate. Hornplease 04:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
* I agree. The article on Hindutva should be made on par with the excellent article on Zionism. However, the article on Zionism does detail the Zionist point of view in detail. Criticism of Zionism (anti-Zionism) is a separate article. I believe that the Hidnutva point of view should be expanded, and criticism of Hindutva (with the Hindutva response) should be kept with the anti-Hindu article. (Netaji 08:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC))
Problems with recent edit
The following sentences have been removed, and shoudln't. This is so because the section "Response to the Criticism of the Hindu Rashtra" is supposed to present the exact point of view of Hindutva advocates. It is important to state that these are opinions of certain members of the Hindutva movement. If one mentions that these are their POV, then the section is NPOV. I believe that I have done so. Plus, I've cited references to the hindutva website that prove that the folowing are part of their charter:
* Whenever muslims invaded Hindu territory in the past, Hindus were forcibly converted at spear-point (and *later at gunpoint). Thiose Hindus who refused to convert were slaughtered, (the most heinous case of such *an act being the Bahmani Sultanates annual genocide of 80,000 Hindus). However, there existed no system to *repatrite converts back to Hinduism (as Hindus do not practice forced conversions) so they remained muslims *even after Hindus pushed invading Islamic armies back. Thus, preponents of the Hindu Rashtra point out that *the muslims of India today, are, point of fact, Hindus who simply are unaware of their Hindu heritage . As *for Christians, the ethnic genocide perpetrated by Christians against Hindus in states like Tripura by the *Christian National Liberation Front of Tripura are well documented, and the
* However, caste-based politics and discrimination is presently an agenda of the left wing Congress Party, *not the right as is commonly perceived. Caste based quotas for Dalits, preferential treatment to *Muslims and Christians over Hindus, nd turning a blind eye to the genocide of Hindus in Kashmir and *Bangladesh in recent times is believed by members of the religious right in India as part of a deliberate *and malicious campaign by a liberal Indian element to eliminate Hindu society in favor of foreigh religiosu *elements, plunging India into an ethnic civil war along the lines of Zimbabwe.
NB: The Christianization of Zimbabwe is a fact, and a legit example in this case.
* Furthermore, they contend that, since the global collapse of communism as a world power, most societies *in the world have shifted to mainstream religion, and have turned to the Persecution of Hindus (a *global minority) to bolster their ethnic solidarity, much like the evolution of anti-semitism in Muslim *and European societies. This is precisely the problem which Hindutva and the Hindu Rashtra means to *resolve. Many muslims still believe they enjoy the feudal status they did during the Mughal Empire and *have committed hate-crimes and perpetrated atrocities against Hindus. They advocate that hindus, generally *known for their tolerance and pluralism, have retaliated against muslims in self-defense
What I will do is change the tone a little to indicate scholarly detachment on my part., but these statements need to stay, so I'll put them back. If you have questions, please put them up here FIRST & I'll read them tomorrow (Netaji 08:10, 3 July 2006 (UTC))
Fact template
Anwar saadat (talk • contribs • [ page moves ] • block user • [ block log ]) has added some dozens of fact templates to the article and in the same edit he makes deletions and adds strong POV. Don't do this in the same edit. He has made worse examples of this behaviour in the Babri Mosque article. --Msiev 08:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Merge
I agree with the merge. The "Hindu nationalists" themselves don't know what this is.--Babub→ Talk 11:14, 7 August 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
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How to Get All Videos from Channel via Youtube API
import logging
import os
import requests
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from fastapi.responses import RedirectResponse
from fastapi import Body # Add missing import
from some_get_request_handler import handle_get_endpoint
from some_post_request_handler import handle_post_endpoint, Data
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING)
app = FastAPI()
@app.get("/", include_in_schema=False)
def root():
return RedirectResponse(url='/docs')
# Importing ChannelData class from youtube_trending_videos.py
from youtube_trending_videos import get_videos_from_channel, ChannelData
app.post("/channel/videos/")(get_videos_from_channel)
About this template
This application provides Fast API endpoints to get videos all videos from a YouTube channel using Youtube API. The end points are "channel/videos" to get videos using channel id and "channel/videos/by-url" to get videos using YouTube channel url. The videos’ details such as ID, title, description, link, and published date are returned in a structured format. The application requires the ‘YOUTUBE_API_KEY’ to be set in the environment variables to authenticate the requests to the YouTube Data API.
Introduction to the Template
Welcome to the "How to Get All Videos from a Channel via YouTube API" template guide. This template is designed to help you create an application that fetches all videos from a specified YouTube channel using the YouTube Data API. The application provides two FastAPI endpoints: one to get videos using a channel ID and another to get videos using a YouTube channel URL. The details of the videos, such as ID, title, description, link, and published date, are returned in a structured format.
Clicking Start with this Template
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Before you can use the application, you need to set up an environment secret for the YouTube API key. Here's how to obtain and set up your YouTube API key:
• Go to the Google Developers Console.
• Create a new project or select an existing one.
• Enable the YouTube Data API v3 for your project.
• Go to the "Credentials" section and create a new API key.
• Copy the API key you just created.
• In the Lazy Builder interface, navigate to the Environment Secrets tab.
• Create a new secret with the key `YOUTUBE_API_KEY` and paste your YouTube API key as the value.
Test: Pressing the Test Button
Once you have set up your environment secret, press the "Test" button. This will deploy your application on the Lazy platform and launch the Lazy CLI.
Using the App
After pressing the "Test" button, Lazy will provide you with a dedicated server link to use the API. Additionally, since this template uses FastAPI, you will also be provided with a link to the FastAPI documentation, which includes interactive API documentation at the `/docs` endpoint.
To interact with the API, you can use the provided server link. For example, to get videos from a channel using the channel ID, you would send a POST request to the `/channel/videos` endpoint with a JSON body containing the channel ID:
{
"channel_id": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw"
}
Similarly, to get videos from a channel using the channel URL, you would send a POST request to the `/channel/videos/by-url` endpoint with a JSON body containing the channel URL:
{
"channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@GoogleDevelopers"
}
Here's a sample response you might receive when fetching videos:
{
"videos": [
{
"video_id": "aBcDeFgHiJk",
"title": "Example Video Title",
"description": "This is an example description of a video.",
"video_link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcDeFgHiJk",
"published_at": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"
},
// ... more videos
]
}
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Talk:Ministry of Defense (Israel)
Merge suggestion
The articles discuss the same general subject, and are the same also on Hebrew Wikipedia. There's absolutely no reason to have a separate list of defense ministers and a general description of the ministry, unless someone expands either article to a point where it can stand reasonably on its own (no indication that this is going to happen any time soon). —Ynhockey (Talk) 06:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 14 December 2019
change the political party of Naftali Bennett from "Likud" to "New Right" <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:37, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
* Done. Number 5 7 12:13, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 July 2021
Categorize also as Category:Government ministers of Israel and Category:Lists of government ministers of Israel, like other Israeli ministries, for example Ministry of Health (Israel). Quacelinz3 (talk) 06:12, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
* ✅ –– F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 02:58, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 July 2021 (2)
Eli Ben-Dahan ended his deputy term on 3 October 2019. Quacelinz3 (talk) 08:15, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. –– F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 03:01, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 July 2021 (3)
Alon Schuster started his deputy term on 28 June 2021. Quacelinz3 (talk) 08:18, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
* ✅ –– F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 03:13, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 July 2021 (4)
Benny Gantz is also defense minister in the 36th government. Quacelinz3 (talk) 08:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
* ✅ –– F ORMAL D UDE ( talk ) 03:14, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 July 2021
Add Category:Government ministers of Israel. Quacelinz3 (talk) 20:19, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
* Done. Number 5 7 20:32, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 July 2021 (2)
Sort as
* Government ministers of Israel -> *Ministry of Defense
* Category:Lists of government ministers of Israel -> Defense. Quacelinz3 (talk) 20:44, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: (or maybe this was already done). It looks like all of the articles in those categories are sorted by the name of the ministry, in this case "Defence" or "Defense". If I am misunderstanding the request, please make the request in the form of "change X to Y" showing the before and after wikicode. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:30, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
* Compare Ministry of Tourism (Israel). Quacelinz3 (talk) 21:42, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
* That article appears to sort under "T" in all cases. What is the actual broken thing that you are trying to fix? Please link to a specific page that shows an undesirable result, and describe that result along with what you think it should look like instead. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:52, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
* No, it isn't, see below. Quacelinz3 (talk) 06:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
* OK, I think I have changed the article in the requested way. Thanks for your patience, and please check my work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:39, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
* Thanks. Quacelinz3 (talk) 21:00, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 24 July 2021
Sort:
* Category:Government ministers of Israel sort out as: *Ministry of Defense
* Category:Lists of government ministers of Israel sort out as: Defense
Compare with the Ministry of Tourism (Israel).
Quacelinz3 (talk) 16:55, 24 July 2021 (UTC) Quacelinz3 (talk) 16:55, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
* This looks like the same request as immediately above. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:52, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
* It is but more explicitly. Quacelinz3 (talk) 19:00, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Compare with Ministry of Tourism (Israel):
* Category:Government ministers of Israel sort out as: *Ministry of Tourism
* Category:Lists of government ministers of Israel sort out as: Tourism
Quacelinz3 (talk) 19:03, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
The minstery name
I think there should be a literal translation of the minstery name at along side the name this article use more literal translation of ביטחון is security, Defense is הגנה Red Gabriel (talk) 11:38, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Literal translation
The best literal translation of "ביטחון" is security not defence I think there should be something that explains it Red Gabriel (talk) 08:07, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
* I have added it to the intro. Cheers, Number 5 7 18:41, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
Yoav Gallant dismissed
I think the article should be changed due to the fact that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been dismissed by the israeli prime minister. Death editor (talk) 20:29, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 27 March 2023
Remove the name of the "current minister in charge" as he was fired by Prime Minister Netanyahu today. Change it from Yoav Gallant to "Unknown" or "TBA" or "Vacant" or whatever fits Scott the Reporter (talk) 04:41, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Actualcpscm (talk) 08:23, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 4 June 2023
First paragraph has pointed Hebrew with missing letter yodh that is used in Modern Hebrew. משרד הביטחון is what is used by the entity itself and should be added for factual accuracy.
Spotted after reviewing release of cache of classified documents regarding the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War at https://yomkipurwar.mod.gov.il/Pages/default.aspx jump URL from https://medium.com/@thespycollection/spy-news-2023-week-22-74e6da9d7c5d. The Over Redactor (talk) 11:24, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
* ✅. Heavy Water (talk • contribs) 02:53, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
Agency executive
Eyal Zamir is current Director-General of the Ministry of Defense of Israel. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:27, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 25 January 2024
Please change:
Benny Gantz of Blue and White was sworn in on 17 May 2020 as Israel's new Minister of Defense.
to:
Benny Gantz of Blue and White has been the Minister of Defense since 17 May 2020.
He's been in office for nearly four years, so calling him the "new" minister seems a bit outdated. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:30, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Never mind. Please remove that statement entirely. He left office in 2022, so it duplicates the chart. There might be a good reason for the text to mention when the current minister started, but a blurb about a previous minister is just odd. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:53, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
* Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Shadow311 (talk) 16:30, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
* Not clear? How can I make it more clear? Please remove that statement entirely. You don't need reliable sources to remove content. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
* ✅ House Blaster (talk · he/him) 04:14, 29 January 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Recently I’ve been working on a project to surface census data via a GraphQL API, mostly as a way to learn GraphQL. I did end up learning GraphQL, but I also ended up learning a lot about proc macros. I was using Juniper, which creates a GraphQL schema using structs like this:
#[derive(GraphQLObject, Copy, Clone, Debug)]
struct Demographics {
female: Option<i32>,
male: Option<i32>,
}
The problem, is that the census data I was looking to surface had way too many variables, I would have had to write out 207 structs, with a total of 352 fields. Here’s a nice tree-view of the census data, courtesy of the frangipanni tool. Obviously, I didn’t want to write out all these structs and fields by hand, even with some fancy vim macros that would have been too much tedious work for a side project that’s supposed to be fun.
I dipped my toes into proc macros for the first time, and found they really weren’t that hard, but the resources out there are so scarce. All I wanted was a few examples of non-trivial macros, but I couldn’t find many. So this isn’t a full proc macros walkthrough, just a quick look at the macro I ended up writing for my use case.
The input and output
The tree of census fields from above is the input to my macro, and the output looks like this.
Set up
I was surprised to find that I couldn’t just create a macro within the binary I was developing. Instead, I had to create a new library and use that as a crate. It’s trivial enough, just run cargo new macro-example --lib, then add it as a path dependency, but slihtly annoying. Another gotcha is that you’ll then need to add the following lines to your Cargo.toml in that new cargo project:
[lib]
proc-macro = true
The macro
You can check out the full macro here. Note it’s slightly simplified from the one that generated the output I linked previously, in the interest of only keeping the interesting parts. In the full macro there’s a lot of extra code to handle bad characters, and repeated field names. I’m not going to go over the whole thing, but I’ll note some of the macro-related parts I had to learn about.
Testing the macro / workflow
proc_macro2 was an essential crate for testing. The signature of a proc_macro function will look something like this:
#[proc_macro]
pub fn generate_census_structs(item: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStream
Unfortunately, you can’t directly call this function in a #[test]. One option is to create a new project just to use the crate you’re developing, and call the macro in there. The better option (IMO) is to move all your macro generation code into a separate function, which will produce a proc_macro2::TokenStream. This can be easily converted to a proc_macro::TokenStream using into(), so you get something like this:
fn generate_census_structs_inner(item: proc_macro2::TokenStream) -> proc_macro2::TokenStream {
// ...
}
#[proc_macro]
pub fn generate_census_structs(item: proc_macro::TokenStream) -> proc_macro::TokenStream {
generate_census_structs_inner(proc_macro2::TokenStream::from(item)).into()
}
This way, you can directly call that generate_census_structs_inner function, in your tests. I’ve got a test like this:
#[test]
fn census_gen_test() {
use std::{fs::File, io::Write};
let generated = generate_census_structs_inner(
quote!(
"
dp03
DEMOGRAPHICS
Male
Female
INCOME
Less than 50 k
More than 50 k
"
)
.into(),
);
let mut file = File::create("test.rs").unwrap();
file.write_all(format!("{}", generated).as_bytes()).unwrap();
}
When I started developing this macro, I’d assert that the output matched what I expected, but as the output got larger it became more feasible to just write the output to a file and see if it checked out. Not best practice obviously, but it worked for me.
In the end I had cargo watch -x test running at the same time as a process to print out the contents of the test.rs file, formatted with rustfmt. This gave me a quick REPL to test stuff out.
Generating arbitrary identifiers
quote! is the primary way of generating TokenStreams. One speedbump I encountered is that it will treat strings as strings, rather than identifiers, ex. if you have something like:
// Pretend this is a string we're getting from somewhere
let struct_name = "Blah";
return quote! {
struct #struct_name;
};
Then the output will be
struct "Blah";
Which wasn’t what I wanted. In order to convert your Strings to identifiers that quote! will print out directly, you use format_ident!() this macro works just like print! and format!, but will return an Ident.
So the example above would instead be:
// Again pretend this string is coming from somewhere, not static
let struct_name = format_ident!("{}", "Blah");
return quote! {
struct #struct_name;
};
Iterating over multiple Vectors in a quote!
In my macro, I generate a Vec of field names and a Vec of field types. I wanted to iterate through both of them together, something that would usually be done with a zip. But inside a quote! you can’t do stuff like that. So I found out that if you have two vectors, and refer to both inside a #( )* section (Which is just the special syntax for iterating in a macro), then it will iterate over both in parallel:
generated_structs.push(quote! {
#[derive(GraphQLObject, Copy, Clone, Debug)]
struct #struct_name {
#( #field_names: #field_types ),* // <---
}
})
Casing
For census categories like “Total households”, I needed to generate a pascal case version for the struct (TotalHouseholds), and a snake case version for the field (total_households). The convert_case crate was extremely useful for that.
Using invalid rust as macro input
Macros are really meant to transform valid Rust syntax to other valid Rust syntax. That wasn’t my use case, so I cheated a bit by calling the macro with a single string, and then parsing that:
let input: Vec<TokenTree> = item.into_iter().collect();
let literal = match &input.get(0) {
Some(proc_macro2::TokenTree::Literal(literal)) => literal.to_string(),
_ => panic!(),
};
The approach works, but it’s a bit strange dealing with a Literal. For example I had to trim the quote characters off myself, as there didn’t seem to be a way to get the actual string contents.
Closing thoughts
All in all I’m pretty happy with macro development in Rust, but I wish it didn’t require creating a separate crate, and that there could be some more useful tools for debugging them. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fred Laycock
Frederick Walter Laycock (31 March 1897 – 19 September 1989) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He was born in Sheffield. He began his career in local football with St Mary's and Shirebrook. After a spell in the Midland League with Rotherham Town, Laycock signed as a professional with Sheffield Wednesday in March 1923. However, he failed to make a first-team appearance for the club and moved on a free transfer to Football League Third Division North side Barrow the following year. At Holker Street, Laycock scored 10 goals in 31 league matches. Said to be an outstanding header of the football, his form for Barrow attracted other clubs to his signature. At the match against Rotherham County on 16 March 1925, the final day for transfers in the 1924–25 season, several clubs sent representatives to sign the player. While the game was in progress, Laycock was called from the field of play to sign for Third Division North rivals Nelson, before completing the rest of the match for Barrow. Both Laycock and Nelson were later fined over the incident, Laycock receiving his punishment for illegally representing Barrow while contracted to a different club.
Laycock made his Nelson debut four days later in the 2–0 win against Hartlepools United at Seedhill. He scored his first goal for the club the following week in the 1–0 victory away at Rochdale, the team's third consecutive win. However, Nelson's form then faltered as they took just one point from the next three games. Laycock netted twice in the 7–0 defeat of Crewe Alexandra on 13 April 1925, the biggest winning margin Nelson ever achieved in the Football League. Later in the month, he scored four goals in two matches against Wrexham and Southport. Laycock continued his goalscoring form into the following season, but was then dropped to the reserve team. He scored 18 goals in the Lancashire Combination as the Nelson reserves won the league for the first time. Laycock returned to the first-team in April 1926 and scored three goals in the last five matches of the 1925–26 campaign, including two in the 3–3 draw with Chesterfield.
In the summer of 1926 Laycock moved into non-League football with Mansfield Town, where he spent one season before returning to the Third Division North with New Brighton. He had a record of a goal every other game for the Wallasey-based club, ending the 1927–28 season with 14 goals in 28 appearances. Laycock switched club again in September 1928, joining Southern Football League club Peterborough & Fletton United on a free transfer. Another move to Darlington in the summer of 1929 meant a third spell in the Football League for Laycock. His record of 14 goals in 35 matches helped Darlington to a third-placed finish in the league, but Laycock was released at the end of the season and signed for York City. During a single season with the Fulfordgate club, he netted 12 times in 27 League appearances.
Laycock moved to Third Division South outfit Swindon Town in May 1931, his 11th new club in as many years. He made his debut for them in the 3–2 defeat against his former club Mansfield Town on 29 August 1931, and scored his first goal for the side in the following fixture, a 4–1 victory over Watford at the County Ground. Despite playing regularly for the first three months of the season, he was used only sparingly in the latter stages of the campaign. Laycock scored his second and last Swindon goal on the final Football League appearance of his career, in the 4–0 win against Gillingham on 9 April 1932. After leaving Swindon in July 1933, he had a spell in Northern Ireland with Derry City before returning to the English non-League game with Witton Albion in October 1934. Laycock subsequently assisted several non-League sides, including Nuneaton Town and Cannock Town. He had trial periods with Northwich Victoria and Shrewsbury Town in 1936, and joined his final club, Hereford United, in January 1937. Laycock returned to Sheffield at the end of his playing career and died in the city on 19 September 1989, at the age of 92. | WIKI |
Aurelianus (consul 400)
Aurelianus (Greek: Αύρηλιανός, fl. 393–416) was a prominent politician of the Eastern Roman Empire. He was praefectus urbi of Constantinople from 393 to 394, Praetorian prefect of the East from 399 to 400, and consul in 400. In 400, Gothic rebels under Gainas forced the emperor Arcadius to give them Aurelianus, and he was exiled; he returned to Constantinople after the defeat of the Goths later that year. He served as Pretorian Prefect to the East a second time from 414 to 416.
Biography
Aurelianus was the son of the consul of 361, Taurus, and brother of Caesarius; he had a son called Taurus, Consul in 428. Aurelianus would become a well known and major Christian advocate later in life, and erected a church to protomartyr Stephen.
Aurelianus was praefectus urbi of Constantinople between 393 and 394. When the Gothic magister militum Gainas rose to power at the court of Emperor Arcadius, he had all supporters of his enemy Eutropius removed; he chose Aurelianus as Praetorian prefect of the East (August 399), replacing Eutychianus, Eutropius' choice. Aurelianus, therefore, became the most powerful civilian official and was involved in the trial against Eutropius, which started at Chalcedon in September of that year and culminated in the latter's execution. He was appointed consul for the year 400, but his colleague in the West, the magister militum Stilicho, did not recognize him in an act of open confrontation with the Eastern court and particularly with Gainas. He was still Prefect at the beginning of 400, when he received the order to confiscate the properties of Eutropius and destroy his statues.
In mid-April 400, Gainas, who had rebelled with his Goths, went to Constantinople, where he forced Arcadius to hand over Aurelianus and Saturninus; Aurelianus was exiled (and possibly deposed), but his properties were not confiscated. After the defeat of the Goths at Constantinople (12 July 400), Aurelianus made a triumphant return to the capital. It is known from the laws sent to him and preserved in the Theodosian Code that he was Praetorian prefect of the East a second time between 414 and 416.
He was an important figure in the Senate until late in life and the Senate dedicated him a statue in gold.
Aurelianus in literature
The character of Osiris in the work Aegyptus sive de providentia by Synesius of Cyrene has been identified with Aurelianus; in this work Osiris is opposed to Typhon, representing Caesarius or Eutychianus, while Horus should represent Taurus. | WIKI |
List of baseball parks in San Antonio
This is a selected list of venues used for professional baseball in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.
* Muth's Park
* Home of: San Antonio - Texas League (1888)
* San Pedro Park
* Home of: San Antonio - Texas League (1892); San Antonio Missionaries - Texas Southern League (1895); San Antonio Bronchos - Texas League (1896–1899); San Antonio Bears (originally Bronchos or Broncos) - South Texas League (1903–1905)
* Location / notes: San Pedro Park, aka San Pedro Springs Park, is an old public park in the city. The ballpark was built in 1892 (replacing a racetrack) and existed until 1966, when it was converted to a softball center. The softball center is in the southeast corner of the public park, i.e. on the northwest corner of San Pedro Avenue (east) and West Myrtle Street (south). Other streets bounding the city park are North Flores Street (west) and West Ashby Place (north). San Antonio College is across San Pedro Avenue to the east.
* Electric Park
* Home of: San Antonio Bronchos - South Texas League (1906), Texas League (1907–1912)
* Note: Electric Park was an amusement park.
* Block Stadium (renamed "League Park" after 1915)
* Home of: San Antonio Bronchos/Aces/Bears - Texas League (1913–1923)
* Location: Southern edge of downtown; torn down in 1927
* League Park
* Home of: San Antonio Bears/Indians - Texas League (1923–1932)
* Location: northeast corner of East Josephine Street and Isleta Street; burned down in June 1932
* Eagle Field
* Home of: San Antonio Indians - Texas League (1932, partial season)
* Location: According to Google Maps, the ballfield still exists as part of the athletic complex of Brackenridge High School, at the south edge of property bounded by Eagleland Drive (northwest), South St. Mary's Street (northeast), and San Antonio River (south).
* Tech Field (owned by San Antonio Independent School District)
* Home of: San Antonio Missions - Texas League (1932–1942, 1946)
* Location: northwest corner of San Pedro Avenue and West Myrtle Street, across from San Antonio College, according to Google Maps
* Currently: athletic field. Same site as San Pedro Park.
* Mission Stadium
* Home of: San Antonio Missions/Bullets - Texas League (1947–1964)
* Location: Mission Road (west and north, third base, left field); Mitchell Street (south, first base); Steves Avenue (north and east, center field and right field).
* Currently: parking lot for office complex
* V. J. Keefe Field a.k.a. V. J. Keefe Memorial Stadium
* Opened: 1960
* Home of: San Antonio Missions/Brewers/Dodgers/Missions - TL (1968–1993)
* Location: Campus of St. Mary's University - University Drive (north, third base); Rattler Drive (west and south, first base and right field)
* Currently: rebuilt as Dickson Stadium, still used by the university
* Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, aka Wolff Stadium
* Home of: San Antonio Missions - TL (1994–present)
* Location: Castroville Road and Interstate 90 (south, right field); Callaghan Road (east, left field) | WIKI |
Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation Summary
• Last updated on November 10, 2022
Newton’s theory of universal gravitation provided the physical basis for the Copernican revolution, establishing a mechanical universe governed by universal natural laws and thus forming the foundation for the Enlightenment.
Summary of Event
The publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation in his monumental treatise Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687; The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1729; better known as the Principia Principia (Newton) ) marked the culmination of the scientific revolution. This revolution began with the 1543 publication by Nicolaus Copernicus of his heliocentric (Sun-centered) system of the planets (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1939; better known as De revolutionibus). Copernicus was unable to explain how Earth could rotate on its axis and move around the Sun, however, and his system contradicted the philosophical and theological ideas of his time. Only a few astronomers began to develop his ideas, most notable of whom were Galileo and Johannes Kepler Kepler, Johannes . [kw]Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation (Summer, 1687) [kw]Gravitation, Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal (Summer, 1687) [kw]Universal Gravitation, Newton Formulates the Theory of (Summer, 1687) Astronomy;Summer, 1687: Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation[2850] Physics;Summer, 1687: Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation[2850] Science and technology;Summer, 1687: Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation[2850] Cultural and intellectual history;Summer, 1687: Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation[2850] England;Summer, 1687: Newton Formulates the Theory of Universal Gravitation[2850] Physics;universal gravitation Newton, Sir Isaac[Newton, Isaac];gravitation Newton, Sir Isaac Kepler, Johannes Hooke, Robert Halley, Edmond Locke, John
In 1609, Galileo Galileo;astronomy began to use the telescope for astronomy and discovered four moons that orbit Jupiter in much the same way that Copernicus described planetary motion around the Sun. He also introduced the concept of inertia, which proposed that motion is the natural state of an object, and described the constant acceleration of gravity. By 1619, Kepler had completed his laws of the planets, which described and correlated the speeds, sizes, and shapes of their elliptical orbits around the Sun. He made an unsuccessful attempt to explain how the Sun could cause the motion of the planets.
The mechanical concepts of Galileo and Kepler were further developed by French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes Descartes, René (1596-1650) and Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695), but neither was able to successfully account for planetary motion. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Newton was able to correct and correlate these new mechanical ideas within a unified heliocentric system, but the emergence of this Newtonian synthesis involved many other scientists, and it is difficult if not impossible to assign credit properly.
Sir Isaac Newton.
(Library of Congress)
Newton was born on Christmas Day of 1642 at the farm of his mother’s parents near Grantham in Lincolnshire, after his father had died. He was raised by his maternal grandparents and then enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661, to study mathematics under Isaac Barrow Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677). After completing his degree in 1665, he returned home for nearly two years to escape the plague. During this isolation, he began to formulate his ideas about universal gravitation after making a connection between the fall of an apple and the motion of the Moon. His calculations revealed that the Moon in its orbit, which is sixty times farther from the center of Earth than the apple, accelerates toward Earth about 602 times slower than the falling apple. Thus, if gravity extends to the Moon, it diminishes according to an inverse-square law. After returning to Cambridge, Newton received his master’s degree in 1668 and became Lucasian professor of mathematics a year later on the recommendation of Barrow. For nearly two decades, much of his work remained unknown beyond Cambridge.
In the meantime, Robert Hooke Hooke, Robert was trying to develop the idea that gravity was similar to magnetic attraction. In discussing the comet of 1664 with Christopher Wren, Wren, Sir Christopher[Wren, Christopher] Hooke suggested that the gravitational attraction of the Sun caused the greater curvature of the comet’s orbit near the Sun. After Huygens’s formula for centrifugal force appeared in 1673, several scientists, including Hooke, Wren, and Edmond Halley, Halley, Edmond showed that circular orbits could be explained by a force that varied inversely as the square of the distance from the Sun. They were unable to show, however, that such an inverse-square law could account for elliptical orbits.
In 1684, Halley visited Newton at Cambridge and posed the problem to him. Newton immediately replied that he had solved the problem, but he was unable to find his calculations. Three months later, he sent Halley a paper that successfully derived all three of Kepler’s laws. Recognizing the importance of Newton’s achievement, Halley returned to Cambridge and urged him to write a book on his new dynamics of the solar system. For nearly two years, Newton concentrated on writing his Principia, perhaps the single most important scientific treatise in the history of science.
When book 1 of three projected volumes reached the Royal Society in 1685, Hooke claimed that Newton had plagiarized his ideas. Newton was furious and proceeded to delete all references to Hooke. Although the society at first planned to publish the Principia, it was short of funds, so Halley agreed to pay the expenses himself. He received the completed manuscript in April, 1686, and it was published in the summer of 1687. In an introductory section entitled “Axioms or Laws of Motion,” the three laws of Newton appear as the basis for his study of motion. The first two laws define inertia and force, based on the earlier work of Galileo and Descartes, while the third law introduces the idea that every force has an equal and opposite reaction.
In the first two books of the Principia, Newton derives a series of theorems from his three laws to describe motions for various kinds of forces. Using an inverse-square force of attraction, he derives all three of Kepler’s laws. In book 3, entitled The System of the World, he applies the hypothetical laws of the first two books to the universe as observed. The central concept is the law of universal gravitation, which generalizes the inverse-square law to give the mutual attraction (F) between any two bodies as being proportional to the product of their masses (m and M) and inversely as the distance (R) between them. This is usually written as F = G mM/R2 where G is the constant of universal gravitation.
Perhaps the single most important law in the history of science, the law of universal gravitation unifies terrestrial and celestial motions, assigning the same cause to the motion of projectiles and planets. Newton uses it to derive Galileo’s law for falling bodies, calculates the bulge of Earth’s equator due to rotation and its effect on the acceleration of gravity, gives the first satisfactory explanation of the tides, and shows the requirements for an Earth satellite. He also accounts for the motions of comets, the slow wobbling of the axis of Earth, and small deviations from Kepler’s laws in the motions of the planets and the Moon.
The collapse of the geocentric view of the universe had caused consternation and confusion, compounded by the idea of a moving Earth in infinite space. The Newtonian synthesis restored confidence in reason based on experience, giving birth to a new sense of optimism and progress in the eighteenth century that was later called the Enlightenment. It produced a new picture of the world as a great machine consisting of moving bodies subjected to universal laws in perfect order and harmony. Almost immediately it began to influence social theories.
Philosopher John Locke Locke, John began the task of translating Newtonian science into political and philosophical theory. He argued that individuals are the atomic units of the state, which should be structured by self-evident natural rights such as life, liberty, and property, and the democratic ideals of equality and tolerance. He also suggested that the human mind is a “blank tablet” at birth, in which simple atomic ideas gained by sensation are correlated by the laws of association and reason to form complex ideas. Since reason must be based on experience, human knowledge is limited to the natural world, and humans can know God only through God’s universal laws in nature, thus initiating deism as a system of natural religion in which a clockmaker God is revealed only in nature. Philosophy;England
Significance
The enlightened ideas of Newton and Locke were brought to France by Voltaire, who, with his mistress, wrote a popular account of Newtonian theory in 1738. In 1776, Locke’s ideas were used as the basis of the American Revolution as expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence. In the same year, Scottish philosopher Adam Smith published the natural laws that govern economics. In Smith’s theory of free enterprise, individuals are subject to market forces, requiring no interference because the market automatically adjusts to the forces of competition according to universal economic laws. Even the arts were affected by these mechanical ideas, giving rise to formalized literary forms and Baroque musical styles.
Further Reading
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Alioto, Anthony. A History of Western Science. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993. Chapter 16, “Such a Wonderful Uniformity,” gives a succinct historical account.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Aughton, Peter. Newton’s Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Revolution. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Describes Newton’s life and work as part of the scientific rebirth occurring after the English Civil Wars.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983. Chapter 52, “God Said, Let Newton Be!” provides a brief but authoritative historical account.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Chandrasekhar, S. Newton’s “Principia” for the Common Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. This work explains the scientific theories explored in Principia, including the law of gravitation, theory of the tides, and ideas about revolving orbits and comets.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Cohen, I. Bernard. The Newtonian Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. A more-extensive discussion of Newton’s work and its influence.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Cohen, I. Bernard, and George E. Smith, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. A collection of essays, including explorations of the methodology of the Principia and Newton’s argument for universal gravitation.
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xlink:type="simple">Manuel, Frank. A Portrait of Isaac Newton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968. A well-written scholarly biography of Newton.
• citation-type="booksimple"
xlink:type="simple">Westfall, Richard S. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Along with the work by Frank Manuel, this is one of the best biographies of Newton and his work.
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Earliest Calculators Appear
Galileo Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican
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Torricelli Measures Atmospheric Pressure
Newton Builds His Reflecting Telescope
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Broken Barriers
Broken Barriers may refer to:
* Broken Barriers (1919 film), an American Yiddish film
* Broken Barriers (1924 film), an American silent film
* Broken Barriers (1928 film), an American silent drama film
* Broken Barriers (novel), a 1938 novel by Barbara Cartland | WIKI |
Talk:knock up
Not sure what to do about the categories here.
