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CENTRAL RABBINICAL CONGRESS OF the UNITED STATES & CANADA; Agudath Israel of America; International Bris Association; Rabbi Samuel Blum; Rabbi Aharon Leiman; and Rabbi Shloime Eichenstein, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE; New York City Board of Health; and Dr. Thomas Farley, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Defendant-Appellees.
No. 13-107-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued: Dec. 3, 2013.
Decided: Aug. 15, 2014.
Shay Dvoretzky (Yaakov Roth, Todd R. Geremia, on the brief), Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Mordecai Newman (Larry Sonnenshein, Michelle Goldberg-Cahn, on the brief), New York City Law Department, New York, N.Y., for Defendants-Appellees.
Eric C. Rassbach, Daniel H. Blomberg, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC; Michael W. McConnell, Stanford, CA, for Amicus Curiae The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
Rory T. Gray, Alliance Defending Freedom, Lawrenceville, GA; Joseph P. In-franco, Alliance Defending Freedom, Scottsdale, AZ; M. Todd Parker, Moskow-itz & Book, LLP, New York, N.Y., for Amicus Curiae Alliance Defending Freedom.
Akiva Shapiro, Gibson, Dunn & Crutch-er LLP, New York, N.Y., for Amici Curiae The American Academy of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association.
Before: LIVINGSTON, LOHIER, and CARNEY, Circuit Judges.
DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:
In Judaism, the “bris milah,” or ritual circumcision of infants, which has been practiced for millennia, celebrates a covenant with God and “derives explicitly from a commandment ... in the Hebrew Bible.” 11 Encyclopedia of Religion, “Rites of Passage: Jewish Rites,” at 7818 (2d ed.2005). As part of this ritual circumcision, some Orthodox Jews, particularly Satmar, Bo-bov, Lubaviteh, and other Hasidic groups, perform direct oral suction of the circumcision wound in a ritual act known as metzit-zah b’peh (“metzitzah b’peh” or “MBP”).
Over the last decade, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the “Department”) has determined that metzitzah b’peh poses a health risk— the spread of herpes simplex virus (“HSV”) — to male infants. Beginning around 2005, the Department embarked on a campaign to educate the Orthodox Jewish community about the risk. Concluding that this campaign was only a qualified success, the New York City Board of Health, which oversees the Department, promulgated section 181.21 (“ § 181.21” or the “Regulation”) in 2012, adding this provision to the New York City Health Cdde directly to regulate metzitzah b’peh. The Regulation prohibits any person from performing direct oral suction as part of a circumcision without first obtaining signed written consent from one of the child’s parents. The consent form must contain the warning that “the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises parents that direct oral suction should not be performed.” § 181.21.
Three organizations supporting the practice of MBP as part of bris milah and three mohelim who perform MBP (collectively, “plaintiffs”) filed suit, challenging the Regulation as compelling speech in violation of the First Amendment and as burdening their free exercise of religion in violation of the same. The district court denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, holding, first, that the Regulation does not compel speech and, second, that it is a neutral and generally applicable law pursuant to Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872, 110 S.Ct. 1595, 108 L.Ed.2d 876 (1990), and Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, 113 S.Ct. 2217, 124 L.Ed.2d 472 (1993), so is subject only to rational basis review.
As to the second holding, we disagree. The Regulation is neither neutral nor, on this record, generally applicable and therefore must satisfy strict scrutiny. The Regulation is not neutral because it purposefully and exclusively targets a religious practice for special burdens. And at least at this preliminary stage, the Regulation is not generally applicable either, because it is underinclusive in relation to its asserted secular goals: the Regulation pertains to religious conduct associated with a small percentage of HSV infection cases among infants, while leaving secular conduct associated with a larger percentage of such infection unaddressed.
We vacate the district court’s order denying plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and remand for the district court to consider whether plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success on the merits applying strict scrutiny. Acknowledging the weighty interests at stake in this litigation (the plaintiffs’ in the free exercise of their faith and the Department’s in the health of newborns and in informed parental consent concerning risks these newborns face), we express no view as to whether plaintiffs have satisfied this standard, believing that careful adjudication will benefit in the first instance from the district court’s comprehensive analysis.
BACKGROUND
A. Metzitzah b’peh
Jewish law requires that male children be circumcised on the eighth day after their birth, although circumcision may be postponed in some circumstances. According to the plaintiffs, this ritual circumcision, known as bris milah, is among the most important requirements of Jewish law and is derived from a covenant between God and Abraham. For thousands of years, Jews around the world have faithfully adhered to it.
One of the essential steps of bris milah, according to the plaintiffs, is metzitzah, during which suction is used to draw blood from the area of the circumcision wound. Traditional metzitzah, as practiced primarily among certain Hasidic groups, is performed by direct oral suction on the circumcision wound, or metzitzah b’peh. The plaintiffs assert that some Jewish religious authorities maintain that MBP is the proper means, and some deem it the only acceptable means, under Jewish law, to perform metzitzah.
Bris milah is performed by a mohel, typically a rabbi with specialized training. Mohelim are trained to take safety precautions when performing MBP. Among other precautions, mohelim do not perform circumcisions if they are exhibiting any symptoms of HSV infection; they minimize the duration of oral contact with the wound; and they rinse their mouths with an antiseptic before performing the ritual. Mohelim have performed metzitzah b’peh as part of bris milah around the world for millennia. Plaintiffs, while conceding that the Department “may use its own property, money, and agents to express its own views,” believe it would be sinful for them, as mohelim, “to discourage parents from performing the bris milah ritual in what they regard as the religiously correct manner.”
B. HSV Transmission
The herpes simplex virus, or HSV, is present in some form in most American adults. HSV infection may periodically cause “clusters of small, painful blisters [to] appear on the skin at the point where [the] virus was originally introduced,” but such infection “does not usually cause symptoms” in adults. J.A. 366-67. By contrast, HSV in newborn infants “can be serious and life-threatening because newborn infants do not have fully developed immune systems.” J.A. 369. The incidence of neonatal herpes infection (thankfully) is small: there are only about 15 cases each year in New York City, among approximately 125,000 live births.
Among newborn infants who do become infected, approximately 85% acquire the virus from their mothers during birth as they come in contact with virus present in the birth canal. Another five percent acquire the virus while in the mother’s uterus. In only the remaining 10% of neonatal HSV infection cases do infants contract the infection after birth.
Most newborn infants are protected against HSV infection — accounting for the small number of cases — because infected mothers (and most mothers are infected) typically transfer antibodies against HSV to their babies through the placenta. These maternal antibodies protect the newborn against infection for several months after birth. If a mother does not become infected with the virus until the late stages of pregnancy, however, her body may not produce antibodies in time for them to be transferred to the baby, who is thus at greater risk of infection from the mother during birth (as well as from other sources in the months thereafter). According to one of the City’s experts, “[ijntrapartum transmission from mother-to-infant during delivery [which accounts for 85% of neonatal HSV infection] is most likely to occur when the maternal infection is acquired during the last trimester of pregnancy.” J.A. 315-16.
The practice of MBP potentially contributes to the 10% of HSV infections among infants that occur after birth. As to these cases, while the parties dispute whether MBP has ever actually resulted in HSV infection in an infant, the record evidence to date clearly establishes that it is biologically plausible that HSV can be transmitted through metzitzah b’peh — so that if an infected person performs the ritual, the risk of transmission is real. The Department’s five infectious disease experts, as well as Dr. Thomas Farley, its Commissioner, provided written testimony that direct oral suction puts infants at heightened risk for HSV infection and that the risk of such transmission is incontrovertible. Dr. Anna Wald, who among other qualifications assists in drafting guidelines on the management of HSV infection for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, characterizes the evidence linking direct oral suction with neonatal infection as “strong, consistent, and more than biologically plausible.” J.A. 304. Finally, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association submitted their views, as amici curiae, in the district court, stating that “it is incontrovertible that infectious diseases can be, and have been, transmitted” through MBP, “and that direct oral suction increases the risk that a neonate will acquire herpes simplex virus ... and other communicable diseases.” Dist. Ct. Dkt. 36, at 1.
In addition to these expert declarations, the Department conducted a study on neonatal HSV infection associated with MBP and published that study in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (“MMWR Study”). Susan Blank et al, Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Following Jewish Ritual Circumcisions that Included Direct Orogenital Suctioiu — New York City, 2000-2011, 61 Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Rep. 405 (June 8, 2012). In this study, the Department identified 11 confirmed cases of neonatal herpes infection in infants born in the City between 2000 and 2011 who had undergone a circumcision that definitely or likely involved direct oral suction. Two of these infants died. As evidence of a causal link between MBP and infection in these infants, the study cited (among other things) the timing of symptom onset and a cluster of three cases related to a single mohel who, 97 days after two of the cases, tested positive to HSV-1 antibodies, but negative to evidence of virus in the mouth. The MMWR Study calculated the rate of herpes infection following direct oral suction for infant males born in New York City to be one in 4,098, a rate the study concluded was three to four times greater than for males born in New York City who did not have direct oral suction.
Plaintiffs do not challenge the Department’s experts or the medical organizations who affirm that MBP places infants at increased risk of HSV infection, conceding that it is “biologically plausible” for the herpes simplex virus to be transmitted through oral contact with an open wound. They focus, instead, on a narrow point: that the Department has presented no DNA proof (presumably based on the comparison of virus present in a mohel and in an infected infant) establishing that HSV has ever been transmitted via MBP. They also challenge the degree of risk involved, claiming that the Department has failed to show even a statistical correlation between metzitzah b’peh and HSV infection. They attack, in particular, the conclusions drawn in the Department’s MMWR Study.
Plaintiffs’ primary medical expert in the district court, Dr. Daniel Berman, criticized the MMWR Study on multiple grounds. First, he asserted that, contrary to the Department’s claims, the MMWR Study contains insufficient evidence to conclude that the link between MBP and HSV transmission is not just biologically plausible, but has resulted in actual infections. Berman charged in an affidavit submitted in support of the plaintiffs’ motion for in-junctive relief that the MMWR Study, among other flaws, does not sufficiently rule out alternative modes of HSV transmission, including from household sources, in the 11 cases on which it relies. Further, Berman asserted that the MMWR Study’s statistical analysis is flawed because it significantly underestimates the total number of infants upon whom MBP is performed each year in New York City — the denominator in the study’s calculation of the rate of HSV infection following MBP. A supporting affidavit contends that after correcting for this asserted flaw, the MMWR Study’s finding of a statistically significant link between MBP and HSV infection among infants in New York City is eliminated.
C. Background to the Regulation
Before the Department promulgated the Regulation, it pursued several educational measures designed to disseminate information concerning the risks of MBP. First, beginning in 2005, Department officials participated in meetings with leaders of the Jewish community to discuss HSV infection associated with direct oral suction during circumcision. Then, in August 2005, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then-Commissioner Thomas Frieden met with a group of prominent rabbis and religious leaders to discuss the Department’s investigation into the issue.
Later that year, in December 2005, the Department began distributing (via hard copy to the general New York City population and on its website) “An Open Letter to the Jewish Community from the New York City Health Commissioner” (“Open Letter”). The Open Letter stated the Department’s position that MBP had infected several infants in New York City with the herpes virus, including one child who died. The letter cited peer-reviewed scientific studies asserting an association between MBP and HSV transmission to infants and, in addition, recommended that infants being circumcised not undergo MBP. The Department also distributed a fact sheet entitled “Before the Bris: How to Protect Your Infant Against Herpes Virus Infection Caused by metzitzah b’peh” which contained similar information, along with a warning that “[b]ecause there is no proven way to reduce the risk of herpes infection posed by metzitzah b’peh, the Health Department recommends that infants being circumcised not undergo metzitzah b’peh.” Finally, the Department distributed a health alert online and via the Department’s Health Alert Network, which has approximately 22,300 subscribers, alerting physicians to the issue.
Acting in parallel with the Department’s efforts to combat the risk of HSV transmission through MBP, the New York State Department of Health took up the issue in 2006 in an unsuccessful effort to adopt a regulatory protocol. New York State officials met with religious leaders and Department officials before proposing a protocol whereby mohelim would undergo testing if an infant on whom they performed MBP became infected with HSV within a time period compatible with transmission via metzitzah b’peh. The protocol would have required that the mohel stop performing MBP and undergo serological testing to determine whether he was infected with the virus. If so, then the mohel and any of the infant’s primary caregivers who were infected with the virus would be required to conduct daily mouth swabs in an effort to recover the virus. If the mohel was shown to have the virus with DNA identical to the virus recovered from the infant, the mohel would be deemed the source and banned for life from performing MBP. If the mohel could not be definitively ruled out as a source of the virus, he would be permitted to continue to perform MBP only if he took antiviral prophylaxes drug tablets on a set schedule. Although endorsed by some 57 New York counties, along with numerous leaders in the Jewish community, including 28 rabbis, New York State’s protocol was rejected by New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in part on the ground that the effectiveness of the protocol’s measures to prevent HSV transmission during MBP has not been established. The State has since abandoned the protocol.
After further back-and-forth between interested parties, in June 2012, the Department disseminated and posted online an official statement regarding the risk of HSV transmission from MBP. The statement reiterates the Department’s commitment to working with “health care providers, the community, and parents to prevent HSV-1 infection among newborn males undergoing ritual Jewish circumcision.” J.A. 675. It asserts that “circumcision should always be done under sterile conditions” and “strongly advises that metzitzah b’peh with direct oral suctioning of the circumcision wound [should] never be performed.” J.A. 675.
On the one hand, the Department has characterized its educational efforts as a qualified success. It has asserted in this litigation that its message has reached a significant portion of the Orthodox Jewish community (a belief formed in part based on the volume of complaints made to the Department objecting to its involvement in MBP). On the other hand, Department officials contend that a serious health risk remains, despite the educational campaign, because MBP continues to be practiced. While readily admitting that the practice of MBP may persist in part because parents fully aware of the medical information choose to disregard it, the Department also contends, troublingly, that it has received “complaints from parents after their infant, had a circumcision that included direct oral suction without [the parents’] pri- or knowledge or permission that [metzit-zah b’peh would be performed].” J.A. 399.
D. The Regulation
After determining that the extensive educational outreach was not sufficient to address the risk presented by MBP, in June 2012, the Department proposed the presently challenged Regulation. On September 13, 2012, after an opportunity for public comment, New York City’s Board of Health voted unanimously to adopt it. Section 181.21 prohibits a person from performing oral suction during a circumcision unless that person obtains signed consent from a parent or guardian of the infant being circumcised. This consent form must be of a type provided by the Department or prescribed by the Department and it must be labeled “Consent to perform oral suction during circumcision.” The consent form must contain the following statement: “I understand that direct oral suction will be performed on my child and that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises parents that direct oral suction should not be performed because it exposes an infant to the risk of transmission of herpes simplex virus infection, which may result in brain damage or death.” The Regulation requires that the person conducting the circumcision give the parent or guardian a copy of the signed consent form and retain the original for one year.
There is no dispute that § 181.21 was promulgated to regulate the religious practice known as metzitzah b’peh and no other circumcision practice. The Regulation’s statement of basis and purpose frankly avers that the Regulation is designed to regulate “[a] practice known as metzitzah b’peh.” J.A. 96. Furthermore, the Department’s Deputy Commissioner has described the Regulation as an effort to “regulate] how part of a religious procedure is done,” Compl. 7, and the Department conceded below that MBP, a religious practice, “prompted” § 181.21’s enactment, Dist. Ct. Dkt. 34 at 6, 9 & n. 8. Finally, the City has admitted that § 181.21 exclusively regulates metzitzah b’peh and not secular conduct, noting that MBP is “the only presently known conduct” covered by the Regulation. Id. at 6.
E. Procedural History
Plaintiffs filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking declaratory and injunc-tive relief. Plaintiffs also sought a preliminary injunction pending adjudication of their claims. They argued that forcing mohelim to comply with § 181.21 violates their rights to free speech and free exercise under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as their right to free exercise under New York law.
The district court denied the preliminary injunction on January 10, 2013. Although the district court held oral argument on the motion, there was no evidentiary hearing and no discovery was taken. As relevant here, the district court denied the preliminary injunction, holding that the plaintiffs had not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of their free exercise claim, because the Regulation is a neutral and generally applicable law pursuant to Smith and Lukumi and thus subject only to rational basis review. The court emphasized the legitimate governmental interest in safeguarding children’s health and protecting parents’ right to make informed decisions about their children’s care, and discerned no discriminatory object against religion in general or Judaism in particular in the Regulation. The court also determined that the regulation is neither over — nor underinclusive in relation to its secular goals. The district court concluded that the Regulation was likely to survive rational basis review and that the plaintiffs had therefore shown no likelihood of success on the merits. Accordingly, the district court denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. Plaintiffs timely appealed.
DISCUSSION
“We review the denial of a preliminary injunction for abuse of discretion.” Lynch v. City of New York, 589 F.3d 94, 99 (2d Cir.2009). “A district court abuses its discretion when (1) its decision rests on an error of law (such as application of the wrong legal principle) or a clearly erroneous factual finding, or (2) its decision — though not necessarily the product of a legal error or a clearly erroneous factual finding- — cannot be located within the range of permissible decisions.” Vincenty v. Bloomberg, 476 F.3d 74, 83 (2d Cir.2007) (internal quotation marks omitted). Generally, to obtain a preliminary injunction, a plaintiff must establish “(a) irreparable harm and (b) either (1) likelihood of success on the merits or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting the preliminary relief.” Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent Am. Holdings, Inc., 696 F.3d 206, 215 (2d Cir.2012) (quoting UBS Fin. Servs., Inc. v. W. Va. Univ. Hosps., Inc., 660 F.3d 643, 648 (2d Cir.2011)) (internal quotation marks omitted). But “[w]hen, as here, the preliminary injunction ‘will affect government action taken in the public interest pursuant to a statutory or regulatory scheme,’ it ‘should be granted only if the moving party meets the more rigorous likelihood-of-success standard.’ ” Red Earth LLC v. United States, 657 F.3d 138, 143 (2d Cir.2011) (per curiam) (quoting Metro. Taxicab Bd. of Trade v. City of New York, 615 F.3d 152, 156 (2d Cir.2010)). The party seeking a preliminary injunction must also demonstrate “that the public’s interest weighs in favor of granting an injunction.” Id. (quoting Metro. Taxicab Bd. of Trade, 615 F.3d at 156).
The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, applied against the states by incorporation into the Fourteenth Amendment, see Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 303, 60 S.Ct. 900, 84 L.Ed. 1213 (1940), provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” U.S. Const, amend. I. The free exercise of religion means, first and foremost, the right to believe and profess whatever religious doctrine one desires. Thus, the First Amendment prohibits all “governmental regulation of religious beliefs as such.” Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 402, 83 S.Ct. 1790, 10 L.Ed.2d 965 (1963). Further, the government may not compel affirmation of religious belief, see Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488, 496, 81 S.Ct. 1680, 6 L.Ed.2d 982 (1961), punish the expression of religious doctrines it believes to be false, see United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78, 86-88, 64 S.Ct. 882, 88 L.Ed. 1148 (1944), impose special disabilities on the basis of religious views or religious status, see McDaniel v. Paty, 435 U.S. 618, 629, 98 S.Ct. 1322, 55 L.Ed.2d 593 (1978), or lend its power to one or the other side in controversies over religious authority or dogma, see Presbyterian Church in U.S. v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Htdl Mem’l Presbyterian Church, 393 U.S. 440, 445-47, 89 S.Ct. 601, 21 L.Ed.2d 658 (1969).
In addition to belief, the Free Exercise Clause also protects the performance of (or abstention from) physical acts that constitute the free exercise of religion: “assembling with others for a worship service, participating in sacramental use of bread and wine, proselytizing, abstaining from certain foods or certain modes of transportation.” Smith, 494 U.S. at 877, 110 S.Ct. 1595. As the Supreme Court has instructed, however, the Free Exercise Clause “does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes (or prescribes) conduct that his religion prescribes (or proscribes).” Id. at 879, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (quoting United States v. Lee, 455 U.S. 252, 263 n. 3, 102 S.Ct. 1051, 71 L.Ed.2d 127 (1982) (Stevens, J., concurring in the judgment)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Such laws are subject to rational basis review. See Commack Self-Serv. Kosher Meats, Inc. v. Hooker, 680 F.3d 194, 212 (2d Cir.2012). A law burdening religious conduct that is not both neutral and generally applicable, however, is subject to strict scrutiny. Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 531-32, 546, 113 S.Ct. 2217. “Neutrality and general applicability are interrelated,” and “the failure to satisfy one requirement is a likely indication that the other has not been satisfied.” Id. at 531, 113 S.Ct. 2217.
