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GLAUCOMA
Glaucoma is a condition that causes damage to your eye's optic nerve and gets worse over time. It's often associated with a buildup of pressure inside the eye. Glaucoma tends to be inherited and may not show up until later in life.
The increased pressure, called intraocular pressure, can damage the optic nerve, which transmits images to the brain.
If damage to the optic nerve from high eye pressure continues, glaucoma will cause permanent loss of vision.
Without treatment, glaucoma can cause total permanent blindness within a few years.
Because most people with glaucoma have no early symptoms or pain from this increased pressure, it is important to see your eye doctor regularly so that glaucoma can be diagnosed and treated before long-term visual loss occurs.
If you are over the age of 40 and if you have a family history of glaucoma, you should have a complete eye exam with an eye doctor every one to two years.
If you have health problems such as diabetes or a family history of glaucoma or are at risk for other eye diseases, you may need to visit your eye doctor more frequently.
TYPES
Open Angle Glaucoma
This is the most common form and it is painless. Vision remains normal till the advanced stage. Hence it often goes unnoticed by the patient. The eyeball’s drainage system slowly becomes less effective leading to high Intra ocular pressure.
Closed Angle Glaucoma
In this type the eyeball’s drainage system physically closes up leading to high internal pressure. This can be painful especially if it occurs suddenly.
Normal Tension Glaucoma
In few people the optic nerve is so weak that it gets damaged with the normal eye pressure. This type of glaucoma is also painless.
Other types
Diabetes, Trauma, Short sight (myopia), long sight (hypermetropia), steroids, cataracts, inflammation, eye surgery etc can also cause glaucoma. At times children may be born with this condition.
GLAUCOMA SUSPECTS
Some patients may have high eye pressure without any detectable nerve damage. Others have weak looking nerves but no definite loss of function. These patients need regular monitoring.
INVESTIGATIONS
Recording of Intra Ocular Pressure
Gonioscopy – To find out the status of the drainage system
Increase in size of the cup can be an indication of Glaucoma.
Computerized visual field test.
High resolution imaging of the Optic nerve. eg: OCT
Glaucoma is a lifelong disease. Once diagnosed the patient requires strict follow-up with the eye doctor. The treatment is mainly focused on lowering the eye ball pressure by one or more of the following methods:
Eye drops – Eye drops work in a number of ways, but mostly by lowering your eyeball pressure
Laser treatment -
Laser can be used to treat certain types of glaucoma. It is also used to prevent the acute form of glaucoma in some patients.
Surgery -
Eye surgery is always a last resort when the above methods do not stop the damage of optic nerve.
The goal of glaucoma treatment is to prevent further damage to the optic nerve and to preserve the remaining vision.
Unfortunately glaucoma is not a preventable disease. The best way to combat it is to detect it early especially if you belong to high risk groups
Age > 40 years
Family History
Steroid use
Diabetes Mellitus
high blood pressure
Eye trauma
high refractive error
Regular eye checkup can detect glaucoma at a very early stage and hence prevent it from stealing your vision.
Glaucoma often is called the "silent thief of sight," because most types typically cause no pain and produce no symptoms until noticeable vision loss occurs.
Glaucoma can present with one or more of the following symptoms.
• Pain and redness
• Headache
• Colour haloes (rings) around lights
• Frequent change in glass power
Glaucoma causes irreversible loss of vision. Hence a regular eye check up and early detection and treatment is important.
Though Glaucoma can affect anyone, individuals with risk factors have more chance to get it.
glaucoma can affect any age group including new born babies and children. Babies with large looking eyes and having constant watering and aversion to bright light should have an eye check up. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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HENRY CAVENDISH ESQR
Eldest Son of the Right Honorable
LORD CHARLES CAVENDISH,
Third Son of William,
2''ND. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE''.
Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society ANTIQUARIES LONDON.
Trustee of the British Museum
and Foreign Associate in the First Class
of the INSTITUTE at Paris. | WIKI |
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Hello Sir, re: Michigan covid timeline, could you put this source to show that Whitmer opened the UP for Memorial weekend when covid raged on downstate. I would much appreciate this. https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/gov-gretchen-whitmer-reopen-northern-michigan-memorial-day-weekend MrsBergs (talk) 20:15, 3 August 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Wang Changshun
Wang Changshun (born 1957) is a Chinese business executive who is the chairman of the board for China Southern Airlines as of 2017. Concurrently, he serves as general manager of the China National Aviation Holding Company (CNAHC), and the vice chairman of the board at China National Aviation Corporation. Previously he worked for various regulatory agencies, including Air China and the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Wang born in Shaanxi Province in July 1957. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a Ph.D. in management science and engineering. He began working in civil aviation in February 1976, working primarily in air traffic control. He later served as deputy general manager of China Xinjiang Airlines. From 2000 to 2004, he worked at China Southern Airlines, serving as general manager, deputy general manager, and vice chairman of the board. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a deputy director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (later renamed as the Civil Aviation Administration). From 2008 to 2011, Wang worked as deputy director of the Civil Aviation Administration and chairman of the National Labour Union of Civil Aviation. Since 2011, he worked with CNAHC. He was also appointed president of Air China that year.
In January 2012, Wang was selected as the new chairman of Air China by its shareholders after Kong Dong retired. In an October 2012 interview, Wang said that information technology was a "particular focus" for him in his leadership position at Air China because it offered opportunities to improve operating control and "key performance indicators".
Wang has also been the Secretary of Communist Party Committee and Deputy Director of Xin Jiang Regional Administration. He was selected to serve as president of the 68th (2012) Annual General Meeting (AGM) International Air Transport Association (IATA) and World Air Transport Summit, held in Beijing. He presided over the meeting, which had record attendance by 750 delegates and 350 representatives of the news media. | WIKI |
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In Java, memory management is handled automatically, the programmer doesn’t need to worry about reference objects that have been released. There is one downside to this approach, that the programmer cannot know when a particular object will be collected. However, the java.lang.ref package defines classes that provide a limited degree of interaction with the garbage collector. The concrete classes SoftReferenceWeakReference and PhantomReference are subclasses of Reference that interact with the garbage collector in different ways. In our previous journal entry we introduced the Reference Queues, but here we will dig a little deep in discussing the functionality and behavior of Phantom Reference classes. We will also see how it can be used.
Before we start understanding the Phantom Reference classes, let’s first understand the problems with the Finalization. Finalization can be used to perform a cleanup process on objects that garbage collector considers as unreachable. This feature can be utilized to reclaim native resources associated with an object. However, finalizers have many problems associated.
• We can’t foresee the call of finalize(). This is because of the unpredictability nature of Garbage Collection, therefore the calling of finalize() cannot be predicted.
• Finalization can slow down an application execution. Managing objects with a finalize() method take more resources from the JVM than normal objects.
There is no guarantee that the object will be garbage collected. The object might never become eligible for GC because it could be reachable through the entire lifetime of the JVM. It is also possible that no garbage collection actually runs from the time the object became eligible and before JVM stops.
You should also use finalization only when it is absolutely necessary. Finalization is a nondeterministic — and sometimes unpredictable — process. The less you rely on it, the smaller the impact it will have on the JVM and your application
Phantom References
phantom reachable, phantomly reachable
An object is phantom reachable if it is neither strongly, softly, or weakly reachable and has been finalized and there is a path from the roots to it that contains at least one phantom reference.
The PhantomReference constructor accepts two arguments:
referent – the object the new phantom reference will refer to
q – the reference is registered with the given queue.
The argument q represents the instance of the ReferenceQueue class. If the garbage collector determines that the referent of a phantom reference is phantom reachable, then the PhantomReference will be added to this ReferenceQueue. You can then retrieve the PhantomReference by using the remove() methods of the ReferenceQueue class.
Consider the following example,
ReferenceQueue q = new ReferenceQueue();
PhantomReference pr = new PhantomReference(object, referenceQueue);
// Later on another point
Reference r = q.remove();
// Now, clear up any thing you want
When to use PhantomReference?
Phantom Reference can be used in situations, where sometimes using finalize() is not the sensible thing to do. This reference type differs from the other types defined in java.lang.ref Package because it isn’t meant to be used to access the object, but as a signal that the object has already been finalized, and the garbage collector is ready to reclaim its memory.
Phantom reference objects, which are enqueued after the collector determines that their referents may otherwise be reclaimed. Phantom references are most often used for scheduling pre-mortem cleanup actions in a more flexible way than is possible with the Java finalization mechanism.
Developers tend to use finalize() method to perform the cleanup process of objects which is usually not advisable. As mentioned above, Finalizers have an impact on the performance of the garbage collector since objects with finalizers are slow to garbage collect.
The safest way to know whether an object has been removed from the memory is Phantom References. Let us understand this by taking an example of an application that deals with large data files. We want to load a big file into the memory when there already is another big file in memory which is ready for garbage collection. In such a scenario, we want to wait until the old file is collected before loading a new one. In the scenario like these, phantom references are flexible and safe options to choose. The reference to the old file will be enqueued in the ReferenceQueue object once the old file is finalized. After receiving that reference, we can load the new file into the memory.
In a similar fashion, we can use Phantom References to implement a Connection Pool. We can easily gain control over the number of open connections and can block until one becomes available.
Reference Objects and Garbage Collection
Once there are no strong references to the referent all the Soft References can be garbage collected. All softly reachable objects will be reclaimed before an OutOfMemoryException is thrown.
Weak Reference can be garbage collected when there are no strong or soft references to the referent. However, unlike Soft Reference, they are garbage collected on a gc even when memory is abundant. They often can be used for “canonical mappings” where each object has a unique identifier (one-to-one), and in collections of “listeners”.
On the other hand, Phantom Reference, can be garbage collected once there are no strong, soft or weak references to the referent. When an object is phantomly reachable, it means the object is already finalized but not yet reclaimed, so the GC enqueues it in a ReferenceQueue for post-finalization processing.
Unlike soft and weak references, phantom references are not automatically cleared by the garbage collector as they are enqueued. An object that is reachable via phantom references will remain so until all such references are cleared or themselves become unreachable.
PhantomReference is not automatically cleared when it is enqueued, so when we remove a PhantomReference from a ReferenceQueue, we must call its clear() method or allow the PhantomReference object itself to be garbage-collected.
Conclusion
We should try to avoid finalize() as much as possible. There is no guarantee if the finalize() method will be called promptly following garbage collection, or even it will be called. If the finalize method runs for a long time, it can delay execution of finalize() methods of other objects. Instead of relying on finalize(), we can use reference types defined in java.lang.ref package. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Bio: Ajitesh Barman is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The author has contributed to research in topics: Einstein tensor & Tensor (intrinsic definition). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 13 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the shear deformation analysis and diffusion behavior of copper-Zirconium Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG) for different combinations of processing parameters.
Abstract: Shear deformation analysis and diffusion behavior of Copper-Zirconium Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG) is studied for different combinations of processing parameters. Melt holding temperature, melt holding duration, cooling rate of melt and composition of BMG are varied to obtain BMGs of different structures. The as-quenched structures are characterized using Radial Distribution Function (RDF) and Self-Diffusion constant values (of each atom type). The objective of this study is to design a Cu-Zr BMG which can absorb maximum energy and still deform as little as possible while maximizing its diffusivity during shear deformation of the structure. For this, metamodels were constructed by feeding the Molecular Dynamics (MD) results to an Evolutionary Neural Network (EvoNN) so as to generate the desired objective functions which are then optimized through multiobjective genetic algorithm. This led to identification of some hitherto unknown structures, characterized by atomic coordinates, which have good resistance ...
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TL;DR: In this paper , a special type of quarter-symmetric non-metric ϕ and η-connection on a Kenmotsu manifold admits Z−tensor, which is a generalization of Einstein tensor that comes from general relativity.
Abstract: The object of this paper is to study Kenmotsu manifolds admitting Z−tensor, which is a generalization of Einstein tensor that comes from general relativity. We define a special type of quarter-symmetric non-metric ϕ and η-connection on a Kenmotsu manifold and we examine some geometric properties of such manifolds with Z−tensor. Some semi-symmetry conditions related to Z−tensor are studied on Kenmotsu manifolds and finally, we observe our results on a 5-dimensional Kenmotsu manifold.
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TL;DR: In this article, a genetic algorithm-based multi-objective optimization method was used to optimize two conflicting requirements of tensile stress and time-to-rupture using a number of evolutionary approaches.
Abstract: Data-driven models were constructed for the mechanical properties of multi-component Ni-based superalloys, based on systematically planned, limited experimental data using a number of evolutionary approaches. Novel alloy design was carried out by optimizing two conflicting requirements of maximizing tensile stress and time-to-rupture using a genetic algorithm-based multi-objective optimization method. The procedure resulted in a number of optimized alloys having superior properties. The results were corroborated by a rigorous thermodynamic analysis and the alloys found were further classified in terms of their expected levels of hardenabilty, creep, and corrosion resistances along with the two original objectives that were optimized. A number of hitherto unknown alloys with potential superior properties in terms of all the attributes ultimately emerged through these analyses. This work is focused on providing the experimentalists with linear correlations among the design variables and between the design v...
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TL;DR: The current state of the art of materials research using multi-objective genetic and evolutionary algorithms is briefly presented with critical analyses in this paper, focusing on the achievements to date and the specific needs for further improvement.
Abstract: The current state of the art of materials research using multi-objective genetic and evolutionary algorithms is briefly presented with critical analyses. The basic concepts of multi-objective optimisation and Pareto optimality are explained in simple terms and the advantages of an evolutionary approach are emphasised. Current materials related research in this area is summarised, focusing on the achievements to date and the specific needs for further improvement.
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TL;DR: In this article, a genetic algorithm combined with principal components analysis (PCA) coupled Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) is employed to improve the straight turning process of MMCs.
Abstract: The metal matrix composites (MMCs) have gained acceptance in an extensive range of applications owing to their high strength to mass ratio. Machining of such complex MMCs is often challenging. It is essential to optimize the controllable machining parameters to simultaneously attain manifold objectives. In the current work, response surface design is created for experiments, and Genetic algorithm (GA) combined with Principal Components Analysis (PCA) coupled Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) is employed to improve the straight turning process of MMCs. The procedure is demonstrated by machining aluminum-based MMC with 25% SiC particulates. The procedure aims at identifying optimal combination of machining parameters to obtain high surface quality at lower cutting force without increasing the specific power consumption. PCA is helpful in providing the individual uncorrelated quality characteristics called as quality indices that do not have any influence on other responses. Individual quality indices h...
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Steering Worker
The lecturesight-steeringworker-relativemove bundle provides the Relative Move Camera Steering Worker, which is responsible for moving the camera.
The steering worker is given a target position, monitors the camera position and decides whether to move the camera and at what speed. The target position is updated by the Camera Operator, or can be set via console command or in the PTZ Camera Control window.
In order to produce smooth camera movements, the steering worker will gradually decrease the speed of the camera movement as it gets closer to the target. Also if the target position is already near the actual position of the camera the steering worker will produce slow correction moves.
Under a certain distance the steering worker will not produce any correction moves which compensates for slightly oscillating targets.
Configuration
Scene limits, alpha and stop values are specified in the PTZ camera co-ordinate system.
Key Default Description
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.scene.lim it.left Left-most limit of the scene from the overview image
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.scene.lim it.right Right-most limit of the scene from the overview image
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.scene.lim it.top Top-most limit of the scene from the overview image
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.scene.lim it.bottom Bottom limit of the scene from the overview image
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.damp .pan 1.0 Maximum pan speed(0 to 1)
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.damp .tilt 1.0 Maximum tilt speed(0 to 1)
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.alph a.x 400 Horizontal region in which the pan speed should decrease
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.alph a.y 400 Vertical region in which the tilt speed should decrease
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.stop .x 10 Stop pan movement when camera is within this horizontal distance of the target
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.stop .y 10 Stop tilt movement when camera is within this vertical distance of the target
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.xflip false Flip x co-ordinates if required when camera is mounted inverted.
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.yflip false Flip y co-ordinates if required when camera is mounted inverted.
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.move.init ial.delay 2500 Initial delay in ms after setting initial position before starting to move.
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.focus.fix ed false If true, disable auto-focus after setting initial position.
cv.lecturesight.ptz.steering. worker.relativemove.autostart true Controls if the camera steering is active when the module is started.
Console Commands
Command Description
cs:on Activates the camera steering.
cs:off Deactivates the camera steering.
cs:move Make the camera move the specified pan and tilt coordinates. The coordinates are normalized in a value range between -1.0 and 1.0, where -1 is left / bottom and 1.0 is right / top.
cs:zoom Makes the camera set the specified zoom. The zoom value is normalized to a value range of 0.0 to 1.0. where 0 is neutral and 1 is maximum zoom.
cs:home Makes the camera move to its home position. For most models this will be pan=0.0 and tilt=0.0. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Draft (nautical)
I believe this is one of those 'drafts' that is normally spelt 'draught' in British English. Shouldn't this be indicated?
I have re-worked the Hull (watercraft) article to cover off and collect a number of hullform related stubs. Jmvolc 19:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Interwiki links to this page
* This article keeps getting put up for speedy deletion as there are no links coming in to it, which is patently false as there are plenty of links in *other* wikipedias coming to this Draft (nautical). Please fix those iw links. -Yupik 15:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
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defied the power of France. His reign, which lasted till 1402, marked an important advance in the prosperity of the chief Geldrian towns, Nymwegen, Roermonde, Zutphen, and Arnhem, where the rise of a considerable cloth industry connects itself with his firm attachment to the English alliance. Under his brother and successor, who remained childless like himself, the diet of the duchy resolved that no Duke should henceforth be acknowledged in Gelderland unless approved by the majority of the knightly Order (many of whose members down to the close of the fifteenth century were virtually independent), and by the smaller towns, with the unanimous assent of the above-mentioned chief towns of the "four quarters"; while any partition of the duchy, or alienation of any section of it, was made conditional on the sanction of the diet. Thus in 1423, on the death of Duke Rainald IV, the towns raised to the ducal dignity his sister's grandson Arnold of Egmond, who was still a boy in years. Although the Emperor Sigismund had invested the Duke of Berg with the duchy of Gelders, Arnold retained the confidence of the Estates by enlarging their privileges, and enjoyed the support of Duke Philip of Burgundy, to whose niece, the daughter of Duke Adolf of Cleves, he was betrothed, and afterwards united in marriage. Subsequently, however, Duke Arnold fell out with his ally as to the succession to the see of Utrecht; whereupon Philip joined with the four chief towns of Gelderland in the successful attempt of Arnold's son Adolf to substitute his own for his father's authority. But when in 1467 Charles the Bold became Duke of Burgundy, who could not bring himself to befriend a friend of the towns, Adolf after rejecting a compromise was thrown into prison, and his incapable father, against the will of the towns and the law of the land, pledged his duchy to Charles for 300,000 Rhenish florins (1471). On Arnold's death two years later, Charles took possession of the duchy. Nymwegen, whose stout resistance he had overcome by force, was subjected to a heavy fine; and only such of the towns as had voluntarily submitted to the Burgundian regime were confirmed in certain of their privileges. During the rest of the reign of Charles the Bold Arnold's son Charles and his sister were kept at the Burgundian Court, and Gelderland was ruled with an iron hand; but the Burgundian system of administration was probably to the advantage of the Geldrian population at large, though it had to furnish troops for his wars. As will be seen, a long and troublous interval of rebellion and war was to ensue, before in 1543, William of Juliers, whom Charles of Egmond had named his successor, resigned his claims to Gelders and Zutphen, and the entire Netherlands were united in the hands of the Emperor Charles V.
The extension by the Dukes of Burgundy of their territorial dominion over the Netherlands necessitated the establishment by them of a strong monarchical authority. A number of States, of which each had a history and institutions of its own, while the most important of them abounded | WIKI |
@article {2581, title = {Back-action evading impulse measurement with mechanical quantum sensors}, year = {2019}, month = {10/25/2019}, abstract = {
The quantum measurement of any observable naturally leads to noise added by the act of measurement. Approaches to evade or reduce this noise can lead to substantial improvements in a wide variety of sensors, from laser interferometers to precision magnetometers and more. In this paper, we develop a measurement protocol based upon pioneering work by the gravitational wave community which allows for reduction of added noise from measurement by coupling an optical field to the momentum of a small mirror. As a specific implementation, we present a continuous measurement protocol using a double-ring optomechanical cavity. We demonstrate that with experimentally-relevant parameters, this protocol can lead to significant back-action noise evasion, yielding measurement noise below the standard quantum limit over many decades of frequency.
}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.11892.pdf}, author = {Sohitri Ghosh and Daniel Carney and Peter Shawhan and Jacob M Taylor} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Censorship
Hey, this article is looking goood these days - hurrah! One question, from the intro:
* Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically-charged writings face censorship in his native land to the present day.
Does anyone know what instances of recent (post-Suharto, I assume) censorship is this is referring to? Unless I missed it, it's not mentioned in the rest of the text, but it seems important, so it should be explained more fully, with a citation. Anyone? CDC (talk) 05:07, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
* This is not accurate anymore, that statement should be removed.
Yes, this has been addressed. (Wallamoose (talk) 18:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC))
Name
Someone knowledgeable about such matters should add a sentence on why he's know as Pramoedya, not as Toer. Indonesia names can be confusing to those not familiar with the onomastic conventions. Inter lingua talk email 22:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
* This was done. (Wallamoose (talk) 18:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC))
Lovely article
This is a fine article about the career of Pramoedya. Thank you to the many editors who have honored this literary great by writing his career up in this manner. (Wallamoose (talk) 18:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC))
Contradictory
The article claims he was not allowed to have even a pencil and that he narrated his works orally, but then later states that he was later able to write the stories down.
This needs to be clarified. I think there is little doubt that he WAS writing things on paper--scraps of paper, I think I have read/heard--and that somehow he got manuscripts back to Java. This I have never seen explained. While the tetralogy--a fictional story--could conceivably have been remembered and written back on Java (but not what happened, I believe), for other works like his book on comfort women, that is simply not possible.
I don't have interviews and other references on hand, so I can't resolve this contradiction, but perhaps others can.
One simple--but not ideal--solution would be to add the words "at times" before the statement about the pencil. I don't know if regulations changed, or the authorities looked away...and that could influence the accuracy even of this simple patch.
Either way, the article is obviously "wrong" because of the contradiction. (Dewobroto (talk) 03:16, 30 November 2017 (UTC)) | WIKI |
Herma (Xenakis)
Herma (from Greek ἕρμα "a stringing together, a foundation") is a piece for solo piano composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1961. About ten minutes long, it is based on a formulation of the algebraic equations of Boolean algebra, and is also an example of what Xenakis called symbolic music.
Composition
Herma was the composer's first major work for piano. It was composed after a visit to Japan in 1961, where Xenakis befriended pianist and composer Yūji Takahashi. Xenakis completed the piece upon his return to Paris and dedicated it to Takahashi, who premièred the piece on February 2, 1962. The pianist's impression of that concert was that the piece "made some excited and wonder, others feel painful".
Boolean algebra is the main mathematical principle behind Herma. Xenakis defines several pitch sets and proceeds to apply various logical operations to them. The results are incorporated into music by using successions and combinations of various sets. Stochastic procedures are used to select the order and place of notes within each set.
The piece has been described by the pianist and critic Susan Bradshaw as "[deserving] the label of the most difficult piano piece ever written", because of its extreme tempo. | WIKI |
How to move windows between monitors with Windows 7
I had this problem for some time. I use multiple monitors and my video settings are set always like that, even when I do not really need all monitors and use only the primary one. It is very often to lose a window of an application on another monitor seeing its icon on the taskbar of my primary screen. Restore, cascade, show stacked commands are just useless in this case as they only rearrange the windows of the main monitor. But there is a way to fix that by a few key shortcuts.
Win+Shift+Left - moves window to the left monitor
Win+Shift+Right - moves window to the right monitor
and maybe Up and Down to move to the upper or lower monitor - I do not have monitors above and below so I couldnt test these.
Win+Left - adheres the window to the left half of the screen. Continuous clicking causes moving the window to another monitor.
Win+Right - adheres the window on the right half of the screen. Continuous clicking causes moving the window to another monitor.
Win+Up - maximizes the window
Win+Down - Minimizes and restores if maximized | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:HulioK/sandbox
Iron Boy He is a young superhero that is in the Ultra dimension. He is the Ultra version of Iron Man, a superhero designed by Marvel comics. He is a boy in 1st Grade, named Charlie Schultz, who developed a form of Telepathy. This telepathy only works with technology. Charlie dubs his new found power "Extremis". He is also given the power to know how to engineer any machine he can think of. Honoring his favorite superhero, from his comic books, he makes an armor close to what Iron Man made in the cave imprisoned over seas. It is big, bulky and has rocket boots, flamethrowers, and machine guns. He later makes a less bulky, gold suit with lasers instead of machine guns. He then makes a 3rd, 100% red suit that has a limited form of radio wave shielding, and missile launchers. He calls his first armor, the "Cave man armor". His second armor, "The golden grail". And his newest armor, Mach 3. He also has a Mach 4 armor, which uses his new invention, calls the ARC generator. It can use the extra dimensional ARC energy to power special energy blasts called repulsors. The suit also has a on board flight computer. It also maintains the radio wave force-field the Mach 3 had. It's last biggest thing is that it had a communicator, so he could speak on the phone while fighting crime.He later is able to call his armor and manipulate technology, using a form of telekinesis. He calls it "Technokinesis". | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Han Mu Do
The result was delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 23:41, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Han Mu Do
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Non notable martial art. Fails to meet WP:MANOTE. Article lacks significant independent coverage so it also fails WP:GNG. Jakejr (talk) 23:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 01:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. lavender|(formerlyHMSSolent|lambast 01:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
* Delete Notability not supported by references.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:04, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
* Keep, I found some sources, which include:
* An encyclopedic entry:
* "El arte marcial del Han Mu Do". El Universal, 20 February 2014.
* Also note that this is an international subject and so there are lots of sources we are missing due to language problems. There are entries in three other language versions of Wikipedia: fr:Han_Mu_Do, nl:Hanmudo, ko:한무도. Antrocent (♫♬) 14:16, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
* Existence in other language Wikipedias is not sufficient to show notability since their criteria may be different. Papaursa (talk) 00:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
* Comment The article lacks sources and I'm not overly impressed with these last two. Crudelli's book lists 4 martial arts of the same page (which also has 2 good sized photographs). It's not clear that this is significant coverage (although it's something). An article by "Editorial" in an online posting about the creator of this art visiting locally sounds more like a press release than significant coverage. Perhaps other sources can be provided to support the notability claim. Papaursa (talk) 20:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
* Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 04:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
* '"Keep"' I know Han Mu Do instructors and I speak Korean. I will gladly fix each of the issues listed here and bring this Wiki entry up to code so to speak. I have never written or edited a Wiki but do posses the skills necessary to do so. Please give me one week to complete my edit before proceeding with the aforementioned deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigpapawoo (talk • contribs) 05:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
* This discussion has been extended by a week so you have a chance to improve this article.Mdtemp (talk) 14:26, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
* Weak Delete Right now the article fails WP:MANOTE and WP:GNG. No objection to userfying the article until it's improved enough to show notability.Mdtemp (talk) 14:26, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
* Delete No new sources have been added since my comment over a week ago, so I don't believe there's currently enough significant independent coverage of this style to meet WP:MANOTE or WP:GNG. Papaursa (talk) 00:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Responsibility to Respect
The result was Speedy delete, per below, WP:NOR, WP:SNOW. NawlinWiki (talk) 23:52, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Responsibility to Respect
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The phrase "responsibility to respect" is not even used in the one document cited. A single mention of a responsibility in a government-issued document does not establish notability of that concept, and it doesn't seem like this phrase has been used to discuss the concept elsewhere. At best, it's suitable for merging to a different page, but this doesn't need its own article in any case. CtP (t • c) 23:09, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
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4 Ways to Take Better Care of Your Laptop’s Batteries
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By Alyssa Bereznak
laptopYou likely spend more time on your laptop than with your significant other, your dog or — at the very least — your plants. So there’s no reason you shouldn’t treat it with the same tender loving care. Here are a few tips to ensure that your gadget’s battery has a long and happy life.
(This guide is focused on lithium-ion batteries, which is what most modern laptops are packing. If you want to learn about how to care for other types of batteries, a dense database of such things.)
1. Don’t get too attached.
When you plug your laptop in for the first time, you should make sure to fully charge it once to calibrate it. But after that, aim to keep it between 40 and 80 percent. Apple’s customer care says you should do this to “keep the electrons in it moving occasionally.” Wired has a better explanation of why here. But the bottom line is, doing this can help prolong your battery life by as much as four times.
I know that’s easier said than done. Just remember to keep an eye on your battery percentage (usually shown in a corner of your screen) throughout the day. If you leave your laptop at home, then shut it down, close it and keep it unplugged on a desk, not a couch.
You should also fully charge and discharge your computer’s battery at least once a month. Set a reminder on your phone or something. You forked over what I assume to be a ton of money for this thing, so paying attention to it once a month shouldn’t be a problem.
2. Stay cool.
Most modern laptops are made with lithium-based batteries, which should be stored in temperatures between 50 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit. You might not always be able to keep tabs on that sweet spot, so to make things a bit simpler, room temperature is fine.
That being said, there are a few ways you can make sure your laptop isn’t constantly having menopausal hot flashes. You should start by minding its air vents. Most MacBook vents are located on the back of the laptop, near the top of the computer. Whenever you prop your laptop up on your bed, couch or lap, you’re likely blocking the airflow. This, in turn, causes the computer to overheat. And overheating will screw up your battery life.
That’s not to say you should be completely paranoid about keeping it on flat, cool surfaces all the time. But maybe consider moving it to a desk before you fall asleep or head to work.
3. Update, update, update.
Most companies are constantly looking for ways to improve battery life via software updates. In fact, it was one of the main things Apple touted in its OS X Mavericks release last year. You may fear change, but change can extend your battery life. So make sure you have the latest software installed on your computer.
4. Don’t just leave it there.
Maybe you’re in trouble with the law and need to disappear for six months. We understand how these things go. But that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for correctly storing your computer. You should store it with a 50 percent charge in a consistently cool area. Storing the computer with a fully discharged battery might ruin the battery forever. And storing it with an absolutely full charge might cut the battery’s lifespan short.
Simple enough? Now go, be a better laptop owner. Your machine is counting on you.
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Facts About Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder is a progressive mental illness in which the sufferer views a body flaw in an exaggerated light. Sometimes the flaw isn't real, but others can't convince him that his perception is skewed. BDD is sometimes called dysmorphobia, which means: fear of imagined deformity.
Common Elements
Scientists aren't sure what causes BDD but certain elements are common to BDD sufferers:
*Family members with the disorder
*Childhood teasing
*Sexual or physical abuse
*Low self-esteem
*Cultural norms perceived as peer pressure
BDD affects only 1% of the population, however, of those who seek cosmetic or dermatological treatments, as many as 10% may have the disorder. BDD strikes in adolescence and affects both men and women.
Associated Complications
BDD can cause the following associated complications:
*A dislike or even fear of social situations, leading to social isolation and becoming homebound
* An inability to attend school or the workplace
*Friendlessness
*Low self-esteem
*Undergoing unnecessary cosmetic surgery
*Substance abuse
*Eating disorders
*Anxiety disorders
*OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
*Mood disorders and depression
*Suicidal thoughts or behavior
If you think you may have BDD, consult your physician or a mental health care professional to discuss the issue. It may just save your life. During a first appointment, expect that your health care provider will ask you a number of questions, including:
*At what point did you begin to experience symptoms?
*How has your quality of life been affected by your symptoms?
*How many hours a day do you worry about your looks?
*Have you had previous treatment for the condition?
*Have you undergone any cosmetic procedures? Which kind?
*How have you dealt with your symptoms?
*Is there anything that makes your symptoms worsen?
*Have others said anything about the way you act or about your moods?
*Do you have any relatives who have suffered from ill mental health?
*What are your expectations of treatment?
*Which medications, herbs, or supplements do you take at present?
Accurate Diagnosis
A series of medical and psychological tests and exams will then be scheduled in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis of your condition. Here are some of the tests that can help your physician reach a conclusion:
*Physical Examination-Vital signs, height and weight, heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, palpation of the abdomen, and using the stethoscope to hear heart and lung sounds.
*Lab Tests-CBC (complete blood count), thyroid function, alcohol and drug screen.
*Psychological Evaluation-Your physician or mental health professional will discuss your symptoms, thoughts, feelings, and behavior with you in an effort to get a total picture of your psychological condition.
Combination Treatment
If it is deemed you meet the criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) for body dysmorphic disorder, you will likely be treated with a combination of medication and psychotherapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavior therapy are known to be helpful for BDD.
There are no medications specific to BDD; however, psychiatric drugs used for depression are sometimes given for BDD as an off-label use. There is believed to be a connection between BDD and serotonin levels so drugs which affect serotonin are often prescribed for this condition. These drugs include:
*Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
*Tricyclic antidepressants
BDD sufferers need larger doses of these medications than those with depression. A gradual increase should help pinpoint the optimum dose, though it may take up to 12 weeks until you feel relief from your symptoms. You may need to try more than one medication to find the best one with the least number of side effects. Most BDD patients take medication indefinitely.
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Upstart’s Options Surge Hints at Bold Risk Reversal Position
Investors will be watching for any news of a positive nature today as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Anchorage, Alaska, to start the peace process in Ukraine.
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The markets have been mainly unaffected by the economic uncertainty caused by the tariffs on U.S. imports. If the retail sales data doesn’t meet projections, it could lead to a down day in the markets. I guess we’ll see.
In yesterday’s options activity, Upstart (UPST) had options volume that was double the daily average, with five that were unusually active, including two in the top 11.
From where I sit, the activity sets up for a bold risk reversal position. Here’s why.
Less than three weeks to the NFL’s first regular-season game. Can’t wait. Have an excellent weekend.
As I said in the introduction, the AI lending platform had five unusually active options on Thursday.
As you can see, there were four calls and one put, with all but the Aug. 29 $80 call expiring in 8 days. With Upstart’s shares down 23% since announcing Q2 2025 results after the Aug. 5 close, the risk reversal strategy looks to be an interesting play for aggressive investors.