First, we have the regionality issue. I believe we're taking UK as a proxy for UK, all or part of the Commonwealth, maybe Ireland, etc. In other words, dialects that sound more English than American. As to the "North American Slang" designation, leaving aside Mexico on down to Panama, I believe this implies that the usage is also Candadian. Personally, I can neither confirm nor deny this, but more important is the general problem it implies. Off to the beer parlour ... -dmh 03:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Tea room discussion
We seem to be missing the tennis sense - batting the ball back and forth before a match. The OED does not have this sense, and I have never played the game - so, am I mistaken? SemperBlotto 10:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
* I hadn't heard of it before, but it's here for instance. Equinox 11:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
* Well OALD (2000 edition) does have it: "knock up (in tennis, etc.) to practise for a short time before a start of a game" and it also has the derived noun: "knock-up noun (BrE) a short practice before a game, especially of tennis" --Duncan 11:09, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
* Thanks - added. SemperBlotto 11:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Human Freedom. The first struggle occurred on the right of petition, which Slave-masters with characteristic tyranny sought to suppress. This was resisted by the venerable patriot, and what he did was always done with his whole heart. Then was poured upon him abuse as from a cart. Slave-masters, "foaming out their shame," became conspicuous, not less for an avowal of sentiments at which Civilization blushed, than for an effrontery of manner where the accidental legislator was lost in the natural overseer, and the lash of the plantation resounded in the voice.
In an address to his constituents, 17th September, 1842, Mr. Adams thus frankly describes the treatment he had experienced:
“I never can take part in any debate upon an important subject, be it only upon a mere abstraction, but a pack opens upon me of personal invective in return, Language has no word of reproach and railing that is not hurled at me."
And in the same speech he gives a glimpse of Slave-masters:
On another occasion he said, with his accustomed power:
Nor were the Slave-masters contented with the violence of words. True to the instincts of Slavery, they threatened personal indignity of every kind, and even assassination. And here South-Carolina naturally took the lead.
The Charleston Mercury, which always speaks the true voice of Slavery, said in 18387:
“Public opinion in the South would now, we are sure, justify an immediate resort to force by the Southern delegation, even on the floor of Congress, were they forthwith to seize and drag from the Hall any man who dared to insult them, as that eccentric old showman, John Quincy Adams, has dared to do."
And at a public dinner at Walterborough, in South Carolina, on the 4th of July, 1842, the following toast, afterwards preserved by Mr. Adams in one of his speeches, was drunk with unbounded applause:
A Slave-master from South-Carolina, Mr. Waddy Thompson, in debate in the House of Representatives, threatened the venerable patriot with the “penitentiary;" and another Slave | WIKI |
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(M,Ru)O2(M = Mg, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co) rutiles and their use as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in membrane electrode assemblies under acidic conditions
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01884 DOI Help
Authors: David Burnett (University of Warwick) , Enrico Petrucco (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre) , Katie M. Rigg (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre) , Christopher M. Zalitis (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre) , Jamie G. Lok (University of Warwick) , Reza J. Kashtiban (University of Warwick) , Martin R. Lees (University of Warwick) , Jonathan D. B. Sharman (Johnson Matthey Technology Centre) , Richard I. Walton (University of Warwick)
Co-authored by industrial partner: Yes
Type: Journal Paper
Journal: Chemistry Of Materials
State: Published (Approved)
Published: June 2020
Diamond Proposal Number(s): 14239
Abstract: The rutiles (M,Ru)O2 (M = Mg, Zn, Co, Ni, Cu) are formed directly under hydrothermal conditions at 240 °C from potassium perruthenate and either peroxides of zinc or magnesium, or poorly crystalline oxides of cobalt, nickel or copper. The polycrystalline powders consist of lath-shaped crystallites, tens of nanometres in maximum dimension. Powder neutron diffraction shows that the materials have expanded a axis and contracted c axis compared to the parent RuO2, but there is no evidence of lowering of symmetry to other AO2-type structures, supported by Raman spectroscopy. Rietveld refinement shows no evidence for oxide non-stoichiometry and provides a formula (MxRu1-x)O2 with 0.14 < x < 0.2, depending on the substituent metal. This is supported by energy-dispersive X-ray analysis on the transmission electron microscope, while Ru K-edge XANES spectroscopy shows that upon inclusion of the substituent the average Ru oxidation state is increased to balance charge. Variable temperature magnetic measurements provide evidence for atomic homogeneity of the mixed metal materials, with suppression of the high temperature antiferromagnetism of RuO2 and increased magnetic moment. The new rutiles all show enhanced electrocatalysis compared to reference RuO2 materials for oxygen evolution in 1 M H2SO4 electrolyte at 60 °C, with higher specific and mass activity (per Ru) than a low surface area crystalline RuO2, and with less Ru dissolution over 1000 cycles compared to an RuO2 with a similar surface area. Magnesium substitution provides the optimum balance between stability and activity, despite leaching of the Mg2+ into solution, and this was proved in membrane electrode assemblies.
Journal Keywords: Substituents; Ruthenium; Oxides; Metals; Materials
Subject Areas: Chemistry, Materials
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Python Debugger: Effortlessly Improve Your Debug Skills
Debugging Python code, for many of us, comes down to adding print statements and trying to reason what’s going on based on the output. It’s not ideal, but for some reason, people just don’t want to touch the Python debugger.
Using print to debug code
If you’re one of those people that use print for debugging, I’m not judging you. Learning Python is hard. Programming is hard. Life is hard. I understand that learning yet another thing seems tiresome if you’re struggling already. And adding that print statement to your code… it’s just easier. A little confession: I still do it all the time as well. It’s not as bad as some make it seem.
For some reason, people just don’t want to touch the Python debugger
Me.
Having said that, I’m going to teach you a little trick that will be just as easy as adding print statements to your code. However, this trick gives you infinite debugging powers and will allow you to conquer the world, should you need to.
Setting a Python debugger breakpoint
You don’t need an IDE to debug your code properly. This trick always works, even in the simplest editor, and even in Jupyter Notebooks.
The trick comes down to this: setting a so-called breakpoint using the instruction breakpoint(). You can insert it in your code, no matter what editor or IDE you’re using, at the point where you would normally put in that pesky print statement.
So what happens when you do so? Let’s find out! Create a simple program, like the one below:
def add_two(x):
return x + 2
for i in range(1, 10):
a = add_two(i)
breakpoint()
print(a)
When you run this, and it doesn’t matter if you do so in the REPL, from the command-line, or in your IDE, you are dropped into the Python debugger called PDB. But now what?
Using the Python debugger
When I start the little program above, this is what happens:
$ python3 breakpointing.py
> /home/erik/breakpointing.py(7)<module>()
-> print(a)
(Pdb)_
There are a couple of things to see here:
• It shows the current file that was started (breakpointing.py
• After that, it shows the next command that was about to run, but was interrupted by the call to breakpoint().
• And finally, we see the pdb prompt, waiting for our input.
The Python debugger is actually a fully functioning Python shell, just like the REPL.
At this point, we can inspect the current environment. Let’s see what the value of a is right now:
(Pdb) print(a)
3
(Pdb) print(i)
1
Instead of print, you can also use the pdb specific command p, like this:
(Pdb) p a
3
(Pdb_ p i
1
Running the next line
So what if we want to run the next line of code? There are two options:
• With s or step, you execute the current line. The debugger stops at the first possible occasion after that.
• With n or next, you execute the current line as well but now the debugger keeps going until the next line of the current function is reached.
To make this more clear: step happily enters a function call and break inside that function. In contrast, next executes the function until it returns, and breaks on the next line.
Other debuggers and IDEs also call this ‘step into’ (instead of step) and ‘step over’ (instead of next).
Now let’s use these two:
$ python3 breakpointing.py
-> print(a)
(Pdb) s
3
-> for i in range(1, 10):
(Pdb) s
-> a = add_two(i)
(Pdb) n
-> breakpoint()
(Pdb) n
-> print(a)
(Pdb) n
4
-> for i in range(1, 10):
(Pdb) s
-> a = add_two(i)
(Pdb) s
--Call--
-> def add_two(x):
(Pdb) s
-> return x + 2
(Pdb) s
--Return--
5
-> return x + 2
(Pdb) s
-> breakpoint()
(Pdb)
As you can see, we first step over the call to add_two with n. The second time, we step into the function with s.
Python debugger commands
There are more commands that you can try on your own. I won’t list them all, just the most useful ones:
• h (help): print all available commands. Also takes an argument, e.g. h c tells you what the c command does
• c (continue): start running until the next breakpoint
• l (list): list the source code around the current line
• p: print the result of the following expression. You can use this instead of calling print()
• pp: pretty print, useful for printing data structures like dictionaries
• restart: restart the current program
For the complete documentation, head over to the Python debugger page, where all the commands are listed.
Keep learning
Although this can come in super handy, it pays to dive into the debugger that your IDE offers. If you’re a VSCode user, I wrote a tutorial on how to debug Python code in VSCode.
Python debugger in VSCode
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Amat Al Alim Alsoswa
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa (امة العليم السوسوه; Ta'izz, Yemen, 27 August 1958) is a Yemeni journalist, and Yemen's first female ambassador and minister.
She served as the Assistant Secretary-General, then Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States.
Biography
Alsoswa began her career as a journalist at a very young age: she began broadcasting at the age of 10 as part of a local radio program in Taiz Governorate. Later on, she became a news anchor on Yemeni television, also serving as a political commentator. Alsoswa holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from Cairo University (1980) and an M.A. in International Communications from the American University in Washington, DC (1984). She speaks Arabic and English fluently and also speaks French and Russian.
Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as Deputy TV Programs Director at Sana’a TV, where she held the most senior position as a woman in Yemeni television. Later, she became the Chief Editor of Mutaba'at I'elamiah Journal. From 1989 to 1991, Alsoswa led the Yemeni Women's Union before Yemeni unification.
From 1997 to 1999, she was Undersecretary at Yemen's Ministry of Information and Chairperson of the National Women's Committee, the first woman Undersecretary in the Ministry of Information. Between 2000 and 2003, she served as Yemen's ambassador to Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, she was Yemen's Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. She was also the first woman Ambassador to the Netherlands, residing in The Hague, and a non-resident Ambassador to both Sweden and Denmark. In May 2003, Alsoswa was appointed the Minister of Human rights in Yemen, the second female Minister of Human Rights in Yemen's history after Waheeba Ghalib Faree al-Fakih. During her tenure, she established and oversaw Yemen's Human Rights Ministry, initiated the country's second national human rights report, and established a public human rights resource center. In 2006, she became the Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator for the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
On 22 March 2014, Alsoswa was appointed Executive Director of the Executive Bureau for the Acceleration of Aid Absorption and Implementation of the Mutual Accountability Framework.
Alsoswa has published and lectured extensively and has received numerous awards. She was made an Officier of the Légion d'Honneur (France) and received the Medal of the Egyptian Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity (Egypt). Alsoswa is also a Trustee of the Arab Democracy Foundation.
Alsoswa has written and spoken on women's rights and democracy. She has been an activist for human rights in general and freedom of expression in particular. Alsoswa asserts that in order for women to fight against discrimination in Arab countries, older traditions of interpretations of Islamic texts which were once more favorable to women must be revived, girls need equal access to education and recognizing women's contributions to the family and society as important and valuable are necessary for change. She also stresses that "even against immense odds, women remain catalysts for reform in Arab countries." | WIKI |
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together and slew their father, ate him, and appropriated the females. In this they satisfied the same hate impulse that is a normal infantile trait and the basis of most neuroses, but which often leads to unconscious “displacement” of feelings, especially upon animals. At this point, however, the ambivalence of emotions proved decisive. The tender feelings which had always persisted by the side of the brothers’ hate for their father, gained the upper hand as soon as this hate was satisfied, and took the form of remorse and sense of guilt. “What the father’s presence had formerly prevented they themselves now prohibited in the psychic situation of ‘subsequent obedience’ which we know so well from psychoanalysis. They undid their deed by declaring that the killing of the father substitute, the totem, was not allowed, and renounced the fruits of their deed by denying themselves the liberated women. Thus they created the two fundamental taboos of totemism” (p. 236). These are “the oldest and most important taboos” of mankind: “namely not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with totem companions of the other sex” (p. 53), alongside which many if not all other taboos are “secondary, dis- placed and distorted.” The renunciation of the women or incest prohibition had also this practical foundation: that any attempt to divide the spoils, when each member of the band really wished to emulate the father and possess all the women, would have disrupted the organization which had made the brothers strong (p. 237). The totem sacrifice and feast reflected the killing and eating of the father, assuaged “the burning sense of guilt,” and brought about “a kind of reconciliation” or agreement by which the father-totem granted all wishes of his sons in return for their pledge to honor his life (p. 238). “All later religions prove to be. . . reactions aiming at the same great event with which culture began and which ever since has not let mankind come to rest” (p. 239).
This mere extrication and presentation of the framework of the Freudian hypothesis on the origin of socio-religious civilization is probably sufficient to prevent its acceptance; but a formal examination is only just.
First, the Darwin-Atkinson supposition is of course only | WIKI |
running feet
It’s well accepted that exercise is good for your physical health. It helps control weight, improve blood pressure, build and maintain muscle and bone2 to help keep us mobile.
It can even help reduce the risk of diabetes, cancer, dementia, and other illnesses.3 But research suggests that it also helps improve mental health, including anxiety, depression and stress.1
In fact, regular exercise has been shown to improve memory and thinking skills.4 Exercise pumps blood to the brain, stimulating chemicals that improve your mood and the hippocampus – the part of the brain responsible for memory and learning. It also increases the connections between nerve cells in your brain that helps protect it against injury and disease.5
Apart from all those physical changes within your body, exercise seems to help because it can also be a distraction from what is troubling you. And it can help improve self-esteem.6
It might be hard work getting started, but studies show that your mood will improve with exercise.7
In fact, a recent Harvard study show that running for 15 minutes, or walking for 60 minutes a day significantly reduces the risk of major depression.7 Closer to home, Australia’s Black Dog Institute has found that as little as an hour a week of exercise can be highly effective at fighting depression.8 Reviewing data from a large Norwegian study, looking at depression and anxiety over an 11 year period, the authors suggest that 12% of cases of depression could have been prevented if “participants had undertaken even a single hour of exercise a week.”8
Exercise also helps you sleep better. And sleep is ‘nature’s healer.’ Sleep allows your body and mind to recharge leaving you refreshed and alert when you wake, as well as helping the body remain healthy and stave off diseases.9
Headspace, an Australian organisation providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds, summarises the benefits of exercise like this10:
• Helps you sleep better
• Improves your concentration
• Raises your energy levels
• Improves your confidence
• Boosts your mood
• Releases stress
• Lowers anxiety.
woman jogging with dog
How much exercise helps mental health?
The more the better. But as you’ve seen above, anything you do will help, whether it’s an hour a week, or 15 minutes of running or 60 minutes of walking every day, your brain will thank you.
You don’t have to join a gym or buy expensive equipment. Just try making exercise part of your daily routine. Choose something you enjoy or have enjoyed in the past – that helps motivation.
Grab some headphones and listen to some music, a podcast or an audio book to help alleviate boredom.
Try walking or cycling to the shops instead of using the car. Hop off public transport a stop earlier and walk the rest of the way. Walk the kids to school – it’ll help everyone. Walk the dog. Get active around the house by doing some gardening or other household activities. Every little bit helps. To help keep motivated and track each step you take, you could also try wearing a pedometer or health tracker, like these from Quantum Fit. This can help you beat your previous goal each day.
1. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in-depth/depression-and-exercise/art-20046495
2. https://healthybonesaustralia.org.au/your-bone-health/exercise-bone-health/
3. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/exercise-and-mental-health
4. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-brain-improve-memory-thinking-skills-201404097110
5. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/exercise-and-mental-health
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/
7. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/more-evidence-that-exercise-can-boost-mood
8. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/news/during-covid-19-you-can-exercise-your-way-to-better-mental-health/
9. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/why-do-we-need-sleep
10. https://headspace.org.au/young-people/moving-your-way-to-a-healthy-headspace/
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C24H33N3O2
The molecular formula C24H33N3O2 (molar mass: 395.538 g/mol, exact mass: 395.2573 u) may refer to:
* LY-215,840
* WAY-100135 | WIKI |
Instance (computer science)
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In object-oriented programming (OOP), an instance is a concrete occurrence of any object, existing usually during the runtime of a computer program. Formally, "instance" is synonymous with "object" as they are each a particular value (realization), and these may be called an instance object; "instance" emphasizes the distinct identity of the object. The creation of an instance is called instantiation.
In class-based programming, objects are created from classes by subroutines called constructors, and destroyed by destructors. An object is an instance of a class, and may be called a class instance or class object; instantiation is then also known as construction. Not all classes can be instantiated – abstract classes cannot be instantiated, while classes that can be instantiated are called concrete classes. In prototype-based programming, instantiation is instead done by copying (cloning) a prototype instance.
An object may be varied in a number of ways. Each realized variation of that object is an instance of its class. Each time a process runs, it is an instance of some program. That is, it is a member of a given class that has specified values rather than variables. In a non-programming context, you could think of "dog" as a type and your particular dog as an instance of that class.[1]
An important distinction is between the data type, which is interface, and the class, which is implementation.
The meaning of the term "type" in computer science is rather similar to the meaning of the word "type" in everyday language. For example, a barman can ask a client what type of beverage does he or she want – coffee, tea or beer? A particular cup of coffee that the client receives is in the role of an instance, while two cups of coffee would form a set of two instances of coffee, determining its type at the same time.
References[edit]
1. ^ "What is instance? – Definition from WhatIs.com". Whatis.techtarget.com. Retrieved February 9, 2014. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Stephen B. Streater
Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology entrepreneur.
Career
Streater was born in Boston Lying-In Hospital, Massachusetts, United States. He achieved a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge and then began a PhD on artificial pattern recognition in the physics department at King's College London.
In 1990, he co-founded Eidos, a company specialising in video compression and non-linear editing systems, particularly for computers running the RISC OS operating system. He later sold and left Eidos, which had moved into the computer games market, and founded Blackbird in 2000, where he was the company's R&D Director.
On 21 July 2011, Streater was honoured by the University of Bedfordshire with a Doctor of Science degree in recognition of "outstanding contribution to the development of computer technologies."
Personal life
Streater is married to Victoria Jane (née Fantl) and has three daughters (Sophie, Juliette and Emily). He has a sister (Catherine) and a brother (Alexander). His hobbies include playing classical chamber and orchestral music, Go, new technology, and making videos. Streater's father, Ray Streater, is a professor of mathematics at King's College London. | WIKI |
Pollanisus eungellae
Pollanisus eungellae is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is only known from the type locality Eungella, an isolated rainforest area in north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
The length of the forewings is about 6 mm for males and 6.5 mm for females. | WIKI |
Accelerator Physics/Units
Units
Most of the time, accelerator physics uses SI units for its properties. The most well known exceptions are:
* 1) Particle energy, momentum and mass
* 2) Magnetic flux density
Particle energy
For convenience, accelerator physicists would like to know the particle's kinetic energy by measuring the potential difference between the distance that the particle traverses. An electron (or a particle with the same charge) gains 1 eV in kinetic energy after traversing a potential difference of +1 Volt. Therefore, $$1\ \mathrm{eV} \approx 1.6021\times 10^{-19}\ \mathrm{joules}$$
Modern acceleration devices can achieve very large potential difference between a gap. Therefore, the units are scaled accordingly so that
$$1\ \mathrm{TeV} = 10^3\ \mathrm{GeV} = 10^6\ \mathrm{MeV} = 10^9\ \mathrm{keV} = 10^{12}\ \mathrm{eV}$$
For instance, the Center of Mass energy of the $$\mu^+$$and $$\mu^-$$beams in a muon collider design can reach 6 TeV. The fixed target neutrino experiment LBNF uses 120 GeV Proton on Target (POT).
Particle momentum and mass
The total energy of a particle is the addition of its rest energy and kinetic energy: $$E_{tot} = E_0 + E_{kin}$$. The rest energy $$E_0$$ is defined as $$E_0 = mc^2$$ where $$m$$ is the mass of the particle and $$c $$ is the speed of light. Thereafter, particle mass, instead of using the standard unit kg, often uses the unit $$\mathrm{eV/c^2}$$: $$1\ \mathrm{eV/c^2} \approx 1.783\times10^{-36} kg$$.
For instance, the mass of an electron is $$9.11 \times 10^{-31}$$kg, or $$0.511\ \mathrm{MeV/c^2} = 5.11\times10^5 \mathrm{eV/c^2}$$. In order to acquire a kinetic energy of the rest energy of an electron, one has to accelerate it within a potential gap of 0.511 MV!
Regarding the particle momentum, physicists commonly use $$\mathrm{eV/c}$$ as the unit, because of Einstein's equation $$E_{tot}^2 = m^2c^4 + c^2p^2$$. Therefore, one can calculate the momentum of the above electron as follows:
$$p = \sqrt{(2\times0.511)^2 - 0.511^2 \ \ \ \mathrm{MeV^2/c^2}} = 0.885 \ \mathrm{MeV/c}$$
Magnetic flux density
The SI unit for magnetic flux density, or $$B$$, is $$\mathrm{T}$$, or Tesla. In many cases, scientists do also use Gauss, where $$1\ \mathrm{kGauss} = 10^3\ \mathrm{Gauss} = 10^{-1}\ \mathrm{T}. $$ | WIKI |
ContentBlocks v1 Internationalization
ContentBlocks is available in English (default), German, French, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish, which we manage through CrowdIn. This covers all core text, including instructions, buttons, labels, settings and more.
The data you define through the component (fields, layouts and templates) also supports translations since v1.1. This allows you to present different names and descriptions for your users depending on their manager language. We support lexicons on field, layout and template names and descriptions, as well as field and layout settings and properties on select input types (chunk, snippet and chunk selector).
The Lexicon Files
To load the lexicon, you will need to create a namespace and add a "lexicon" directory inside the namespace its core path.
In there, you would have a directory for each language (en, fr, de, etc) and a file in each of those (e.g. default.inc.php). Within the file, you would add the lexicon entries to a $_lang variable. An example of a lexicon file is shown below.
<?php
$_lang['my_richtext_field'] = 'Rich Text';
$_lang['my_class'] = 'foobar';
The entries (my_richtext_field and my_class in the example above) need to match the text you want to replace. This can be one of the following:
Field names (both for display in the content canvas, as well as the "Add Content" modal) Field descriptions (in the Add Content modal tooltip) Layout names (both for display in the content canvas, as well as the "Add Layout" modal) Layout descriptions (in the Add Layout modal tooltip) Field and Layout Settings name (for modal and exposed settings) Field and Layout Setting Options display values (for modal and exposed settings) For example, if you named a field "Headline", your lexicon entry would be `$_lang['Headline'] = 'Headline translation';
##Loading the Lexicon Topic To use your lexicon keys, it is important to load the lexicon topic into the manager. There are several ways to do that, but one way we will cover here is by using a small plugin that runs independently of ContentBlocks.
The plugin will fire on the OnDocFormRender event, and contains the following:
<?php
$modx->controller->addLexiconTopic('mynamespace:default');
Yeah, just that one line. Replace mynamespace with the name of your namespace, and default with the name of your lexicon topic (file).
To check if it's working, open up the source view for the resource update page, and look for the line that loads the lang.js.php with a whole bunch of topics separated by commas. It looks something like this: <script src="/connectors/lang.js.php?ctx=mgr&topic=topmenu,file,resource..."> Your lexicon entry should be in that list. If it isn't, double check if you enabled the OnDocFormRender event, or try clearing the cache and refreshing. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Real-world experience of OCT-A for retinal diagnoses and management
December 3, 2020
Dr Jorge Fortun
As OCT-A devices become faster, the algorithms advance and the instrument costs decrease, more widespread utilisation in retina practices is likely.
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) is an evolving multimodal imaging modality with some barriers to its widespread usage and implementation in retina practices, most of which are related to its financial burden, for example, the cost and reimbursement. Another limiting factor is that many retina physicians are not trained to interpret the data and images that OCT-A produces.
Standardised criteria and guidelines should be defined in order to help retinal physicians interpret the scans. As a specialist in retina and vitreous diseases, I have had the unique opportunity to use this non-invasive imaging technique for regular diagnosis, management and follow up of retina patients in my practice. Herein, I will share my ‘real-world’ experience of using OCT-A daily in three main areas of macular disease: age-related macular degeneration (AMD), central serous retinopathy and other pachychoroidal cases.
Commercially available OCT-As are either spectral domain (SD) OCT-As—which include the Angioplex OCT-A (Carl Zeiss), the AngioVue OCT-A (Optovue) and the Spectralis OCT-A Module with TruTrack (Heidelberg Engineering)—or swept-source (SS) OCT-A, which are the Plex Elite OCT-A (Carl Zeiss) and DRI OCT Triton (Topcon). An SS-OCT-A has a centre wavelength of approximately 1,060 nm compared with SD OCT-A, which is approximately 840 nm. SS-OCTA provides a higher scanning speed of 100,000 to 200,000 A-scans/second that is coupled with a longer wavelength and less sensitivity roll-off, hence denser, wider, deeper and faster scans can be obtained.
OCT-A can demonstrate layer-specific flow and structural information that is not possible with dye-based imaging. Recent research has shown that the technique provides good visualisation of the neovascular network, choriocapillaris and choroid compared with fluorescein angiography (FA) and indocyanine green angiography (ICGA).1
OCT-A can provide information about the presence or absence of choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) when other dye-based studies may be inconclusive due to blockage from subretinal haemorrhage or non-specific diffuse staining patterns.2 OCT-A is also helpful for positively identifying a neovascular network and differentiating vascular from avascular components in subretinal hyper-reflective material or vitelliform cases seen in macular diseases.3,4
Macular disease
I primarily use OCT-A (AngioPlex) for tracking and diagnosing AMD, assessing choroidal neovascularisation and determining whether a patient has wet or dry AMD or central serous retinopathy. If I examine an eye that reveals the presence of fluid on standard OCT but I am not entirely sure that there is a neovascular process, I obtain an OCT-A scan to verify the presence of fluid. The results help to guide my treatment choices.
Another benefit of using OCT-A is to investigate what is traditionally called dry macular degeneration, where we do not see any exudation on OCT but we do see something on OCT-A, which Dr Philip J. Rosenfeld refers to as the double-layer sign. This means that there is a low-lying pigment epithelial detachment, which has vascularised. I like to refer to it as neovascular non-exudative AMD.
Abnormal ICGA findings, such as focal hot spots or plaques, were previously detected in these eyes but angiography could not be justified as a screening tool due to increased costs and risks. However, with access to OCT-A imaging, I can assess a neovascular process and diagnose and follow these patients accordingly. Even though I may not treat them with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs, OCT-A results help me to alter my follow-up algorithm so that I monitor those patients every 8–12 weeks, which is more closely than normal because they have a higher likelihood of developing exudative macular degeneration over the course of time as demonstrated in natural history studies.5
Understanding your machine
It is very important to understand your individual machine and recognise that image interpretation is a dynamic process that may require direct interaction with the OCT-A device. It is also important to choose the correct segmentation slab to obtain the right information from the OCT-A image.
I usually obtain 3x3 and 6x6 scans of the macula. The scan segments the superficial retina, the deep retina, the choroid and the choriocapillaris, and I create a custom slab retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) to RPE-fit (Bruch’s membrane) to detect type 1 CNVs.
It is also important to critically analyse the OCT-A images and exclude the possibility that the presumed CNV flow may be a projection artifact arising from the retinal vasculature or due to hyper-transmission defects arising from an attenuated or absent RPE.6 The software algorithms continue to improve, but sometimes they make segmentation errors, such as in cases with large pigment epithelial detachments (PEDs).
In these cases, I recommend the user manually segments these layers to obtain an accurate representation of the PED. Therefore, it is important to be familiar with how to create segmentation slabs that enable the parameters that the machine provides to be manipulated in order to adequately analyse the OCT-A images.
Conclusion
As we look towards the future and as OCT-A and, more specifically, SS-OCTA technology evolves, we will be able to obtain wide-field and montage images that will provide us with greater insight into the pathophysiology and management of diabetic retinopathy and allow earlier identification of pathologic changes. With time, as the devices become faster, the algorithms advance and the instrument costs decrease, I expect more widespread utilisation of OCT-A in retina practices.
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Dr Jorge Fortun, MD
E: fortunja@gmail.com
Dr Fortun is an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology and medical director of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Palm Beach Gardens, University of Miami, Florida, United States. Dr Fortun is a consultant for Carl Zeiss Meditec.
References
1. Cicinelli MV, Cavalleri M, Consorte AC, et al. Swept-source and spectral domain optical coherence tomography angiography versus dye angiography in the measurement of type 1 neovascularization. Retina. 2020;40:499-506.
2. Jia Y, Bailey ST, Wilson DJ, et al. Quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography of choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration. Ophthalmology. 2014;121:1435-1444.
3. Zhang Q, Chen CL, Chu Z, et al. Automated quantitation of choroidal neovascularization: a comparison study between spectral-domain and swept-source oct angiograms. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017;58:1506-1513
4. Novais EA, Adhi M, Moult EM, et al. Choroidal neovascularization analyzed on ultrahigh-speed swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography compared to spectral-domain optical coherence tomography angiography. Am J Ophthalmol. 2016;164:80-88.
5. de Oliveira Dias JR, Zhang Q, Garcia JMB, et al. Natural history of subclinical neovascularization in nonexudative age-related macular degeneration using swept-source oct angiography. Ophthalmology. 2018;125:255-266.
6. Yang J, Zhang Q, Motulsky EH, et al. Two-year risk of exudation in eyes with no exudative and subclinical neovascularization detected with swept source oct angiography. Am J Ophthalmol. 2019;208:1-11. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ester, Alaska
Ester is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. It is part of the Fairbanks, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population in the CDP was 2,422 at the 2010 census, although there are only around 12 houses located inside of the village, the rest are in the surrounding area. The Ester Camp Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ester was founded as a gold mining camp in the early 1900s, and the economy has focused on mining and services for miners. The Ester Volunteer Fire Department, John Trigg Ester Library, Ester Historic Society and Ester Post Office serve residents in Ester and surrounding areas. There is also a convenience store and secular chapel on the outskirts of the village. Many artists, writers, and musicians reside in Ester.
Ester in geological and prehistoric time
The hydraulic mining technique of directing high pressurized streams of water onto the land to uncover gold revealed that Ester had rich deposits of fossils and bones of prehistoric animals. In the 1950s, Walter Wigger, who owned the Ester Creek Gold Mine, discovered a 198-pound mammoth tusk along Ester Creek. Images taken by tourists during the 1940s provide visual evidence of prehistoric animal remains, such as tusks, skulls, and large leg bones that were washed out by the process of stripping.
Early history and founding
Ester was originally a gold mining camp on Ester Creek, with the first claim staked in February 1903 by Latham A. Jones. Jones worked with the Eagle Mining Company, the biggest claimholder on Glen Gulch in the Rampart mining district, but it was an independent miner, John "Jack" Mihalcik, a Czechoslovakian immigrant born in 1866, who was the first person to actually discover gold in Ester Creek. Mihalcik staked his claim in November 1903 but the news of the discovery of gold did not become public until the following February. By 1907, Ester City had a population of around 200 people, with a thriving mining industry. A social hall was completed in 1907 and was well-known throughout the mining district for its dance floor. The hall was used for religious services as well as dances, movies, card games, parties, and other entertainment purposes. The town had five saloons and two hotels. In 1908 and 1910, the hall was the site of campaign speeches by candidates for the seat of Territorial Delegate. (Labor won in 1908, but Judge James Wickersham won the Ester precinct in 1910.) By 1909, Ester City had a baseball field, a doctor, a mine workers' union local, and a teacher, but gold production was beginning to decline.
The Berry Post Office moved in 1910 from near the Berry brothers' claim about two miles downstream from Ester City into J.C. Kinney's general store in Ester. The post office retained the name of Berry until 1965, when it was finally changed to that of the town it had been in for 55 years. In the mid-1920s, the Fairbanks Exploration Company began buying claims on Ester Creek, started operations in 1929, and in 1933 built a mess hall for their camp in Ester. The buildings are now a historic landmark used until 2008 as a tourist attraction, restaurant, and hotel. The F.E. Company revitalized the town, reshaping it to do large-scale open-pit mining using enormous floating dredges and draglines. In the process, much of the original sites of Berry and Ester were removed.
Since 1940
The Ester Community Association was founded in 1941. In 1958, The F.E. Company sold their Ester camp, and it reopened under new management as a historic resort. The Cripple Creek Resort, which later became the Ester Gold Camp, featured a musical variety show including Robert W. Service's poetry, held the Malemute Saloon, a local bar, featuring Service's poem, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", until the resort closed in 2007. The Malemute Saloon continues to operate on selected weekends during the summer, and often features live music by local bands. In 1974, the Ester Volunteer Fire Department was officially founded after nearly a century of bucket brigades. Gold mining continued on a small scale. In 1986, the Ester Community Association, working with the Fairbanks North Star Borough, built the Ester Community Park, which became a local center of social activity. In 2017, the Ester Community Association purchased the park from a local resident, holding chili feeds, music festivals, and other fundraising events.
In 1987, the eleven surviving buildings of the F.E. Company's camp were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1988, Mushing magazine began publication in Ester and continued to be produced and published there until it was sold in 2005. The town became the site of a sled dog stage race between Ester and Nenana and back again, the Fireplug Sled Dog Race, which was held for ten years, from 1990 to 2001, and in which many famous mushers participated, including Dean Seibold and Jeff King. In January 1999, the town's first newspaper, The Ester Republic, was founded by Deirdre Helferrich; it was published regularly until 2015, and now is published sporadically. In August 1999, the John Trigg Ester Library (JTEL) opened a membership library named after a local resident who had started a book exchange in a nearby bar. In 2012, the JTEL received a donation of a local log cabin built in the 1940s and relocated many of its holdings to the new space. Today, the village features two saloons, five publishers, a library, a community hall, a secular chapel, a post office with its own zip code (99725), silversmiths and other artisans, numerous art studios, about two dozen homes, most of which were built by their owners, and three active gold mines. There is a fire station, a small store, and a secular chapel on the outskirts of the village.