Under Smith and Lukumi, the district court concluded that § 181.21 is both neutral and generally applicable and thus subject only to rational basis review. We disagree. For the reasons set forth herein, the Regulation is neither neutral nor, on this record, generally applicable, and thus must be afforded heightened scrutiny. Accordingly, the district court’s holding to the contrary is an error of law requiring vacatur.
A. Neutrality
A law is not neutral, the Supreme Court has said, if it is “specifically directed at [a] religious practice.” Smith, 494 U.S. at 878, 110 S.Ct. 1595. To determine neutrality, we begin with the statute’s text, “for the minimum requirement of neutrality is that a law not discriminate on its face.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 533, 113 S.Ct. 2217. “Facial neutrality is not determinative,” however, because the neutrality requirement extends beyond facial discrimination. Id. at 534, 113 S.Ct. 2217. “Official action that targets religious conduct for distinctive treatment ” must also satisfy strict scrutiny. Id. (emphasis added). Thus, the ordinances at issue in Lu-kumi — ordinances regulating animal slaughter — were not neutral for free exercise purposes because they were “gerrymandered with care to proscribe religious killings of animals [by Santería church members] but to exclude almost all secular killings.” Id. at 542, 113 S.Ct. 2217. And as noted by the concurrence in Lukumi, that the Lukumi ordinance “targeted] the practices of a particular religion” distinguished it from the neutral controlled substances law in Smith. Id. at 557, 113 S.Ct. 2217 (Scalia, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment).
Under the principles of neutrality outlined by the Supreme Court in Smith and Lukumi, § 181.21 of the New York City Health Code is not a neutral law and is therefore subject to heightened scrutiny. The Regulation purposefully singles out religious conduct performed by a subset of Orthodox Jews. And the Regulation applies exclusively to the religious conduct performed by this religious group. Thus, while the interests at stake in this litigation are serious on both sides, requiring the most careful calibration, the method for this calibration cannot be a mere rational basis. Strict scrutiny must be applied.
Beginning with the minimum requirement of facial neutrality — that a law not facially regulate “a religious practice without a secular meaning discernible from the language or context,” see Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 533, 113 S.Ct. 2217 — it is doubtful that the Regulation satisfies even this minimum requirement. The very title of the Regulation — “Consent for direct oral suction as part of a circumcision” — reflects the Regulation’s focus on a practice only known to take place as part of the bris milah, and exclusively as ritually practiced by a subset of Orthodox Jews. The Regulation, moreover, by its very terms, regulates only “[a] person” who is to “perform a circumcision that involves direct oral suction” — plainly, a mohel performing MBP.
There is no doubt that if the Department had drafted its regulation to require “mohelim” to obtain a consent form before performing “metzitzah b’peh” during “bris milah,” this regulation would trigger strict scrutiny no less than the hypothetical statutes referenced in Smith — statutes prohibiting “the casting of statutes that are to be used for worship purposes” or “bowing down before a golden calf.” See Smith, 494 U.S. at 877-78, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (internal quotation marks omitted). On its face, a regulation directed at metzitzah b’peh would apply only to religious actors performing a religious practice, and during a religious ceremony. But given the Department’s candid admission that the purpose here is to regulate MBP and that the only conduct known to implicate the Regulation is MBP, it is unlikely the Department can avoid strict scrutiny simply by declining to call metzitzah b’peh by its name in the Regulation’s text.
We need not decide whether the Department’s Regulation is facially neutral, however, because it is abundantly clear that the Regulation is not neutral in “operation,” as assessed in “practical terms.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 535-36, 113 S.Ct. 2217 (noting that “effect of a law in its real operation is strong evidence of its object”). As a practical matter, § 181.21 — just like the ordinances in Lukumi — is not neutral because the religious ritual it regulates is “the only conduct subject to” the Regulation, which was “drafted ... to achieve this result.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 585, 113 S.Ct. 2217; see also Grossbaum v. Indianapolis-Marion Cnty. Bldg. Auth., 100 F.3d 1287, 1298 n. 10 (7th Cir.1996) (noting that “[a] regulation that prohibited all private groups from displaying nine-pronged candelabra may be facially neutral, but it would still be unconstitutionally discriminatory against Jewish displays”). The Court in Lukumi undertook to “survey meticulously” the categories reflected in the challenged ordinances there to apply appropriate scrutiny to them. Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 534, 113 S.Ct. 2217 (quoting Walz v. Tax Comm’n, 397 U.S. 664, 696, 90 S.Ct. 1409, 25 L.Ed.2d 697 (1970) (Harlan, J., concurring)). Here, the question whether the Regulation singles out the religious practice of metzitzah b’peh is simpler to address in light of the Department’s own admission that metzitzah b’peh “prompted” § 181.21 and that metzitzah b’peh is “the only presently known conduct” covered by the Regulation, Dist. Ct. Dkt. 34 at 6, 9 & n. 8.
Section 181.21’s sharp contrast to the neutral law upheld in Smith and strong similarities to the non-neutral law in Luku-mi further demonstrate that the Regulation is not neutral for free exercise purposes. First, § 181.21 is decidedly not like the neutral statute at issue in Smith, nor does it fit within the cases Smith cites as involving neutral laws. The statute in Smith prohibited the use of peyote both when it was used for secular purposes and when it was used as a religious sacrament. Smith, 494 U.S. at 878-79, 110 S.Ct. 1595. The Court reasoned that because the statute was “concededly constitutional as applied to those who use the drug for other reasons,” the Smith plaintiffs were not constitutionally entitled to a religious exemption from a law that was valid as applied to non-religious uses. Id. at 878, 110 S.Ct. 1595. Similarly, every single case cited by the Smith Court to demonstrate that the Court has “consistently held that the right to free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a ‘valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes ... conduct that his religion prescribes,’ ” involved laws encompassing both secular and religious conduct. Id. at 879-80, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (citing Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 64 S.Ct. 438, 88 L.Ed. 645 (1944) (prohibiting child labor primarily in the secular context); Braunfeld v. Brown, 366 U.S. 599, 81 S.Ct. 1144, 6 L.Ed.2d 563 (1961) (plurality opinion) (Sunday-closing laws prohibiting stores from opening on Sunday regardless whether religious, family, or business reasons motivated the desire to be open); Gillette v. United States, 401 U.S. 437, 91 S.Ct. 828, 28 L.Ed.2d 168 (1971) (noting that Selective Service System exemption requiring objectors to object to “war in any form” applied regardless whether religious or other moral grounds motivated opposition to a particular war); United States v. Lee, 455 U.S. 252, 102 S.Ct. 1051, 71 L.Ed.2d 127 (1982) (Social Security law applied generally to those of all covered employers and employees, regardless of religion)). There can be no argument that child labor prohibitions, Sunday-closing laws, mandatory military service, and tax collection extend well beyond isolated groups of religious adherents. But in contrast to the laws in Smith and every case cited therein, § 181.21 purposely and exclusively regulates particular religious conduct and nothing else.
In contrast, § 181.21 is in key respects similar to the targeted non-neutral law in Lukumi. The Court held that the ordinances in Lukumi, which prohibited ritual animal killing, were non-neutral and targeted because their burden fell on “almost” no one but the disfavored religious group. Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 536, 113 S.Ct. 2217. Similarly here, the burdens of the Regulation fall on only a particular religious group — and in fact exclusively on members of one particular subset of that religious group. Cf. Commack Self-Serv. Kosher Meats, Inc., 680 F.3d at 211 (holding that a Kosher food labeling act was a neutral law subject to rational basis because it applied to “food purchased by individuals of many different religious beliefs,” while the laws subject to strict scrutiny in Lukumi “were clearly enacted in response to a particular church practicing a religion which required animal sacrifice”).
Applying strict scrutiny to this Regulation, moreover, does not give rise to the same costs that were present in Smith. The Court explained in Smith that the workability of a democratic government requires that general laws not be subject to strict scrutiny whenever challenged on religious grounds lest every citizen “become a law unto himself.” 494 U.S. at 885, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (internal quotation marks omitted). The teaching of Smith is that a state can determine that a certain harm should be prohibited generally, and a citizen is not, under the auspices of her religion, constitutionally entitled to an exemption. See id. at 888, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (“Any society adopting” a rule to the contrary “would be courting anarchy.”).
But Smith is inapplicable here: the plaintiffs are not requesting an exemption from a law that is otherwise valid when applied to secular conduct. To be clear, § 181.21 is not invalid for this reason, for it may be consistent with free exercise principles to regulate conduct that is only done for religious reasons, in appropriate cases. But where such purposeful and exclusive regulation exists — where the object of the law is itself the regulation of religious conduct — the law is subject to heightened scrutiny, and not to rational basis review. Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 533, 113 S.Ct. 2217 (noting that such laws must be “justified by a compelling interest and [be] narrowly tailored to advance that interest”).
B. General Applicability
Although not necessary to our holding (because the Regulation is not neutral), we are also unable to conclude, based on the record to date, that § 181.21 is a generally applicable law. The general applicability requirement prohibits the government from “in a selective manner impos[ing] burdens only on conduct motivated by religious belief.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 543, 113 S.Ct. 2217. It “protect[s] religious observers against unequal treatment, and inequality [that] results when a legislature decides that the governmental interests it seeks to advance are worthy of being pursued only against conduct with a religious motivation.” Id. at 542-43, 113 S.Ct. 2217 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted) (first alteration in original). While “[a]ll laws are selective to some extent, ... categories of selection are of paramount concern when a law has the incidental effect of burdening religious practice.” Id. at 542, 113 S.Ct. 2217. A law is therefore not generally applicable if it is substantially underinclusive such that it regulates religious conduct while failing to regulate secular conduct that is at least as harmful to the legitimate government interests purportedly justifying it. Id. at 535-38, 113 S.Ct. 2217.
In light of the sparse record at this preliminary stage, we cannot conclude that § 181.21 is generally applicable. Pertinently, the Regulation applies exclusively to religious conduct implicating fewer than 10% of the cases of neonatal HSV infection, while it “fail[s] to [regulate] nonreligious conduct” accounting for all other cases. Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 543, 113 S.Ct. 2217. Yet, the record is almost entirely devoid of explanation, much less evidence in support of explanation, for such selectivity. There may be reasons for selectively focusing on MBP — perhaps the risks of infection from caregivers in the home or hospital are too diffuse to address, for instance, or are not as grave. At oral argument, the Department asserted that its officers lecture doctors during hospital rounds about the risk of intrapartum transmission from mother to infant. The record is largely silent, however, regarding these lectures, or why they are sufficient (or the most, practically speaking, that can be done) both to deal with the most common route of neonatal infection and adequately to advise parents about preventable transmission risks.
The Department may have legitimate reasons for addressing HSV infection risk among infants primarily, if not exclusively, by regulating MBP, even though such conduct constitutes a small percentage of the overall number of cases. On the present record, however, the plaintiffs have made a sufficient case for strict scrutiny by establishing that the risk of transmission by reason of metzitzah b’peh has been singled out. To be clear, this does not mean that the Regulation is not narrowly tailored' — -a factor relevant in the application of strict scrutiny, and not to the question whether strict scrutiny applies. We decide only that there is an insufficient basis on which to conclude, on the present record, that § 181.21 is a generally applicable law. In such circumstances, the Regulation is properly subject to strict scrutiny and not rational basis review.
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The Department contends that its interest in § 181.21 is solely to protect the health of infants and “to inform parents of the risks inherent in a practice [direct oral suction] that medical authorities would deem risky under any circumstances.” But even assuming (without deciding) that this is the ease, close scrutiny of laws singling out a religious practice for special burdens is not limited to the context where such laws stem from animus, pure and simple. See Shrum v. City of Coweta, 449 F.3d 1132, 1144 (10th Cir.2006) (noting that “Free Exercise Clause is not limited to acts motivated by religious hostility,” but protects “the ‘free exercise of religion’ from unwarranted governmental inhibition whatever its source”). Instead, “[a] law burdening religious practice that is not neutral or not of general application must undergo the most rigorous of scrutiny.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 546, 113 S.Ct. 2217.
Of course, the conclusion that the Regulation is subject to strict scrutiny does not mean that § 181.21 is constitutionally deficient, for strict scrutiny is not invariably fatal in the context of free exercise claims. See, e.g., Adam Winkler, Fatal in Theory and, Strict in Fact: An Empirical Analysis of Strict Scrutiny in the Federal Courts, 59 Vand. L.Rev. 793, 858-62 (2006). The Department has asserted interests that are substantial and may prove, on analysis, to be compelling. And the means it has chosen to address these interests (means that fall short of outright prohibition of MBP and that may further the goal of informed parental consent) may be appropriately tailored, albeit intrusive on a longstanding religious ritual. Mindful of the serious interests at stake on both sides, we express no view as to whether the plaintiffs have borne their burden of establishing a likelihood of success on the merits.
As discovery has begun, upon remand the district court should in its discretion permit an additional period of discovery before holding an evidentiary hearing on the present motion. The district court may also consider the advisability, in the interests of judicial economy, of consolidating this hearing with the trial on the merits, pursuant to Rule 65(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Any further appeal in this matter shall be assigned to this panel. We are confident that further review by this Court will benefit from the district court’s analysis in the first instance.
CONCLUSION
The judgment of the district court is VACATED and the case REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this order. The plaintiffs’ renewed request at oral argument for a temporary stay of enforcement is denied.
. Because we determine that the Regulation must satisfy strict scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause and that vacatur, accordingly, is required, we need not and do not address plaintiffs' alternative free speech argument. Nor do we address plaintiffs' argument that the district court erred in its application of the more permissive balancing test applicable under the New York State Constitution's Free Exercise Clause. See Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany v. Serio, 7 N.Y.3d 510, 525, 825 N.Y.S.2d 653, 859 N.E.2d 459 (2006).
. There are two possible levels of scrutiny that may apply in assessing the constitutionality of a law challenged on free exercise grounds. Strict scrutiny, the more robust standard, requires that a law “be justified by a compelling governmental interest and ... be narrowly tailored to advance that interest.” Lukumi, 508 U.S. at 531, 113 S.Ct. 2217. Alternatively, under rational basis review, "legislation is presumed to be valid and will be sustained if the [burden imposed] by the statute is rationally related to a legitimate state interest.” Town of Southold v. Town of E. Hampton, 477 F.3d 38, 54 (2d Cir.2007) (internal quotation marks omitted).
. There are two forms of herpes, HSV-1 and HSV-2. The type at issue here, HSV-1, is present in 60% of American adults and 73% of adults in New York City.
. The Department counters that such evidence is both unnecessary to establish the likelihood of transmission via MBP and difficult to obtain, given that infected adults shed virus (so that its DNA is accessible via testing) only intermittently and unpredictably. Such testing, the Department points out, would also require the cooperation of individuals who are being investigated as the potential source of an infant's infection.
. In a supporting affidavit, Dr. Brenda Breuer, Director of Epidemiologic Research at the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care of the Beth Israel Medical Center, alleged that the MMWR Study also insufficiently accounts for the possibility of transmission through hospital sources. The record contains responsive affidavits submitted by the Department in which its experts contend that the MMWR Study adequately accounts for alternate transmission routes and, indeed, that it provides compelling evidence of a causal link between MBP and HSV infection in the cases on which it relies.
. As adopted, § 181.21, entitled "Consent for direct oral suction as part of a circumcision,” provides as follows:
(a) Direct oral suction means contact between the mouth of a person performing or assisting in the performance of a circumcision and an infant’s circumcised penis.
(b) Written consent required. A person may not perform a circumcision that involves direct oral suction on an infant under one year of age, without obtaining, pri- or to the circumcision, the written signed and dated consent of a parent or legal guardian of the infant being circumcised using a form provided by the Department or a form which shall be labeled "Consent to perform oral suction during circumcision,” and which at a minimum shall include the infant's date of birth, the full printed name of the infant's parent(s), the name of the individual performing the circumcision and the following statement: "I understand that direct oral suction will be performed on my child and that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises parents that direct oral suction should not be performed because it exposes an infant to the risk of transmission of herpes simplex virus infection, which may result in brain damage or death.”
(c)Retention of consent forms. The person performing the circumcision must give the parent or legal guardian a copy of the signed consent form and retain the original for one year from the date of the circumcision, making it available for inspection if requested by the Department.
Notice of Adoption of an Amendment to Article 181 of the New York City Health Code, The City Record, Sept. 21, 2012, at 2600; S.A. 4.
. As the Department points out, § 181.21 is different because it "does not ban, prohibit, or otherwise prevent people who wish to continue to engage in direct oral suction as part of their ritual circumcision, from doing so." But this factor does not go to whether strict scrutiny is appropriate, but to whether the Regulation will survive strict scrutiny because it is narrowly tailored.
. In Smith, to determine whether the law was neutral and generally applicable, the Supreme Court also looked to two free speech cases involving burdens imposed on the press. The Court explained that a "general tax” or other burden applicable to all businesses is wholly constitutional even when applied to newspapers, Smith, 494 U.S. at 878, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (citing Citizen Publ’g Co. v. United States, 394 U.S. 131, 89 S.Ct. 927, 22 L.Ed.2d 148 (1969)), while a tax applicable only to newspapers presents another question, id. (citing Grosjean v. Am. Press Co., 297 U.S. 233, 56 S.Ct. 444, 80 L.Ed. 660 (1936)). Section 181.21 is akin to the tax in Grosjean — it applies only to religious conduct — and is unlike the tax in Citizen Publishing that applied to businesses generally.
. As already noted, 85% of the cases of neonatal HSV involve intrapartum transmission from mother to infant and such transmission, in the words of the Department's expert, "is most likely to occur when the maternal infection is acquired during the last trimester of pregnancy.” J.A. 316.
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Guo Liang (cyclist)
Guo Liang (born 24 December 1998) is a Chinese racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team. He won the scratch event at the 2018 Asian Cycling Championships and the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2018 Asian Games, with Qin Chenlu, Xue Chaohua and Shen Pingan. He also competed at the 2019 and 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
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U.S. stocks may fall another 11% due to virus damage-index provider MSCI
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. stocks could be in line for another double-digit decline in the near-term because of damage from the spread of coronavirus, index provider MSCI said on Thursday, citing its scenario-based analysis, “We’ve conducted a what-if scenario analysis that assumes a short-term drop in growth of 2 percentage points and a risk-premium increase of 2 percentage points,” Thomas Verbraken, executive director at MSCI’s risk management solutions research told clients. “Our model indicates that, in such a scenario, there’s room for further short-term losses: U.S. equities — already down 11% from Feb. 19 through March 3 — could drop a further 11%.” Verbraken said that if the global economy suffered only short-term pain, the market could bounce back. However, a hit to long-term growth trajectory which would also impact corporate earnings due to the pandemic could be felt over a much longer horizon. Reporting by Karin Strohecker; editing by Sujata Rao | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
West Settlement Methodist Church
West Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on West Settlement Road at the junction with Cleveland Road in Ashland, Greene County, New York. It was built in 1832 and is a one-story, three by four bay, post and beam structure on a limestone block foundation. It features a moderately pitched gable roof and frieze on the gable ends.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. | WIKI |
User:Sir Paul/Text-to-speech/Salicylic acid
Salicylic acid (from Latin salix, willow tree) is a monohydroxybenzoic acid, a type of phenolic acid and a beta hydroxy acid. It has the formula C7H6O3. This colorless crystalline organic acid is widely used in organic synthesis and functions as a plant hormone. It is derived from the metabolism of salicin. In addition to serving as an important active metabolite of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), which acts in part as a prodrug to salicylic acid, it is probably best known for its use as a key ingredient in topical anti-acne products. The salts and esters of salicylic acid are known as salicylates. The medicinal part of the plant is the inner bark.
It is on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system.
Uses. Medicine. Salicylic acid is known for its ability to ease aches and pains and reduce fevers. These medicinal properties, particularly fever relief, were discovered in ancient times. It is used as an anti-inflammatory drug.
In modern medicine, salicylic acid and its derivatives are constituents of some rubefacient products. For example, methyl salicylate is used as a liniment to soothe joint and muscle pain and choline salicylate is used topically to relieve the pain of mouth ulcers.
Cotton pads soaked in salicylic acid can be used to chemically exfoliate skin As with other hydroxy acids, salicylic acid is a key ingredient in many skin-care products for the treatment of seborrhoeic dermatitis, acne, psoriasis, calluses, corns, keratosis pilaris, acanthosis nigricans, ichthyosis and warts. The standard treatment for calluses is a 6% aspirin suspension in petroleum jelly, applied on the callus for one hour and then removed with washing.[citation needed]
Salicylic acid works as a keratolytic, comedolytic and bacteriostatic agent, causing the cells of the epidermis to shed more readily, opening clogged pores and neutralizing bacteria within, preventing pores from clogging up again by constricting pore diameter and allowing room for new cell growth.
Because of its effect on skin cells, salicylic acid is used in some shampoos to treat dandruff. Concentrated solutions of salicylic acid may cause hyperpigmentation on people with darker skin types (Fitzpatrick phototypes IV, V, VI), without a broad spectrum sunblock.