This is an options strategy where you buy and sell options at the same time with the same expirations. The strategy can be bullish or bearish. The former is generally the more common of the two. It can be used to hedge against stock you already own or to make a bullish bet on the underlying stock, which in this situation is Upstart.
In the bullish example, you buy an OTM (out-of-the-money) call and sell an OTM put, both with the same expiration date. Effectively, you are long Upstart. In the bearish example, you buy an OTM put and sell an OTM call.
In the former, you’re betting on Upstart’s share price moving higher; in the latter, you expect it to fall in value. In both cases, selling options generates income that offsets some of the cost of the options bought.
While you can use options with different expiration dates, it adds a layer of complexity that many retail investors probably shouldn’t attempt. I certainly wouldn’t, and I’ve been writing about options for several years now.
First, any risk reversal bet based on the five above will include the Aug. 22 $59 put. Secondly, it won’t include the Aug. 29 $80 call. That leaves three calls: Aug. 22 $66, Aug. 22 $65, and Aug. 22 $64.
Let’s first discuss the bullish example.
In this case, you’re selling the OTM Aug. 22 $59 put. That provides a premium income of $72, an annualized return of 56.4% if done independently without a simultaneous buy of an OTM call.
If you’re bullish about Upstart and think the concerns about inflation and increased competition are overblown, this would be a good way to generate income while possibly getting a better entry point for going long.
Now, we consider the three OTM calls to buy.
As you can see from the profit probability numbers, your best bet if you were buying this independent of the put would be the $64 call at 34.26%. With an ask price of $2.42, your net debit on the combo trade is $1.70, or $170.
So, to make money on this risk reversal bet, the share price has to appreciate by $1.87 (2.9%) to the breakeven of $65.70 [$64 strike price + $1.70 net debit]. Based on the profit probabilities of the $65 and $66 calls -- 31.23% and 27.79% -- I’ll say the profit probability of $65.70 is approximately 29.5%. It’s good but not great.
I’d go with the $66 call. The net debit is $0.86 or $86. The breakeven is $66.86. The share price has to appreciate by $3.03 (4.7%). If the share price can move 23% in six trading days, it can certainly move 4.7% in the same number of days. And it’s half the outlay.
Now, let’s quickly consider the bearish example. It’s the reverse of the bullish risk reversal bet. In this case, you buy the $59 put and sell one of the three calls.
In this case, the long put would cost you $0.77 or $77.
Now, we consider the premium income from each of the three calls. If you look at the five calls from earlier, you’ll see that selling the $66 call would generate $1.51 ($151) in premium, the $65 would generate $1.90 ($190), and the $64 would generate $2.34 ($234). The net credits would be $74, $113, and $157, respectively.
In the bearish case, you’re expecting the share price to fall. If instead, it moves higher, your breakeven price on each of them is $66.74, $66.13, and $65.57.
If it were me, I’d go with the $66 strike, because it has the lowest chance of being in the money in eight days.
My guess: yesterday’s options investors felt the same--hence the 65.49 Vol/OI ratio for the $66 call.
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Root Canal ProcedureEvery tooth in a person’s mouth is very valuable because it serves a function. You need your teeth to flash a beautiful smile. You need your teeth to be able to eat a variety of food. You need your teeth to produce certain sounds during speech. You need your teeth to hold your bite and maintain the integrity of your facial structures.
Your teeth are important because of all the reasons mentioned above, and if a tooth is no longer restorable through traditional restorative fillings and you do not exactly want to resort to a tooth extraction, you can get a root canal procedure to save it.
A root canal procedure is a dental procedure that basically saves the tooth so that it can still be retained in the mouth. Instead of opting to extract the tooth, you are given the option to save it and still enjoy its function. The procedure renders the tooth dead, but it is already rid of infection and then sealed to prevent recurrence of disease.
The Process:
The root canal procedure is carried out with anesthesia. The anesthetic solution is deposited locally around the area, to numb the tooth and once it is, the tooth is accessed until sufficient “drop” is achieved and the pulp chamber on the crown of the tooth has been reached. From the chamber, the orifice or “holes” can be seen to signify the location of the pulp canals leading into the root area. Through the orifice, the pulp is handled so that it can be pulled out or extirpated.
As soon as the pulp has been removed, the tooth will be “dead”. The next steps will involve the cleaning and shaping of the canal with the use of files of increasing diameter, until sufficient enlargement has been achieved and appropriate depth has been reached.
The root canal procedure can be carried out manually, but it can also be performed with the use of high-tech equipment such as an pulp tester, endo motor for filing, apex locator and obturator. Without it, dental treatments can go on as it used to and once proper filing has been completed, the tooth will be sealed with a biocompatible material to fill the void that used to be filled by the pulp tissue. This obturation process completes the actual root canal procedure, but after that a final restoration should be given.
The Final Restoration after Root Canal:
Since a root canal treated tooth is considered dead, it is more brittle compared to other teeth. So when deciding on a restorative option, you should really consider providing some added strength to the remaining tooth structure.
• Ideally, a normal tooth restoration with composite resin is sufficient, but it is only acceptable for teeth with much natural tooth structure left to support it.
• A root canal treated tooth also discolours as a result of the pulp being removed, so if you are dealing with a front tooth, a dental crown may be more aesthetic.
• Any tooth that has a broken crown can still be saved with a root canal procedure. After the root canal, a post can be inserted so that the core of the crown can be built and then this tooth can be fitted with a crown.
• To provide the tooth with better strength, an indirect inlay or onlay made of porcelain or ceramic can be prescribed to the tooth. As a stronger option, you can also have a crown over this tooth to improve its chances of living longer in the mouth. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Desulfovibrio profundus
Desulfovibrio profundus is a bacterium. It is sulfate-reducing barophilic bacteria. It is strictly anaerobic, vibrio-shaped and its type strain is 500–1. | WIKI |
Animal Kingdom
Let us begin with the very basics. Think of any creature – bugs, birds, animals, fishes, or anything else. I can tell you that the creature you just thought of belongs to a group called the Animal Kingdom.
The Animal Kingdom is divided into two groups:
Invertebrates – All animals without back bones are called Invertebrates. Earthworms, starfishes, squids, snail fall in this category.
Vertebrates – All animals with back bones are called Invertebrates.
Now all the animals with backbones, vertebrates, are further split into smaller groups amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish and mammals. Are you curious to know what animals fall under which group? Let us explore, slowly and steadily.
The word amphibian means two lives – one on land, one in water. Look below to learn more about amphibians.
Did you know that the largest amphibian is Chinese Giant Salamander?
You might ask me a question about amphibians. What does coldblooded mean? Coldblooded animals are those whose bodies don’t automatically regulate their temperature. Thus, their body temperature depends on the temperature of their surroundings. On the other hand, warm-blooded animals can regulate their body temperatures. When it is cold outside, they can make their body heat to keep their bodies warm. When it very hot they can maintain their body temperature at a certain level.
Reptiles are often referred to as ‘creeping or crawling animals’. They have a bony external plate such as a shell and are all covered in scales. Tortoise, lizards, snakes, are all reptiles. The largest species of lizard Komodo dragon is also a reptile. Did you know that the saliva of Komodo dragon is so poisonous that no prey that’s been licked or bitten can get away?
Do I have to tell you a thing or a two about birds? All birds have wings, even the birds that can not fly. In the case of flightless birds, these redundant wings are often known as ‘flippers’.
These underwater rulers constitute a major part of the animal kingdom. Guess who are they? Fishes! Did you know that there are more than 30,000 known species of fish? Fish are covered in scales. These are often covered in a layer of slime to help their movement through water.
Mammals are a very special group of vertebrates. Do you know why? Humans are mammals!! And so are dogs, whales, elephants, horses! The unique thing about mammals is that they have special glands that produce milk for their young ones. Ever seen a calf sucking milk from mama cow’s udder?
Here is a challenge for you now. All the animals that you see from now on, why don’t you try to guess which animal group they fall into? Shall we start with your pet dog? 🙂
Animal kingdom Photo Credits:
Crown http://pixabay.com/en/rich-cartoon-golden-gold-crown-42185/
Invertebrates http://pixabay.com/en/flat-icon-apple-food-fruit-apples-36282/
Vertebrates http://pixabay.com/en/cat-fighting-comic-tough-hurt-47896/
Amphibians
Frog http://pixabay.com/en/frog-face-cartoon-amphibian-worry-48234/
Salamander http://pixabay.com/en/red-digital-amphibian-art-46815/
Reptiles
Turtle http://pixabay.com/en/turtle-view-cartoon-side-animal-41563/
Alligator http://pixabay.com/en/cartoon-running-fast-travel-tongue-44596/
Birds
Bird1 http://pixabay.com/en/outline-cartoon-birds-bird-free-29314/
Bird2 http://pixabay.com/en/water-safety-cartoon-birds-bug-46205/
Fishes http://pixabay.com/en/fish-goldfish-animal-red-black-30837/
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Thull
Thull is a surname. People with that name include:
* Hans Rudolf Thull (born 1945), German artist
* Ketty Thull (1905-1987), Luxembourg cook, educator and cookbook writer
* Marcel Thull (born 1951), Luxembourgian cyclist who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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Can you control your LED lights with your phone?
Is there an app to control my LED lights?
Lumenplay® is an extendable string of app-enabled RGB LED lights that enables you to create scenes of color and motion, all from your smart device. Use the free Lumenplay® app to setup a personalized light show by choosing color combinations, effects, speed, direction and brightness.
How can I turn on my LED lights without remote?
This solution is quite simple to execute but might not be the most convenient for long-term use. All you need to do is plug your LED strip light into the wall and leave it on and unplug it when you want it to turn off. Unfortunately, this solution won’t work with all LED strip lights.
How do you connect LED strip lights to music?
So, the best way to connect LED lights to your music is by turning on the music mode. And as long as the microphone is working and the music mode is turned on, the music will sync with the LED light making it pulsate to the rhythm.
Is there an app to turn lights on and off?
The Wemo app lets you control all the lights and appliances of your home, turn the lights on automatically when you arrive home, and randomly turn the lights on and off in different rooms when you are away for security purposes. Control4 MyHome: The Control4 MyHome app is available for both Apple and Android users.
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How do I control room lights with iPhone?
If you organize your accessories by room or zone, you can control areas of your house with a single command. Say “Hey Siri,” then you can say things like: “Turn off the lights downstairs.”
Just say “Hey Siri,” then say something like:
1. “Turn off the lights.”
2. “Turn on the fan.”
3. “Turn off the light switch.”
Can you use any remote for led lights?
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L.G.B.T.Q. Rights Cases Stall Under DeVos, Report Finds
WASHINGTON — Students who said they were discriminated against because of their sexual orientation or gender identity were significantly less likely to get any relief from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights under the Trump administration than they were under the Obama administration, according to a report released Monday. The report, released by the liberal Center for American Progress and based on the Education Department’s own data, provided the first analysis of how students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer have fared in the first half of the Trump administration. The administration has reshaped policy to exclude civil rights protections for transgender people in most areas of government and has scaled back legal protections for gay people. The report found that the Trump administration was less likely to investigate claims of discrimination filed by the students — and more likely to dismiss them. The percentage of complaints that resulted in a school being required to take action to remedy the discrimination under the current administration was nine times lower than under the Obama administration, it concluded. In 2017, just weeks after the new administration took office, the Education and Justice Departments rescinded an Obama-era guidance document that informed schools that denying students access to bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity was a violation under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in institutions that receive federal funding. The Trump administration believed, as many conservatives had long argued, that the Obama administration’s guidance amounted to overreach and was inconsistent with federal law. The Education Department has adopted the administration’s position, issued in a memo by the Justice Department, that gender identity is not covered under federal civil rights laws. But Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, who reportedly protested the swiftness of the document’s revocation, has said that while the department would no longer investigate bathroom complaints, it would still enforce protections for L.G.B.T.Q. students who were bullied, penalized or harassed for failing to conform to sex-based stereotypes. That is not happening, the Center for American Progress said. “These data really show that Betsy DeVos is not doing her job,” said Frank J. Bewkes, one of the report’s authors. “Her office just doesn’t seem to care about enforcing civil rights for these students.” Education Department officials released data this month that showed that students who have filed civil rights complaints under Ms. DeVos’s leadership were “served more efficiently and effectively than students who filed civil rights complaints during the previous administration.” The agency boasted that it has resolved, on average, nearly double the number of civil rights complaints per year compared with the prior eight fiscal years, and it noted a 60 percent increase in the number of complaint resolutions that required schools to make changes to protect students’ civil rights. The department said that its own analysis of the complaint data for L.G.B.T.Q. students showed the same trend. “These data were selectively compiled by a left-wing interest group to tell an ideological story,” said Liz Hill, a spokeswoman for the department. “No one should mistake this as unbiased. This department vigorously protects the civil rights of all students and will continue to do so to the fullest extent of the law.” The data obtained by the Center for American Progress, which has served as a research center for Democratic interests, reflected complaints filed by students from March 2010 to May 2018 and cases resolved by the Office for Civil Rights from November 2010 to June 2018. The organization examined complaints of discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and sexual orientation-related sex stereotyping under Title IX, and determined how the complaints were handled using resolution codes used by the Education Department. An overwhelming number of complaints, 75.9 percent, alleged sexual or gender harassment, and transgender students were overrepresented in the filings. The Office for Civil Rights was at least 54 percent more likely to investigate a sexual orientation and gender identity complaint under the Obama administration than it was under the Trump administration, according to the report. When complaints were investigated, 91.5 percent were dismissed or closed with no finding of wrongdoing, compared with 65.4 percent under the Obama administration. Ultimately, the Obama administration resolved 22.4 percent of such cases with a change to policy or practice that the department believed would benefit the student, compared with 2.4 percent under the Trump administration, the group concluded. The Education Department said that its own analysis of the complaint categories showed that it was averaging more resolutions requiring schools to make a change than the previous administration — emphasizing the complaints acted on, not the complaints that went unanswered. It said the current administration averages 11 resolutions that required a change each year, compared with nine averaged under the Obama administration. In fiscal year 2018, the agency obtained more resolutions with change in these categories than the previous administration had achieved in any one year. Department officials acknowledged that the previous administration fared better when looking broadly at how all cases were resolved — which is what the Center for American Progress did — but noted that the previous administration’s numbers appear better because it resolved fewer cases. “A parent wants to know, if their child’s civil rights are being violated, will O.C.R. provide for a change,” Ms. Hill said, referring to the department’s Office for Civil Rights. “Under this administration, it is more likely that it will. The numbers speak for themselves if assessed objectively.” But critics say the department’s metric for success ignores a large volume of students. “If you’re just rushing through complaints, it’s not surprising that you would resolve a large volume,” said Shabab Ahmed Mirza, an author of the center’s report. “What we’ve found is that more students are having cases resolved and not seeing justice. They’re not talking about students who see no change at all.” Ms. Mirza said that one finding in particular undercut the department’s claim that the Obama administration’s civil rights office was pushing a political agenda. Of the complaints that were investigated, the Obama administration was twice as likely to find after an investigation that a school had not violated students’ rights. Catherine E. Lhamon, who led the Office for Civil Rights under the Obama administration and issued the transgender guidance, said that was because her administration was “investigating the facts where they lead, and calling balls and strikes as they were.” “To receive the signoff that you have not harmed children, it’s a very significant resolution and it means a lot,” Ms. Lhamon said. “What the Trump administration is doing is not even examining whether anyone’s been harmed. There’s a benefit to examining whether a student has been discriminated against, even when the answer is no.” | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 47, 48 -APR. 2, 6, 1949 and consent of the Senate: Provided, That a person who has within ten years been on active duty as a commissioned officer in a Regular component of the armed services shall not be eligible for appointment as Under Secretary of Defense. The Under Secretary shall perform such duties, and shall exercise such powers, as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe. The Under Secretary shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Secretary of Defense during his absence or disability." SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 301 of such Act (5 U. S. C., sec. 171b), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The Under Secretary of Defense shall receive the compensation prescribed by law for Under Secretaries of executive departments." Approved April 2, 1949. [CHAPTER 48] AN ACT To grant the consent of the United States to the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the Congress is hereby given to the compact, signed (after negotia- tions in which a representative of the United States, duly appointed by the President, participated and upon which he has reported to the Congress) by the Commissioners for the States of Arizona, Colo- rado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, on October 11, 1948, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and thereafter ratified by the legislatures of each of the States aforesaid, which said compact reads as follows: "UPPER Co RiE BIN COLORADO MPACT "The State of Arizona, the State of Colorado, the State of New Mexico, the State of Utah and the State of Wyoming, acting through their Commissioners, "Charles A. Carson for the State of Arizona, "Clifford H. Stone for the State of Colorado, "Fred E. Wilson for the State of New Mexico, "Edward H. Watson for the State of Utah and "L. C. Bishop for the State of Wyoming, after negotiations participated in by Harry W. Bashore, appointed by the President as the representative of the United States of America, have agreed, subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, to determine the rights and obligations of each signatory State respect- ing the uses and deliveries of the water of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River, as follows: ARTICLE I "(a) The major purposes of this Compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System, the use of which was apportioned in perpetuity to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact; to establish the obligations of each State of the Upper Division with respect to the deliveries of water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado River Compact; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Upper Basin, the storage of water and to protect life and property from floods. "(b) It is recognized that the Colorado River Compact is in full force and effect and all of the provisions hereof are subject thereto. 31 Restriction. 61 Stat. 507. 6 U.S. C., Supp. II, § 171b. Post,p. 585 . April 6, 1949 [S. 790] [Public Law 37j Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Consent of Con- gress.
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16 Validation of pro- ceedings to incur bonded indebtedness, etc. 48 U. S. C., Supp.V , §f 44a-44e. 48 U. S. C., Supp. V, i§ 316-315d. Issuance of negoti- able bonds. January 20, 1940 IS. 154] [Public, No. 404] Washington, west- ern district. District judge for, to serve also for east- ern district. 62 Stat. 585 . 28 U. 8. C, Supp. V, §4t. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 3, 11 , 12 -JAN. 17, 20, 25, 1940 [54 STAT. issued and sold are declared to be, and shall be, in the actual form in which such bonds have been issued, the binding and legal obliga- tions of the municipal corporation or public-utility district issuing the same. (b) All proceedings heretofore taken by any municipal corpora- tion or any public-utility district in the Territory of Alaska in con- nection with proposals to incur bonded indebtedness or to issue negotiable bonds pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 28, 1936 (49 Stat. 1388), as amended, or of the Act of May 31, 1938 (52 Stat. 589), which may have been heretofore submitted to those of the qualified electors of the municipal corporation or public-utility district whose names appeared upon the tax-assessment roll of such corporation or district last completed prior to the holding of the election, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed, notwithstand- ing any defects or irregularities in such proceedings; and the fact that the indebtedness heretofore authorized by the electors at the time of the submission to them of the proposal to incur a bonded indebtedness or to issue negotiable bonds may have exceeded the limit of indebtedness which may have been applicable at the time of such authorization under the terms of either of said acts shall not serve to prevent the issuance of negotiable bonds, at any time or times, in any amount or amounts which, at the time or times of such issuance, will not cause the aforesaid limitations to be exceeded. Approved, January 17, 1940. [CHAPTER 11] AN ACT To provide that the district judge for the western district of Washington, author- ized to be appointed under the Act of May 31, 1938, shall be a district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district judge, authorized to be appointed for the western district of Wash- ington under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appoint- ment of additional judges for certain United States district courts, circuit courts of appeals, and certain courts of the United States for the District of Columbia", approved May 31, 1938 (Public Act Numbered 555, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session), shall be a district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington. Approved, January 20, 1940. [CHAPTER 12] January 2, 1940 AN ACT [8. 1336] Relating to the filing of affidavits of prejudice in the district court for the District [Public, No. 405] of Alaska. District court for District of Alaska. 31 Stat. 444 . Disqualification of judicial officers. Affidavit ofpersonal bias or prejudice of judge filing of. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 707, chapter 70 of title II of the Act entitled "An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes" approved June 6, 1900, as amended (section 3305 of the Compiled Laws of the Territory of Alaska, 1933), is amended by striking out the period at the end of paragraph "Fourth" and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following new paragraph: "Fifth. Whenever any party, or an attorney for any party, to any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, shall make and file an affidavit that the judge before whom the action or proceeding is to be tried or heard has a personal bias or prejudice either against him
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Etymology
,, from ; unexplained change, should have been. Cognate with 🇨🇬.
Noun
* 1) circle, ring
* 2) Any circular object, such as a wheel
* 3) A crowd of people
* 4) marketplace
* 5) circular movement
* 6) sphere, globe
Declension
There also exists an irregular plural
Etymology
Inherited from.
Noun
* 1) circle
* 2) period, cycle
* 3) series, cycle
* 4) clique, coterie, circle, set
* 5) circuit, course, track
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Rusal resumes Taishet aluminum project, sees deeper global deficit
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Rusal has resumed construction of its long-stalled Taishet aluminum smelter project in Siberia in expectation of a widening global aluminum deficit, the company said on Wednesday. The world’s second-largest aluminum producer behind China’s Hongqiao needs a further $700 million to complete the project, having invested about $800 million in Taishet before it was halted because of falling aluminum prices. Aluminum prices have jumped by 12 percent to $1,887 a tonne since the start of January and Rusal expects them to climb above $1,900 by the end of the year, said Deputy Chief Executive Oleg Mukhamedshin, citing the company’s belief that the global deficit will reach 1.8 million tonnes in 2018, up 500,000 tonnes this year. The deficit expectations are largely down to top producer China’s decision to order steel and aluminum producers in 28 cities to make heavy output cuts during the winter as Beijing intensifies its war on smog. “In this respect, we have a large competitive advantage related, above all, to the fact that we have resumed the Taishet aluminum smelter construction,” Mukhamedshin told reporters in Moscow. The first line of the smelter, with annual capacity of 430,000 tonnes, will be built by 2020 and Rusal is on track to agree financing with banks including state-run Vnesheconombank by the end of the year, he said. Mukhamedshin added that Rusal, controlled by Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, is also in talks to create a 50-50 joint venture for the project with state-controlled power company Rushydro. Rusal has said previously that it plans to expand annual capacity at its Boguchansk smelter in Siberia to 298,000 tonnes by 2018, up from 149,000 tonnes. Mukhamedshin said that this plan was unchanged but further expansion of Boguchansk will depend on progress at Taishet and whether Rusal decides to proceed with an upgrade of its Khakas smelter in Siberia. Speaking to reporters about the company’s future plans, Mukhamedshin said that Hong-Kong listed Rusal would consider placing a new tranche of its Chinese yuan-denominated Panda bond, depending on market conditions. Rusal placed a debut tranche in March. The current Panda bond program expires early next year and Rusal could start talks with China on a new program in the autumn, he added. Two sources close to Rusal told Reuters in June that the company was considering cancelling its Euronext listing in Paris and instead moving to a technical listing in London. Asked about this on Wednesday, Mukhamedshin said that no decision had been made and that Rusal was not considering placing any new shares. “We have a listing in Hong Kong, on the Moscow Exchange and on Euronext in Paris. The other question is that the main liquidity is being divided between Hong Kong and Moscow,” he said. “It is not a secret that there is no active (Rusal share) trade in Paris. But I cannot say anything new yet.” Reporting by Anastasia Lyrchikova; Writing by Polina Devitt; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and David Goodman | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management? |2030
Maximise the efficiency and cost savings of your cloud infrastructure with effective entitlements management. Our blog covers the latest strategies and best practices for managing entitlements in the cloud.
1. What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management?
2. The importance of effective Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management
3. The benefits of adopting an entitlements management strategy
4. Secure and compliant entitlements management
5. Industry-leading tools and technologies for entitlements management
6. Summary
Entitlements Management for Cloud Infrastructure: What Is It?
The Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM), sometimes referred to as Cloud Permissions Management Solutions or Cloud Entitlements Management Solutions, is the procedure for regulating access to cloud-based systems and services.
Although CIEM is still a relatively new idea in the security technology sector, it has recently become more well-known because to Gartner’s 2020 research, Hype Cycle for Cloud Security.
CIEM often entails the creation of user roles and permissions for various levels of system access, the provision of user authentication and authorization, the observation of user behaviour, and the maintenance of the system’s security.
Because it helps to guarantee that only individuals with the required rights may access the sensitive data stored in the cloud, this procedure is crucial for cloud security. It aims to identify the dangers associated with having larger system privileges than necessary and to mitigate those risks.
Effective cloud infrastructure entitlements management’s significance
Rights for Cloud Infrastructure For businesses of all sizes using cloud service providers, management is crucial. As more businesses move their operations to the cloud, supply chains and security flaws are increasingly being exploited in cyber assaults and can represent very significant hazards to businesses and their cloud infrastructure.
With the aid of CIEM, businesses can make sure that users have the right level of access to their cloud resources and that the data and apps they keep there are safe and compliant. By ensuring that only individuals with the proper authorization may access the resources they require, entitlements management aids businesses in maintaining control over their cloud infrastructure. Effective entitlements management may also help firms follow industry best practises and lower the cost of cloud services.
More than 85% of businesses will have chosen a “cloud-first” approach by 2025, according to Gartner researchers. These strategies won’t be able to be successfully deployed and maintained without sound security solutions like CIEM. Therefore, it’s more crucial than ever for your firm to establish a successful CIEM.
The advantages of implementing a plan for managing entitlements
Adopting CIEM into your cloud architecture has several advantages. Enhanced cloud security, high efficiency, huge cost savings, improved performance, and optimisation are a few examples. Additionally, because it provides exceptional insight into entitlements, CIEM is also helpful in a multi-tenant or multi-cloud context.
Let’s look at a few of the advantages in greater depth.
Customised options for your particular company requirements
Businesses may tailor their solutions using CIEM solutions to fit their unique demands and goals. Each business has unique demands based on how they operate, so being able to use CIEM to specifically satisfy those needs is quite useful.
Organisations can modify the following elements to meet their own business needs:
CIEM in the cloud – This is an excellent method to install a complete customer identification and access management solution fast and efficiently. It offers a unified platform to regulate access, authentication, and consumer identities across various devices and apps. Additionally, it is simple to modify to fit your organization’s requirements.
CIEM with multi-factor authentication – With the help of this feature, a safe authentication procedure can be implemented that demands several different elements in order to acquire access. This system may be modified to support a number of authentication techniques, including hardware tokens, one-time passwords, and biometrics.
CIEM with a single sign-on Users may now use the same login information to access several applications and services thanks to this. This method of managing client IDs is practical and secure, and it also enhances consumer satisfaction.
CIEM with identity federation – This gives customers’ identities a safe, standardised approach to be managed across many enterprises. Each organization’s unique needs may be met by tailoring this solution.
identity management CIEM –This makes it possible for enterprises to create and control access policies for their clients. Each organization’s unique demands may be met by this solution, which can also be utilised to verify compliance with industry rules.
With optimum entitlements, performance is improved and costs are reduced.
Performance may be improved and expenditures may be decreased by optimising entitlements. Organisations can determine which privileges need to be maintained and which ones should be eliminated, scaled back, or consolidated by examining and analysing user access rights and privileges. Additionally, by ensuring that users only have access to the resources they need, this approach can assist to lower the risk of unauthorised access to critical systems or data.
Additionally, by minimising the time required for manual procedures like granting and controlling access, the optimising of entitlements can result in better performance.
As firms no longer have to pay for access to resources that are not being utilised, minimising the amount of unused entitlements can also result in cost savings.
automated methods to increase productivity and cut costs
CIEM offers a wide range of services, including as automatic provisioning, resource utilisation management, automated patching, and compliance reporting, to help businesses manage their cloud infrastructure more effectively. Additionally, CIEM offers cloud automation and orchestration features that assist businesses in lowering operating expenses and enhancing their agility.
Management of entitlements that is secure and legal
Your entitlements management system must be safe and provide complete risk mitigation in order to ensure the security of your cloud services.
Through the provision of a consolidated platform for controlling access to all apps and services, CIEM delivers secure and compliant entitlements management. Tools for managing user identities, authentication, authorisation, and access control policies are included in the platform.
For monitoring and tracking changes to user access rights and permissions, CIEM also offers automated workflow procedures. In addition, CIEM offers strong audit and reporting capabilities to guarantee adherence to legal specifications and industry standards.
Control and real-time visibility of your cloud entitlements
The utilisation of real-time visibility and control of your cloud components is one of the most important aspects of maintaining a safe and compliant entitlements management system. By keeping track of and enforcing user access permissions and application privileges, this promotes security. It is accomplished by combining cloud data from all cloud environments, giving administrators the ability to keep an eye on each user’s actions and access rights to specific cloud services.
In order to stop unauthorised access, managers may also use CIEM to implement granular access control rules and immediately find any policy breaches. This helps to secure the company from potential data breaches by ensuring that only approved users have the required credentials to access data and apps in the cloud.
Businesses can monitor their cloud consumption, find possible cost-saving opportunities, and swiftly fix any security flaws thanks to real-time visibility and control over their cloud entitlements. Businesses that closely watch how they use the cloud can rapidly spot any unauthorised access or usage and take appropriate measures to stop it from happening again. Businesses may also employ real-time visibility and control to spot possibilities for performance, dependability, and scalability optimisation of their cloud environments.
These allow companies to see how they are using the cloud, giving them the information they need to manage their resources effectively and reduce expenses. This enables them to make sure that their cloud environment is safe, legal, and performance-optimized.
top tools and technology for managing entitlements
For CIEM, there are many available tools and technologies, some of which are better and more beneficial than others. Here are some of our top recommendations for cutting-edge tools and solutions for managing entitlements:
Tools for automated testing For CIEM, automated testing technologies like Selenium, Appium, and Ranorex are necessary to efficiently and effectively test application updates.
Version management tools For CIEM to monitor changes in an application and make sure that all changes are recorded and tested, version control systems like Git and Subversion are essential.
Tools for continuous integration For CIEM to automate the process of developing, testing, and deploying apps, continuous integration solutions like Jenkins and Travis CI are crucial.
Tools for containerization: Applications may be swiftly deployed and scaled with the help of containerisation tools like Docker and Kubernetes for CIEM.
Monitoring tools: For CIEM to track application performance in real-time and spot any possible problems, monitoring tools like New Relic and Datadog are essential.
Summary
Any modern business would find cloud infrastructure entitlements management to be a huge advantage. Integrating it into a cloud environment to ensure that it is safe and that users only have access to the resources they are permitted to use has unquestionably several advantages. A lot of businesses use CIEM to safeguard their data, stop illegal access, and enhance overall security.
CIEM should be used in accordance with best practises, which include establishing access restrictions, defining user roles, keeping track of user activity, and routinely evaluating access privileges.
Choosing the best cloud service provider who can integrate CIEM into your organisation is crucial as we transition to a more fully digitalized world.
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This page needs to be rewritten, it's not a wiki article but a couple of stories and anecdotal evidence.
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Shukuru Kawambwa
Shukuru Jumanne Kawambwa is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Bagamoyo constituency from 2005 to 2020. He is the former Minister of Education and Vocational Training. He has also served as the Minister of Infrastructure Development | WIKI |
Keepin' the Horse Between Me and the Ground
Keepin' the Horse Between Me and the Ground is the eighth studio album by American blues musician Seasick Steve. It was released on October 7, 2016. and peaked 8 on the UK Albums Chart.
Background
On June 5, 2016, Seasick Steve announced Keepin' the Horse Between Me and the Ground from his YouTube channel. Shortly after, a European tour was announced, with concerts in Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam among others. | WIKI |
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in his thirty-eighth year—all this has elsewhere been described (see, king of Sweden; ; , king of Denmark). Suffice it to say that, immediately after his death, the regency appointed to govern
Sweden during the minority of his only son and successor, Charles XI., a child four years old, hastened to come to terms with Sweden's numerous enemies, which now included Russia, Poland, Brandenburg and Denmark. The Peace of Oliva (May 3, 1660), made under
French mediation, put an end to the long feud with Poland and, at the same time, ended the quarrel between Sweden on the one side, and the emperor and the elector of Brandenburg on the other. By this peace, Sweden's possession of Livonia, and the elector of Brandenburg's sovereignty over east Prussia, were alike confirmed; and the king of Poland renounced all claim to the Swedish crown. As regards Denmark, the Peace of Oliva signified the desertion of her three principal allies, Poland, Brandenburg and the emperor, and thus compelled her to reopen negotiations with Sweden direct. The differences between the two states were finally adjusted by the peace of Copenhagen (May 27, 1660), Denmark ceding the three Scanian provinces to Sweden but receiving back the Norwegian province of Trondhjem and the isle of Bornholm which she had surrendered by the peace of Roskilde two years previously. Denmark was also compelled to recognize, practically, the independence of the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp. The Russian War was terminated by the Peace of Kardis (July 2, 1661), confirmatory of the Peace of Stolbova, whereby the tsar surrendered to Sweden all his Baltic provinces—Ingria, Esthonia and Kexholm.
Thus Sweden emerged from the war not only a military power of the first magnitude, but also one of the largest states of Europe, possessing about twice as much territory
as modern Sweden. Her area embraced 16,800 geographical square miles, a mass of land 7000 sq. m. larger than the modern German Empire. Yet the Swedish Empire was rather a geographical expression than a state with natural and national boundaries. Modern Sweden is bounded by the Baltic; during the 17th century the Baltic was merely the bond between her various widely dispersed dominions. All the islands in the Baltic, except the Danish group, belonged to Sweden. The estuaries of all the great German rivers (for the Niemen and Vistula are properly Polish rivers) debouched in Swedish territory, within which also lay two-thirds of Lake Ladoga and one-half of Lake Peipus. Stockholm, the capital, lay in the very centre of the empire, whose second greatest city was Riga, on theother side of the sea. Yet this vast empire contained but half the population of modern Sweden—being only 2,500,000, or about 140 souls to the square mile. Further, Sweden's new boundaries were of the most insecure description, inasmuch as they were anti-ethnographical, parting asunder races which naturally went together, and behind which stood powerful neighbours of the same stock ready, at the first opportunity, to reunite them.