The Ester Historic Society was founded in 2018. Its collection was donated by local residents and contains historical photographs, letters, and other documents. Along with the John Trigg Ester Library, the Ester Historic Society hosts talks and book readings about Ester and the surrounding area.
Geography
Ester is located at 64.85583°N, -147.97833°W (64.855700, -147.978434).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 166.5 km2, of which 166.4 km2 is land and 0.1 km2, or 0.08%, is water.
Ester Community Park
Ester has a well-used park, maintained and improved by the Ester Community Association's Park Committee and other volunteers from the community. The park has an ice rink that doubles as a basketball court in the summer, a children's playground, a picnic pavilion, a stage, and a soccer field. The park, situated next to the Ester Volunteer Fire Department, is the site of numerous soccer games, Ester Football League games, broomball, the Fourth of July picnic, musical gatherings, and other events throughout the year. In the summer, there is a farmers' market on Thursday evenings where local farmers and gardeners sell their goods. In 2017, the Ester Community Association purchased the park from a local landowner.
The village square
Ester village wraps around a square at the foot of Ester Lump, the name of a bump on the side of Ester Dome. This "town square" is actually the parking lot of the Golden Eagle Saloon, divided in two sections by Main Street, but functions as a focal point and central gathering place during celebrations such as the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve. Private residences, the John Trigg Ester Library, and the Golden Eagle Saloon surround the square.
Tailings
Due to the mining in the area, Ester is currently surrounded by piles of gravel and dirt tailings.
Climate
Ester has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc).
Economy
The local saw has it that "Ester is still around because there is a McDonald's in Fairbanks." This is true both culturally and economically. Many Ester residents are employed in Fairbanks or at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, although there are many small Ester-area businesses and self-employed people. The largest Ester employers are seasonal, with Judie Gumm Designs, and the local mines as the businesses with the most employees. Fairbanks provides a market for Ester products and services and thus helps to keep the small Ester economy alive. Because Fairbanks acts as a draw (due to its larger market and resources) for such things as big-box stores and fast food chains, Ester has been able to retain its mining village feel. This is important to Ester's tourist economy, which capitalizes on the status of the gold camp buildings as a historic landmark. In fall 2007, the owners of the Ester Gold Camp (Malemute, Inc.) announced that they would not reopen the resort in 2008, but do open the camp bar (the Malemute Saloon) for a 30-day period each summer to retain the liquor license. This has had an effect on Ester's summer economy, and resulted in the closure of at least two shops, in anticipation of the dearth of tourists. In response to the closure of the Gold Camp, a group of local business owners have formed the EMCE (or Ester Ministry of Community Enterprise), which has been accepted as an ad hoc committee of the Ester Community Association, to support Ester-area businesses and craftspeople. The EMCE occasionally sponsors a local open-air farmers' market, and a Planting Day to beautify the village.
Demographics
Ester first appeared on the 1910 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village (erroneously as "Esther"). It did not appear again until 1940 and has reported on each successive census. In 1980, it was made a census-designated place (CDP).
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,680 people, 727 households, and 386 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 26.0 PD/sqmi. There were 814 housing units at an average density of 12.6 /sqmi. The racial/ethnic makeup of the CDP was 87.4% White, 0.9% Black or African American, 4.6% Alaska Native or Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from other races, and 5.1% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.5% of the population.
There were 727 households, out of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.9% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.91.
In the CDP the population was spread out, with 22.7% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 40.8% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 2.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 119.6 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 116.3 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $50,461, and the median income for a family was $73,750. Males had a median income of $41,713 versus $24,850 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $29,155. About 4.9% of families and 8.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,422 people, 727 households, and 534 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 34.7 PD/sqmi. There were 1,229 housing units at an average density of 19.1 /sqmi. The racial/ethnic makeup of the CDP was 84.6% White, 2.1% Black or African American, 6.7% Alaska Native or Native American, 1.2% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.6% from other races, and 4.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.3% of the population.
There were 1,069 households, out of which 22.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.0% were non-families. 39.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.90.
In the CDP the population was spread out, with 18.8% under the age of 18, 12.1% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 29.0% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 119.8 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 122.2 males.
Notable people
Clarence Berry was a successful miner who lived in the immediate vicinity of Ester, at No. 8 Below Discovery Claim.
Richard A. Fineberg is an investigative journalist living in Ester who specializes in petroleum development and environment-related issues. He has lived in Alaska since 1969 and works as a freelance writer and consultant.
Painter Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin, 1895–1986. Rusty was born in Christanstad, Sweden, to American parents and raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He attended art classes at the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston. He first came to Alaska in 1916, to Valdez, but left the state during World War I. He returned to Alaska in 1924, and moved to Ester, where he remained until his death. Heurlin was known for his pastel palette and luminous skies and influenced many later Alaska artists.
Eleanor Loback Garwood (1919-1989) better known as Ida Lane Clausen, was for years a main attraction for the variety show at the Malemute Saloon. Born and raised in Blakely and Edison, Georgia, she played rag time piano, sang, danced and acted on stage, published a cookbook that continues to be distributed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Agency, and wrote columns for the Fairbanks News-Miner.
Wildlife
Because the village is surrounded by boreal forests, moose, ermine, snowshoe hare, foxes, least shrew, lynx, American red squirrel, porcupine, red-backed vole, and other northern mammals are commonly seen in Ester. Coyotes and black bears are seasonal visitors. Wolves are occasionally spotted. Many bird species thrive in the area such as black capped chickadee, boreal chickadee, hawk owl, cliff swallow, hairy woodpecker, spruce grouse, ruffed grouse, ruby-crowned kinglet, trumpeter swan, Canada jay, raven, and pine grosbeak. Owls include great horned owl, boreal owl, and great grey owl.
Insects common in Ester include numerous species of bumblebees, hornets, yellow jackets, and wasps. Butterflies include Canadian swallowtail, mourning cloak, painted lady, arctic fritillary, Mormon fritillary, and clouded sulphur. Damselflies and dragonflies are also commonly spotted in Ester, as are several types of moths. There are over 35 different species of mosquitoes, some of which emerge while there is still snow on the ground in April.
Agriculture and subsistence
Fishing, hunting, and food gathering are important aspects of Alaskan living in general, both for recreation and for subsistence, and Ester is no exception. The community is zoned as rural, despite its proximity to the state's second-largest city. Many Ester residents fish and/or hunt, and berry- and mushroom-picking are regular seasonal activities. Gardening has long been a part of Ester's culture, and farming has been growing in popularity since 2000, which saw the establishment of Calypso Farm & Ecology Center in the hills near the village. Calypso provides community-supported agriculture shares for over 80 families, with other CSAs starting up in the area. The Ester library has a seed library program. The John Trigg Ester Library has long had a small community garden at its grounds on Main Street, and expanded them in 2023 to include new beds at the future Passiv Haus community center/library grounds on Village Road.
Art
Ester has a strong art community, including painters, photographers, collagists, sculptors, metalsmiths, and woodworkers. It has hosted an annual intercontinental simultaneous art exhibit since 2000, the BiPolar Art Show, with the MAAG (the Mechanical Equipment Center Alternative Art Gallery) in McMurdo, Antarctica. Three commercial galleries and several private studios provide sales venues for local and other artists.
An informal mixed media 'school of assemblage' may be said to exist in Ester: several local artists rely on dumpster finds, printed materials, and historically significant items in their artwork, with themes relating to religious iconography, local history, and political satire.
Mining
Mines, having been the central reason for the village's existence for most of its history, are still important in Ester culture. Old dredge parts and mining equipment can be found in the forest that has grown up around the village since major dredging ended in the 1960s, some of which have been incorporated into artistic works. The Malemute Saloon's variety show capitalizes on the town's mining history, particularly the influence of Clarence Berry, whose mine at 8 Below Discovery Claim was the largest and most successful in the Ester area during its early history. Ester Dome continues to attract large mining concerns, and several small-scale gold mines provide residents with income.
Music
Ester has a vibrant local music culture, and is the site of several annual music festivals: Angry Young & Poor (also known as AYP), a free all-day concert oriented toward area youth; the Fairbanks Summer Folk Fest, a 35-year old folk festival; the LiBerry Music Festival & Pie Throwdown, a fundraiser for the John Trigg Ester Library; and Ester Fest, a family-friendly musical fundraiser for the Ester Community Park which held its inaugural festival in 2017. An old time string band gathering, the Ester Jelly Jam, has an open jam occasionally on Sunday afternoons at Hartung Hall. A local group, the Lost Dog Old-Time String Band, hosts a monthly square/contra dance there. Impromptu music jams occur nightly on the saloon porches in the summer, and every Sunday in the winter. Sundays at the Golden Eagle are smoke free. Area venues and events regularly feature local, live music.
Parade
The Ester Community Association sponsors an annual Fourth of July parade that travels from the village square on Main Street past the post office, turning left onto Old Nenana Highway and ending about one mile away at the Ester Community Park. The parade features giant puppets, a children's bike brigade, small scale floats frequently with satirical themes, antique cars and trucks, and dancing by the crew of the Ester Volunteer Fire Department or other groups. Summer residents of Calypso Farm throw vegetables to the crowd, and local politicians and community organizations hand out literature and candy. Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam are usually in the parade. Prizes vary from year to year, but usually include Best Bribe, the Golden Banana, or Best Choreography. The Red Hackle Pipe Band, a local music group which plays authentic Scottish bagpipes, drums, and flutes, traditionally begins the parade. The parade is followed by a community potluck featuring a pig roast, live music, and games. A local water delivery business, Water Wagon, sprays water on children and others who want to cool off. One local newspaper, the Fairbanks News-Miner, wrote this of the 2017 parade: "The people of Ester’s eccentric brand of patriotism was on display once more at the Fourth of July parade and potluck Tuesday afternoon."
Politics
Ester tends to be a liberal and left-leaning area within the Fairbanks North Star Borough. In the 2016 presidential election, 54% of the votes went to Democrat compared to 32% for Republican Donald Trump. There was a wide range in election results in the precincts surrounding Ester; results ranged from 18% to 62% for Clinton, and from 20% to 70% for Trump. In the 2018 election for governor, Democrat Mark Begich received 295 votes (65%) compared to 139 votes (31%) for Republican Mike Dunleavy.
The Ester voting precinct typically has relatively high voter turnout (~30% or more) in municipal elections (precinct 130 in District 08 ). Ursa Major distillery serves as the precinct's polling place; in years past polling took place in the fire department, and the community center, Hartung Hall. Party affiliation tends strongly toward the Democrats, followed by the Republicans, with Greens and Alaska Independence Party voters in a rough tie for third. The majority of Ester's residents are listed on state records as unaffiliated or undeclared.
Ester's newspaper and community association provide more information on the village
* The Ester Republic
* Ester Community Association
* Ester Volunteer Fire Department
Other community organizations
* Calypso Farm and Ecology Center
* Ester Ministry of Community Enterprise
* Ester Village Farmers' & Craft Market
* John Trigg Ester Library
Alaska Digital Archives (photos and documents)
* http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Ester | WIKI |
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::SNMP;
use Data::Dump qw(dump);
my $dir = 'public/json/monitor/printers/';
$dir = "/tmp/printers-" unless -d $dir;
use JSON;
sub save_json {
my ( $ip, $json ) = @_;
my $path = $dir . $ip;
open(my $fh, '>', $path) || die "$path: $!";
print $fh encode_json $json;
close($fh);
warn "# $path ", -s $path, " bytes\n";
}
sub iso_datetime {
my ($ss,$mm,$hh,$d,$m,$y) = localtime(time);
return sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02dT%02d:%02d:%02d", $y+1900, $m, $d, $hh, $mm, $ss;
}
my $log_path = $dir;
$log_path =~ s{/$}{};
$log_path = join('.', $log_path, (split(/T/,iso_datetime,2))[0], 'json');
open(my $log, '>>', $log_path) || die "$log_path: $!";
my $community = 'public';
my @printers = qw(
10.60.0.20
10.60.0.40
10.60.3.15
10.60.3.17
);
@printers = @ARGV if @ARGV;
my %vars = qw[
info iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0
model iso.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.2.1.3.1
hostname iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.5.1.1.16.1
serial iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.5.1.1.17.1
pages iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1
@message iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.18.1.1.8
@consumable.name iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.6.1
@consumable.max iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.8.1
@consumable.curr iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9.1
@tray.dim_x iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.8.2.1.4.1
@tray.dim_y iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.8.2.1.5.1
@tray.max iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.8.2.1.9.1
@tray.capacity iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.8.2.1.10.1
@tray.name iso.3.6.1.2.1.43.8.2.1.13.1
];
our $response;
sub columns_cb {
my ( $session, $oid2name ) = @_;
my $ip = $session->hostname;
if ( ! defined $session->var_bind_list ) {
warn "ERROR: $ip ", $session->error, "\n";
warn dump($session);
return;
}
warn "# $ip var_bind_list ", dump( $session->var_bind_list );
my $results = $session->var_bind_list;
$response->{$ip}->{ip} ||= $ip;
$response->{$ip}->{utime} ||= time();
# oid_lex_sort would be wonderfull to use here, but it doesn't work
foreach my $r_oid ( sort {
my ($af,$bf) = ($a,$b);
$af =~ s{\.(\d+)$}{sprintf("%03d",$1)}eg;
$bf =~ s{\.(\d+)$}{sprintf("%03d",$1)}eg;
$af cmp $bf
} keys %$results ) {
my $var = $results->{$r_oid};
my $oid = (grep {
substr($r_oid,0,length($_)) eq $_
} keys %$oid2name)[0] || die "no name for $r_oid in ",dump($oid2name);
my $name = $oid2name->{$oid};
if ( $name =~ m{^\@} ) {
my $no_prefix = $name;
$no_prefix =~ s{^\@}{};
push @{ $response->{$ip}->{ $no_prefix } }, $var;
} else {
$response->{$ip}->{ $name } = $var;
}
}
warn "## $ip response ",dump($response->{$ip});
}
foreach my $host ( @printers ) {
my ( $snmp, $err ) = Net::SNMP->session(
-hostname => $host,
-version => $host eq '10.60.0.20' ? 2 : 1, # FIXME HP5550 doesn't return all consumables over SNMPv1
-community => $community,
-timeout => 2,
-retries => 0,
-nonblocking => 1,
);
if ( ! $snmp ) {
warn "ERROR: $host $err\n";
next;
}
my @columns;
my @vars;
my $oid2name;
while ( my ($name,$oid) = each %vars ) {
warn "# $name $oid\n";
$oid =~ s{^iso}{.1};
if ( $name =~ m/^\@/ ) {
push @columns, $oid;
} else {
push @vars, $oid;
}
$oid2name->{$oid} = $name;
}
$snmp->get_request( -varbindlist => [ @vars ], -callback => [ \&columns_cb, $oid2name ] );
$snmp->get_entries( -columns => [ @columns ], -callback => [ \&columns_cb, $oid2name ] );
}
warn "# dispatch requests for ",dump(@printers);
snmp_dispatcher;
foreach my $ip ( keys %$response ) {
my $status = $response->{$ip};
foreach my $group ( grep { /\w+\.\w+/ } keys %$status ) {
my ( $prefix,$name ) = split(/\./,$group,2);
if ( ref $status->{$group} eq 'ARRAY' ) { # some consumables are non-repeatable on low-end devices
foreach my $i ( 0 .. $#{ $status->{$group} } ) {
$status->{$prefix}->[$i]->{$name} = $status->{$group}->[$i];
}
} else {
$status->{$prefix}->[0]->{$name} = $status->{$group};
}
delete $status->{$group};
}
print "$ip ",dump($status);
save_json $ip => $response->{$ip};
print $log encode_json($response->{$ip}),"\n";
}
close($log);
warn "# log $log_path ", -s $log_path, " bytes\n"; | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Port Huron Border Cats
The Port Huron Border Cats were a minor professional ice hockey team in the United Hockey League that played from 1996 to 2002. The team was based in Port Huron, Michigan, and played at McMorran Place. The team ceased operations in 2002 and was replaced by another UHL expansion team, the Port Huron Beacons.
Coaches
* Dave Cameron (1996–1997)
* Doug Crossman (1997–1998)
* Greg Puhalski (1998–2000)
* Jean Laforest (2000–2002) | WIKI |
Thyra Alleyne
Thyra Blanche Alleyne (1875–1954) was one of the first women to graduate from Durham University and, for nearly 30 years, principal of College Hall, London.
Early life
Alleyne was the second daughter of Forster Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. The Alleynes were a prominent family of plantocracy of Barbados. Her aunt was Leonora Blanche Lang (née Alleyne), wife of folklorist Andrew Lang and coauthor (with her husband) of the well-known "Coloured" Fairy Books. She was educated at Clifton High School and Durham University, from which institution she was awarded the degree of M.Litt (Master of Letters). She was one of the first women to graduate from Durham.
Career
Alleyne spent ten years on the staff of St Leonards School, St. Andrews, after which she was appointed warden of Langdale Hall, Manchester. In 1916 she was appointed principal of College Hall, London. She retired from that position in 1945.
Death
Alleyne died on 1 April 1954 at 14 Harrington Gardens, London SW7. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. | WIKI |
Why conservatives should support Roe v. Wade | TheHill
Amongst the endless list of hopelessly polarizing issues that divide the country today, abortion is at the very top. The topic has reached a new fever pitch with Supreme Court Justice Kennedy’s impending retirement. He was the so-called “swing” vote on the court when it comes to reproductive rights, having sided with progressives in all but two of the many cases on that subject since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Abortion under the Constitution is regarded as so black-and-white that finding common ground seems all but impossible. When truth be told, however, one can’t help but wonder why intellectually honest conservatives are not standing behind a replacement justice who will carry forth Kennedy’s measured stance on the topic of abortion “rights.” I put the word “rights” in quotes not to be cynical, but because as an educator, I find that many students come to law school thinking that a constitutional right is some kind of goodie. But a constitutional right is really about keeping government off your back. In 1973, when the Supreme Court held that a woman has a right to an abortion, what it was saying is that the government’s power over the individual is limited. The Roe court identified that limitation in the Constitution’s due process clause. The idea is that government cannot take away life, liberty or property without affording a hearing. No more throwing people in jail arbitrarily. Roe derived from a 1923 case called Meyer v. Nebraska, which involved the trial and conviction of a teacher who had read a German Bible to a fourth grader. The state of Nebraska had passed a law banning the teaching of anything other than the English language before the eighth grade. Reversing the teacher’s conviction, the Supreme Court wrote that “the salutary purpose of the statute is clear. The Legislature had seen the baneful effects of permitting foreigners, who had taken residence in this country, to rear and educate their children in the language of their native land. The result of that conviction was found to be inimical to our own safety.” In slapping Nebraska’s overbearing hand, the court construed the word “liberty” in the due process clause as meaning more than just a hearing before government takes something as precious as liberty away. Meyer, after all, got a trial. As a matter of constitutional procedure, he could fairly go to jail. The court held that liberty means more; it “denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right to the individual … generally to enjoy those privileges recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.” Roe picked up this mantle to hold that the pursuit of happiness by a free person means that the government cannot send a woman to jail for making a personal decision about ending a pregnancy on the rationale the government thinks the decision is categorically wrong — much like the state of Nebraska could not jail people on its belief that “that the English language should be and become the mother tongue of all children reared in this state.” The Meyer court accordingly added to the list of rights that are bound-up in the concept of liberty “the natural duty of the parent to give his children education suitable to their station in life.” To be sure, scholars and judges today debate whether the Meyer/Roe notion of substantive due process — the idea that government cannot take away certain rights, whether it affords a hearing or not—is constitutionally legitimate. After all, the right to make decisions about your child’s education is not express in the Constitution. But like the meaning of the Bible or a poem, there are lots of things about our working Constitution that fall in this “implied” category — things that we would not want to do away with, regardless of political or ideological leanings. In 1992, a plurality of the court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (which included Kennedy) both upheld Roe and recognized the state’s countervailing “important and legitimate interest in potential life.” A strong argument can be made that the interest in potential life distinguishes abortion from the facts of Nebraska. But it does not alone justify a complete evisceration of any limits on the government’s ability to constrain a woman’s autonomy over a pregnancy. Regarding this grey area, conservatives need only consider the Second Amendment. While it protects a right “to keep and bear arms” (without defining the latter term), it is hard to dispute that the state has a countervailing “important and legitimate interest” in protecting innocent children from being shot, maimed or killed while at school. Again, this doesn’t mean that the state can take away all guns for all purposes. But it also doesn’t mean that the Constitution precludes all safety-related limits on “arms.” It’s all about balance, after all — something that is sorely missing in American discourse today. Kim Wehle is a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and a former assistant U.S. attorney and associate independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation. Her forthcoming book is “Constitutional Literacy: What You Need to Know About the Constitution Without Going to Law School.” View the discussion thread. 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Trump proposes new international institution to fight terror | TheHill
Republican presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE called for a new international institution to combat the global threat of terror, saying that organizations like NATO are ill-equipped to handle such issues. In a wide-ranging foreign policy interview with The New York Times published on Saturday, Trump said that U.S. participation in NATO has become too costly and that the world might need a new institution to handle terrorism. “I actually think in terms of terror you may be better off with a new institution, an institution that would be more fairly based, an institution that would be more fairly taken care of from an economic standpoint,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview. “You have many wealthy states over there that are not going to be there if it’s not for us, and they’re not going to be there if it is for terror." Trump added that Middle Eastern nations should be more involved and contribute more resources to the fight against organizations like ISIS. Since NATO was established to counter the Soviet Union, Trump argued, it is not organized in a way that would make it successful against terrorism. “The point is the world is a much different place right now,” he said. “And today all you have to do is read and see the world is, the big threat would seem to be based on terror and based on what’s going on in 90 percent, 95 percent of the horror stories. I think, probably a new institution maybe would be better for that than using NATO which was not meant for that. "And it’s become very bureaucratic, extremely expensive and maybe is not flexible enough to go after terror. Terror is very much different than what NATO was set up for.” View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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the proper place. By a decree S.R.C. (January 23, 1899) the faithful may satisfy the precept by hearing Mass in any public church or public or semi-public oratory. A semi-public oratory is there defined as one which by the authority of the Ordinary is erected in a place which is not absolutely public, but more or less private, for the use not of all the faithful, nor of a particular person or family, but of a community or society of persons. No one besides those who are mentioned in the indult can satisfy the precept by hearing Mass in a strictly private oratory, which by an indult of the Holy See is erected in a private house for the use of a particular person or family (Can. 1249).
As Benedict XIV teaches, Bishops cannot compel the faithful to hear Mass in their parish churches; they have no power to abrogate a universal law and custom of the Church or a decree of the Sacred Congregatibn of Rites. The liberty, however, of hearing Mass in any place of worship except strictly private oratories, does not exempt the faithful from contributing to the support of their own pastors according to their means.
4. One would not hear Mass so as to satisfy the precept if he were stationed apart at a considerable distance from the place where it was being celebrated, even though he might be able to see and hear what was being done. He must be morally present so as to form one of those who are together hearing and offering up the Holy Sacrifice. It is not necessary that he should be able to see the priest or the altar, nor even to hear what is said. It will be sufficient if he follows the principal parts of the Mass. So that a person could hear Mass if he were stationed in a side chapel of a great cathedral while Mass was being said at the high altar, though he might not be able to hear or see anything that was going on. Similarly, if Mass is being said for a large army or crowd of people, those on the outskirts of the multitude may hear Mass, though they are at a great distance from the altar. If the church is full and large numbers cannot get inside, still these latter may hear Mass being celebrated inside. On the other hand, if while Mass is being said in a church, someone were posted on the opposite side of a wide street or square, he could not hear the Mass so as to satisfy the precept, though he | WIKI |
Is Now a Good Time to Buy Kroger Inc?
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Last week was a painful one for the supermarket industry. Hampered by food deflation, Sprouts Farmers Market (NASDAQ: SFM) and Supervalu (NYSE: SVU) both lowered their guidance for the full year. On Friday, Kroger (NYSE: KR) followed suit in its second-quarter earnings report, which included its slowest comparable-sales growth in six years, at 1.7%.
Shares of the nation's largest grocery chain slipped to a 52-week low in the aftermath of the report and are now down 26% after shares more than tripled from 2012 to 2015. This year's pullback could set up a good buying opportunity for the stock. Let's take a look at the evidence.
1. Valuation
Kroger's slide this year has made the stock cheap based on conventional measurements. At a P/E of less than 15, its valuation is lower than those of many of its peers, as the chart below indicates.
Data source: YCharts.
Kroger's valuation is also discounted compared to the S&P 500's P/E at nearly 25, and its earnings valuation is also the lowest it's been since early 2014. A low price alone doesn't justify a buy; the stock needs to offer good value. However, even as comparable sales have slowed, they're still better than all of its rivals above, except for Costco, which reported adjusted comparable sales growth of 2% in the U.S. in its most recent quarter.
2. Flawless execution
This past quarter was the company's 51st consecutive period with positive comparable sales, a streak dating back to 2004 that's virtually unmatched in retail. Those increases encompass a time of transition in the industry as Wal-Mart added grocery departments to many of its stores and consumer demand shifted to organic and natural foods.
Through its Customer 1st strategy, Kroger has consistently implemented improvements like rolling out store brands such as Simple Truth, its organic line, offering craft beer on tap inside stores, and harnessing technology to improve its loyalty programs.
The company now derives a quarter of its sales from private-label brands -- a boost for customer loyalty. And its investments in lower prices have also made it more popular with consumers. Lower prices have cost the company in gross margin as that figure has fallen from 26.3% in 2003 to 22.6% today, but sales have more than doubled during that period, justifying the narrower margins.
Combining those improvements with the company's recent acquisition strategy with its purchases of chains like Harris Teeter and Roundy's, Kroger has delivered steady improvements, promoting same-store sales and earnings growth. Its acquisitions of Harris Teeter and Vitacost.com have also given the company key technologies that have boosted its e-commerce offerings and data analysis.
3. The future looks solid
Temporary deflationary headwinds forced Kroger to lower its guidance for the current year as it sees comps for the second half at 0.5%-1.5% and expects full-year adjusted EPS of $2.10-$2.20, down from $2.19-$2.28. However, management said in the recent report that the company continued to gain share and increase traffic even as sales and earnings growth slowed. The company's size and scale may give it an advantage in the competitive promotional environment over smaller organic competitors.
Kroger also maintained its long-term goal of 8%-11% EPS growth and a growing dividend. Though the company won't make that goal this year, in 2014 and 2015, its EPS grew 23% and 17%, respectively, and management has lifted its dividend by 10% or more in each of the last four years. Its payout ratio, which is under 25%, also leaves room for continued hikes; and the company recently authorized $500 million for share repurchases, which it will likely apply since the stock is as beaten down as it is. The company has already spent more than $1.1 billion on share repurchases this year.
With little cash on the balance sheet and more than $10 billion in debt, another big-name acquisition probably isn't around the corner, but the prospect of expansion through another banner certainly exists down the road. While the next few quarters may not be stellar, Kroger's growth should improve as the deflationary environment subsides. For investors looking for a safe stock that should deliver steady growth, Kroger looks like a good choice.
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-- BASF’s Year of Smaller Deals Shows CEO Bock’s Tech Focus
BASF SE (BAS) Chief Executive Officer Kurt Bock pushed through a bid for Pronova BioPharma ASA (PRON) by boosting
his offer by 8 percent. He has the backing of investors as the
extra cost is a fraction of the $10.5 billion in cash probably
generated by BASF last year. The $900 million deal is Bock’s second-largest purchase
since he took over in May 2011 and will give the world’s biggest
chemicals maker a leading position in pharma-grade Omega 3, a
top-purity fatty acid used in heart drugs such as
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) ’s Lovaza. Bock’s penchant for smaller
technology-driven deals over riskier big-ticket purchases is
winning investor accolades. “I don’t mind bolt ons,” said Stephan Thomas, who helps
manage 16 billion euros ($21.3 billion) including shares of BASF
at Frankfurt Trust. “It’s a better strategy than buying
something big with integration costing a lot, lay-offs and
probably bad press.” Bock is so far showing less appetite for multi-billion
dollar deals than his predecessor Juergen Hambrecht , who bought
Swiss additives and dye maker Ciba for $5 billion in 2009 and
cosmetics ingredient maker Cognis for $3.8 billion a year later.
By contrast, Bock has bought 12 companies in areas such as
battery materials and biological crop-care and spending of
Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF on takeovers still dropped to
$2 billion in 2012 compared with an average of $3.5 billion in
the prior six years, according to Bloomberg data. Specific Investments “If you look at this strategy, you aren’t just being
careful, you are more definite in your decisions because you are
making very specific investments,” said Boris Boehm , a fund
manager at Aramea Asset Management in Hamburg, who holds BASF
shares. “There are a host of smaller companies under the radar.
I wouldn’t call targeting them conservative because that sounds
so unexciting. It’s entrepreneurial.” Still, BASF’s cash generation would allow Bock, 54, to
spend big. The company, which is scheduled to report full-year
earnings on Feb. 26, probably generated cash of almost 7.9
billion euros in 2012 as sales may have increased 5.9 percent to
77.8 billion euros, according to a survey of analysts compiled
by Bloomberg. BASF shares declined as much as 2 percent to 72.32 euros in
Frankfurt trading and were down 1.4 percent at 72.80 euros as of
10:12 a.m. local time. The stock has gained 29 percent in the
past six months, boosting the company’s market value to 66.9
billion euros. Sprawling Portfolio Last year’s largest purchase was the $1.02 billion
acquisition of seed-treatment supplier Becker Underwood Inc.
Becker supplies bacteria and microscopic worms that feed on
soil-dwelling fungus gnats, an alternative to traditional
fungicides and pesticides. Pronova, based in Lysaker, Norway , adds a pharma-grade
fatty acid used in blockbuster heart drugs to BASF’s sprawling
portfolio of materials and chemicals spanning skin-care
ingredients and lightweight plastics used in electric vehicles. BASF, founded 147 years ago, raised its offer to 13.50
kroner a share on Jan. 15, valuing Pronova at almost 5 billion
kroner ($900 million) after minority shareholders balked at a
previous 12.50 kroner a share bid. The company yesterday said it
won almost 98 percent support from the Norwegian drug-ingredient
maker’s shareholders, enough for the acquisition to go through. Financial Scrutiny All Pronova shareholders except Herkules Private Equity ,
which held half of the stock, will get the higher price. That
means that the German company, which is paying in cash for
Pronova, will only have to pay an additional $27 million for the
higher bid. “While Bock could buy a larger company if available at the
right price, he’d probably lend more weight to the financial
side of a deal and may therefore be more cautious,” said
Frankfurt Trust’s Thomas, whose fund has a bigger block of BASF
shares than any other equity. Bock, who climbed BASF’s corporate ladder through a career
in finance, founded a new unit to provide a home for the four
battery-material makers purchased. At its headquarters on the
Rhine river, laboratories form pockets of innovation in BASF’s
sprawling headquarters, where steam crackers split naphtha into
chemical building blocks at the 3.86 square-mile site. BASF has also teamed up with universities, research
institutes and partners such as Robert Bosch GmbH and Volkswagen
AG (VOW) to develop new lithium-ion batteries. The goal is to boost
the range of electric cars while lowering battery prices and
BASF has earmarked a three-digit-million euro investment in that
segment by 2016. Support “It’s a strategic focus of going into certain areas,”
Thorsten Strauss, an analyst at NordLB, said. “It’s also about
using opportunities. Still, if something bigger was to come onto
the market, they would probably jump at the opportunity.” Frankfurt Trust’s Thomas said he wouldn’t mind a “mega
deal” at BASF as long as the company doesn’t overpay, the
integration goes quickly and the deal is accretive in a
relatively short time. Of the bigger deals that BASF has done,
the integration of Ciba probably took longer than management had
budgeted, he said. BASF has also taken a deeper look at Cognis to harness more
growth and synergies. As well as batteries, BASF is building up its water
technology business. Its venture capital arm in May invested in
NanoH2O Inc., a U.S. company that makes membranes for seawater
desalination. That followed the purchase of a startup called
Inge Watertechnologies AG in 2011. BASF shares rose 32 percent in 2012 in Frankfurt, beating
the 29 percent gain of Germany ’s benchmark DAX index. Aramea
Asset Management’s Boehm said investors wouldn’t mind if Bock
continued to add key technology assets at a low price. “It’s a careful approach and in my opinion that’s the
charm of it,” he said. “The share price hasn’t suffered under
this strategy. I can imagine that they will continue because
they’ve had a good experience with it.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Sheenagh Matthews in Frankfurt at
smatthews6@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Simon Thiel at
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Question: How Do I Fix An Unreachable Website?
What does Err_ssl_version_interference mean?
Now, you might encounter the ERR_SSL_VERSION_INTERFERENCE error when Google Chrome fails to load a website with an SSL protocol.
When it shows up, it indicates that there is an issue in determining the SSL version.
It is also possible that there is an SSL version conflict on your device..
Why some websites are not loading in Chrome?
Browser Issue If websites can be accessed without issue in an alternative browser, try clearing out the cache and cookies stored by Chrome from the Settings page. Switching off the “Predict network actions to improve page load performance” option under the Privacy heading may also fix the problem.
Why does my phone say this site Cannot be reached?
For Google Chrome users, the “this site can’t be reached” error can pop up if a website takes too long to respond and is down or if there is an internet connection problem. … If you are a Mac or Android smartphone user, we have you covered as well.
Why some websites are not opening in my mobile?
Clear Cache and Data of your browser. Try using a different internet browsing application like Chrome or Samsung Internet. You can download these applications directly from the Google PlayStore. Check for any available Software Updates for your device and if available, download and install.
What does it mean if a site is unreachable?
This can happen when Googlebot encounters a time-out or other network related issue when requesting a file from your site, and thus is forced to abandon the request. This can be caused by one or more of the following: … Excessive page load times due to a site’s hosting server being down, overloaded, or misconfigured.
Why are some websites not reachable?
In some cases your Government or ISP may block website. Try to using a proxy or vpn server which may give you access to blocked website due to censorship. It is also possible that your IP is blocked by webmaster due to abuse issue such as spam.