Bismuth subsalicylate, a salt of bismuth and salicylic acid, is the active ingredient in stomach relief aids such as Pepto-Bismol, is the main ingredient of Kaopectate and "displays anti-inflammatory action (due to salicylic acid) and also acts as an antacid and mild antibiotic".
Salicylic acid is used in the production of other pharmaceuticals including 4-aminosalicylic acidsandulpiridelandetimide (via Salethamide).
In 2016 salicylic acid — and (more potently) diflunisal, a cousin of aspirin — was shown to suppress p300 and CREB-binding protein or CBP, proteins that help control gene expression in a mouse model. The method of action was direct competition with acetyl-Coenzyme A, blocking the acetylation of lysine residues on histone and non-histone proteins. Suppressing these proteins can prevent cellular damage caused by inflammation.
Chemistry. Salicylic acid has the formula C6H4(OH)COOH, where the OH group is ortho to the carboxyl group. It is also known as 2-hydroxybenzoic acid. It is poorly soluble in water (2 g/L at 20 °C). Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid or ASA) can be prepared by the esterification of the phenolic hydroxyl group of salicylic acid with the acetyl group from acetic anhydride or acetyl chloride. Salicylic acid can also be prepared using the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction.
Other uses. Salicylic acid is used as a food preservative, a bactericidal and an antiseptic.
Sodium salicylate is a useful phosphor in the vacuum ultraviolet, with nearly flat quantum efficiency for wavelengths between 10 and 100 nm. It fluoresces in the blue at 420 nm. It is easily prepared on a clean surface by spraying a saturated solution of the salt in methanol followed by evaporation.
Safety. As a topical agent and as a beta-hydroxy acid (and unlike alpha-hydroxy acids), salicylic acid is capable of penetrating and breaking down fats and lipids, causing moderate chemical burns of the skin at very high concentrations. It may damage the lining of pores if the solvent is alcohol, acetone or an oil. Over-the-counter limits are set at 2% for topical preparations expected to be left on the face and 3% for those expected to be washed off, such as acne cleansers or shampoo. 17% and 27% salicylic acid, which is sold for wart removal, should not be applied to the face and should not be used for acne treatment. Even for wart removal, such a solution should be applied once or twice a day – more frequent use may lead to an increase in side-effects without an increase in efficacy.
When ingested, salicylic acid has a possible ototoxic effect by inhibiting prestin. It can induce transient hearing loss in zinc-deficient rats. An injection of salicylic acid induced hearing loss, while an injection of zinc reversed the hearing loss. An injection of magnesium in the zinc-deficient rats did not reverse the induced hearing loss.[citation needed]
No studies examine topical salicylic acid in pregnancy. Oral salicylic acid is not associated with an increase in malformations if used during the first trimester, but in late pregnancy has been associated with bleeding, especially intracranial bleeding. The risks of aspirin late in pregnancy are probably not relevant for a topical exposure to salicylic acid, even late in the pregnancy, because of its low systemic levels. Topical salicylic acid is common in many over-the-counter dermatological agents and the lack of adverse reports suggests a low teratogenic potential.
Salicylic acid overdose can lead to salicylate intoxication, which often presents clinically in a state of metabolic acidosis with compensatory respiratory alkalosis. In patients presenting with an acute overdose, a 16% morbidity rate and a 1% mortality rate are observed.
Some people are hypersensitive to salicylic acid and related compounds.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends the use of sun protection when using skincare products containing salicylic acid (or any other BHA) on sun-exposed skin areas.
Data support an association between exposure to salicylic acid and Reye's Syndrome. The National Reye's Syndrome Foundation cautions against the use of these and other substances similar to aspirin on children and adolescents. Epidemiological research associated the development of Reye's Syndrome and the use of aspirin for treating the symptoms of influenza-like illnesses, chicken pox, colds, etc. The U.S. Surgeon General, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that aspirin and combination products containing aspirin not be given to children under 19 years of age during episodes of fever-causing illnesses.
Plant hormone. Salicylic acid (SA) is a phenolic phytohormone and is found in plants with roles in plant growth and development, photosynthesis, transpiration, ion uptake and transport. SA also induces specific changes in leaf anatomy and chloroplast structure.[which?] SA is involved in endogenous signaling, mediating in plant defense against pathogens. It plays a role in the resistance to pathogens by inducing the production of pathogenesis-related proteins. It is involved in the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in which a pathogenic attack on one part of the plant induces resistance in other parts. The signal can also move to nearby plants by salicylic acid being converted to the volatile ester, methyl salicylate.
Production. Salicylic acid is biosynthesized from the amino acid phenylalanine. In Arabidopsis thaliana it can be synthesized via a phenylalanine-independent pathway.
Sodium salicylate is commercially prepared by treating sodium phenolate (the sodium salt of phenol) with carbon dioxide at high pressure (100 atm) and high temperature (390 K) – a method known as the Kolbe-Schmitt reaction. Acidification of the product with sulfuric acid gives salicylic acid:
Kolbe-Schmitt.png It can also be prepared by the hydrolysis of aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) or methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen) with a strong acid or base.
History. Main article: History of aspirin
White willow (Salix alba) is a natural source of salicylic acid Hippocrates, Galen, Pliny the Elder and others knew that willow bark could ease pain and reduce fevers. It was used in Europe and China to treat these conditions. This remedy is mentioned in texts from ancient Egypt, Sumer and Assyria. The Cherokee and other Native Americans used an infusion of the bark for fever and other medicinal purposes.
In 2014, archaeologists identified traces of salicylic acid on 7th century pottery fragments found in east central Colorado. The Reverend Edward Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, noted in 1763 that the bark of the willow was effective in reducing a fever.
The active extract of the bark, called salicin, after the Latin name for the white willow (Salix alba), was isolated and named by the German chemist Johann Andreas Buchner in 1828. A larger amount of the substance was isolated in 1829 by Henri Leroux, a French pharmacist. Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist, was able to convert the substance into a sugar and a second component, which on oxidation becomes salicylic acid.
Salicylic acid was also isolated from the herb meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria, formerly classified as Spiraea ulmaria) by German researchers in 1839. While their extract was somewhat effective, it also caused digestive problems such as gastric irritation, bleeding, diarrhea and even death when consumed in high doses.
Dietary sources. Unripe fruits and vegetables are natural sources of salicylic acid, particularly blackberries, blueberries, cantaloupes, dates, grapes, kiwi fruits, guavas, apricots, green pepper, olives, tomatoes, radish, chicory and mushrooms.[citation needed] Some herbs and spices contain high amounts, while meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy products all have little to no salicylates. Of the legumes, seeds, nuts and cereals, only almonds, water chestnuts and peanuts have significant amounts.
Mechanism of action. Salicylic acid works through several different pathways. It produces its anti-inflammatory effects via suppressing the activity of cyclooxygenase (COX), an enzyme that is responsible for the production of pro-inflammatory mediators such as the prostaglandins. It does this not by direct inhibition of COX like most other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) but instead by suppression of the expression of the enzyme through a yet-unelucidated mechanism.
Salicylic acid activates adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and this action may play a role in the anticancer effects of the compound and its prodrugs aspirin and salsalate. The antidiabetic effects of salicylic acid are likely mediated by AMPK activation primarily through allosteric conformational change that increases levels of phosphorylation.
Salicylic acid also uncouples oxidative phosphorylation, which leads to increased ADP:ATP and AMP:ATP ratios in the cell. As a consequence, salicylic acid may alter AMPK activity and work as an anti-diabetic by altering the energy status of the cell. AMPK knock-out mice display an anti-diabetic effect, demonstrating at least one additional, yet-unidentified action.
Salicylic acid regulates c-Myc level at both transcriptional and post-transcription levels. Inhibition of c-Myc may be an important pathway by which aspirin exerts an anti-cancer effect, decreasing the occurrence of cancer in epithelial tissues.
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jtwt.js - a simple jQuery plugin for the twitter Search API
jtwt.js is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that allows you to display your recent tweets on your website or elsewhere.
Usage
At first you will need to implement the jQuery library in the <head> area of your document, like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
Add the jtwt.js and the jtwt.css below the jQuery library:
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jtwt.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jtwt.css" />
Now initialize the jtwt plugin between a $(window).load(function() { and a });.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$('#twitter').jtwt({
username : 'yourusername'
});
});
</script>
At last, we need to create the already declared container for our twitter widget:
<div id="twitter"></div>
Options
jtwt.js comes with a bunch of options to create the best experience for your users.
$('#twitter').jtwt({
count : int, // The number of displayed tweets.
username : 'yourusername', // Your username.
query : 'searchquery', // Performs a search query.
convert_links : boolean, //Converts hashtags to links
image_size : int, // The size of your avatar.
loader_text : 'loading tweets', // loading text
no_result : 'No tweets found' // no results text
});
Since jtwt.js makes use of Twitter's Search API, you can also perform search queries instead of displaying a users recent tweets.
To make use of this function, just assign the query option with suitable search query. There is no need for a username, you just need a query. If there is any username assigned, jtwt will just overwrite it with the given query.
$('#twitter').jtwt({
query : '#batman', //Tweets with the hashtag #batman
});
jtwt can perform any search query that is valid to the syntax of Twitter's search function. For more information please visit: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search
Changelog
• 10/26/2012 - Added retweet support + Bug fix
• 1/15/2013 - Bug Fix + new time ago function (thanks to @mikloshenrich)
• 4/5/2013 - Changed to Twitter's search API + search query function
License
jtwt.js is contributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You're free to use jtwt.js in personal and commercial projects.
Support
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Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Officially Appear In Public Together – KBCW
TORONTO (KBCWtv) – Prince Harry and girlfriend Meghan Markle was spotted together for the first time at a public event in Toronto on Monday. They were headed towards the Prince's Invictus Games for wounded veterans. The couple was seen holding hands, dressed casually. The British Royal wore jeans and a black polo, while Markle wore a white button-down top and ripped jeans. Both wearing dark glasses, the two sat together during a wheelchair tennis match between Australia and New Zealand at the event. Afterwards, the couple greeted some of the players and volunteers, then left the Invictus games togther, hand in hand. Although they have been photographed together before, this event marks the first time Prince Harry and Markle has been seen together at an official event. Over the weekend, during the game's opening ceremonies, Markle was photographed sitting in the stands while Harry was sitting a section away, close to other dignitaries including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump. Markle works in Canada on the hit series Suits. She plays paralegal Rachel Zane. After two tours of duty in Afghanistan, Prince Harry was inspired to create the Invictus Games through helping wounded and sick military personnel and their families. Over 550 competitors from 17 countries are to compete in 12 events this week. 2017 marks the third year of the Invictus Games. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your Google account.( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account.( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account.( Log Out / Change ) Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Lebanon's Hariri to meet major powers in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri will meet ministers from major powers in Paris on Friday to discuss ways of stabilizing his country a month after his shock resignation plunged it into political turmoil, three diplomats said. The Arab and European diplomats said Hariri would take part in the meeting of the International Lebanon Support Group, a body that includes the five members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. Hariri resigned as prime minister in early November while he was in Saudi Arabia, prompting a political crisis in Lebanon and thrusting it back into a regional tussle between Riyadh and its main regional foe, Iran. Hariri has now returned to Beirut and indicated that he might withdraw his resignation, which was never accepted by the president. Lebanese officials say Saudi Arabia had coerced Hariri, a long-time ally of the kingdom, into resigning and held him there against his will until an intervention by France led to his return to Lebanon. Saudi Arabia denies this. A European diplomat said the aim of the meeting would be “to put pressure on the Saudis and Iranians”. He added that the meeting would be an opportunity to reinforce that the Lebanese must stick by the state policy of “disassociation”, or keeping out of regional conflicts. Before Hariri sets off, Lebanon’s cabinet is this week set to meet for the first time since the political crisis erupted. The date of the cabinet meeting has not yet been confirmed but it is expected to address Hariri’s resignation. A Lebanese MP who met Hariri on Monday said discussions among politicians were “moving positively” and would result in a “unanimous stance” by the cabinet soon. The comments from MP Wael Abu Faour were published by Hariri’s office on Monday. The Lebanon support group, launched in 2013, also includes the European Union, the Arab League and the United Nations. Reporting by John Irish in Paris and Lisa Barrington in Beirut; Editing by Andrew Heavens | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Page:Natural History (1848).djvu/138
128 such habits, the weight of the tusks sustained in water would have been no source of inconvenience; and if we suppose them to have been employed as instruments for raking and grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would under such service, combine
SUPPOSED FORM OF DINOTHERIUM.
the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of the horse-harrow of modern husbandry. The weight of the head, placed above these downward tusks, would add to their efficiency for the service here supposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by loading it with weights. The tusks | WIKI |
Gracyanne Barbosa
Gracyanne Jacobina Barbosa Vieira is a Brazilian fitness model and Carnaval dancer.
Early career
Barbosa moved from her native town Campo Grande to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 16 to attend law school. However, she faced financial difficulties and started to work as a dancer, soon joining the axé band Tchakabum. She left Tchakabum at the end of 2008 and launched a modeling career.
Rainha de bateria career
Barbosa has been foremost known to the Brazilian public as a rainha de bateria for various samba schools at the Rio Carnival and São Paulo Carnival.
* 2007: Acadêmicos do Salgueiro
* 2008-2009: Estação Primeira de Mangueira - Império de Casa Verde
* 2010: Unidos de Vila Isabel - Império de Casa Verde
* 2011: Paraíso do Tuiuti - Império de Casa Verde - Unidos de Manguinhos
* 2012: Unidos da Tijuca - Unidos de Manguinhos
* 2013: Estação Primeira de Mangueira / Unidos do Jacarezinho (madrinha)
* 2014-2016: X-9 Paulistana
* 2018-: União da Ilha do Governador
Men's magazines
Barbosa who had appeared on the cover of the Brazilian Playboy's February 2007 issue, also posed for the cover of Revista Sexy December 2011 issue.
Internet fame
In 2012, photos of Barbosa squatting were uploaded to social media, followed by a workout video. Barbosa's ostensible squat weight (around 450 lbs) caused "an uproar on the bodybuilding forums for months", leading to debates at popular websites such as Bodybuilding.com on the authenticity of the weight plates used by her.
Personal life
On 18 May 2012, Barbosa married pagode and samba singer Belo who was formerly married to Viviane Araújo, another famous rainha de bateria. The ceremony was held at Candelária Church in Rio de Janeiro. | WIKI |
Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 1.djvu/151
ARKLOW. 129 ARKLOW. [Note. — The existence of the Barony of Arklow as an Irish Peerage involves a wide question. In the elaborate account of the Butler family given (1754 and 1781)) by John Lodge, in his Peerage of Ireland (" Lodge," iv., pp. l-7d), the title of " Baron of Arklow" is not even mentioned. Mr. William Lynch, however (who may be considered as the recognized authority on Fkidai. [NSMTUTCOHS in Ireland), classes it (Lynch, p. 92) as "an anciknt fkudal Baiiony " descending (in accordance with liis views on these " prescriptive or feudal dignities ") to the heir male. He contends (p. 81) that the first holder of this " Barony " was Theobald Valter,(*) the first " Butler " [who was possessed, possibly in 1177, but certainly in 1205, of the Lordship of Arklow], and that from nim it has descended to his heirs male, thereby vesting in each successive Earl of Ormonde of the house of Butler. In support of this assertion he urges (p. 219) that " it continued to bo enjoyed by the heir male of the Butler family, even when, under Hen. Vlll, the heir male had ceased to hold the Earldom," and that it was "sn enjoyed by the successive heirs male who became Earls." He, also, mentions its recognition, under Charles II, "in various Hoya] instruments" (p. 220), and speaks of " the multiplicity of proofs and documents still to be found respecting hia Lord- ship's [Lord Ormonde's] right, as heir male, to the ancient feudal Barony of Arklow " (p. 91). In accordance with this view the holder of this Earldom has very frequently been considered as " B.utnx Akki.ow of AkKLOW " [I.] On the other hand, the claim of the family of Butler to this title (such claim having in June 1.S81 been Specially insisted upon in a circular, issued by Lord James V. ButlerC 1 ) ), has been well discussed by "J. Horace Round, Esq., M.A.," in a most able article printed in "Coll. (ien.," pp. 42-48. Mr. Round very truly observes (1) "that there is not one scrap or tittle of direct evidence to prove that a Baron; of Arklow [1 ] was ever c>., or even that any lineal ancestor of the present Marquess ever utt as Baron Arklow in any Pari of Ireland ; * (2) that when, in 1791, the Ormonde honours were successfully claimed by the heir male of the family, his claim to the Barony of Butler and the Barony of Arklow was disallowed by the Law officers on the ground that he did not produce " any evidence " in support of it. Moreover (3) when the h. male of the house of Butler was, 23 Feb. 1527-8, cr. Earl of Ossory [I.] " to compensate liim for the loss of the Earldom of Ormonde," he was "duly described" as Sir J'iers Bailer, and not as Barm Arklow( c ) which (») In the British Museum is a curious letter from Walter, 12th Earl of Ormonde, the h. male (then imprisoned in the Fleet by James I who had espoused the cause of the h. gen.), to Camden, running thus — " 1 entreated you some fortnight past to do me the favour to make search to see if Tibbot Fit./. Walter was Loud Baiuios of Anci.o ; he went over in King John's time and Henry the Second's tyme. What trolle you shal receave for this busness shal be thankfully requiring [Qy. requited !] by your loving friend, Walter Ormond and Oss." ( b ) His Lordship thus ends his letter—" / may conclude by adopting the distich of the head of the De Couci family (freely Englished) — ' I am no Duke nor Prince, I know, I am son of the twenty fifth Lord of Arklow,' With Lord James Wandcsford Butler's compliments." On this statement Mr. Round very sensibly remarks " Twenty fifth Lord of Arklow ms father indeed was, but in the sense that Ingelram de Ghysnes was hereditary Sire de VOtey J m the sense that John Hampden is described in his epitaph as 24th hereditary Lord of Qrcat Hampden:' A ^y e,, llow ever, in this limited sense one can hardly see how the title of " Lord of Arklow ' can belong to the more recent Earls, to whom that "Lordship " never belonged, inasmuch as " the Lordship of Arklow, co. Wicklow," appears not only, as Mr. Round shews, to have belonged to the Boleyn family, dm •ing their tenure of the Earldom of Urmonde [I.], but to have been completely alimated from the Butler family after the attainder 0 f 1715 In the mid(]le of the lsth cen tury it was settled by Margaret, Bow. viscountess Allen [I.], as a marriage portion (1750) for her da. the Hon. Frances Allen spinster, with John Proby, afterwards Lord Carysfort [I.] See will of the said Viscountess, pr. Nov. 1 758. (°) This i H bom another article by Mr. Round (also in " Coll. Gen.," pp. S4-91) on the Earldoms of Ormond [I.]," see p. 89 thereof. | WIKI |
Dow, S&P 500 Move Lower as Nasdaq Stays Hot
Stocks were mixed on Monday, as a consensus on further coronavirus stimulus remained far from reach, and a rising number of infections weighed heavy on investors' minds. The Dow fell roughly 148 points to settle just above the significant 30,000 level, with Intel (INTC) and Caterpillar (CAT) steering the benchmark away from Friday's record close.
The S&P 500 also finished in the red, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq scored a third-straight gain and intraday record high thanks to FAANG names Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB). Elsewhere, cities across the nation are bringing back stricter social distancing measures as hospitalizations climb to unprecedented levels.
Continue reading for more on today's market, including:
Chinese e-commerce giant wants a piece of the digital currency buzz.
McDonald's stock downgraded on deteriorating international markets.
Plus, Cisco stock drops on acquisition news; options bulls blast social media stock; and the right time to buy DBI.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI - 30,069.79) lost 148.5 points, or 0.5% on the day. Boeing (BA) led the Dow components with a 2.3% rise, while Intel (INTC) paced the laggards, falling 3.4%.
Meanwhile, the S&P 500 Index (SPX - 3,691.96) fell 7.2 points, or 0.2% for the day. The Nasdaq Composite (IXIC - 12,519.95) was up 55.7 points, or 0.5% for the day.
Lastly, the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX - 20.79) fell 0.5 point, or 2.3% for the day.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in Georgia 90 minutes into the hearing. (CNBC)
A $908 billion coronavirus package proposed by lawmakers includes extra unemployment benefits, but not another round of stimulus checks. (MarketWatch)
Cisco stock drops after multi-million dollar acquisition.
Options bulls blast social media stock amid fresh records.
Is now the right time to buy Designer Brands stock?
Oil Prices Fall as Investors Fear Increased Production Levels
Oil prices were lower today, with expectations for fuel demand dropping as the number of COVID-19 cases rises. Analysts are also anticipating the post-Thanksgiving surge to trigger more restrictions, and for oil-producing countries to increase production levels in 2021. As a result, January-dated crude dropped 50 cents, or 1.1%, to settle at $45.76 a barrel.