Moreover, the commanding political influence which Sweden had now won was considerably neutralized by her loss of moral prestige. On Charles X.'s accession in 1655, Sweden's neighbours, though suspicious and uneasy, were at least not adversaries, and might have been converted into allies of the new great power who, if she had mulcted them of territory, had, anyhow, compensated them for the loss with the by no means contemptible douceur of religious liberty. At Charles X.'s death, five years later, we find Sweden, herself bled to exhaustion point, surrounded by a broad belt of desolated territory and regarded with ineradicable hatred by every adjacent state. To sink in five years from the position of the champion of Protestantism to that of the common enemy of every Protestant power was a degradation not to be compensated by any amount of military glory. Charles's subsequent endeavour, in stress of circumstances, to gain a friend by dividing his Polish conquests with the aspiring elector of Brandenburg was a reversal of his original policy and only resulted in the establishment on the southern
confines of Sweden of a new rival almost as dangerous as Denmark, her ancient rival in the west.
In 1660, after five years of incessant warfare, Sweden had at length obtained peace and with it the opportunity of organizing and developing her newly won empire. Unfortunately, the regency which was to govern her during
the next fifteen years was unequal to the difficulties of a situation which might have taxed the resources of the wisest statesmen. Unity and vigour were scarcely to be expected from a many-headed administration composed of men of mediocre talent whose contrary opinions speedily gave rise to contending factions. There was the high-aristocratic party with a leaning towards martial adventure headed by (q.v.), and the party of peace and economy whose ablest representative was the liberal and energetic (q.v.). After a severe struggle, de la Gardie's party prevailed; and its triumph was marked by that general decline of personal and political morality which has given to this regency its unenviable notoriety. Sloth and carelessness speedily invaded every branch of the administration, destroying all discipline and leading to a general neglect of business. Another characteristic of the de la Gardie government was its gross corruption, which made Sweden the obsequious hireling of that foreign power which had the longest purse. This shameful “subsidy policy” dates from the Treaty of Fontainebleau, 1661, by a secret paragraph of which Sweden, in exchange for a considerable sum of money, undertook to support the French candidate on the first vacancy of the Polish throne. The complications ensuing from Louis XIV.'s designs on the Spanish Netherlands led to a bid for the Swedish alliance, both from the French king and his adversaries. After much hesitation on the part of the Swedish government, the anti-French faction prevailed; and in April 1668 Sweden acceded to the Triple Alliance, which finally checkmated the French king by bringing about the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. For the next four years Sweden remained true to the principles of the Triple Alliance; but, in 1672, Louis XIV. succeeded in isolating the Dutch republic and regaining his ancient ally, Sweden. By the Treaty of Stockholm (April 14, 1672), Sweden became, for
the next ten years, a “mercenarius Galliae,” pledging herself, in return for 400,000 crowns per annum in peace and 600,000 in war-time, to attack, with 16,000 men, any German princes who might be disposed to assist Holland. In 1674 Louis XIV. peremptorily called upon Sweden to fulfil her obligations by invading Brandenburg. In the course of May 1675 a Swedish army advanced into the Mark, but on the 18th of June was defeated at Fehrbellin, and hastily retreated to Demmin. The Fehrbellin affair was a mere skirmish, the actual casualties amounting to less than 600 men, but it rudely divested Sweden of her nimbus of invincibility and was the signal for a general attack upon her, known as the Scanian War.
In the course of the next three years her empire seemed to be crumbling away everywhere. In 1675 Pomerania and the bishopric of Bremen were overrun by the Brandenburgers, Austrians and Danes. In December 1677 the elector of Brandenburg captured Stettin. Stralsund fell on the 15th of October 1678. Greifswald, Sweden's last possession on the Continent, was lost on the 5th of November. A defensive alliance with Sobieski (August 4, 1677) was rendered inoperative by the annihilation of Sweden's sea-power (battle of Gland, June 17, 1676; battle of Fehmarn, June 1677) and the difficulties of the Polish king.
Two accidents at this crisis alone saved Sweden from ruin—the splendid courage of the young king who, resolutely and successfully, kept the Danish invaders at bay (see, king of Sweden), and the diplomatic activity of Louis XIV. In March 1677 a peace congress began its sessions at Nijmwegen; and in the beginning of April 1678 the French king dictated the terms of a general pacification. One of his chief conditions was the complete restitution of Sweden. A strong Sweden was necessary to the accomplishment of his plans. He suggested, however, that Sweden should rid herself of her enemies by | WIKI |
vaccination schedule is a plan with recommendations for which vaccines your children should get and when they should get them. Vaccines are one of the most important ways to prevent children from getting some dangerous diseases. By exposing you to a germ in a controlled way, vaccines teach your body to recognize and fight it.
Government vaccine recommendations are just that — recommendations. You aren’t forced to get them. But state laws require your kids to have certain vaccines before they can go to daycare, school, or college, with some exceptions. Vaccines protect not just your child, but everyone they come in contact with. The more people who get vaccinated, the harder it is for a disease to spread.
Before they’re approved for use and added to the schedule, vaccines go through years of testing to make sure they work and that they’re safe. The government keeps track of any reports of side effects to make sure no problems come up.
Keep reading this article with PK Halder to understand the types of vaccines and their uses.
Types of Vaccines
These are the vaccines recommended for children, and the diseases they protect against:
Hepatitis B
Rotavirus (RV) Vaccine
Hepatitis B vaccine guards against hepatitis B virus, which damages the liver. Your child may have already received the first vaccine in the series in the hospital. The second dose comes at 1 or 2 months, and the third between 6 and 18 months.
Rotavirus
Getting vaccinated for rotavirus protects against the most common cause of diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration in babies. It’s recommended at 2 and 4 months.
DTaP
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP) is a combo vaccine that protects against three very serious diseases. Diphtheria swells up the throat, tetanus painfully tightens the muscles, and pertussis (whooping cough) makes it hard for kids to breathe.
DTaP
It’s a five-dose series that comes at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, between 15 and 18 months, and between 4 and 6 years. Kids get a booster shot with a different formulation (Tdap) at age 11 or 12, and then every 10 years as an adult.
Hib vaccine
Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), a type of bacteria that causes an infection in the brain and spinal cord that can damage a baby’s brain and hearing. Babies need four doses, at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and between 12 and 15 months.
Pneumococcal vaccine
Polio Vaccine (IPV)
Pneumococcal vaccine protects against Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes meningitis, pneumonia, and some ear infections. It’s also a four-dose series, coming at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 12 to 15 months.
Polio
Polio is a disease that used to paralyze more than 25,000 people each year before the polio vaccine was invented. Now children are vaccinated against it at 2 months, 4 months, between 6 and 18 months, and between 4 and 6 years.
Measles-Mumps-Rubella-MMR Vaccine
MMR
MMR is another combo vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, and rubella. Measles gives you a rash and in rare cases, can lead to dangerous brain swelling. Mumps causes painful, swollen salivary glands. And rubella, also called German measles, can cause serious birth defects or miscarriage if a pregnant woman is infected. The MMR vaccine is recommended between 12 and 15 months and between 4 and 6 years.
Chickenpox
Chickenpox (Varicella) Vaccine
Chickenpox used to be an itchy childhood rite of passage. It too, can have serious complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis. But the varicella vaccine has made it much less common. It comes between 12 and 15 months and between 4 and 6 years.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a serious liver disease. The vaccine against it comes in two doses, given at least 6 months apart, starting at 12 months.
Meningococcal conjugate vaccine
Meningococcal conjugate vaccine guards against four different strains of bacteria that cause potentially deadly infections of the brain and bloodstream. Kids get it between ages 11 and 12, with a booster at age 16. A vaccine against an extra bacteria strain, meningococcal B, is available for older teens and young adults at high risk.
The human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV)
The human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) protects against a group of viruses that cause nearly all cases of cervical cancer and most cancers of the vulva, penis, anus, rectum, and throat. It’s recommended for children aged 11 to 12 in two doses, 6 to 12 months apart. Teens older than 15 who haven’t gotten it need three doses.
Influenza vaccine
An influenza vaccine is recommended for everyone every year, from 6 months on.
Vaccine and their doses
RECOMMENDED VACCINE VACCINE SCHEDULE
DTaP Dose 1: age 2 months
Dose 2: age 4 months
Dose 3: age 6 months
Dose 4: Between ages 15 months and 18 months
Dose 5: Between ages 4 years and 6 years
Influenza Every year, starting at age 6 months. Extra dose recommended for children under age 9 the first year they receive this vaccine
HepA Dose 1: Between ages 12 months and 23 months
Dose 2: 6 months to 18 months after first dose
Catch-up series for those ages 2 years and older who have not already completed the HepA series. Two doses may be given, separated by at least 6 months.
HepB Dose 1: At birth
Dose 2: Between ages 1 month and 2 months
Dose 3: Between ages 6 months and 18 months
Catch-up series between ages 7 years and 18 years if your child has not received all three doses
Hib Dose 1: age 2 months
Dose 2: age 4 months
Dose 3: age 6 months, if needed
Dose 4:Booster between ages 12 months and 15 months
Catch-up vaccine(s) after age 15 months, if needed
HPV Doses 1-3 between ages 11 years and 12 years for both boys and girls
Catch-up series between ages 13 years and 18 years if needed
IPV Dose 1: age 2 months
Dose 2: age 4 months
Dose 3: Between ages 6 months and 18 months
Dose 4: Between ages 4 years and 6 years
Catch-up series between ages 7 years and 18 years if your child has not received all four doses
PCV13 Dose 1: age 2 months
Dose 2: age 4 months
Dose 3: age 6 months
Dose 4: Between ages 12 months and 15 months
Extra dose of PCV13 recommended for children ages 24 months through 71 months with certain health conditions. Extra dose is recommended for previously unvaccinated children with immune conditions ages 6 years through 18 years
MCV4 Dose between ages 11 years and 12 years, with a booster at age 16 years
Catch-up dose between ages 13 years and 15 years, if needed, with a booster between ages 16 years and 18 years
For children with high-risk conditions, a dose is recommended between ages 9 months and 10 years
MMR Dose 1: Between ages 12 months and 15 months
Dose 2: Between ages 4 years and 6 years
Catch-up series between ages 7 years and 18 years if your child has not had both doses
RV Dose 1: age 2 months
Dose 2: age 4 months
Dose 3: age 6 months, if needed, depending on the vaccine manufacturer of the previous doses
Tdap Single dose recommended between ages 11 years and 12 years
Catch-up dose between ages 7 years and 10 years if your child has not had all five doses of DTaP. Check whether additional dose is needed between ages 13 years and 18 years
Varicella Dose 1: Between ages 12 months and 15 months
Dose 2: Between ages 4 years and 6 years
Catch-up series between ages 7 years and 18 years if your child has not received both doses
Reference
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Thrombocytopenia
Thrombocytopenia is a condition characterized by reduced platelets, or thrombocytes. Platelets, which are fragments formed from large bone marrow-derived cells (ie, megakaryocytes), function in blood clotting (MedlinePlus 2012d).
Causes and risk factors
Thrombocytopenia can arise in a variety of clinical situations. For example, reduced megakaryocytes (platelet precursors) are seen in aplastic anemia and leukemia. Aplastic anemia is a condition in which production of all blood cells is reduced (Brodsky 2005). Leukemia is a cancer where abnormal production of leukocytes (white blood cells) affects the synthesis of other blood cells, including platelets (Merck 2012b).
Thrombocytopenia can arise as a result of complex interplay of autoimmune platelet destruction and impaired platelet production. This type of thrombocytopenia was historically referred to as “idiopathic thrombocytopenia,” since its causes were unknown; now that its pathophysiology is better understood, it is deemed “immune thrombocytopenia” or ITP. It is more common in aging populations, and may be a result of the immune system dysregulation associated with aging (McCrae 2011; Rodeghiero 2009). Specifically, ITP is characterized by the presence of immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies against receptors on the surface of platelets. These autoantibodies “mark” platelets for destruction by the immune system, leading to reduced platelet count. Additionally, these autoantibodies appear to decrease platelet production (McCrae 2011; McMillan 2004).
Thrombocytopenia can be induced by a host of drugs, including those that suppress the synthesis of bone marrow cells, such as hydroxycarbamide and interferon alfa-2b (IntronA®). Hydroxycarbamide is beneficial in treating sickle cell disease through its ability to stimulate fetal hemoglobin synthesis; however, it also reduces platelet production in some individuals (Zamani 2009). Interferon alfa-2b is an antiviral drug used to treat hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and certain cancers; however, it also suppresses platelet production (Roomer 2010; Scaglione 2012; Kelly 2012; Rubin 2012). The list of drugs that can cause thrombocytopenia does not stop there – heparin, quinine, vancomycin, cimetidine, naproxen, and chlorothiazide can all negatively affect platelet number (Aster 2007; Giugliano 1998).
Reduced production of platelets from megakaryocytes can occur due to alcoholism, vitamin B12 and folate deficiency, aplastic anemia, leukemia, and chemotherapy. Similar to anemia and leukopenia, an enlarged spleen can result in enhanced clearance/destruction of platelets (MedlinePlus 2012d).
Symptoms & diagnosis
Clinically, thrombocytopenia is diagnosed as a platelet count of <50 000 per microliter of blood on a standard blood test. Symptoms include multiple small petechiae (or broken blood vessels just beneath the skin), scattered bruising, gastrointestinal or vaginal bleeding, and excessive bleeding after surgery. All of these symptoms reflect the underlying disorder – impaired blood clotting (NHLBI 2012).
Treatment
Non immune-system-mediated thrombocytopenia. In non immune-system-mediated thrombocytopenia, the treatment depends on the underlying cause (MedlinePlus 2012d); however, all patients should avoid drugs that impair clotting (NHLBI 2012).
Thrombocytopenia due to increased platelet destruction (eg, immune thrombocytopenia - ITP). Thrombocytopenia due to increased platelet destruction is typically treated with corticosteroid medications such as prednisolone (Nakazaki 2012). Prednisolone is a glucocorticoid, which acts as an immunosuppressant to reduce the destruction of platelets by the immune system (NHLBI 2012). Splenectomy is a more invasive option that is generally reserved for severe or treatment-resistant thrombocytopenia (Wang 2012).
Immune cells called B-cells can be partly responsible for the destruction of platelets in thrombocytopenia. Rituximab (RituxanTM), a drug that inhibits B-cells, has been shown to be efficacious in certain populations of immune-mediated thrombocytopenia. One review of rituximab trials showed that 72% of patients treated with the drug achieved significant clinical improvements (Cervinek 2012).
If platelets become too low, they can be directly replaced by transfusions (Bercovitz 2012; Wandt 2012).
Thrombocytopenia due to reduced megakaryocyte production. Thrombocytopenia due to reduced megakaryocyte productioncan be treated with Romiplostim (Nplate®), an injectable thrombopoietin-mimetic that has been shown to sustainably improve platelet counts within 14 weeks (Kuter 2008). Thrombopoietin is a liver-derived hormone that stimulates megakaryocyte production in bone marrow (Sharma 2012).
Eltrombopag (Promacta®) is a small molecule that binds to and activates the thrombopoietin receptor. The advantage of eltrombopag over treatments like romiplostim is that it is orally bioavailable and does not require regular self-administered injections. In one double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in patients with liver disease and thrombocytopenia about to undergo an invasive procedure, pretreatment with 75 mg eltrombopag daily for 2 weeks significantly reduced the need for platelet transfusions (Afdhal 2012).
Despite both drugs targeting the same receptor, patients who are non-responders to eltrombopag may still benefit from romiplostim (Aoki 2012). One review of the two drugs modestly favored romiplostim over eltrombopag (Cooper 2012). Eltrombopag and romiplostim may cause shortness of breath, coughing up blood, accelerated heart rate and breathing, dizziness or lightheadedness, and vision changes. These drugs can also cause bone marrow abnormalities, or may cause the platelet count to increase too much; both of these side effects can be serious (MedlinePlus 2009, 2010).
New/Novel therapies
Avatrombopag. Avatrombopag (a novel analog of eltrombopag), which has shown efficacy in preliminary studies on thrombocytopenia associated with liver disease (Terrault 2012), is being tested in chronic immune thrombocytopenia patients (ClinicalTrials.gov 2012b). | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Don’t Step on the Starfish: Elmgreen & Dragset at FIAC
Artists see the world differently from everyone else. And the Scandinavian duo known as Elmgreen & Dragset have a particularly distinctive and skewed take on what the public sphere should look like. In 2016, for example, they took a curved swimming pool and stood it upright at Rockefeller Center in New York, calling it “Van Gogh’s Ear.” Based in Berlin, the Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and the Norwegian-born Ingar Dragset have found their voice with cheeky public installations like that one and their 2005 Potemkin luxury store “Prada Marfa.” A small, real-looking Prada outlet on a desert road near Marfa, Tex., it is a favorite of the Instagram crowd, with nearly 45,000 hashtag name-checks. Their latest provocation, “To Whom It May Concern,” has taken over the upscale Place Vendôme in Paris, with 100 red starfish, in bronze and steel, strewn over the paving stones. The piece was commissioned by FIAC, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (International Contemporary Art Fair), as part of its Hors les Murs (Outside the Walls) program, and will remain on view until Nov 2. “We had carte blanche from the fair,” Mr. Elmgreen said in a joint telephone interview with his artistic partner, noting that they chose red for the starfish to contrast with the green of the historic Vendôme Column, originally erected by Napoleon, which dominates the square. Climate change inspired the idea. “Every time we were in Paris lately, the subways were flooded,” Mr. Elmgreen said. “So we imagined water coming all the way to the Place Vendôme. What’s left when it recedes? A swarm of friendly intruders.” The square’s history also got the men thinking, as they have often addressed similar triumphal plazas, including Trafalgar Square in London. “It’s important to make these impressive and spectacular squares more human, and give them a humorous twist with more humanity and less authoritarianism,” Mr. Elmgreen said, adding that the current debate about migrants and immigration also influenced their approach. “There’s increased fear in our public spaces,” he said. “We’re not familiar with the Other.” Mr. Elmgreen, 57, and Mr. Dragset, 49, met in the mid-1990s and immediately formed a romantic partnership as well as one based on art. But they are no longer a couple. “That’s so long ago we can barely remember it,” Mr. Dragset said, laughing. “The art was always the core of the relationship.” They once did a Berlin gallery show inspired by joint laundry duties: The installation was full of single socks, and if viewers brought in one that matched, they could take that pair home. Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the New Museum in New York, noted the pair’s knack for “institutional critique in the Instagram age.” Mr. Gioni first worked with the men in 2003, in his role as artistic director of the Trussardi Foundation in Milan. He commissioned “Short Cut,” in which a car towing a trailer seems to emerge from the ground. “They are very savvy about communication, and the ways of the art world,” Mr. Gioni said. Fairs have been humorous targets for the men more than once. In 2016, they created a fictional art fair, made up of a few dozen of their own works, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Later that year, they set up a booth by itself in an otherwise empty part of the Grand Palais, jumping the gun on FIAC by a few weeks with a one-day installation. Who does what in the partnership remains a mystery even to experts. “There’s a sense of something more than collaboration — the work comes with its own interpretation, with the two of them bouncing ideas around,” Mr. Gioni said. “You never know who is having the idea, and who is delivering it.” In an age when fiery, politically trenchant contemporary artworks often take center stage, perhaps what is most distinctive about Elmgreen & Dragset is that they seem to be enjoying themselves. “We don’t want to be dictators of what people should think,” Mr. Dragset said. “We want to give people some excitement and surprise.” video | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guce
The result was Delete, consensus is that the article fails the relevant notability guideline. Davewild (talk) 20:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Guce
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
Non-notable rapper from non-notable group (whose article was deleted). Fails WP:MUSIC. Prod removed without comment. — Hello, Control Hello, Tony 13:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. — Hello, Control Hello, Tony 13:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
* Comment – Here is one article from the East Bay Express. That's not enough, but perhaps there is more... Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 14:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
* Delete per nom NN Dreamspy (talk) 21:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
* Delete I'm rather surprised that an artist with that many albums released can have so few google hits when I search for some of those albums. Since I was not able to find multiple non-trivial mention, it's a delete vote from me. --Bardin (talk) 14:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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Wayne Osborne (baseball)
Wayne Harold Osborne (October 11, 1912 – March 13, 1987) was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1935) and Boston Bees (1936). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Osborne was born in Watsonville, California, and went straight from high school onto the Portland Beavers in 1931 and the Mission Reds from 1932 to 1934.
In Osborne's two-season major league pitching career, his statistical accomplishments include posting a 1–1 win–loss record, with nine strikeouts, and a 5.91 earned run average (ERA), in $21 1⁄3$ innings pitched.
On February 7, 1942, Osborne signed an agreement to be an extra in the movie The Pride of The Yankees for the rate of $52.50 per week.
After retiring from baseball, Osborne went into radio broadcasting in the Chicago area, calling Chicago Cubs games with Bert Wilson in 1945 and later serving as chief announcer for station WOPA.
On March 13, 1987, Osborne died in Vancouver, Washington, at the age of 74. | WIKI |
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What Are the Benefits of Goji Berry Capsules?
Goji berries are also known as wolfberries and lycium fruit, derived from the plant species Lycium chinensis and L. barbarum. Goji berries are widely available as fruits and juices, as well as in supplement form like capsules, tinctures and other standardized extracts. Goji berry capsules could offer a variety of health benefits, but you should first consult your doctor to discuss the proper dosage and potential dangers.
Is This an Emergency?
If you are experiencing serious medical symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Benefits
Goji berry capsules have a variety of potential health benefits, such as treating burns, skin infections, pain and inflammation. Goji may also help to improve vision, treat anemia and coughs, and provide sedative effects. In alternative herbal medicine, goji capsules are sometimes recommended for preventing Alzheimer’s disease, protecting the liver and aiding in cancer treatments, as well as helping to treat high cholesterol, diabetes and sexual dysfunction – particularly impotence and low sex drive. Goji remedies could possibly help in treating high blood pressure, circulation problems, dizziness, tinnitus, malaria and fevers.
Function
The purported benefits of goji berries come from the main active constituents in the fruits, which include polysaccharides, cerebrosides and beta-sitosterol. Beta-sitosterol appears to block the absorption of cholesterol in the digestive tract, while the polysaccharides seem to inhibit the growth of certain cancer cells, enhance the immune system and provide neuroprotective actions. The cerebrosides may block the release of certain enzymes that can harm your liver. The chemical constituents in goji berries also might reduce blood-sugar and blood-pressure levels in the body. Additionally, goji berries are rich in various essential vitamins and minerals, making them a nutritious food source.
Considerations
The various functions and effects of goji berry capsules in the body are largely based on test-tube studies, not clinical trials in humans. Also, some of the purported health benefits of goji berry supplements aren’t clear even within traditional Chinese medicine 2. Therefore, the scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of goji berry capsules in providing any kind of health benefits is insufficient.
Warning
Aside from the limited medical research in humans and only weak evidence in laboratory studies on goji berry’s health benefits, the supplements could pose dangers for certain people. Eating goji berries appears to be safe, because the fruits are widely-consumed foods. But no comprehensive safety studies have been performed on goji berry supplements. Goji capsules and teas appear to have a blood-thinning effect, which could increase the effects of anticoagulant medications like Coumadin, aspirin and Plavix, potentially causing uncontrolled bleeding. Because goji supplements may lower your blood pressure, you could have an unsafe drop in your blood pressure if you’re taking medications for hypertension or if you have low blood pressure. Also, goji’s potential blood sugar-lowering effects may cause hypoglycemia in people who are taking insulin or other medications for diabetes. Additionally, don’t take goji berry supplements while you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, because goji berries contain betaine, a chemical linked to stimulating miscarriage. The safety of goji capsules for children and people with liver or kidney disease is also unknown.
The Wrap Up
Goji berries are also known as wolfberries and lycium fruit, derived from the plant species Lycium chinensis and L. barbarum. Additionally, goji berries are rich in various essential vitamins and minerals, making them a nutritious food source. Also, some of the purported health benefits of goji berry supplements aren’t clear even within traditional Chinese medicine. Goji capsules and teas appear to have a blood-thinning effect, which could increase the effects of anticoagulant medications like Coumadin, aspirin and Plavix, potentially causing uncontrolled bleeding. Also, goji’s potential blood sugar-lowering effects may cause hypoglycemia in people who are taking insulin or other medications for diabetes.
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Talk:Forest falcon
Nice work, Seglea. Alas, they live a bit far from me, so I can't hope to supply a picture. Tannin
A little problem
There is a Cryptic Forest Falcon article, but its link says it doesn't exist. Why? Shrewpelt 19:40, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Harrier-hawk
I have spend years within the range of these species and had the luck of seeing all of them. Despite this, I have never heard anyone ever referring to any of these as harrier-hawks (also pretty unlikely considering their very non-harrier behavior!). I have also been unable to find a reference supporting this claim. I have therefore removed the section claiming that they sometimes are called harrier-hawks. If you have a reference supporting it, feel free to re-add w. ref. Rabo3 (talk) 01:04, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hyphenated form
as these are polyborine rather than falconine ("true") falcons -- and as the specific entries linked to herein use the hyphen -- the hyphenated form of the name, "forest-falcon", seems to be the preferred label for this group. is there anyone who feels that the article title itself shouldn't reflect this, i.e., Forest-falcon instead of Forest falcon? - Μετανοιδ (talk, email) 02:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Carrara (singer)
Alberto Carrara (born 1958), best known as Carrara and King Carrara, is an Italian singer, composer, arranger, music producer, and disc jockey. He has sold over three million records. In the 1990s he became a music producer with the label "Disco Magic".
Career
Born in Bergamo, Carrara started his career as a disc jockey at 15. A self-taught musician, in 1983 he obtained his first success, "Disco King". One year later, he got his main success, "Shine on dance", which won the 1984 Festivalbar. | WIKI |
United Tech engine deliveries not changed by JetBlue deferral: CFO
(Reuters) - United Technologies Corp still plans to deliver 350 to 400 Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan engines to plane makers this year, and does not expect the total to be reduced by JetBlue’s decision to defer some Airbus aircraft with those engines, United Tech’s chief financial officer told Reuters on Wednesday. JetBlue Airways Corp raised concerns on Tuesday when it said it will postpone delivery of 13 aircraft scheduled for 2019 and 2020 and take Airbus planes with an earlier engine design. “All they have done is swapped some engines,” CFO Akhil Johri said in an interview. Johri said that since European regulators have recently approved a solution, repairs can go ahead, and engines already sent to customers should be fixed by the middle to the end of May. The fix also was going into engines in production. “It will take some time before all the drama dies,” he said. “But these are durability issues we know how to fix.” A second problem with the engine combustor lining degrading sooner than expected will be fixed by year-end, and “all the new engines after that will have the longer durability on the combustor liner,” he said. On a conference call with analysts, Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes said the costs of the repairs were “not huge” and had been factored into earnings projections for the year. “It’s not material,” he said. Hayes added, “We haven’t seen any other surprises or concerns” with the engines.” United Tech, the maker of Otis elevators, Carrier air conditioners and aerospace parts, reported a 17.8 percent rise in profit on Wednesday, beating analysts expectations. Reporting by Alwyn Scott in New York; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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clasp hands across the sea in the Anglo-American compact to win this war. Gilbert Parker is in tune with the American temperament. He doesn't wear a monocle. And he says to a woman "Now, what can I do for you?" in just the tone of voice that an American man would use when everything is going to be all right. I remember the red room just before he said it. Everything hung in the balance for me at this moment: "I have confidence in Mr. Vance, your editor. I know him," reflects the man who is deciding. "But—are you in 'Who's Who'?" Just for the lack of a line in a book, a government's good favour might have been lost! But he reached for the copy above his desk. "Any more credentials?" he asks. I cast desperately about in my mind—and drop a Phi Beta key in his hand. "I won't take that up on you," he says with a smile. And my cause is won.
Long important envelopes lettered across the top "On His Majesty's Service" begin to arrive in my mail. All the government offices will be "at home" and helpful—when a personal interview has further convinced each that I am clearly not at all a German person nor the dangerous species of the suffragist. Where are the slippers that will match this gown? And which are the beads that will be best? Mine is a hazardous undertaking, you see, that requires all of the art at the command of a woman: I must so state the mission on which I have come that my woman | WIKI |
do elephants drink through their trunk
Do Elephants Drink through Their Trunk?
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Yes, elephants do drink through their trunk. Elephants have a highly developed trunk, which is a long, flexible appendage that extends from the head and is used for a variety of purposes, including drinking. To drink, an elephant will use its trunk to scoop up water and bring it to its mouth, where it can then drink the water. The trunk is also used to spray water over the elephant’s body, which helps to keep it cool and hydrated in hot temperatures. Elephants are known to drink large quantities of water, and they can consume up to 50 gallons (189 liters) in a single day.
Do Elephants Drink through Their Trunk?
While the trunk is an important organ for elephants, it is not used for breathing. Elephants have a separate respiratory system for breathing, which includes the nose, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. The trunk is used primarily for smelling, touching, and manipulating objects, as well as for drinking and spraying water over the body. The trunk is also used for vocalizing, as elephants can make a variety of sounds by using their trunk to produce different pitches and tones.
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Can elephants drink without a trunk?
It is difficult to imagine how an elephant would be able to drink without a trunk, as the trunk is an essential part of their anatomy that is used for a variety of purposes, including drinking. The trunk is a long, flexible appendage that extends from the head and is used for smelling, touching, and manipulating objects, as well as for drinking and spraying water over the body. Elephants use their trunk to scoop up water and bring it to their mouth, where they can drink it. The trunk is also used to help elephants keep cool and hydrated in hot temperatures, as they can spray water over their body using their trunk. Without a trunk, an elephant would likely be unable to drink in the same way that it does now.
How long can an elephant hold water in its trunk?
It is difficult to determine exactly how long an elephant can hold water in its trunk, as it depends on various factors such as the size and shape of the elephant’s trunk, the amount of water being held, and the ambient temperature. However, it is generally thought that an elephant’s trunk can hold a significant amount of water. The trunk is a highly developed organ that is made up of over 40,000 muscles, which give it great strength and flexibility. This allows elephants to use their trunk to lift heavy objects, including large quantities of water. Elephants are known to drink large quantities of water, and they can consume up to 50 gallons (189 liters) in a single day. They use their trunk to scoop up water from rivers, lakes, or other water sources and bring it to their mouth to drink.
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Do elephants choke on water?
It is unlikely that elephants would choke on the water while drinking, as they have a highly developed trunk that they use to drink and spray water over their body. The trunk is a long, flexible appendage that extends from the head and is made up of over 40,000 muscles, which give it great strength and flexibility. This allows elephants to use their trunk to lift heavy objects, including large quantities of water. To drink, an elephant will use its trunk to scoop up water and bring it to its mouth, where it can then drink the water. Elephants are known to drink large quantities of water, and they can consume up to 50 gallons (189 liters) in a single day. They use their trunk to scoop up water from rivers, lakes, or other water sources and bring it to their mouth to drink. While it is possible that an elephant could accidentally inhale some water while drinking, it is unlikely that it would choke on it.
What is the purpose of an elephant’s trunk?
The trunk of an elephant is a highly developed organ that is used for a variety of purposes, including smelling, touching, and manipulating objects, as well as for drinking and spraying water over the body. This allows elephants to use their trunk to lift heavy objects, including branches and logs, as well as to defend themselves against predators.
In addition to these physical tasks, the trunk is also used for vocalizing, as elephants can make a variety of sounds by using their trunk to produce different pitches and tones. Elephants use their trunk to communicate with each other, and they can also use their trunk to make vocalizations that are audible to humans.
Overall, the trunk is a highly adaptable and versatile organ that plays a vital role in the lives of elephants.
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So Is It SSL or TLS? Synonyms, Misnomers, and Just Plain Mistakes in Certificate Nomenclature
Scott Rogers Introduction-To
Digital certificates are a terminology-heavy technology space. Here are some of the terms that are used differently in various circumstances. Where appropriate we include a little bit of the why and how we've chosen to use these terms.
SSL vs. TLS
The SSL standard was the original IETF standard that browsers, CAs, and other infrastructure providers created and rallied behind in order to enable commerce and other confidential communications on the internet. The IETF superseded the SSL standard with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 all the way back in 20XX, but by then the word SSL had such a stronghold that it never left.
We usually say SSL just because it's the convention and what people understand. We do try to weave in some use of the word TLS just because it's the technically correct term. Most of the time when GeoCerts says SSL it can be interpreted as meaning TLS, and if that's not the case we'll make that clear.
Certificate Authority vs. Certification Authority
Certification Authority is kind of the old-school term. If you worked for RSA back in the 1980s you definitely would have been saying Certification Authority. That's because if was the authority that performed certification. As digital certificates moved from the exclusive purview of niche specialists to the broader world of IT employees in general and even regular old computer users, the dialog around that whole ecosystem became less about PKI systems and trust models and more about the pragmatics of putting certificates on servers and code and whatnot. And as that transformation happened, we saw the awkward term Certification become replaced by the easier term Certificate.
When we're not just writing CA, we say Certificate Authority because it's less awkward and is in fact the most common usage by far. But we view both terms as synonymous and think either is perfectly fine.
Domain Validation vs. Domain Validated
This is a similar situation to the previous one. The technical term is Domain Validation because it describes the level of validation an SSL certificate undergoes.
HTTPS vs. https
HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. That makes HTTP an acronym, and therefore capitalized. (Note the very computerish use of the capital letter in the middle of the conjoined word.) However, URLs, which are always lowercase, start with http for web sites. (There are of course ftp and other potential openings for URLs, but http is what we usually see.)
When it's secured by SSL, we put an S on the end, so we get either HTTPS or https.
So which is correct? If you want to get nitpicky about it (and isn't that the whole point of this post?), HTTPS is a noun and https is an adjective. So you could write, "Without HTTPS we couldn't have https pages."
In reality we don't give this one much thought. Writing these four paragraphs is the most consideration we've every given the question. They're basically synonymous in our minds.
Secure Sockets Layer vs. Secure Socket Layer
SSL actually stands for Secure Sockets Layer (plural) because it's a layer of secure sockets. The noun in the phrase is layer and sockets is part of an adjective phrase modifying the noun. Many people say Secure Socket Layer, so you'll see that a lot, but the plural is in fact correct.
Cert vs. certificate
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Eyvind Andersen
Eyvind J. Andersen (7 July 1874 – 2 January 1939) was a Norwegian judge.