How do I fix mobile error Cannot be reached?
You can change the DNS server from phone settings or you can install any DNS changer app on your phone and change the DNS….Fixing “This Site Can’t be Reached” Error in AndroidClear Browser Data. … Clearing App Data. … Other Solutions.
How do you check if a website is down?
How to Check if Your Website is DownVisit Website Planet.Fill in your website address (URL) on the field and press the Check button.Website Planet will show whether your website is online or not.
Why is one website not opening?
Short Bytes: There can be many reasons why you aren’t able to access a particular website on the internet. These include the issues with the web browser, website, internet service provider, bad DNS server, etc. You can fix these issues using Tor, VPN, custom DNS, etc.
How can resolve site Cannot be reached in Android?
How to Fix ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED (This Site Can’t Be Reached) in Chrome on AndroidClear Cache and Cookies for All Browsers. Launch Chrome. … Scan for Malware. … Uninstall Dubious Apps. … Manually Assign Google DNS (If ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED occurs on Wi-Fi) … Mother of all fixes: Perform a hard reset. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Smooch acts as more of a chatbot connector that bridges your business apps, (ex: Slack and ZenDesk) with your everyday messenger apps (ex: Facebook Messenger, WeChat, etc.) It links these two together by sending all of your Messenger chat notifications straight to your business apps, which streamlines your conversations into just one application. In the end, this can result in smoother automated workflows and communications across teams. These same connectors also allow you to create chatbots which will respond to your customer chats…. boom!
Once your bot is running in production, you will need a DevOps team to keep it that way. Continually monitor the system to ensure the bot operates at peak performance. Use the logs sent to Application Insights or Cosmos DB to create monitoring dashboards, either using Application Insights itself, Power BI, or a custom web app dashboard. Send alerts to the DevOps team if critical errors occur or performance falls below an acceptable threshold.
1. AI-based: these ones really rely on training and are fairly complicated to set up. You train the chatbot to understand specific topics and tell your users which topics your chatbot can engage with. AI chatbots require all sorts of fall back and intent training. For example, let’s say you built a doctor chatbot (off the top of my head because I am working on one at the moment), it would have to understand that “i have a headache” and “got a headache” and “my head hurts” are the same intent. The user is free to engage and the chatbot has to pick things up.
With last year’s refresh of AppleTV, Apple brought its Siri voice assistant to the center of the UI. You can now ask Siri to play your favorite TV shows, check the weather, search for and buy specific types of movies, and a variety of other specific tasks. Although far behind Amazon’s Echo in terms of breadth of functionality, Apple will no doubt expand Siri’s integration into AppleTV, and its likely that the company will introduce a new version of AppleTV that more directly competes with the Echo, perhaps with a voice remote control that is always listening for commands.
In 1950, Alan Turing's famous article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" was published,[7] which proposed what is now called the Turing test as a criterion of intelligence. This criterion depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge, sufficiently well that the judge is unable to distinguish reliably—on the basis of the conversational content alone—between the program and a real human. The notoriety of Turing's proposed test stimulated great interest in Joseph Weizenbaum's program ELIZA, published in 1966, which seemed to be able to fool users into believing that they were conversing with a real human. However Weizenbaum himself did not claim that ELIZA was genuinely intelligent, and the introduction to his paper presented it more as a debunking exercise:
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Get rid of right-click clicking
Hello,
I want to use right-clicking action only for showing popup menu.
But when I do right-click on a textbutton, it triggers mouse clicking.
How can I get rid of this behavior?
Thank you,
You can check the modifier keys in the buttonClicked() method, and only respond to left click for action, and right click for menu. https://www.juce.com/doc/classModifierKeys
Thank you, I will check it.
Well, that’s only half of the story, because even with code that ignores actions taken with the right mouse button, the Button widget on screen will be animated as if it had been clicked, which is weird for a click that then does nothing.
I have modified slightly my version of JUCE so that the Button only reacts to left mouse clicks (required code changes are described below).
I think it would be a good feature request to have this behavior optionally enabled with a bool option in the base Button class, like setClickableWithLeftMouseButtonOnly().
What does @jules and its team think of this?
Here are the required code changes to only react to left clicks:
(The original parts are those commented out, with their replacement next to them)
Button::ButtonState Button::updateState()
{
/* return updateState (isMouseOver (true), isMouseButtonDown()); */
return updateState (isMouseOver (true), isMouseButtonDown() && ModifierKeys::getCurrentModifiers ().isLeftButtonDown ());
}
void Button::mouseDown (const MouseEvent& e)
{
updateState (true, /*true*/ e.mods.isLeftButtonDown ());
if (isDown())
{
if (autoRepeatDelay >= 0)
callbackHelper->startTimer (autoRepeatDelay);
if (triggerOnMouseDown)
internalClickCallback (e.mods);
}
}
void Button::mouseDrag (const MouseEvent& e)
{
const ButtonState oldState = buttonState;
updateState (isMouseOrTouchOver (e), /*true*/ e.mods.isLeftButtonDown() || e.source.isTouch());
if (autoRepeatDelay >= 0 && buttonState != oldState && isDown())
callbackHelper->startTimer (autoRepeatSpeed);
}
We’re always reluctant to clutter a base class like Button with anything that’s not essential, and this doesn’t sound like a particularly useful addition for most people.
Why not just have a subclass which overrides mouseDown/Up/Drag() to only call the superclass method if the left button is down?
It’s a good idea which would allow me to remove one of the places where I customized my copy of JUCE. Will have a go at it and let you know if it’s effective
Thank you.
This works perfectly for my purpose.
How did you do with this? I’m struggling to find a way to do this for all the myriad button types without duplicating code unnecessarily, and I don’t want to get into hacking my local copy of JUCE either.
Hello,
Sorry, I don’t remember this well.
I think I customized my copy of JUCE.
That’s all I can come up with now.
I ended up with this approach :
class LeftClickOnlyButton : public Button
{
public:
LeftClickOnlyButton(const String& buttonName) : Button(buttonName) {};
void internalClickCallback(const ModifierKeys& mods) override
{
if(mods.isLeftButtonDown())
{
Button::internalClickCallback(mods);
}
}
};
class LeftClickOnlyToggleButton : public ToggleButton
{
public:
LeftClickOnlyToggleButton() : ToggleButton() {};
LeftClickOnlyToggleButton(const String& buttonText) : ToggleButton(buttonText) {};
void internalClickCallback(const ModifierKeys& mods) override
{
if(mods.isLeftButtonDown())
{
ToggleButton::internalClickCallback(mods);
}
}
};
etc etc for the different button types I needed, but can’t help thinking there must be a more efficient way.
here is another thread about it :
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Page:The Theory of the Leisure Class.pdf/368
to her own sense of what is good and beautiful, the woman's life is, and in theory must be, an expression of the man's life at the second remove.
But in spite of this pervading sense of what is the good and natural place for the woman, there is also perceptible an incipient development of sentiment to the effect that this whole arrangement of tutelage and vicarious life and imputation of merit and demerit is somehow a mistake. Or, at least, that even if it may be a natural growth and a good arrangement in its time and place, and in spite of its patent æsthetic value, still it does not adequately serve the more everyday ends of life in a modern industrial community. Even that large and substantial body of well-bred, upper and middle-class women to whose dispassionate, matronly sense of the traditional proprieties this relation of status commends itself as fundamentally and eternally right—even these, whose attitude is conservative, commonly find some slight discrepancy in detail between things as they are and as they should be in this respect. But that less manageable body of modern women who, by force of youth, education, or temperament, are in some degree out of touch with the traditions of status received from the barbarian culture, and in whom there is, perhaps, an undue reversion to the impulse of self-expression and workmanship,—these are touched with a sense of grievance too vivid to leave them at rest.
In this "New-Woman" movement,—as these blind and incoherent efforts to rehabilitate the woman's pre-glacial standing have been named,—there are at least two elements discernible, both of which are of an economic | WIKI |
Yet another awesome service from google. reCaptcha. More on that later. But firstly, sending from the right address.
Helping out a friend at her new(ish) job and their contact form simply sucked. Suppose it takes a bit of a background in both PHP web coding and more so in understanding Mail protocols than anything else.
The first thing people really need to get out of the habit is trying to send emails as the person who wishes to contact you. Take in this small example;
<?php
$to = 'contact@mydomain.com';
$subject = 'Website Contact Form';
$message = $_POST['formMessage'];
$headers = 'From: ' . $_POST['formEmailAddress'] . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Without getting hooked up on using raw entries from $_POST, basically the above code will take your contact details and attempt to send it to yourself. You write into the headers that this email is coming from whatever address the user entered when filling in the form.
THAT'S A BIG NO NO. More and more mail servers today (including your own, which is where some of the issue comes) checks the IP and/or domain name of where an email is being sent from, in this case it's your webserver, and looks up that domain to see if that domain or IP address is allowed to pretend to be sending mail. I promise no one has added in your domain details to allow to send email as them. Certainly not the bigger dogs like Bigpond, Optus etc.
This is just one method that checks mail servers use today to check the authenticity of mail getting into people's boxes. Otherwise you can basically be sending mail out as Google or even PayPal.
Here's what you should have done when coding your contact form.
<?php
$to = 'contact@mydomain.com';
$subject = 'Website Contact Form';
$message = $_POST['formMessage'];
$headers = 'From: contact@mydomain.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $_POST['formEmailAddress'] . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
So how's this work now? Basically, we're saying this email we're going to get is from our OWN domain. However when you hit the reply to start a conversation with the user that filled in the contact form, your email client will use the details in the Reply-To. Adding the X-Mailer section there is to let severs know that yes indeed this message has been sent from a PHP script.
Because your script is now sending from your website as your own email (typically where your mailserver resides) this solves some of the more common 550 errors in emails (Email error: 550 SPF: x.x.x.x is not allowed to send mail from ...)
Doing things properly you shouldn't stop there guys. The really good and neat way of sending mail out of your web scripts is to connect to your mail server directly, and send it from there. Need pear with it's mail modules installed for PHP.
If you don't already have this, you should lightly slap yourself and then quickly install it.
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install php-pear
sudo pear install mail
sudo pear install Net_SMTP
sudo pear install Auth_SASL
sudo pear install mail_mime
Here's how our example would work now.
<?php
include "Mail.php";
$to = 'contact@mydomain.com';
$headers['From'] = 'webmaster@mydomain.com';
$headers['To'] = $to;
$headers['Subject'] = 'Website Contact Form';
$headers['Reply-To'] = $_POST['formName'] .
'<' .$_POST['formEmailAddress'] . '>';
$smtpinfo['host'] = 'localhost';
$smtpinfo['port'] = '25';
$smtpinfo['auth'] = true;
$smtpinfo['username'] = 'my_mail_username';
$smtpinfo['password'] = 'my_mail_password';
$mail_message = $_POST['formMessage'];
$mail_handler =& Mail::factory("smtp", $smtpinfo);
$mail_handler->send($to, $headers, $mail_message);
?>
Naturally I'd expect you to validate your data and not just use raw data sent from the browser, but this will connect up to a SMTP server and send it off via that server (which lets your messages get signed by a range of other anti-spam measures in place today).
If you require an SSL connection to your mail server (for example, google handles your mail for you (like it does for me)) you can change the host to "ssl://hostname" and the Mail package will work it out from there. Sadly it's not shown on the documentation about that handy little trick on the Pear page.
Another alternative is using sockets directly, which is fantastic and awesomes (and doesn't require Pear/Mail), and you can find a heap of PHP Libraries out there to give you access to do so. Personally I'm a bit of a fan of CodeIgniter and has these sorts of things built in already. Epic win.
GETTING SIDE TRACK HERE, but hopefully you'll start to use a neater way of sending your contact form messages out now.
Google reCaptcha adds that (sometimes) annoying little image to forms before you get to fill them in. Basically ensuring you're human and not some spam bot with insecurities about it's epen requiring extensions (CWOTIDIDTHAR?).
It's actually really to get set up and working on your site, for anything really - not just contact forms (although it works quickly there too). Basically you sign up for a Private and Public Key over at google and then download the quick library to use it.
After you've put it somewhere with your code files, you include the file, add some lines of code, and volia. How easy is that. See below;
<?php
require_once('recaptchalib.php');
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User:Josh Dunbar/Individual Weekly Update
Project Preference
Through the choice of projects we wanted to work on the power wheel the most and if we couldn't get that then our next choice would be the robot hallway navigation.
Problem Statement
The power wheel's main objective is to design and build a given power wheel to navigate around obstacles/ drive autonomously using sensors such as cameras and motors to operate the steering wheel and gas pedal. One big rule of the power wheel project is that the team may not use any existing power or tap into the wiring of the power wheel. All group made equipment must be able to be added/ removed from the power wheel without damaging it and design it to become battery powered.
Project Plan
Our specific groups tasks are to test and make sure that the previous groups coding and steering motors work. Then we will begin the task of designing and implementing an actuator to control the gas pedal.
Week 1 Narrative
During week one we took a look at the previous groups progress. At first we looked at their wikiversity pages to see how they wired the arduino and see their coding for the steering wheel motor. After hooking up the power wheel to the power supplier and running the code we could see that the motor was not turning but we could hear the sounds of humming then a pause then humming again. These sounds let us know the arduino was sending the code to the motor and the motor was trying to turn but was jammed some how. After taking the motor off of the power wheel we examined the gears and noticed the previous team put metal bumpers on the gears of the arm of the motor which prevented the motor from over-extending and run off the track. These bumpers were not high enough and were sliding under a metal guard so they were getting caught were the drive gear would be turning. From week one we discovered the coding for the steering seemed to work and we found the problem with the motor not turning for the steering which we will have to fix in week two.
Week 2 Narrative
After knowing what had to be done about the motor we looked closer at how the bumpers were attached to the gears, we found that a thin strip of metal seemed to be glued to both sides of the gear. when we attempted to take them off we discovered it was epoxy but after getting that off we folded the metal back a couple more times to hopefully make it so the metal won't slip under the safety guard. We also tested how much force is needed to push the gas pedal by lifting the back of the power wheel up to make the pedal parallel to the ground. We put weight on the pedal till it would be pressed in, this took 2 kg of weight which is about 4.4 lbs. After knowing how much force was needed we began thinking of different types of actuators. Our original idea was a stepper motor that would turn slightly with some sort of rubber end that would rotate and press the pedal in and then rotate in the opposite direction to depress the pedal. After considering this we began looking at linear actuators which would be much easier to attach to the power wheel. However after researching it many of the linear actuators could not handle 5 lbs of force and the few that could were too expensive. This is why we went back to the stepper motor idea and decided that we would obtain another motor from a car's power window at a junkyard.
Week 3 Narrative
After Discussing With our team we had decided that the main focus of the project is to design something for ourselves and worry less about fixing the previous groups projects. Personally I had made some designs as well as my partner Graham for how to operate the gas pedal with an actuator. My specific job was to make models using CAD software in order to give a clear picture of what we want the design to look like. These models will allow a 3 dimensional perspective vs. a 2 dimensional sketch, These models are well on their way and took slightly longer than expected due to the fact that I have been redoing and fixing many parts of them to be sure they are to scale so they will be as accurate as possible. They will be posted on my page as soon as they are finished which is projected to be 10/07/13.
Week 4 Narrative
This week we have discovered that the force needed to push in the pedal is .2 Newton Meters. We brought in a lever system that was designed to minimize the force required to push the pedal however it did not work as expected and was difficult to operate. With this we went back to the design idea of the screw that will go through a set nut and act as a linear actuator when the motor spins and extrudes it to push in the pedal. I have made some sketches of this in my notebook and creating a new version of the model using CAD software. This week we also worked on the CDIO report we are in the design phase so that was the category we are writing about. I worked specifically on the problem statement, and utilization of knowledge in design as well as editing bits and pieces of other parts of the report. | WIKI |
Telling Jokes/Set Up
"Telling Jokes/Set Up" is the second episode of the third season of the American comedy-drama television series Louie. It is the 28th overall episode of the series and was written and directed by Louis C.K., who also serves as the lead actor. It was released on FX on July 5, 2012.
The series follows Louie, a fictionalized version of C.K., a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City. In the episode, Louie joins a friend for dinner, where he is introduced to a woman as a potential date.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 1.08 million household viewers and gained a 0.6 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received critical acclaim, with Melissa Leo receiving praise for her guest appearance. For her performance, Melissa Leo won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Plot
While eating, Louie (Louis C.K.) exchanges knock knock jokes with Lilly (Hadley Delany) and Jane (Ursula Parker). He uses part of their exchange during his stand-up routine.
Louie hangs out with his friend, comedian Allan Havey, when he is invited to join him and his wife Debbie (Larisa Polonsky) to dine. After picking up alcohol, he arrives at their house, discovering that they also invited a friend, Laurie (Melissa Leo). Debbie wanted to set up Louie with Debbie, with Allan not disclosing it to him as he knew Louie wouldn't come. They have an awkward dinner, in which they don't get along very well. As Allan and Debbie have an argument, Laurie invites Louie to join her in the bar, which he accepts.
At the bar, they hit it off, with Laurie admitting it was the most fun time she had in a while. She then drives Louie in her car, before pulling off and performing oral sex on him. She then asks for cunnilingus, which Louie claims he is not comfortable with. She then threatens him to break his finger if she does not do it, as well as licking her butthole, forcing Louie to do it. Despite being forced, Louie agrees to go on another date with her.
Development
In June 2012, FX confirmed that the second episode of the season would be titled "Telling Jokes/Set Up", and that it would be written and directed by series creator and lead actor Louis C.K.. This was C.K.'s 28th writing and directing credit.
Casting
Melissa Leo met Louis C.K. during an appearance at the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, where he offered her the role. She accepted, saying "I got what he was doing, and if he thought I could be her and do that with him — yeah, I'm willing to give it a try."
Viewers
In its original American broadcast, "Telling Jokes/Set Up" was seen by an estimated 1.08 million household viewers with a 0.6 in the 18-49 demographics. This means that 0.6 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. This was a 25% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 1.43 million viewers with a 0.7 in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"Telling Jokes/Set Up" received positive reviews from critics. Eric Goldman of IGN gave the episode a "great" 8.5 out of 10 and wrote, "Damn if Louis C.K. doesn't know how to tap into that weird place others wouldn't think of going for humor. 'Lick it! Lick it!', indeed. This is a show not afraid to go to very uncomfortable and even twisted places, and I continue to admire it for that."
Emily St. James of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A" grade and wrote, "'Telling Jokes/Set Up' wouldn’t work without Melissa Leo in its central guest role, and she gives the kind of performance that would deserve guest Emmy awards if I thought the Emmys would notice the show at all in that category."
Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote, "Louis C.K. has said that he writes Louie stories without a particular length in mind, and just lets them run for as long as he feels they deserve it. And once that's done, he figures out how he's going to fit them into an episode – or, in the case of a few of this season’s stories, into multiple episodes. So I'm assuming that 'Telling Jokes' and 'Set Up' largely wound up together because their respective running times add up to a normal episode. But they also feel linked by a theme that's going to pop up often in ensuing episodes: simple yet unexpected pleasures." Roger Cormier of Vulture wrote, "'Telling Jokes' and 'Set Up' are two entirely different stories, and C.K. has repeatedly insisted that he only considers what segments to put together in an episode if they magically combine to make 21 minutes of television, but come on - all jokes have set ups. It can't be a coincidence. Right?"
Paste gave the episode a 8.8 out of 10 and wrote, "There's a certain surrealism in this sort of juxtaposition that doesn't detract from the semi-cinema verite feel of the whole show. Everything in it always still feels real, like something Louis C.K. just recorded moments out of his life rather than carefully juxtaposing elements. It's just that the reality he finds himself in is itself a surreal landscape." Neal Lynch of TV Fanatic gave the episode a 4.1 star out of 5 rating and wrote, "I don't think it's reached that point, but my knee jerk reaction has been, 'what a jip' so far in Season 3. Once I've had some time to fully absorb and digest, I kick myself for doubting its approach. As long as Louie continues to deliver those few unexpected moments, the show should plod on tragically satisfying."
Accolades
For the episode, Melissa Leo won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. | WIKI |
UPDATE 1-U.S. presidential candidates blame China, the Fed, Obama for stocks rout - Reuters
5 Min Read (Adds comments from Sanders, Huckabee, Walker, White House) By Lisa Lambert and Alistair Bell WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Jostling for position in the U.S. presidential race, candidates on Monday blamed Wall Street elites, the Federal Reserve, exposure to China, and President Barack Obama's spending policies for the market contagion from China's stock-market plunge. As the Dow Jones industrial average briefly slumped to its biggest point-drop ever, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he had long warned about U.S. exposure to China. I've been talking about China for years. Because China's going bad it's going to bring us down, too, because we're so heavily coupled with China, real-estate mogul Trump said on Fox News. I'm the one that says you better start un-coupling from China because China's got problems. Reflecting investors' concern over the Chinese economy, the Dow Jones dropped more than 1,000 points before staging a recovery. U.S. stocks still closed more than 3 percent lower. The candidates' rhetoric brought back memories of the final months of the 2008 presidential election. which took place in the shadow of the financial crisis after the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank. Then Republican nominee John McCain briefly suspended his campaign in reaction to the financial chaos. While global markets are still a long way from the 2008 crisis, the absence of new measures from Beijing to support Chinese stocks following an 11 percent drop last week sparked a free-fall in equities around the world and a selloff in oil and commodities. Trump, whose outspoken views have helped propel him to the front of a crowded pack vying to become the Republican nominee for the November 2016 election, pointed a finger at hedge funds. He said that if he were elected to the White House, he would raise taxes on the wealthy and specifically target those working in high-stakes finance. Fellow Republican candidate and former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive Carly Fiorina said she had expected a market correction for some time and mostly blamed the Federal Reserve. I think the stock market has hit record highs over and over again because the Federal Reserve has ensured, through its easy-money policy, that the stock market is the only place you can earn a return, she said, referring to low interest rates. With 17 candidates in the Republican field, presidential hopefuls are jockeying to be heard. In the race for the Democratic nomination, liberal Senator Bernie Sanders also took a swipe at the financial industry. For the past 40 years, Wall Street and the billionaire class have rigged the rules to redistribute wealth to the richest among us, tweeted Sanders, the main rival so far to former secretary of state and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Clinton herself has promised to tighten regulation of Wall Street if she wins the election, but made no public comment on the falling stock markets. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a leading Republican candidate, was also silent. Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin and a favorite of conservatives, called on Obama to show backbone and cancel a planned visit to the United States next month by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Given China's massive cyber attacks against America, its militarization of the South China Sea, continued state interference with its economy, and persistent persecution of Christians and human rights activists, President Obama needs to cancel the state visit, Walker said. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, also a Republican candidate, said Obama's government had borrowed too much. Given China is a major buyer of U.S. debt, a market correction in the Asian superpower is going to have an even greater effect because this president doesn't know how to say no to spending, he said. What you need to do in the Oval Office is rein this government in. Stop running up so much debt, he told Fox News. Republican Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas who is hoping his down to earth style will capture the blue-collar vote in 2016, held Washington-Wall Street elites responsible for the market slump. For the Obama administration, the barrage of critical comments from the campaign was to be expected. Asked about the presidential contenders' remarks, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said their reaction illustrates the difference between campaigning and governing. (Additional reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Frances Kerry) All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. 2020 Reuters. All Rights Reserved. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Religion saved by Spain by Titian 1572-1575
Voting period ends on 26 Mar 2015 at 06:58:10 (UTC)
* Reason:HQ and EV
* Articles in which this image appears: Religion saved by Spain (Titian), Titian,
* FP category for this image:Artwork/Paintings
* Creator:Titian
* Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 06:58, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
* Support - It is a late work by Titian, and it is considered as an outstanding piece of the artist's works. article ready, there is a big article in Spanish, left a template (May be translated further from ..xxx) Hafspajen (talk) 22:07, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
* Support - Gorgeous scan. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:06, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
* Support --PetarM (talk) 09:03, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
* Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:57, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
* Support Fabulous painting with good EV as it has its own article. No problems supporting this. oh, look ... likes it so much, he's voted twice!! SagaciousPhil - Chat 22:52, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
* Well crikey, I have. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
--Armbrust The Homunculus 07:31, 26 March 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
BEEJ GUIDE TO IPC PDF
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Clearing a lock 6. The next argument, sizeis the size in bytes of the shared memory segment. There’s a variety of options if I’m willing to poll, including shared memory or the filesystem idea you outline, but I hope to avoid polling for hygienic reasons. There is a lot of other stuff that is copied, too, but you’ll have to read the man page to see what. For an example of this, see the demonstration program semdemo.
Perhaps exchanging your jobs with one another might help. bedj
If it was, I wouldn’t have written all this IPC stuff. I quite enjoy programming in C, so hopefully that helps.
KENMORE SEWING MACHINE MANUAL PDF
The child process gets a copy of the parent’s data. If you open the file in the wrong mode for a given lock type, fcntl will return -1 and errno will be set to EBADF. Under Unix, this is a short.
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Also, there’s no code in here for removing the segment—be sure to do that when you’re done messing with it. The translation may also include the name and contact information for the translator.
So how does init know to wait for these zombie processes?
Beej’s Guide to Unix IPC
You can use them to control access to files, shared memoryand, well, just about anything you want. From the above example, it’s pretty hard to see how these would even be useful.
This will accept a connection from a client. Just touch a file in a well-defined directory named after the event that happened, and poll it periodically. Again, for simplicity, the sample code doesn’t do that, but you can see how the data is shared between independent processes. Linux man pages 1.
Beej’s Guide to Unix IPC () | Hacker News
The next argument, nsemsis you guessed it! You could setup a multiple gudie by giving them their own “inbox” directory, like. Naturally, there is an exception to the above rule: When messaging becomes that complex, there are often other things that impact the overall design in important ways that need need to be considered. Well, hope no longer, because the answer is here: Another interesting thing to note from the above example is that both parent and child use the rv variable. The arguments are a little weird, but can be understood with a little brow-beating.
LIBRO NO DESPERDICIES TU VIDA DE JOHN PIPER PDF
Of course, its easiest if the processes don’t have to communicate with one another while they’re running and can just sit there doing their own thing.
Ilc then copies the conflicting lock’s information into the struct and returns it to you. A simple sample In fact, the two are very similar in most respects. Memory Mapped Files Classic signals are tricky This instructs the socket to listen for incoming connections from client programs:.
Intro You know what’s easy? Sometimes the lock will encompass both a read an write to the shared memory, depending on what you’re doing. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1045
PUBLIC LAW 97-64—OCT. 16, 1981
95 STAT. 1019
Public Law 97-64 97th Congress
An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri establishing their mutual boimdary in the vicinity of the French Bottoms near Saint Joseim, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas.
Oct. 16, 1981 [H.R. 4048]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the KansasUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress consents to the agreement between the States of Kansas and Missouri Missouri. establishing their mutual boundary in the vicinity of the Gladden- Boundary agreement. French-Elwood Bottoms near Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Elwood, Kansas, as the thalweg line of the channel of the Missouri River abandoned by avulsion in April 1952, which is more particularly described in the project maps, repqrte, and documents submitted April 30, 1980, by Williamson Ei^ineering and Surveying, Saint Joseph, Missouri, consisting of sheets one to sixteen, inclusive, and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State for the State of Kansas, and in the Office of the State Land Surveyor, Division of Research and Technical Information, Department of Natural Resources, State of Missouri. Such agreement was approved by the State of Kaims on May 8, 1980, by the State of Missouri on June 25, 1981, and is sutetantially as follows: The true and permanent boundary line between the State of Missouri and the State of Kansas follows the thalweg line at the time of the April 1952 avulsion and sudden chimge of the Missouri River Channel and is more particularly described as beginning at the intersection of the present thalw^ line of the Missouri River Channel and the thalweg line of the Missouri River Channel as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion and having Kansas State coordinate of 540240.22 feet north and 2878720.31 feet east of the Kansas north zone; thence along the thalweg line as it existed prior to the April 1952 avulsion the following courses and distances: north 85 degrees 50 minutes 30 seconds west to an aluminum monument, 482.0 feet; south 67 degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds west, 814.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 51 degrees 09 minutes 0 seconds west, 693.0 feet; south 78 degrees 58 minutes 0 seconds west, 601.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 59 degrees 11 minutes 0 seconds west, 996.0 feet to an aluminum monument; south 20 degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,725.0 feet; south 51 degrees 36 minutes 0 seconds west, 658.0 feet; south 42 degrees 12 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,596.0 feet; south 55 degrees 30 minutes 30 seconds west, 597.0 feet; south 60 decrees 26 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,601.0 feet; south 64 degrees 34 minutes 30 seconds west, 1,237.0 feet; south 87 degrees 02 minutes 30 seconds west, 368.0 feet; south 73 degrees 47 minutes 30 seconds west, 602.0 feet; south 85 degrees 54 minutes 0 seconds west, 1,146.0 feet; north 75 degrees 38 minutes 30 seconds west, 565.0 feet; north 68 degrees 54 minutes 30 seconds west, 806.0 feet; north 61 degrees 58 minutes 0 seconds west, 787.0 feet; north 55 degrees 20 minutes 0 seconds west, 1,793.0 feet; north 48 degrees 13 minutes 0 seconds
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WPMZ
WPMZ (1110 AM, "Poder 1110") is a radio station licensed to serve East Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The station is owned by Video Mundo Broadcasting Co., LLC. It airs a Spanish tropical format. WPMZ is relayed on an FM translator: W271CR on 102.1 MHz. The station has been assigned the callsign WPMZ by the Federal Communications Commission since November 1, 1995.
History
WPMZ was known as WHIM from its inception in 1947 until the 1990s. It was the first radio station to employ Jefferson Kaye as an announcer; Kaye (then known as Jeff Krimm) would move on to stations in Boston, Buffalo and Philadelphia.
As WHIM
A construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station was filed by Inter-City Broadcasting on July 29, 1946, and granted on October 17, 1946. The station's first callsign was WKID, but was changed to WHIM on March 6, 1947, before the station signed on-air. WHIM signed on the air on April 15, 1947 with 1,000 watts of power (daytime only). A license to cover was filed for on June 24, 1947. Intercity Broadcasters would own the station until 1957, when it was sold to Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Buckley-Jaeger owned the station until 1964, when it was sold to Golden Gate Corporation. Golden Gate would also sign on an FM sister station: WHIM-FM (now WHJY). Golden Gate sold WHIM-AM-FM to Culligan Communications Corporation in 1969. WHIM-AM-FM's ownership would change again 2 years later in 1971 to Franks Broadcasting. In 1979, Franks Broadcasting applied to increase the power on WHIM to 5,000 watts daytime and change the community of license to East Providence, Rhode Island. Franks sold WHIM-AM-FM to East Providence Broadcasting in 1980. East Providence Broadcasting sold WHIM to Bear Broadcasting (owner of then-WERI (AM) on March 8, 1989.
As WWRX (AM), back to WHIM, and to WPMZ
The next callsign change would occur on February 22, 1992, when it changed to WWRX. The format would change to a relay of CNN as "1110 CNN". During this time, current WPRI-TV/WNAC-TV anchor Mike Montecalvo would be an anchor on the station. The WHIM callsign would return on June 1, 1993, until changing to WPMZ on November 1, 1995. On the same date, the intellectual property of WHIM would switch to the former WKRI. Bear Broadcasting sold WPMZ to current owner Video Mundo Broadcasting in 1998.
Former personalities
* Jefferson Kaye (as Jeff Krimm)
* Mike Montecalvo (1992, during the "1110 CNN" era) | WIKI |
Lévensa
The Lévensa is a mountain river that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France. It is 12.0 km long. It is a left tributary of the Roya, which it joins near Tende. | WIKI |
General Mills quarterly sales miss estimates as margins drop
Cheerios cereal maker General Mills missed analysts' estimates for quarterly sales on Tuesday, hit by lower demand for its snacks and yogurts in the United States. Shares of the Minneapolis-based company dropped more than 7 percent for their worst performance since March 2018. General Mills, like its rivals, is battling rising freight costs as railroads and truck fleets hike rates, as well as higher input costs. This hurt the company's adjusted gross margins, which fell 160 basis points to 33.6 percent in the reported quarter. The company, which also owns Haagen-Dazs and Betty Crocker brands, said sales in its U.S snacks unit fell 4 percent, while yogurt sales declined 2 percent. The company's net sales rose nearly 9 percent to $4.09 billion, boosted by its acquisition of pet food company Blue Buffalo, but missed analysts' estimates of $4.12 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Net income attributable to the company fell to $392.3 million, or 65 cents per share, in the first-quarter ended Aug. 26, from $404.7 million, or 69 cents, a year earlier. Excluding items, the company earned 71 cents per share. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:BBC Radio Devon
Could you please put the history of the jingle imaging; the frequency of the news; and the frequency of the traffic and travel bulletins? --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:03, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
Goodbye message from 1458 kHz frequency
Here is what the station said on 1458 kHz in mid January 2018. Not many people seem to have noticed that the 1458 kHz frequency no longer exists. At the time of writing, nothing is being broadcast.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦ (talk to me) 13:03, 10 February 2018 (UTC) | WIKI |
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How to Bench More Weight
Three Parts:Using Proper Technique to Bench MoreLeveraging Other Strategies to Bench MoreMastering Diet and Lifestyle ConsiderationsCommunity Q&A
So, your bench is lower then a basement. Or perhaps, your bench is decent but you want to be with the big boys... Well then, good news. Read below to find out how to raise your bench!
Part 1
Using Proper Technique to Bench More
1. 1
Start off with your feet on the bench, your pelvis high, and your shoulders sinking down into the bench. You want your shoulders to start off bearing most of the weight to ensure good technique. This will help promote better posture when you finally lift.
2. 2
Lower your feet to the ground, your butt to the bench, all while maintaining the shoulder contact with the bench. This should produce an arch in your back, meaning more torque that you can bring to the exercise.[1] Keep your neck resting comfortably on the bench at all times.