Meanwhile, gold prices ended the day higher, with the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. and progress toward another stimulus package increasing demand for the safe-haven commodity. Talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) regarding a Brexit deal also boosted sentiment. In response, February-dated gold added $26, or 1.4%, to settle at $1,866 an ounce for the day.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Washington Grays (Philadelphia)
The Washington Grays of Philadelphia, also known as Volunteer Corps of Light Infantry, Light Artillery Corps, Washington Grays, Artillery Corps, Washington Grays, was a volunteer regiment of the United States. Formed in 1822 in Philadelphia, the regiment became part of the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1879.
John Oppell Foering wrote, "Without question [the Washington Grays] have been the parent and pattern of the militia of the City and State, as well as the foundation upon which was erected the magnificent National Guard of Pennsylvania if not of the entire country."
Formation
Some members of the Second Company of Washington Guards who were veterans of the War of 1812, resolved on April 19, 1822, to form a Volunteer Corps of Light Infantry with gray uniforms of American cloth. "In whatever civic function, where there was the least degree of military flavor the Grays was always expected to perform its distinctive part, and for over fifty years it stood unrivalled in this respect."
The Corps made its first parade July 1, 1822, with four officers and forty-two men, under command of Captain John Swift.
On June 27, 1827, the title was changed to "Light Artillery Corps, Washington Grays." Based on a silverplate "Soldier's Gratitude" presentation trophy dated February 1832 and crafted by T. Fletcher of Philadelphia, L.G.Childs Esq. was their "Late Commander". Fifteen years later, on June 3, 1843, the title was again changed to that of "Artillery Corps, Washington Grays."
The Washington Grays served in the Philadelphia nativist riots of January 1844, and in the Kensington and Southwark riots in May and July of the same year. In 1846 the Corps tendered its services, through the Governor of Pennsylvania, to the President of the United States, as United States infantry during the Mexican–American War. The tender was not accepted, but five members of the Corps served as officers in the Regular and Volunteer Army.
The Corps acted as a guard of honor for the remains of ex-President John Quincy Adams, while lying in state in Independence Hall, March 7, 1848. The last and most important event in which the Corps participated, just before the breakout of hostilities in 1861, was the firing of the salute at the raising of the first thirty-four-star United States flag over Independence Hall, by President-elect Abraham Lincoln, on the morning of February 22, 1861.
American Civil War
The American Civil War broke out when Fort Sumter was fired upon on Friday, April 12, 1861, and capitulated on Sunday the 14th with no lives lost. The President issued his proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand men to deny Southern independence and defend the Union. The Grays held a meeting and resolved to offer its services at once and recruit the unit to its full strength. It was determined to form two companies.
The two companies which were attached to the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Frank E. Patterson. There was delay in starting because the government insisted that no troops should be allowed to leave for Washington unless fully equipped and able to successfully repel an attack similar to that made upon the 6th Massachusetts Regiment while going through Baltimore in April, 1861.
Forming on the west side of Washington Square on May 8, 1861, the regiment marched to the railroad depot at Broad and Prime Streets and started for Washington.
The Corps, while being largely represented at the front during the war, still maintained its organization at home, and in the fall of 1862, during the incursion of Robert E. Lee's army into the north in the Antietam campaign, organized a company of one hundred and twenty-five men, which became Company "A" of the 21st Pennsylvania Militia, and during Lee's second incursion in 1863 in the Gettysburg campaign, on June 30, organized a full Company "A," and part of Company "B", for the 49th Pennsylvania Militia.
The Corps was incorporated April 15, 1867. The regiment served in the railroad riots at Pittsburgh and Scranton in 1877.
National Guard
In February 1878, when the National Guard of Pennsylvania was being organized, the Corps was increased to a battalion of four companies. Company "A," the original company, was divided, part of it forming the nucleus of Company "D." On July 31, 1879, the battalion was consolidated with the Weccacoe Legion Battalion and formed the Third Regiment N. G. of Pennsylvania. On December 11, 1879, the Governor issued an order consolidating companies "A" and "D" of the Third Regiment, and assigning the consolidated company to the First Regiment N. G. of Pa., as Company "G." At the same time, the "Artillery Corps, Washington Grays," disappeared from history as a separate and independent military organization. The First Regiment NG is perpetuated by the 103rd Engineer Battalion.
Notable members
* L. G. Childs Esq., Commander
* Peter C. Ellmaker, Colonel
* Charles Henry Hunter, Captain
* John Swift, Captain
Commemorations
* Washington Grays Monument | WIKI |
-- Colombia Coffee Growers Urge Halt to ICE Futures Proposal for Brazil Beans
Coffee growers in Colombia, the
world’s third-largest producer, urged ICE Futures U.S. to ditch
plans to change the benchmark contract for the commodity to
allow beans from Brazil to satisfy delivery obligations.
Adding coffee from Brazil, the largest grower, to the list
of acceptable supplies would compound pricing discrepancies and
concerns about the quality of exchange inventories, according to
a June 9 letter from the National Federation of Coffee Growers
of Colombia to New York-based ICE Futures that was obtained by
Bloomberg.
The change “would be detrimental to the integrity” of the
New York futures contract and “is not in the best interest of
the global coffee market,” Luis Genaro Munoz , the federation’s
chief executive officer, said in the letter. Edgar Cordero, an
executive vice president for the Colombian organization in New
York, confirmed the letter today, declining further comment.
Brazil isn’t among the 19 arabica-coffee producers whose
beans are used to satisfy the ICE contract , which allows
deliveries to exchange-licensed warehouse in the ports of New
York, New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Bremen/Hamburg, Antwerp and
Barcelona. The exchange said last month it may expand the list
to include Brazilian varieties.
“No decision on Brazil has been made at this point, and
any decision on Brazil would have no bearing on Colombia’s
deliverable status,” Tim Barry , a vice president at the ICE
Futures, said today by e-mail.
Colombia is the second-largest grower of arabica beans
favored by specialty coffee retailers, including Starbucks Corp.
Brazil, the top arabica grower, is the second-largest producer
of robusta beans used in instant coffee and harvested mostly in
Asia and parts of Africa. Vietnam is the biggest robusta grower .
Price Differential
Colombian and Central American coffees used by the exchange
have a “substantial and long-lasting differential” in price
and quality from Brazilian supplies, Munoz said in his letter.
The spread between Colombian and Brazilian prices widened
to 80 cents a pound in March from an average of 62 cents last
year and 15 cents in the period from 2000 to 2008, Munoz said.
Coffee futures for September delivery closed today in New York
at $1.596 a pound, up 28 percent from a year ago.
There also is concern that washed and semi-washed Brazilian
coffee deteriorates faster than Colombian beans, which would
require a new discounting mechanism for supplies from ICE
warehouses and new quality specifications, he said.
Brazil Wants Change
Producers in Brazil want ICE to move ahead with changes in
the New York contract, according to Guilherme Braga , the general
director of the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council.
The move “would help Brazil’s coffee have a better
international image for its quality,” Braga said today by
telephone from Sao Paulo. “It would even help us have more
access to specialty coffee markets.”
The countries whose beans are acceptable under the current
ICE contract including Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Kenya, New Guinea, Panama, Tanzania, Uganda,
Honduras and Peru, according to the exchange. Premiums are
charged for supplies from Colombia, and discounts are imposed
for arabica from Burundi, Venezuela, India, Rwanda, the
Dominican Republic and Ecuador.
Colombian production will rise to about 4.5 million bags in
the first six months of the year, compared with 4.24 million
bags a year earlier, the federation said last month. The harvest
this year will total 10 million to 11 million bags, up from a
33-year low of 7.8 million in 2009, the growers said. A bag
weighs 60 kilograms or 132 pounds.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Debarati Roy in New York at
droy5@bloomberg.net ;
Katia Cortes in Brasilia Newsroom at
kcortes@bloomberg.net . | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Point of sale/Archives/2012
SPAM
I've just removed a bit of spam from the modern epos section. Some of them were disguised into terms that people would click to find out more info on those terms. Could someone check the rest of the page for more spam? Thanks! Somecrowd (talk) 20:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
The first?
"the Atari ST, the w hey old's first consumer-level color graphic computer."
Not the first by many years. There were many 'color graphic' small computers prior to the Atari ST, from Atari and many other companies.
* Technically the first Point of sale systems were simple registers accompanied by calculators and computers. Some of the very first computers were used for the purpose of sales accounting. Piercetp 07:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
POS Display
I understand that the the display pictured is actually a "POS display" but does this actually deserve such a prominent position, the rest of the article focuses on computer POS systems, and the big picture is rather misleading (a picture of a typical modern POS touchscreen system would be far more appropriate), I think the picture should be removed, or at least moved further down the page talked about in a separate section. If no one objects I will do this soon.--MaxMahem 19:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
* Personally, the information about point of sale displays doesn't belong in this article at all. That would best fit in an article called Point of sale display. That way, this article can cover point of sale technology exclusively. SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
* Agree good move. Same name but very different. -- Stbalbach 16:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
* I'm just glad that Bilky asko enlarged the section. With that done, it became substantial enough to stand on its own without having to be labeled a stub. SchuminWeb (Talk) 16:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Checkstand
Please do not revert the edit to say Checkstand is what people people in the UK say, it's incorrect. (and since I live here, I should know.) Bilky asko 13:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
* The article lists "checkstand" as a U.S. term, but I've honestly never heard that term used by anyone, and I've lived here my whole life. On the other hand, "checkout" is listed as a U.K. term, but it's used here very frequently. I'm not sure where "checkstand" is used as a common term, but it's definitely not used here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
* I strongly disagree with the above. "Checkstand" is FREQUENTLY used in the US, but not by consumers. When buying we talk of getting on the checkout line but when retail employees announce that they need a price check or a void they always say it's "needed on checkstand three" (or what-have-you). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC).
* Agreed regarding "checkstand" being used by retailers vs. customers. We often talked to customers about problems with "checkstand" design and construction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:56, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Early POS Software
"'In 1995, JDA Software, Inc. began development on the first widely deployed Windows-based POS system, Win/DSS(tm) - Windows Distributed Store Systems. After over 10 years in the marketplace, with installs in over 60 countries and over 125,000+ registers, Win/DSS(tm) has become the de facto standard in Point Of Sale technology. It has been estimated that there are over 2 million Win/DSS(tm) users (cashiers, supervisors, etc.) world wide.'"
The above paragraph, despite mentioning a commercially available product, is historically significant when discussing POS software. Win/DSS(tm) does represent the most widely installed POS software in the market. If you're going to edit this and remove it, I suggest going to the Microsoft Wikipedia entry and removing all references to "Word" and "Excel" as well. The fact remains that there are literally millions of users across almost every country where a free market retail society exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
* Can you give us some reliable sources with that information? /Blaxthos 05:50, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Separate article for restaurant industry
I am considering adding a seperate article pertaining to restaraunt industry. I was wondering what everyone thinks here. Piercetp 08:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
* I don't see how it's necessary. Timneu22 12:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
* Hospitality POS systems differ substantially from retail POS systems. I support the initiative, and will be glad to help. My only concerns are that we ensure neutrality and stick to reliable sources (which maybe hard to come by). I know there is an article about MICROS, and I personally authored the article about Squirrel Systems. Both of those, however, are about the companies, not their respective POS systems specifically. /Blaxthos 17:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
* Blaxthos, what you say is correct. I also agree that it may be a problem finding product-neutral sources on the subject. The reason for this being that every product manufacturer puts out their own liturature on the subject. I would add that I myself am admittedly biased due to my employment with Panasonic. However if someone is willing to research and check for neutrality than I can at least start the topic.
* I was wondering what would be a good topic for such an article? Perhaps "Restaraunt point of sales systems" or "Hospitality point of sale systems?" Piercetp 19:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
OK then did it. Here is the article.... Hospitality point of sale systems. Please feel free to edit, troubleshoot or reference this article as you see fit. Piercetp 20:01, 22 September 2007 (UTC) - I am looking for information and places to learn more about POS T. So I am thinking to start small business in Mexico City. Did you know in Mexico City 90% of companies are small?. Please let me know mre about it to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
Point of Sale Technology
What would be nice to feature is the point of sale technology Wal-Mart uses. I do not know the entire process, but when the transaction occurs at a cash register in a store, say Federal Way, Washington, USA, the sale of that product is sent back to the manufacture or distributer for them to manufacture another item to replace the one sold and then shipped to the store to restock the merchandise shelf. I do not know the turnaround or how the manufactures feel about this system as some have to retool their machines to make certain parts for different products. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Countrydave (talk • contribs) 21:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Marketing concepts missing
Isn't PoS a highly important marketing issue and shouldn't there be some info about that?--Cancun771 (talk) 15:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Missing aspects
The article is missing many aspects of a checkout, only talking about the cash register machine, really. What about, for example, the different designs in the conveyor belts in different countries, etc.? HJV (talk) 22:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
POS terminal --> redirects to this page
I have redirected POS terminal to this page, as all the data from POS terminal was taken from POS anyway... Blender09 (talk) 15:55, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Restaurant POS
What is the purpose of Restaurant POS? Can someone redirect that here? Timneu22 (talk) 16:49, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
* looks like a duplicate. thanks for that. the retailing section relaly needs some work... WAYY oto many duplicates! Bearsharexx (talk) 20:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
No mention of EFTPOS anywhere
Didn't Australia contribute to the point of sale system? I mean, they did have EFTPOS, but is it developed by any companies mention in this article? And the only mention is right at the "See Also" section. Joe9320 of the CUWP | Contact the Council 03:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
The Awards industry
At the end of the article there's a section with no sources about the Awards Industry POS. It's not clear what the awards industry actually is, or why it deserves a section? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:08, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
Plural
Is it surely not points of sale and not point of sales? Maxí (talk) 15:27, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
* I'm more used to "point of sale" (which happily coincides with the article title), but I suppose "point of sales" means a place where lots of sales occur. However, if you are suggesting that all the "point of sales" should be changed to "point of sale", I would agree. Johnuniq (talk) 23:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
redirect from POP / Point of Purchase
I arrived to this page via a redirect from Point of Purchase, but, as far as I can tell, there's nothing on the page about POP. Can anyone add anything? Otherwise, I'll get rid of the redirect. Emika22 (talk) 11:46, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
* Is it not just similar? Point of Sale/Purchase? --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:05, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
* I kinda assumed that it was the same, but I'm not sure - actually, that's why I was trying to look it up on wikipedia in the first place :) If they are the same, (maybe someone with knowledge of the topic can confirm it) then it would be simple enough to add POP as an alternative name in the lead. Emika22 (talk) 15:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
* Having looked at a few different definitions, I am fairly sure this is means the same. The difference just being that the Point-of-Purchase is from the customers rather than a retailers perspective. I have altered the lead to add the alternative term. Sargdub (talk) 20:59, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Accounting software
Under Retail industry, the article mentions: "Many retail POS systems include an accounting interface that “feeds” sales and cost of goods information to independent accounting applications." I haven't heard of any POS system that does that, nor an accounting system that uses that. Can anyone point to a resource that shows this is true? TheConfigurator (talk) 17:42, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
* Wow, I haven't heard of a system that doesn't do this. I don't know how one could cite this. — Timneu22 ·   talk 23:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
* Possibly TheConfigurator is suggesting that the POS does not feed data directly into a package sitting on some accountant's desk. Instead (I'm guessing here), the POS sends its data to some system that would perform sanity checks and update a database. The accounting application would access the database. Johnuniq (talk) 00:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
* Almost every PoS software contains the ability to interface with inventory, accounting, and recipe software. Some have API's, some just do CSV's, and some have it all self-contained in a single software package. I don't think this is a contentious point, and I'm not sure how we could prove a negative. :) //Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
3651 and 3661 controllers were not mainframes
"In August 1973 IBM announced the IBM 3650 and 3660 Store Systems that were, in essence, a mainframe computer packaged as a store controller that could control 128 IBM 3653/3663 point of sale registers."
The 3650 and 3660 systems used the UC.5 (Universal Controller) and in no stretch of the imagination could you call them mainframes. I'm not sure what wording you would want to use instead, but "mainframe" isn't it. The two models of 3651 controllers had 64K or 128K of memory (if 128K, 64K was used only for code and 64K was used only for data), and either a 5 megabyte or 10 megabyte hard drive called a Gulliver. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:53, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Cloud-based POS
The history seems to have stopped in the 1990s. Post-millennium POS systems are now cloud-based. Examples are Vend, POSterita, and Imonggo. I wish to add this information. Mvching (talk) 09:09, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
* Go for it. You don't need permission. --Kvng (talk) 00:21, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
* Thanks. I learned something new. Mvching (talk) 21:27, 18 June 2012 (UTC) | WIKI |
User:Rocky 734/sandbox/Instituite of Life Sciences, BBSR
Institute of Life Sciences(Odia: ଜୀବ ବିଜ୍ଞାନ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ, ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵର)is an autonomous institute of higher education for research and education in life sciences in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was established by the Government of Odisha in 1989. Its administrative control was taken over by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India in August 2002 and declared a National Centre for excellence in 2003. It has three faculties — Infectious Disease Biology; Gene Function and Regulation; and Translation Research and Technology Development for higher research. | WIKI |
The most science-backed performance-boosting supplements, such as creatine monohydrate, beta-alanine, and caffeine, are all A-OK on the ketogenic diet. So, if you take a pre-workout, you should be able to continue without issue. I would also recommend gulping down some bouillon before your session to ensure your sodium and magnesium levels are on point.
No. Ketosis allows your adrenals to function more stably. It works like this: The adrenal glands make cortisol, which is triggered by stress. Cortisol increases insulin, which will kick you out of ketosis. When you decrease insulin (as with ketosis), you lower stress and lower cortisol. Therefore, the adrenal glands don't have to work so hard, and will function more healthily.
The easiest macro to calculate in the ketogenic diet is fat. Once you've got your carbs and protein set, simply fill the rest of your daily calorie needs with fat sources. If you find yourself wanting to gain a bit of weight, add approximately 500 calories, or 55 grams. If you want to lose weight, cut down on your fat intake by 200-500 calories, or 22-55 grams.
Over 8–10 mmol/l: It’s normally impossible to get to this level just by eating a keto diet. It means that something is wrong. The most common cause by far is type 1 diabetes, with severe lack of insulin. Symptoms include feeling very sick with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and confusion. The possible end result, ketoacidosis, may be fatal and requires immediate medical care. Learn more
In this guide the only form of pure fat we use is butter. If possible, coconut oil would really be a nice upgrade. We couldn’t fit coconut oil into our $5 a day keto on a budget meal plan, but it’s cheap if you buy in bulk. Another good substitution would be olive oil or coconut oil and vinegar instead of the premade salad dressing. Most cheap premade dressings will use oils that are frowned upon on keto like canola or vegetable oil.
However, ALSO be aware that most doctors get very little training on nutrition and don't understand the general effect of foods on the body. They are also taught that ketosis is dangerous, and so they know even less about ketogenic diets. Hence, if you ask your physician about this diet, you may get push back and a scary "ketosis-is-dangerous" sermon.
Sometimes we all have leftover chicken on hand that needs to be used up. Maybe you roasted a couple of chickens on the weekend to prep for the week ahead, maybe you had company over and grilled up too many chicken breasts, or maybe rotisserie chicken was on sale at your local grocery store and it was too good a bargain to pass up. Whatever the reason, we all can use a few ideas on how to use up leftover chicken.
Low carb diets focus on keto recipes (also known as ketogenic recipes) like the ones below to keep your blood sugar stable, helping your body regain insulin sensitivity and keeping your mood and energy levels stable. Also, since processed food has so many additives – usually sugar included – low carb diets encourage you to cook for yourself. This leads to eating more whole foods and improving your diet in that way as well.
No matter what your diet has been before now, keto will be a big change. If you're coming from a standard American diet (SAD), your carbs will go way down, your protein may either go up or down, and your fat will go way up. If you're coming from a bodybuilding-style diet, your fat intake will jump to alarming levels, and your protein will likely drop significantly.
When you’ve eaten all of the crustless spinach quiche and keto frittata recipes that you can, these keto everything bagels are another great breakfast staple. With their help, you don’t have to cut out your favorite breakfast sandwiches. You can also try a bread-less keto breakfast sandwich with chicken sausage patties as the “buns” when you’re craving a keto-approved breakfast option.
Another trigger of insulin is large quantities of protein. This was one of the issues with the Atkins diet. The optimum amount of protein per meal is about 3 to 6 ounces. Protein is needed for repairing and providing the raw material for muscle, tendons, joint cartilage, and even bone. Protein can also be used for fuel; however, too much protein triggers insulin which can be converted to sugar and then to fat.