He was born in Halden to Victor Christian Andersen and Theodora Caroline Jacobine Frølich. He graduated as cand.jur. in 1899, and was named as a Supreme Court Justice from 1921. | WIKI |
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Folks, I'm hoping there's something obvious that I'm missing, and I hope someone will be able to shed some light. I'm trying to get TLSv1.2 running in an SSL + NIO context (using the AndroidAsync library), so I'm trying to enable it via an SSLEngine. I can run code like this:
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");
sslContext.init(null, null, null);
String[] protocols = sslContext.getSupportedSSLParameters().getProtocols();
for (String protocol : protocols) {
Timber.d("Context supported protocol: " + protocol);
}
SSLEngine engine = sslContext.createSSLEngine();
String[] supportedProtocols = engine.getSupportedProtocols();
for (String protocol : supportedProtocols) {
Timber.d("Engine supported protocol: " + protocol);
}
And I end up seeing this on logcat:
06-22 21:56:27.715 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Context supported protocol: SSLv3
06-22 21:56:27.715 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Context supported protocol: TLSv1
06-22 21:56:27.725 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Context supported protocol: TLSv1.1
06-22 21:56:27.725 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Context supported protocol: TLSv1.2
06-22 21:56:27.735 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Engine supported protocol: TLSv1
06-22 21:56:27.745 1117-1117/? D/XXX﹕ Engine supported protocol: SSLv3
Of course if I try to engine.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "TLSv1.2" }) I get an IllegalArgumentException "Protocol TLSv1.2 is not supported."
I can see the context claims to support TLSv1.2, but then the engine I make from that context doesn't? What's going on here? None of this changes if I use "TLS" instead of "TLSv1.2" in the first line above, btw.
I gather this might have something to do with this issue, and I've read this (as yet unanswered) question and articles like this, but they don't quite seem to be hitting the spot - solutions I've seen all seem to rely on SSLSocket rather than SSLEngine.
Thanks much for any knowledge you can drop.
UPDATE 6/23/14 10AMEDT
So I found SSLEngine.setSSLParameters, which I was hoping would let me pass in an SSLParameters that I got from SSLContext.getSupportedSSLParameters(), but when I call that I get an exception that claims the cipher suites aren't supported, so it looks like setSSLParameters() is just doing the same thing that setEnabledCipherSuites() does, and the engine is already in a state where it doesn't recognize the TLS 1.2 protocol/suites as supported.
• What happens when you do sslContext.setEnabledProtocols(new String[] { "TLSv1.2" }), and then sslContext.createSSLEngine();? – Martin Konecny Jun 23 '14 at 5:21
• SSLContext doesn't have a setEnabledProtocols() API. However, I did just discover SSLEngine.setSSLParameters(). About to edit question. – Glen Jun 23 '14 at 14:17
• Hi Glenn i am stuck up with this issue can u help me out ? stackoverflow.com/questions/49946350/… – Firnaz Apr 27 '18 at 6:32
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The Android API docs correctly state that TLSv1.2 is only supported for SSLEngine in API Level 20 or later (Lollipop) while SSLSocket supports it since level 16.
Using SSLSocket or requiring API 20 was no option for our project and neither was changing the server code to allow TLSv1 or SSLv3. Our solution was to install a newer security provider using Google Play Services:
ProviderInstaller.installIfNeeded(getApplicationContext());
This effectively gives your app access to a newer version of OpenSSL and Java Security Provider which includes support for TLSv1.2 in SSLEngine. Once the new provider is installed, you can create an SSLEngine which supports SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 the usual way:
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");
sslContext.init(null, null, null);
SSLEngine engine = sslContext.createSSLEngine();
Or you can restrict the enabled protocols using engine.setEnabledProtocols.
• Hey thanks for the answer! That is not a thing we've tried yet, will attempt to do so in the next few days and then mark this accepted. – Glen Oct 30 '14 at 19:46
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Hey there! How do we use this with the HttpsUrlConnection on Android? – source.rar Jun 16 '16 at 8:51
• Man, You are awesome! ProviderInstaller.installIfNeeded(getApplicationContext()); that's why my app wasn't working on android from 4.0 – Ossir Jul 27 '16 at 12:07
• Hey Man!) You Saved ME! Thanks A LOT! – Rahim Rahimov Nov 10 '16 at 17:51
• Do you know if there is any way of testing this on an AVD with, for example, api 18? I've created an AVD with api 18 + Google Apis. In this case I see SSLEngine with TLS v1 and 3 available only. When I add the "ProviderInstaller" and google services dependancy, I get the Dialog to install the upgrade, but as it is an AVD I don't get passed that screen. – Juan Nov 17 '16 at 3:06
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Try this solution if you are using okHttp. Solution for enabling TLSv1.2 on Android 4.4
Had the same issue on Android < 5.0 (16 <= API < 20). Thanks to your posts, I was able to make this work, so for anyone who gets here, this is the out-of-the-box solution. At the time of this writing, I'm using OkHttp 3.4.1.
Tags : Unable to find acceptable protocols, javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: SSL handshake aborted:
• wow! its great its solve my problem i was tuck since 4 days, Thank you Wolfgang Profer – Shoaib Anwar Jul 31 '17 at 10:10
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Here is how to do in with AndroidAsync:
ProviderInstaller.installIfNeeded(context);
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");
sslContext.init(KeyManager[] km, TrustManager[] tm, SecureRandom rm);
SSLEngine engine = sslContext.createSSLEngine();
AsyncHttpClient.getDefaultInstance().insertMiddleware((AsyncHttpClientMiddleware) engine);
Updating SSLEngine and inserting it as middleware into AndroidAsync seems to work.
• It would be helpful to explain why this solution works, at least a paraphrase of your blog post. – cryptic_star Sep 19 '15 at 20:46
• Fair point, I just added an extra sentence. – Jordan Réjaud Sep 20 '15 at 1:36
• @JordanRéjaud where would context be passed in from? – user1744228 Jun 16 '17 at 15:28
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I think it might be better to set the SSLContext in Ion so: Ion.getDefault(this).getHttpClient().getSSLSocketMiddleware().setSSLContext(sslContext); – Raanan Jul 13 '17 at 15:46
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Cyro Delgado
Cyro Marques Delgado (born 11 May 1961 in União da Vitória) is a Brazilian former freestyle swimmer.
He was at the 1979 Pan American Games, in San Juan. He won silver in the 4×200-metre freestyle, and bronze in the 4×100-metre freestyle. He also finished 4th in the 4×100-metre medley. He broke the South American record in all three events.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics, in Moscow, he won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, with a time of 7:29.30, along Jorge Fernandes, Marcus Mattioli and Djan Madruga. He also swam the 100-metre and 200-metre freestyle, but failed to reach the finals in these events. In the 4×100-metre medley, he broke the South American record at heats, with a time of 3:53.32, helping Brazil to reach the final.
Participated at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, where he finished 7th in the 100-metre freestyle final, 7th in the 4×200-metre freestyle final, 8th in the 4×100-metre medley final, and 15º in the 200-metre freestyle.
He was at the 1983 Pan American Games, in Caracas. He won silver in the 4×100-metre freestyle and in the 4×200-metre freestyle. He also finished 5th in the 100-metre freestyle, and 8th in the 200-metre freestyle. He broke the South American record in the 4×100-metre freestyle.
At the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, his best achievement was ninth place in the same 4×200-metre freestyle relay event. He also finished 10th in the 4×100-metre freestyle, 12th in the 4×100-metre medley, 18th in the 100-metre freestyle, and 21st in the 200-metre freestyle.
Participated at the 1986 World Aquatics Championships in Madrid, where he finished 27th in the 50-metre freestyle, and 31st in the 100-metre freestyle.
He was at the 1987 Pan American Games, in Indianapolis. He won bronze in the 4×100-metre freestyle and in the 4×200-metre freestyle.
After retirement from swimming he took leading positions in Brazilian sports management, such as president of State Council of Sports (Conselho Estadual de Desportos), president of Committee of Sports Projects (Comissão de Projetos Esportivos Incentivados) and president of the National Olympics Committee (Comissão de Atletas Olímpicos). | WIKI |
What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics
Three hundred and sixty-six days ago, CeCe Moore woke up to the headline that would change her world: “Suspected Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist Arrested After Eluding Authorities for Decades.” Later that day, those authorities would hold a press conference in front of the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office to explain how, a day earlier, they had finally put handcuffs on the man believed to have committed a series of sadistic rapes and murders that spread terror through California for more than 40 years. But Moore didn’t have to tune in to know how they had done it. “I knew immediately they had cracked it with genetic genealogy and GEDmatch,” she says. She knew it because at the time, Moore was working as the genetic genealogy researcher on the PBS show Finding Your Roots and had a consulting business helping adoptees find their biological parents. To aid her searches, she regularly logged on to GEDmatch, a public database where hobbyists upload results from consumer genetic testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry to find relatives with shared DNA and to reverse-engineer their family trees. It had come to her attention that another genealogist on the site, Barbara Rae-Venter, had been uploading files that seemed out of place, and Moore suspected they came not from family members, but from crime scenes. But she had never imagined that one of them belonged to the man believed to be one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. “This was going to be huge,” she remembers telling people that day. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Emotional Challenges
It's important to pay attention to your emotional well-being as you prepare for transplant.
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Stem cell transplantation provides hope for many patients diagnosed with diseases that were once thought incurable. This hope sustains patients and their families through the difficult period of treatment and recovery. Nonetheless, undergoing a transplant and coping with the recovery process is a trying experience.
Getting Information
Doctors strive hard to give you a complete and honest description of the transplant experience. They want you to be fully informed about possible risks. However, the sheer volume of new information can be overwhelming.
Don’t be embarrassed to ask your doctor to repeat something or to translate it into words that you can understand. Sometimes, asking one of the nurses to explain what the doctor means will help you better understand the message.
• It helps to write down any questions you have before meeting with your doctor.
• Consider bringing a family member or friend with you to each of your appointments who can help you recall important details.
• Ask to record or videotape discussions with the transplant team to help you later recall answers to questions.
• Keep a file with brochures, handouts, personal notes, and resource information in case you need to refer them later.
Set Realistic Goals
The time spent preparing for, undergoing and recovering from a stem cell transplant can seem never-ending. Patients seldom make daily progress by leaps and bounds. Each day will bring a small step forward, maybe a little backsliding, or no change at all. This slow pace of progress can be discouraging.
Ask your transplant team for a realistic estimate of how long your recovery will take. If your recovery takes longer, don't be discouraged. A slower recovery period does not mean that you are less likely to be cured.
Anger, Anxiety and Loss of Control
Anxiety and distress are a normal and expected part of the transplant experience. These are very normal reactions to a very stressful experience.
As you prepare for transplant, you may feel a loss of control. A disease has taken control of your body. You're dependent on a medical team you barely know to save your life. The treatment will leave you weak and dependent on others for several weeks.
If you are used to being in charge, taking care of yourself, or being the person upon whom others depend, you may find feeling so weak upsetting. The loss of control can cause both fear and anger.
You will receive a lot of medications during transplant. Some of these medications can impact your brain and feelings while they are helping your body recover.
Talk With Others Who Have Been in Your Shoes
You may find it helpful to talk with someone who has been through a transplant to get some insight on what to expect. BMT InfoNet's Caring Connections Program can put you in touch with another person who has been through a transplant, or a person who has been the caregiver or donor for a transplant patient. Your transplant social worker may also be able to connect you with someone who has been through transplant.
Take Advantage of Professional Help
You may feel surprised or embarrassed if you have trouble coping with anxiety on your own. This is particularly true if you have never before sought mental health services.
Needing help to cope with your emotions during treatment is normal. If you need help, it does not mean that you are falling apart, or that you will require ongoing services after recovery.
Ask if there is social worker or psychologist at your transplant center with whom you can talk or consult BMT InfoNet's Directory of Mental Health Providers.
One Day at a Time
Although it sounds trite, taking things a day at a time or even an hour at a time helps. Focus on the things over which you have some control, rather than worrying about all the details that are beyond your control.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/That Happy Cat
The result was redirect. Sango 123 19:49, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
That Happy Cat
Non-notable. This was a one-time gag on The Simpsons. The article on Itchy & Scratchy already contains this info. Nonpareility 15:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
* Redirects are cheap - redirect to Itchy & Scratchy or the appropriate Simpsons episode. ~Matticus TC 15:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
* I concur: Redirect to The Itchy & Scratchy Show. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 19:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect per everyone. Danny Lilithborne 20:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect those lovely sentences, all two of them. QuagmireDog 23:08, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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Louis Kuhler
Louis Edwin Kuhler, Jr. (July 11, 1902 – March 21, 1925) was a promising young American tennis player who was ranked as high as No. 26 in the United States.
Kuhler, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the son of Louis Sr. and Mary Fromeyer Kuhler. In 1922, at the age of 20, he won the tournament in his hometown now known as the Cincinnati Masters. In the next year, 1923, he successfully defended his singles title and took the doubles title as well (with Howard Cordes). Also in 1923, he won the Ohio State championship over Kirk Reid of Cleveland.
The following year, 1924, he reached the quarterfinals in Cincinnati before falling to former National junior champion Julius Sagalowsky. Also, at the Ohio state championships he was the singles runner-up (falling to George Lott) and won the mixed doubles with Olga Strashun.
Kuhler did not get much of a chance to add to his laurels in 1925. He died of encephalitis (an inflammation of the brain) four months shy of his twenty-third birthday. He was buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery on March 23, 1925. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 May 1
= May 1 =
Arabic, Chinese, and Greek help: What are the characters in these documents?
What are the characters in the second line of the header in this Arabic document:
* http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041213013832/http://nycenet.edu/Forms/ethnic_idforms/arabic.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6GHJQl8gb
What are the characters in the second line of the header in this Chinese document? http://wayback.archive.org/web/20040309163944/http://nycenet.edu/Forms/ethnic_idforms/chinese.pdf
What are the Greek characters in:
* The first line of this document: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041213011708/http://nycenet.edu/Forms/ethnic_idforms/greek.pdf
* The first line of this document: http://opt-osfns.org/languages/greek.pdf
Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 00:44, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* The second line of the Arabic says "بطاقة الطالب العرقية لولي الامر", or I would say something like "Student ethnicity form for guardians" (or basically what it says in English). The first line of the first Greek document says "ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΔΕΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΥΟΡΚΗΣ", or like the English, "Board of Education of the (City?) of New York". The first line of the second Greek document says "ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΑΣ ΥΟΡΚΗΣ" or "Ministry of Education of the (City?) of New York". I don't really know Greek so I don't know why it's "demos" in the first one and "polis" in the second (or at least, the difference between the two in ancient Greek is probably not relevant here...) Adam Bishop (talk) 01:47, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thank you! What is the Arabic of the first line? WhisperToMe (talk) 03:12, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* It says "The Board of Education for the City of New York." Wrad (talk) 05:08, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Yes, but I would like the actual Arabic text so I can post it in the Arabic Wikipedia article and on the Commons Category page. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* It's "الهيئة التعليمية المدينة نيو يورك". Adam Bishop (talk) 10:48, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 15:29, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
The Chinese characters in the second line are 供家長、監護人填寫的學生種族身份資料. Oda Mari (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 07:34, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
"to Temp" food
What does it mean to temp steak, or food? This reference occurred in Hells Kitchen (US version) of season 11 of episode 8.Curb Chain (talk) 05:40, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Maybe the word was temper, not temp? What was the sentence in which the word was used? — Cheers, Jack Lee –talk– 07:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* It maybe has something to do with temperature, e.g. Heating or cooling the lobster. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 07:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Sounds more like testing the food to see if it's reached the right temperature inside. -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 08:06, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* It may also be the process of taking a steak out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature before frying/grilling/cooking/whatever it. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:52, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* A quick Google shows lots of websites that recommend bringing a steak to room temperature before cooking it. Alansplodge (talk) 17:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Another possibility is an abbreviation for tempura. StuRat (talk) 19:06, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* That's a batter answer than any of the others. :) -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 20:07, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Ouch. — Cheers, Jack Lee –talk– 03:51, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* You liked that one? Here's another: What does one say when one is served a plate of Eels à la japonaise? O tempura, o morays!. -- Jack of Oz [Talk] 08:28, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Relationship between Pashto and Persian
How closely related are the two official languages of Afghanistan, namely Pashto and (Dari) Persian? I'll freely admit to a certain amount of neglect in my studies of this side of the Indo-European tree. I understand they're both Iranian languages but that article isn't much help. How long ago did they diverge from a common ancestor and how divergent are they? If one were to make a crude comparison, would the relationship be more similar to that of Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish and Italian, or Spanish and Icelandic? Are educated speakers of one able to distinguish familiar elements in or maybe even understand bits of the other without instruction?--William Thweatt TalkContribs 08:38, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Pashto is a southeastern Iranian language, while modern Persian is a southwestern Iranian language, so that they're not too close (definitely much more divergent than Spanish and Portuguese). AnonMoos (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
They diverged from Proto-Iranian around 2000-1500 BC. (See this tree File:Iranian_Family_Tree_v2.0.png However, as they're in such proximity they probably borrow words back and forth. The relationship could be seen as that between Spanish and Greek. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Iranian_languages_word_table there are enormous differences between basic words. EamonnPKeane (talk) 10:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* I bet they both have lots of loanwords from (standard) Persian and from Arabic too. That will help intelligibility to some extent. (I don't know Hungarian, but I have a pretty good idea what Artikulációs fonetika means.) Angr (talk) 19:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* At the date of separation Eamonn mentions the difference would be closer to that between Breton and French. μηδείς (talk) 19:27, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* Does that not assume that all languages evolve (and hence any two sister languages deviate) at the same rate? {The poster formerly known as <IP_ADDRESS>} <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:17, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* No, it can't. But Greco-Aryan separated from Italo-Celtic long before internal divisions within Italo-Celtic and Aryan. μηδείς (talk) 23:47, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* <IP_ADDRESS>/<IP_ADDRESS> -- Proponents of Glottochronology claimed that the rate of replacement of "basic vocabulary" should be much the same between related languages, but were never really able to make the numbers add up in a way that would allow reliable deductions of absolute dating of language splits to be made from glottochronological data. Pashtun and Persian have diverged within a single Indo-European branch, so I'm not sure how valid it would be to compare their degree of divergence to those of languages from different Indo-European branches (Spanish and Greek, or Breton and French). AnonMoos (talk) 01:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* I denied a constant rate of evolution and mentioned Breton and French only since, like Dari and Pashto, they are in the same modern geopolitical unit. The Gallic languages are both quite divergent from their roots. I have no knowledge of Pashto and the most limited knowledge of Farsi. But it is obvious they are at lest as divergent as any of the two most divergent Germanic dialects, even if the latter were a unity as recent as 1,000 BC or after. μηδείς (talk) 02:17, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* AnonMoos's objection to Medeis's argument, that Pashto and Farsi belong to the same branch of Indo-European whereas French and Breton do not, doesn't seem to me to hold up. Our conception of the branches has more to do with our ability to prove common descent for the constituent languages than with their linguistic closeness to one another. For the Iranian languages, our ability to prove common descent has to do with the antiquity of Avestan and its obvious closeness to Old Persian. For the Celtic and Italic languages we don't have any exemplars nearly as old as Avestan. If we did have examples of Celtic or Italic languages that were three thousand or so years old, we would very likely be able to label Italic and Celtic as a single "branch". In which case French and Breton would be a good analogy to Pashto and Farsi. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:41, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* As a side note, I think it is fairly clear from a comparison of Oscan and Umbrian with the Gaulish language that had Latin gone extinct, they and Old Latin would be considered part of a larger Celtic family than as a separate Italic branch. μηδείς (talk) 16:15, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* The Italo-Celtic hypothesis has waxed and waned in academic acceptance over the decades (one of the main original pieces of evidence for it seems to have been a comparison of r-endings in verbs which didn't hold up), and I'm not sure that it's as solidly established as a branching subdivision (as opposed to a former dialect continuum / sprachbund) as is Indo-Iranian, or even Balto-Slavic... AnonMoos (talk) 16:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* No, it's very much a minority view nowadays. The loss of p in Celtic but not Italic as well as the divergent treatment of the voiced aspirates (becoming plain voiced stops in Celtic but voiceless fricatives presumably by way of voiceless aspirates in Italic) makes it very difficult to believe that Celtic and Italic descend from a common ancestor later than PIE. The innovative similarities they have (such as p...kʷ > kʷ...kʷ as well as lexical items) are the sort of thing that can be easily attributed to language contact rather than genetic relationship. Angr (talk) 20:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* The p/kw developments seem to be parallels, not common innovations, just the loss of final s in French an spoken Mexican is a mere parallel. And the -r endings are a common retention. (Neither of which is at all evidence against a connection) But there are about 20 apparent common innovations including vocabulary proving a common period of development. You can find much of the relevant discussion in Gamkrelidze and Ivanov. And no, the commonalities are not as detailed and as many as in the more obvious Indo-Iranian and Balto-Celtic groups. Reconstruction of Italo-Celtic would get you a post-Anatolian form of PIE with a few dozen peculiarities. Still enough to define the group and give it a date of about 2,000- 2,500 BC. Also, other evidence will have been lost, just as much Latin vocabulary did not make it into Romance and would have been lost save for written records. The pendulum has swung and overly ambitious 19th century constructs like Uralo-Altaic have been demolished to the point that the obviously valid Altaic is denied and even Marcantontio now scoffs at the uncontroversial Uralic as a "myth". This is a skeptical ideological epistemological fashion that has little to do with the examined evidence. Had Latin not survived there would have been no reason to separate Oscan and Umbrbian from Gaulish in a wider continental macro-Celtic. μηδείς (talk) 06:23, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
* Which would have been virtually identical to postlaryngeal PIE. Shared vocabulary is no evidence of a common period of development since vocabulary is so easily borrowed in language contact, and the phonological and morphological similarities are either not universal in Italic and Celtic or not unique to Italic and Celtic. Of course it's impossible to prove a negative, but I think most Indo-Europeanists just find the evidence for a distinct Proto-Italo-Celtic stage unconvincing. Angr (talk) 19:25, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the answers and the (as always) interesting conversations.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 19:59, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Beating
When was the English term "beating" first used, as having the meaning to work to windward or sailing upwind?LordGorval (talk) 18:22, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* The first source in the OED is : Of all the modes of progression invented by man, beating to windward in a sailing vessel is morally the most beautiful. -- 1883 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 231. So that's a start. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* A Google Books search finds several instances of "beating to windward" from the early 1700s (as early as 1703), but nothing from the 1600s. As I understand it, though, "beating" originally meant moving back and forth (i.e., tacking) rather than specifically moving to windward. (Of course the main reason to tack is that it is the only way to go upwind.) Looie496 (talk) 03:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* Thanks for the information from the both of you. Appreciate it. LordGorval (talk) 11:30, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* The OED quotation was specifically for the gerund, but in other inflections the verb beat in its nautical sense has been in use since at least 1677 (at "beat, v.1", sense 19.a):
* "Naut. (intr.) To strive against contrary winds or currents at sea; to make way in any direction against the wind. to beat about : to tack against the wind. [Compare nautical use of Icelandic beita to bait: some conjecture that beat here represents a lost *bait.] 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. I. 1 We must lye beating at Sea while the Dutch are at Anchor."
* Lesgles (talk) 19:36, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Scrutator
Ian Irvine's books, The Well of Echoes, refer to scrutators. What is a scrutator? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* One who scrutinizes. See scrutator. Tevildo (talk) 21:27, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
* I don't know what you do where you're from, but I eat my tators. -- Jayron 32 02:55, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
* Do you eat special taters or just commentators ? StuRat (talk) 04:45, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
As opposed to a tater screw?<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:45, 2 May 2013 (UTC) | WIKI |
Chahoonga Main Tujhe
Chahoonga Main Tujhe is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language film produced by Asgar Hussain and directed by Kamal, starring Irfan Kamal and Niloo Kapoor with Kiran Kumar and Kader Khan.
Cast
* Irfan Kamal
* Niloo Kapoor
* Kiran Kumar
* Kader Khan
* Harish Patel
* Shafi Inamdar
Soundtrack
* 1) "Chahunga Main Tujhe Lekin" - Mohammed Aziz
* 2) "I Love You I Hate You" - Vinod Rathod, Alka Yagnik
* 3) "Jao Logo Jao" - Alka Yagnik
* 4) "Kar Mujhe Salaam" - Mohd Aziz
* 5) "Tera Badan Bhi Ek Shola" - Alka Yagnik & Amit Kumar
* 6) "Wah Wah Kare Yeh Sari Duniya" - Sudesh Bhosle & Vinod Rathod | WIKI |
Seamen's Act
The Seamen's Act, formally known as Act to Promote the Welfare of American Seamen in the Merchant Marine of the United States or Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (Act of March 4, 1915, ch. 153, 38 Stat. 1164), was designed to improve the safety and security of United States seamen and eliminate shanghaiing.
"The 1915 statute ... has been described as the Magna Carta of American sailors' rights."
History
Trade unions like the International Seamen's Union (ISU) provided much of the impetus for the bill, further promoted by the increasing international tensions in the years preceding World War I. The bill was first proposed in 1913 but it became a law after the beginning of hostilities in Europe, though before the United States joined the conflict. The sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 raised the issue of safety at sea as a political issue as well.
The Act was sponsored in the United States Senate by Robert Marion La Follette. The ISU had a significant influence on the drafting of the Bill, with the President of the Union, Andrew Furuseth, cited as being behind the intent and content of the bill. Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson supported its passage.
It was the culmination of twenty years of agitation by the Seamen's Union President Andrew Furuseth. President Woodrow Wilson had supported such a bill at the beginning of his Administration, but in late 1913, United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan had been negotiating with the British for a Convention on Safety at Sea Treaty which would have established international, rather than national, standards for the treatment of sailors on ships. The Senate ratified the Bryan Conciliation Treaty on August 27, 1914, and the Secretary urged Wilson to pocket-veto the La Follette Bill. One look at Andrew Furuseth in person, however, an almost pitiful looking elderly man dressed haggardly and resembling an old "Popeye the Sailor", convinced both of them to change their mind. Furuseth came to Washington to literally beg Wilson to sign the bill. Bryan was nearly moved to tears, realizing the sincere determination and conviction of a man who had labored for such legislation for decades, and the President signed it into law. Explaining his signing of the bill, Wilson said that he did so "because it seemed the only chance to get something like justice done to a class of workmen who have been too much neglected by our laws."
The Act was designed to promote the living and working conditions of seamen serving in the United States Merchant Marine. It applied to vessels in excess of 100 gross tons, excluding river craft.
Provisions of the act
The Act included provisions, inter alia (among other things), to:
* abolish imprisonment for desertion
* reduce penalties for disobedience
* regulate the working hours of seamen both at sea and in port
* establish a minimum quality for rations supplied to seamen
* regulate the payment of wages to seamen
* establish a harsh penalty of double wages per day that any wages remained unpaid upon a sailor's discharge (which resulted in one case in 1982 where the U.S. Supreme Court awarded $302,790.40 to a sailor who had been discharged with $412.50 in unpaid wages )
* set safety requirements, including the provision of lifeboats
* require a minimum percentage of the seamen aboard a vessel to be qualified able seamen
* require at least 75% of the seamen aboard a vessel to understand the language spoken by the officers
Later legislation
The Act did little to help seamen who were injured in the course of their duties, and the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly known as the Jones Act, was passed in an attempt to address such incidents.
Criticism
Shipowners generally opposed the Seamen's Act and the Jones Act as excessive and unnecessary interference with the freedom of contract. They responded by pioneering the now-common practice of chartering ships overseas under a flag of convenience. Shipping companies claimed the unhappy result was the crippling of America's merchant marine, as freight rates spiraled upward with crew's wages.
At least one company, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, ceased operations in the Far East, declaring the increased cost of English speaking crews would make them noncompetitive with foreign companies without such restrictions. | WIKI |
How Many Miles is 10000 Meters?
10000 meters are equal to 6.21371 miles
10000 m = 6.21371 mi
All-in-One Converter
Physical Cocina: Length / Height
metro: 10000
Milla: 6.21371192237
10000 meters = 6.21371 miles
Formula: Increase the value in meters by the change factor ‘0.000621371192237’.
So, 10,000 meters = 10,000 × 0.000621371192237 = 6.21371192237 miles.
Converting 10000 Meters to other Length/Height Units
Converting 10000 Meters to other Length_Height Units
10000 meters = 10 kilometers
10000 meters = 100000 decimeters
At 10000 meters = 1000000 centimeters
10000 meters = 10000000 millimeters
10000 meters = 10000000000 micrometers
At 10000 meters = 10000000000000 nanometers
10000 metros = 100000000000000 angstroms
10000 meters = 2.38095 leagues
At 10000 meters = 5.39957 nautical-miles
10000 meters = 10936.1 yards
10000 meters = 32808.4 feet
At 10000 meters = 393701 inches
10000 meters = 5468.07 fathoms
10000 meters = 49.7097 furlongs
At 10000 meters = 201168 chains
10000 meters = 50292 bars
10000 metros = 49709.7 link (gunter survey)
At10000 meters = 98425.2 spans
10000 meters = 4724340 lines
10000 meters = 393700787.402 thousand
At 10000 metros = 393700787.402 thousand.
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Formula to Convert Meters to Miles
To convert rhythms to miles, use the formula from conversion to continuation:
Value in miles = value rhythms x 0.000621371
Suppose you want to change 2 meters too much. In this circumstance, you will have:
Worth in miles = 2 x 0.000621371 = 0.00124274 (mile)
What is the Formula to Convert from Rhythms to Miles?
Values around 10000 meters in miles
Metros Miles
9200 5.716615
9300 5.778752
9400 5.840889
9500 5.903026
9600 5.965163
9700 6.027301
9800 6.089438
9900 6.151575
10000 6.213712
10100 6.275849
10200 6.337986
10300 6.400123
10400 6.46226
10500 6.524398
10600 6.586535
10700 6.648672
10800 6.710809
Note: some values may be rounded.
What is Meter?
One meter is the distance that light voyages in a vacuum during an interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The meter (symbol m) is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units.
What is Mile?
Called a mile, it is a rummage sale in Anglo-Saxon countries and is precisely equivalent to 1609.344 meters. In English, it is named the Statute Mile.
Quick table for a change of length or height capacities
1 Pies = 0.3048 Metros
1 Metros = 3.2808 Pies
At 1 statute miles = 1.6093 Miles
1 Mile = 0.6213 Statute miles
1 yards = 0.9144 Metros
At 1 Metros = 1.0936 yards
1 fathoms = 1.8288 Metros
1 Metro = 0.5468 Fathoms.
More Length or Distance Conversions
• Centimetres to embers
• Kilometres to feet
• Strings to lines
• Foot chains.
Leagues to yards
• feet to miles
• Kilometres to yards
• Chains to inches
• centimetres to inches.
Bars to centimetres
• Kilometers to miles
• kilometres to meters
• Centimeters to lines
• Strings to lines.
Angstroms to nanometers
Examples of Length or Distance Conversions
3 kilometres to fathoms 810 kilometres to miles
107 inches to yards meters to fathoms
68 centimetres to yards, One meter to fathoms
16 centimetres to yards One nautical mile to kilometres
810 kilometres to miles a decimeter to meters
107 inches to yards 6 yards to leagues
68 centimetres to yards Nautical miles to meters
16 centimetres to yards feet to inches.
How much are 10000 kilometres to Miles?
Here you will find 10000 kilometres in miles and everything about this imperial unit of measurement.
Read on to find the conversion formula and our calculator.
Kilometres: Miles:
10000 6213.7119223733
Convert 10000 kilometres to Miles
Convert 10000 kilometres to Miles
Next, we show you how to convert 10000 kilometres from the metric system of units to the Anglo-Saxon system. The unit of measure mile (in English mile) is used in Anglo-Saxon countries and is abbreviated as mi, and the kilometre is abbreviated as km.
For example, if you are doing a bodily activity and you get the distances in miles travelled, you will need to do a measurement conversion. You may also need to convert kilometres to miles for educational purposes.
To know how many miles 10000 kilometres is equivalent to, multiply the length in kilometres by 1 / 1.609344. The formula is [mi] = [10000] × 1 / 1.609344.
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How Much are 10000 Kilometers in Miles?
Now you have found out how much 10000 kilometres per mile is and more information about these units of measurement.
For example, to find 10,000 km in mi, enter 10,000 in the first text field of our converter.
Then you will automatically know how much the distance is in miles.
Similar conversions in this category:
10005 kilometres to miles
10006 kilometres to miles
10007 kilometres to miles
Types of Miles
Here is some more information about converting 10000 kilometres to miles:
There are Two Types of Miles!
The ordinary statute mile is a measurement on land, and the nautical mile is more significant.
These Types of Miles are not Equivalent.
• The difference between 10,000 nautical miles and 10,000 statute miles is approximately 2,426.56 kilometres or 1,507.794.
• The equivalence between the statute mile is 1.609344 km, and the nautical mile is 1,852.
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Frequent Questions
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Additional Information:
10000 km; how many miles does it have, you know.
Find out here how much 10000 kilometres is in yards, feet, and inches:
10000 kilometers to yards = 10,936,132.98338 yd
At 10000 kilometers to feet = 32,808,398.95013 ft
10000 kilometers to inches = 393,700,787.40158 in
Resume
• 10,000 kilometers = 6,213.71192 miles.
• On our kilometres to miles page, you can find additional information.
We provide more information about the kilometre, the multiple of the basic unit of length in the international system of units.
10000 Kilometers to Miles
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Table
Kilometres Miles
9,999.5 6, 213,401
9,999.51 6,213,407
9,999.52 6,213,414
9,999.53 6,213.42
9,999.54 6,213,426
9,999.55 6,213,432
9,999.56 6,213,439
9,999.57 6,213,445
9,999.58 6,213,451
9,999.59 6,213,457.
Conclusion
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Squid giant axon
Summary
The squid giant axon is the very large (up to 1.5 mm in diameter; typically around 0.5 mm) axon that controls part of the water jet propulsion system in squid. It was first described by L. W. Williams[1] in 1909,[2] but this discovery was forgotten until English zoologist and neurophysiologist J. Z. Young demonstrated the axon's function in the 1930s while working in the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.[3][4] Squids use this system primarily for making brief but very fast movements through the water.