3. 3
Lock the bar with a closed grip, making sure to use your thumb. Lock your thumb under the bar. A good rule of thumb (get it?) is to have it resting on top of your index finger.
4. 4
Learn where to position your hands for maximum load-bearing capacity. Depending on your height and the length of your arms, position your hands on the bar so that your forearms are perfectly vertical when the bar is brought down to the chest. Many people achieve this by gripping the bar a little wider than shoulder-length apart.
• The wider the grip, the more you tend to activate the chest muscles. The tighter your grip, the more you tend to activate your triceps muscles.
• Do what feels comfortable. People with longer arms will probably feel more comfortable gripping the bar farther apart than people with shorter arms.
5. 5
Move your shoulders side to side to maintain maximum contact with the bench. When benching, you push off — at least partly — with your shoulders. If your shoulders are hanging off the side of the bench or aren't centered, you're going to lose that fulcrum and your ability to bench much more weight will go down.
6. 6
Always use a spotter. With a spotter, the fear that you won't be able to max out usually falls away: If you struggle with a heavy weight, your spotter will be there to bail you out. This is an important psychological factor. You should always be pushing yourself above your current plateau in order to bench more weight, and a spotter makes that journey more safe.
7. 7
Practice proper breathing technique. Inhale at the top of your bench. After you've gotten nearly up to the top of your rep, exhale. Inhale again at the top and repeat the technique for maximum power. Remember, proper breathing sends oxygenated blood to your muscles.
Part 2
Leveraging Other Strategies to Bench More
1. 1
For bench press in particular, lower your reps and increase your weight. For heavy power lifts, such as bench press, 5 sets of 5 reps works really well for boosting your ability to lift more. Competitive weight lifters will even do sets of three, two and one reps in order to max out.
2. 2
Do your heavy lifting first, and then finish off with mid-range isolation exercises. Start your routine off with the bench press. Again, low reps and higher weight are best. After you've done the heavy lifting, finish off your chest, tri, and shoulder exercises with lower weights and higher reps: 10-15 reps per set works really nicely.
3. 3
Lower the bar just above the bottom of your chest without letting it hit your chest. Too many people let the bar bounce off their chest. While this usually isn't harmful to your chest, it keeps your triceps from staying activated and working during the whole rep, thereby resulting in less strength.
• Think of it this way. Bouncing the bar off your chest on the downstroke is like putting training wheels on your bike during the most wobbly stretch of the ride. If you're trying to become a faster biker, you'd do better to ditch the training wheels altogether.
4. 4
Practice your pushups and other triceps workouts. Strong triceps are the not-so-secret ingredient to a stronger bench. The pushup is a much more natural movement that gives your shoulder blades a degree of movement not afforded by simple bench press.[2] Pepper your bench press with triceps workouts such as dips, skullcrushers, lying triceps extensions, triceps pushdowns, and a whole host of other exercises.
5. 5
Mind your glutes. With your back arched, your shoulders activated, and your feet firmly planted on the ground, your glute muscles become especially important. Activate them when benching.[3] With a firm, stable bum, your body will be able to reinforce the torque your chest, triceps, and shoulders are pumping into the bar, thereby strengthening your overall benching ability.
• Similarly, keep your glutes on the bench when pressing. Don't lift your butt into the air. This is not only dangerous — it shifts unnecessary strain onto your neck — but also weakens your overall bench.
6. 6
Chill on the cardio. You want your calories for your body to build bigger/stronger muscles and eventually be able to handle your ideal bench weight. If you must do cardio, eat food to replace the calories lost.
Part 3
Mastering Diet and Lifestyle Considerations
1. 1
Diet, diet, diet. Eat 500 calories above your BMR + any extra calories you burn during the day. If you eat too much you'll gain fat as well as muscle. You'll want to look as lean as possible. You'll want to eat 1 gram of protein per lean body mass each day.
• To find out what your body mass is, get a body fat measurement. Let's say your body fat percentage is 10%. That means you have 90% lean body mass. If you weigh 150 lbs that is 150 x .90 = 135 lbs of lean body mass, so you should eat 135 grams of protein every day.
2. 2
Be able to distinguish the good carbs from the bad. Carbohydrates have gotten a bad rap in recent years. Tons of fad diets proclaim their inherent ghoulishness and treat them like the boogeyman. In fact, carbohydrates are the building blocks of fuel for your body, and complex carbohydrates in particular can be good for your body, as they are metabolized a lot less quickly than simple carbohydrates. Stick mostly to healthy carbs, such as legumes, veggies, fruits, and whole grains. Stay away from less healthy carbs, such as processed foods, white breads, sugars, and fried foods.[4]
3. 3
Get good fat into your diet. Like carbs, fats have been excoriated in recent years. The key is understanding what fats to put into your body. Whereas saturated fats — coming from chips and candy bars — and trans fats — coming from frozen or "fast" foods — aren't good for you, unsaturated fats and fatty acids are actually healthy when consumed in moderation.
• Examples of unsaturated fats include: nuts, vegetable oils, olive oil, avocado[5]
• Examples of fatty acids include: soybean oils, fish (mackerel, sardines, salmon, etc.), flaxseed, walnuts
4. 4
Spread out your meals instead of eating one or two times a day. Find out your calorie requirements and estimate how many calories you burn during a day. Then shoot to exceed that calorie threshold in order to build muscle. Instead of eating one or two big meals during the day, try five or six smaller meals which include pre- and post-workout snacks.
5. 5
Sleep. Sleep is not only essential for feeling relaxed and ready to hit the day in the morning — it's also essential for helping your body's muscles grow. Researchers have found that during high-quality REM sleep, the body repairs tissue and circulates human growth hormone, or HGH.[6] So it's very important to carve out 7 to 8 hours of quality sleep for yourself every day in order to let your body rebuild its muscles.
6. 6
Don't overtrain. Probably one of the most important but most overlooked lifestyle factors, overtraining keeps you from cementing the muscle gains that you would have otherwise made. Depending on the intensity of your workout, give your chest and triceps one to two days break in between workouts. During that time, it's important to work out other muscle groups, so make sure you give them the attention they deserve.
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Tips
• Tuna, Greek yogurt, nuts, egg whites, fish, jerky are all high in protein if you need protein sources. Protein supplements are not nearly as good as these sources.
Warnings
• Always observe proper technique when benching.
• Keep a spotter by your side to prevent accidents and/or injury while benching.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Principles of military strategy
The result of the debate was merge and redirect to military strategy. Babajobu 02:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Principles of military strategy
Either this is original research or an instruction manual, though it has a long history. If it is neither, vote KEEP. If it is, what do we do with it?-- Perfecto 00:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. Redirect to The Art of War. Arbustoo 00:49, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Keep. Main article for section of Military strategy. References were poorly formatted. Have reformatted them - adds clarity to sources (notable, historical military documents). —ERcheck @ 00:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect Redirect to Military strategy Avi 01:24, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* It is a "main article" from the Military strategy section. —ERcheck @ 01:26, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Merge back into military strategy; there isn't enought material to justify an article split here. —Kirill Lok s hin 01:50, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Merge back into military strategy per above. Royal Blue 02:15, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete as per nom. Blnguyen 02:37, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
* Merge per Lok. S iva1979 Talk to me 11:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Merge Phr 13:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
* Keep I think there is ample scope to have a separate article devoted to the principles of military strategy. As it stands, this article isn't it, but that is no reason to delete it. Geoff/Gsl 20:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Military strategy. This article is all crap, btw, so I sympathize with the deletionists, but its a possible search term so a redirect is more fitting. savidan(talk) (e@) 18:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
* Keep I think there is ample scope to have a separate article devoted to the principles of military strategy. As it stands, this article isn't it, but that is no reason to delete it. Geoff/Gsl 20:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Military strategy. This article is all crap, btw, so I sympathize with the deletionists, but its a possible search term so a redirect is more fitting. savidan(talk) (e@) 18:59, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
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HMS Tiptoe (P332)
HMS Tiptoe (pennant number P332) was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 25 February 1944. She was one of two submarines named by Winston Churchill, and so far has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Tiptoe. In 1955 she was involved in a collision with a coastal steamer whilst in Tromsø harbour. She was involved in escape trials off Malta in 1962, and the commanding officer was reprimanded in 1964 following an incident in the Firth of Clyde where she was run aground, and again in 1965 when she collided with HMS Yarmouth (F101). Although originally named for the ability to sneak up on someone undetected, she maintained several links with ballet, including the Royal Ballet and ballet dancer Moira Shearer. She was scrapped at Portsmouth in 1975, while her anchor is on display in Blyth, Northumberland.
Design and description
HMS Tiptoe was one of the group three of T-class submarines. She was named by Winston Churchill, with the intention to imply that it could approach the enemy silently as if on tiptoe, although the Royal Navy naming committee was against the name, stating that "it was derogatory to one of His Majesty's ships", but the Prime Minister had his way. The only other Royal Navy vessel to be named by Churchill was HMS Varangian (P61).
She was part of the second batch of the third group to be ordered, in 1941. She was one of a number of boats which had an all-welded hull which increased diving depth to 350 ft, an increase of 50 ft. The torpedo armament was the same as the earlier group two, although by the time group three was coming into service it was realised that external torpedo tubes had major problems and affected the streamlining of the boats; the external tubes were abandoned in the following Amphion-class submarines. Because of expected use in tropical climates, boats of group three were equipped with freon blowers in order to deal with the increased temperatures.
She was built by Vickers Armstrong and was laid down at their shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness on 10 November 1942 whilst still known as P332. Following her launch on 25 February 1944, she departed the builders yard on 10 June 1944, arriving at Holy Loch on the following day, where she was commissioned on 12 June.
Second World War
After completing training on 10 September, she returned to Barrow in order to correct some defects. Between 5 October and 12 January 1944, she was equipped with new radar equipment and other equipment to prepare her for deployment in the Far East. She arrived in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka on 1 March 1945 prior to her first war patrol. En route from Britain, she had stopped at Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said and Ismailia in Egypt and Aden, Yemen.
Her first patrol centred around the west coast of Burma and the Andaman Islands before heading onto Fremantle, Australia, and was uneventful. She departed Australia for her second patrol on 6 May with orders to patrol the Flores Sea. On 15 May, she sank a Japanese coaster of around 100 tons with gunfire near Dompo Bay, Sumbawa. The following day she sank another Japanese coaster with gunfire, this time around 200 tons, in Sepeh harbour. On 1 June, she approached and sank the Japanese merchant cargo ship Tobi Maru near Matasiri, one of the Laut Kecil Islands. Tiptoe was damaged during the attack as the cargo ship was about to rendezvous with an escort. The escort launched thirteen depth charges, putting all of Tiptoe's torpedo tubes out of action and flooded her sonar equipment. She returned to Fremantle on 17 June, and remained there undergoing repairs until 16 July when she left on her third patrol in the Sunda Strait along with her sister HMS Trump (P333).
On 31 July she attacked two small Japanese vessels, but broke off the attack when an aircraft was sighted. On 2 August, Tiptoe and Trump together destroyed two small vessels totalling 600 tons with gunfire. On 3 August, she carried out a torpedo attack against the Japanese army cargo vessel Tencho Maru whilst it was in a convoy defended by a patrol boat. The final action of Tiptoe's last war patrol was on 9 August, when together with Trump, they destroyed an 800-ton coastal tanker in the northern part of the Sunda Strait. She returned to Fremantle on 21 August 1945.
Post war
During the royal inspection of the Home Fleet in 1947 by George VI, Tiptoe demonstrated diving and surfacing, along with the firing of her deck gun. In November of the same year, she was part of a group of seven submarines with destroyer HMS Opportune (G80) to take part in anti–submarine training over the course of two weeks.
Tiptoe was one of several all-welded T-class submarines rebuilt for greater underwater performance. Extra batteries were installed below the control room and additional electric motors were accommodated by cutting through the pressure hull and adding in a new 20 ft hull section inserted aft of the control room. The diesel engines were modified and supercharged with output increased by 300 bhp. The gun armaments and external torpedo tubes were removed, and the bow reshaped.
The submarine was used in filming the 1950 film, Morning Departure, a naval film directed by Roy Ward Baker. During the course of filming, the submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone (1937) was used as a mother ship for Tiptoe. In 1952 a further cinematic link was made when ballet dancer Moira Shearer presented a pair of size 3.5 satin ballet shoes to Tiptoe that she had worn in the 1948 film The Red Shoes. These are now at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Whilst in Tromsø harbour on 18 July 1955 Tiptoe was damaged when a coastal steamer collided with her. The steamer, a vessel called Nordlys, was entering the harbour when she collided with the British destroyer HMS Chevron (R51). The steamer bounced off the destroyer and collided with Tiptoe, snapping her moorings as she was pushed halfway under a wooden quay.
She took part in escape trials in 1962, which were a series of trials conducted off Malta into escape from a submarine at extreme depths. Tests were conducted with men escaping from Tiptoe at depth of up to 71 m with ascent rates of up to 2 m/s. The trials included the use of buoyant ascent suits which involved a suit pulled over the sailor's head which fed them air as they ascended to the surface. For their work in the escape trials, Chief Petty Officer Christopher Crossman was awarded a commendation, and Lieutenant-Commander L. Hamlyn was awarded an OBE.
Following a refit in Portsmouth, Tiptoe went to the Firth of Clyde for working up, arriving on 10 January 1964, when she was ordered not to enter Gareloch due to dense fog. The boat was duly turned around and ran aground on a muddy bank. As the fog cleared it was realised the boat had run aground only 40 yd opposite that of the house of the Royal Navy's Captain in Charge for the Clyde area, Captain G. D. Pound. Divers were sent out to assess damage, and after finding none, Tiptoe was refloated on the evening tide and pulled off the shore by two tugboats. The commanding officer at the time was Lieutenant-Commander David Brazier, who was in his first command. He was later ordered to be severely reprimanded for negligence at a court-martial where he pleaded guilty to the charge. His defence statement read, "The ship was not worked up and it was a very green company. Unfortunately he ran into fog. He took all the precautions he considered necessary. Although he had all the theoretical knowledge, he was short of that tangible instinct of which we are all aware."
Tiptoe was also damaged in a collision with HMS Yarmouth (F101) on 13 July 1965. Tiptoe was at periscope depth 10 mi southeast of Portland Bill. Following the collision, the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Pope was ordered to be severely reprimanded after being found guilty of four out of five counts of negligence.
When she left for her final commission on 24 February 1967, six ballet dancers from the Royal Ballet attended the departure ceremony. At the time she was the oldest submarine in service with the Royal Navy. She attended Portsmouth Navy Days later in 1967.
By the time she was decommissioned in 1969, Tiptoe was the last active T-class submarine in the Royal Navy. As she arrived at Spithead for decommissioning on 29 August 1969, a 13-year-old ballet dancer named Judy Wright danced on her upper deck. She was sold in 1971 and scrapped at Portsmouth in 1975. Her anchor was saved, and was mounted on stone in 1979 in Blyth, Northumberland. The town was used as a training base for submarines during both World Wars. Her oak nameplate, used in port and on ceremonial occasions, was recovered by John Storm (who served as her Leading Telegraphist 1944–45) and is now in the possession of his eldest daughter.
A lifebuoy from Tiptoe was found washed up on Newtown beach, Isle of Wight, in the early 1950s. It was donated to the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in 2019. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 10
= May 10 =
Router for PS3
What kind of router works best with Play Station 3? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:13, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Does it even make a difference? I am not sure if it does at all as long as you get one that is compatible with PS3 (such as 802.11 b/g wireless router). Cisco's Linksys Linksys WRT54G series is a good place to start looking. Thanks to Google for the search: Kushal (talk) 07:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* The wheel ... invented. Kushal (talk) 07:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I'd look at something that is capable of running DD-WRT or Tomato Firmware <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
A question about Windows Paint...
I liked Windows Paint. I liked to draw on there and make pictures with that program. Another thing I liked to do with Windows Paint is that I can open pictures I saved in my Pictures folder and I can color them, change them to other colors, and other ways to manipulate the pictures. Now, here's the situation: I wanted to trace a picture with lines with Windows Paint, and then change the picture to blank, but also keeping the picture trace on the white background. Is it possible to do that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sirdrink13309622 (talk • contribs) 03:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* What you really need is a program with layers (such as GIMP). But, you can do what you want. It is just rather difficult (and I'm going from memory since I haven't used Windows since Windows 95 was introduced). The eraser has two functions. Left-button-dragging causes it to replace everything with the background color. Right-button-dragging replaces the foreground color only with the background color. So, you can use that to erase the colors you don't want. Still, it would be a hell of a lot easier to use layers. Just add a transparent layer. Trace the picture on it. Remove the picture's layer leaving the trace. -- k a i n a w ™ 04:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Or use Inkscape and Bézier curves to trace, you get way better results that you can scale to whatever resolution you want. --antilivedT 04:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
How to find IE Proxy Settings on a restricted computer
How can I find out what proxy settings Internet Explorer is using when I'm restricted from opening "Internet Options"? Many sofware have a "Use IE proxy settings" option which work well but it doesn't show the settings just uses them. I want to configure Firefox to use the proxy settings but I need to know them first and the owner of the computer would never tell me. I know they are in IE options but I'm blocked from looking in that. Please helps. Mr Beans Backside (talk) 09:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Install Firefox, let it import IE's settings, then look in Firefox's options to see what it got <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:46, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
* We are not here to help you gain access to areas of a computer that you shouldn't. If you really want it so badly, why not talk to the administrator? As for the FireFox thing, if he is restricted then that likely will not work. It all depends on what sort of restrictions are applied. a s e nine say what? 07:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Nvidia chip again
I posted a question asking if my laptop was any good for gaming as it claimed to have 'Nvidia graphics'. Someone told me to run dxdiag and after doing so I found out details of my computer and nvidia chip.
Model: Compaq Presario v3700 notebook
OS: Vista Home basic (6.0, Build 6000)
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 Dual-core 2.0 GHz
RAM : 1982 MB
DirectX version : DirectX 10
Display device : NVIDIA MCP67M
Chip type: GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Approx Total Memory: 796 MB
So is my laptop any good for playing newer FPS games and other strategy games? Nvidiauser (talk) 10:32, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* The generic answer that your support personnel would give is "It depends on which games you want to play." Kushal (talk) 14:15, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Unfortunately, no. The GeForce 7150M is an integrated graphics card, and therefore it is very weak.
* The specification "Nvidia graphics" should be taken as mere trivia, for it is meaningless as far as performance is concerned. A high-end GeForce 9800GX2 is roughly 20 times as powerful as a low-end GeForce 8400GS, both by Nvidia. And even the 8400GS is probably several times stronger than what you have. You can find some reviews of the card via A google search. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 17:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Forget newer FPS games unless you turn the resolution down and turn off most of the eye candy, as the specs of your notebook will make up for the lack of graphics power. As for strategy games - turn-based yes, others - it depends. Unfortunately if you want to play new FPS games as they were intended to be experienced, you would need a proper gaming machine. This would mean dual core cpu, ddr2 ram, 8800 or 9600+ nvidia card and a decent motherboard chipset. Lower these specs and you have to lower the resolution in games. 7000 series nvidia cards can play most FPS's just fine with lower settings. Sandman30s (talk) 23:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I had a mobile Geforce 7400Go. It was roughly equivalent to an ATI Radeon 9700 (faster than a 9600, slower than a 9800 Pro). Meaning, Half-Life 2 would play on high without AA. C&C3 would play on low acceptably, though with many units or action onscreen the framerate would drop (maybe mid 20s, still acceptable but getting choppy). That was all at the LCD's native resolution of 1200x800; newer FPS and RTS games would be harder or impossible to run at that resolution, and even hard at lower resolutions. Now, the 7150M is even worse, so that gives you an idea. Older games might be okay, but it'll be rough on anything remotely recent. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:44, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Something
Has anyone noticed that when using Google's Translate feature to translate from Japanese to English, it used to show unrecognisable words in small letters in brackets, but now it shows such words in all caps? Is there any way I can change it back to the old one? I do not like the new one because it makes me want to copy those all-caps words and add a swear word before them and a whole bunch of exclo-marks after them! Interactive Fiction Expert/Talk to me 13:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Why don't these yahoo answers links work?
Why don't these yahoo answers links work? Is it because I'm Canidain? Mr Beans Backside (talk) 14:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* If it is because you are a Canadian (and I seriously doubt it), you need to sue Yahoo! Inc. for discrimination. It might be because you happen to be in Canada (and their service is down in Canada). However, I don't think Yahoo! would ever do such a thing as to discriminate based on nationality. --Kushal (talk) 14:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Are you joking? Lots of very reputable web sites offer differing levels of service based on the nationality of the user. (For example, The BBC) There are a number of practical and legal reasons for this. You might also be shocked to learn that many movies only come out in certain parts of the world, and will not even work on DVD players from other parts of the world. APL (talk) 02:04, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
* As far as I know, BBC is targeting content based on region and not on nationality. If a Nepalese national was in Manchester, I am sure he would get the same content as a British citizen. I can almost vouch that BBC would never discriminate based on nationality as far as serving content was concerned. Kushal (talk) 23:47, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
* They don't work for me either and I'm from the US. And, since it's Canadian Yahoo, I'd expect it to work for Canadians in any case (why is there a seperate Canadian Yahoo answers anyway, do they substitute "oot" for "out" in all of their responses ?). I suspect the real issue is one of the 3 they list on the error page, probably the last one. StuRat (talk) 14:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Yahoo is down in Canada? But people are still asking questions, I just can't access any of them. This happens ever day when I use this google search to find Avril related news from the past 24 hours Mr Beans Backside (talk) 14:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Specifically, I'd guess they archive their answers like we do here, with the consequence that the original links (which Google finds) no longer work after the archival. This seems to be a general Internet problem (links that "expire") which needs a general software solution. A partial solution would be for each site to provide redirects at the old location pointing to the new location when they do an archival. Of course, since this relies on each site to do something, it will never be 100% effective.
* Another approach, which I'd like to see here, is for each site to put each question (or maybe each day's questions) on one permanent page to begin with, then provide temporary "transclusions" on the current questions view page. That means those questions and answers would appear on the current page, but would really already be on the permanent archive page. Picking on the links at the top of the current view page or "edit" in each section should then take you to the permanent page, where you would get the permanent link to that Q&A.
* A comprehensive solution would be for Google to not only provide a link to each page, but to copy the contents of the page as well. This is currently prohibitively expensive due to the cost of storing that much data and may stay that way as the amount of data on the Internet (current and former pages) may grow faster than the cost of storage goes down. Also, there might be copyright concerns with such a system. I believe that Google does cache some popular pages currently, but certainly not all of them. StuRat (talk) 14:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I see. So they die after a certain amount of time? Thats a real bummer because there isn't a google cache link to view. Mr Beans Backside (talk) 14:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Slow computerr
Why is my computer being so slow? and it does not have a virus, for example, when i close a window, it takes a long time for that window to close down. how can i fix this? Mr Beans Backside (talk) 14:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* (See my response below, to your follow-on question. StuRat (talk) 14:57, 10 May 2008 (UTC))
* Well, the most likely diagnosis for a slow computer is not viruses or malware, but instead exactly that - a slow computer. Have you considered upgrading? a s e nine say what? 07:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
* If your hard drive is almost full you amy be experiencing a slowed rate. Try a disk cleanup. Also, you may have cache problems. There are ways to fix this, but for me, when my computer is running slowly, I think the most effective fix is to do a system restore. This will set your system back to how it was when you bought it. Just be sure to save any important files first, as everything gets deleted, but this will definetly speed things up.
* I took the liberty of editing what was written above (in italics), so that the browser would not go on for a great width. I'm using Firefox, note you. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:33, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Strange application
There is a strange application running on my computer when I look under task manager called "Deepfreeze". It is a virus? How can I get rid of it I did not install it and it won't go with end task? Mr Beans Backside (talk) 14:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* This sounds like it might be related to the above "Why is my computer so slow" question. It does sound like a virus to me. First off, do you know that using the Task Manager (at Control-Alt-Delete) a second time to try to close an application will force it to close ? Try that. Unfortunately, many viruses will then just restart a new process. If you have an anti-virus program, try running that. Also remove any registry entries that sound related to "Deep Freeze" and do a "find files" on files that contain that phrase to see if you can track them down and delete them (save a backup copy somewhere in case those files did something important before the virus got to them). If you've done a system save recently (but before this virus appeared), you also may want to do a full system wipe and restore. StuRat (talk) 14:55, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Perhaps this: http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp. --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 15:00, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I should probably say that it is not "my" computer. This relates to my earlier question "How to find IE Proxy Settings on a restricted computer". Mr Beans Backside (talk) 15:02, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I thought DeepFreeze was a data backup program. Useight (talk) 15:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Why, it certainly freezes . Scaller (talk) 17:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
new ram not working
a freind recently brought some new ram and i installed it in his pc, the thing is windows pro sp2 wont recongise that it has the extra ram, i know windows 32 bit is limited to 4 gig, which is the total now in there but its only showing 490 mb, even when i remove the new ram, which should leave 2 gig, though my friend seemed to think its always been round there. I've updated the bios and the bios recongises that there are 4*1 gig ram, even beeps at me when i dont pair them correctly. I used memtest and that showed no errors. windows wont boot when i haaave only the new stuff in but does boot when it only has the old stuff or the old and new ram. i think the motherboard my be. the ram is PC3200 and its a D865GLC intel board. i'm thinking the boards broke, though it still works fine any ideas?--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Maybe it's your motherboard. Motherboards can only support a certian amount of RAM. It sounds like an old computer. Try to find its max RAM capacity or get a new motherboard. --Randoman412 (talk) 20:25, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* intels website says it can handle 4 gig ram, guess its a new motherboard--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:04, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
I also think it is probably a problem with the motherboard. It may also be the RAM. While most RAM is tested before shipping, defects still can make it through the system. I would also check that before buying a new motherboard. However, if you do get the ram to work, and Windows only displays 2.5 GB, that is an issue with Windows XP Pro. Windows Media Center Edition will display it correctly, but XP Pro will not. Leeboyge (talk) 03:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Joyfully interesting graphical glitch
There seems to be something wrong with my old computer (running Win XP SP2). What programs and not have been installed (so as to give a clue for cause, eg through malware), I can't quite tell you. What I do know is that when I open the Control Panel task for installing/uninstalling software, the list of installed programs goes on perfectly as normal... until near the end. What takes shape is an enormous (likely 650x14,000 pixels, by eye measure and memory) rectangle. It is like a pyramid, if you'd like: First layer is black, then comes white, then comes black, then perhaps grey, then black and then white again. It is quite the interesting sight, and has not been seen in any other list on the computer (I searched rather exhaustively). It can be scrolled through just fine, but not selected. After it comes a few more listings of software. I am planning to reformat said computer, but would like you lot to have a go at this first. I would be able to produce a screenshot, had I not been impaired in access to the computer. So there'll likely be a chance at solving the mystery again, in summer, if anyone needed a screenshot for their diagnose. Scaller (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* If you could get your hand on a video camera, you could upload the entire episode to the Internet. Kushal (talk) 22:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* re kushal - Or FRAPS for that matter. a s e nine say what? 07:04, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
3D modeling software
Hi all, I know there isn't a definitive answer but I've tried some relevant forums and I seem to be getting biased replies so I hope you can point me in the right direction...
I'm a freelance graphic designer and most of my work is for print/web. Occasionally I have to do basic 3d work (eg. boxes, cylinders) to show how the finished products will look. I've been mainly using Bryce_%28software%29 and a couple of free programs but over time I'm being asked for increasingly complex 3D work which I have to outsource as Bryce isn't really created for this type of work.
After trawling google, forums and looking through the 3D_computer_graphics_software I'm just confused so can anyone suggest a solid, easy-to-learn package please? I don't need anything ultra-powerful like film/games studios use. I'm not creating 'organic' scenes, most of my modeling would be based on combining primitives or 'lathing' (I forget the correct term), but if I could model things like this and this that would be great! And I do like the 4-window interface (X/Y/Z/perspective) that the likes of Anim8or use.
Oh, and I'd prefer to stick with something at £800 tops! PC or Mac! If there any designers out there who have made the move from Adobe-type products to 3D I'd particularly appreciate any comments you have!
Thanks in advance, Mike --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:01, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Yeah thats the thing with 3D graphics programs - there can be a bit of a steep learning curve initially. Blender is powerful and free, albeit can be difficult as the rest - but theres a lot of documentation and wikis on it - and if you're gonna be using it a bit in the future, may as well dive in? Boomshanka (talk) 22:08, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Three cheers for Blender ! Hip hip hurray! Kushal (talk) 22:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Thanks for quick replies! I know there's going to be a learning curve, I spent weeks playing with 3DS at college (this was about 10 years ago) and managed to create a box with a spotlight lol, I just want something fairly basic and easy to learn. Do either of you have any samples of your own work in Blender? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Forgot to sign the previous comment, i was me! Mike <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Forgive me if this sounds obvious, but have you thought about just working through one of the many Blender tutorials on the web? (I don't use it but I worked through part of one years ago.) I've found that's often the best way to dive into something relatively unknown and with its own particular interface paradigm and etc. Just going through the motions can give you a lot of insight, more than tinkering with something pre-made. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Art of Illusion. I have Bryce too and use Art of Illusion to make more complicated models. It has a lathe function and is very easy to use. AND ITS FREE!!!!! :-) Ilikefood (talk) 00:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Version Control System
Now that there are 4 coders and 2 designers in my company we have started thinking how we need some kind of version control system (yeah, I know, we should've thought of that before). Nobody has any experience with any VCS, so we are free to choose the best tool for the job. But, the big question is should we use SVN or get some kind of distributed system? Also, does anybody have some suggestion where we can learn this, and some best practices? Especially problematic is the fact that all of us use Dreamweaver, and while coders could switch to Eclipse or some other tool that has good integration with version control systems, designers certainly cant. And besides the split Design/Code view is damn useful. So, any tips regarding VCS and web development? If we go SVN how would we accommodate the existence of devel and live servers? — Shinhan <  talk  > 19:41, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Until someone comes here to actually answer the question, please feel free to browse List of revision control software. Thanks. Kushal (talk) 22:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* I think for the size of organisation you are talking about there is not much advantage to a distributed system. A good place to look for best practice documents are the Perforce White Papers, start with the High Level Best Practices guide. These are generally applicable, not just to perforce - though they are more applicable to a branch based system (like SVN or Perforce) more than a label based system (like MS VSS). When our organisation looked at revision control, systems we came down to two SVN with the tortoise-svn client or perforce. We ended up going with the commercial perforce because it had a slightly better merge facility and our ITT manager is "nervous" about software that does not come with support - I.E. he likes to pay for things!
* We decided to use the separate interface rather than eclipse integration, as with trials with the eclipse plugins we found that some users found it harder to control check in-outs and to ensure that only "working" builds were checked in to the mainline. We have about 20 programmers, ranging from mediocre to excellent, and if all your programmers are high-end this may not be an issue. -- Q Chris (talk) 07:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
* My experience of version control systems is not broad - I used CVS in the past and now use CMVC for my day job and SVN on a side project. So while I can't advise on GIT, Bazaar, and so on, I can say that you won't go too far wrong with SVN. Sometimes there are benefits to following the herd :-) . I've found the Eclipse plugin for SVN to be adequate but not stunning, so don't worry too much that you won't all be able to use it. TortoiseSVN seems to be the standard standalone app for Windows, but (the herd thing again) I'm sure there are numerous alternatives.
* With regard to your processes (the live/devel question) that's something can't really be answered without a lot more information about how you currently work and what you want to do (feel free to provide that information; I'd certainly be interested). As well as not knowing your approach, I've also never done any serious Web development, so please don't take the following suggestion as authoritative. That said, perhaps you could arrange for the current latest code to be extracted from SVN onto your devel server - either upon each commit or, if that integration is a little too continuous for you :-), each night. SVN provides "hooks", places where you can script what you want to happen, and extracting the code in order to build it, test it, run metrics on it etc is perfectly normal. Then you have a second, manually-triggered script that extracts the code (in exactly the same way, otherwise the configuration is untested) onto the live server when you want to do an upgrade. You might also want to tag the tree as part of that script - that way you can roll back to that version if a subsequent one turns out to be bad. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Processor Compare
Is there any website where you can compre computer prossesors such as Intel to AMD or ATI to Nvidia? I mean this in terms of specs, power and price etc. --Randoman412 (talk) 20:23, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Try Tom's Hardware, Anandtech and CPU benchmark
* Mike <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:30, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Sisoft SANDRA can do this in real time (your processor vs. other processors), if that's what you want. a s e nine say what? 07:03, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
How can I make my computer run faster?
When I play a game its really slow. It can be fast actually at around 70 frames per second, but while I'm playing sometimes my computer just starts suddenly making more noise and i have like 30 fps. Theres probably something running in the background thats making it slow. How can I fix this? I'm playing and then randomly it slows down and once in a while it pauses for half a second or so. I want to know if theres anything I can do to make it clean and fresh again without completely reinstalling everything on my computer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
* Try a clean boot or the program CCleaner. I can attest to both of those, and perform them whenever needed. Good Luck! Hpfreak26 (talk) 01:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
* With CCleaner, go to Tools > Startup and remove anything you don't need. This can dramatically increase the speed of your computer, but be careful when removing entries when you don't know what they do. Usually if you search for the name on Google you can find out what a startup process does. a s e nine say what? 07:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Writing a Mathematical Expression Evaluator in Java
Introduction
Before understanding the mathematical expression evaluator first let’s understand what Mathematical Expression is.
Mathematical Expressions use arithmetic operators such as +, -, /, *, and %. The % operator is the remainder of the modulo operator. mathematical expressions are used to assign arithmetic values to variables. An expression is a combination of literals, operators, variables, and parentheses used to calculate a value.
The following code describes the use of different mathematical expressions.
int x, y, z; // Three integer variables declared at the same time.
x = 10;
y = 12;
z = y / x; // z is assigned the value of y divided by x.