That’s why many health experts are concerned about people on the keto diet, especially those who try it without the guidance of a doctor or nutritionist. Doctors say that high-fat diets like this one may raise cholesterol levels, and some studies suggest that they increase the risk of diabetes. Some have even called it a “cardiologist’s nightmare.”
The low glycaemic index treatment (LGIT)[48] is an attempt to achieve the stable blood glucose levels seen in children on the classic ketogenic diet while using a much less restrictive regimen. The hypothesis is that stable blood glucose may be one of the mechanisms of action involved in the ketogenic diet,[9] which occurs because the absorption of the limited carbohydrates is slowed by the high fat content.[5] Although it is also a high-fat diet (with approximately 60% calories from fat),[5] the LGIT allows more carbohydrate than either the classic ketogenic diet or the modified Atkins diet, approximately 40–60 g per day.[3] However, the types of carbohydrates consumed are restricted to those that have a glycaemic index lower than 50. Like the modified Atkins diet, the LGIT is initiated and maintained at outpatient clinics and does not require precise weighing of food or intensive dietitian support. Both are offered at most centres that run ketogenic diet programmes, and in some centres they are often the primary dietary therapy for adolescents.[9]
Say hello to the pili nut! Boasting a higher fat and lower carbohydrate content than just about any other nut on the planet, this snackable wonder is your ketone-loving body’s new best friend. Hunter Gatherer’s handy multipack includes flavors like black pepper turmeric, spicy chili, and Himalayan salt and coconut oil, each wild harvested from pili trees in the mountains of the Philippines.
5day Almond Meal asparagus Avocado Bacon Bacon Weave Beef BREAKFAST Breakfast Sandwich Brussels Sprouts Casserole cheese Chicken Cocktails Crockpot Deep Fryer DESSERT Easter Faux Bread Faux Pasta Faux Potatoes Friendsgiving Fry-day Keto Grilling KITCHEN TOOLS lunch Mushrooms Pefect Ratio Pizza Pork Quick Snacks side dish snacks Sous Vide Spaghetti Squash Special Meals Spinach Steak Stunt Cooking Super Bowl tapas Thanksgiving vegetables Vitamix Vitamix Recipes
Children who discontinue the diet after achieving seizure freedom have about a 20% risk of seizures returning. The length of time until recurrence is highly variable but averages two years. This risk of recurrence compares with 10% for resective surgery (where part of the brain is removed) and 30–50% for anticonvulsant therapy. Of those that have a recurrence, just over half can regain freedom from seizures either with anticonvulsants or by returning to the ketogenic diet. Recurrence is more likely if, despite seizure freedom, an electroencephalogram (EEG) shows epileptiform spikes, which indicate epileptic activity in the brain but are below the level that will cause a seizure. Recurrence is also likely if an MRI scan shows focal abnormalities (for example, as in children with tuberous sclerosis). Such children may remain on the diet longer than average, and it has been suggested that children with tuberous sclerosis who achieve seizure freedom could remain on the ketogenic diet indefinitely.[45]
Initially you may be surprised that on keto diets you eat less frequently. That’s because the fats are pretty satisfying. But as you normalize and adjust into a ketogenic state, that may change and your appetite may increase. That’s fine and completely normal. Use whatever diet you decide to follow as a starting point – it should be “written in pencil” so that you can make changes along the way. Consider adding an extra meal, marginally increasing the size of the meals or just adding a shake between meals. It’s up to you – just listen to your body. For example for me, I added a low-carb “green powder” shake supplement to my regimen along with either flax seed oil or some nuts in order to satisfy my hunger.
Also make sure that you know what foods have mostly carbs, fat, and protein, so you can make the right choices. For instance, it’s not just bread, pasta, chips, cookies, candy, and ice cream that contain carbs. Beans may contain protein, but they’re also very high in carbohydrates. Fruit and veggies also mostly contain carbs. The only foods that don’t contain carbs are meat (protein) and pure fats, like butter and oils (including olive oil and coconut oil).
Diarrhea can also be due to a lack of fiber in the diet, says Kizer, which can happen when someone cuts way back on carbs (like whole-grain bread and pasta) and doesn’t supplement with other fiber-rich foods, like vegetables. It can also be caused by an intolerance to dairy or artificial sweeteners—things you might be eating more of since switching to a high-fat, low-carb lifestyle.
Con: Results can vary depending on how much fluid you drink. By drinking more water, you dilute the concentration of ketones in the urine and thus a lower level of ketones will be detected on the strips. The strips don’t show a precise ketone level. Finally, and most importantly, as you become increasingly keto-adapted and your body reabsorbs ketones from the urine, urine strips may become unreliable, even if you’re in ketosis.
All I can say is WOW! I am a week in on this Keto way of eating and came across this simple recipe. Gotta admit, I didn’t think I would like it…I LOVE IT! So easy to make…took me 20 minutes total! It was light, moist and delicious. I used one small loaf pan, doubled the ingredients and made the regular one and the cheese mix in. Can’t wait to share the rest with my co-workers…we are doing this together. Will be back to check for other recipes. Thank you!
There is scientific evidence that supports the use of a ketogenic diet to help manage certain neurologic conditions. There are also medical, nutrition, and fitness professionals that recommend the eating program for patients and clients who have other health goals. But just because the program works for some, doesn't mean that it's the best diet for you.
One thing many people love about keto diet meal plans is that tracking your food is optional. "One of the biggest benefits of the ketogenic diet is that there's no need to meticulously track your calories like you may in other diets," notes Dr. Josh Axe, D.N.M., C.N.S., D.C., founder of DrAxe.com, best-selling author of Eat Dirt, and cofounder of Ancient Nutrition. "Because you're filling up on fat and protein, you're more likely to feel satisfied and energized all day long, which causes you to naturally eat less." This isn't to say that food tracking on keto is discouraged. "Some people may find calorie counting a useful tool to be more mindful and aware of what they're eating, but it's not necessary on the ketogenic diet," says Dr. Axe, but there's no need to get too stressed about hitting a certain caloric goal, especially if you're not trying to lose weight. (Related: The #1 Reason to Stop Counting Calories)
Our bodies are incredibly adaptive to what you put into it – when you overload it with fats and take away carbohydrates, it will begin to burn ketones as the primary energy source. Optimal ketone levels offer many health, weight loss, physical and mental performance benefits.1There are scientifically-backed studies that show the advantage of a low-carb, ketogenic diet over a low-fat diet. One meta-analysis of low-carbohydrate diets showed a large advantage in weight loss. The New England Journal of Medicine study resulted in almost double the weight loss in a long-term study on ketone inducing diets.
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T41C-4641:
Great Earthquakes in Low-Strain-Rate Continental Interiors: An Example from SE Kazakhstan
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Grace Campbell1, Richard T Walker2, Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov3, James A Jackson4, John R Elliott2, David Mackenzie2, Tim Middleton2 and Jean-Luc Schwenninger5, (1)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Institute of Seismology, Bishkek, Kyrgyz, (4)Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Oxford, United Kingdom
Abstract:
The Lepsy fault of the northern Tien Shan, SE Kazakhstan is an example of an active structure that connects a more rapidly deforming mountain region with an apparently stable continental region (SCR). The fault extends E-W ~100 km from the high mountains of the Dzhungarian Ala-tau, a sub-range of the northern Tien Shan, into the low-lying Kazakh platform. Our field-based and satellite observations reveal a ∼10 m vertical offset exceptionally preserved along the entire length of the fault. Geomorphic analysis and age control from radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating methods indicate that this scarp formed in the Holocene and was generated by two substantial earthquakes. The most recent event, which we date to some time after ∼400 years BP, is likely to have ruptured the entire ∼100 km fault length in a Mw 8 earthquake. In spite of the long recurrence times expected for such large SCR earthquakes, they represent a potential earthquake hazard in the increasingly populated Tien Shan foreland region. To characterise the Lepsy fault kinematics we use digital elevation models (DEMs) and high-resolution satellite imagery, which indicate that the predominant sense of motion is reverse right-lateral with a fault strike, dip, and slip vector azimuth of ∼290°, 45/50°S, and 335° respectively, which is consistent with predominant N-S shortening related to the India-Eurasia collision. Finally, the geometry of the western Lepsy fault termination suggests that shortening may also be partly accommodated by counter-clockwise rotation about a vertical axis. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Inside Standards Manual, the NYC bookstore dedicated to archiving graphic design history
If you’re a fan of graphic design history, you might be familiar with Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the 1970s and turning them into books for designers, history buffs, coffee-table book collectors, or anyone who appreciates a little bit of the era’s design aesthetics. Having mostly marketed and sold their books from the internet, Reed and Smyth opened a dedicated bookstore in Brooklyn this summer — and it acts almost as a mini museum of vintage industrial graphics design. Standards Manual, the store, doesn’t just showcase titles from Reed and Smyth’s imprint, though a few do sit prominently on one wall. (It’s hard to miss, given the shelf acts like feature wall, with a simple black-and-white color scheme and a bold pop of red.) You can also find a variety of books relating to graphic designs from publishers including HarperCollins, Hachette, Taschen, Unit Editions, and Yale University Press, with titles like The Elements of Color and How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul. Reed and Smyth call the shop “the only graphic design bookstore in New York.” Or, at least, one that actively exists with a collection this extensive. “We decided to really, instead of just sitting here with books, we wanted to sell all the books that we love,” Reed tells The Verge. The storefront also doubles as the pair’s design office, Order, where they continue to work on reprints, branding projects, and original titles. Today, the imprint is releasing its latest title, New York City Transit Authority: Objects, which highlights photographs of artifacts collected from New York City’s mass transit system. The book comes as a follow to The NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual, which showcases various color schemes and a whole lot of Helvetica that went into designing New York’s iconic subway logos and bus iconography. While Objects doesn’t entirely fit in to the graphic design theme from Standards Manual’s prior releases, it does offer the same minimalist appeal for those who enjoy learning (and seeing) how things looked just a few decades ago. Rainbow is not exactly how I would describe the MTA’s current bus line aesthetic, but things appeared a bit more groovy just some few years back. The book offers photographs of recent memorabilia as well, including the Supreme-branded metro cards that quickly became hot commodity among hypebeasts this past winter, among other iconic imagery that appeared on the back of many metro cards. Of course, there are also photos of what came before metro cards: gold tokens and paper tickets that granted riders access to the trains and buses. In the past, Reed and Smyth have offered their NASA graphics manual reprint up as a free download, but the two hope that the bookstore will help create a niche community in real life around those who love this specific era of design. Standards Manual is located at 212 Franklin Street in Brooklyn, New York. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Would you drink beer resurrected from the remnants of a 220-year-old bottle? Thanks to some enterprising Australian scientists, you may have the chance to find out.
In 1797, a small merchant vessel went down off the coast of Tasmania, Australia, in the treacherous Bass Strait. Known as the Sydney Cove shipwreck, the ship was travelling from Calcutta, now Kolkata, India, to Port Jackson, Australia, with a cargo of food, textiles and livestock.
It also had plenty of beer on board. Some of the bottles survived for centuries at the bottom of the sea until they were retrieved in the early 1990s, according to a statement from the Queen Victoria Museum in Tasmania. David Thurrowgood, a conservator at the museum, which also hosts an exhibit about the wreck, decided he would find out if the remains of one salvaged bottle could be turned into a fresh brew.
Thurrowgood, along with a number of scientists, now believe they have taken live yeast from a surviving beer bottle and turned it into a brand new batch.
"Possibly the wreck has now also given us the world's only known pre-industrial revolution brewing yeast," he said in the statement.
Anthony Borneman, principal research scientist at the Australian Wine Research Institute, became involved with the project after Thurrowgood reached out with his idea to look in the bottles for living organisms.
"When we started, we were pretty skeptical we'd be able to grow anything live," he told Mashable Australia.
They took samples from a number of bottles and placed them in nutrient broth to see if anything would grow. Two samples did, and it turned out they came from the one bottle of beer that had been pulled intact from the Sydney Cove wreck. There were other whole bottles, but they were found to contain wine and other liquids.
Unfortunately, the team can't say with complete certainty the yeast came directly from the old beer and is not instead an unusual contaminant effect. After being taken from the wreck, the bottle was decanted into two different samples for fear the cork would deteriorate.
Nevertheless, it's the answer that would make the most sense. "The yeast that we pulled out, and there were a few different species, are all involved with beer brewing," he explained. "They all fall on the family tree with beer yeast ... Our two conflicting ideas are that they really are from the beer, or that we had a very rare, specific containment effect."
According to Borneman, the resulting beer that was made -- lager and ale -- tasted pretty good despite the spectacularly old age of the yeast.
"These are all done at home brew level -- it can be pretty hit and miss -- but these home brews were very clear," he added. "If I was trying to craft beer at a pub, I'd be very happy with it."
To his knowledge, if the yeast is in fact from the original beer, it would make their yeast the oldest living that has been used in a successful brew. In May, the Carlsberg Research Laboratory announced it had made a lager from yeast found in a bottle that had survived 133 years in its cellar.
The team now hope to raise funds to go back down to the Sydney Cove wreck and retrieve any remaining bottles and artefacts. If they find any, their contents will be removed in a clean room to prove once and for all whether the yeast is genuine.
Borneman also has plans to make beer from bottles found in other wrecks around Australia. Forget craft beer -- you'll now need shipwreck beer for something truly authentic.
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MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist/Archives/2019/12
econlib.org
I was making edits to the Bryan Caplan page, and many of his writting are on econlib.org. However, the website seems to be blacklisted. econlib being blocked makes it difficult to cite articles, which Caplan has written, on his own page.
I understand that econlib can be seen as often supporting specific ideological positions over others, however, I am only using these sources to cite Bryan Caplan describing Ben Bernanke as an influence on his microeconomic thinking (which is different than using econlib to back an ideological positon); these articles cannot be found anywhere else.
GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 20:18, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
* It is unfortunate that pimping Bryan Caplan was a core part of the paid spamming that got the site blacklisted in the first place. Guy (help!) 01:37, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
* I have not heard of the incident you are talking about. I'm not planning to do anything you mentioned with the links. I am just asking to be able to use those 2 pages to cite a source, not found anywhere else, where Caplan describes Bernanke as an influence. GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 22:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
* , and no-one else found it worth mentioning anywhere else? Dirk Beetstra T C 04:20, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , not many people have written about Bryan Caplan the person. It was Caplan himself is the one who has mentioned this. GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 06:07, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
* , so why do we talk about this if no-one else is? Dirk Beetstra T C 07:29, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
* Because it is important to know the influences to certain economists. There is already one source citing Bernanke as an influence to Caplan, but a source from Caplin himself is much more direct at pointing this out. Is it not important that Caplan considers Bernanke as an influence? What exactly is the issue? GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 07:34, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
* , ‘Is it not important that Caplan considers Bernanke as an influence?’ .. well, if no-one independent cites it then that seems to be the case. Dirk Beetstra T C 07:45, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
* Some independent sources have cited it, and are already cited on his page. I'm just saying that it would also be useful to put Caplan's own words on his page as well. What exactly is the issue? GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 15:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
* , 2 of the sources are primary, and the third is describing him as a student (... influenced by ... sure). Do you have any independent sources that describe Kaplan’s influences? Dirk Beetstra T C 06:46, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
* Is there a reason why the sources I am asking to be whitelisted are not sufficient? It would make sense to include, under Caplan's influences, someone who Calpan said was a big influence of his macroeconomic thinking. What exactly is the reason you're holding back whitelisting these sources? GoldwaterMan1771 (talk) 07:26, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
* , I thought that Guy made that clear, and what we need are independent sources. If there are no secondary sources he material should be deleted altogether. Dirk Beetstra T C 22:27, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
— Berean Hunter (talk) 13:25, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
* Request was made by a sockpuppet.
verywellmind.com
I would like the above page whitelisted because it's one of the better sources I've been able to find about whether nonbinary and genderqueer are different terms, which is relevant to a discussion on Talk:non-binary gender and perhaps eventually the page itself. Loki (talk) 00:03, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
* , we’ll put this on hold for now, we don’t whitelist to facilitate discussions, you can post the link on the talkpage without the trailing http://. Dirk Beetstra T C 03:57, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
vegasslotsonline.com
I would like the above page to be whitelisted as it's a comprehensive source for unbiased gambling news. It is indexed within Google News, is updated regularly on a daily basis and provides instant coverage of related topics., aiming to be the quickest site to deliver gambling news. It was built with expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness in mind, written by people who have been in the industry for very long. The pieces go through rigorous checks before they go live. Thank you! --RBl1212 (talk) 15:38, 12 December 2019 (UTC)RBl1212
* I'm calling your bluff here. It's a website that offers "free to play games!" and is not even encyclopedic in the slightest. Praxidicae (talk) 15:49, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
* and blocking as spam-only account. Guy (help!) 15:51, 12 December 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:forename
A name that precedes the surname.
Does name in the definition include a middle name? Please write your forename(s) in full --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:39, 22 February 2021 (UTC) | WIKI |
STEM Tuesdays:
Battery Circuits
Happy STEM Tuesday! Today we’re going to learn about circuits. Here’s what you’ll need:
Materials & Instructions
A nine-volt battery
A small snippet of twinkle lights. If you have an old strand with sections that you’ve been meaning to throw away, now is the perfect time to repurpose it. Grown-ups, you can use wire cutters to cut the strands.
STEP 1: Take the wires at one end of your twinkle lights and put them on one of the snap connectors at the end of your battery.
Nine volt batteries have both connectors on the same end; the smaller circular one is positive, while the larger hexagonal one is negative. Some other batteries, like AA batteries, have their positive and negative sides on opposite ends of the battery instead of on the same end.
STEP 2: Take the wires at the other end of your twinkle lights and put them on the other snap connector. Voila!
What happened?
We created a circuit. When we connected the two ends of our twinkle lights to the two connectors on the battery, we created a path for electricity to travel along. The electricity was able to travel out of the positive connector, through the twinkle lights, and back into the battery through the negative connector!
What happens if you take one side of your twinkle lights off of the battery? The light goes out, doesn’t it? That’s because our electricity doesn’t have a path to travel along any more.
VOCAB WORDS
Circuit: A path for electricity to travel. Electricity travels out of a power source and back into the power source through a circuit.
Electricity: A special kind of energy caused by teeny tiny particles called electrons and protons traveling around.
Battery: A battery creates electricity and can be used as a power source to do things like make flashlights work, power remote controls, and more!
Switch: Switches make or break circuits. They can either complete the path for electricity to travel or break it so that electricity cannot travel back into a power source.
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Database update error on Openfire v4.0.1
I have recently installed a fresh copy of Openfire v4.0.1. I have observed the following error in the logs pertaining to database:
2016.02.22 20:17:34 ERROR [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.openfire.container.PluginManager - monitoring - Database update failed. Please manually upgrade your datab
ase.
2016.02.22 20:17:35 INFO [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.openfire.plugin.PacketFilterPlugin - Packet Filter loaded…
2016.02.22 20:17:39 INFO [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.openfire.spi.ConnectionListener[socket_c2s] - Started.
2016.02.22 20:17:39 INFO [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.openfire.spi.ConnectionListener[socket_c2s-legacyMode] - Started.
2016.02.22 20:17:39 WARN [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.openfire.spi.LegacyConnectionAcceptor - Configuration allows for up to 16 threads, although implementation
is limited to exactly one.
Are these errors normal ? how do you perfrom a manuall database upgrade ?
Which database are you using?
I am using MySQL 5.6.15 for the database.
Are you able to look at the mysql server logs or look at the Openfire logs for a more detailed report on the SQL statement that failed? It should be logged in both places.
There are no errors found on the MySQL logs, those errors are from the Openfire application server. If I start the Openfire with a blank DB, will it need to upgrade it ?
The theory is that Openfire is executing bad SQL, which the SQL server should log as well as openfire. You still haven’t found the full error message that would have been logged by Openfire.