Squid giant axon
On the underside of the squid's body, between the head and the mantle, is a siphon through which water can be rapidly expelled by the fast contractions of the body wall muscles of the animal. This contraction is initiated by action potentials in the giant axon. Action potentials travel faster in a larger axon than a smaller one,[5] and squid have evolved the giant axon to improve the speed of their escape response. The increased radius of the squid axon decreases the internal resistance of the axon, as resistance is inversely proportional to the cross sectional area of the object. This increases the space constant (), leading to faster local depolarization and a faster action potential conduction ().[6]
In their Nobel Prize-winning work uncovering ionic mechanism of action potentials, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley performed experiments on the squid giant axon, using the longfin inshore squid as the model organism. The prize was shared with John Eccles. The large diameter of the axon provided a great experimental advantage for Hodgkin and Huxley as it allowed them to insert voltage clamp electrodes inside the lumen of the axon.
While the squid axon is very large in diameter it is unmyelinated which decreases the conduction velocity substantially. The conduction velocity of a typical 0.5 mm squid axon is about 25 m/s. During a typical action potential in the cuttlefish Sepia giant axon, an influx of 3.7 pmol/cm2 (picomoles per centimeter2) of sodium is offset by a subsequent efflux of 4.3 pmol/cm2 of potassium.[7]
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
1. ^ Kingsley, J. S. (1913). "Obituary. Leonard Worcester Williams". The Anatomical Record. 7: 33–38. doi:10.1002/ar.1090070202.
2. ^ Williams, Leonard Worcester (1909). Anatomy of the Common Squid: Loligo pealii, Lesueur. Leiden, Holland: Library and Printing-office late E.J. Brill. p. 74. OCLC 697639284 – via Internet Archive.
3. ^ Young, J.Z. (April 1938). "The Functioning of the Giant Nerve Fibres of the Squid". Journal of Experimental Biology. 15 (2): 170–185. doi:10.1242/jeb.15.2.170 – via The Company of Biologists Ltd.
4. ^ Young, J.Z. (June 1985). "Cephalopods and Neuroscience". Biological Bulletin. 168 (3S): 153–158. doi:10.2307/1541328. JSTOR 1541328.
5. ^ Purves, Dale; Augustine, George J.; Fitzpatrick, David; Katz, Lawrence C.; LaMantia, Anthony-Samuel; McNamara, James O.; Williams, S. Mark (2001). Neuroscience. 2nd edition. Sunderland, MA.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
6. ^ Holmes, William (2014). "Cable Equation". In Jaeger, Dieter; Jung, Ranu (eds.). Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. New York, NY: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6. ISBN 978-1-4614-7320-6. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
7. ^ Plonsey, Robert; Barr, Roger C. (2007). Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-387-48864-6. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fiber as a control of gut bacteria
There are many different compositions for the bacteria and some researchers argue that the bacteria can be beneficial in one way or the other. On the other hand, it can result to different health problems. Actually, some researchers and health practitioners have associated bacteria with increasing incidences of obesity and diabetes.
Researchers have recommended fiber
As a result, the researchers have recommended the use of fiber as a way to control the gut bacteria and some associated health problems. A team of researchers carried out a research about the effect of changes in diet and the effects of fiber on the gut bacteria. The researchers from Stanford university school of medicine wanted to determine the effect of a single gut microbe species referred to as Akkermansia municiphilla. According to the researchers, the individuals had variant levels of Akkermansia, and the effects differed.
The species is mainly built up in the gut not because of inheritance or chance but because of fiber consumption. The study shows that the level of akkermansia affected the level of change, especially because all individuals had related health problems especially for those with obesity issues, the level of akkermansia, and the higher level of change in terms of body shape and cholesterol improvement. On the other hand, the low the level of the bacteria, the lower the level of change, and the individuals maintained a certain level of food consumption with a specific calories intake and thus there were not disruptions due to changes in dietary composition.
Health benefits of Fiber
The research was more particular on the effect of fiber to the gut bacteria; therefore, the changes were beneficial to individuals who undertake more fibers. As a result, researchers are advocating for high intake of fiber as a way of protecting health problems caused by gut bacteria. Still, researchers are not yet contented and this investigation on the specific important and benefits of fiber in control of gut bacteria.
In addition, the researchers also want to investigate the effects of akkermansia on insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk factors. The research will help determine the full impacts of fiber in control and prevention of some health problems. However, it is important to note that fiber is beneficial in control 9f some different gut bacteria thus result to different benefits. The health of any individual is more important and therefore, when some research shows how to improve a healthy lifestyle, it is to the advantage of those who take up the challenge and implement the findings. Some people may get the real meaning if controlling the gut bacteria through fiber intake and controlled calorie intake thus reduced the likelihood of different health problems.
Fiber is a very important element to the gut bacteria and intestinal flora. It helps in regulation of the immune system functioning. The more the fiber, the beater the process and functioning and thus helps in control or reduction of different health issues and diseases. Researchers advocate for a high consumption of fiber as a way of controlling gut bacteria and healthy lifestyle. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
affondare
Etymology
From, from +. .
Verb
* 1) to sink to submerge into a liquid; to cause to be submerged into a liquid
* 2) to sink, to dig, to plunge
* 3) to deepen by digging
* 4) to sink, to founder
* 5) to go broke, to be ruined
* 6) to sink
* 1) to sink, to founder
* 2) to go broke, to be ruined
* 3) to sink
* 1) to go broke, to be ruined
* 2) to sink | WIKI |
Page:Pele and Hiiaka; a myth from Hawaii (IA pelehiiakamythfr00emeriala).pdf/96
As the wild thing ran from the dash of an incoming wave, by some chance the gourd that held her fish slipped from her and the retreating water carried it beyond her reach, a loss that she lightly touched in her song:
There was a shark lurking in the ocean and when Mana-mana-ia-kalu-ea saw it she uttered a little song: | WIKI |
KEZZ
KEZZ (94.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Phippsburg, Colorado, the station serves the Steamboat Springs, Colorado area, and is owned by Don Tlapek, through licensee Blizzard Broadcasting II Colorado, LLC. | WIKI |
blob: 02de24d2bb240d5d5a6b800df0c1300dadd75925 [file] [log] [blame]
# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
# found in the LICENSE file.
import("//build/config/nacl/config.gni")
import("//build/config/nacl/rules.gni")
if (current_toolchain == default_toolchain) {
chromevox_test_data_dir = "$root_build_dir/chromevox_test_data/braille"
# Build Liblouis library
#
# This target is used to build and assemble Liblouis braille translator
# including Native Client executable, manifest and translation tables.
#
# Variables:
# dest_dir: destination path for all translator files
# deps: private linked dependencies
# testonly: a target must only be used for testing
template("liblouis_library") {
assert(defined(invoker.dest_dir), "Must define dest_dir")
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "dest_dir" ])
tables_target_name = "${target_name}_tables"
tables_json_target_name = "${target_name}_tables_json"
nexe_target_name = "${target_name}_nexe"
nmf_target_name = "${target_name}_nmf"
final_target_name = target_name
action(tables_target_name) {
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "testonly" ])
visibility = [ ":$final_target_name" ]
script = "copy_tables.py"
inputs = [
"liblouis_list_tables.py",
]
depfile = "$target_gen_dir/$target_name.d"
sources = [
"tables.json",
]
outputs = [
"$depfile.stamp",
]
args = [
"-D",
rebase_path(".", root_build_dir),
"-D",
rebase_path("src/tables", root_build_dir),
"-d",
rebase_path("$dest_dir/tables", root_build_dir),
"-e",
"cvox-common.cti",
"--depfile",
rebase_path(depfile, root_build_dir),
] + rebase_path(sources, root_build_dir)
}
copy(tables_json_target_name) {
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "testonly" ])
visibility = [ ":$final_target_name" ]
sources = [
"tables.json",
]
outputs = [
"$dest_dir/{{source_file_part}}",
]
}
copy(nexe_target_name) {
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "testonly" ])
visibility = [
":$final_target_name",
":$nmf_target_name",
]
nacl_wrapper = "liblouis_nacl_wrapper(//build/toolchain/nacl:clang_newlib_${target_cpu})"
path = get_label_info(":$nacl_wrapper", "root_out_dir")
sources = [
"${path}/liblouis_nacl.nexe",
]
if (current_cpu == "x86") {
nmf_cpu = "x86_32"
} else if (current_cpu == "x64") {
nmf_cpu = "x86_64"
} else {
nmf_cpu = current_cpu
}
outputs = [
"$dest_dir/{{source_name_part}}_${nmf_cpu}.nexe",
]
deps = [
":$nacl_wrapper",
]
}
generate_nmf(nmf_target_name) {
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "testonly" ])
visibility = [ ":$final_target_name" ]
executables = get_target_outputs(":$nexe_target_name")
nmf = "$dest_dir/liblouis_nacl.nmf"
deps = [
":$nexe_target_name",
]
}
group(target_name) {
forward_variables_from(invoker, [ "testonly" ])
deps = [
":$nexe_target_name",
":$nmf_target_name",
":$tables_json_target_name",
":$tables_target_name",
]
if (defined(invoker.deps)) {
deps += invoker.deps
}
}
}
liblouis_library("liblouis") {
dest_dir = "$root_build_dir/resources/chromeos/chromevox/braille"
}
liblouis_library("liblouis_test_data") {
testonly = true
dest_dir = chromevox_test_data_dir
deps = [
":liblouis_test_files",
]
}
copy("liblouis_test_files") {
visibility = [ ":liblouis_test_data" ]
testonly = true
sources = [
"//chrome/test/data/chromeos/liblouis_nacl/manifest.json",
"//chrome/test/data/chromeos/liblouis_nacl/test.js",
]
outputs = [
"${chromevox_test_data_dir}/{{source_file_part}}",
]
}
}
if (is_nacl) {
config("liblouis_nacl_config") {
cflags = [
"-Wno-sign-compare",
# Needed for target_arch=mipsel
# src/liblouis/compileTranslationTable.c:1414
"-Wno-tautological-compare",
# Needed for target_arch=mipsel
# src/liblouis/logging.c:58
"-Wno-non-literal-null-conversion",
]
}
source_set("liblouis_nacl") {
visibility = [ ":liblouis_nacl_wrapper" ]
sources = [
"overrides/liblouis/config.h",
"overrides/liblouis/liblouis.h",
"src/liblouis/compileTranslationTable.c",
"src/liblouis/logging.c",
"src/liblouis/lou_backTranslateString.c",
"src/liblouis/lou_translateString.c",
"src/liblouis/transcommon.ci",
"src/liblouis/wrappers.c",
]
include_dirs = [
"overrides/liblouis",
"src/liblouis",
".",
"../..",
]
configs += [ ":liblouis_nacl_config" ]
}
executable("liblouis_nacl_wrapper") {
visibility = [ ":*" ]
output_name = "liblouis_nacl"
sources = [
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_instance.cc",
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_instance.h",
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_module.cc",
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_module.h",
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_wrapper.cc",
"nacl_wrapper/liblouis_wrapper.h",
"nacl_wrapper/translation_params.h",
"nacl_wrapper/translation_result.h",
]
deps = [
":liblouis_nacl",
"//native_client_sdk/src/libraries/nacl_io",
"//ppapi:ppapi_cpp_lib",
"//ppapi/native_client:ppapi_lib",
"//third_party/jsoncpp",
]
}
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
The Star Woman/Book 2/Chapter 2
LTHOUGH dazed and momentarily paralyzed by the blow which felled him, Crawford did not quite lose consciousness. He dimly realized that he was being dragged back into the cabin by the Bostonnais; then felt himself lifted and placed in a chair and firmly lashed to it. Deakin rumbled with laughter.
"A good blow, one worth learning! You're not hurt—come around after a bit"
Deakin stamped out and ascended to the deck above.
Sagging down in the chair with closed eyes, Crawford relaxed utterly and rested while he might, wasting no thought on his own carelessness; he had been caught, and must face the future instead of the past. After a time his senses cleared again and the agonized ache slowly passed from his head and neck and nerve-centers, until presently he dropped into a light doze. From this he was wakened by a heavy trampling on deck, and heard the stentorian tones of Deakin bellowed forth through a speaking trumpet. Deakin had a voice like brass.
"Come back, come back!" roared the words, and again: "Come back!"
So the Bostonnais was calling in his men. After a little Crawford jerked up his head and came wide awake as Deakin returned into the cabin.
"Ha! The ice be on the move again, and if those fools o' mine be not spry, they'll get caught. Well, well—let's have your 'bacca."
Stooping over his prisoner, Deakin swiftly searched him, throwing weapons, pipe and tobacco pouch to the table, and finally drawing forth the Star of Dreams on its thong. During a long moment he hesitated over the emerald jewel, greed fighting in his large eyes against a stronger fear; then he reluctantly shoved it back beneath Crawford's shirt.
"Not that, not that!" he rumbled heavily. "There's wizardry in it, and I'll ha' no warlock after me o' nights. 'Twas the star that brought ye here, yourself said it; and Moses Deakin knows when to let things bide. Nay, I'll not touch the thing."
With this astonishing speech the fur-pirate lowered himself into his own chair, facing Crawford, stuffed his pipe with the Virginia tobacco, and made a light. Crawford held himself in check, realizing in a flash the singular streak of superstition in his captor and resolving to see whither it tended. Nor did Deakin long delay in setting forth the matter, displaying a great confidence in himself, an assurance in his own deductions and suppositions.
"Fog's down again and the outer ice splitting up. If the wind hauls around into the east'ard, we'll be free soon enough now. Blood and wounds! A month we've been fighting this cursed ice. Now, Crawford, what's to do with ye? If the ice stops movin' to-night, I'll have that bark of yours. Come over and hang Moses Deakin, eh? Let 'em try it! If they come, you're here for hostage; if they come not, then ye lied to me and have a weak crew."
Shrewd reasoning enough, and Crawford was keenly alarmed by it. Deakin leaned forward, clawed his great beard, grinned, and shot forth a direct question.
"So ye thought to sneak into the bay and steal the Star Woman from me, eh?"
"No."
"That's a lie. Ha! Put steel into me, will ye? I say again, that's a lie! South sea passage, eh? Ye knew well enough there was none. 'Twas the Star Woman ye wanted. I know when a man tells the truth, Crawford. It was a lie ye spoke about the south sea passage, and the truth about the green star. So ye were on your way to her, eh? There's wizardry in that, or ye'd never ha' found me on the ice. Aye, wizardry! And as ye said, the star brought ye here. It's a warlock ye are, no doubt about it."
Crawford was somewhat bewildered by all this, but the gaze of his captor settled and sobered him. Deakin sucked at his pipe, while his abnormally large eyes fastened upon his prisoner in a gaze that was oddly unwinking. Indeed, from time to time the lids, instead of drooping, lifted slightly and widened.
Once before had Crawford seen just such a stare as this, but then in the eyes of a woman. That was years ago in Ireland. He remembered the cold and rainy night, with Phelim Burke sitting across the campfire, and the old hag wandering in through the lines; the Wicklow Witch, they called her. He remembered how she had squatted by the fire, staring from him to Phelim Burke with that queer, momentary distending of her eyes; and she had talked of Granuaile and Red Hugh and Brian O'Rourke and others of the mighty dead, as though she knew them well. With an effort, Crawford forced himself back to the present situation. He spoke quietly. "Is this honest treatment of a guest, Moses Deakin? I came freely with you"
"Sink you and your fine words!" The Bostonnais breathed deeply, his wide nostrils flaring, and removed the pipe to scratch at his two-pronged tangle of grizzled beard. He reverted at once to his own chosen subject.
"That French buccaneer, Frontin, gave ye news of her, and the star brought ye here. Ay, that'll be the way of it. I'll do ye no harm, Crawford, nor the star neither, for I'll need to walk carefully with warlocks, and can take no chances. A Cree wizard told me two year ago that no weapon or hand o' man could kill me, and that I'd come to my end only by the gift of a woman. So I ha' naught to do with women, unless it be the Star Woman. She always smiles at me, so I know she be right friendly and well-disposed."
He paused, puffing his pipe into a last flicker of life. Crawford gathered that in Deakin's thought he was something of a wizard, and was being treated to confidences. This thought drew the ghost of a smile to his lips. He racked his brains for some means of turning the fact to his advantage, but found none. Deakin was obviously wrapped up in his own fancies, which were sincere enough, and now went on with his rambling talk.
"So last year I sent messages to the Star Woman by the Injuns, bidding her come and meet me at my post this summer. Far away she is, somewhere to the south and west, but all the tribes know her name and fear it. Shall we have a look at her, Crawford? Ay, say ye so. I'll have a smile from her sweet lips and tell ye what she's about this minute. Most like she's over on the other shore o' the bay now, waiting for me. She'll have had my message, sent from tribe to tribe until it reached her."
The giant laid aside his pipe. He shoved the heavy table so that it came under the arms of Crawford's chair and under Crawford's eye. Then, rising, he went to a locker and produced a shallow pewter dish. He set this on the table and reached down a flask, pouring into the dish a dankly glittering fluid which might have been black quicksilver, had there been such a thing. With the dish between himself and Crawford, Deakin now tugged his chair forward and reseated himself.
"First I'll have a look at what's in the straits," he said. "Put your eyes on the witch ink, Crawford, and tell me what ye see."
The Bostonnais stared down at the dark fluid, intent and absorbed, his huge frame bent over, his pronged beard sweeping the table, his immense hands outstretched and motionless. The monstrous incongruity of such a man engaged in so childish a task smote Crawford with a mad impulse to burst out laughing; but he checked it sternly enough. Whatever the man's delusion might be, it held a deadly sincerity. Also, Crawford had heard in Boston that this Moses Deakin was famed for seeing visions, and now he perceived the explanation of the rumours.
Crawford, being without any credulity and putting no faith in witchcraft or second sight, waited for what might come. It occurred to him that Deakin, if possessed of any desire to apply his magic, might well summon up a vision of the Northstar at the moment, and save his scouts the work. Those who work wizardry, however, apparently eschew its more practical benefits.
"Look!" Deakin suddenly started, and his big hands gripped. "Blood and wounds—a fifty-gun ship!"
Crawford gazed down at the dark fluid and saw in it only the mirrored reflection of Deakin's hairy visage. The other man, however, spoke with growing excitement.
"White flag at her poop—a Frenchman! A ship o' the line, a royal ship! There's men aboard her; ay, the faces begin to come out now. What the Canadians doing aboard she? And a red Injun, and fine officers in gold lace. I'll warrant the rogues are cold enough! And yonder's her cap'n; a fine handsome man he is, and a boy alongside him, likely his brother"
Crawford sent an astonished glance to the fluid, but saw nothing. Could Deakin really be finding visions there? That man and boy—they must be Iberville and Bienville! He remembered now that Iberville had been awaiting ships from France
"It's Iberville!" he exclaimed. "Iberville and his fleet!"
That name, so dreaded on the bay, smote the Bostonnais. Lifting his head, Deakin showed in wild and hairy countenance a sudden amazed awe. He thought Crawford, too, had seen the vision.
"Warlock, wi' the star at your breast—I knew it well enough!" he breathed hoarsely. "Iberville, is it? Then Moses Deakin goes not near the south o' the bay this voyage. Perdition take him and his Frenchmen! He be no man, but devil incarnate. Nay, I'll look no more at him, but shall call up the Star Woman. Set a name to her likewise, if ye can; sink me, Crawford, if ye have not more power than I at my own game. Warlock, indeed!"
He lowered his face again and stared anew at the fluid.
Crawford, realizing now how the man was ridden by superstition, tried vainly to discover some trick in the matter, for he refused to believe that Deakin saw real images. Perhaps the man knew that a French squadron was heading north. Perhaps the whole thing was a lie and a delusion, either deliberate trickery or self-deception on Deakin's part. Perhaps there were no ships in the straits at all! That, indeed, was more likely than not.
"Now I see her!" cried out Deakin. "Look! She's standin' at the door of a bark lodge—blood and wounds, what a woman she is, too! White woman, too—gold hair streaming all over her, with a star o' blue stones on her breast"
Deakin was concentrated, tense, quivering with inward excitation, completely gripped by his own fantasy. Crawford could not but feel the infection. He peered down, staring at the dish, yet seeing in it only the reflection of those distended grey eyes. Through his brain raced the words that Iberville had said to him, that evening above Bay de Verde. A Spanish woman
"Ay, she's smiling at me! Put a name to her, ye warlock, if ye can!"
"Her name's Mariana," said Crawford.
Deakin caught his breath gustily, lifted wild eyes at Crawford, his wide nostrils flaring with each breath, his beard twitching; to doubt the terrible earnestness of the man was impossible.
Then came abrupt wakening, sudden and swift return to sanity. From the deck overhead sounded a medley of shouts and trampling feet, the rise of excited voices. Steps thumped on the ladder, and into the cabin came the boatswain. Deakin looked at him with a growled oath.
"The men are back, master," said the man eagerly. "There's open water a half-mile outside of us—a wide channel. The ice ha' stopped moving outside and be jammed once more to the north'ard. Fog down like always, but the upper wind's hauling around. Looks like she'll be in east'ard before a great while, master."
Deakin stared at him a moment, then crashed out rapid orders.
"That means the ice be goin' fast. Get out the skids and chock the pinnace into 'em for haulin' across the ice. Lay food and powder in her, and muskets. Lay the little skiff overside likewise—we'll carry her across to open water."
"Be goin' to leave the ship?" came the astonished query. "Ay, bose. We be going to take Crawford's ship—gold aboard her! We'll work up to her i' the pinnace, take her, and be back afore morning. Leave the three men worst down wi' scurvy to hold the Albemarle and signal us. Ice won't go out afore turn o' the tide come morning. Sharp, now, sharp does it! We ha' no time to dilly away. Chuck me down a coil o' light line as ye go."
Bose disappeared. Moses Deakin returned the dark fluid to its flask, placed it with the dish in the locker, then turned and stared at Crawford.
"Two hundred pound for ye in Boston town!" His barrel of a chest heaved in a deep breath of resignation. "No, I'll take no chances. Two hundred pound is much gold, but a warlock is not to be tampered with. I'll do ye no hurt, nor the star neither. None the less, I'll not leave ye free to shout."
A coil of line rattled down the ladder. Deakin picked it up, tore a piece of canvas from a dirty tarpaulin in one corner, and came to Crawford. The latter was firmly and efficiently gagged before he realized what was happening.
Deakin had thoroughly convinced himself that Crawford was something in the nature of a wizard, and that the emerald jewel was a thing of magic power. Only this obsession explained his reluctant decision to let the jewel go, not to mention the very valuable head of its bearer. That he should thus pass up two hundred pounds was an eloquent testimony to his sincerity. Crawford stirred uneasily in his bonds, wondering what was now about to take place.
"Our friend may have man's reason in the carcase of an animal," he reflected, "but so much the worse for him. If he had the brain of an animal, he'd be better off. If he doesn't mean to hurt me, what the devil does he mean? And why this gag?"
As though in response to this silent query, Deakin called down two of his men. They freed Crawford from the chair, then lashed his wrists together in front of him, and to the lashing attached a length of line. His feet were left free.
"All ready above?" inquired the Bostonnais.
"Ay, master."
"Then come ye with me, Crawford." Deakin took the length of line and went to the ladder, the captive perforce following him.
So they came out on deck, and Crawford was helped to climb over the side to the ice. There the crew were grouped about the longboat or pinnace, which was choked upon runners with ropes attached for pulling, and a tiny skiff which six of them picked up bodily. Three scurvy-staggering rascals bawled thin farewells from the rail above.
"Compass in pinnace, bose?" asked Deakin. "Then come along to open water."
He marched in the lead, a huge, ungainly figure, with Crawford on the line behind him. The men followed, carrying the skiff and dragging the pinnace on its sled. Thick fog was settled down about the Albemarle, and in ten paces she was lost to sight behind them. Under that fog, all was dark; the slanting sunlight of the arctic summer's night was lost for a little while, ice and melted pools held obscure terror instead of fiery rainbow-hued splendour. Moses Deakin lifted his head, sniffed with his wide nostrils, and like an animal led straight for the open water which he could smell.
In this fashion half a mile was covered, the last of it being very precarious, since the floes were split into great cakes, while sharp cracks and reports told how further splitting was in progress. Then, abruptly, Deakin halted at the very edge of open water, swirling dark and ice-dotted as far as eye could pierce. "Wind on the shift and ice be goin' out to-morrow," he announced, though Crawford could detect no faintest breath of breeze. "Launch the craft, now. Current settin' out—good! Into the skiff, Crawford."
Still far from realizing what was intended, Crawford climbed into the skiff while the men held it to the verge of the floe. Deakin leaned over the little craft, which was empty of oars or anything else, and lashed the captive's lead-line about a thwart. Then he unsheathed his knife and tossed it into the bottom of the skiff, took the craft by her stern, and with one mighty heave sent her swirling out into the foggy water.
"By the time ye get yourself free, ye'll be safe enough!" came his roaring bellow. "And you're warlock enough to reach the shore. Fare ye well, Crawford! Now, lads, get matches lighted and into the pinnace with ye all! We're off for Crawford's bark"
The fog closed in. Its chill was no worse than the chill in Crawford's heart as the swift currents bore his little skiff out into the bay.
Swept away into darkness almost immediately, he devoted all his energies to getting rid of the lashing about his arms. First he had to reach the knife, which was no simple task in itself; then, doubling over, gripping it between his feet, he must hack and saw at the line which bound him. The motion of the boat added to the difficulty, since the skiff was rocking against cakes of ice or rolling in sudden surges sent out from the welter of smashing floes and pans. The vast field of ice was now breaking up for good. The whole night was filled with a mighty diapason of the roaring masses, pierced by shriller notes, of splitting floes and the occasional booming of an overturned berg.
During all this straining time, Crawford's mind did not dwell particularly upon his own fate, which seemed inevitable enough. By the gradual appearance of freer water around, he knew that the currents were rapidly bearing him offshore, out into the vast inland sea, helpless to steer his craft or to hinder his destiny. Yet in this while, his thoughts reverted to two things—first to the Star Woman, second to that blood-stained paper which he had pressed into Frontin's hand on parting with his lieutenant.
He felt all amazed by Deakin's words regarding the Star Woman. The man had been indubitably sincere in believing that such a person existed; as he had said, Deakin must have heard of her through the Bay Indians. Iberville had heard of her, also. The very name, taken in conjunction with the emblem which lay on Crawford's breast, would have been impressive to a superstitious man; Crawford, however, was not superstitious. He was not impressed in the least by Deakin's ravings, but he was tremendously perplexed by this new recurrence of the Star Woman in his own destiny.
"Why not find her, then—why not?" he muttered. "Still, I have more pressing affairs in hand at the present moment, if I am to find anything except a watery grave. Will Frontin understand that paper, I wonder?"
The paper in question had been taken from the body of Moses Deakin's lieutenant. Crawford, in his hasty glance, had caught only the first line of writing, yet it now came back into his mind with redoubled emphasis. The words were simple: "Acct. of Goods to Bee broke out for ye trade att ye Daniche River." Wherever this Danish river might lie—the name was totally unknown to Crawford—there also must be Deakin's secret trading rendezvous with the redskins. What a chance!
"Ah, free!" he exclaimed, when at last his arms were at liberty and he could chafe his numbed and swollen hands into life. "Now, if I had but a sail and a chart of this bay, I'd still best that hairy devil. Warlock, am I? Ha—a breeze! To work, warlock!"
A faint breath of wind fanned his cheek. There was no lift to the fog, which rolled down more thick and dark than ever, nor was the little breeze likely to rift it. Crawford, facing the situation, found himself in total ignorance of direction. If the breeze came from the east, as Deakin had said, he would be carried off the land. He had no food or water, no blankets or sail; he had only the clothes on his back, the naked knife, and the light line which had captived him.
With these things, he went to work.
Despite the bitter chill of the fog, he was forced to dispense with his outer fur-lined coat. Then he smashed the 'midships thwart of the boat and split the long plank lengthwise until he had sticks to serve his purpose. These he fitted and spliced together with unravelled hemp, until he had a stout six-foot mast. Another stick in the arms of the coat made a very fair dipping-lug rig. To get this rig installed was another matter. Eventually, however, he had the mast stayed in place, got up his makeshift sail, made fast the lines, and chuckled softly as he felt the faint breeze take hold. He lay across the thwarts and heard the water go rippling more swiftly past the counter.
"Warlock indeed!" he commented, with a laugh. "The Star of Dreams is still guiding, and whither the star goes, I follow. It may well be that there is some truth behind all this rank superstition—singular, how Deakin spoke of the Star Woman! Coincidence in the names, of course—yet I wonder!"
He laughed again at the fancy, but quickly sobered. Crawford himself was tempted to be a trifle superstitious about that emerald star. First he had taken it as a symbol of his own flight from the world, of his quest after a freedom that did not exist. From talking of it with Frontin or Sir Phelim Burke, a reaction had inevitably taken effect upon his own mind. He fought against this and scorned it, yet none the less it lingered. Consequently, Deakin's belief in a connection between star and Star Woman made an appeal to him—until he forced himself to dismiss the whole thing as the wanderings of an unsound brain, the superstitious fancy of a bestial man.
"The Danish river!" he reflected, coming back again to his immediate problems. "If I knew where that place lay, and had food, I believe I'd try for it"
He was now out of the ice and distinctly warmer, the breeze was freshening slightly, the fog was somewhat less dense. So, careless whither he was carried, he found the boat's bottom to be sound and dry, and promptly curled up for a much-needed sleep.
Morning came and he slept on, while the long wraiths of grey fog fled across the waters and thinned into shadows, and the wind came ever fresher and steadier out of the southeast to scatter the dissipating mist and blow the skiff out to north and west. Behind her the morning broadened, and overhead the fog gave place to blue sky, although the sun itself remained dun and dim behind the heavy wrack of grey obscurity that still overhung the straits and the Labrador coast. Ahead in the west, however, the fog went whirling away and was gone, until presently the sunlight struck all the wide expanse of sea into glittering radiance, with the enormous granite cliffs of Mansfield island forming a long blur against the western horizon. Off to the east and north the ice blink made shimmering response to the sunlight, and from the straits came the thunderous rumble and grind of ice-masses fighting for freedom beneath the fog-blanket.
Crawford wakened. He sat up, blinking at the sunlight, then stared at the running white crests all around, and laughed in sudden joyous remembrance.
"Ill whip you yet, Moses Deakin!" he cried out exultantly. "No food, no rudder, no sail, no compass—yet I'll whip you, sink me if I don't! Ay, warlock or not, I may give you a fight—for the—Star" The words died on his lips as he swung about and swept his eager gaze along the horizon. For there, not a mile to the northeast and standing squarely for him out of the cloud-bank that still hovered low above the straits, was a fifty-gun ship—white canvas towering up into the sky as she leaned over and headed for him across the wind! Crawford stared at her all agape, incredulous, then leaped to his feet with a blaze of excitement in his blue eyes. The French ship! Iberville! As he stood, thus, leaning to the thrust of the boat and staring, the emerald jewel came out from beneath his shirt; he replaced it with fumbling fingers, and a laugh broke on his lips.
"The Star of Dreams, eh? There lies the ship Deakin saw in his vision, and it seems that I'm destined to meet Iberville again. Did Deakin see the Star Woman also?"
He had no answer to this query, but meet Iberville he did, half an hour later, when he clambered up the side of the Pelican frigate and struck hands with the eldest of the famous Le Moyne brethren. Young Bienville, boy in years yet wearing man's uniform, stood beside Iberville, and greeted Crawford with a cry and a hearty embrace.
"I knew it was you! Pierre scoffed at me, but I knew it!"
Crawford laughed into the ardent eyes of the handsome youngster, then turned to the strong and masterful brother, who welcomed him with equal warmth.
"My faith, it's incredible!" said Iberville. "Why are you here alone in an open boat, M. Crawford? Where's that bark you had from me?"
"Lay the tale on the shoulders of food, drink and tobacco, and it'll go better," replied Crawford. Instantly Iberville took his arm and led him aft, with hasty apologies, while the ship's yards were squared and she fell off on her course. Crawford's gaze took in the staring Rochefort marines, the clustered seamen, the groups of Canadians; then he was being introduced to the officers—Grandville of the marines, and La Salle, the wild bush-loper Martigny, who had raided Acadia and Newfoundland with Iberville, the royal commissioner La Potherie, and others.
Now, knowing his man, Iberville led Crawford down to the cabin and shut out all save Bienville. Then, with food and wine before him, Crawford began to relate what had happened since his meeting and parting with the Le Moynes in Newfoundland. In the midst, there came a wild hammering at the door. In burst a red-haired, cassocked figure who greeted Crawford with a huge yell of joy and gripped his shoulders affectionately.
"Hal Crawford—by the piper! I was below with a poor dyin' devil and"
"Fitzmaurice of Kerry!" exclaimed Crawford. "Why, this is a dream"
"Lad, lad, it's like old times to see ye!" burst out Fitzmaurice, chaplain of the fleet. "Dost remember Limerick town, and the hammerer in the breach, and Phelim Burke na Murtha, and how Dutch William's men poured in on us"
"Phelim's here on the bay!" cried Crawford. Then Iberville laughed, slammed the door shut again, and intervened.
"Sit down, Fitzmaurice, or I'll send you back to shrive more scurvy-sick men! Let the man talk. Crawford, give me the news I crave! Have you met English ships in the straits? Have you seen any but this Bostonnais you were mentioning?"
"None," rejoined Crawford. "Where's the rest of your fleet?"
Iberville shrugged. "How do I know? Ahead of us, we believe. We've been fighting the ice for weeks. The last I saw of the others was two days ago. My brother Serigny was far ahead of us in the Palmier. The Profound, under Du Guai, was almost at open water, and the Wasp likewise. We left the Violent at Placentia for repairs. We had news that an English fleet was on the way, but have seen nothing of them."
The excited Irish chaplain settled down, Crawford swallowed his wine and lighted a pipe, and all four men fell into talk. Iberville, avid for news, was confident that his brother Serigny and the other three ships were already steering across the bay for Fort Nelson, at which post he meant to strike the first blow. When he had heard Crawford's tale, he nodded.