// Here z will have value 1.
z = x + y; // z is assigned the value of x+y // Here z will have value 22.
z = y % x // z is assigned the value of remainder when y
Writing an expression evaluator, as simple as it may be, has always been a long standing challenge , mostly because it seems to be so simple, but gets tricky very fast.
Writing a code with some operators and operands having the same precedence is easy but when there are various operators and they all have different precedence it is quite tough to solve this type of mathematical expression.
Writing Mathematical Expressions:
Generally , Mathematic Expressions can be written in one of three forms:
Infix Notation: Operators are written between the operands they operate on, e.g.è a + b.
Prefix Notation: Operators are written before the operands, e.g ->+ a b
Postfix Notation: Operators are written after operands,e.g-> a b +
Infix Expressions are harder for Compilers to solve because of the additional work needed to decide precedence. Infix notation can easily be written and recognized by humans and, generally, input to programs. Given that they are harder to evaluate, they are generally converted to one of the two remaining forms. A very well known algorithm for converting an infix notation to a postfix notation is Shunting Yard Algorithm by Edgar Dijkstra. This algorithm takes as input an Infix Expression and produces a queue that has this expression converted to postfix notation.that is easy for compiler to solve the mathematical expression.
The first thing we need to define when writing something like this, is a language that translates well into code, that allows us to think about the problem at a higher level of abstraction.
We will say that an expression is composed of tokens:
Java Program for evaluating mathematical expression as String:
import java.util.Stack;
public class Main
{
public static int evaluate(String expression)
{
char[] tokens = expression.toCharArray();
// Stack for numbers: 'values'
Stack<Integer> values = new Stack<Integer>();
// Stack for Operators: 'ops'
Stack<Character> ops = new Stack<Character>();
for (int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++)
{
// Current token is a
// whitespace, skip it
if (tokens[i] == ' ')
continue;
// Current token is a number,
// push it to stack for numbers
if (tokens[i] >= '0' && tokens[i] <= '9')
{
StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer();
// There may be more than one
// digits in number
while (i < tokens.length && tokens[i] >= '0' && tokens[i] <= '9'){
sbuf.append(tokens[i++]);
}
values.push(Integer.parseInt(sbuf.toString()));
// right now the i points to
// the character next to the digit,
// since the for loop also increases
// the i, we would skip one
// token position; we need to
// decrease the value of i by 1 to
// correct the offset.
i--;
}
// Current token is an opening brace,
// push it to 'ops'
else if (tokens[i] == '(')
ops.push(tokens[i]);
// Closing brace encountered,
// solve entire brace
else if (tokens[i] == ')')
{
while (ops.peek() != '('){
values.push(applyOp(ops.pop(), values.pop(), values.pop()));
}
ops.pop();
}
// Current token is an operator.
else if (tokens[i] == '+' ||
tokens[i] == '-' ||
tokens[i] == '*' ||
tokens[i] == '/')
{
// While top of 'ops' has same
// or greater precedence to current
// token, which is an operator.
// Apply operator on top of 'ops'
// to top two elements in values stack
while (!ops.empty() && hasPrecedence(tokens[i],ops.peek())){
values.push(applyOp(ops.pop(), values.pop(), values.pop()));
}
// Push current token to 'ops'.
ops.push(tokens[i]);
}
}
// Entire expression has been
// parsed at this point, apply remaining
// ops to remaining values
while (!ops.empty()){
values.push(applyOp(ops.pop(), values.pop(), values.pop()));
}
// Top of 'values' contains
// result, return it
return values.pop();
}
// Returns true if 'op2' has higher
// or same precedence as 'op1',
// otherwise returns false.
public static boolean hasPrecedence(char op1, char op2)
{
if (op2 == '(' || op2 == ')')
return false;
if ((op1 == '*' || op1 == '/') && (op2 == '+' || op2 == '-'))
return false;
else
return true;
}
// A utility method to apply an
// operator 'op' on operands 'a'
// and 'b'. Return the result.
public static int applyOp(char op, int b, int a)
{
switch (op)
{
case '+': return a + b;
case '-': return a - b;
case '*': return a * b;
case '/': if (b == 0) throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot divide by zero");
return a / b;
}
return 0;
}
// Driver method to test above methods
public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(evaluate("10 + 2 * 6"));
System.out.println(evaluate("100 * 2 + 12"));
System.out.println(evaluate("100 * ( 2 + 12 )"));
System.out.println(evaluate("100 * ( 2 + 12 ) / 14"));
}
}
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Output:
22
212
1400
100
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You can run this program on Interviewbit java compiler.
Time Complexity: O(n)
Space Complexity: O(n)
Different Evaluator In Java:
1:Jep Java- Jep Java parses and evaluates mathematical expressions with only a few lines of code. This package allows your users to enter a formula as a string, and instantly evaluate it. Jep supports user defined variables, constants, and functions. A number of common mathematical functions and constants are included.
Jep Extensions- Add symbolic operations, a type system and structured programming support to core Jep.
Component of Jep-
Field type system- It allows users new types, like unlimited precision integers, and rational numbers, decimal values to be used with Jep.
Vectors and Matrices- Calculations with vectors, matrices, and standard matrix functions.
Fast evaluation- Allows very fast evaluation for double precision expressions and matrices with double value entries, typically 3 times faster than other evaluators.
Symbolic operations- Simplification, expansion, symbolic comparison and conversion to polynomials.checks the correct symbols.
Symbolic differentiation- Allows the derivatives of expressions to be calculated
Structured programming- It allows a block style programming, such as loops like for and while, and if - else statements.
Lambda expressions- Syntactical support for lambda function and higher order functions. Means correct meaning of the expression.
Mathml- Conversion to/from presentation MathML
Statistical Functions- A range of statistical aggregate functions and distributions
2: EvalEx: Java Expression Evaluation is a handy expression evaluator for Java, that allows you to evaluate simple mathematical and Boolean expressions.
Key Features:
1.Uses BigDecimal for calculation and result
2.Single class implementation, very compact
3.No dependencies to external libraries
4.Precision and rounding mode can be set
5.Supports variables
6.Standard boolean and mathematical operators
7.Standard basic mathematical and boolean functions
8.Custom functions and operators can be added at runtime
There is also some special properties that EvalEx evaluator support:
Default Settings- The default settings for an expression can be set on creation through an ExpressionSettings object. It can be created using a builder pattern.
supported Operators- it also supports various types of operators like mathematical operation and boolean operation.
Example- +,-,/,* %,^ etc. Boolean operators as =,==,&&,||,<=,>=,<,> etc.
Boolean operators always result in a BigDecimal value of 1 or 0 (zero). Any non-zero value is treated as a true value.
Supported Functions- it supports various mathematical functions like: SIN(expression),COS(expression),TAN(expression)etc.
Precision- The default precision is set to 7 digits (MathContext.DECIMAL32). Depending on your use-case you can set a different precision to get accurate results.
3: exp4j- There's also exp4j, an expression evaluator based on Dijkstra's Shunting Yard. It's freely available and redistributable under the Apache License 2.0, only about 25KB in size, and quite easy to use. If you want to add a feature where the user can provide in a formula,
for example: sin (x + pi)/2 + 1
Introduction
• Version 0.4.0 API Changes
• Version 0.3.11
• Examples
• Apache Maven
Usage
• Evaluating an expression
• Evaluating an expression asynchronously
• Variable declaration
• Implicit multiplication
• Numerical constants
• Scientific notation
• Custom functions
• Custom operators
• Precedence of unary minus and power operators
• Division by zero in operations and functions
• Built-in functions
• Validation of expression
• Error handling
Evaluating Simple Expressions
We can evaluate a simple math expression provided in String format:
We first created an instance of ExpressionBuilder. Then we assign it to an Expression reference, which we use to evaluate our expression.
1. First create an instance of expressionBuilder and apply the .build() method.
2. Declare a variable named as result and use the .evaluate() method to evaluate the value of the expression that is assigned to the result variable.
Evaluating Expressions Containing Math Functions- Let's now see a short example of how we can evaluate some standard math functions:
Calculating the result of 3*((sin(pi)-2)/e)can be done in the following way:
• Assign a variable that take reference of an object that has parameter as expression
• Now use.variables("pi", "e")method for passing the parameter for constant values like pi and e.
• Use (.build() method .
• Use(.setVariable("pi", Math.PI))method and pass the values as pi and for the value of the pi use math.pi .
• Use (.setVariable("e", Math.PI))method and pass the values as pi and for the value of the e use math.E .
• Declare a variable result and assign the method .evaluate() to calculate the result of the expression.
• We can also solve the above expressions containing math functions using the Javaluator library.
Conclusion:
Expression evaluation in Java is used to determine the order of the operators to calculate the accurate output. Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, and Conditional are expression evaluations in Java. As I recommended for understanding mathematical expression evaluator the 2nd edition of the book "Engineering a Compiler”.this article will surely help you to understand mathematical expression evaluator in a very simple and easy manner.
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NMDA Receptor Opening and Closing-Transitions of a Molecular Machine Revealed by Molecular Dynamics
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CERNY J. BOZIKOVA P. BALIK A. MARQUES Sérgio Manuel VYKLICKY L.
Rok publikování 2019
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Biomolecules
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU
Přírodovědecká fakulta
Citace
www https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/9/10/546
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom9100546
Klíčová slova glutamate receptor gating; molecular modeling; molecular dynamics simulations; NMDA receptor transition; open and closed state
Popis We report the first complete description of the molecular mechanisms behind the transition of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor from the state where the transmembrane domain (TMD) and the ion channel are in the open configuration to the relaxed unliganded state where the channel is closed. Using an aggregate of nearly 1 mu s of unbiased all-atom implicit membrane and solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations we identified distinct structural states of the NMDA receptor and revealed functionally important residues (GluN1/Glu522, GluN1/Arg695, and GluN2B/Asp786). The role of the "clamshell" motion of the ligand binding domain (LBD) lobes in the structural transition is supplemented by the observed structural similarity at the level of protein domains during the structural transition, combined with the overall large rearrangement necessary for the opening and closing of the receptor. The activated and open states of the receptor are structurally similar to the liganded crystal structure, while in the unliganded receptor the extracellular domains perform rearrangements leading to a clockwise rotation of up to 45 degrees around the longitudinal axis of the receptor, which closes the ion channel. The ligand-induced rotation of extracellular domains transferred by LBD-TMD linkers to the membrane-anchored ion channel is responsible for the opening and closing of the transmembrane ion channel, revealing the properties of NMDA receptor as a finely tuned molecular machine.
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Platform-Dependent Resources
Is there a way to define a resource so it is included only on certain platforms in Package.swift?
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You can use #if os(...) in Package.swift but IIRC this will break cross compilation. I don’t think there’s an officially supported way yet. SwiftNIO transport services (an Apple platform only package) works around this by wrapping all source files in an #if: https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services/
#if works fine inside source files, but not for resources. So I guess I'm stuck.
The use case is a small UI library that includes a .xib file for each platform. But of course the .xib for Mac causes an error when building for iOS and vice versa.
More conditionalizability in the manifest sorely needed. In the meantime, the best workaround I am aware of is to query the environment in the manifest and then adjust accordingly:
if ProcessInfo.processInfo.environment["TARGETING_IOS"] == "true" {
// Make whatever changes are necessary:
package.targets.removeAll(where: { $0.name == "ImpossibleOnIOS" })
}
But you’ll have to set the environment variable yourself, so the tactic’s usefulness varies. If the change needs to affect clients, and you expect those clients to be using Xcode’s GUI, then it is probably a non‐starter. On the other hand, if the clients are on Linux, then configuring the environment should be easy. Or if the affected targets are only tests anyway, then CI can supply the variable to its invocations of xcodebuild and you can temporarily comment out the change or the condition while you are actively using Xcode’ GUI. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
xmonad-extras-0.13.1: Third party extensions for xmonad with wacky dependencies
Copyright(c) daniel@wagner-home.com
LicenseBSD3-style (see LICENSE)
Maintainerdaniel@wagner-home.com
Stabilityunstable
Portabilityunportable
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell98
XMonad.Actions.Volume
Contents
Description
A minimal interface to the "amixer" command-line utility.
Synopsis
Usage
You can use this module with the following in your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs:
import XMonad.Actions.Volume
then add appropriate keybinds to adjust the volume; for example:
, ((modMask x, xK_F8 ), lowerVolume 3 >> return ())
, ((modMask x, xK_F9 ), raiseVolume 3 >> return ())
, ((modMask x, xK_F10), toggleMute >> return ())
For detailed instructions on editing your key bindings, see XMonad.Doc.Extending.
Common functions
toggleMute :: MonadIO m => m Bool Source #
Toggle mutedness on the default channels. Returns True when this attempts to mute the speakers and False when this attempts to unmute the speakers.
raiseVolume :: MonadIO m => Double -> m Double Source #
Raise the volume on the default channels the given number of percentage points. Returns the volume it attempts to set.
lowerVolume :: MonadIO m => Double -> m Double Source #
Lower the volume on the default channels the given number of percentage points. Returns the volume it attempts to set.
Low-level interface
getVolume :: MonadIO m => m Double Source #
Get the geometric mean of the volumes on the default channels.
getMute :: MonadIO m => m Bool Source #
Get the mutedness of the default channels. Returns True if any of the channels are muted, and False otherwise.
getVolumeMute :: MonadIO m => m (Double, Bool) Source #
Get both the volume and the mutedness of the default channels.
setVolume :: MonadIO m => Double -> m () Source #
Attempt to set the default channels to a volume given in percentage of maximum.
setMute :: MonadIO m => Bool -> m () Source #
Attempt to set the muting on the default channels.
setVolumeMute :: MonadIO m => Double -> Bool -> m () Source #
Attempt to set both the volume in percent and the muting on the default channels.
modifyVolume :: MonadIO m => (Double -> Double) -> m Double Source #
Apply a function to the volume of the default channels, and return the modified value.
modifyMute :: MonadIO m => (Bool -> Bool) -> m Bool Source #
Apply a function to the muting on the default channels, and return the modified value.
modifyVolumeMute :: MonadIO m => (Double -> Bool -> (Double, Bool)) -> m (Double, Bool) Source #
Apply a function to both the volume and the muting of the default channels, and return the modified values.
Variants that take a list of channels
defaultChannels :: [String] Source #
Channels are what amixer calls "simple controls". The most common ones are "Master", "Wave", and "PCM", so these are included in defaultChannels. It is guaranteed to be safe to pass channel names that don't exist on the default sound device to the *Channels family of functions.
setMuteChannels :: MonadIO m => [String] -> Bool -> m () Source #
defaultOSDOpts :: Bool -> String Source #
Default options for displaying the volume.
osdCat :: MonadIO m => Double -> (Bool -> String) -> m () Source #
Helper function to output current volume via osd_cat. (Needs the osd_cat executable). The second parameter is passed True when the speakers are muted and should return the options to pass to osd_cat. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brandon Roberts (3rd nomination)
The result was delete. MBisanz talk 03:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Brandon Roberts
AfDs for this article:
* – ( View AfD View log Stats )
Non notable minor league baseball player who is a free agent. Previously nominated for deletion as part of Articles for deletion/Fort Myers Miracles players - Spanneraol (talk) 19:20, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:05, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* Comment. Has anyone else looked at the edit history of this article? The first AfD cited above right was regarding a minor Australian author; the current article concerns an American minor league baseball player. Somehow the edit history for these two different subjects has been combined (see [diff]). Can someone explain to me what the heck is going on? 18:20, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* It looks like an unintentional history merge. Both the writer's and the baseball player's articles were deleted at different times. When the player's article was undeleted, the edits for both articles were restored. • Gene93k (talk) 20:30, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* Well, Gene, that's damn odd, but that sounds like some sort of clerical/administrative error. No grand mystery. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:16, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete. Non-notable minor league baseball player. Subject never played in a Major League game and is not entitled to a presumption of notability per WP:NBASEBALL, and I see no evidence that the subject satisfies the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:16, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete since he doesn't satisfy WP:GNG and no longer satisfies the neutered WP:WPBB/N. Agent Vodello OK, Let's Party, Darling! 00:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete Not notable--Yankees10 17:11, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete Fails WP:GNG. - <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:54, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete Some coverage in The Tribune (San Luis Obispo), but no other publications discuss him, so he falls short of GNG. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:29, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete as not notable. Automatic Strikeout 04:24, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete Not notable per WP:GNG. -- Cheers, Riley Huntley 00:58, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
* Delete - Late to the party, but I agree. Go Phightins ! 02:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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Papa Johns Announces Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results | PZZA Stock News
Papa John's International, Inc. (NASDAQ:PZZA) reports a 4% increase in global system-wide restaurant sales for Q2 2025.
Net income was $9.7 million, down from $12.5 million year-over-year, with diluted EPS at $0.28.
The company opens 45 new restaurants globally in the second quarter, raising the international comparable sales outlook.
Papa John's International, Inc. (NASDAQ:PZZA) has disclosed its financial results for the second quarter of 2025, ending June 29. The company reported a 4% boost in global system-wide restaurant sales, reaching $1.26 billion. This growth is attributed to a 1% increase in North America comparable sales and a 4% rise in international comparable sales. The total revenue climbed by 4% to $529 million, largely due to a $20.3 million increase in commissary revenues.
Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Sign with PZZA.
In Q2 2025, Papa John's opened 45 new restaurants globally, including 19 in North America and 26 in international markets. Despite these developments, net income was $9.7 million, down from $12.5 million compared to the same quarter last year. The decline is mainly attributed to increased general and administrative expenses, higher costs in marketing investments, and growth strategy related expenditures.
The diluted earnings per common share (EPS) were reported at $0.28, a drop from $0.37 in the previous year's second quarter. Adjusted diluted EPS also saw a reduction from $0.61 to $0.41.
Looking ahead, the company has updated its fiscal 2025 outlook to enhance the international comparable sales range, anticipating a rise of 2% to 4%, compared to its previous forecast of flat to 2% growth.
CEO Todd Penegor expressed confidence in the company's strategic direction, emphasizing the focus on core pizza business to drive customer visits, ultimately contributing to sustainable profitable growth.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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I have the home folder of my Raspberry Pi B+ shared via SMB working fine. Now i'm trying to make a public, write only folder: i edited the configuration like so but it doesn't seem to work. I can't write anything to that folder.
Configuration:
[public]
path = /home/pi/Kingston/Public
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
browsable = no
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
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Try changing your directory mask to 0766 => 6 = read and write
5 = read and execute
Edit: the directory mask is equivalent to the unix file system permissions in numeric notation. Therefore 0 means no permissions, 1 means execute and so on.
Further reading here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Numeric_notation
Edit 2: Like goldilocks corrected me a directory needs also execution permission. Therefore the mask has to be 0777. Like Chris Down explained in his answer on Unix & Linux:
The execute bit allows the affected user to enter the directory, and access files and directories inside
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• you might explain how and why 6 = read and write etc. Jan 6, 2016 at 13:59
• I know about permissions but it doesn't seem to work either
– Matteo
Jan 6, 2016 at 14:04
• Because directories require executable access. That should be 0777, not 0766. If you want to make something equally accessible by everyone, then the last three numbers of the mask should be the same. To explain: 4 is read, 2 is write, 1 is execute (see that wikipedia article).
– goldilocks
Jan 6, 2016 at 14:16
• I still can't get it to work, i have set both create make and directory mask to 0777 and also set the permissions of Public to 777.
– Matteo
Jan 6, 2016 at 14:31
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@Matteo If you solve your problem, it oculd be nice to share it answering instead of commenting.
– mpromonet
Jan 6, 2016 at 19:12
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What is the purpose of a Google Doc?
What is the purpose of a Google Doc?
Purpose. Google Docs is a very powerful real-time collaboration and document authoring tool. Multiple users can edit a document at the same time, while seeing each others’ changes instantaneously. Users can produce text documents, slide presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, and surveys.
Can Google Docs read Word files?
You can use Google Docs to open and edit Microsoft Word documents. However, you can only download your Word Online documents as PDF, ODT, or DOCX files. And if you want to open a Google doc in Word, you’ll need to convert it first.
How can I write Bengali in Google Docs?
Change your typing language
1. In Google Docs or Google Slides, go to the top menu and click File Language. the language you need.
2. In Google Sheets, go to the top menu and click File. Spreadsheet settings, then pick the locale of the language you need.
How do I make a PDF editable in Google Docs?
Steps to Edit PDF in Google Docs
1. Upload a PDF. Log in to Google Drive with your account.
2. Open with Google Docs. Right-click the PDF file that you uploaded and select “Open with > Google Docs”.
3. Edit PDF in Google Docs. Once the PDF file is opened, you are able to edit the text in it now.
What can I use instead of Google Docs?
Here are the best alternatives to Google Docs you can use right now.
• Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office (formerly Office Online, also known as “Office on the Web”) is the free offering from the world’s most popular office suite.
• Zoho Docs.
• Dropbox Paper.
• ONLYOFFICE.
• Nuclino.
• Etherpad.
• Slite.
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How to create fillable PDF files:
1. Open Acrobat: Click on the “Tools” tab and select “Prepare Form.”
2. Select a file or scan a document: Acrobat will automatically analyze your document and add form fields.
3. Add new form fields: Use the top toolbar and adjust the layout using tools in the right pane.
4. Save your fillable PDF:
How do I format a Google Doc?
Open a Google Docs document or create a new one and write a heading using the font and size you want. Highlight the heading by clicking once at the beginning or end and holding down the mouse until you select all of the text. With the text highlighted, click on the “Format” tab located on the toolbar.
How do you create a Google Doc?
If you want to keep your template private, skip to How to Create a Private Custom Template in Google Docs.
1. Open Google Docs Templates and click Submit a template.
2. Click “Choose from your Google Docs.”
3. Select the template you’ve made.
4. Click Select.
5. Enter a description of the template.
6. Click Submit template.
Is Google Docs the same as Word?
Google Docs offers the option to download your Doc as a Microsoft Word document. Along with a few other files type such as ODT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, and EPUB. The difference is Microsoft Word doesn’t offer the same compatibility as Google Docs.
How do you use Google Docs effectively?
13 Handy Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Using Google Docs
1. Open a new Google Doc in one step.
2. Include a handwritten signature or edited image.
3. Keep the word count on display right in your document.
4. Use a keyboard shortcut to paste text without formatting.
5. Assign edits to specific people.
6. Revert to an earlier version of your Google Doc.
Can I save a PDF to Google Docs?
Right-click on the PDF file in the file list and select Open With > Google Docs. The PDF file is converted to a Google Doc containing editable text. You can then convert the Google Doc to a Microsoft Word file that you can download or continue to work with online in your Google Drive account.
How do you make a cute Google Doc?
Here are some tricks and tips that will help you make your Google Docs look pretty and stylish….To make it work:
1. Highlight the text in the document.
2. Choose the language of that highlighted text.
3. Choose the language that you want to translate the text into.
4. Click Translate.
How do I open a document in Google Classroom?
Work with your personal document
1. Go to classroom.google.com and click Sign In. Sign in with your Google Account.
2. Click the class and then choose an option:
3. To open the document, under Your work, click the thumbnail.
4. Work on your document.
5. (Optional) To turn in your work, click Turn In and confirm.
How do you add handwriting lines in Google Docs?
Use the editing tools
1. At the top of the page, find and click Select line.
2. Pick the type of line you want.
3. Place the line on your drawing: Line, Elbow Connector, Curved Connector or Arrow: Click to start, then drag across the canvas.
4. Click Select.
How do I make a long dash in Google Docs?
1. To insert an em dash, an en dash, or any special character in Google Docs in the Chrome desktop browser, choose Insert | Special Characters and search for the item to insert.
2. In Google Docs on Android or iOS, long-hold on the hyphen key on your keyboard for access to an en dash, em dash, and bullet character.
How do I type Nepali in Google Docs?
Step to type Nepali using Google Docs Voice typing feature:
1. Step 1: Launch Google Doc.
2. Step 2: Open Edit Window.
3. Step 3: Click on Tools from Menu Bar.
4. Step 4: Now click on ‘Voice typing’
5. Step 5: Choose Nepali language from voice typing Utility.
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What is a Google Doc format?
Google Docs supports importing and exporting in a range of formats (including docx, odt, pdf and html), however they convert going each way to their internal format. The Google Docs editor does use HTML and is driven by Javascript, you can read about it in this blog post.
How do I open a document in Google Docs?
View & open files
1. Go to drive.google.com.
2. Log into your Google account with your username and password.
3. Double-click a file.
4. If you open a Google Doc, Sheet, Slides presentation, Form, or Drawing, it will open using that application.
5. If you open a video, PDF, Microsoft Office file, audio file, or photo, it will open in Google Drive.
Can you get lined paper on Google Docs?
Printing on lined paper is just like printing on any other paper. Locate the image or document that you want to print. Right-click the file and click “Print.” This will now print your document to lined paper.
How do you add lines to Google Docs?
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PUBLIC LAW 103-227—MAR. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 213 (7) A National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board should be established to work collaboratively with the Assistant Secretary to forge a national consensus with respect to a long-term agenda for educational research, development, dissemination, and the activities of the Office. (8) Existing research and development entities should adopt expanded, proactive roles and new institutions should be created to promote knowledge development necessary to accelerate the application of research findings to high priority areas. (9) Greater use should be made of existing technologies in efforts to improve the educational system of the United States, including efforts to disseminate research findings. (10) Minority educational researchers are inadequately represented throughout the Department of Education, but particularly in the Office. The Office therefore should assume a leadership position in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of qualified minority educational researchers. (11) The coordination of the mission of the Office with that of other components of the Department of Education is critical. The Office should improve the coordination of the educational research, development, and dissemination function with those of other Federal agencies. PART A—GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT SEC. 911. REPEAL. (a) REPEAL.—Section 405 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 122le) is repealed. (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT. — The second sentence of section 209 of the Department of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3419) is amended by inserting "and such functions as set forth in the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994" after "delegate". SEC. 912. OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT. 20 USC 6)11. (a) DECLARATION OF POLICY REGARDING EDUCATIONAL OPPOR- TUNITY.— (1) IN GENERAL. —The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States to provide to every individual an equal opportunity to receive an education of high quality regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, or social class. Although the American educational system has pursued this objective, it has not been attained. Inequalities of opportunity to receive high quality education remain pronounced. To achieve the goal of quality education requires the continued pursuit of knowledge about education through research, development, improvement activities, data collection, synthesis, technical assistance, and information dissemination. While the direction of American education remains primarily the responsibility of State and local governments, the Federal Government has a clear responsibility to provide leadership in the conduct and support of scientific inquiry into the educational process. (2) MISSION OF OFFICE. —
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Evidence base
The evidence base for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes, at least in people who are classified as having impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is clear and overwhelming 1 . The notion that weight loss, where appropriate, and increased physical activity is beneficial in such persons has long been a belief and is now supported by randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies in many countries. In addition, certain specific pharmacological interventions have also been proven to be effective.
The recent RCTs carried out in China 2 , Finland 3 , the USA 4 , Japan 5 and India 6 have conclusively shown that lifestyle interventions in people with IGT can prevent, or at least delay, the transition to type 2 diabetes. These interventions investigated weight loss and increased physical activity in the overweight and obese 3 4 but also lifestyle management in those who were not obese 2 . The pharmacological interventions investigated were medication with the biguanide drug metformin 4 or with the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose 7 or with sibutramine 8 or, in those with a history of gestational diabetes, troglitazone 9 .
The main features and conclusions of these trials are summarized in Table 1. In the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) in the US the risk reduction effect following lifestyle changes were much more apparent than intervention with metformin, which was also significant.
Table 1 | Recent trials relevant to the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes
Trial
Incidence (%) of progression
from IGT to type 2 diabetes
(intervention vs control)
Intervention
Da Qing 2
44 vs 66 Lifestyle
TRIPOD 9
14 vs 30 Troglitazone
DPP 4
14 vs 29 Lifestyle
DPS, Finland 3
32 vs 42 Lifestyle
STOP-NIDDM 7
32 vs 42 Acarbose
XENDOS 8
6 vs 9 Xenical
Kosaka et al 5
3 vs 9 Lifestyle
Indian DPP 6
39 vs 55 Lifestyle
Adapted from Davies et al, 2004 10
Not shown in the Table is the fact that, for the interventions shown, the number needed to treat (NNT) over three years ranged from 2.25 (Da Qing) to 36 (in the IGT group of the XENDOS study). That is, the number of people needed to be treated with these interventions over three years to avoid one person with IGT progressing to type 2 diabetes ranged from 2.25 to 36 10 .
In the Indian DPP, the effect of following lifestyle changes and intervention with metformin produced similar results as combining both, and did not show an additional benefit (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 | Cumulative incidence of diabetes (%) in the Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme*
Cumulative incidence of diabetes (%) in the Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme*
*Cumulative incidence of diabetes, calculated using the Cox proportional hazards model. The number of subjects who underwent an annual OGTT was 484, 403 and 345 at 12, 24 and 30/36 months, respectively. The p values for relative risk reduction were as follows: LSM = 0.018, LSM + MET= 0.022, MET = 0.029. LSM and LSM + MET showed identical results, therefore, the graphs overlap.
Source: Ramachandran et al, 2006 6
1.Hamman,RF The Evidence Base for Diabetes Care.In Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes.Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, LTD; 2002.p75-176
2.Pan,X. Li,G. Hu,Y. Wang,J. Yang,W. An,Z. Hu,Z. Lin,J. Xiao,J. Cao,H. Liu,P. Jiang,X. Wang,J. Zheng,H. Zhang,H. Bennett,PH Howard,BV Effects of diet and exercise in preventing NIDDM in people with impaired glucose tolerance: The Da Qing IGT and Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care.1997; 20: 537-544
3.Tuomilehto,J. Lindstrom,J. Eriksson,JG Valle,TT Hamalainen,H. Ilanne-Parikka,P. Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi,S. Laakso,M. Louheranta,A. Rastas,M. Salminen,V. M,Uusitupa Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study Group Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance. N Engl J Med.2001; 344: 1343-1350
4.Knowler,W.C. Barrett-Connor,E. Fowler,S.E. Hamman,R.F. Lachin,J.M. Walker,E.A. Nathan,D.M. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med.2002; 346(6): 393-403
5.Kosaka,K. Noda,M. Kuzuya,T. Prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle intervention: a Japanese trial in IGT males. Diabetes Res Clin Pract.2005; 67(2): 152-162
6.Ramachandran,A. Snehalatha,C. Mary,S. Mukesh,B. Bhaskar,A.D. Vijay,V. The Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme shows that lifestyle modification and metformin prevent type 2 diabetes in Asian Indian subjects with impaired glucose tolerance (IDPP-1). Diabetologia.2006; 49(2): 289-297
7.Chiasson,J.L. Josse,R.G. Gomis,R. Hanefeld,M. Karasik,A. Laakso,M. Acarbose for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the STOP-NIDDM randomised trial. Lancet.2002; 359(9323): 2072-2077
8.Torgerson,J.S. Hauptman,J. Boldrin,M.N. Sjostrom,L. XENical in the prevention of diabetes in obese subjects (XENDOS) study: a randomized study of orlistat as an adjunct to lifestyle changes for the prevention of type 2 diabetes in obese patients. Diabetes Care..2004; 27(1): 155-161
9.Buchanan,T.A. Xiang,A. Peters,R.K. Kjos,A.L. Marroquin,A. Goico,J. Ochoa,C. Tan,S. Azon,S.P. Protection from type 2 diabetes persists in the TRIPOD cohort eight months after stopping troglitazone.. Diabetes.2001; 50 Suppl 2: A81-
10.Davies,M.J. Tringham,J.R. Troughton,J. Khunti,K.K. Prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. A review of the evidence and its application in a UK setting. Diabet.Med..2004; 21(5): 403-414
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Male Psychological Adaptations
Human males have developed psychological adaptations, which make them attractive to the opposite sex in order to increase their reproductive success. Evolutionarily, it pays for a male to be polygynous - to have a number of female partners at once - because it means they can create more offspring at once, as they don’t have to invest any time in carrying a baby. Examples of some of these other adaptations include strategies to entice females, strategies to retain a partner and the desire for short-term relationships.
According to Greengross et al (2014), humour is sexually selected and acts as a fitness indicator. The production of humour increases mate value in men, and so women seek males with a good sense of humour. In turn, males have developed an adaptation in which they produce humour to attract women.
Human males have developed an adaptation in which they find women more attractive if they show cues of fertility, such as a good hip-to-waist ratio. Women with a hip-to-ratio of 0.7 are considered more attractive to males than those with a ratio of 0.8, who are considered to have a more masculine figure (Singh, 1993). This is because they are perceived to be able to have children more and to be more fertile and healthy.
Males have developed behaviours that help them to retain a mate, in order to enhance reproductive success in long-term relationships. Examples are intersexual manipulations are manipulating his partner in the way she views their current relationship and to repulse them from other relationships (Starratt & Alesia, 2014). He could do this by enhancing his own value or decreasing the value of other males. In extreme cases, some men have developed intersexual adaptations that restrict their partner from interacting with other males, including the use of violence. By doing this, women are less likely to stray from her current relationship, even if it is due to fear (Starratt & Alesia, 2014). On the other hand, intrasexual manipulations are used to reduce any other options for the females, which could include decreasing their partner’s value or make it clear to other males that the female is ‘their’s’ by using possessive techniques such as holding her hand in public (Buss, 1988).
With regards to parental investment, males are much more wary when investing in offspring as they cannot guarantee that the child is their’s (Trivers, 1972). Therefore, as an adaption, males tend to only invest in offspring if there are high levels of commitment and if they were produced in a long-term relationship as opposed to short-term relationships.
Human males have also developed an adaptation in which they have a desire for short-term relationships more than females do (Buss & Schmitt,1993). This is because men hardly have any investment obligation, whereas a female has to carry a child for nine months if she was to fall pregnant after the sexual encounter. Evolutionarily, it is thought that males have a desire to reproduce as much as they can, and short-term relationships are a good way to inseminate many women with his sperm in order for his genes to continue through generations. There is much evidence for how this short-term mating has evolved psychologically for males, beginning with the desire for a variety of sex partners. According to Schmitt et al (2003), a larger percentage of men, in every culture of the world, desire more than one sex partner in one month compared to women. Furthermore, men are more likely than women to have sexual intercourse with someone having known them for only one hour, one day, one week or one month (Buss & Schmitt, 1993).