This was the error in the Openfire application server :
2016.02.24 03:58:27 INFO [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.database.SchemaManager - Found old database version 0 for monitoring. Upgrading to version 3…
2016.02.24 03:58:27 ERROR [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.database.SchemaManager - SchemaManager: Failed to execute SQL:
ALTER TABLE ofMessageArchive ADD COLUMN fromJIDResource VARCHAR(255) NULL;
2016.02.24 03:58:27 ERROR [pool-3-thread-1]: org.jivesoftware.database.SchemaManager - Duplicate column name ‘fromJIDResource’
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Duplicate column name ‘fromJIDResource’
Upon checking the column is already there but of different size. The application should be adding a COLUMN. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Italian court turns down Vivendi's request to suspend freeze on Mediaset stake
MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court has thrown out a request by Vivendi (VIV.PA) to suspend a ruling forcing it to freeze two-thirds of its stake in Italian broadcaster Mediaset (MS.MI), a court document showed on Thursday. The decision comes a day before a Mediaset shareholder meeting to vote on governance tweaks to a Dutch holding company set up by Mediaset to pursue tie-ups with European peers.. Vivendi opposes Mediaset’s plans on the grounds the changes would give Mediaset’s main shareholder, the Berlusconi family, too much power. In 2017 an Italian watchdog said Vivendi’s holdings in Mediaset and Telecom Italia (TLIT.MI) broke competition rules and ordered it to cut one of the stakes to below 10%. To comply, Vivendi transferred two-thirds of its almost 30% voting rights in Mediaset to a trust, which was subsequently barred from voting at the Italian broadcaster’s shareholder meetings. The administrative court (TAR) ruling showed Vivendi had asked it to suspend the injunction ahead of Friday’s meeting on the grounds it expected Mediaset to exclude the trust. But the judge argued, without giving further details, that there was no reason for any immediate decision since Vivendi was not at risk of irreparable damage. According to the document, the TAR will convene a closed-door hearing on Jan. 15 to decide on the merits of the case. In December, the EU Advocate General said the law leading to the freeze was a breach of European Union rules and last week Vivendi filed a request for the ruling to be suspended. The French group, which owns 23.9% of Telecom Italia, has been at loggerheads with Mediaset since pulling out of a deal to buy its pay-TV unit in 2016 and then building a hostile 28.8% stake. Mediaset and Vivendi did not comment on the TAR ruling. Reporting by Domenico Lusi and Elvira Pollina, writing by Stephen Jewkes; Editing by Kirsten Donovan | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Bernard Hahn
Bernard "Barney" Hahn (August 24, 1860 – September 6, 1931) was a farmer and a politician.
Born in Luxemburg, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, Hahn went to public school. He moved with his parents to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin where they owned a hotel. Later, Hahn built the first opera house in Sturgeon Bay. Hahn was a farmer and grew fruit. He lived in Fish Creek, Door County, Wisconsin. Hahn served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Republican. Hahn died in a hospital in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin from complications after surgery. In 1931, Hahn was charged with arson for setting fire to his personal property; the arson case ended when he died. | WIKI |
Multistage stochastic financial modelling. J. Mulvey, Princeton. Matrices provided by Ed Rothberg, Silicon Graphics, Inc. From the paper: A. Berger, J. Mulvey, E. Rothberg, and R. Vanderbei, "Solving multistage stochastic programs using tree dissection," tech. report SOR-97-07, Program in Statistics and Operations Research Ed Rothberg, email: rothberg :at the domain: multnomah.engr.sgi.com John Mulvey, email: mulvey :at the domain: macbeth.Princeton.edu A stochastic programming matrix in an interior-point algorithm for financial portfolio optimization. Random nonzero values added (finan512.rsa) by Tim Davis. The values were then modified to ensure that the matrix was symmetric positive definite. This matrix is quite strange, and appears to be highly sensitive to tie-breaking issues, or some other phenomenon... See the paper, above, for a description of the phenomenon. The following ordering algorithms were run on a Sparc-10. AMDperm is the Approximate Minimum Degree method, with various "elbow room" sizes (see TR-94-038), based on upper bounds on the external degree. AMDtry3 is AMD with a different tie-breaking strategy. oldAMDt is the same as MA27, except that exact degree computations are replaced with an upper bound on the true degree. initMD is MA27, and origMD is a modification in MUPS that ignores the computation of degrees above a certain threshold. MMD is Joseph Liu's multiple minimum degree algorithm (with delta = 0, 1, and 2). ND is the nested dissection algorithm in Sparspak, and QMD is the minimum degree ordering algorithm in Sparspak. The columns in the table are the number of nonzeros in L, the Mflops needed to compute L, the ordering time, the number of garbage collections, the memory usage (excluding O(n)-size arrays), and the number of size-n work arrays. NOTE: Lnz is the number of nonzeros in the strictly lower diagonal part. The A+AT number is the number of off-diagonal nonzeros in A+A^T. Since this is a symmetric matrix, that's just the nonzeros in A minus n. Matrix Portfolio/finan512.psa.gz n 74752 Anz 596992 A+AT 522240 - Method:delta/elbow Lnz LL^Tmflops time comp memory O(n)usage AMDperm: 3361993 1035.385920 5.53 0 833747 8 AMDperm:4 3361993 1035.385920 5.47 0 833747 8 AMDperm:3 3361993 1035.385920 5.63 1 776090 8 AMDperm:2 3361993 1035.385920 5.66 1 671745 8 AMDperm:1 3361993 1035.385920 5.64 1 671745 8 AMDtry3: 2522769 536.937792 5.18 0 797305 9 oldAMDt: 9285069 14968.698880 5.90 0 996344 8 initMD: 9285069 14968.315904 10.07 0 1000263 7 origMD: 9237356 14654.392320 6.56 0 1036206 7 MMD:0 6432433 5933.023232 292.65 0 522240 7 MMD:1 6432433 5933.025280 291.97 0 522240 7 MMD:2 6432433 5933.025280 278.82 0 522240 7 ND: 8530875 3412.739840 6.20 0 522240 5 QMD: 4345895 2121.354368 970.03 0 522240 9 These minimum degree algorithms do show large variations in ordering times for other matrices, but they usually produce comparable results. This matrix (finan512) is a very unusual exception. The bcsstk30 matrix shows more typical relative results, for example: Matrix HB/bcsstk30.psa n 28924 Anz 2043492 A+AT 2014568 - Method:delta/elbow Lnz LL^Tmflops time comp memory O(n)usage AMDperm: 3768625 899.876992 2.30 0 2088703 8 AMDperm:4 3768625 899.876992 2.31 0 2088703 8 AMDperm:3 3768625 899.876992 2.29 0 2088703 8 AMDperm:2 3768625 899.876992 2.31 0 2088703 8 AMDperm:1 3768625 899.876992 2.76 1 2072417 8 AMDtry3: 3764679 916.359040 2.32 0 2088942 9 oldAMDt: 4518625 1363.998720 2.23 0 2107723 8 initMD: 4583033 1409.133568 2.66 0 2107538 7 origMD: 4487456 1336.230912 2.73 0 2135673 7 MMD:0 3849328 938.700288 4.63 0 2014568 7 MMD:1 3863974 955.433984 4.53 0 2014568 7 MMD:2 3886867 963.582848 4.29 0 2014568 7 ND: 5743266 2204.590848 12.11 0 2014568 5 QMD: 4689554 1586.877184 59.55 0 2014568 9 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Wuhan coronavirus: Death toll tops 100 as infection rate accelerates
Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong announced Tuesday that it was closing many of its border crossings with mainland China in a bid to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, as the death toll from the outbreak topped 100, with more than 4,600 cases in the mainland. The virus has also spread globally to more than 17 countries. On Tuesday, experts from the German Robert-Koch-Institute said they believed that a man who tested positive for coronavirus in Germany is the first case of human-to-human infection in Europe. Carrie Lam, Hong Kong chief executive, told a news conference that the closure of crossings into the semi-autonomous Chinese city would be "temporary." Lam added that the city was also slashing the number of tourist visas it issues to visitors from mainland China, and halving the number of inbound flights from the mainland. Authorities in Hubei, the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak, earlier said an additional 1,300 cases had been confirmed, bringing the total in the region to over 2,700. The majority of those are still in hospital, with more than 125 in critical condition. Between Sunday and Monday, there was a 65% jump in the number of reported cases in mainland China, from around 2,700 to over 4,500. Elsewhere in China, cases have been confirmed in every province and territory except for Tibet, which this week announced the indefinite closure of all tourist attractions and a mandatory two-week quarantine for all travelers entering the region. The move to close off Hong Kong comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and medical unions, one of which had threatened to strike if the border was not shut. On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a level 3 alert warning against "all nonessential travel to China" -- its highest alert on a scale of 1 to 3. "There is an ongoing outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that can be spread from person to person," the CDC said in a statement, warning "there is limited access to adequate medical care in affected areas." Worldwide concern More than a dozen countries around the world have confirmed cases of the Wuhan virus, as authorities struggle to stop its spread. Across Asia, numerous countries have put in extra screening at airports and warned citizens to avoid travel to China. To China's north, neighboring Mongolia has imposed stringent border checks on travelers coming into the country, while Hong Kong earlier banned all visitors from Wuhan. Indonesia and the Philippines have both introduced extra restrictions on Chinese tourists, while Japan has upgraded its response, allowing authorities to "force the suspicious cases for hospitalization and testing." Three cases of Wuhan coronavirus were identified in France on Friday and on Tuesday German officials confirmed that a 33-year-old man who had not traveled to China tested positive for the virus. Speaking at a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Monday, China's ambassador to the UN said the country has "full capability and confidence in winning the battle against the epidemic." "Putting the interests of the people first, China has taken rapid and strong measures, putting in place a nationwide prevention and control mechanism," Ambassador Zhang Jun said. "China has been working with the international community in the spirit of openness, transparency and scientific coordination. With a great sense of responsibility, China is sparing no effort in curbing the spread of disease and saving lives. Now is a crucial moment, and China has full capability and confidence in winning the battle against the epidemic." Some 60 million people have been placed under travel restrictions in Hubei, with almost all movement in and out of Wuhan itself stopped and much of the city on lockdown. Officials have also cracked down on the trade of wild animals, after the Wuhan coronavirus was linked to a seafood market selling exotic live mammals, including bats and civet cats, which have previously been linked to the 2003 SARS outbreak. Rapid spread The first cases of the coronavirus were detected in Wuhan in mid-December. Since then the number of confirmed cases has increased a thousandfold, and infections have been reported worldwide. Hospitals in Wuhan are already massively overstretched, and hundreds of emergency medical personnel have been dispatched to the city to help. Two new hospitals are also being built on the city's outskirts, due to be operational by next week. Wuhan and Hubei officials have faced criticism for apparently downplaying the danger of the virus in the early weeks of the outbreak. There was a marked shift in the handling of the crisis once the national government got involved on January 22. Despite the colossal effort -- and potential social and economic cost -- of effectively quarantining Hubei, it appears that this has come too late to stop the virus' spread. By the time Wuhan introduced even basic screening of travelers leaving the city, the virus had been reported in Japan, Thailand and South Korea, and spread to most of the rest of China. Part of the problem is that the virus can apparently be spread before symptoms appear, according to China's health minister, Ma Xiaowei. "It means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought," William Schaffner, a longtime adviser to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told CNN. "This is worse than we anticipated." While the current outbreak does not appear to be as deadly as SARS, which killed over 700 people worldwide, it may be spreading more rapidly. That could be due to being more contagious, or the increased interconnectedness of both China and the world than in 2003. As of mid-March 2003, roughly a month after the World Health Organization (WHO) was alerted to SARS by Chinese authorities, and three months after the first cases were detected in China, the number of confirmed cases worldwide stood at around 3,200, with 159 confirmed deaths. Growing fears in Hong Kong Fears of the virus' spread have led to calls for increased action in multiple countries and territories, not least in Hong Kong, where memories of SARS still run deep. Effective midnight on Thursday until further notice, Lam said Hong Kong's measures also include decreasing the number of inbound buses from the mainland, and the suspension of cross-border coach services at the Hong Kong-Zuhai-Macau Bridge. All cross-border ferry services will also be suspended. Operations at Hong Kong's West Kowloon Train Station -- which operates high speed rail services to the mainland -- will shut. Passenger services will also be temporarily suspended at the border crossings of Hung Hom, Sha Tau Kok, and Man Kam To. In addition to the closing many of its borders with China, the city's government announced that government workers would be encouraged to work from home when the Lunar New Year holiday ends on Wednesday. The directive, which excluded emergency service workers and people who work for essential public services, urged the private sector to enforce similar arrangements. The sweeping moves follow calls from one of the city's leading health experts for "substantial draconian measures" to limit population mobility in order to rein in the virus. Speaking at a news conference Monday, Gabriel Leung, chair of public health medicine at the University of Hong Kong, warned that the number of cases could potentially double every six days in the absence of decisive government action. "This epidemic is growing at quite a fast rate and it's accelerating," said Leung, who is also the founding director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Infection Disease Epidemiology and Control in Hong Kong. He predicted the actual number of cases -- including those who are incubating the virus but not yet showing symptoms -- could be 10 times what has been reported. Leung's team modeled two scenarios -- one with a population quarantine as has been seen in Wuhan and one without -- but found more or less identical results, because the virus has already spread to other major population centers in China, which could soon see their own self-sustaining epidemics. Leung said the findings had concerned the team enough that it felt the need to alert the authorities and the public, predicting a peak of cases between April and May. He added people need to prepare for a potential global pandemic -- though "not a certainty by any stretch of the imagination ... we must prepare better for it," he said. CNN's David Culver, Yong Xiong, Natalie Thomas and Steven Jiang in Beijing; and Helen Regan, Pauline Lockwood, Carly Walsh, Eric Cheung, Yuli Yang, Chermaine Lee, Alexandra Lin, Isaac Yee, Angus Watson and Sophie Jeong in Hong Kong contributed reporting. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Absorption of Drugs
Absorption of drugs
Absorption is defined as the movement of drugs or medications from its site of administration into the bloodstream. The rate of absorption is just as significant as the portion of the administered dose that is absorbed. The medication must pass through biological membranes, unless it is administered intravenously. Absorption is governed by the above-mentioned principles.
Factors affecting absorption of drug
Aqueous solubility
Solid drugs must dissolve in the aqueous phase before absorption. For drugs with low water solubility, the rate of dissolution determines the rate of absorption. For example, Aspirin. Medication or drug given as watery solutions is absorbed faster compared to solids form or oily solutions.
Concentration
Passive diffusion relies on concentration gradients, with concentrated solutions absorbing drugs faster than dilute solutions.
Area of absorbing surface
The larger the surface area, the faster the absorption.
Vascularity of the absorbing surface
Blood circulation removes drugs from the absorption site and maintains a concentration gradient across the surface. Increased blood flow speeds up drug absorption, similar to how wind speeds up drying clothes.
Route of administration
Drug absorption varies depending on the route of administration due to unique factors. This includes,
Oral
The lipoidal gastrointestinal tract epithelial lining acts as an effective barrier to drugs taken orally. Drugs that are lipid soluble and nonionized are easily absorbed from the stomach and intestine at rates that correspond to their lipid: water partition coefficient. Basic medications are mostly ionized and are only absorbed after they reach the duodenum, whereas acidic drugs are primarily unionized in the acid gastric juice and are absorbed from the stomach.
Absorption of drugs from stomach is slower even for the acidic drugs because of the thick mucosa and small surface area. Surface area for absorption in small intestine is much more compared to stomach due to presence of villi, hence gastric emptying can accelerate the rate of absorption of drugs. Presence of food also affect the absorption of certain medications. Therefore, most of the drugs are absorbed better if taken empty stomach.
Some drugs have low oral absorption because the gut epithelium-resident efflux transporter P-gp extrudes some of the absorbed drug back into the intestinal lumen. This process contributes to the low oral bioavailability of cyclosporine and digoxin.
Subcutaneous and Intramuscular
The drug is applied subcutaneously or intramuscularly, right next to the capillaries. Drugs that are soluble in lipids easily cross the entire surface of the capillary endothelium. Even large lipid insoluble molecules or ions can be absorbed without obstruction by capillaries with large paracellular spaces. Through the lymphatic system, very large molecules are absorbed.
As a result, many medications that are not absorbed orally are absorbed parenterally. While absorption from the subcutaneous site is slower than that from the intramuscular site, overall, both types of absorption are quicker, more reliable, and more consistent than oral absorption. Heat application and physical activity increase blood flow, which speeds up drug absorption.
Topical sites
This includes skin, cornea and mucous membranes. Lipid solubility of drug is the primary factor that determines systemic absorption following topical application. Nevertheless, very few medications actually penetrate intact skin. For example, Hyoscine, Fentanyl etc. The drug incorporated in an oleaginous base can be rubbed in order to enhance absorption, or you can use an occlusive dressing to hydrate the skin.
The cornea is permeable to unionized, lipid-soluble physostigmine but not to highly ionized neostigmine. Drugs administered as eye drops have the potential to be absorbed through the nasolacrimal duct; for example, timolol eye drops have the potential to trigger asthma attacks and cause bradycardia.
Lipophilic drugs are absorbed by the mucous membranes of the mouth, the vagina, and the rectum. Therefore, vaginally applied oestrogen cream has caused gynecomastia in the male partner.
Bioavailability
The term “bioavailability” defined as the rate and the degree of drug absorption from a dosage form as shown by the drug’s excretion in urine or by its concentration-time curve in blood. It is a measurement of the fraction (F) of a drug’s administered dose that enters the bloodstream unaltered. When administered intravenously, a drug’s bioavailability is 100%; however, this often decreases when taken orally.
Bioequivalence
Drugs in oral formulations from various producers, or batches from the same manufacturer, may contain the same amount of the substance (chemically equivalent), but they may not produce blood levels that are biologically equivalent. When, under appropriate test conditions, the rate and extent of the active drug’s bioavailability from two drug preparations do not differ significantly, those preparations are considered bioequivalent.
Summary
Drug absorption is a critical process influenced by various factors. Physicochemical properties, pharmaceutical formulation, and patient-related aspects all play a role. Lipophilic drugs tend to be absorbed more efficiently. Factors like route of administration, gastrointestinal motility, blood flow, liver metabolism, disease states, age, and gender impact absorption. Bioavailability, which reflects how much of a drug reaches its target site, is directly affected by these factors. Understanding drug absorption is essential for optimizing therapeutic outcomes.
Frequently asked questions
Define Absorption of drug?
Absorption is defined as the movement of drugs or medications from its site of administration into the bloodstream.
What are the factors affecting absorption of drugs?
Aqueous solubility, concentration, route of administration etc. are the factors that affects absorption of drugs.
What is bioavailability?
Bioavailability is defined as the rate and the degree of drug absorption from a dosage form as shown by the drug’s excretion in urine or by its concentration-time curve in blood.
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IMF’s Hawley Says Portugal Negotiators See Importance of Accord
Negotiations for financial
assistance and related economic policies for Portugal will
continue as long as needed, an International Monetary Fund
spokesman said today. “All parties involved understand the importance of
reaching agreement,” David Hawley, a senior adviser in the
fund’s external relations department, told reporters in
Washington today. Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said this week that
the government is working “intensely” with IMF and European
Union officials on an aid package for the country. Portugal
would follow Greece and Ireland, which sought and received
international rescue plans last year. Hawley also said that a team reviewing Greece’s progress
under conditions attached to a 110 billion-euro ($163 billion)
by the IMF and Europe will start work “early May.” Each IMF
review includes a debt sustainability assessment, he said. Hawley said the IMF welcomes the Federal Reserve ’s
reaffirmation that it will finish the $600 billion of Treasury
purchases in June as scheduled. The decision “is appropriate in the view of the ongoing
recovery,” he said. To contact the reporter on this story:
Sandrine Rastello in Washington at
srastello@bloomberg.net ; To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Christopher Wellisz at cwellisz@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Sun Weiru
Sun Weiru (1896 – 27 July 1979), given name Shutang (樹棠) was a KMT general from Chang'an County (modern-day Chang'an District, Xi'an), Shaanxi.
Military career
Sun Weiru joined the National Revolutionary Army in 1917. From 1922, he joined the army of General Yang Hucheng. He participated in the Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, and the Central Plains War.
From 1932, he became the army corps commander of the 32ed army corps. In 1936, he became the Lieutenant General. This rank deemed him to be the second in-command of the Northwest Army. In the Xi'an Incident, he tried his best to resolve the incident peacefully. After that he was the Chairman of Shaanxi province for a short time.
During World War II, he became the General-in-Chief of the 4th Group Army, and also held many other important military positions. He led his troops fought at the Baoding, Xi Kou, and Mountain of Zhong Tiao. In a series of Campaigns around Mountain of Zhong Tiao.
From 1938 to the end of World War II, with inferior weapons, comparable numbers, but superior tactics, he successfully stopped the Japanese army who had much more superior weapons during his battles in Northwest China, and is therefore considered one of the most important Generals who defended Northwest China from the Japanese armies in World War II.
After World War II, he resigned from the military position and did not involve himself in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1949.