"Strange words! Did this Bostonnais really see anything in the dish? My faith, I'd like to know! So you've given up the south sea passage, Crawford? Art going to find the Star Woman?"
Crawford shook his head. "I know not, Iberville—my first hope shall be to find my friends and ship again. Time enough for that."
"Ay, we'll have news of them, never fear!" Iberville rose. "Rest assured, you shall have your ship again and the best charts we can give you. M. l'Abbé, I offered this roving rascal a commission if he would sail with me—and he refused. Yet behold, here he is! Is this the hand of providence or not?"
"I'd call it Hal Crawford's luck!" said Fitzmaurice, with a chuckle. "But where to, Pierre? Sit down, man, and smoke a pipe"
"I must lay out the course and watch the charts," said Iberville. "These pilots are afraid of the ice and shallows. Have out your talk in peace."
He departed. Bienville, leaning across the table with his eyes ashine, listened eagerly while Crawford and the chaplain conned the days that had elapsed since Limerick and Boynewater. Once Crawford turned to him gaily.
"And suppose we find the English fleet ahead of us, Bienville?"
The boy shrugged. "Ask Pierre! We've put some of our guns and thirty seamen aboard the Profound, and twoscore of our men are down below with scurvy. But we'll not find the enemy ahead of us. Pierre is always the first, never fear!"
So the Pelican drove on to her destiny, while men laughed and made merry aboard her at thought of the green land so near, nor dreamed to what doom they rushed so merrily. And, while she drove on, strange things were taking place behind her at the mouth of the straits, where the curtains of fog still lingered and blew away and returned again.
Strange things, indeed, and stranger sounds echoing back from these ironbound cliffs than any they had yet heard since man came to these seas. For there the flash of cannon split the fog, and the crashing thunder of broadsides boomed back from the headlands. When the thick mist lifted for a space that morning, the Profound was fast nipped in the ice, with three unsuspected English frigates about her stern; whereupon, as the terse chronicler puts it, "Du Guai attacked." Hour after hour he fought the three with his two little stern-guns, hour after hour they poured their shot into him, until the fog closed down again and they deemed him sunk, and the roaring cliffs fell silent.
There, too, before this fight happened, Moses Deakin had fallen upon fate and found it bitter to the taste. Before the dawn came, he sighted the flare of a ship in the ice, and drove his men at her. He thought her Crawford's bark, but she was something else—the Hudson's Bay, crowded with extra seamen and servants of the English company, and in command of her was grim old Nick Smithsend, who hanged fur-pirates and Frenchmen alike. The end of this matter was that Moses Deakin and half his Boston men sat in irons to await hanging at Nelson, and the other half of them lay dead upon the ice.
And there, too, but farther south under the cliffs, Frontin and Sir Phelim Burke and their men fell upon the covette Albemarle in the dawning. None too soon either, for the floes and shore ice were breaking up beneath their feet. Deakin's three scurvy-smitten men fought them and were cut down. One of these, before he died, related the fate that had befallen Crawford. Then fell Frontin to work like a madman, and all of them likewise. Presently the Albemarle was working out through ice-channels, until she gained open water with the early light of day and tacked back and forth through the mist while the guns roared to the northward. No sign of Crawford's little skiff did they find, however.
So they, who no less than Moses Deakin had their destiny to accomplish, tacked down to the southward that day and then back again, seeking vainly. And at set of sun, when the fog lifted for a little space, there suddenly loomed through the greyness a huge shape, and a gun thundered in air above them, and over the puny, frightened corvette frowned the heavy batteries of Serigny in the Palmier. The Frenchmen came aboard and took her. Frontin, cursing bitterly, shook his fist at the fog and blasphemed like the buccaneer he was, as the ship was headed to the west and south. Then came storm that night, and the pilots were ignorant of the bay; and the ships drove blindly before the wind.
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PUBLIC LAW 101-616—NOV. 16, 1990 104 STAT. 3279 Public Law 101-616 101st Congress An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program establishing the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Transplant Amendments Act of 1990". SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. TITLE I—NATIONAL BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY Sec. 101. Establishment of a National Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Sec. 102. Savings provisions. TITLE II—ORGAN TRANSPLANTS Sec. 201. Assistance for organ procurement organizations. Sec. 202. Organ procurement and transplantation network. Sec. 203. General provisions respecting grants and contracts. Sec. 204. Administration. Sec. 205. Report. Sec. 206. Study by General Accounting Office and authorization of appropriations. Sec. 207. Effective date. TITLE III—SEVERABILITY Sec. 301. Severability. Nov. 16, 1990 [S. 2946] Tra nsplant Amendments Act of 1990. 42 USC 201 note. TITLE I—NATIONAL BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL BONE MARROW DONOR REG- ISTRY. (a) REGISTRY.—Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended— (1) by redesignating parts I, J, and K as parts J, K, and L, 42 USC 275 et respectively; and %eQ-' 280b et seq., (2) by inserting after section 377 (as added by section 207 of 280cefseg. this Act) the following new part: "PART I—NATIONAL BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY "SEC. 379. NATIONAL REGISTRY. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT. — The Secretary shall by contract establish and maintain a National Bone Marrow Donor Registry (referred to in this part as the 'Registry') that meets the requirements of this 42 USC 274k. Government contracts.
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My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go is the fourth and final studio album by Scottish band Aereogramme. The band drew the album name from the 1971 William Peter Blatty novel, The Exorcist. It was released on 5 February 2007 in the UK and Europe by Chemikal Underground, and on 6 February 2007 in North America by Sonic Unyon. The album was preceded by the single "Barriers" on 29 January 2007, which was released on 7" vinyl with the exclusive B-side "Dissolve".
Vocalist Craig B. revealed that the delay between My Heart Has a Wish and the band's previous release, 2004's Seclusion, was partly due to losing his singing voice for six months. Referring to the album's vocals, Craig B. stated in a 2010 interview with The Skinny that, "By the time we got to My Heart Has a Wish, I just didn't feel like screaming anymore. I think I wasn't as angry by then and it would have felt slightly dishonest to continue trying to have screaming songs just for the sake of it. I mean, when I unfortunately stumble upon a Linkin Park song on the radio I can't help but think that guy sounds like a dick. What's he angry about now? Slayer at least still sound genuinely pissed off."
In May 2007 the band announced that they were going to split after completion of the supporting tour. Aereogramme played their last show on 31 August 2007.
Personnel
* Aereogramme
* Craig B. – vocals, guitar
* Iain Cook – guitar, programming
* Campbell McNeil – bass
* Martin Scott – drums, percussion
* Production
* Produced by Aereogramme and Martin Doherty
* Additional piano, keyboards, and vocals by Martin Doherty
* Violin solo on "Barriers" by Graham McGeoch
* Recorded at 4th Street Studios, Glasgow
* Mixed by Iain Cook at Johnny Alucard Studios, Glasgow
* Mastered by Zlaya Hadzic at Loud Mastering, Amsterdam
* Design by Samuel Baker | WIKI |
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these abstractions are not hollow. They embrace realities. They are the names of the most general moral forces, whose conflicts have since the beginning of time engendered human events,—Fate and Freedom, Greed and Love, Ambition and Disinterestedness, Knowledge and Instinct. These are the powers that guide the drama. Not that the poet has personified them in figures of flesh and blood. But his heroes constantly mention them, refer to them as the principles and motives of their actions. By this substitution of the abstract for the personal, Wagner's works wear the aspect of mediæval Mysteries. On the other hand the concept of these forces and their part in humanity and history is mixed with ideologies that are purely modern, revolutionary, romantic and Germanic. It is this that gives to the Tetralogy something that it shares with Hugo's Legend of the Ages, and the symbolical novels of Zola.
IV. The setting and scenery must not be counted among the accessories of Wagner's dramatic poems, but among their constituent elements. One might even say that they are both important elements. They are assuredly the richest and most ornate. This scenery is always a blend of the fantastic with landscape, of fairyland with nature.
V. Lastly, there is a fifth and less conspicuous element; among all these large and opulent features it is the only delicate thing. I am thinking of those passages of lyric reverie for which Nietzsche in the midst of his anti-Wagnerian diatribes expresses a liking. In these it is Wagner himself who speaks through the mouth of his characters, attributing to them thoughts and sensations whose subtlety does not always accord with their usual simplicity; but | WIKI |
canone
Etymology
From, from.
Noun
* 1) rent, fee
* 2) canon, round
* 3) canon, rule, norm
* 4) 40- and 44-cicero type, the later taken as equivalent to the English canon
* 1) 40- and 44-cicero type, the later taken as equivalent to the English canon | WIKI |
Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns
Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns was a $3.5 million inquiry led by Steve Allan, commissioned on July 4, 2019, by newly elected Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and tasked with investigating foreign-funded efforts to undermine the oil and gas industry. Premier Kenney, whose United Conservative Party (UCP) had won a majority of seats in the 2019 Alberta general election, announced the creation of the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC), a Calgary-based $30 million 'war room' to "fight misinformation related to oil and gas", on the same day as the creation of the inquiry—to fulfill election campaign promises. The Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns which would include interviews, research, and potentially, public hearings.
On July 23, 2021, the Globe and Mail published an article covering a leaked draft of the Alberta Inquiry final report. They stated the inquiry had ultimately found there was “nothing improper about the environmental campaigns it was ostensibly investigating”. Nutritionist Vivian Krause reacted with shock and tried to distance herself from her own research, for which she was paid $40,000 CAD.
In his final 657-page report—submitted to the Energy Minister on July 30, 2021, and was released to the public on October 21, 2021 —Commissioner Allan found that no individual or organization had done anything illegal in their anti-Alberta resource development activities, and that they had exercised their right to free speech. Of the $54.1-million devoted to those activities from 2003 to 2019, Allan could not find a direct correlation to the decreased investment in Alberta's oil and gas industries and the environmental activists. He acknowledged that "natural market forces...supply, demand, global geopolitics, weather and technology, plus countless other factors" had contributed to the dramatic decline in the global price of oil and in investments.
Final report
Commissioner Steve Allan submitted his 657-page final report to Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage on July 30. It was released to the public on October 21, 2021. In his report, Allan said of the environmental groups investigated by the inquiry, "No individual or organization, in my view, has done anything illegal. Indeed, they have exercised their rights of free speech." He found that the environmental groups did not "spread misinformation".
From 2003 to 2019, foreign funding of approximately $925-million flowed into Canadian charities which was used for "environmental initiatives". Of these, about $54.1-million went to "anti-Alberta resource development activity, which represents an average of $3.5 million a year. Allan acknowledged that the reduced investment in Alberta's oil and gas sector coincided with the dramatic drop in global oil prices in 2014 and was therefore due to "natural market forces", "supply, demand, global geopolitics, weather and technology, plus countless other factors." He said that "While anti-Alberta energy campaigns may have played a role in the cancellation of some oil and gas developments", [he was] not in a position to find that these campaigns alone caused project delays or cancellations."
The United Conservative Party provincial government in Alberta has allocated approximately $30 million annually to fund its Canadian Energy Centre, which was launched in December 2019 to fulfill Premier Jason Kenney's campaign promise before the 2019 Alberta general election to challenge "energy industry critics' inaccuracies". The "war room" was intended to be part of his "national and international advocacy" including a "fully staffed rapid response war room in government to quickly and effectively rebut every lie told by the green left about our world-class energy industry." The inquiry report said that charities that supported the bitumen-rich sands—"conservative/market-oriented charities"—received an estimated $26.7 million from foreign sources from 2003 through 2019.
Report recommendations
According to the Edmonton Journal, Commissioner Allan recommended that the Alberta government, "update transparency standards for non-profits and charities, engage in dialogue with First Nations communities to explore economic development opportunities", "work to re-brand Canadian energy with a strategy "built on a vision of being a global leader in lower carbon energy and climate solutions", and "better report greenhouse gas emissions in Alberta."
Response by Energy Minister Sonya Savage
Energy Minister presented her response on YouTube on October 21, 2021. Savage said that the "threshold to prove misinformation was too high, and therefore not specifically mentioned in the report."
Background
Alberta Premier Jason Kenny's commissioned the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns on July 4, 2019, with a mandate to investigate foreign-funded efforts to undermine the oil and gas industry. A forensic accountant—Steve Allan—was named as commissioner of the inquiry.
Kenney had announced the creation of the public inquiry along with the "Energy War Room" in a release by the UCP party during his election campaign. He cited "the intrepid reporting of journalist Vivian Krause," who has spent ten years examining foreign funding of Canadian environmental non-profit organizations (ENGOs).
In the press release, Kenney said that the inquiry may follow up on investigations done in other jurisdictions, including "the January 6, 2017 Backgrounder for the United States investigation, "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections" that contained, "clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States." He could also include evidence from the March 1, 2018, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology report, "Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media" from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology", which states, "the Kremlin manipulated various groups in an attempt to carry out its geopolitical agenda, particularly with respect to domestic energy policy." Premier Kenney says that "foreign-funded efforts" are undermining Alberta's oil and gas sector. The backgrounder said that RT ran "anti-fracking programming, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health."
In a talk at Manhattan Institute on September 12, 2018, "The Real Fuel of the Future: Natural Gas", Kenney said that there were "domestic economic benefits from an expanded shale gas industry," but there was a "potential American upset of the former hegemony in global gas trade." In 2018 the media was "preoccupied" with Russian social-media meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2018 Russia attempted to "sow discord in our domestic energy debates". The March 1, 2018, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology report, "Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media" from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology" said that over "4,000 social-media accounts linked to Russian entities were engaged in inflaming online debates over pipelines, fossil fuels, and climate change". Kenney said that these "fake accounts advocated for 'the complete abandonment of specific fuel sources, such as fossil fuels, by touting exaggerated claims about alternative energy sources,' while sometimes both promoting and mocking climate change, all intended to “generate further domestic [U.S.] controversy."
Commissioner Steve Allan
Minister Schweitzer appointed a forensic accountant, Steve Allan, as commissioner of the Public Inquiry, which is tasked with investigating foreign-funded efforts to undermine the oil and gas industry.
Conflict of interest claim denied
In November 2019, CBC News reported that Allan, and "two other business associates" had supported and/or campaigned for Schweitzer in 2018 and 2019, and that Allan had awarded sole-source contracts for them after he was appointed to the $290,000 job as Commissioner. In response to a request for an investigation into a violation of Alberta's Conflicts of Interest Act, in July 2020, Alberta's ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler found that Minister Schweitzer did not breach the Act when he appointed Allan. Trussler ruled that "Just because Mr. Allan made political donations to Minister Schweitzer in the past does not make the subsequent appointment of Mr. Allan as inquiry commissioner a private interest for the minister."
Sole-source $905,000 Dentons LLP contract
In July 2019, shortly after his appointment as chair of the Public Inquiry, Allan had awarded a $905,000 sole-source contract for the inquiry to the Calgary law firm, Dentons Canada LLP, where he was a former partner, and where, Toby Allen, Allan's son is a "partner and his good friend, Quincy Smith, also works", according to the Canadian Press (CP), and other media sources. In her ruling Trussler said, "It does stretch credibility that Mr. Allan did not consider whether or not there may possibly be a conflict of interest in his engaging of Dentons as counsel for the inquiry, given that, for all intents and purposes, the firm gave him free office space and both his close friend (although that alone is not significant) and his son were partners at the firm...[However], [n]either the minister, his children, nor his direct associates had any personal or particular interest in, or anything to gain from, the appointment of Mr. Allan as inquiry commissioner".
Inquiry participants
By January 17, 2021, only eleven of the 47 individuals and groups that Commissioner Allan had invited to participate with commentary, had "applied and were granted standing". University of Calgary assistant law professor, Martin Olszynski, was granted standing in the Allan Inquiry. Olszynski and Shaun Fluker, also from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law, had raised concerns about the Alberta Inquiry "from the perspective of the rule of law and procedural fairness." Their colleagues said that the inquiry could unjustifiably violate the "freedom of expression of the Canadian organizations it is aimed at as well as those associated with such organizations, including their members and supporters."
Allen Inquiry commissioned reports and reading list (January 2021)
The eleven Allen Inquiry participants were provided with a "package of documents to review" that was also publicly available online. This included three reports funded and commissioned by the Public Inquiry and two 2020 books by well-known climate change denialists—Bjørn Lomborg's False Alarm: How Climate Change Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Climate and Michael Shellenberger's Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.
The commissioned readings paid for by the inquiry include a $27,840 133-page report by Tammy Lynn Nemeth—the "Nemeth Report", a $50,000 report entitled "Foreign Funding Targeting Canada's Energy Sector" by Energy in Depth—a project from the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and a $6,125 background paper—the "Cooper Report" by Barry Cooper, a University of Calgary political scientist professor and key member of the Friends of Science. Nemeth, who is currently a "home-school teacher" in England a historian who completed her MA in Alberta and her PhD at the University of British Columbia, said there has been a "comprehensive international assault on Alberta's and Canada's energy industry" by groups that promote "various Green New Deals around the world". Using the "media and the youth", these entities are pushing through a "cultural shift"—a new global paradigm"—also known as the "Great Transition", "Great Transformation”, and "Global Phase Shift". This, Nemeth says, will "fundamentally transform the western industrial capitalist economic system" and "our modern way of life." Nemeth says that progressives ..."abhors Alberta and the hydrocarbon industry" and "relishes the idea of their demise." Nemeth is critical of the way in which the Canadian federal government, academics, NGOs—and the foundations that fund them—use the "rationale of climate change" to nurture this "new global paradigm".
On January 14, 2021, Olszynski posted his submission online—"Textbook Climate Denialism." In a January 15 interview, Olszynski said that Alberta has been "caught in the crosshairs of a legitimate international effort to mitigate the worst effects of climate change...If climate change isn't real, then clearly Albertan can feel aggrieved, (or that) they've been targeted unfairly…. (punished) for their way of life, for their culture, their values. But if climate change is legitimate, and I suggest that it is, then none of that is true." He compared the efforts by Alberta to respond to the "growing body of evidence surrounding climate change" to that of the tobacco industry's response to the growing body of research on the "harmful effects of tobacco". University of Alberta's Andrew Leach—an energy and environmental economist, Martin Olszynski, who assisted in preparing his Inquiry submission, told Global News that it was "almost mind-boggling" that "[n]one of the reports" in the package provided by the Allan inquiry, "had the rigour" or the "level of analysis and input" that "you would expect"...It's just a very strange piece of the process." Leach said that it is not surprising that environmental groups would oppose the "development of Alberta's vast fossil fuel resources."
By January 15, in response to criticisms that the three commissioned reports were "based on junk science", Alan Boras a spokesman for the Allan Inquiry, said that these commissioned "reports do not represent findings or positions taken by the inquiry, but are intended to gather a broad range of opinions." Boras clarified that the commission inquiry does not "consider the science of climate change" or the "existence or status of climate change" to be part of its mandate, and that Commissioner Allan does not " intend to make any findings of fact respecting climate science in his final report". The inquiry focus is "really about foreign funds coming into Canada to obstruct oil and gas development."
According to CBC, "[i]ndependent experts have excoriated the reports for being based on junk climate-denial science, bizarre conspiracy theories and oil-industry propaganda."
Greenpeace, an organization that was mentioned 87 times in the three reports funded by the Allan Inquiry, has threatened legal action. The Nemeth report, that was funded and commissioned by the inquiry, had quoted The Spectator columnist, James Delingpole—known for his promotion of conspiracy theories such as the Great Reset —saying that this current generation of Greenpeace and the environmental movement, represent a "new breed of zealots less interested in saving Planet Earth than in destroying the capitalist system." Delingpole—and by extension Nemeth—says environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) are the "foot soldiers" of the so-called transnational progressivism movement, which according to Nemeth, are overseen by the United Nations, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and national leaders like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, among others. Nemeth—and Delingpole—say, without evidence, that they are using the pretext of climate change and COVID-19 to undermine market-based western capitalism. Nemeth included Delingpole's statement that Greenpeace was like a watermelon, green on the outside and red—socialist—on the inside. CBC reported that Greenpeace's lawyer had sent a letter to the Allan inquiry on January 18, saying that they would "take appropriate measures." Alberta's inquiry act, provides environmental groups with a "procedural right to address any adverse findings before they are made public by the inquiry". By publishing these reports, the Allan inquiry has not "followed due process." They cannot use this report as an "opportunity to smear people they don't agree with, that is not the kind of thing you should be doing in a public inquiry." University of Calgary law professor, Nigel Bankes, said that Greenpeace's case was strong based on both "procedural unfairness" in the Alberta's inquiries act, and legal precedent from the 1997 Westray Mine explosion public inquiry and the 1997 Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada.
Deadlines
On June 25, Minister Savage announced that the deadline for the Public Inquiry's final report was extended to October 30, 2020, from July 2 and that the inquiry's budget has been increased from $2.5 million to $3.5 million. The added funds will be diverted from the Canadian Energy Centre's budget.
At the end of October, UCP cabinet statement, Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage granted a 3-month extension for the Allan Inquiry's final report with a new deadline of January 31, 2021. The extension, which comes without any additional funding will "ensure that potential participants have a fair opportunity to provide input." The "procedural delay" was caused by COVID-19-related restrictions.
A January 29, 2021 UCP cabinet statement granted Commissioner Allan four more months, its third deadline extension "to ensure he is able to complete a comprehensive investigation into a possible well-funded foreign campaign aimed at discrediting the province's energy sector." The commission's final report "into whether foreign money is bankrolling campaigns to besmirch the reputation of Alberta oil and gas products" is due on May 31, 2021. The commission's budget of $3.5M is unchanged.
Ecojustice Canada Society v Alberta
In September 2019, Vancouver-based Ecojustice issued a letter of warning of potential legal challenge to commissioner Allan asking for a response within 30 days. Ecojustice is saying that changes must be made to the mandate of the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns. According to The Globe and Mail, "environmental and activist groups are mobilizing against the public inquiry". Ecojustice says the "inquiry is unlawful and possibly unconstitutional because of the language used in the mandate" given to commissioner Steve Allan. Ecojustice said the inquiry labels "environmental groups critical of oil and gas development as 'anti-Alberta.'"
In November Ecojustice requested that the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta investigate whether the reasons for the inquiry fulfilled the requirements under the Public Inquiries Act. Ecojustice alleged that the inquiry was "politically motivated, biased and outside provincial jurisdiction".
On July 27, 2020, Ecojustice requested that the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta stop the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns until the court gave its ruling on their November judicial review application.
On November 21, 2019, Ecojustice lawyer, Devon Page, filed the lawsuit Ecojustice Canada Society v Alberta in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Calgary calling on the court have the inquiry's "work paused until there is a ruling on its case". While the "factual premise" underlying the inquiry have been "seriously challenged several times", the lawsuit is the "first challenge to its legality." The Ecojustice "lawsuit also alleges that inquiry commissioner Steve Allan was a donor to the UCP leadership campaign of Doug Schweitzer, now Alberta’s justice minister, who appointed him to the job."
On November 26, 2020, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Karen Horner dismissed Ecojustice's application for an injunction to pause the Inquiry partly because of the "strong public interest in ensuring the orderly, uninterrupted, and timely progression of the Inquiry." Judge Horner said that since the inquiry was in its second phase at the end of November 2020, and that in that phase the inquiry would be "contacting organizations of interest in order to solicit their response" and that by November 26, the inquiry had not published any "finding of misconduct" on Ecojustice's part, there was therefore "no evidence that the Inquiry contains unfounded and untested allegations against Ecojustice" harmful to its reputation. Ecojustice CEO, Devon Page, said that they would continue to challenge inquiry activities and "expose it for the sham that it is." | WIKI |
Finally, some early humans left Africa and spread throughout the globe. They developed into good hunters, and quickly found those fruits and nuts and other plants that were edible. Cro-Magnon had plenty of food and shelter, and from what we can tell many of them lived long lives.
Their diet was pretty varied. They ate the fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and roots that they could gather, as well as the animals they could hunt. They also became adept at catching fish.
Fishing was done using spears, bow and arrow, nets, and even fish hooks. Some built canoes and rafts to go out into deeper water to catch larger fish.
Hunters mostly went after herd beasts such as deer. However Cro-Magnon was a good hunter and would take any animal they could get including mammoths and saber tooth tigers. They had bows and stone tipped arrows, stone spears, stone knives and axes, and they built snares and pits to catch animals. They learned how to smoke and preserve meat to help feed themselves during the long cold winters. During the summer months, they would follow the herds and hunt. During the winter they returned to their winter camps.
Cro-Magnon built two different types of houses. During the summer month, while following the herds, they lived in easy to pack and set up tents or tee-pees. During the winter months, they lived in larger more permanent type huts.
The summer tents were easily set up by either stringing them between two trees, or by covering some sticks tied to together tepee style with the tanned hides of animals.
The winter huts were usually in a permanent location and were built much sturdier. They would be roomy enough for a family to stay in. They were also made from tanned hides that had been sewn together and wrapped around logs which had been placed into holes that they dug. They had an opening in the top to let out smoke, and were weighted at the bottom with rocks or dirt to keep them anchored during storms.
In the winter months and in areas with a colder climate, Cro-Magnon man learned to make clothing from the skins of animals. In summer months and warmer climates, clothing consisted of woven grass or bark. Cro-Magnon wore jewelry made from shells, bone, and animal teeth. Sometimes Cro-Magnon would dye their bodies or even tattoo themselves. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Expert Tips for Repairing a Laptop’s Corrupted Files and Preventing Future Issues
Expert Tips for Repairing a Laptop’s Corrupted Files and Preventing Future Issues
Understanding Corrupted Files
Corrupted files can significantly impact a laptop’s performance. Let’s explore what corrupted files are and some common causes.
What Are Corrupted Files?
Corrupted files fail to open or operate correctly due to errors in their system or data structure. They might display error messages, become inaccessible, or cause applications to crash. This happens when components within the file become damaged, leading to partial or full data loss.
1. Power Failures: Sudden shutdowns during file operations can disrupt data integrity.
2. Malware Attacks: Viruses and malware can alter or damage files.
3. Hardware Issues: Failing hard drives or memory can corrupt stored data.
4. Software Bugs: Incompatible or flawed applications can corrupt files.
5. Improper Ejection: Removing storage devices without ejecting them properly can cause corruption.
Initial Steps Before Repair
Before diving into the repair process, certain preliminary steps are essential. These actions provide a foundation to safeguard data and efficiently address corrupted files.
Backing Up Data
Data backup is crucial. We should ensure essential files are stored in multiple locations. Use external drives or cloud services for this. Create a systematic schedule to back up data regularly. This practice minimizes data loss risks if further issues arise during the repair.
Identifying Corrupted Files
Identifying corrupted files accurately determines the repair approach. Look for signs like error messages when opening files. Check file sizes; unusually large or small sizes often indicate corruption. Use built-in tools like Windows File Explorer for quick inspection. To confirm, run diagnostic tools or software utilities that specialize in detecting and analyzing corrupted files.
Using Built-In Tools
Repairing a laptop’s corrupted files often starts with leveraging built-in tools. These tools are designed to address common file corruption issues efficiently.
Windows File Repair Tools
Windows offers several utilities to repair corrupted files. The System File Checker (SFC) scans and restores corrupted system files. To use SFC, open Command Prompt as an administrator and type sfc /scannow. This command scans all protected system files and replaces corrupted ones with a cached copy.
Another useful tool is the Deployment Imaging Service and Management Tool (DISM). DISM repairs the Windows image and checks the integrity of files. To use DISM, type DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in Command Prompt. This process takes longer than SFC but is effective for extensive file corruption.
Windows also includes the Check Disk utility (chkdsk), which scans and repairs bad sectors on the hard drive. Run chkdsk /f /r in Command Prompt, and it will fix file system errors and recover readable information from bad sectors.
macOS File Repair Tools
macOS users can rely on Disk Utility to repair corrupted files and disks. Open Disk Utility from the Applications > Utilities folder. Select the disk and click on “First Aid.” This tool checks the disk for errors and attempts to repair them automatically.
The Terminal provides another powerful method for repairing files. The fsck (file system consistency check) command checks and repairs macOS file systems. To use fsck, restart the Mac in Single User Mode by holding Command + S during startup. Type /sbin/fsck -fy into Terminal, and the system will analyze and fix file system issues.
Additionally, macOS’s Time Machine is invaluable for restoring corrupted files. If a file corruption occurs, access Time Machine from the menu bar, navigate to the required backup, and restore the file to its original state.
By using these built-in tools, we can efficiently address file corruption and keep our laptops running smoothly. Employing these solutions helps mitigate the risk of significant data loss and system performance issues.
Third-Party Software Solutions
Third-party software offers additional methods for repairing corrupted files. Many programs provide specific features to address unique issues and enhance overall laptop performance.
Selecting the Right Software
Various third-party tools specialize in repairing corrupted files. Popular options include Stellar File Repair, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, and Disk Drill. Each program has unique strengths: Stellar excels in repairing various file types, EaseUS recovers lost data effectively, and Disk Drill provides a comprehensive suite of disk utilities. We should assess our specific needs and opt for a tool that aligns with our requirements.
1. Download and Install: Acquire the chosen software from the official website and follow the installation prompts.
2. Launch the Software: Open the application and navigate to the file repair or data recovery section.
3. Select Corrupted Files: Identify the corrupted files using the software’s interface. Many programs allow us to drag-and-drop files for convenience.
4. Run Repair Process: Initiate the repair process by clicking the appropriate button. The software will scan and attempt to repair the selected files.
5. Save Repaired Files: Once the process completes, review the repaired files and save them to a secure location.
These steps guide us through using third-party software to address file corruption, ensuring smooth laptop functionality.
Preventing File Corruption
Preventing file corruption ensures our laptops run smoothly. Implementing regular maintenance and following file management best practices can significantly reduce the risk of file corruption.
Regular Maintenance Tips
Regular maintenance improves system performance and reduces the risk of file corruption.
1. Update Software Frequently: Install software updates promptly. Updates often contain patches that fix bugs and security vulnerabilities.
2. Run Antivirus Software: Use reliable antivirus software. Regular scans will detect and remove malicious files.
3. Check Disk Health: Use disk-checking utilities regularly. Detect and fix disk errors before they lead to file corruption.
4. Backup Data Regularly: Schedule automatic backups. Store backups in multiple physical and cloud locations.
Best Practices for File Management
Proper file management reduces the likelihood of file corruption.
1. Organize Files Systematically: Use a logical folder structure. Keep files sorted by category or date.
2. Use Reliable Storage Media: Avoid unreliable or outdated storage media. Use high-quality external drives and USB sticks.
3. Safely Eject External Devices: Always eject external devices properly. Prevent data corruption by avoiding abrupt disconnections.
4. Avoid File Overwriting: Create new versions instead of overwriting existing files. Preserve older versions for recovery if needed.
5. Limit File Transfer Interruptions: Ensure connections are stable during file transfers. Interruptions can lead to corruption.
Preventing file corruption involves more than just reactive measures. By incorporating these regular maintenance tips and best practices, we safeguard our data integrity and optimize laptop performance.
Conclusion
Repairing corrupted files on our laptops can seem daunting but it’s entirely manageable with the right approach. By understanding the causes and consequences we can take proactive steps to prevent file corruption. Regular maintenance and best practices for file management are key to safeguarding our data. Let’s make it a habit to back up our files update our software and use reliable storage media. These simple yet effective strategies will help us maintain optimal laptop performance and ensure our valuable data remains secure. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Delayed gastroduodenal emptying is an important mechanism for control of intestinal transit in short-gut syndrome
Christopher P. Johnson, Sushil K. Sarna, Yong Ran Zhu, Ellen Buchmann, Laurie Bonham, Gordon L. Telford, Allan M. Roza, Mark B. Adams
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
13 Scopus citations
Abstract
PURPOSE: To understand the relative importance of changes in ileal smooth muscle contractility versus alteration of intestinal flow rate as control mechanisms for regulating intestinal transit in a surgical model of short-gut syndrome. METHODS: A model of short-gut syndrome was created by performing a 70% proximal small-bowel resection in dogs. Ten control and 6 animals with short-gut syndrome were instrumented with strain gauge transducers, steel collection cannulas, and a Silastic intraluminal infusion catheter in the midileum. Motor activity was analyzed by computer programs that determine frequency, amplitude, and propagation behavior of postprandial contractions. Perfusions of 14C-polyethylene glycol and bolus injection of 3H-polyethylene glycol were used to determine intestinal flow and transit rates. Total gastroduodenal emptying was determined using a 14C-polyethylene glycol-labelled meal. RESULTS: Postprandial contraction frequency was decreased in animals with short-gut syndrome, but other significant changes in amplitude, mean area, and propagation behavior of postprandial ileal contractions were not seen. Gastroduodenal emptying and mean intestinal flow rates were markedly slower in animals with short-gut syndrome, as were intestinal transit rates. CONCLUSIONS: In this model of short-gut syndrome, the major adaptive change is decreased intestinal flow rate, related to delayed gastroduodenal emptying. The spatial organization of ileal contractions does not change substantially aside from a change in frequency which can be accounted for by transection of the intestinal wall.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)90-96
Number of pages7
JournalAmerican Journal of Surgery
Volume171
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1996
Externally publishedYes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Surgery
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View Full Version : Programming for windows on Mac OS !!
majidgrok
May 26, 2011, 12:36 PM
Hi,
Is it possible to programming for windows on mac?
I installed windows 7 on my macbook pro just for developing windows application with C# ! but I hate installing windows !
is there any way to do that without virtualization (like VMware or parallel and so on) ?!!
thanks
lee1210
May 26, 2011, 12:41 PM
You can look into the Mono project, which provides a CLR and a C# (and probably other .net langauges?) compiler for non-Windows platforms. I don't know if any IDEs on OS X are integrated with Mono... but probably nothing like VS if there are.
You can use VMWare with Unity mode to run VS, but if you're using Mono you're probably going to be in a grossly different development environment. You may be fine with this.