However, there are some adaptive problems in short-term mating that men must solve. One of these problems is avoiding commitment and women who might not have sex with the male until they have a signal of commitment or investment. This would reduce the number of partners a male could pursue and succeed with (Jonason & Buss, 2012). | WIKI |
Sonneberg
Sonneberg in Thuringia, Germany, is the seat of the Sonneberg district. It is in the Franconian south of Thuringia, neighboring its Upper Franconian twin town Neustadt bei Coburg.
Sonneberg became known as the "world toy city", and is home to the German Toy Museum and the Sonneberg observatory, founded in 1925. The Thuringian Slate Mountains border the city, with the Franconian Forest to the east.
History
"The Sonneberg Castle was also called Sonneberg Castle or the Haus zu Sonneberg in old documents. In 480 Süne or Süno, Duke of Franconia, built this castle because of the Thuringian incursions ..." so it says on page 64 in the topography of the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen's share in the Duchy of Coburg from the year 1781. This not uncritical representation is based on the history of the Franks by Abbot Johannes Trithemius from 1514.
The name Sonneberg was first mentioned in documents in 1207. It goes back to the noble family of the Lords of Sonneberg, which is documented in the 12th and 13th centuries and founded a settlement below the Sonneberg Castle, which originally consisted of the estate and two hamlets, the village of "Alt-Rötin, presumed to be in Herrnau "And the" Stätlein zu Rötin under the Sonneberg Castle". The Lords of Sonneberg were ministerials in the service of the Dukes of Andechs-Meranien, who, as a Bavarian noble family, established a lordly administration in the region around Sonneberg and Coburg.
The quarrying of whetstones and slate for slates has been documented since 1500. From the long-established wooden goods manufacture, the production of the Sonneberg toys known as Nuremberg trinkets developed from the 16th century onwards. Around 1700, the Dressel company, and from 1873 Cuno & Otto Dressel, the largest manufacturer and exporter of toys was founded in Sonneberg. From 1805, with the introduction of paper mache, Sonneberg developed into a toy production center with international status, especially in the manufacture of dolls (see also: F. M. Schilling). In 1840 a city fire destroyed the old city center around the market square in what is now the Upper City. In 1883 the industrial school was opened in Mühlgasse 4, where artistic porcelain, glass and toy design was taught.
The term “world toy city” was coined around 1913 due to the share of Sonneberg's production on the world market. Before the First World War, around 20% of the toys traded on the world market in the Sonneberg area were mainly manufactured at home. In addition to the term world toy city, Sonneberg advanced to become the “workshop of the Santa Claus”. From the 1870s onwards, the toy industry did not respond to increasing demand and falling sales prices with a transition to industrial production in larger factories using innovative techniques. Even if exports to the US rose by around 600% between 1865 and 1885, in 1880 85% of the companies had just four employees. [10] It was the number of these traditionally working small and micro-businesses that increased tremendously in response to the increased demand. In 1880 there were a total of 321 companies. 1899, almost 20 years later, 2395, an increase of 746%.
One of the heydays of the toy industry led to the development of the station square with representative buildings in the 1920s. First, the US company Halbourn built a six-story trading house that has been owned by the AOK since 1925. Opposite it, in 1926, the American department store company F. W. Woolworth Company, which had been purchasing locally since 1880, built a trading and warehouse for the purchase and export of toys and Christmas tree decorations. The five-storey reinforced concrete building with its own siding was built according to plans by the Sonneberg architect Walter Buchholz.
In divided post-war Germany, Sonneberg found itself within the borders of East Germany, cut off from its large neighbouring town of Coburg, Bavaria in West Germany and could only face north economically. It was served by an unnaturally winding railway route and thus became somewhat isolated from the rest of East Germany. Sonneberg Hauptbahnhof is served by the Coburg–Sonneberg line.
After the fall of the Wall, toy shops were privatized or re-privatized, if they still existed. In 2002 the Thuringian Day took place in Sonneberg. The city became a member of the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg in July 2012, initially on a trial basis, and has been a permanent member since October 2013.
The 14th Franconian Day was celebrated on July 6 and 7, 2019 by the district of Upper Franconia together with the Bavarian state government and the two host cities Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg for the first time across borders with over 25,000 visitors under the motto: GEMEINSAM.FRÄNKISCH.STARK.
Sonneberg is a location with a close network with hydrogen initiatives in the metropolitan region of Central Germany and it is a member of the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg. Thus, Sonneberg has a "hinge function" to the important economic areas between the Main and Elbe. The HySon Institute for Applied Hydrogen Research emerged in February 2021 from a network of actors from business and science. There are 50 partners in total. Their common goal is to close the gap between research and application.
Subdivisions
The town Sonneberg consists of the following subdivisions:
Since 31 December 2013, when the former municipality Oberland am Rennsteig was merged into Sonneberg, the following villages also form part of Sonneberg: Haselbach, Eschenthal, Hasenthal, Hüttengrund and Spechtsbrunn.
Number of inhabitants
* Data source since 1994: Thuringia statistical office
Notable people
* Crato Bütner (1616–1679), composer
* August Schleicher (1821–1868), linguist
* Wilhelm Sollmann (1881–1951), journalist and politician (SPD)
* Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), astronomer
* Walter Franck (1896–1961), actor
* Fred Delmare (1922–2009), actor
* Tankred Dorst (1925–2017), writer
* Werner Stötzer (1931–2010), sculptor and draftsman
* Almuth Beck (born 1940), politician
* Werner Bernreuther (born 1941), actor and songwriter
* Freddy Breck (1942–2008), percussionist
* Monika Debertshäuser (born 1952), cross-country skier
* Reinhard Häfner (1952–2016), footballer
* Detlef Ultsch (born 1955), judoka, world champion
* Frank Dundr (born 1957), rower, Olympic winner
* Simone Opitz (born 1963), cross-country skier
* Silke Kraushaar-Pielach (born 1970), luger
* André Florschütz (born 1976), luger
* Thomas Florschütz (born 1978), bob pilot
* Sebastian Lang (born 1979), cyclist
* Jan-Armin Eichhorn (born 1981), luger
* Felix Loch (born 1989), 2010 and 2014 Olympic luge gold medalist | WIKI |
Talk:Culebrita Island Light
The Wikipedia page on Culebrita Island, Puerto Rico contained information about the Culebrita Island Light and contained a template devoted to this lighthouse. I felt that this template only dealt with the lighthouse and not the actual island itself. I felt it would, therefore, be better suited on a page about the lighthouse instead of on the island's page. Since there was no Wikipedia page on the lighthouse, I created a page for Culebrita Island Light and moved all information dealing with the lighthouse, including the template and references over to the new Culebrita Island Light page.
Although the CorenSearchBot web search shows that the the information on this page (orignally from the Wikipedia page on Culebrita) appears to include material copied directly from: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/culebrita-lighthouse/ I believe that the before-listed website actually received their information from the original Wikipedia page on Culebrita. The post on http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/culebrita-lighthouse/ is dated May 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacr88 (talk • contribs) 07:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Repeating rifle
A repeating rifle is a single-barreled rifle capable of repeated discharges between each ammunition reload. This is typically achieved by having multiple cartridges stored in a magazine (within or attached to the gun) and then fed individually into the chamber by a reciprocating bolt, via either a manual or automatic action mechanism, while the act of chambering the round typically also recocks the hammer/striker for the following shot. In common usage, the term "repeating rifle" most often refers specifically to manual repeating rifles (e.g. lever-action, pump-action, bolt-action, etc.), as opposed to self-loading rifles, which use the recoil, gas, or blowback of the previous shot to cycle the action and load the next round, even though all self-loading firearms are technically a subcategory of repeating firearms.
Repeating rifles were a significant advance over the preceding single-shot breechloading rifles when used for military combat, as they allowed a much greater rate of fire. The repeating Spencer rifle saw use by cavalry during the American Civil War and the subsequent American Indian Wars, and the first repeating air rifle to see military service was the Windbüchse rifle.
Early repeaters
* Kalthoff repeater (about 1630)
* Cookson repeater (about 1650)
* Chelembron system (1668)
* Lagatz Rifle: a modification of the Lorenzoni System, designed by Danzig gunsmith Daniel Lagatz around the year 1700.
* Pepper-box (1702)
* Puckle gun (1718)
* Harmonica gun (1742)
* Cookson repeater (1750)
* Fafting Rifle: In 1774 a rifle was invented by a Norwegian colonel by the name of Fafting capable of firing 18 to 20 shots a minute and being used as an ordinary rifle by taking off a spring-loaded container attached to the gun's lock. It was also stated that the inventor was working on a gun capable of firing up to 30 times in a minute on more or less the same principles.
* The Belton flintlock was a repeating flintlock design using superposed loads, conceived by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, resident Joseph Belton some time prior to 1777. The musket design was offered by Belton to the newly formed Continental Congress in 1777. Belton wrote that the musket could fire eight rounds with one loading.
* Girardoni air rifle (1779)
* 1789 French Rifle: In 1791 it was mentioned in a book published in France that there existed since at least 1789 a rifle that held 5 or 6 shots and was capable of being reloaded three times in a minute for a total of 15 or 18 shots a minute. A rifle similar in type to this was also stated to be kept at the Hotel de la Guerre(fr).
* Church and Bartemy/Bartholomew gun: A repeating rifle designed by the Americans William Church and Chrostus Bartemy or Bartholomew in 1813 with three separate magazines for containing up to 42 charges of ammunition and capable of firing 25 shots a minute. It could be reloaded in one minute.
* Thomson Rifle: a flintlock repeating rifle patented in 1814, using multiple breeches to obtain repeating fire.
* Collier flintlock revolver (1814)
* Leroy Rifle: In 1815 (sometimes incorrectly dated as 1825) a French inventor called Julien Leroy patented a flintlock and percussion revolving rifle with a mechanically indexed cylinder and a priming magazine.
* Lepage Guns: In 1819 a French gunsmith called Lepage invented and presented at the French industrial exposition of that year percussion 2-shot and 4-shot turn-over rifles In 1823 he exhibited a volley rifle that fired 7 rifled barrels simultaneously as well as a turning carbine. In 1827, the same inventor exhibited at another French industrial exposition 11 percussion and 1 flintlock firearms which included a 4-shot revolving rifle, a 'double rifle' with a cylinder with 5 charges and a 'single rifle' and a pair of pistols also with a cylinder with 5 charges.
* Pirmet-Baucheron Revolving Rifle: In 1822 a French gunsmith called Pirmet-Baucheron presented a revolving rifle with 7 shots and a single lock.
* Hewson Magazine Gun: In 1824 an English gunsmith called W. P. Hewson advertised, amongst other firearms and one air gun, a magazine gun.
* Jobard Rifle: a turret rifle with 14 shots patented in Belgium in 1826 and presented to the government in 1835.
* Henry Rifle: a French 14 shot flintlock rifle in the style of the Kalthoff and Lorenzoni rifles patented in 1831 (granted in 1835) by Francois-Antoine Henry though possibly based on an earlier design published in 1809 by the same author.
* Silas Day Magazine Gun: A percussion revolving rifle to which was attached a loose-powder-and-ball magazine patented in the US in 1837.
* Colt Ring Lever rifles (1837)
* Bailey, Ripley and Smith Magazine Rifle: In 1838 the Americans Lebbeus Bailey, John B. Ripley and William B. Smith patented a percussion repeating rifle with a gravity-operated tubular magazine which could hold up to 15 re-useable steel cartridge-chambers.
* Eaton Rifle: In 1838 a percussion rifle invented in America by James Eaton was described as being capable of holding 24 rounds in a rotating magazine and discharging them all in four minutes for a rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute.
* Kratsch Rifle: In 1839 it was reported that a mechanic called Kratsch from Bayreuth had invented a rifle capable of firing 30 times in a minute and being reloaded in one minute.
* Devisme Guns: In 1844 a French gunsmith known as Devisme presented a variety of repeating firearms for the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 including an 18 shot pistol with no visible hammer or lock, a 6 shot pistol, a rifle with 6 shots and a 'revolving thunder' and a four shot 'double acting' rifle.
* Jennings Magazine Rifle: in 1847 Walter Hunt patented in Britain a repeating rifle he called "the Volitional Repeater". He would patent it again in the United States in 1849. This rifle featured a tubular magazine beneath the barrel and a lever mechanism to raise cartridges into the chamber. Unable to finance the building of the rifle, Hunt sold the rights to George Arrowsmith who in turn had an employee, Lewis Jennings, improve the lever mechanism. Courtland Palmer placed the first order for the "Jennings Magazine rifle" for his hardware store: Robbins & Lawrence. The rifle did not sell well as the ammunition was a hollow based bullet containing gunpowder. Most of the guns were later converted to single shot rifles. Two employees working at Robbins & Lawrence: Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson improved the design and sold it as the "Smith-Jennings Repeating Rifle". At first they used a slightly modified Flobert cartridge, patented in 1853, but later they would switch to a modified Rocket Ball type of ammunition altered so as to function as a self-contained centerfire cartridge.
* Cass Repeating Belt Gun: A percussion repeating rifle patented in 1848 in the US using a chain or belt in the stock which carried paper cartridges to the breech of the gun.
* Buchel Cartridge Magazine Gun: The first tubular cartridge magazine gun to be patented in the United States in February 1849.
* Perry 'Faucet-Breech' Gun: A hinged or tilting breech repeating rifle patented in the US in December 1849 by Alonzo Perry using paper cartridges contained in several gravity-operated tubular magazines in the stock and a separate magazine for fulminate pills which were used for ignition.
* Porter Self-Loading Gun: In February 1851 a loose-powder-and-ball percussion magazine gun invented by a Parry W. Porter, better known for the turret rifle he invented and to which the magazine for his loose-powder-and-ball gun was to be attached, was reported on in American newspapers and later in the same year a patent was procured by the inventor.
* Needham Self-Loading Carbine: A self-loading carbine demonstrated in June 1851 at the Great Exhibition by Joseph Needham.
* Dixon Self-Loading and Self-Priming Gun: A repeating gun demonstrated by a C. S. Dixon which won a silver award at the Annual Fair of the American Institute in October 1851.
* The first slide action patent: Issued in Britain in 1854, to Alexander Bain who modified the mechanism of a harmonica gun.
* 1854 Lindner Revolving Rifle: In 1854 the German Edward Lindner patented in the United States and Britain a repeating rifle which used a revolving cylinder to elevate the cartridges, which were paper and could be either self-contained needlefire cartridges or use external percussion caps for ignition, to the breech from a tubular magazine located under the barrel.
* Colette Gravity Pistol: a repeating saloon gun premiered at the 1855 World's Fair. Despite popularly being known as the Colette Gravity Pistol its original inventor was actually a Belgian called Jean Nicolas Herman.
* Colt revolving rifle (1855)
* Leroux Magazine Gun: At the Exposition Universelle (1855) in France a French gunsmith called Leroux demonstrated a repeating carbine with a magazine for 36 Flobert cartridges and which featured a novel cartridge extractor.
* Spencer repeating rifle (1860)
* Roper repeating shotgun (1882/1885)
Revolver action
While some early long guns were made using the revolver mechanism popular in handguns, these did not have longevity. Even though the revolver mechanism was fine for pistols, it posed a problem with long guns: without special sealing details, the cylinder produces a gas discharge close to the face when the weapon is fired from the shoulder, as was the common approach with rifles.
Falling block action
Although most falling-blocks were single-shot actions, some early repeaters used this design, notably the Norwegian Krag–Petersson and the U. S. Spencer rifle. The former loaded from a Henry-style underbarrel magazine; the latter fed from a tubular magazine in the buttstock.
Lever action
In a classic lever-action firearm of the Henry-Winchester type, rounds are individually loaded into a tubular magazine parallel to and below the barrel. A short bolt is held in place with an over center toggle action. Once closed, the over center action prevents opening solely by the force on the bolt when the weapon is fired. This toggle action is operated by a hand grip that forms part of the trigger guard. When operated, a spring in the tubular magazine pushes a fresh round into position. Returning the operating lever to the home position chambers the round and closes the breach. An interlock prevents firing unless the toggle is fully closed. The famous Model 1873 Winchester is exemplary of this type. Later lever-action designs, such as Marlin leverguns and those designed for Winchester by John Browning, use one or two vertical locking blocks instead of a toggle-link. There also exist lever-action rifles that feed from a box magazine, which allows them to use pointed bullets.
A one-off example of Lever action reloading on automatic firearms is the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. This weapon had a swinging lever beneath its barrel that was actuated by a gas bleed in the barrel, unlocking the breech to reload. This unique operation gave the nickname "potato digger" as the lever swung each time the weapon fired.
Pump action
With a pump-action firearm, the action is operated by a movable fore-end that the shooter moves backwards and forwards to eject a spent round, and extract and chamber a fresh round of ammunition. Pump-actions are usually associated with shotguns, but one example of a pump-action rifle is the Remington Model 7600 series. Rifles with pump action are also called slide-action. This style of rifle is still popular with some local law enforcement branches as a rifle that is easy to train officers who are already familiar with the pump shotgun.
Bolt action
The bolt is a mechanism that is operated by hand to extract a fired cartridge, move a fresh round into the chamber and reset the firing pin, readying the weapon to fire again. The bolt closes the breech end of the barrel and contains the firing pin. The bolt is held in place with a lever that fits into a notch. Moving this lever out of the notch will release the restraint on the bolt, allowing it to be drawn back. An extractor removes the spent cartridge, which is then ejected through the lever slot. A spring at the bottom of the magazine pushes up the reserve rounds, positioning the topmost between the bolt and the chamber at the base of the barrel. Pushing the bolt lever forward chambers this round and pushing the lever into the notch locks the bolt and enables the trigger mechanism. The complete cycle action also resets the firing pin. The Mauser rifle of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the most famous of the bolt-action types, with most similar weapons derived from this pioneering design, such as the M1903 Springfield and the Karabiner 98 Kurz rifle (abbreviated often as Kar98k or simply K98). The Russian Mosin–Nagant rifle, the British Lee–Enfield, and the Norwegian Krag–Jørgensen are examples of alternate bolt-action designs.
Blowback
In blowback operation, the bolt is not actually locked at the moment of firing. To prevent violent recoil, in most firearms using this mechanism the opening of the bolt is delayed in some way. In many small arms, the round is fired while the bolt is still travelling forward, and the bolt does not open until this forward momentum is overcome. Other methods involve delaying the opening until two rollers have been forced back into recesses in the receiver in which the bolt is carried. Simple blowback action is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, but is limited in the power it can handle, so it is seen on small caliber weapons such as machine pistols and submachine guns. Lever-delayed blowback, as seen in for example the French FAMAS assault rifle, can also handle more powerful cartridges but is more complicated and expensive to manufacture.
Recoil-operated
In a recoil-operated firearm, the breech is locked, and the barrel recoils as part of the firing cycle. In long-recoil actions, such as the Browning Auto-5 shotgun, the barrel and breechblock remain locked for the full recoil travel, and separate on the return; in short-recoil actions, typical of most semiautomatic handguns (e.g. the Colt M1911), the barrel recoils only a short distance before decoupling from the breechblock.
Gas-operated
In a gas-operated mechanism, a portion of the gases propelling the bullet from the barrel are extracted and used to operate a piston. The motion of this piston in turn unlocks and operates the bolt, which performs extraction of the spent cartridge and via spring action readies the next round. Almost all modern military rifles use mechanisms of this type. | WIKI |
In the pursuit of a healthier lifestyle, many individuals turn to various strategies, including dietary changes, exercise routines, and weight loss programs.
Pharmacies, as crucial healthcare hubs, play a significant role in supporting individuals on their weight loss journey. From providing valuable information to offering specialized products, pharmacies contribute to fostering a healthier community.
1. Expert Advice and Consultation:
Pharmacists are highly trained healthcare professionals who can offer expert advice on weight management. They can provide information on dietary supplements, over-the-counter medications, and lifestyle modifications that can aid in weight loss. Consulting with a pharmacist can help individuals make informed decisions based on their unique health conditions and goals.
1. Access to Weight Loss Products:
Pharmacies stock a variety of products designed to support weight loss. From appetite suppressants to meal replacement shakes, these products are often available over the counter. Pharmacists can guide customers in choosing appropriate supplements and help them understand the potential benefits and risks associated with these products.
1. Medication Management:
In some cases, healthcare providers may prescribe medications to assist with weight loss. Pharmacies play a crucial role in dispensing these medications and providing patients with the necessary information about proper usage, potential side effects, and expected outcomes. Regular follow-ups with pharmacists can ensure that patients are on track and experiencing the desired results.
1. Monitoring Health Metrics:
Many pharmacies offer services to monitor key health metrics related to weight loss, such as blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar levels. Regular check-ups at the pharmacy can provide individuals with insights into their overall health and help them track progress on their weight loss journey.
1. Nutritional Guidance:
Pharmacies often have knowledgeable staff who can provide basic nutritional guidance. While they may not replace the expertise of a registered dietitian, pharmacists can offer general advice on making healthier food choices and understanding nutritional labels. This guidance can complement other weight loss efforts and contribute to long-term success.
1. Supportive Resources:
Pharmacies are increasingly becoming sources of educational materials related to weight management. From brochures on healthy eating to pamphlets on exercise routines, these resources empower individuals with the knowledge they need to make sustainable lifestyle changes. Pharmacies may also host workshops or informational sessions on topics like meal planning and portion control.
Conclusion
Pharmacies are more than just places to fill prescriptions; they are valuable partners in the journey towards a healthier weight. With knowledgeable staff, a wide range of products, and supportive services, pharmacies play a pivotal role in providing individuals with the tools and information needed to achieve their weight loss goals. As individuals embark on their quest for a healthier lifestyle, pharmacies stand ready to offer guidance, support, and resources every step of the way.
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Bunions
Bunions are a common problem among women, and they can be painful part of everyday life. A bunion is a growth on the big toe near the base where it connects with the foot. The growth is due to soft tissue enlargement under the skin.
Women frequently develop bunions either from wearing shoes that do not fit properly, or from high heels that actually do fit well. There are other causes of bunions, such as heredity and poor foot structure.
Even though bunions are a common foot deformity, there are misconceptions about them. Many people may unnecessarily suffer the pain of bunions for years before seeking treatment.
What is a Bunion?
Bunions are a progressive disorder. They begin with a leaning of the big toe, gradually changing the angle of the bones over the years and slowly producing the characteristic bump, which becomes increasingly prominent. Symptoms usually appear at later stages, although some people never have symptoms.
Causes
Bunions are most often caused by an inherited faulty mechanical structure of the foot. It is not the bunion itself that is inherited, but certain foot types that make a person prone to developing a bunion.
Although wearing shoes that crowd the toes won’t actually cause bunions, it sometimes makes the deformity get progressively worse. Symptoms occur most often when wearing shoes that crowd the toes, such as shoes with a tight toe box or high heels. This may explain why women are more likely to have symptoms than men. In addition, spending long periods of time on your feet can aggravate the symptoms of bunions. Symptoms may therefore appear sooner
Symptoms
Symptoms, which occur at the site of the bunion, may include:
• Pain or soreness
• Inflammation and redness
• A burning sensation
• Possible numbness
Some of the common ways bunions can be treated are:
• Bunion pads – Bunion pads can help relieve pressure on the sensitive area. Your Santa Fe podiatrist will be able to recommend the correct pad for your bunion.
• Moleskin – A moleskin patch covers the bunion and pressure areas. This protects the bunion from being rubbed by shoes, which can result in blisters and other complications.
• Wide shoes – Wearing shoes that have a wide toe box will provide room for the area around the toes. Tight, narrow, or high-heeled shoes put pressure on the bunion, which causes pain.
• Medications – Medication can be used to alleviate some of the pain and swelling that is associated with bunions.
• Ice – As with other injuries, icing the area can relieve pain and reduce the swelling. Ice can be applied to the joint for 10-20 minutes at a time. The foot should be elevated higher than the heart while icing.
• Surgery – May be necessary when bunion pain is intolerable, or affects your ability to wear shoes.
If you are experiencing bunions or other foot conditions, you need to seek the help of a knowledgeable foot and ankle specialist at ACE Foot and Ankle Medical Center. Call 408-203-3821 today to schedule your appointment. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Israel suspends resettlement deal with U.N. on African migrants
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a dramatic move on Monday said he's suspending a new agreement with the U.N. announced just hours earlier, which would have resettled thousands of migrants in Western countries over five years and granted legal status to those remaining in Israel. What's happening: Local reports said the backtrack comes amid right-wing criticism of the deal. In a Facebook post, Netanyahu said: "I am attentive to you, and first to the people of South Tel Aviv," adding that he's meeting with officials Tuesday on the matter. The earlier plan: Netanyahu's office had previously announced an "unprecedented common understanding" with the U.N. to resettle at least 16,250 to unnamed Western countries. Netanyahu had given the migrants — who fled to escape war, economic hardship and persecution — until the end of March to leave or face jail time. They were also offered $3,500 and free airfare. The deportation plan had sparked rebuke from liberal Israelis, Holocaust survivors and their American Jewish allies, and led Israel's Supreme Court last month to temporarily halt the deportation order. Israel had been cracking down on the influx of African migrants, many of whom entered illegally from Sudan and Eritrea, generating racial and politically-charged debates over their future in the country. According to the U.N., there are more than 34,500 Eritreans and 7,700 Sudanese in Israel. Per The New York Times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that the migrants would endanger Israel's “existence as a Jewish and democratic state." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Adenomyosis and Hysterectomy
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of a uterus. It is a procedure that is sometimes used to treat cancer, chronic pain, heavy bleeding, or other serious disorders of the uterus.
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One of the conditions treated by a hysterectomy is called adenomyosis, a condition where the inner lining of the uterus (endometrium) breaks through the muscle wall of the uterus.
Understanding Adenomyosis
Adenomyosis is not a life-threatening condition but one that can seriously impact a woman's quality of life. Symptoms include cramping, heavy periods, clotting, lower abdominal pain, and bloating. The condition can develop throughout the entire uterus or be localized to just one spot.
Adenomyosis is most often diagnosed in middle-aged women who have had children. A prior uterine surgery may also increase the risk.
Adenomyosis is often mistaken for another condition called uterine fibroids. These are noncancerous growths in or on the uterine wall as opposed to adenomyosis which has a less defined structure. Diagnosis is typically made using either a transvaginal ultrasound or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. An MRI is more commonly used if a woman is experiencing heavy bleeding.
Non-Surgical Treatment Options
Treatment for adenomyosis depends largely on the severity of symptoms. Mild symptoms can often be treated with over-the-counter pain medications and a heating pad to help relieve cramping. Among the other options:
• Hormone therapy can help ease heavy or painful periods.
• Uterine artery embolism is a technique in which a catheter feeds tiny particles into a uterine artery to block blood flow to affected tissue,
• Endometrial ablation is a minimally invasive procedure which destroys (ablates) parts of the uterine lining to relieve pain.
• Laparoscopic surgery is the gold standard for minimally invasive removal of adenomyotic tissue. Using specialized equipment and a keyhole incision, the surgeon can precisely view and remove any abnormal tissue.
When Hysterectomy Is Indicated
A hysterectomy is only indicated if a woman's quality of life has been seriously affected and all other treatment options have been exhausted.
With that being said, the only complete cure for adenomyosis is a hysterectomy. Unlike fibroids, which are often surrounded by a capsule, there is no clear border between abnormal and normal uterine tissue. Because of this, the condition can commonly recur even after ablation or embolism.
Depending on the situation, there are several advantages to a hysterectomy:
• The likelihood of further treatment is reduced.
• If you are beyond your childbearing years, it is much more definitive treatment.
• If there are other co-existing conditions, such as endometriosis, it may be easier to treat them all at once.
How the Procedure Is Performed
There are several types of hysterectomy that can be used to treat adenomyosis. The surgical approach is based largely on the extent of endometrial penetration.
A total hysterectomy (involving the removal of the uterus and cervix) or a subtotal hysterectomy (in which only the upper portion of the uterus is removed) are only used in cases where adenomyosis is widespread.
Irrespective of the procedure used, a hysterectomy is performed under general anesthesia and involves the separation of the uterus from the tissues that hold it in place. Once the uterus is removed, the incision wound is closed with staples, sutures, absorbable sutures, or sterile tape.
Post-Surgical Recovery
Most women undergoing a hysterectomy can go home within 48 hours of the operation and return to their usual activities within two weeks. After undergoing a hysterectomy, it is not uncommon for a woman to experience a range of menopausal symptoms, including:
• Hot flashes
• Mood swings
• Decreased libido
• Vaginal dryness
• Night sweats
All hysterectomy procedures, irrespective of type, will end a woman's ability to conceive. The emotional aftermath can be devastating to a woman, particularly if planning a family. It is for this reason that a hysterectomy should always be considered a last resort when there is no other way to treat the disability or pain caused by adenomyosis.
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-- Xi Begins African Tour as Policy Makers Question Role
Chinese President Xi Jinping will
set out plans for mining and infrastructure development on a
trip to Africa this week, as China seeks to reassure leaders on
the continent who have voiced unease about its trade relations. During his eight-day trip Xi, 59, stops in Tanzania , Congo
Republic and South Africa , where he’ll sign business cooperation
deals and attend a summit of BRICS nations. Trade between Africa
and China doubled since 2007 to more than $200 billion and
Chinese investment stands at $20 billion, according to Standard
Bank Group Ltd. (SBK) , Africa’s biggest lender. While African nations welcome the investment and the job
creation that comes with it, leaders from Botswana’s Ian Khama
to Nigerian central bank chief Lamido Sanusi are asking whether
the relationship has benefited Africa as much as it has China.
That’s a shift in tone after officials welcomed China for taking
a different strategy from the West by offering investment
without demanding poverty alleviation, democratic reforms or
anti-corruption measures. “There’s a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from
the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa’s best
friend,” George Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist and president of
the Free Africa Foundation, a Washington-based research
institute, said in a phone interview. “But the evidence doesn’t
show that, and the main criticism is that they are building
infrastructure in exchange for Africa’s resources in deals that
are structured to favor China.” Tanzania, Congo Xi arrived in Tanzania yesterday and met President Jakaya Kikwete before the two countries signed 16 economic cooperation
agreements worth as much as $16 billion, Salvator Rweyemamu,
director of presidential communications, said in a phone
interview. The country also signed a loan agreement with China
Merchants Bank for a planned $10 billion port at Bagamoyo on the
Tanzanian coast, he said. Today, Xi will deliver a “major speech to reaffirm China’s
policy to Africa,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun told
reporters in Beijing on March 20. “We expect him to talk about avenues of investment, trade,
peace and security, and elaborate on mining, oil and gas, energy
and infrastructure development,” Tanzanian Foreign Minister
Bernard Membe said in an interview. Xi will also attend a two-day summit of leaders from the
so-called BRICS countries -- Brazil , Russia , India , China and
South Africa -- that begins in the southeastern South African
port city of Durban tomorrow. He arrives in Congo Republic on
March 29 for talks with President Denis Sassou-Nguesso,
according to Congo’s Communications Ministry. Accelerating Growth Seven out of the world’s 10 fastest growing economies will
be in sub-Saharan Africa between 2011 and 2015, according to the
International Monetary Fund . Growth on the continent is expected
to accelerate to 4.8 percent this year from 4.5 percent in 2012,
the African Development Bank says. That expansion contrasts with subdued growth in mature
markets like the U.S. and Europe and is attracting Chinese
businesses looking to sell goods to emerging economies,
particularly “highly populated and increasingly wealthy” ones
in Africa, Standard Bank said in a November research note. More than 50 percent of China’s imports from Africa in 2012
were coal and oil, with iron ore and copper making up a further
14 percent, Jeremy Stevens, a Beijing-based economist at
Standard, said by e-mail. Its exports to the continent are
mainly manufactured goods such as electrical equipment,
machinery, vehicles and clothing, he said. New Colonialism That’s caused some concern among African leaders. Sanusi of
Nigeria , Africa’s biggest oil producer, compared China’s
purchase of primary goods and sale of manufactured items to the
continent to British colonial policies. Sanusi also criticized
Chinese investment in African infrastructure that he said, with
some exceptions, failed to transfer skills to local communities. “Africa must recognize that China, like the U.S., Russia,
Britain, Brazil and the rest, is in Africa not for African
interests but its own,” Sanusi said in an opinion article in
the London-based Financial Times on March 11. Botswana’s Khama told a South African newspaper last month
that he was echoing comments voiced privately by other African
presidents when he expressed frustration at his government’s
dealings with Chinese companies. The state blames China National
Electric Equipment Corp. for delays in building generators at
the Moropule B coal-fired power plant that have resulted in
outages in the southern African country. Botswana is the world’s largest diamond producer and has an
estimated 200 billion metric tons of coal reserves, according to
the country’s Mines Ministry. ‘Bad Experiences’ “We have had some bad experiences with Chinese companies
in this country,” Khama said in an interview published in the
Johannesburg-based Business Day on Feb. 20. “We are going to be
looking very carefully at any company that originates from China
in providing construction services of any nature.” That’s a different tone from 2012, when Ghana’s then-Vice
President John Dramani Mahama said China had become a
“significant source of credit,” while borrowing from the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank was “quite
tiresome and comes with a lot of strings.” China paid for and built the African Union’s $200 million
headquarters in Addis Ababa that was opened last year. In July,
Xi’s predecessor Hu Jintao pledged $20 billion in new loans for
African infrastructure and manufacturing. In the time since, Chinese companies have faced labor
disputes in Zambia and Niger, kidnappings in Sudan and Egypt,
and the deaths of employees in attacks on projects in Nigeria
and Cameroon. China has more than 2,000 companies working throughout the
continent, Jia Qinglin , former chairman of the National
Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative
Conference , said in January 2012. “Yes, there are some growing pains,” Zhai said. “There
are more than 1 to 2 million Chinese entrepreneurs. They have
made a great contribution to local development, but due to
various reasons, for instance lack of mutual understanding,
there have been some problems.” To contact the reporters on this story:
David Malingha Doya in Dar es Salaam at
dmalingha@bloomberg.net ;
Robert Mbakouo in Brazzaville Via Nairobi at
rmbakouo@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Antony Sguazzin at
asguazzin@bloomberg.net ;
Peter Hirschberg at
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Why did president Ford change his name? The elder Ford never legally adopted the president. The president changed his name in 1935 after the deaths of his paternal King family grandparents to an Anglicized version of his stepfather’s name: Gerald Rudolph Ford.