Later life
After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, he worked as the vice Governor of Shaanxi province and other administrative positions. He died in Xi'an on July 27, 1979. | WIKI |
User:JaxxonVA/sandbox
2011 Collier Trophy Selection Process
The Robert J. Collier Trophy is owned and administered by the National Aeronautic Association and is awarded annually "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year."National Aeronautic Association website - http://naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62
Nominations
The four nominations were:
• Boeing 787 Dreamliner
• C-5M Super Galaxy
• The Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter
• Taurus G-4 Electric-Powered Aircraft
Selection Committee
On February 2, 2012, the National Aeronautic Association announced the nominations as well as the Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee consisted of:
Walter Boyne, Chairman of the National Aeronautic Association and Chairman of the 2011 Collier Selection Committee
Dick Rutan, Collier Recipient (1986)
Joe Lombardo, Gulfstream Aerospace, Collier Recipient/Gulfstream V (2003)
The Honorable Bobby Sturgell, Rockwell Collins, Collier Recipient/[[ADSB] (2008)
Jeff Pino, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Collier Recipient/X2 (2010)
Richard Aboulafia, The Teal Group
Monte Belger, Aero Club of Washington
The Honorable Marion Blakey, Aerospace Industries Association
Bob Blouin, Hawker Beechcraft
Ed Bolen, National Business Aviation Association
Pete Bunce, General Aviation Manufacturers Association
Steve Callaghan, National Aviation Club Committee of NAA
Steve Champness, Aero Club of Atlanta
David Coleal, Spirit AeroSystems
Brian Glackin, Cobham
Mathew Greene, Safe Flight Instrument
Leo Knaapen, Bombardier
John Langford, Aurora Flight Sciences
Dave Manke, United Technologies
Mary Miller, Signature Flight Support/BBA Aviation
Stan O’Conner, GE Aviation
Steve Plummer, Rolls Royce, North America
Skip Ringo, DRS
Bob Rubino, Lockheed Martin
Ed Scott, United States Parachute Association
Bob Stangarone, Embraer
Al Tyler, Soaring Society of America
Mark Van Tine, Jeppesen
Tony Velocci, Aviation Week and Space Technology
Bob Vilhaeur, Boeing
Diane White, Cessna Aircraft Company
Jonathan Gaffney, President and CEO of NAA, Director (Non-Voting Member)
Presenters
* C-5M Galaxy
Major Gen Wayne Schatz, Director - Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois
Lt. Colonel Craig Harmon, Commander, 9th Airlift Squadron, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware
* Gamera Human Powered Helicopter
Ben Berry, PhD student at University of Maryland
Joe Schmaus, PhD student at the Alfred Gessow (Pronunciation?) Rotorcraft Center Dr. Jack Langelaan, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
* Team Pipistrel-USA
Dr. Mark Maughmer, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
* Boeing 787
Jim Albaugh, President and CEO, Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company
Scott Fancher, Vice President and General Manager, 787 Program
Process
The Collier Selection Committee will meet on Monday, March 13, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia.
The Recipient will be announced on Tuesday, March 14th. | WIKI |
Nicole Maines: Get to know TV's first transgender superhero
(CNN)"Supergirl" will be introducing the first transgender superhero on television. The announcement was made this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con that transgender activist and actress Nicole Maines will be joining The CW series as Nia Nal, described as "a soulful young transgender woman with a fierce drive to protect others." Here's what to know about Maines: She was born an identical twin Maines, 20, has an identical twin brother. She told ABC in 2015 that she identified as a girl at a young age. "I knew that I was trans when I was three years old," she said. "Well, I didn't know trans because I didn't know there was a word for it, but I just knew that in my head and my heart that I was supposed to be a girl." Her brother Jonas said he was extremely protective of his twin when they were growing up. "When I was a kid my dad told me to look after her and to protect her and do what you have to do," he said. "So that was a huge responsibility that I had to carry around for a lot of years." Maines decided as a teen to undergo sexual reassignment surgery. She's an activist As a young teen, Maines and her family were at the center of a battle over transgender children and school bathrooms. In 2014, the state of Maine's Supreme Court ruled to allow a transgender child to use the school bathroom designated for the gender with which he or she identifies after Maines and her parents filed suit. It changed Maine state law. The Bangor Daily News reported at the time that the fight was not easy for Maines. "I wouldn't wish my experience on another trans person," she said. Book subject Maines and her family were the subject of the book "Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family," written by Amy Ellis Nutt in 2016. That same year, Maines presented a TEDx talk about growing up transgender. Maines on Hollywood The actress recently talked to Variety about the controversy surrounding Scarlett Johansson being cast as a trans character in the film "Rub & Tug." Related: These trans actors could have been cast instead of Scarlett Johansson in her new movie Johannson opted to step aside from the project following backlash. "Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice," Maines said. "I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
User:Kalki/2011 Contentions
♘ Kalki · †alk · iota · index · imago · αnima · ! ¡ ! · Magic · Worldsong · Restorations · Chronology · Vox Box … Ω … "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." Foundational Principles against overly-controlling forces developing on the wikis. Even if you have read them before, PLEASE EXAMINE ANEW: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and the other links available there, including the links delineating much which Wikipedia was NOT.''' These were some of the earliest directives established by the founding workers on the Wikimedia projects.
This is primarilly a chronological presentation of contentions on various pages which occured in 2011.
= Talk:Julian Assange 2011·01·09 =
Chronological order and cite formatting
Please keep quotes in chronological order. Please do not remove cite formatting. -- Cirt (talk) 00:42, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* It might be more apt to call this reformatting rather than removal, as I would not consider the result unformatted. It would be more conducive to arriving at a consensus if, rather than implicitly denying the validity or existence of the revised format, one were to offer reasons for preferring one format over the other. ~ Ningauble 22:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* The cite formatting you are promotting is an option here — NOT a mandate, as far as I am aware, and your recent edits have DESTROYED chronological arrangements and removed legitimate quotes. I believe that you are also inclined to use extensive footnote formatting, which has long been deprecated here, and issue your comments as if they were imperatives others should obey witihout question — and you have abundantly made clear your vindictive and punitive attitude towards anyone who dares to dissent to your demands and dispositions, as your comments, lacking in merit or validity haver resulted in me being blocked here for an entirely unwarranted period of time — as well as the Wikipedia, and at Wikimedia commons, where I remain unable to edit, as I have not, as yet had time or sufficient inclination to challenge the blocks you initiated against me there. Your presumptively dictatorial and imperious manner is something I find quite disgusting, and I make no effort to hide that fact. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* has removed the cite templates, and removed the chronological order formatting, again, without waiting for discussion. Reported this to WQ:AN, at Administrators'_noticeboard. -- Cirt (talk) 01:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* "Cite templates" are a MINOR formatting issue — and I am attempting to preserve added material, and maintain chronological order — which is MUCH easier to do with straightforward WYSIWYG formatting of citations that can proceed as they have for YEARS here, rather than using bulked up citation templates, which are a relatively recent innovation which some prefer, but I make no pretense of believeing to be preferable, and actually believe are detrimental in many ways. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* The entire article used citation templates as the main format for the quotes cited. Kalki chose to undo this format for the page, disrupting the stability of the page on a living person - with no prior discussion - and then decided to engage in further disruption by reverting and again removing the prior format style of the previously stable page. -- Cirt (talk) 01:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* "Kalki chose to undo this format for the page, disrupting the stability of the page on a living person" — This is a bunch of profoundly foul HOGWASH. The formatting of citations is certainly NOT prescribed in the manner Cirt is implying it is or should be, and revising the citation format is NOT some horrendous offense to "the stability of the page on a living person" as Cirts fearmongering attempt at intimidation pretends it is. My supposed "disruptions" to this project in attempting to do constructive edits here are but minor things compared to the major disruptions Cirt has caused with his rather extensive attempts at character assassination and diminishing my reputation and abilities to edit on Wikimedia projects. I am not addressing all the abuses I consider Cirt to have engaged in, but the time will come when I might well do so — I have far more interesting matters to attend to now. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* In this edit, which Cirt characterizes as "disruptive" and reverted, I had added Assange's Date of Birth, arranged the quotations ABOUT Assange BY AUTHOR, which anyone who has spent more than rudimentary time at Wikiquote knows is a STANDARD arrangement for such sections, and removed a citation formatting that is designed for long lists of footnote citations which I consider ridiculously inappropriate for interlinear citations, and contemptible to insist upon as if it were mandated here. I added a quotation by Newsweek journalist Ben Adler, in which he quoted entirely relevant comments about Assange by Sam Freedman and Dan Abrams — I believe these clearly are notable and appropriate comments to include here. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Can you please interact on talk pages without using bold, and CAPS formatting? -- Cirt (talk) 15:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Of course I can, but I am no more inclined to make any major effort to suppress that aspect of my inclinations than you are to suppress yours of regularly adopting an imperious tone that seems to imply or assert that you know what is best for everyone else to do, and anything against your preferences and styles of behavior should be automatically depricated or even forbidden. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:17, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Just that the use of bold and CAPS makes it most difficult to comfortably parse what is attempted to be communicated. -- Cirt (talk) 16:39, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Regarding "cite formatting", the issue raised here (leaving chronological ordering to a separate thread above, and disregarding personal remarks and other digressions) is whether or not to use citation templates. No policy or guideline mandates or deprecates use of these templates, and it has long been a matter of editor preference. Few regular contributors use them, but visiting Wikipedians often do. Some of the considerations are:
* Templates can lead to a degree of consistency in the style of the resulting text. However, due to the variety of templates and their multiple options and parameters, the potential for uniformity is largely unrealized in practice.
* The templates were originally designed for formatting footnotes at Wikipedia. I think it debatable whether the same formats are desirable for Wikiquote's style of interlinear citation. Some of the templates (not used in this case) are modeled on academic styles that were designed to facilitate indexing a separate bibliography. I really do not like seeing the "First, Last" naming convention here, and am not aware of any major compendia of quotations that use it.
* Proper use of the templates is relatively obscure for people who do not use them regularly. I am sure most random visitors from the general public, upon attempting to edit a page with templatized citations, find the wikitext unreadable, to the detriment of the principle that "anyone can edit."
* It can be convenient to copy and paste a citation from another wiki, template included, but this can lure one into neglecting to customize the citation for the context, as by providing local wikilinks or omitting information that is redundant in the enclosing page or section.
* On balance, I do not favor using these templates, but I would not go out of my way to reformat citations that use them. When I do have occasion to edit such citations, e.g. to provide missing information or to move footnotes inline, I usually un-templatize them in passing. It hardly matters enough to make an edit-war, so I imagine the actual reason for this dispute lies elsewhere than the point being disputed, and I apologize if this lengthy post has the effect of contributing to making a mountain out of this molehill. ~ Ningauble 22:15, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Thank you much for your analysis and commentary. I hesitate to edit this at this time, but I would like to at least restore the edit I had initially made, which I believe conforms to such recommendations, and perhaps restore the other quote added by someone else, if there are no significant objections to it. Both the quote I added and that added by someone else seem to me relevant to the page, and the one I had added incorporates commentary by 3 notable journalists on Assange. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:01, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Oppose removing cite templates. Ningauble, the entire page already uses cite templates as the standardized format. I do not object to new quotes being added with a different cite format, with the option to format them later, but going out of one's way to remove the standardization and uniformity for all the citations - is unnecessary and a threat to page stability. -- Cirt (talk) 17:07, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* That applying formatting which has been the standard on this wikiproject for YEARS is "going out of one's way to remove the standardization and uniformity for all the citations - is unnecessary and a threat to page stability" — is quite frankly a crock of crap. As a wiki we SHOULD permit and encourage innovations and changes — but when the longstanding consensus of what works best on the project as a whole is clearly undermined, editors should be free to remove rather pointless and detrimental innovations without seeking permission from anyone — they should simply be free to do that, and people who seek to impose NEW rules or new standards should be required to post convincing and sufficiently persuasive arguments to sway the community as a whole to their position — not simply expect others to bow down to what they believe would be the most convenient or appealing style for they themselves to maintain or supprort. I am sure Cirt has MUCH to contribute to the project, but laying down new laws or standards to be accepted by others without open disputes and adoption for clear reasons by the whole community is NOT one of them. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* The cite templates exist. They are used on multiple pages. There is no "standard" or policy dictating that they must not be used and that they must be disruptively replaced on pages of living people. -- Cirt (talk) 17:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Implying that any particular format is something which it would be innately "disruptive" to replace with a more generally used norm, and repeatedly tying this implication to some false associations that doing so might violate some sort of ethical policies because it is on some "page of living people" is a rather shallow and fetid position. Of course these templates exist, and many people find it convenient to use them, and I don't regularly object to them being used. NOT being an asinine absolutist about anything, I am NOT suggesting that they be scrapped entirely, or forbidden in any way and never have done so, but hold that they should also not be treated as themselves sacred or sacrosanct in any way. I have in fact regularly removed such formatting, despite it being inconvenient for me to do so, as I belleve the long standing form is generally far more convenient, practical and straightforward for most people not overly addicted to such specific templates. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:11, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* Pages on living people should be treated with more care than other pages, and disruption on such pages should be avoided. I thank you for refraining at present from said behavior, and engaging in discussion at the talk page. I echo the comments of Ningauble above, that cite templates foster both consistency in formatting across pages, and convenience in importing material from other pages. -- Cirt (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* You take my comments out of context: I said that their potential for uniformity is not realized in practice, and that their convenience leads to sloppiness. ~ Ningauble 23:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* I too agree with the assertions that "cite templates foster both consistency in formatting across pages, and convenience in importing material from other pages" and thus I Do NOT object to their being used — but the format that might be convenient for other people on other projects in other uses is NOT the optimal format to use here, and should NOT be treated as a holy ideal or sacred idol that other users should be compelled to bow down to, or prevented from altering; especially not with specious arguments that "Pages on living people should be treated with more care than other pages" — such arguments apply properly to the CONTENT of such pages — and certainly NOT to the relatively trivial and largely unrelated matters of the formatting in which it might be presented. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
* I agree with Kalki that citation format has nothing to do with the respect and diligence due to living people, unless it is so flowery as to constitute hagiography or so ugly as to be disparaging. ~ Ningauble 20:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
* Regarding ease of use, I cannot agree with the comment in this edit (which didn't work until the template was revised somewhat) that "cite templates make this needlessly easy to do." I think it is self-evident which of the following snippets of wikimarkup is easier (differences shown in bold):
* last=Ellsberg|first=Daniel|authorlink=Daniel Ellsberg|
* Daniel Ellsberg ,
* The first is nearly three times longer, and will break if parameter names and punctuation are not exactly right. ~ Ningauble 20:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Primary source additions
= please, avoid use of primary sources for additions, as in this example. Let us rely mostly on secondary sources. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 01:16, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* ONCE AGAIN, Cirt is behaving AS IF his preferences were MANDATES here, which, so far as I am aware, they are NOT. Cirt is an admin, and as far as I can be has regularly used his status here to IMPOSE his will and preferences, and in the case of myself to punitively apply his supposed authority in removing my appropriate rights, not only here, but at other wikimedia projects. As far as I am aware, there has been NO mandating of such a policy as Cirt is pretending should be submitted to as if it were. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:25, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Please engage in discussion about the subject of this thread, avoiding primary sources for selecting quotes on a page about a living person. -- Cirt (talk) 01:28, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* I was engaged in discussion which was the subject of this thread, and your behavior and false presumptions and assertions here and elsewhere, which I believe are very relevant to discussion of this incident, and many others. The person who added that quote was quoting PUBLICLY available information, originally posted at the subject of the article's public blog, and now posted at the Internet archive as significant enough to preserve there. I personally would not have actually added the material, but I can agree it is somewhat notable, and probably worthy of inclusion. I actually have very little interest in Mr. Assange, beyond some interest in defending his right to do as he will, and as he must with his levels of awareness, ignorance and confusion about many things, despite my actual belief in the wrongness and shallowness of much of his will and decision making processes. I am not seeking to be a denigrator or a defender of any or all of his actions, any more than I am seeking to be a defender or denigrator of all the possible motives of the poster of this particular quote. I do seek to defend this wiki from further imperious presumptions such as you have occasionally engaged in, where any edits you don't agree with are to be treated as if they were "disruptive", and in the case of my previous dispute with you, even subject to severe penalties of a vendetta of character assasination across multiple projects, where you accused me of being a "known abuser" of accounts, which I continue assert is NOT the case. Many accounts you could identify as uncontestedly presumed to be mine, here or elsewhere, have been blocked and all the contributions I had attempted to make on such user pages to enhance the general atmosphere of the project, in a generally jovial and hardly malicious way, and which I have begun to restore at my Restorations page, simply replaced with variations of some template such as .''' ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 03:21, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Please refrain from unnecessary verboseness, and overemphasized usage of bold text. It makes it much more difficult to successfully have a constructive and positive dialog. -- Cirt (talk) 15:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Of course accepting your characterization of any points or observations you don't wish to be made as "unnecessary verboseness" or somethng which "makes it much more difficult to successfully have a constructive and positive dialog" would permit you to entirely indulge in your inclination to presume that YOU should entirely set the agenda for others to discuss, and permit NO concerns or issues others might wish to raise in response to the complex interrelations of many events which I assert cannot actually be properly addressed in so constrained and limited a fashion as you would prefer to have them addressed by. I digress of course from issues of conformity to expectations which are rather alien to me and this project, and decline to defer to requests to ignore any issues of the ethical or practical considertations of being disposed to obey whatever some other individual or group of individuals would prefer, demand, or insist on as more convenient for them without clear and proper ethical justification of why what they find most convenient is something anyone else should accept as an ideal or mandate of their own. Simplistic minds and arguments often seek to keep things seeming so simple that they can imply or impel others to accept doctrines of "Might makes Right." I assert that what is right or best is NOT something always so easily or simply determined, and arguments on such matters, to be as fair as possible, should be as open as possible to all related issues and concerns — and NOT relegated to some pathetic paths onto some railroaded tunnel-vision track where the only outcome possible is one which can clearly be foreseen. If you choose to disrupt the wiki process by designating any other views, styles, agenda or concerns but your own narrowly and shallowly defined ones as things to be discarded and automatically classified as innately "disruptive", and can convince enough others to do the same, then you have successfully corrupted and crippled the wiki processes and initial aims of the Wikimedia projects far more than any vandals or trolls ever have. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:44, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* On the subject of primary and secondary sources, which I thought was the subject of this thread:
* I agree that the quote to which Cirt objects looks like a very obscure bit of bloggery that we do not need to include; however, I do not agree with his prescription for emphasizing secondary sources. What is required is quotability. This has come up several times, so I have drafted an essay at Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources which may be of interest for clarifying the application of these terms to citing quotations. In particular:
* A secondary source citation is but one of several indicators of quotability, and all secondary sources are not created equal.
* We should not remove the entire "Quotes about" section of this article just because all of the citations are primary with respect to the quotes, nor give a free pass on quotability to every source that is secondary with respect to the subject.
* I support the principle that quotability is particularly important when dealing with quotes by and about living people, especially when they are involved in controversy, but it is not as simple as discriminating between primary and secondary sources. ~ Ningauble 23:19, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
= Administrators' noticeboard 2011·01·09 =
Disruption by User:Kalki at page Julian Assange
Kalki is engaging in disruption at page Julian Assange, removing citation template formatting, and removing chronological order formatting of quotes, and. Would appreciate intervention from a previously uninvolved admin. Disruption by at this page on a living person is inappropriate and harmful to the prior stability of the page. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 01:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* I assert that this is once again a SEVERE and unwarranted mischaracterization of an editing dispute engaged in by Cirt. His previous edit removed recently added material, and I am currently engaged in what I believe is a remedial editing of the page, attempting to arrange it chronologically with all the previously included quotes, despite the DIFFICULTIES of doing so with all the extraneous dates and rather irrelevant formatting used in the cite templates that some people seem to prefer. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:17, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
-- Cirt (talk) 01:22, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* 1) Kalki removed citation template formatting from the page.
* 2) Kalki disrupted page and broke the chronological order of the quotes.
* 3) Kalki again removed citation templates and disrupted chronological order of quotes on the page - without waiting for outcome of ongoing talk page discussion.