-Lee
majidgrok
May 26, 2011, 01:00 PM
You can use VMWare with Unity mode to run VS...
thanks for your response, can you explain what is exactly "Unity mode"...
is it lighter in front of running windows (by vmware) and then Visual Studio ?
mydogisbox
May 26, 2011, 01:02 PM
I briefly used this. Not sure how good it is since I didn't do much with it.
http://monodevelop.com/
lee1210
May 26, 2011, 01:28 PM
thanks for your response, can you explain what is exactly "Unity mode"...
is it lighter in front of running windows (by vmware) and then Visual Studio ?
In vmware fusion unity mode allows you to hide the windows desktop and have applications running on windows display like other OS X apps. You're still virtualizing windows but get closer to a seamless experience.
-Lee
Blakeasd
May 26, 2011, 09:41 PM
While I don't know much about C# development, you might want to consider the C++ QT framework. It can write applications for Windows, OS X, and Linux. I would reccomend checking it out.
MorphingDragon
May 26, 2011, 10:40 PM
You can look into the Mono project, which provides a CLR and a C# (and probably other .net langauges?) compiler for non-Windows platforms. I don't know if any IDEs on OS X are integrated with Mono... but probably nothing like VS if there are.
You can use VMWare with Unity mode to run VS, but if you're using Mono you're probably going to be in a grossly different development environment. You may be fine with this.
-Lee
Virtual Box does something similar.
I wouldn't use Mono right at the moment, its future is still relatively unknown.
http://www.sysmannews.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=35560&print=true
ulbador
May 26, 2011, 11:43 PM
I took a whole slew of .NET programming classes with the free Dreamspark.com VS 2008 installed in a VirtualBox machine. If you are a student (ie, have access to a .edu address) , you can download Visual Studio and Server 2008 for free. With this running in VirtualBox and you basically have a free development station for Windows.
It worked perfect and it was better than getting a Windows box because I was simply able to shutdown the program to get back to my Mac.
larkost
May 27, 2011, 02:17 AM
While I would probably not do much serios development in it if I was targeting windows in a real way, there is also Cocotron (http://www.cocotron.org/)
SidBala
May 27, 2011, 06:18 AM
If your target platform is Windows, then you should use Windows.
If you don't want to bootcamp, you could run a VM'd instance. I would not really recommend mono unless if you really do want cross platform support.
wpotere
May 27, 2011, 06:30 AM
If your target platform is Windows, then you should use Windows.
^^This
I am a C# developer and can tell you that you should stick to windows if you are programming for that environment. I would setup Bootcamp and then use VMware to start it up in OSx. From there you can use the unity mode to make it look more native and it does work well.
firewood
May 27, 2011, 12:45 PM
It used to be possible to cross-compile a Windows app using Metrowerks Codewarrior on a Mac. But that product is long obsolete, unless you have an old PPC Mac running Mac Classic.
There might be some Windows development tools that run under the Mac version of Crossover. But you'd still have to test and debug on a Windows VM.
wrldwzrd89
May 27, 2011, 12:48 PM
Though Wine will let you perform some development tasks on your Mac (such as creating an installer with InnoSetup - runs perfectly in all versions of Wine I've tried it with), the actual coding will require a real Windows environment.
SteelWheel
May 27, 2011, 06:26 PM
You can use VMWare with Unity mode to run VS, but if you're using Mono you're probably going to be in a grossly different development environment. You may be fine with this.
-Lee
Why is this any better/different from using Parallels and its Coherence mode? Or is it?
lee1210
May 27, 2011, 09:30 PM
Why is this any better/different from using Parallels and its Coherence mode? Or is it?
I'm guessing they do the same thing, I wasn't aware of this parallels feature.
-Lee
KnightWRX
May 28, 2011, 09:42 AM
I'm guessing they do the same thing, I wasn't aware of this parallels feature.
-Lee
Or Virtual box and seamless mode. They all support it now.
I would setup Bootcamp and then use VMware to start it up in OSx.
Why go through all the trouble and pay for the privilege ? Just download virtual box (free) and install Windows on a virtual hard disk.
Much easier to get rid of it if it becomes useless, just delete the virtual hard disk file and you've got your space back.
If you are a student (ie, have access to a .edu address) , you can download Visual Studio and Server 2008 for free.
If you're not, the Express versions work just fine :
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2010-Visual-CS | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection
This steroid injection procedure is performed to relieve pain caused by arthritis where the spine and hip bone meet, known as the sacroiliac joint. The steroid medication can reduce swelling and inflammation in the joint. For the procedure, you like face down and a cushion is placed under your abdomen for comfort and to help arch the back. The physician uses touch and a fluoroscope (a video x-ray) to find the sacroiliac joint. A local anesthetic numbs the skin and all the tissue down to the surface of the sacroiliac joint. The physician advances a needle through the anesthetized track and into the sacroiliac joint. A steroid-anesthetics mix is injected into the sacroiliac joint, bathing the painful area in medication. When the needle is removed, a small bandage is used to cover the tiny surface wound. You may begin to notice an improvement in your pain two to five days after the injection. Your PCA physician will work with you to create an individualized treatment plan. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Sleeping Beauty: What Science Says About Beauty Rest
You’ve probably heard it since you were a child: “Make sure to get your beauty rest.” But we wondered just how much of the hype is legitimate. Can sleep really make you more attractive? Let’s examine the evidence.
In short, the answer is a resounding yes. Getting plenty of rest will help you look your best, as long as you don’t fall asleep in your makeup. But not all sleep is created equal, so let’s take a look at why beauty rest works and what you should know to maximize the advantages.
Why Beauty Rest Is Effective
Sleepless nights just don’t have the same impact in your 20s as they do later in life. As we get older, failing to get enough sleep becomes more and more apparent. It can show up as under eye circles, fine wrinkles, or a sallow complexion.
A good night’s sleep also has skin-centric advantages. Getting plenty of rest helps your skin stay plump with water, and cortisol and insulin production work to speed up the creation of collagen while you rest. Both water and collagen are necessary for resilient, moisturized skin. Deep sleep is also prime time for your body to make human growth hormone, which helps trigger the repair of damaged cells.
When you don’t get the sleep you need, your immune system also takes a hit. That puts you at increased risk for skin rashes and other maladies, such as eczema, acne, rosacea, and psoriasis.
Your horizontal position during sleep also helps beautify you. Gravity isn’t pulling at your face while you rest, so time snoozing won’t increase skin sagging or wrinkles. Blood flow to your face increases, making your skin radiant and boosting the health of your hair.
All this isn’t to say that there’s no point in trying creams or potions developed to improve your skin—but they’ll work better if you’re in the habit of getting a good night’s rest. Adults 18 to 64 should shoot for seven to nine hours a night, while those over 65 usually thrive with seven to eight hours of shuteye.
Get the Most From Your Beauty Rest
Avoid meals before bedtime that will disrupt your sleep with difficult digestion, such as salty or heavy foods. Wash your face before going to bed. Despite what movies or TV may tell you, no one wakes up with a full face of makeup without paying the price. Don’t slack on your nighttime skin-care regimen. Getting plenty of rest will help those products work even better. See a doctor to handle health problems that disrupt restful nights, such as sleep apnea, ragged breathing, or loud snoring.
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Re^2: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
by muba (Priest)
on Feb 13, 2007 at 20:21 UTC ( #599767=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
in reply to Re: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
in thread UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
Yeah, this works, except that the BOM indeed is a three-bytes thing as said above. So the code, that seems to work, now looks like this:
while (my $line = <$rulesFH>) { if ($. == 1) { # Remove Byte Order Mark if it's there use Encode; my $octets = encode("utf8", $line); $octets =~ s/^\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}//; $line = decode("utf8", $octets); } # rest... }
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Re^3: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
by ikegami (Pope) on Feb 13, 2007 at 20:48 UTC
my $octets = encode("utf8", $line); $octets =~ s/^\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}//; $line = decode("utf8", $octets);
is the same thing as
my $BOM = decode("utf8", "\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}"); $line =~ s/^$BOM//;
is the same thing as
my $BOM = chr(0xFEFF); $line =~ s/^$BOM//;
is the same thing as
$line =~ s/^\x{FEFF}//;
which is what I gave you. Much simpler!
Meh. Indeed, I didn't realise that. Thank you!
Thank you!!! This saved me a lot of trouble. I am also trying to strip out these UTF-8 byte order mark characters, which google docs puts in by default to downloaded text files. By the way I found that \x{FEFF} was not the same as \x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}
By the way I found that \x{FEFF} was not the same as \x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}
Yeah, "\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}" is the UTF-8 encoding of the BOM / U+FEFF / "\x{FEFF}".
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The French wine-growing area of Blaye forms part of the Bordeaux wine-growing area and lies along the right bank of the River Gironde. It extends over 5,000 hectares of considerably varied soil tpes (calcareous, sandy and calcareous clay). It surrounds the Côtes de Bourg appellation area and subdivides into three distinct AOC (Appellation d'origine contrôlée or quality-controlled designation of origin) areas:
* Blaye
* Côtes-de-Blaye
* Premières-Côtes-de-Blaye
The red wines are powerful and fruity. They go well with red meats or cheeses, such as :
* hare or rabbit stew, small game
* lamb (lamb stew, leg of lamb)
* beef (roast joint, rib-eye steak, rib roast)
* duck
* dry goat's cheese
* sheep's cheese
The white wines are dry and aromatic. Premières-Côtes-de-Blaye wines go well with the following dishes:
* seafood
* pan fried scallops
* fish prepared in a sauce
* salmon pie
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Eurozone economy 'in dire straits' - The Buzz - Investment and Stock Market News
As if Europe needed more bad news, a report Thursday showed a big drop in manufacturing activity across the eurozone. The Markit eurozone PMI composite output index, more commonly known as a survey of purchasing managers, fell to 45.9 in May, according to the preliminary reading. That's down from 46.7 in April and marks a nearly 3-year low. Any reading below 50 is a sign the manufacturing sector is shrinking, and economists say the weaker-than-expected PMI figure bodes ill for second-quarter gross domestic product in the troubled currency zone. GDP, the broadest measure of economic activity, was essentially unchanged in the first quarter, meaning the economy didn't grow at all. That was still considered a mildly positive outcome, since many forecasters had expected the economy to have tumbled into recession in the first quarter. Thursday's report is a stark reminder that all is not well in the euro area, which is also grappling with a potentially devastating sovereign debt crisis. All in all, today's dismal PMI figures clearly indicate that the eurozone economy remains in dire straits, said Martin van Vliet, an economist at ING. Ben Rooney is a staff writer for CNNMoney. He covers the European debt crisis and other international finance stories, in addition to writing about stocks, bonds, investing and other Wall Street-related news. Follow Ben on Twitter: @ben_rooney | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Quick Script to Migrate from SimpleNotes
Moving hundreds or thousands of notes from SimpleNotes (to Apple Notes in my case)? This script aught to help clean up a few things for a better structure after importing.
• Converts tags in *.txt files to #tag format for easier searching. Preserves original modified timestamp.
• Updates the modified timestamps to a UTC offset (if specified)
• Moves each note file into a subfolder based on its first tag (if specified)
This will only modify txt files, and should be run against an extracted export of notes from SimpleNote, so it should be fairly safe. But keep the archive and/or backups just in case. Use as follows:
chmod +x convert-tags.php
./convert-tags.php --path ./notes --timezone "-0500" --usefolders
Then import the notes folder through Notes.app.
#!/usr/bin/env php
<?
/**
* This script helps migrate from SimpleNotes to Apple Notes
* (and potentially others) in a few ways:
*
* 1) Converts tags in exported SimpleNotes *.txt files
* to #tag format for easier searching. Preserves original modified timestamp.
* 2) Updates the modified timestamps to a UTC offset (if specified)
* 3) Moves each note file into a subfolder based on its first tag (if specified)
*
* Arguments: (in this order)
* --path - Location of the exported txt files
* --timezone - an offset value (eg: -0500) from UTC to correct timestamps
* --usefolders - moves notes into a subfolder based on their first tag
*/
$tags_pattern = '/Tags:\n\s\s(.+)$/';
$updated_files = 0;
$updated_timestamps = 0;
$moved_files = 0;
$errors = 0;
$skipped_files = 0;
$options = getopt(null, ['path:', 'timezone:', 'usefolders:']);
if (!isset($options['path']) || is_dir($options['path']) !== true) {
throw new Exception('--path argument is missing or invalid.');
}
$base = trim($options['path'], '/') . '/';
if ( isset($options['timezone']) ) {
if ( preg_match('/[-+]\d\d:?\d\d/', $options['timezone']) === 1 ) {
// Calculate interval in seconds for the supplied timezone offset
$dtz_utc = new DateTimeZone('UTC');
$dtz_offset = new DateTimeZone($options['timezone']);
$dt_utc = new DateTime('now', $dtz_utc);
$utc_offset_seconds = $dtz_offset->getOffset($dt_utc);
$di_offset = DateInterval::createFromDateString( abs($utc_offset_seconds) . ' seconds');
if ($utc_offset_seconds < 0) {
$di_offset->invert = 1;
}
echo "Modified timestamps will be adjusted by {$utc_offset_seconds} seconds.\n";
} else {
throw new Exception('Timezone format should be -0500.');
}
} else {
echo "Not adjusting timezone of modified timestamps.\n";
$di_offset = null;
}
$use_folders = in_array('--usefolders', $argv);
if ($use_folders) {
echo "Moving notes into subfolders\n";
} else {
echo "Leaving notes in $base\n";
}
if ($handle = opendir($base)) {
echo "Updating *.txt in $base\n";
echo "---\n";
while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))):
// Skip non-txt files
if (preg_match('/^.*\.txt$/', $entry) !== 1) {
echo "Skipping '$entry'\n";
$skipped_files++;
continue;
}
if ($contents = file_get_contents($base . $entry) ):
$tags = [];
// Find the tags string, replace with new format, and stash tags for later use
$new_contents = preg_replace_callback($tags_pattern, function ($matches) use (&$tags) {
$tags = explode(', ', $matches[1]);
return '#' . implode(' #', $tags);
}, $contents);
$original_mod_time = filemtime($base.$entry);
if ($contents !== $new_contents) {
if (file_put_contents($base . $entry, $new_contents) !== false) {
echo "Updated '$entry'\n";
$updated_files++;
}
}
// Resetting modified timestamp back to original
$date = new DateTime( '@'.$original_mod_time );
// Correct modified timestamp's timezone
if ($di_offset) {
$date->add($di_offset);
}
// Set the timestamp
if ( touch($base.$entry, $date->getTimestamp()) ) {
$updated_timestamps++;
}
// If specified, move the note into a folder based on the first tag
if ($use_folders && count($tags)) {
$folder = $base . $tags[0] . '/';
if (!is_dir($folder)) {
mkdir ($folder);
}
if ( rename($base.$entry, $folder.$entry) ) {
echo "Moved '$entry' to '" . $folder . $entry . "'\n";
$moved_files++;
} else {
echo "*** Could not move '$entry' to '" . $folder . $entry . "'\n";
$errors++;
}
}
endif;
endwhile;
closedir($handle);
}
echo "---\n";
echo "Skipped $skipped_files files/folders.\n";
echo "Updated $updated_files files.\n";
if ($use_folders) {
echo "Moved $moved_files files.\n";
}
if ($di_offset) {
echo "Modified and reset timestamps on $updated_timestamps files.\n";
} else {
echo "Reset timestamps on $updated_timestamps files.\n";
}
if ($errors) {
echo "** Encountered $errors errors.\n";
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Relative Path Traversal
Weakness ID: 23 (Weakness Base)Status: Draft
+ Description
Description Summary
The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly sanitize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
Extended Description
This allows attackers to traverse the file system to access files or directories that are outside of the restricted directory.
+ Time of Introduction
• Implementation
+ Applicable Platforms
Languages
All
+ Demonstrative Examples
Example 1
The following URLs are vulnerable to this attack:
(Bad Code)
http://example.com.br/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf
http://example.com.br/get-page.php?home=aaa.html
http://example.com.br/some-page.asp?page=index.html
A simple way to execute this attack is like this:
(Attack)
http://example.com.br/get-files?file=../../../../somedir/somefile
http://example.com.br/../../../../etc/shadow
http://example.com.br/get-files?file=../../../../etc/passwd
Example 2
The following code demonstrates the unrestricted upload of a file with a Java servlet and a path traversal vulnerability. The HTML code is the same as in the previous example with the action attribute of the form sending the upload file request to the Java servlet instead of the PHP code.
(Good Code)
Example Language: HTML
<form action="FileUploadServlet" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Choose a file to upload:
<input type="file" name="filename"/>
<br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
When submitted the Java servlet's doPost method will receive the request, extract the name of the file from the Http request header, read the file contents from the request and output the file to the local upload directory.
(Bad Code)
Example Language: Java
public class FileUploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
...
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
String contentType = request.getContentType();
// the starting position of the boundary header
int ind = contentType.indexOf("boundary=");
String boundary = contentType.substring(ind+9);
String pLine = new String();
String uploadLocation = new String(UPLOAD_DIRECTORY_STRING); //Constant value
// verify that content type is multipart form data
if (contentType != null && contentType.indexOf("multipart/form-data") != -1) {
// extract the filename from the Http header
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(request.getInputStream()));
...
pLine = br.readLine();
String filename = pLine.substring(pLine.lastIndexOf("\\"), pLine.lastIndexOf("\""));
...
// output the file to the local upload directory
try {
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(uploadLocation+filename, true));
for (String line; (line=br.readLine())!=null; ) {
if (line.indexOf(boundary) == -1) {
bw.write(line);
bw.newLine();
bw.flush();
}
} //end of for loop
bw.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {...}
// output successful upload response HTML page
}
// output unsuccessful upload response HTML page
else
{...}
}
...
}
As with the previous example this code does not perform a check on the type of the file being uploaded. This could allow an attacker to upload any executable file or other file with malicious code.
Additionally, the creation of the BufferedWriter object is subject to relative path traversal (CWE-22, CWE-23). Depending on the executing environment, the attacker may be able to specify arbitrary files to write to, leading to a wide variety of consequences, from code execution, XSS (CWE-79), or system crash.
+ Potential Mitigations
Assume all input is malicious. Attackers can insert paths into input vectors and traverse the file system. Use an appropriate combination of black lists and white lists to ensure only valid and expected input is processed by the system. Warning: if you attempt to cleanse your data, then do so that the end result is not in the form that can be dangerous. A sanitizing mechanism can remove characters such as '.' and ';' which may be required for some exploits. An attacker can try to fool the sanitizing mechanism into "cleaning" data into a dangerous form. Suppose the attacker injects a '.' inside a filename (e.g. "sensi.tiveFile") and the sanitizing mechanism removes the character resulting in the valid filename, "sensitiveFile". If the input data are now assumed to be safe, then the file may be compromised. See CWE-182 (Collapse of Data Into Unsafe Value).
Phase: Architecture and Design
Assume all input is malicious. Use a standard input validation mechanism to validate all input for length, type, syntax, and business rules before accepting the data to be displayed or stored. Use an "accept known good" validation strategy. Input (specifically, unexpected CRLFs) that is not appropriate should not be processed into HTTP headers.
Use and specify a strong input/output encoding (such as ISO 8859-1 or UTF 8).
Do not rely exclusively on blacklist validation to detect malicious input or to encode output. There are too many variants to encode a character; you're likely to miss some variants.
Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated. Make sure that your application does not decode the same input twice. Such errors could be used to bypass whitelist schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.
+ Relationships
NatureTypeIDNameView(s) this relationship pertains toView(s)
ChildOfWeakness ClassWeakness Class22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant24Path Traversal: '../filedir'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant25Path Traversal: '/../filedir'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant26Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant27Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant28Path Traversal: '..\filedir'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant29Path Traversal: '\..\filename'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant30Path Traversal: '\dir\..\filename'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant31Path Traversal: 'dir\..\..\filename'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant32Path Traversal: '...' (Triple Dot)
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant33Path Traversal: '....' (Multiple Dot)
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant34Path Traversal: '....//'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
ParentOfWeakness VariantWeakness Variant35Path Traversal: '.../...//'
Development Concepts (primary)699
Research Concepts (primary)1000
+ Taxonomy Mappings
Mapped Taxonomy NameNode IDFitMapped Node Name
PLOVERRelative Path Traversal
+ Related Attack Patterns
CAPEC-IDAttack Pattern Name
(CAPEC Version: 1.4)
23File System Function Injection, Content Based
76Manipulating Input to File System Calls
+ References
+ Content History
Submissions
Submission DateSubmitterOrganizationSource
PLOVERExternally Mined
Modifications
Modification DateModifierOrganizationSource
2008-07-01Eric DalciCigitalExternal
updated References, Demonstrative Example, Potential Mitigations, Time of Introduction
2008-09-08CWE Content TeamMITREInternal
updated Relationships, References, Taxonomy Mappings
2008-10-14CWE Content TeamMITREInternal
updated Description
2009-07-27CWE Content TeamMITREInternal
updated Potential Mitigations | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Head armour of the period consisted of helmets sometimes including a mail coif. Helmets were made in a variety of ways and from several materials, with the single objective of deflecting or completely withstanding a blow from a sword.
Only a few examples of helmets have been found intact. The group of Valsgarde and Vendel period helms are the largest group of helmets to survive the last thousand years. Others are the helm from Sutton Hoo; the Benty Grange helmet; the Morken helm from Belgium; the Jorvik helm; and the Wenceslas helm from Czechoslovakia. These are not a complete list, but they do give an idea of how rare a helmet find is and how diverse the finds are. Metal helms of several types were all fairly similar in principle, being made from bands of metal forming a framework which was 'filled in' by riveting metal, leather (speculative) or even horn panels into it. Sometimes a nasal would be included to protect the face, often as an extension of the framework although it could be added separately. A few of the earlier Anglo-Saxon and Viking helmets had spectacle like eye-guards or visors although these seem to have become obsolete by the eighth century in Britain.
Some earlier helmets also had cheek flaps to protect the side of the head and face. The earlier styles of helmet tended to be domed, but gradually they became more pointed to eventually giving rise to the conical helm. The best type of helm was hammered and raised out of a single piece of iron and was therefore stronger than a riveted one. Helmets sometimes had a 'curtain' of mail called an aventail, hanging from the back of them to protect the back of the head and neck. In early times this was sometimes a solid metal neckguard, often hinged for the wearers convenience.
Many illustrations from the period of warriors show them wearing what appears to be a phrygian cap; on its own this would not offer much protection so it seems possible that a small domed metal helm or skullcap may have been worn beneath it. Of late though, the view regarding these phrygian hats has altered. They are shown in certain manuscripts that have a direct ancestry to much older works by previous authors. Some were even copies of copies of manuscripts from the Roman period or even earlier, and the slavish copying of the illustrations have little bearing upon 10th century styles. The copyist may have been trying to be true to the original and may also had little clue of what he was drawing.
Another element where the Phrygian style could have come from is the old Roman cult of Mithras - where Mithras often can be seen cutting the throat of a bull atop a shrine. This was very much a military man's belief, said to have derived from cults from the East, possibly the Middle East, which had then taken root here in Britain. There is one famous shrine dedicated to Mithras on Hadrian's Wall, and also an example in London. The popularity of this figure, although not its religous aspects could have remained with its associated courageous/heroic deeds, eventually cropping up as 'ancient' Anglo Saxon heroic figures.
The original surviving helmets in the true 'Phrygian' style are 4th century BC Greek. Only 1400 years and 1200 miles out.
Thick leather was possibly used to make helmets although no leather helms have ever survived from the period. The technique of 'cuir bouilli' or scolding the leather to make it stiff and hard, has been suggested as an alternative for the iron plates inside the frame. Thick leather can be riveted successfully to the frame, however no-one has yet demonstrated that leather can substitute for the iron other than for glancing blows. The 'Benty Grange' helmet from Derbyshire although from an earlier period (approx. late 8th early 9th century AD) had horn plates either side and sandwiching it's iron frame. (Not quite as the replica in the Sheffield museum would suggest). It is also possible that basket work helms covered in hide or leather were used but, again, none have survived from our period (although there is an earlier Scandinavian find of a metal 'basketwork' skullcap which may have been worn over a soft covering). There is even some evidence for wooden helms!! How on earth these worked we can only guess.
Mail coifs, or 'healsbeorgs', were worn from the ninth century and tended to cover the top and back of the head, the cheeks, chin, neck and perhaps some of the shoulders. Again coifs are mentioned but have never been found, so we can only guess as to their original shape. By the beginning of the tenth century these had become quite common amongst the professional warriors. By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood. The 'ventail' section of mail on or near the chest that folds up over the neck and chin, and hooked into position over the lower face, is the best explanation for the shapes found on the knights armour in the Bayeux tapestry. They are not universal, but seem to be a sensible protection for a horseman, as most of the attacks he would receive would come up from below. Padded arming caps would be probably worn under the coif and may also have been worn on their own. The coif as a head covering is shown on figures from Byzantine mosaics, interestingly enough worn by both males and females. How widely elsewhere the wearing of them as normal headgear is unknown until the Middle Ages.
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Everyday Science Quiz Questions & Answers - Part 1
This everyday science quiz contains collection of free quiz questions and facts about everyday science. It is a place where you find answers to the most commonly asked everyday science questions. Test and increase your science knowledge with these quiz questions.
Everyday Science Quiz Questions & Answers
1. Question: A man with a load jumps from a high building. What will be the load experienced by him?
Answer: Zero, because while falling, both the man and the load are falling at the same acceleration i.e. acceleration due to gravity.
2. Question: A piece of chalk when immersed in water emits bubbles. Why?
Answer: Chalk consists of pores forming capillaries. When it is immersed in water, the water begins to rise in the capillaries and air present there is expelled in the form of bubbles.
3. Question: Why does a liquid remain hot or cold for a long time inside a thermos flask?
Answer: The presence of air, a poor conductor of heat, between the double glass wall of a thermos flask, keeps the liquid hot or cold inside a flask for a long time.
4. Question: Why does a ball bounce upon falling?
Answer: When a ball falls, it is temporarily deformed. Because of elasticity, the ball tends to regain its original shape for which it presses the ground and bounces up (Newton’s Third Law of Motion).
5 Question: Why is standing in boats or double-decker buses not allowed, particularly in the upper deck of buses?
Answer: On tilting the centre of gravity of the boat or bus is lowered and it is likely to overturn.
6. Question: Why is it recommended to add salt to water while boiling daal?
Answer: By addition of salt, the boiled point of water gets raised which helps in cooking the daal sooner.
7. Question: Why is it the boiling point of sea water more than that of pure water?
Answer: Sea water contains salt, and other impurities which cause an elevation in its boiling point.
8. Question: Why is it easier to spray water to which soap is added?
Answer: Addition of soap decreases the surface tension of water. The energy for spraying is directly proportional to surface tension.
9. Question: Which is more elastic, rubber or steel?
Answer: Steel is more elastic for the same stress produced compared with rubber.
10. Question: Why is the sky blue?
Answer: Violet and blue light have short waves which are scattered more than red light waves. While red light goes almost straight through the atmosphere, blue and violet light are scattered by particles in the atmosphere. Thus, we see a blue sky.
11. Question: Why Does ink leak out of partially filled pen when taken to a higher altitude?
Answer: As we go up, the pressure and density of air goes on decreasing. A Partially filled pen leaks when taken to a higher altitude because the pressure of air acting on the ink inside the tube of the pen is greater than the pressure of the air outside.
12. Question: On the moon, will the weight of a man be less or more than his weight on the earth?
Answer: The gravity of the moon is one-sixth that of the earth; hence the weight of a person on the surface of the moon will be one-sixth of his actual weight on earth.
13. Question: Why do some liquid burn while others do not?
Answer: A liquid burns if its molecules can combine with oxygen in the air with the production of heat. Hence, oil burns but water does not.
14. Question: Why can we see ourselves in a mirror?
Answer: We see objects when light rays from them reach our eyes. As mirrors have a shiny surface, the light rays are reflected back to us and enter our eyes.
15. Question: Why does a solid chunk of iron sink in water but float in mercury?
Answer: Because the density of iron is more than that of water bus less than that of mercury.
16. Question: Why is cooking quicker in a pressure cooker?
Answer: As the pressure inside the cooker increases, the boiling point of water is raised, hence, the cooking process is quicker.
17. Question: When wood burns it crackles. Explain?
Answer: Wood contains a complex mixture of gases and tar forming vapors trapped under its surface. These gases and tar vapors escape, making a cracking sound.
18. Question: Why do stars twinkle?
Answer: The light from a star reaches us after refraction as it passes through various layers of air. When the light passes through the earth?s atmosphere, it is made to flicker by the hot and cold ripples of air and it appears as if the stars are twinkling.
19. Question: Why is it easier to roll a barrel than to pull it?
Answer: Because the rolling force of friction is less than the dynamic force of sliding friction.
20. Question: If a feather, a wooden ball and a steel ball fall simultaneously in a vacuum, which one of these would fall faster?
Answer: All will fall at the same speed in vacuum because there will be no air resistance and the earth?s gravity will exert a similar gravitational pull on all.
21. Question: When a man fires a gun, he is pushed back slightly. Why?
Answer: As the bullet leaves the nozzle of the gun’s barrel with momentum in a forward direction, as per Newton’s Third Law of Motion, the ejection imparts to the gun as equal momentum in a backward direction.
22. Question: Ice wrapped in a blanket or saw dust does not melt quickly. Why?
Answer: Both wood and wool are bad conductors of heat. They do not permit heat rays to reach the ice easily.
23. Question: Why do we perspire on a hot day?
Answer: When the body temperature rises, the sweat glands are stimulated to secrete perspiration. It is nature’s way to keep the body cool. During the process of evaporation of sweat, body heat is taken away, thus giving a sense of coolness.
24. Question: Why does ice float on water but sink in alcohol?
Answer: Because ice is lighter than water it floats on it. However, ice is heavier than alcohol and therefore it sinks in alcohol.
25. Question: Why do we perspire before rains?
Answer: Before the rain falls, the atmosphere gets saturated with water vapors; as a result, the process of evaporation of sweat is delayed.
26. Question: How do birds sit safely on electric power lines?
Answer: This is possible because a bird only touches one line. If the bird were to touch another line or pole the electricity would travel through the bird, either to the ground or another wire.
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An integrated description of rock breakage in comminution machines
Banini, George Agbeko. (2002). An integrated description of rock breakage in comminution machines PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, The University of Queensland.
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Author Banini, George Agbeko.
Thesis Title An integrated description of rock breakage in comminution machines
School, Centre or Institute School of Engineering
Institution The University of Queensland
Publication date 2002
Thesis type PhD Thesis
Supervisor Dr S. Morrell
Dr. F. S. Bourgeois,
Total pages 244
Collection year 2002
Language eng
Subjects L
290702 Mineral Processing
640399 Other
Formatted abstract There are three main mechanisms of breakage in Autogenous Grinding (AG) and Semi-Autogenous Grinding (SAG) mills:
(i) Abrasion,
(ii) Chipping, and
(iii) Crushing.
Abrasion is a surface event in which small grains of particles are removed. Chipping can also be classified as surface event in which surface "features" are removed. During both events cracks are not propagated through the main body of the rock and therefore can be classified as surface breakage. However, In crushing cracks propagate through the body of the rock.
In modelling breakage is described by using a so-called appearance/breakage function which historically has made use of size-average breakage parameters (Herbst and Fuerstenau (1968); Austin and Luckie (1971); Leung (1987)), ie rock strength is assumed to be independent of size. In addition these parameters typically do not consider the mode of breakage or as in the case of Leung do so in an arbitrary manner. Given that in AG/SAG mills the feed size distribution is usually -250 mm and the product size P80 can be as low as 50 microns the assumption of sizeinvariant strength is likely to have a significant impact on the model's accuracy.
To rectify the current lack of appropriate definition in the way that rock breakage is described in existing AG/SAG mill models, a research program was undertaken via the AM IRA POL project. This thesis describes the resultant model which Incorporates the effect of particle size for the two main regimes of breakage, namely surface and crushing, and unifies them in a single, mechanistically sound, description of breakage.
To quantify surface breakage at different energy levels, a range of equipment was developed. This equipment allows the fragments generated for each breakage event to be extracted. Using four different mill diameters, the effect of input energy and particle size on mass of fines produced was determined. The results showed that under very low Input energy conditions, which produce chipping and abrasion breakage, the resultant product size and quantity of broken products are affected by the size of the particles. As expected, the coarser particles tend to generate more fragments than the smaller ones. Although the common method of relating the amount of fragments produced during breakage is by the use of mass specific input energy, due to the fact that abrasion and chipping is related to surface conditions, the data were found to be correlated to surface specific input energy instead.
A drop weight tester was used to quantify the effect of particle strength on the particle size distribution obtained under higher energy impact breakage conditions (eg as observed in crushing). A wide range of particle sizes was tested under a wide range of input energies. As in the case of surface breakage, the results showed that coarser particles tend to be inherently weaker than smaller ones. In view of the fact that during crushing cracks propagate through the body of the rock, the effect observed was modelled based on the volumetric specific input energy.
The above descriptions of "surface" (eg abrasion and chipping) and "body" (eg crushing) breakage were integrated into a single description of breakage for use in AG/SAG mill modelling. To do so the size distributions of products from these two types of breakage were combined using a weighting function. To determine the weighting, the Hopkinson Pressure Bar (HPB) was used to further characterise the rocks. The data from the HPB was modelled using the log-normal distribution. The approach provides a probability distribution that allows the determination of the proportion of the material that will break either by body or surface breakage under a given input energy.
The breakage model has been incorporated in a prototype version of a new AG/SAG mill model. Evaluation of the model has shown that it can mimic expected trends during SAG mill operation. Similar simulation studies were carried out using the current (Leung's) appearance function technique and the results showed that the trends obtained are in contradiction to operational experience. This apparent discrepancy further highlights the limitation of the current techniques for describing breakage.
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Mani Madhava Chakyar
Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar (IAST: Māṇi Mādhava Cākyār) (15 February 1899 – 14 January 1990) was a celebrated master performance artist and Sanskrit scholar from Kerala, India, considered to be the greatest Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam (ancient Sanskrit drama theatre tradition) artist and authority of modern times. He was considered as the authority of Abhinaya (the classical Indian acting style) and Nātyaśāstra.