Was Ford Speaker of the House? Ford was known to his colleagues in the House as a “Congressman’s Congressman”. In the early 1950s, Ford declined offers to run for either the Senate or the Michigan governorship. Rather, his ambition was to become Speaker of the House, which he called “the ultimate achievement.
What was Gerald Ford’s most controversial act as president? Ford’s first major act upon taking office was to grant a presidential pardon to Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal, prompting a major backlash to Ford’s presidency. He also created a conditional clemency program for Vietnam War draft dodgers.
Is Gerald Ford still alive? | FINEWEB-EDU |
Home > atmlab > circular > circ_medtest.m
circ_medtest
PURPOSE ^
SYNOPSIS ^
function pval = circ_medtest(alpha,md)
DESCRIPTION ^
[pval, z] = circ_medtest(alpha,w)
Tests for significance of the median.
H0: the population has median angle md
HA: the population has not median angle md
Input:
alpha sample of angles in radians
md median to test for
Output:
pval p-value
PHB 3/19/2009
References:
Biostatistical Analysis, J. H. Zar, 27.4
Circular Statistics Toolbox for Matlab
CROSS-REFERENCE INFORMATION ^
This function calls: This function is called by:
DOWNLOAD ^
circ_medtest.m
SOURCE CODE ^
0001 function pval = circ_medtest(alpha,md)
0002 %
0003 % [pval, z] = circ_medtest(alpha,w)
0004 % Tests for significance of the median.
0005 % H0: the population has median angle md
0006 % HA: the population has not median angle md
0007 %
0008 % Input:
0009 % alpha sample of angles in radians
0010 % md median to test for
0011 %
0012 % Output:
0013 % pval p-value
0014 %
0015 % PHB 3/19/2009
0016 %
0017 % References:
0018 % Biostatistical Analysis, J. H. Zar, 27.4
0019 %
0020 % Circular Statistics Toolbox for Matlab
0021
0022 % By Philipp Berens, 2009
0023 % berens@tuebingen.mpg.de - www.kyb.mpg.de/~berens/circStat.html
0024
0025 if size(alpha,2) > size(alpha,1)
0026 alpha = alpha';
0027 end
0028
0029 if length(md)>1
0030 error('Median can only be a single value.')
0031 end
0032
0033 n = length(alpha);
0034
0035 % compute deviations from median
0036 d = circ_dist(alpha,md);
0037
0038 n1 = sum(d<0);
0039 n2 = sum(d>0);
0040
0041 % compute p-value with binomial test
0042 pval = sum(binopdf([0:min(n1,n2) max(n1,n2):n],n,0.5));
0043
0044
0045
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-- Stock-Bond ‘Disconnect’ Favors U.S. Equities, Chadha Says
“A significant disconnect”
between stock valuations and bond yields in the U.S. has made
equities relatively cheap, according to Binky Chadha, Deutsche
Bank AG’s chief global strategist. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the comparison he used to reach
this conclusion. The projected price-earnings ratio for the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as compiled by Bloomberg, is
depicted along with the yield on 10-year Treasury notes. Ten-year yields would have to rise about 120 basis points
to track the estimated P/Es as they did during the first three
quarters of 2011, Chadha wrote in an April 5 report. Each basis
point amounts to 0.01 percentage point. The government security
yielded 2.04 percent as of yesterday. The differential primarily reflects the Federal Reserve ’s
plan to keep its benchmark interest rate close to zero at least
through late 2014, in his view. “The Fed’s outlook for unemployment and inflation is
therefore key” in determining when the gap might close, Chadha
wrote. Policy makers for the central bank are scheduled to meet
on April 24-25. Stocks are a bargain with the S&P 500 at about 13 times
analysts’ projected earnings for this year, the New York-based
strategist wrote. He cited a December report in which he called
the index fairly valued at 15.4 times future profit. To contact the reporter on this story:
David Wilson in New York at
dwilson@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Nick Baker at
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Basic Tutorials
Ankr.js (Advanced APIs) React Quickstart Guide
Ankr.js (Advanced APIs) React Quickstart Guide
By Dhaiwat Pandya (opens in a new tab)
Ankr.js (opens in a new tab) is a JavaScript library that lets you interact with Ankr's Advanced APIs (opens in a new tab). In this guide, you'll learn how to create an NFT viewer app using the following technologies:
Hello
Prerequisites
To successfully finish this guide, you'll only need Node.js (opens in a new tab) and Yarn (opens in a new tab) installed on your machine.
Step 1: Set Up Your Next.js Starter Project
Navigate into a directory of your choice and run the following command in your terminal to set up a new Next.js project:
yarn create next-app --ts ankrjs-tutorial
You can now navigate into the directory and launch the app:
cd ankrjs-tutorial && yarn dev
Here's what it looks like at the moment:
fig2
The app currently only contains the boilerplate code provided by Next.js. Over the course of the next few sections, you'll set up Ankr.js and use it to create a gallery of NFTs for any given wallet address.
Before we proceed to step 2, feel free to set up TailwindCSS by following their official guide for Next.js. (opens in a new tab)
Step 2: Install And Set Up Ankr.js
Next, you will install and set up Ankr.js so that you can use it to fetch all the NFTs for a given wallet address later on.
Start by installing the ankr.js package from npm:
# ./ankrjs-tutorial
yarn add @ankr.com/ankr.js
Next, create a new file named utils.ts at the root of your project directory. You will initialize Ankr.js in this file.
File: ./utils.ts
import AnkrscanProvider from '@ankr.com/ankr.js';
const provider = new AnkrscanProvider('');
Your provider instance will be your interface to the Ankr Advanced APIs whenever you want to fetch some data from them.
Step 3: Create NFT Retrieval Function
In this step, you will create a getNfts function that accepts a walletAddress and returns a list of NFTs owned by that address.
You can utilize the getNFTsByOwner function provided by Ankr.js for this.
File: ./utils.ts
import AnkrscanProvider from '@ankr.com/ankr.js';
const provider = new AnkrscanProvider('');
export const getNfts = async (address: string) => {
const { assets } = await provider.getNFTsByOwner({
walletAddress: address,
blockchain: 'eth',
});
return {
nfts: assets,
};
};
Just to see if things are working, let's call this function on our page i.e. ./pages/index.tsx and log out the output.
File: ./pages/index.tsx
import type { NextPage } from 'next';
import { useEffect } from 'react';
import { getNfts } from '../utils';
const Home: NextPage = () => {
useEffect(() => {
(async () => {
const { nfts } = await getNfts(
'0xB2Ebc9b3a788aFB1E942eD65B59E9E49A1eE500D'
);
console.log({ nfts });
})();
}, []);
return (
<div className='p-10 flex flex-col items-center'>
<h1 className='text-3xl font-bold'>NFT viewer</h1>
</div>
);
};
export default Home;
You should see a list of nfts being logged out in your browser's console.
fig3
Step 4: Create Wallet Address Input
You will now add an input to the UI that lets the user input any wallet address they want and pass it to the getNfts function.
You can keep track of the wallet address input in a state variable named walletAddress, hook it up to the input element in the UI, and then pass walletAddress to the getNfts function.
File: ./pages/index.tsx
/* eslint-disable @next/next/no-img-element */
import type { NextPage } from 'next';
import Link from 'next/link';
import { useState } from 'react';
import { useNfts } from '../hooks';
const Home: NextPage = () => {
const [walletAddress, setWalletAddress] = useState(
'0xB2Ebc9b3a788aFB1E942eD65B59E9E49A1eE500D'
);
useEffect(() => {
(async () => {
const { nfts } = await getNfts(walletAddress);
console.log({ nfts });
})();
}, [walletAddress]);
return (
<div className='p-10 flex flex-col items-center'>
<h1 className='text-3xl font-bold'>NFT viewer</h1>
<div className='flex flex-col mt-4'>
<label className='text-zinc-700' htmlFor='wallet-address'>
Wallet address
</label>
<input
id='wallet-address'
type='text'
value={walletAddress}
onChange={(e) => setWalletAddress(e.target.value)}
className='rounded p-2 w-[400px] border'
placeholder='Enter a wallet address here'
/>
</div>
</div>
);
};
export default Home;
You should see a different list of nfts being logged out in the console when you change the wallet address in the input now. Congrats! You are now able to fetch the list of NFTs owned by any given address.
fig4
Step 5: Display NFTs In Your UI
You can start off by storing the list of NFTs you fetch in a state variable named nfts. You can then loop through nfts and display all the NFTs in a grid.
File: ./pages/index.tsx
/* eslint-disable @next/next/no-img-element */
import type { NextPage } from 'next';
import Link from 'next/link';
import { useState } from 'react';
import { useNfts } from '../hooks';
const Home: NextPage = () => {
const [walletAddress, setWalletAddress] = useState(
'0xB2Ebc9b3a788aFB1E942eD65B59E9E49A1eE500D'
);
const [nfts, setNfts] = useState<Nft[]>([]);
useEffect(() => {
(async () => {
const { nfts } = await getNfts(walletAddress);
console.log({ nfts });
setNfts(nfts);
})();
}, [walletAddress]);
return (
<div className='p-10 flex flex-col items-center'>
...
<div className='grid grid-cols-3 mt-8 gap-4'>
{nfts.map((nft) => {
return (
<div
key={`${nft.contractAddress}/${nft.tokenId}`}
className='flex flex-col rounded border p-4'
>
<img
className='w-[200px] rounded shadow'
src={nft.imageUrl}
alt={nft.name}
/>
<span className='font-bold mt-4'>{nft.name}</span>
<span>{nft.collectionName}</span>
</div>
);
})}
</div>
</div>
);
};
export default Home;
You should now see a gallery of all the NFTs owned by the given wallet address of your choice. LFG!
Hello
Conclusion & Next Steps
Ankr.js and Ankr Advanced APIs have so much more to offer than what we covered in this quick-start guide. Ankr.js gives you access to all sorts of data from seven different chains. Learn more here! (opens in a new tab)
Apart from that, you can make some UX improvements to the app we built in the guide. We did not handle the loading or the error state for our app. You can try fixing that on your own!
If you want to go the fancy route, you can create a useNfts hook on top of the getNfts function to do this. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Top ETFs of the Week (GDX, EPOL, NUGT, URA)
The top ETFs in several categories this week are listed below.
Sector ETF - Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX )
The ETF closed out the week with a gain of 8.0 percent and is trading at the best level in a month. This has not been a good year for the gold miners, but the recent pattern suggests there could be more short-term upside for the ETF.
Longer-term the severe downtrend remains intact and the ETF is a gamble as investors would be fighting the trend. A major reason for the big move this week was a 24 percent gain from the number 11 holding, Agnico-Eagle Mines (NYSE: AEM ).
Country ETF - iShares MSCI Poland ETF (NYSE: EPOL )
The ETF closed at a new two-year high after gaining 3.8 percent this week. The last few months have been good to the ETF after a rough start to the year.
A six-month downtrend was broken in July and after a big move to new highs, the ETF is up eight percent in 2013. The risk remains high for investors in Poland and the longer-term trend on the ETF is not overly attractive. There are better options in the emerging market arena.
Leveraged ETF - Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3x ETF (NYSE: NUGT )
The big move in the mining stocks sent this extremely risky ETF up 23.9 percent on the week. To put this into perspective, the ETF is still down 90 percent in 2013 after the big really the last week. Similar to GDX, the move this week was based on a rising price for gold and a big breakout by AEM.
Any leveraged ETF is capable of a big week when the tide is moving in their favor, at the same time an investor can have the waves crash on them if they are on the wrong side of the trade.
For example, the Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bear 3x ETF (NYSE: JDST ) lost 33 percent this week because it is a bet on the small-cap gold miners falling and that was not the case. Investors, beware!
Niche ETF - Global X Uranium ETF (NYSE: URA )
A six percent rally on Friday made up the majority of the 6.3 percent weekly gain for the uranium ETF. This is a tough one to figure out because the top stocks in the ETF did not make the big moves to account for a six percent gain on Friday, but the action was confirmed through several sources.
The one very interesting difference on Friday was the volume for URA, which was eight times more than the average daily volume for the ETF. The ETF is worth watching, but do not jump into this bizarre situation at this time.
(c) 2013 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
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YOUNG--Robert E., Sr. (Bob), of Greenport, NY and Irasville, VT on Saturday, April 3, 2004 surrounded by his family. Born in Waterbury, CT, May 17, 1925, son of Leon and Olga Young, raised in Prospect, CT. Yale University 1945W (Pierson College), US Navy Pacific Fleet (USS Hanson). Columbia Law School. Lawyer--Thayer & Gilbert; Thayer, Gilbert & Segal; Gilbert, Segal & Young. Counsel to Reynolds Richards. Formerly of Brooklyn, Orangeburg, Thornwood and Manhattan, NY. Member--National Golf Links of America and Yale Club of NYC. His loving wife Dorothy, a sister, a brother, two sons, a stepson, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren survive him. He is predeceased by two wives and a daughter. Services on Thursday, April 8, 2004 at 10 A.M. at The Noroton Presbyterian Church, Darien, CT. In lieu of flowers, donations to the ''Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad,'' PO Box 58, Greenport, NY 11944. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
SharePoint Latest Interview Questions And Answers For Freshers in 2017
Questions & Answers
What is SharePoint?
SharePoint is a web-based, collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office.
Microsoft SharePoint is an extensible platform that provides a range of products that can help organizations with a solution for a variety of business needs.
What are the Core features of SharePoint?
The Core Features Of SharePoint are as Follows:
• SharePoint Sites facilitates to create websites.
• SharePoint Communities plays its role to collaborate with other peoples.
• Contents makes SharePoint a true CMS (Content Management System)
• Search Engine provides smart and efficient searching of enterprise contents.
• Insights bring information together from different data sources.
• Composition makes SharePoint an extensible platform and extends its capabilities by using different tools like SharePoint Designer etc.
What is a SharePoint Farm?
SharePoint Farm is a collection of one or more SharePoint server(s) working together in order to provide a set of SharePoint Services. Servers in a SharePoint Farm normally share common resources and owns a single Central Configuration database.
Web Applications Vs Site Collections Vs Sites in SharePoint?
• Web Application is a collection of Site Collections in SharePoint OR in order way a site collection resides in a web application.
• Site Collection in SharePoint is a collection of SharePoint sites that share common features like Content types, Templates, Site columns, permissions, Web Parts etc.
• SharePoint Site basically is a website. SharePoint allows us to create websites of specific types like the Personal site, a Team Site, a social media site, blogs or a Wiki Site etc.
What is the concept of Content Type in SharePoint?
• SharePoint is about Contents, so Content-Type is a reusable collection of settings and metadata to represents a certain type of content. For Instance, a Student Content-Type may have set of metadata like Student Enrollment ID, Name, year of enrollment etc.
• Content Type in SharePoint facilitates to organize contents in more meaningful way. It supports inheritance of properties, behaviors, and appearances.
What are Master Pages in SharePoint?
• Master Pages in SharePoint serves the same purpose as that of ASP.NET Master Pages. Certain parts of a web page normally remain same like header, footer or navigation bar etc. So, We create Master Pages with these common parts in order to achieve a consistent look and feel for a SharePoint Site.
Using Master pages provides lots of benefits including:
• Common Controls in one location only
• Writing less Code and Centralized Updating
• Better User Experience
• Flexibility
• Easier management of SharePoint Sites
What is a site?
A site is a collection of web pages used to store information in an organized manner. It stores a list of documents, discussions, events, tasks, and many other types of information. The site provides controlled access to share information among users.
What is a sub-site?
A sub-site is a single SharePoint within a site collection. A subsite can inherit permissions and navigation structure from its parent site or can be specified and managed independently.
What is a List?
A SharePoint list is a collection of records related to an entity like a student, employees, etc. These types of Records in the lists are termed as Items. A list contains columns or fields that define the item data or metadata.
What is a Document Library?
A document library allows users to easily upload, store, share, collaborate, and track documents or files.
What is Picture Library?
A picture library allows users to easily upload, store, share, collaborate and track images or digital pictures.
What is Versioning?
• Versioning allows updates, restoring and tracking of the items in a list or in a library when they are changed.
• Versioning makes use of version numbers to keep track of changes.
what is Web application in SharePoint?
• In SharePoint, the web-Application is nothing but an IIS website.
• We can create a web application from Central Admin.
• We can extend the web application in different zones once the web application is created.
What is a site collection in SharePoint?
• A site collection is nothing but a set of websites.
• Every site collection has the top-level site.
• There might be multiple site collections in web application and each site collection may have multiple child sites.
What is a farm in SharePoint?
• The farm is a collection of SharePoint servers having the same configuration database.
• Configuration DB stores all the required information to run the farm.
• Each farm is administered through a central administration.
What are site columns?
site columns are predefined data columns which are re-used in various content types. A content type is actually a collection of site columns.
What is meant by a site definition?
A site definition is a collection of files. the files are such as ONET.XML which defines the site template.
What do you mean by MOSS?
• MOSS stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
• It is the complete version of a portal-based platform for collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and Web services.
What is ONET.xml?
• Onet.xml file specifies all the components contained in a site. It is considered as the core of a site definition.
• It is present at the following location:
%SharePoint Root% TEMPLATESiteTemplatesXMLOnet.xml
What are the various classes in Server Object Model from a development point of view?
Following are the classes in Server Object Model from a development point of view:
• SPFarm
• SPWebApplication
• SPSite
• SPWeb
• SPList
• SPListItem
• SPDocumentLibrary
Explain Content types in SharePoint?
• A content type is a WSS type definition which is flexible and reusable.
• It is used to define the columns and behavior for an item in a list or a document in a document library.
Differentiate between Library vs List?
• The library is used to store the document whereas Lists are the container of similar items in the form of rows and columns.
• Core documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be created using a Library while you can not create a document in a List. The list can be used to attach a document.
What do you mean by Field Control?
• Field controls are ASP.NET 2.0 server controls. They provide basic field functionality in SharePoint.
• They also provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages.
What are the various types of input forms that can be created for a workflow?
Four types of input forms can be created for a workflow:
• Association form
• Initiation form
• Modification form
• Task edit form
Explain an ancestral type. How is it related to content types?
• An ancestral type is the base type that the content typed is derived from.
• It defines the metadata fields included with the custom content type.
Explain Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
• SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes.
• It integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities.
• It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching.
• It enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
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What we know — and don’t know — about Trump’s taxes
President Donald Trump has zealously guarded his tax returns from public disclosure, and he is headed for a legal showdown with House Democrats who want to pry them loose. But even as that battle plays out, there are some details that have already emerged about Trump’s troubled financial history. Here’s what we know — and don’t know — about Trump’s personal and business taxes. The latest: Trump claimed $1.17 billion in losses from 1985 to 1994, allowing him to avoid taxes for eight of those 10 years, according to IRS tax transcripts obtained by the New York Times and reported Tuesday. That includes red ink from scattered business ventures that soured, including his casinos in Atlantic City, N.J. “His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years,” the Times said. Trump also benefited from the ability to write down the costs of his real estate, something known as depreciation. Trump says it was all part of the “sport” of doing business back then. “Sometimes considered ‘tax shelter,’ you would get it by building, or even buying,” he wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes ... almost all real estate developers did — and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport,” he continued. Zero income taxes: Trump paid no federal income taxes in 1978 and 1979, and apparently none or next to none in 1991 and 1993, the Washington Post and POLITICO reported separately in spring 2016, based on records from New Jersey gaming regulators. He reported negative income for '78 and ’79. Casino and hotel losses were cited for the ‘90s. The $916 million loss: Trump claimed nearly $1 billion in net operating losses in 1995, according to three pages of returns for that year from three different states that were anonymously sent to the Times in late 2015. The losses were so big that they could have wiped out Trump’s tax liability for the next 18 years, and POLITICO reported they amounted “to almost 2 percent of all such deductions claimed that year.” Experts said it was impossible to tell from the returns how he generated such massive losses. An ‘edgy’ tactic: Trump avoided reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxable income from canceled debt in the early 1990s, the Times reported, by arguing that the income qualified for an exception that was at the time used by insolvent corporations. The maneuver was edgy but not unique, POLITICO reported: “Not only was there no law permitting the exception, there wasn’t a clear precedent in case law or IRS guidance.” Rich guy, low rate: In one of its only detailed public statements about Trump’s tax situation, the White House said in 2017 that Trump paid $38 million in federal income taxes in 2005, on $150 million in earnings. The disclosure came after journalist David Cay Johnston published two pages of returns showing that Trump paid an effective tax rate of about 25 percent in 2005. That year, the top marginal rate was 35 percent. A tangled web: Trump got at least $413 million (in today’s dollars) from his father in the 1990s, mostly by using tax dodges, the Times reported last year. They allegedly included avoiding gift taxes and taking inappropriate write-offs. Unanswered questions: Given that all the information in those reports dates back a decade or more, Democrats want to get their hands on Trump’s more recent returns, from 2013 to 2018. They say they need them to investigate how well the IRS performs its routine audits of sitting presidents. But they also hope they will answer questions like how much Trump currently pays in taxes, what tactics he has used to lower them and any possible conflicts of interest the returns could potentially reveal, with foreign actors and others. They could also try to make them public. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected the request on Monday, saying Democrats lack “a legitimate legislative purpose.” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) indicated Tuesday that the next stop on the issue would be federal court. CORRECTION: David Cay Johnston‘s name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
wommanhede
Etymology
From.
Noun
* 1) The state of being a woman; womanhood.
* 2) The female sex in general.
* 3) The traits or qualities characteristic of women; femininity, womanliness.
* 4) In men: effeminacy.
* 5) * John Lydgate, Troy Book
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Published on November 20, 2023 at 13:59
It's no secret that exercise is good for both body and mind. So it's important to keep moving, whatever your age. However, it's essential to choose your activity carefully and do everything you can to avoid injury.
The benefits of moving
There are many advantages to staying active, including:
• Preventing health problems
• Reducing the risk of falls
• Breaking isolation
• Improving mood and reducing the risk of depression
• Increasing energy levels
Equip yourself to avoid injury
Before starting any physical activity, it's important to make sure you've got everything you need to keep moving for a long time to come.
• Make sure you have the right equipment. For example, if you're hiking in the mountains, you'll need good shoes, or if you're biking, a helmet is a must.
• Warm up before you get moving. The aim is to prepare your body for the activity, so start slowly and gradually increase your heart rate.
• Stay hydrated before, during and after your activity. Sports drinks are available, but they are often way too sugary. Water is the ideal beverage for light-to-moderate-intensity activities.
• Take the weather into account and dress appropriately to avoid weather-related problems. Rain doesn't have to be unpleasant, just make sure you're well-dressed.
• Vary your activities to stimulate your interest and work different muscle groups.
• Avoid sports with a high risk of falls or contact. The aim is not to go to the Olympics. Simply to do something to improve your health.
• Listen to your body. If you feel discomfort or pain, stop and take a break.
• Consult a healthcare professional as needed, especially if you have a chronic condition, such as diabetes, or if you suffer from pain.
Which activity should you choose?
When selecting your activity, consider your personal preferences and passions. Opt for something that sparks your interest and motivates you. Incorporate this activity into your schedule to increase the likelihood of maintaining it regularly. Practicing with someone else, whether a friend or family member, can also boost your dedication. Make sure the activity you choose aligns with your budget, as excessively expensive activities could discourage your long-term commitment. Take advantage of any discounts and benefits reserved for seniors whenever possible.
Getting moving doesn't have to be complicated, there are plenty of physical activities within easy reach:
• Walking is a complete physical activity that involves your whole body. It requires no equipment other than a good pair of shoes. In addition to improving cardiovascular fitness, it can help prevent osteoporosis.
• Swimming is a great sport for those suffering from pain. Swimming exerts less impact on the joints.
• Cycling is good exercise for improving endurance and balance. Just watch out for falls and wear a helmet.
• Yoga improves flexibility and helps reduce stress and anxiety.
• Golf is a sport that enables you to have a good time outdoors, walk a reasonable distance (if you don't take a cart, of course) and have a good time with friends.
• Muscle-building exercises have the advantage of improving muscle mass and, by the same token, reducing the risk of falls and injuries. There's no need to use weights. Try elastic bands or everyday objects.
Moving doesn't necessarily mean intensive sports
Every opportunity is a good one to get moving, whether you're doing housework, gardening or walking to run your errands. Walk whenever you can and take the stairs instead of the elevator. One extra step in your day is better than nothing!
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Camille Darsières
Camille Darsières (born 19 May 1932 in Fort-de-France, Martinique; died 14 December 2006) was a socialist politician from Martinique who served as the Deputy for Martinique's 3rd constituency in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2002. He was a member of the Martinican Progressive Party and succeeded the founder of that party, Aimé Césaire in the constituency. | WIKI |
Anna Reynolds (singer)
Anna Reynolds (5 June 1930 – 24 February 2014) was an English classical mezzo-soprano and contralto singer in opera and concert.
Professional career
Ann Reynolds was born in Canterbury. She first studied piano, then voice at the Royal Academy of Music. She continued her voice studies with Debora Fambri and Re Koster in Rome, where she adopted Anna as her stage name. Jean Cox, an American-born tenor best known for his Wagner performances, was her husband.
Reynolds made her operatic debut in 1960 in Parma as Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Her debut in England was in 1962 as Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at Glyndebourne, and she also sang there the roles of Ortensia (La pietra del paragone, 1964) and Annina (Der Rosenkavalier, 1965).
In 1963 she performed the part of the Angel in Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius in London, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. Her first appearance at Covent Garden in London was in 1967, Adelaide in Richard Strauss's Arabella, and returned in 1975 for Andromache in Michael Tippett's King Priam.
Reynolds first sang at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968–69, as Flosshilde in Wagner's Das Rheingold, and she returned in the 1975 Ring cycle as Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, and Waltraute and the Second Norn in Götterdämmerung. At the Bayreuth Festival, she first appeared in 1970 as Fricka and sang regularly through 1976. Also in 1970 she first performed at the Salzburg Festival in the Ring cycle, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Reynolds recorded in 1958 Bach's Magnificat and Actus Tragicus with Hermann Scherchen conducting Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI. With Lorin Maazel conducting the RIAS-Kammerchor and the Berlin Radio-Symphonie Orchester, she recorded in 1965 Bach's Mass in B minor with Teresa Stich-Randall, Ernst Haefliger and John Shirley-Quirk, and in 1966 Bach's Easter Oratorio with Helen Donath, Haefliger and Martti Talvela. She recorded several Bach cantatas with Karl Richter, the Münchener Bach-Chor and the Münchener Bach-Orchester, including, in 1972, Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81, with Peter Schreier and Theo Adam
She participated in Leonard Bernstein's renditions of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, his Das Lied von der Erde and other Lieder. She premiered John Tavener's dramatic cantata The Whale at a Proms concert on 1 August 1969, conducted by David Atherton. Also appearing was barritone Raimund Herincx, narrator Alvar Lidell, and the composer playing pipe and hammond organs. She also participated on the recording of this piece for Apple Records in 1970.
She died in Peesten, Germany on 24 February 2014, aged 83, from undisclosed causes. | WIKI |
Page:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 2.djvu/34
22 Such are a few of the characteristics of a native minstrelsy second to none in the annals of aboriginal art. But the lines of demarcation by which national peculiarities were preserved are being daily obliterated: steam has worked many wonders, of which this is not the least remarkable. Ireland at the present day differs but little from England, Wales, or Scotland. The tunes whistled in the Irish streets are not the melodies to which Moore in 1808 supplied words, but 'The March of the Men of Harlech,' 'Mandolinata,' and 'Stride la vampa' from Verdi's 'Trovatore.' The terrible famine of 1847, followed as it was by fever and a gigantic emigration that laid whole districts waste, could not fail to produce sweeping artistic as well as social changes. Much of the antient music must have perished with the population. Petrie's volume probably represents the last comprehensive effort to collect the aboriginal strains of Irish music: although given to the world in 1855, it embraced the labours of many previous years.
It remains but to notice the various collections of Irish music. These are—
* 1) Burke Thumoth, cir. 1720.
* 2) Neal of Christ-church Yard, 1721.
* 3) Bunting's, first 1796, second 1809, third 1840.
* 4) Francis Holden (cited by Geo. Petrie). 1806.
* 5) Moore, with Stevenson, and subsequently Sir H. Bishop; ten numbers and supplement, 1808–1834.
* 6) John Mulholland of Belfast, 1810.
* 7) G. Thomson (Beethoven's accompaniments), 1814.
* 8) Fitzsimons and John Smith, 1816.
* 9) Hon. Geo. O'Callaghan with Stevenson, 1821–2.
* 10) 'The Citizen' magazine, 1840.
* 11) Horncastle, London, 1844.
* 12) O'Daly, 'Poets and Poetry of Munster,' 1853.
* 13) G. Petrie, in connection with the 'Society for the Preservation of Irish Music,' 1855. Of this valuable work but 1 vol. and part of a second appeared.
* 14) Molloy, 1874.
* 15) Joyce, 1875.
* 16) Hoffmann, 1877.
Dance tunes only.
* 1) R. M. Levey, 1858–78.
* 2) P. Hughes, 1860.
Of these, few are reliable as authorities, save those of Petrie and Bunting, both honoured names in the annals of Irish music. It is to a Mr. Geo. Thomson, of the Trustees' Office, Edinburgh, who was much interested in national airs from 1792–1820, especially those of Scotland, and engaged Pleyel, Kozeluch, Haydn, Beethoven, Hummel, and Weber, as arrangers of them, that we owe the Irish music arranged by Beethoven between the years 1810 and 1819. Among 16 national airs, with variations, as duets for violin (or flute) and piano (op. 105, 107), are 3 Irish melodies—'The last rose' (a very incorrect version of the air), 'While History's Muse,' and 'O had we some bright little isle.' Although interesting in their way, these little works of Beethoven are very inferior to his Vocal Collections. Of these '12 Irish airs with accompaniments of piano, violin, and cello' (obbligato), were published in 1855 by Artaria & Co. of Vienna, as proprietors of Beethoven's MS. It is likely that Messrs. Power, owners of Moore's copyright lines, refused Mr. Thomson permission to publish them along with Beethoven's arrangements, for in the new edition of Breitkopf & Härtel, of which they form No. 258, the melodies are adapted to verses (some comic, and of extreme vulgarity) by Joanna Baillie and others; three are arranged as vocal duets; two have a choral refrain. Another collection of 25 Irish airs forms No. 261 of Breitkopf & Härtel's edition; they are arranged in similar form and are equal in excellence; some are found in Moore, others are of doubtful authenticity: of the air called 'Garryone,' Beethoven has different arrangements in each. That whoever furnished the great musician with the text of the airs must have been careless or incompetent, will be evident by a comparison of the air 'Colleen dhas,' as found in No. 9 of Artaria's edition, with that already given in this article: not only is the scale destroyed and the air deprived of its pathetic peculiarity, but whole strains are omitted altogether. (The air is here transposed for the sake of comparison.)
Some Irish airs among others arranged by Beethoven, appear in No. 259 of Breitkopf & Härtel's edition, and No. 262 consists of 20 of them alone. [ R. P. S. ] IRON CHEST, THE. An English play with music; the words by G. Colman, jun., the music by Storace. Produced at Drury Lane March 12, 1796. A quintet from it, 'Five times by the taper's light,' was a favourite until comparatively lately, and will be found in the 'Musical Library.' The piece is based on Caleb Williams; and the Advertisement to the reader contains the author's announcement that he was 'G. Colman the younger.' [ G. ] ISAAC,. The time and place of the birth of so great a man becomes of more than usual interest when upon its decision depends his claim to be called Germany's first great composer. If he was really a German, which all historians and the evidence of his works lead us to believe, it is certain that the beginning of the 16th century found him the central figure of the few musicians his country could then number. Neither Paul Hoffhaimer, the organist and composer, who, after a life of nearly ninety years (1449–1537) found his last resting-place at Salzburg, nor Thomas Stoltzer, who, in his short time of thirty-six years made his name still more famous, nor even Heinrich Finck with his lovely lieder and hymns, —none of these were so great as Isaac. They had much in common with him, and their names may be found side by side with | WIKI |
Php7.3-fpm fails to start
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4 [8 Gb]
YunoHost version: 4.2.6.1
I have access to my server : Through all means
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : No
php7.3-fpm fails to start after [re]boot. Here’s the log: hastebin
I realised about it after removing SOGO, but I don’t know if it’s related and I don’t know where the old logs are stored.
Does the issue persists if you restart the service ?
How do you mean?
I start the service manually after each reboot, via GUI.
Eh okay, but it’s supposed to be starting automatically …?
Or do you mean that because of that issue, you have to start it manually ?
What I meant was “if you go to Services > php7.3-fpm in the webadmin, then click Start (or Restart), does the service start correctly” ?
Yep, that’s the problem: it doesn’t start automatically.
I start it manually by going into Services > php7.3-fpm > Start. And it runs ok from that moment on.
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Talk:Acton School of Business
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I removed the "prod" tag (an experimental deletion system) because the school has articles about it in business week, forbes, etc. an AfD might be in order but not by me. Article does need serious work, though. Herostratus 19:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree, this article needs a lot of changes. You can easily tell it was written to advertise the school, which is disheartening.
Puff peace, cut the fluf. Btw, PeopleAdmin's software is complete crap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
actonmba.org
Why does this business school have a .org domain? Is it not entitled to a .edu domain? — Charles Stewart (talk) 18:44, 10 December 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
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