Known as "the Emperor of Rasa-Abhinaya", he had an exceptional ability to perform Rasa-Abhinaya. His Netrābhinaya was world-famous and he had the ability to act only with eyes. He was well versed in all the traditional Koodiyattams and all the prabandhas used in Chakyar Koothu. He was able to explain the concepts, methods and practices of Koodiyattam and Chakyar Koothu in a clear and authentic way. He had an in depth study of Nātyaśāstra of Bharata Muni, as well as ways of acting which were popular in Kerala. His knowledge and mastery over both theory and practice of Koodiyattam were superb. He was a veteran teacher and practitioner of these art forms and Sanskrit.
He was the first one to take Koodiyattam and Chakyar Koothu outside the precincts of the temples of Kerala to all over India and to impart training in Kudiyattam to non-Chakyar disciples including foreigners. He had produced many disciples in Kutiyattam and other classical arts like Kathakali. He was a Sanskrit scholar and was used to give lectures and talks in Sanskrit.
He is the author of Nātyakalpadrumam – an encyclopaedic treatise on all aspects of Koodiyattam. He was a Fellow of national art academies including Sangeet Natak Akademi and recipient of coveted titles like "Nātyāchārya", "Vidūshakaratnam" and awards including Padma Shri and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Early life and education
Mani Madhava Chakyar was born on 15 February 1899, in his ancestral home at Thiruvangayoor near Karayad,near Perambra of Kozhikode district of Kerala. His father was Vishnu Sarma and mother was Savithri Illotamma. He belonged to the Mani family of Chakyars of North Kerala, who for centuries have been the custodians of Koodiyattam – the traditional Sanskrit theatre - and Chakyar Koothu, another classical art form based on Sanskrit Champu Kavyas.
He trained in Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam in traditional way, under the direct guidance of his uncles who were great scholars and masters of these art forms. They were Guru Māni Parameswara Chakyar, Guru Māni Neelakandha Chakyar and Guru Māni Narayana Chakyar. He belonged to the "Mani" tradition of Koodiyattam and Chakyar Koothu which gives importance to both Rasa-abhinaya and Vachika-abhinaya.
Chakyar was a Sanskrit scholar and gave lectures in Sanskrit. He studied Alankarashastra, Nātyaśāstra, Vyakarana, Nyaya, Jyotisha, etc. in the traditional way, under scholars such as Panditaratnam Pazhedathu Sankaran Nampoothiripad. He was the student of Darsanakalanidhi Rama Varma Parikshith Thampuran (the Maharaja of Cochin). He had his higher studies in Nyayashastra and Natya Shastra under him. Chakyar taught Sanskrit at Balakollasini Sanskrita Pathasala of Killikkurussimangalam.
His first performance (Arangettam) of Koodiyattam was at the age of 14 at Trikkaikkunnu Temple of North Kottayam of Malabar. He performed the huge number of Atiyantara koothus of Mani family (the koothus which are assigned to the family from ancient times) in large number of temples stretching from Malabar to Thrissur. It consist of all devotional ritualistic Koothus and Kudiyattams including Anguliyanka, Mattavilasa Prahasana, Mantranka, Ezhamanka ( seventh act of Ascharyachoodamani) about eight decades continuously in temples of Kerala. It includes ancient Kerala temples such as Matayikkavu Bhagavathi Temple of Kannoor, Taliparamba Rajarajeshwara Temple, Kottiyoor Perumal Temple, Lokanarkavu Temple of Vatakara, Thali (Tali) Siva Temple of Kozhikode, Thirunavaya Navamukunda temple, Thiruvegappura Sree Mahadeva Temple, Pandamangalam Krishna temple of Kottakkal, Kotakkal Vishwambhara (Shiva) temple, Kallekkulagara Emoor Siva temple, Triprayar Sri Rama temple, Peruvanam Shiva temple of Cherpu, Avittathur Shiva Temple etc. Chakyar won high renown for the artistry of his performance in these temples, as well as in many others.
He married P. K. Kunjimalu Nangiaramma, the daughter of his uncle, Mani Parameshwara Chakyar. She was an exponent in female characters of Kudiyattams and Nangiǎr Kūthu and various Ragas and Shlokas used for the art form. She used to accompany him in the performances.
Master of Rasa-Abhinaya
He is considered as the all-time great master of Rasa-abhinaya (enacting sentiments in their perfection) with special reference to Netrābhinaya (enacting sentiments, etc. through the beautiful and masterly movements of eyes only). He was exceptionally well in the field of Satwika-Abhinaya. He is considered as "one of the most wonderful theatre actors of the last century".
He was known for his roles ( which has importance of Satvika-Abhinaya in Koodiyattams ) like Ravana (Katti vesha), Arjuna (Pacha vesha), Udayana (Pacha vesha), Jeemootavahana (Pazhukka vesha) etc.
His abhinaya of Kailasoddhārana (lifting of Kailasa) and Pārvatī Viraha (separation of Pārvatī), enriched with the Netrabinaya and Pakarnnaattam – Abhinaya (actor playing the role of another or more than one character shifting constantly without changing costume), were widely acclaimed.
He was known for the abhinaya of the slokas like "sikhinishalabham.." of the play Subhadradhananjayam by playing it with mere eyes. He was able to act in detail the Moths falling in and out of the lamp fire by evoking his Netrabhinaya, with assigning different rasa's for female moth, male moth and the fire. Guru's Abhinaya of the shloka smaramyavandhyadhipateh sutayah ( स्मराम्यवन्त्यािधपतेः सुतायाः ) from Bhasa's Swapnavasawadattam is also widely acclaimed one.
Reforming the art form
In 1949 he performed Chakyar Koothu for All India Radio, which was the first time the art was performed outside Koothambalam. In 1955, under his leadership, Kutiyattam was performed outside the temple for the first time in his village at Killikkurussimangalam. For performing the art forms outside the temples he faced lot of objections from the Chakyar community. In an interview, he remembered "My own people condemned my action (performing Koothu and Kutiyattam outside the precincts of the temples), Once, after I had given performances at Vaikom, they even thought about excommunicating me. I desired that this art should survive the test of time. That was precisely why I ventured outside the temple."
In 1962, under the leadership of V. Raghavan- an art and Sanskrit scholar - Sanskrit Ranga of Madras invited Chakyar to perform Kutiyattam there. This was the first time Kutiyattam was performed outside Kerala by his troupe. They performed at Madras on three nights, showing Kutiyattam scenes from three plays: Abhiṣeka, Subhadrādhanañjaya and Nāgānanda. Chakyar's performance made great impact on the people and art critics so that the artform and Chakyar himself became known outside Kerala. He was then invited to perform Kutiyattam at various places in North India during 1964, such as New Delhi and Banaras.
After Chakyar's first tour to New Delhi, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1964 for his contributions to Chakyar Koothu and Kutiyattam. This was his first national recognition.
He performed Kudiyattam all over India and popularised the same. He along with his troop did Koodiyattam performance in places like Madras (1962, 1973 & 1977), Madhura (1962), New Delhi (1964, 1966, 1974, 1979 & 1983), Varanasi (1964 & 1979), Bombay (1973 & 1977), Ujjain (1982), Bhopal (1987) etc.
The President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, invited him to perform Kutiyattam at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 1964 and was impressed by his exceptional acting skill. His Kutiyattam performances, lectures and demonstrations at well-known centres such as the Madras Music Academy, the International Centre for Kathakali in New Delhi, the Experimental Theatre in New Delhi and Bombay and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Bombay brought him wide popularity and recognition.
He choreographed and directed acts of the plays like Kalidasa's Abhijñānaśākuntala, Vikramorvaśīya and Mālavikāgnimitra ; Bhasa's Swapnavāsavadatta and Pancharātra; Harsha's Nagananda for the first time in the history of Koodiyattam. He along with his troupe performed these Kutiyattams all over India.
When his guru, Rama Varma Parikshith Thampuran, wrote a new Sanskrit champu prabandha called Prahlādacharita and requested senior artists to study and perform the same on the Chakyar Koothu stage, they said it was impossible for them to stage such a new prabandha. Then Thampuran asked Chakyar, who was then a comparatively young artist, to try. He agreed and studied a part of the prabandha within one night and performed the same on the next day at Tripunithura – the then capital of Cochin state (1962). The incident made the scholars to accept his mastery over both Sanskrit and the classical art form. After some months, he performed entire Prahlādacharita at the same stage.
He performed Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam for All India Radio and Doordarshan for the first time, which helped to attract thousands of listeners to these traditional art forms. It was he who started demonstrations in Kudiyattam to popularise the same.
Teaching
He is considered the greatest guru of Kutiyattam of the modern times, producing many accomplished disciples. He taught Koodiyattam for the first time to a non-Chakyar – Nambiar caste member. He was a Polish student named Maria Christopher Byrski (currently at Department of Indology, Warsaw University), who was then a research student at Banaras Hindu University, came to study the only surviving ancient Sanskrit drama Koodiyattam, from Guru around the early 1960s. He stayed at Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar's home and studied Koodiyattam in its traditional Gurukula way. Lot of research scholars came to study the Sanskrit drama from the ultimate exponent of Kutiyattam and Abhinaya Mani Madhava Cakyar. Dr. Farley Richmond (University of Georgia, USA), noted Sanskrit drama scholar also studied about the ancient Sanskrit art form under Mani Madhava Chakyar by staying at his home at Killikkurussimangalam. He had filmed Rasa Abhinaya and Kutiyattam of the maestro. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay of All-India Handicrafts Board came to Guru Maani Madhava Cakyar's home to do research about the costumes used in Kutiyattam (Ahāryābhinaya) (1967). Indian theatre scholar Goverdhan Panjal (National School of Drama) studied about Koothambalams and Kutiyattam under the Guru (1975).
When Kerala Kalamandalam (a school for the performing arts) was founded by Vallathol Narayana Menon, he invited authority of Rasa-abhinaya, Mani Madhava Chakyar as the master trainer for Rasa-abhinaya to the Kathakali students. Later Kathakali Yogam- Katathandu, Kerala Kalamandalam, PSV Natyasangham- Kottakkal and Gandhi Seva Sadanam Kathakali Academy- Perur used his services as visiting professor of Rasa-abhinaya and taught advanced students in Kathakali and Kutiyattam.
He is known as "the master who gave eyes to Kathakali". His influence on the classical performing arts of Kerala is famous. Many Koodiyattam, Kathakali, Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam artists were trained by this great master. Kathakali artists including legendary Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, Guru Kelu Nair, Guru Anand Shivram, Guru Kalamandalam Madhavan, Guru Gopinath, Sadanam Krishnankutty are his disciples.
Guru, who was an eminent teacher and performer opened a Gurukulam (training centre) in 1982 for teaching Kutiyattam, Chakyar Koothu, Nangyar Koothu and related art forms at Killikkurussimangalam (Lakkidi). After Guru's death it was named as Padmasree Mani Madhava Chakyar Smaraka Gurukulam in memory of the Guru. This institution still keeps its tradition and plays a major role in Kutiyattam teaching, revival and performance.
Guru, who had dedicated his life to Kutiyattam was concerned about the fate of this classical art form. Māni Mādhava Chākyār's conversation with famous Bharatanatyam dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale, when she visited Guru at his residence a year before his death, reflects his anxiety At least Bharatanatyam is now world famous, with thousands of new votaries. What about Koodiyattam?.....I have done what I can. It has not been easy. One has to sacrifice a lot to learn Koodiyattam. How many persons will be ready for it these days? Will there be an audience capable of imbibing it?
Awards and honours
Mani Madhava Chakyar received many titles, awards and degrees. He is one of the most felicitated artist from Kerala. His first major recognition came from HH Bhattan Thampuran (Bhatta Raja) of Kodungallur Kovilakam himself at the age of 22. Bhattan Thampuran awarded him with a Mudramothiram (signed ring) (1921). Mani Madhava Chakyar considered this Mudramothiram as the prestigious award that he ever got.
He received the most prestigious sacred Vīrasringhala or Veerashringhala (It's a kind of Golden Bracelet, given to the greatest artist/scholar of that era) from Taliparamba Rajarajeshwara Temple (1923). He is the youngest one to receive this award, which is being given to the scholars of the supreme rank, only by the unanimous approval of a special body of temple consisting of eminent scholars. Till date no one else has received a Veerashringhala from there after Mani Madhava Chakyar. Another major Vīrasringhalas that he received are; from Valiya Thampuran of Kottakkal Kovilakam (1952), from Urpassikkavu of Thalassery, from Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham (1961), from Samoothiri Raja of Kozhikode, given at the eve of Koodiyattam performance at Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple (1964) and from Tripunithura Kovilakam (1989).
He was honoured with ponnada (a kind of silk cloth given as a gesture of honour and respect) from Maharani (Queen) Of Travancore, presented through Mahakavi Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer at Vaikom Mahadeva Temple. He was honoured by HH. Rajah of Palakkad with a Keshabharam Kireetam at Hemambika Temple of Kallekkulangara (1962). He has received Gold Medals from Valiya Raja of Katathanadu, Pallikkunnu Bhagavathy Temple of Kannoor, Avittathur (1962), Delhi Experimental theatre (1964) etc.
In 1930, he was awarded the title Nātyāchārya (Guru of Natya) by Kadathanadu Valiya Thampuran (Raja of Kadathanadu). He received the title Vidūshakaratna, again from the Taliparamba Rajarajeshwara Temple (1954) for his excellence in performing "vidūshaka" in Koodiyattams. He was honoured by Fine Arts Society of Kochi by giving the title Anushtanakalapravina.
Government of India conferred Padma Shri (1974) and Emeritus Fellowship (1982) on him. He was conferred by an honorary degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1964.
He has received major National and International Awards and Fellowships such as
* 1964 – Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (New Delhi) - first national recognition for a Koodiyattam/Chakyar Koothu artist.
* 1964 – Paderewski Foundation (New York) Certificate of Merit – first international recognition for Koodiyattam.
* 1974 – Padma Shri
* 1975 – Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award – for the book Nātyakalpadrumam
* 1975 – Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship
* 1982 – Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (New Delhi)
* 1982 – Government of India Emeritus Fellowship
* 1982 – Kalidasa Academy Fellowship ( Ratna Sadasyata ) (1982)
* 1983 – Kerala Kalamandalam Fellowship
* 1987 – Tulsi Samman of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
* 1991 – Guruvayoor Devaswam Award etc.
He was the first Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam artist to receive these.
He has received numerous Honours and Certificates from distinguished institutions and individuals such as Akhila Bharata Sanskrit Sammelan (World Sanskrit Conference) – New Delhi, Samskrita Ranga – Chennai, Fifth World Sanskrit Conference – Banaras, Dr.S. Radhakrishnan, Dr. Vibhuti Narayan Singh ( Maharaja of Kasi ), Satyanarayana Sinha, Bishnu Ram Medhi (Chief Minister of Assam), Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, Maharaja of Kollengode, Vallathol Narayana Menon, Dr. V. Raghavan, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Dr. V.K Narayana Menon, Dr.Kapila Vatsyayan etc. etc.
Even though Guru Mani Madhava Chakkiyar received lot of national recognitions art critics widely believe that he truly deserved a lot more and recognitions came very late. RKG (Editor, The Illustrated Weekly, Columnist for Times of India) observes, ..I felt angry when I learnt that a great artist like Mani Madhava Chakyar was awarded a mere Padma Shri. A man of his artistic genius and erudition deserved to be decorated with the highest state honour (Bharat Ratna)
Publications
He has written an authoritative, award-winning book (in Malayalam) on Koodiyattam called Nātyakalpadrumam (1975). This work is being used as a reference by scholars and students. Natyakalpadrumam deals with all aspects of Koodiyattam in a scientific and critical manner. This book is considered the encyclopaedia of Koodiyattam. It won the prestigious Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (1976). This book is translated into Hindi by Sangeet Natak Akademi of New Delhi.
One of his other book is Matha Vilasam (Mattavilasam 1968), the choreography and play part ( actor's manual – Attaprakara) used in Mattavilasaprahasana Kudiyattam. He wrote the Attaprakaras of Abhijñānaśākuntala, Swapnavāsavadatta, Vikramorvaśīya, Mālavikāgnimitra, Pancharātra and Nagananda (Not published).
His biography (in Malayalam), Mani Madhaveeyam (1999) was published by Department of Cultural Affairs Publications of the Government of Kerala. The book gives the picture of astonishing accomplishing and momentous life of the Guru. It gives an excellent account of his struggles and his lifelong devotion towards the art form. The book includes Guru's memoirs of his illustrious stage life spanning about 80 golden years. Book contains a lot of rare photos giving us an insight to maestro's both personal and theatre life.
Guru has written articles in various journals and presented number of papers in conferences on various aspects of Koodiyattam, Abhinaya, Raagas, Natyasastra, Chakyar Koothu, Rasābhinaya in Kathakali etc.
Films and documentaries
There are several films and documentaries featuring Chakyar's Rasa-Abhinaya, Koodiyattam performances and life.
* Mani Madhava Chakyar: The Master at Work (1994, English, Kavalam Narayana Panikar, Central Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi) is a biographical film on the life and work of Chakyar. The film contains an interview with Chakyar where he explains the difficulty he had to face from hardliners when he took the traditional art forms outside temple for the first time in 1949. The film contains a session focussed on Rasa abhinaya by Chakyar, where he enacts various Rasas.
* Parvati Viraham: Mani Madhava Chakyar as Ravana (1993, English, Central Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi) features Chakyar as Ravana in the Pārvatī Viraham (separation of Pārvatī) in Koodiyattam form. It shows the Pārvatī Viraham part of the Ascharyachodamani Kutiyattam and includes the Pakarnnattam abhinaya.
* Manifestations of Shiva (1980, English, Malcolm Leigh & Stella Kramrisch, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Asia Society, USA) is a critically acclaimed documentary film; wherein Chakyar has performed as Lord Siva in Classical Indian dance form.
* Kutiyattam - Sanskrit Theater of India (2002, English, Multimedia CD, Farley Richmond (University of Georgia), The University of Michigan Press, USA) contains rare videos of Chakyar's Rasa Abhinaya including glimpses of his Netrabhinaya. The CD also contains the audios of recital of Shlokas and play parts by him.
* Kudiattam (1986, Hindi, Prakash Jha, India) features Chakyar's abhinaya and shows him explaining the concepts of Kutiyattam and its abhinaya techniques. It also features him teaching etc. This film has won Indian government's National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film (1987).
* Mani Madhava Chakkiar (1977, English, Classic Films) is a documentary film about Chakyar. It shows his Abhinaya in different Kutiyattams, his Chakyar Koothu performance etc. It also gives a picture of his personal life.
* Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar (2009, Malayalam, Krishnan Unni, Govt. of Kerala) is a documentary about the guru. This project is by Information and Public Relations Dept. of Govt. of Kerala as part of capturing the eminent personalities in Kerala and to highlight their contribution to the State.
* Prahladacharitham Chakyar Koothu (1986, audio, Harisree Audios, Kerala) features Chakyar Koothu performance of the prabandha Prahlādacharita, giving a glimpse into Chakyar's ability in narration and recital. It is unique because he did not perform Prahlādacharita after the death of his guru, Thampuran, in 1964, except for this recording.
Many of his Koodiyattam, Chakyar Koothu performances, demonstrations, interviews etc. were documented by Doordarshan centres of New Delhi, Bombay, Bhopal, Madras, Thiruvananthapuram etc. and All India Radio and is still being broadcast all over India. Documentation of Guru's Kutiyattam performance by Doordarshan Centre Bombai with English commentary of art critic and scholar V. K Narayana Menon is widely acclaimed.
Death and legacy
Chakyar died at the age of 90 on 14 January 1990 in a private hospital at Ottappalam due to natural causes. His body was cremated with full honours at his Killikkurussimangalam residence. There is a memorial at the spot of his cremation.
His birth and death anniversaries are celebrated by various cultural programmes, commemorative sessions and Kutiyattam festivals by various cultural organisations and institutes.
He is one of the most felicitated artist from Kerala and was the first recipient of all major awards for Chakyar Koothu and Koodiyattam. Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi's annual Koodiyattam Award is known as Maani Madhava Puraskaram as a tribute to him.
Many of Chakyar's films are still screened regularly at art theatres across and outside India. His Kutiyattam and Chakyar Koothu performances and other documentaries are broadcast from major Doordarshan and All India Radio stations regularly (Guru himself had initiated performance of these art forms for these media for the first time).
Art and cultural festivals are organised by various associations as a dedication to Chakyar regularly. | WIKI |
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* This regex statement looks for "based on" followed by any number of words or spaces, but to match it must also have either "novel" or "novels" or "book" or "books".
* If the first part is not found, then the statement looks for any occurance of the words "book" "books" "novel" "novels", followed by any number of words or spaces, but to match it must also have the word "by".
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EXPLAINER-Frugal Four vs Friends of Cohesion: The EU's baffling budget battle
BRUSSELS, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Leaders of the European Union's 27 countries gather on Thursday to haggle over the bloc's next budget for 2021-27. The debate over how much the bloc should spend over the next seven years and on what makes few headlines across Europe because it is so arcane. However, it is the talk of the town in the "Brussels bubble", where diplomats, technocrats and journalists bandy around acronyms and jargon that only make it harder for others to understand the MFF - the multiannual financial framework. WHAT IS THE MFF? The MFF sets the limits for EU spending over seven years, as a whole and for different areas of activity. It is spent on a raft of areas ranging from farm subsidies and regional development, to security projects, Erasmus student exchanges, research, fighting climate change, managing migration, security and defence. WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO AGREE? Poorer countries always argue that richer net contributors to the budget should pay more, and there is inevitably an acrimonious stand-off. A failure to agree by the start of 2021 risks a spending freeze on many critical projects. The 2021-27 MFF is even harder because Britain's exit from the EU means there is less money in the pot: the departure of the EU's second-biggest net payer will leave a 75 billion euro hole in the seven-year budget. Adding to the difficulty are new spending priorities such as climate change, border management, research and innovation. This will mean cuts in the MFF's biggest components, regional development to equalise standards of living across the bloc known as "cohesion policy funds" and Common Agriculture Policy support for farmers. SIZE MATTERS The first nut to crack is just how big the budget should be. European Council President Charles Michel has proposed a figure of 1.094 trillion euros, equivalent to 1.074% of the 27 countries' gross national income (GNI). The European Commission has sought a bigger budget equivalent to 1.11% of GNI. Net beneficiaries - mostly southern and eastern states that get more from the MFF than they put in thanks to cohesion funds and support for their farmers - like the Commission number. They stick together in a group called "The Friends of Cohesion". Net contributors frown even on Michel's lower number, and an alliance known as "The Frugal Four" - Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden - insist the budget must not exceed 1.0%. Germany, the MFF's biggest net contributor, is sometimes clubbed with these four but is expected to be more flexible. France, the number two contributor, wants to safeguard CAP funding for its farmers but is uneasy about the fiscal impact of a budget at the upper end of the range. Net contributors are also fighting to keep a system of "rebates", reductions to their contributions based on a complicated corrections system. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pioneered the rebate in the 1980s, but net beneficiaries say it must now be scrapped. THE CARVE-UP Just as fraught is the question of how to spend the budget. The proposal that Michel sent to leaders ahead of their special summit - known as a "negotiating box" - includes steep cuts in CAP and cohesion fund spending from the 2014-2020 MFF. Michel wants at least a quarter of the 2021-27 MFF to be spent on furthering climate goals, including the ultimate ambition to make the EU "climate neutral" by 2050. He has also proposed more spending on modernising Europe's economy through science, research and digital innovation, and increases for border management following the continent's migration crisis of 2015-16. FUNDING THE GAP Michel has proposed filling the Brexit gap with revenue from a new tax on plastics and funds from trading carbon emissions. The EU is also considering other taxes -- on the digital economy, flying, financial transactions and on products made with high CO2 emissions imported into the EU -- as further sources of revenue. RULE OF LAW Michel also wants EU funding to be conditional on governments respecting the rule of law - a point many of the net payers have insisted on to keep pressure on Poland and Hungary, which stand accused of violating democratic checks and balances. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT The European Parliament also wants tough rule of law conditions on funding, but more importantly it wants to see a much bigger overall budget of 1.3% of GNI. Everyone expects its headline number will be ignored, but in the end the MFF will have to be approved by the EU assembly. (Writing by John Chalmers; Editing by Hugh Lawson) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Rh which was tendered her, and entering the house, was ushered up stairs, into a back drawing-room, where she was left alone.
If she had been surprised at the apparition of the footman, she was perfectly absorbed in amazement at the richness and splendour of the furniture. The softest and most elegant carpets, the most exquisite pictures, the costliest mirrors; articles of richest ornament, quite dazzling from their beauty, and perplexing from the prodigality with which they were scattered around, encountered her on every side. The very staircase nearly down to the hall door, was crammed with beautiful and luxurious things, as though the house were brim-full of riches, which, with a very trifling addition, would fairly run over into the street.
Presently she heard a series of loud double knocks at the street-door, and after every knock some new voice in the next room; the tones of Mr. Ralph Nickleby were easily distinguishable at first, but by degrees they merged into the general buzz of conversation, and all she could ascertain was, that there were several gentlemen with no very musical voices, who talked very loud, laughed very heartily, and swore more than she would have thought quite necessary. But this was a question of taste.
At length the door opened, and Ralph himself, divested of his boots, and ceremoniously embellished with black silks and shoes, presented his crafty face.
"I couldn't see you before, my dear," he said, in a low tone, and pointing as he spoke, to the next room. "I was engaged in receiving them. Now—shall I take you in?"
"Pray uncle," said Kate, a little flurried, as people much more conversant with society often are when they are about to enter a room full of strangers, and have had time to think of it previously, "are there any ladies here?"
"No," said Ralph, shortly, "I don't know any."
"Must I go in immediately?" asked Kate, drawing back a little.
"As you please," said Ralph, shrugging his shoulders. "They are all come, and dinner will be announced directly afterwards—that's all."
Kate would have entreated a few minutes' respite, but reflecting that her uncle might consider the payment of the hackney-coach fare a sort of bargain for her punctuality, she suffered him to draw her arm through his and to lead her away.
Seven or eight gentlemen were standing round the fire when they went in, and as they were talking very loud were not aware of their entrance until Mr. Ralph Nickleby, touching one on the coat-sleeve said in a harsh emphatic voice, as if to attract general attention— "Lord Frederick Verisopht, my niece. Miss Nickleby."
The group dispersed as if in great surprise, and the gentleman addressed, turning round, exhibited a suit of clothes of the most superlative cut, a pair of whiskers of similar quality, a moustache, a head of hair, and a young face.
"Eh!" said the gentleman. "What—the—deyvle!"
With which broken ejaculations he fixed his glass in his eye, and stared at Miss Nickleby in great surprise. | WIKI |
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There should be a chart for the singles due to "Bungalow" and "Kinda Complicated" went on the "Canadian Hot 100." DatBoy101 (talk) 23:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
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�This Page Declassified lAW EO12958 The reorganization of the Army air arm had its effect on the attitude of Congress. After the 20 June 1941 reorganization, dis- cussed in the precechng chapter, there was a sharp decrease m the number of bills concerning an independent or a coordinate air arm. From that date until the 9 March 1942 reorgamzation, only two relevant bills were introduced and these died in commit- tee. During the last nine months of 1942 and through the next two years there was relatively httle congressional comment on the organization of the natmn's armed forces. Yet during that period at least 20 different measures, each tookrag toward the creation of a separate ar Iorce or a 3-way department of national defense, were intro- duced In Congress. Some of these bills were "repeat performances," and all of them died in committee, without benefit of hear- ing. 4q Congress, in refusing to bring such meas- ures out of committee for consderahon, was probably motivated by a desire to concen- trate on getting on with the war; also t probably felt that it was better to defer the cormideration of such legislation until after the war, so that there would be no danger of disrupting the war effort by the turmoil incident to controversy over reorganiza- tion, and the confusion arising from reor- ganization itself if it received statutory sanction. Too, the very large degree of autonomy granted the AAF in actual prac- tice had a mollifying effect on the ar force enthusiasts in Congress. No doubt Congress was also influenced by the attitude of the War Department and the Air Staff who felt that it would be dangerous to make any change in the status of the air force at this tnne. In the meantime the mlhtary estabhsh- merit itself was studying the question of further reorganization of our national de- fense agencies. In a study dated 1i October 1943 the Special Planning Dvision of the General Staff stressed the need for a single department of national defense to coordi- nate the various agencies of the nation's armed forces, asserting that the absence of real unity of command had hampered the prosecution of the war. The repo of this group stated that both economy and na- trenal security demanded that the armed services be coorchnated under a unified com- mand. A plan was recommended whereby a "Department of the Armed Forces" would be set up under a Secretary directly re- sponsible to the President. There would then be three under secretaries, one each for Army, Navy, and Air. Each of these three major branches would have a chief of staff, In conjunction with a director of common suppIies and a chief oœ staff to the President, they would make up a council known as the Chiefs of Staff. Congress also began to consider the ques- tion of postwar planning, and on 28 March 1944 the House of Representatives act up the Select Committee on Post-War Policy (also called the Woodrum Committee after its chairman, Clifton A. Woodrum of Vir- ginia). Made up of seven members from the House Committee on Military Affairs, seven from the House Committee on NavaI Affairs, and nine members who belonged to neither, this committee was an investigat. ing, not a legislative, orgamzation. The key testimony before this committee was thaO offered by Br/g. Gem H. S. Hansell, Jr., Deputy Chief of Air Staff. General Hansell in presenting the wows of the AAF, stressed the need for a uncaion of land, sea, and air forces under one head for the purpose of flexibility and coordination in operation, and economy and simplicity in administra- tmn. He felt that the experience gained so far m World War Ii had demonstrated beyond all question the need for unity of command. He stated hat there was no place in modern war for a separate army, a sepa- rate navy, or a separate air force--all of a nation's fighting forces must be integrated into a single urnfled organizatonA s The testimony of Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert A. Lovett was along similar lines. Pointing out the inefficiency and wastefulness of the cumbersome system of committees by which Army-Navy coop. erstion was secured, he said he was con- vinced that future wars were likely to be, as was World War II, "a series of combined operatrans in which Ground, Sea, and Air THIS PAGE Declassflied lAW EO12958 | WIKI |
Towie Castle
Towie Castle was a 17th-century tower house, about 3.5 mi southwest of Kildrummy in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the right bank of the Don. It was sometimes known as Towie Forbes to distinguish it from Towie Barclay near Turriff.
History
The property belonged to Clan Forbes. There may have been an earlier castle. Towie Castle may have been the castle burnt by Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, resulting in the deaths of Lady Forbes, her children, and numerous others, and giving rise to the ballad Edom o Gordon, although this is often related to Corgarff Castle.
The castle was built after 1618, and is thought to have been unfinished. It is said that the tunnels and battlements were said removed in 1788, and the building altered. Ruins of the castle were removed in 1968, with the last remains being removed by Grampian Regional Council in the 1980s.
Structure
Towie Castle was an L-plan tower house, three storeys high; there were corbelled-out bartizans Towie Castle was originally an oblong main building; the western end cellar and a tower projecting from the east end of the south front alone survived to at least 1942. The masonry of the tower is regarded as typical of the 16th or 17th century. | WIKI |
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Indwelling Pleural Catheter
indwelling pleural catheter
Frequent trips to the hospital is not something anyone desires. However, for some individuals with recurrent pleural effusion, it is a reality that can be exhausting and draining. but with the insertion of an indwelling pleural catheter, these frequent hospital trips can be reduced to a manageable amount.
What is an Indwelling Pleural Catheter?
Before we can understand what an indwelling pleural catheter is, we must first understand the dynamics of respiration. The pleural cavity is essential for respiration, it encapsulates each lung separately and between the space of the pleural membrane and the lung is a small amount of lubricating fluid. This helps the lungs to inflate and deflate during respiration. Pleural effusion, also called water on the lungs, occurs when there is a build-up of excess fluid between the pleural membranes. While having fluid between the pleural membranes is important as a form of lubrication, an excess of fluid can be detrimental to the whole respiratory process.
An indwelling pleural catheter is commonly used in Singapore for malignant recurrent pleural effusions – pleural effusions which keep coming back despite optimal therapy. An indwelling pleural catheter is a long-term catheter that is approximately 66cm long and made of silicone rubber. There is a one-way valve at one end leading into a negative-pressure bottle, which allows fluids and air to go out but not in.
How does an Indwelling Pleural Catheter work?
An indwelling pleural catheter is inserted into the pleural space to drain the excess fluid out and into a negative-pressure bottle. It is a long-term catheter that can safely drain the excess fluid out without needing to make a trip to the hospital.
• Local anaesthesia will be administered at the site of insertion, where two small cuts about 5cm apart will be made.
• The catheter is tunneled under the soft tissue of the chest wall before it is inserted into the pleural cavity.
• The catheter is stitched into place to prevent it from moving.
• A bandage will be placed over the site of insertion, and you will be given instructions on how to care for it.
Since this is a short procedure, you will be monitored for a while to ensure that the catheter is working, and you are not feeling any discomfort. You will be given instructions on how to drain the pleural effusion, how often to drain it, and how to keep the catheter clean and sterile. Drainage of the pleural effusion can occur once a week to once a day, depending on what is necessary for you.
How do I prepare for the insertion of an Indwelling Pleural Catheter in Singapore?
Before the procedure, you must avoid eating and drinking for 4 hours and you may be required to stop certain medications such as blood thinners and aspirin. Either local or general anaesthesia will be used during the procedure, depending on your preference and advice of your respiratory specialist. Imaging tests such as an x-ray or a computer tomography scan (CT-scan) may be taken before your procedure to check on the amount of fluid present in your pleural effusion.
What happens after the insertion of an Indwelling Pleural Catheter?
You may feel a bit groggy after the procedure, so you will be monitored for a few hours to ensure that you recover well. A chest x-ray might be performed after the procedure to ensure that no damage was done to your lungs.
What are the benefits?
• Same day procedure and is performed in an out-patient setting
• Minimally invasive
• Catheter is not noticeable and does not interfere with daily activities
• Reduces symptoms of pleural effusion
• Reduces the need for hospital visits to have the pleural effusion drained
Frequently asked questions
Can the indwelling pleural catheter be removed?
Yes, the catheter can be removed if preferred.
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