* In this edit, which Cirt characterizes above as "disruptive" I arranged the quotations ABOUT Assange BY AUTHOR, which anyone who has spent more than rudimentary time here knows is STANDARD arrangement for such sections, and removed a citation formatting that is designed for long lists of footnote citations which I consider ridiculously inappropriate for interlinear citations, and contemptible to insist upon as if it were mandated here. I added a quotation by Newsweek journalist Ben Adler, in which he quoted entirely relevant comments about Assange by Sam Freedman and Dan Abrams — these clearly are notable and appropriate comments to include here. In my earlier edit today — which I am NOT going to pursue, at present, as engaging in an edit dispute with someone so dictatorially presumptuous as Cirt it is NOT the most worthy use of my time right now, I was restoring that quote and another recent addition by someone else, which I believe is an ENTIRELY appropriate quote from Assange's public blog. I am going on to less contentious issues in what remains of my time for today, and hope to get constructive edits done elsewhere — many of the imperious disruptions of Cirt are something I have learned to avoid contending with, so long as I am able. As I stated elsewhere, his activities and accusations of me being an "abuser" of alternate accounts here, after my editing dispute with him some months ago resulted not only in my long and what I consider entirely inappropriate blocking here, but also resulted in my being blocked indefinitely at Wikimedia commons and Wikipedia — which rather irritates me, but currently is not a bothersome enough outrage for me to seek to remedy, as yet. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* I want to clarify — there are NO accusations of my "abuses" of multiple accounts that I am aware of elsewhere — save for some years ago where I was FALSELY associated with some vandals, because of some incidental, invalid and incorrect assumptions. The only genuine accounts of my own which I am accused of abusing are those here, and these accusations of "abuse" here — primarily because I have so many of them, seem to be the rationale in accusing me of being an abusive "sockpuppeteer" elsewhere. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Comment: This is not the way the bold-revert-discuss cycle is supposed to work. Since the two of you disagree, it is appropriate to invite community input on the editorial questions. The discussion has started on the wrong foot with an excess of mutual reverting, but I do not see that the wiki has been disrupted in a way that calls for administrative action at this time. "Disrupted the page" is an inappropriate way to characterize a bold edit. Disruption refers to interfering with the wiki process. I encourage both of you to confine your remarks to discussing the merits of the editorial choices, and to refrain from unnecessary and unproductive digressions. I am not going to comment on the editorial choices until tomorrow because I have other things to do now. ~ Ningauble 02:30, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
* Agree with most of the comment by, however, Kalki should not revert and remove stable formatting on the page of a living person, while a dispute about that behavior is still ongoing at the talk page. -- Cirt (talk) 12:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
= Talk:Glenn Beck (2012·01·12) =
Media Matters Is Not A Reliable Source
It is a website run by idiots that are not intelligent enough to get real research jobs (e.g. government, university, financial services company) and have to rely on the charity of a senile billionaire. If their "research" abilities actually had any value they wouldn't be in a job where all they do is watch a news channel all day. I am going to remove all quotations that have mediamatters as their only source. Are there any objections?
* You apparently take your credentials as an anonymous IP as sufficient credentials for your own bias to cast aspersions on the bias of others. I believe that most regular editors here have persistently rejected calls from both right wing and and left wing extremists to automatically remove material linked to certain sites, simply because such sites are purportedly so biased as to have any material cited from automatically them dismissed as unreliable. If one can give evidence that some specific quotes from such sites are actually fallacious or clearly unreliable misquotations in anyway, one should do so, and reveal them as faulty or fallacious misquotations. Otherwise massive deletions of such quotes amounts to little more than presumptive censorship. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:25, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
* You apparently take your credentials as an anonymous IP as sufficient credentials for your own bias to cast aspersions on the bias of others. I believe that most regular editors here have persistently rejected calls from both right wing and and left wing extremists to automatically remove material linked to certain sites, simply because such sites are purportedly so biased as to have any material cited from automatically them dismissed as unreliable. If one can give evidence that some specific quotes from such sites are actually fallacious or clearly unreliable misquotations in anyway, one should do so, and reveal them as faulty or fallacious misquotations. Otherwise massive deletions of such quotes amounts to little more than presumptive censorship. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:25, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Spare me the pretentious language, bitch. I have a first class degree so you do not impress/intimidate me. You seem to have a lot of power round here (congratulations), so when I have time I will prove to you that every one of those quotations should be deleted.
Anyway you fucking dickhead, have you ever hard of a "character reference?" It's a thing used in court to evaluate a suspects testimony. If a suspect has a tendency to lie should we not require evidence from other sources before we accept their claims?
And, wtf are your credentials? You have nothing on me, fool.
* Your full credentials as a "Fair and Balanced" commentator are glaringly evident. I am not asserting that I am here to judge you — I am here to prevent what false, foul, and presumptuous judgments I can — which often has made me very unpopular with many of those most eager to judge and condemn others — "right", "left" and every which way but loose. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
= Ridiculous assertions (2011·02·17) =
* Originally at IP User talk:<IP_ADDRESS>
The ridiculous comments "I am God. … I Rule Wikiquotes. Welcome to my world ;)" which were posted from this IP have been removed from the God article. Currently the only people who are allowed to behave as if they were God here, and regularly pretend it is their right absolutely rule over others at Wikiquote as if they were, are a few arrogant and presumptive admins and checkusers who are ready to ignore many actual policies and facts in promotion of the interpretations or assumptions about a few which they favor and find convenient and useful, and are wont to insist or imply others should abjectly agree with, or suffer severely for doing otherwise. Even they are not so extremely witless as to actually claim they are God, or that it is entirely their world, as many dimwitted vandals are inclined to do.
I am quite sure that there is no one who is entirely witless, not even those dimwitted fascists and bullies of the world who must most chafe at the brilliantly liberating wit and will of others — though many might wish to presume others entirely witless or unworthy of any respect, so that they might persist in various forms of major or minor evils which satisfy their personal or partisan inclinations. I persist in promoting what I believe is the good of this project and others with such wit and will as can be maintained among many who are deficient in will to honor either good humour, good wit, or good will. Unfortunately deliberate vandals are not the most dangerous or damaging of foes one must face in such efforts. One does grow weary of many such confrontations with injustices though, and sometimes it is appropriate to either vent one's frustrations honestly, or honestly explode — amidst many who are quite complacent with all manner of foul dishonesties, and hypocrisies.
Previously, I would probably have already done a temporarily block of this account, and many others in recent months, and have been prepared for longer term blockage of them, if such vandalism were persisted in — but people caught up in various forms of short-sighted suspicions and complex forms of hypocrisy were responsible for the removal of such abilities from the tools available to me here. Such facts have reduced my inclination to monitor things here so regularly as I previously did, but I still seem to have a far more regular and active presence here than many of those who have presumed to judge me as someone unworthy of respect or trust — and have seemed at times to be quite willing and eager to inflict extreme penalties on me and others with little or no concern for actual justice of matters, by promoting and nurturing many forms of extreme distortion, deliberate deceits and outright slanders, in promoting such views and making attempts to minimize or erradicate my presence here.
I do expect that such declarations as these might not immediately be much noticed or heeded... but they are honest statements of opinion and will by one who is generally patient and tolerant of other's opinions and will — and promotes the proper rights of all people to express their opinions and will in many ways — to the extent that they are not innately intolerant and arrogant in unjustly oppressing or restraining the opinions and wills and proper rights of others. Some people are habitually prone to ignore or even deny the importance of such distinctions as exist in the types of opinions and wills as can exist — and what often seems to matter most to them is whether or not some specific will is one of their own or that of their allies or adversaries. The only freedoms from fear, oppression and injustice which many ever seek to defend are their own or those of their closest cronies — and those of others are something of little or no importance in their schemes of concerns. They fail to realize that in the patterns of Eternity, their acts of deliberate injustice or negligence towards others in many ways insure far fouler fates and dooms upon themselves. I too must often seem negligent to many — but quite often it is because I actually quite caught up in concerns far greater than they can discern. Thus I can usually forgive those who assail me in their ignorance and confusion — but I cannot pretend I am not sometimes angry and indignant at many of their most ignorant and presumptive acts of impositions and injustice.
Some will no doubt believe my minor essay here in response to a vandal's remarks, activities, and other frustrations, are in many ways excessive — and no doubt in many ways they are — and in other ways they are far from extensive enough in explicating many situations of concern to me and others. I, of course, must often digress from such matters as they think primary — such as their conveniences, comforts and powers to do what they think right — and I must often insist upon focussing on such things as they find trivial — such as my ability to do what I think right, and the abilities and rights of all people to attempt to do what they think right — until convinced by fair and proper reasons that what is right or best is otherwise than they had supposed — but I am a very odd person who, far more than most, is aware that many things, and perhaps ALL things are connected in ways both direct and indirect — and has faith in the truth that there is nothing hidden that shall not eventually be revealed — to the extent it MUST be. Such are some of the forms of knowledge and opinion which have often given me immense strength, fortitude, persistence and survival relative to those who place faith in lies and distortions — and often seem to have a ridiculous faith that those situations they most favor will endure with strength and honor forever, even if such strength and honor depends upon delusions and lies. So it goes. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:44, 17 February 2011 (UTC) + tweaks ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:53, 17 February 2011 (UTC); 17:17, 17 February 2011 (UTC); 17:55, 17 February 2011 (UTC)…
block 2011·05·21
* This exchange was originally located at Cirt
I continue to sincerely contend that your past and continued presumptive blocking of my other accounts here, and defacing their user pages as "abuse of multiple accounts", as well as moves to block and deface even the pages of my primary accounts elsewhere, thus preventing me from even doing quite simple and beneficial edits is an extreme misuse and abuse of your privileges as an administrator and as a human being. I do forgive you as an obviously very ignorant and confused person, but it is becoming a bit more than an irritation to me, and might soon warrant a far more extensive analysis and exposition of the obsessively insulting and destructive behavior you have sometimes obviously engaged in on a massive scale. I do hope to be able to help pardon you from some of the worst potential consequences of such activity, but there are always limits to what we can do for the benefit of other people, and I won't go so far to protect you from such humiliations and shame as you probably have often deserved, if it actually involves permitting harm to occur to far more innocent and admirable people — as some of your actions have already to some extent done, in my honest opinion. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC) + tweaks
* Kalki, I wish you were able to communicate with other human beings, without simultaneously spewing forth attacks and vitriol at them. -- Cirt (talk) 17:02, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
* I can repeat the same assertion, on my part, in regards to you, and what genuinely seems to me to be your immense and apparently often oblivious hypocrisy. In coming months I do intend to clearly and gradually expand upon MANY of my past reasons for some of my past behavior and comments, or lack of them, and make many of the meanings of them far more clear to those who are so presumptive as to believe they known enough to judge others, and seek to overreach in what they can properly do to constrain and control the rights of other human beings. I sincerely DO wish you well, but because of this I will assert to you that just because you are someone who seems to be very skilled at disguising or denying your own capacities for vitriolic harshness and what I sincerely consider your deceitful and mind-poisoining behavior, does not mean that it goes entirely unnoticed. I have never called for you to be stripped of any of your privileges, despite what I consider your extreme misuse of them at times, and I continue to abide by that — I "attack" you with nothing more than presentation of my honest and sincere opinions — and "threaten" you with nothing more than a continued devotion to speaking with candor and sincerity in times of contention. For some years now I have been threatened, insulted and severely constrained and punished by people who presumed they had the right and duty to judge me and condemn me in ways that I contend were NOT clearly warranted, and in at least a few cases I believe actually clearly and greatly exceeded their actual duties and rights or what I consider to be basic human decency. We are adversaries on some matters, and will probably continue to be for some time yet — yet I have faced adversaries before, whom when they learned a bit more of my skills, abilities and what actually was motivating me to act in vigorous opposition to their will, recognized they had erred in far more ways than they could have ever anticipated, and became allies and even to some extent friends. I hope that can eventually be the case here, as unlikely as that seems at this time. There are other things of far greater concern to me than clarifying many of my motives and discernments to you — and I expect many of the most crucial ones shall become more evident in the months and years to come. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 17:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
* Please, stop posting to my talk page, now. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 19:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Further comments on above dialogue on Cirt's usertalk page and some of its motivations:
* I truly delight to see the curt manner Cirt apparently likes to attempt intimidations by displays of subtle or bold hostility to any discussions that aren't going entirely in such directions as might prove most providential to the perspectives and biases that are most valued by that particular user. I certainly had no intentions of posting further comments to that page, and as I have stated, I have far better things to do than discourse with Cirt. As to the reasons I commented at all, with that particular deletion of material, is that it does show something of the apparently obsessive degree Cirt still considers me a persona non grata whose presence and influence here and elsewhere should be effaced and defamed to the fullest extent administrative status, trust and various forms of duplicity and a few facts and severe distortion of facts will permit it to be. Also, the comically profound presentations I had done on that page were some I was particularly fond of and have been restored at the Restorations page. I first learned of the Herla myths as a very young child… and found an odd dancing of words and worlds of ideas swirling around in my mind having to do with many variations and permutations of wordplay with Herla and History and Her Law and His Story, and many other related concepts, and I will probably eventually expand on some of these, in writings to be developed and presented elsewhere, in the coming months. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
* P.S. — After noting the removal of material on this humorously auspicious "Judgement Day" of "Rapture" upon "Rapture" predicted or fantasized, i thought it appropriate to remark in the summary "The dog has jumped down." This was a somewhat humorous remark which has QUITE a few very interesting implications but I have no particular interest or need to go into them right now.... HAPPY JUDGMENT DAY! ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:05, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
* P.P.S. — I just checked the edit summary of the Restorations page and realized what I had actually typed in was "The dog is jumping down. Kalki 2011·05·21 12:20:00" — Merry Rapture, Everyone! ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
= RFA for exposed sockmaster who refuses to self-disclose all sock accounts and stop socking ??? =
* Originally posted at the Village Pump
Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 04:52, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* Please see thread at admin noticeboard about exposed sockmaster running for RFA.
In response to recent activity where Cirt suddenly resumed what seems to be an obsessive compulsion to deface and denigrate all traces of my presence on this or any other wikimedia wiki, I posted a brief statement at the bottom of my Kalki page, which I recently slightly revised for clarity:
* Before agreeing to defer to an IMPOSITION to restrict editing here ONLY to the Kalki account, until such a time as the issues involved could be more thoroughly addressed and decided upon, in order to lift a PLAINLY IMPROPER and POLICY VIOLATING BLOCK by, this user had additionally made well over 11,444 contributive edits using many other names, for a present count of well over 74, 444 edits in all. MANY of these names and associated restored userpage messages have been salvaged from defacement at Restorations. MANY of the thousands of articles either created or significantly worked upon by this user are listed at '''Kalki/index.
In addition to the notices by Cirt here and elsewhere, the following notice appeared in my user namespace, while I was away from home. Upon returning, I noticed it, and have prepared this brief exposition of facts, for the benefit of those who might otherwise not be inclined follow links and discussions enough to delve into matters more than in the ways provided by a summation by Cirt here and at User:Kalki/Restrictions which I consider quite deficient and deceitful in many ways. Cirt's summary assessment is presented here, with some interjections of my own, as I cannot presently respond to it, on that LOCKED page in my user space:'''
* 1. October 2007 - notices a sock account of Kalki that created multiple other sock accounts.
* Jeffq requested: "I would ask that you not use more than one of your usernames for general editing."
* —K: Cirt here links to only the first polite statements of suspicion in what was a quite civil and somewhat humorous discussion between me and Jeffq, in which I defended the right of all users to use multiple accounts, either openly or discretely, so long as improper activities were not engaged in, which I believe ended quite amicably, and neither he nor I pursued the matter further at that point. Much to my dismay, subsequent discussions eventually occurred in what I believe to have been the following year after some misidentification of some of my accounts elsewhere with a vandal's accounts. Despite my extreme irritation at loosing some account names I had wished to eventually use for educational purposes, I did not contend about the blocks, once I found out a bit more about the severe obnoxiousness of the vandal with whom I was falsely presumed to be associated, and simply let the loss of those accounts go by — wanting no further improper assessments or judgments to occur. I may eventually reveal far more of discussions which occurred by email on the matter to further indicate the general tenor and progress of them. There is MUCH missing from this assessment by Cirt which I might eventually fill in, in accounts of the history of my activity at Wikiquote and at other wikis which I intend to present here and elsewhere in coming months. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* 2. November 2009 - Investigation by into socking and sockfarms maintained by Kalki.
* See User:FloNight/Kalki.
* —K: I deliberately declined to bring up all the issues involved with my acquiring of these accounts, and some of their activities, as retaining admin status, though I felt it to be desirable was not worthy he complications of making some things clear to others I considered severely lacking in some forms of both rational and ethical integrity at that point. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* 3. December 2009 - Kalki was desysopped, after an investigation which revealed socking including a massive sockfarm of over 200 sock accounts.
* The desysop discussion occured at Votes of confidence/Kalki, and closed as: "Result is removal of administrator and bureaucrat flags." diff
* —K: It is certainly true that I was desysopped —I lost the admin status which I had honorably used for many years, since the very first MONTHS of this wiki, after having been suggested as an appropriate person by . During the consideration period of that vote I had in fact declared my RESIGNATION of bureaucrat status, something I had LONG considered doing in protest of increasingly dictatorial encroachments on editorial rights for some time. Clearly facts were presented in a very deliberately damaging way, which I concede were very effective at casting my past activity here in dark shades which cast many justifiable suspicions upon me. I declined to defend myself as effectively as I might possibly have done, were my ethical concerns LESS than they were, and WAS desysopped, and I ACCEPTED this. The votes taken were clearly NOT upon the appropriateness of multiple accounts themselves — and I simply continued to use these, in constructive ways, despite some of their utility and worth being diminished by exposure as those of one person. I believe it is EVERY user's right to use multiple accounts. Months later, a person who herself HAS admittedly used multiple accounts, suddenly began blocking some of these accounts I was using AS IF that vote to desysop me had been a vote to limit accounts available to me — which it CLEARLY had NOT been.To state otherwise is a foul fiction of deceitfulness or delusion. Had it actually been the case, that the proposal were to limit the accounts available to me — or in ANY ways penalize me beyond desysopping for any of my past activities, I CERTAINLY would have made a far more vigorous and extensive defense of them and EXPOSED far more FACTS for consideration than I then chose to do — including those involving the truth that ANY newly proposed absolute restrictions upon the number of accounts available to editors wikimedia wide should probably be created by a Wikimedia wide debate and referendum on the matter — NOT by the fiat of a few admins at any individual wiki or among the cliques of like minded people interested in restricting editing rights they see little or no use for. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* 4. October 2010 - Kalki was blocked for one week, for socking and disruption. When asked, Kalki openly refused to stop socking.
* —K: I, as well as others, asserted that this block was entirely INAPPROPRIATE one, which arose after a simple EDITING dispute with Cirt. It was followed by a massive defacement and block of my accounts here, and what I considered to be a very malicious cross-wiki spree of assaults upon my accounts and reputation elsewhere — a sudden and severe rampage of defamation and blocks upon my IPs and MANY of my account names. Cirt effectively silenced and has thus far effectively prevented me from contributing to other wikimedia projects where I have NEVER used ANY of these accounts in a manner I consider in the least bit controversial or improper. Many of these blocks even NOW remain in place as I have not yet bothered to present the strongest possible case against Cirt's harassment and defamation to others.
* The link Cirt provides above is to my refusal I openly refused to comply with presumptive and hostile demands of Cirt to submit to Cirt's will and dictates which clearly were NOT in conformity with ANY properly established policy about which I was aware, and I assert this to have been an act of and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE and open defiance to demands I considered to be in MANY ways, both against established policies and simple human ETHICAL principles. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* This block was reviewed by another admin,.
* —K: I will again note that Apahia, despite perhaps being more generally good-willed towards others than Cirt often appears to be, was actively hostile in blocking my accounts WITHOUT clear warrant even before Cirt was: Specifically first blocking my — under which she had once ASKED me to become an admin. I had vigorously DECLINED the request, even though at that time there were NO rules or regulations against multiple admin accounts here or anywhere else, to my knowledge. Despite my will to accumulate many optional identities for pragmatic reasons, I simply have never been a power-hungry status-seeking title. Later, as I continued to oppose BEHAVIOR I considered nothing less than dictatorial usurpation of rights and CONTRARY to any PROPERLY established policies of which I was aware the account Taliesin which I was using to OPENLY declare and mark many accounts as mine ~ Kalki
* Aphaia declined the unblock review of the block on Kalki. diff
* —K: This was hardly surprising to me, as Aphaia was the person who WITHOUT community authorization had actually BEGUN blocking my accounts, whenever she noticed me using them, some months before. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
* 5. November 2010 - Kalki is restricted to one account. This is as per result of community imposed restriction proposal, from Village Pump. diff
* —K: In deference to what seemed to be community opinion, and in order to remove what I and others still consider to have been an improper blocking of my IP addresses and primary account, I AGREED to use only one account to edit here: the and I have rigorously ABIDED by that agreement. I have NEVER at any time agreed to disclose all of my accounts to such nosy and presumptive people as are most inclined to imply that they have to be aware of EVERYTHING done and reasons for it — or it should not be permitted. I decline to abjectly bow down to such arrogance as it manifests in ANYONE, and have no intentions to do so. Even were it demanded of me, after proper establishment of policies by proper voting on matters by Wikimedia editors, it would probably take me weeks to compile a nearly thorough list of my account names here, as I have never yet made a compact listing of all of them, and there might be a few I have never set down in a list, but which I would remember were I inclined to use them. In agreeing to restrict myself to the Kalki account I accepted such restrictions as were burdensome to me and others in ways I have not yet been inclined to reveal, but probably shall begin to in the coming months. Sufficient number of people insisted upon this measure as appropriate, or refused to be inclined to intervene in what I continue to assert was CLEARLY a hostile action by Cirt, AGAINST any policy mandates of proper use of blocking of which I am aware, which in addition to other things of more pressing personal concern, PREVENTED me from being able to respond in a timely and thorough manner to these assaults upon my dignity and reputations, and unethical DEFAMATION and HARASSMENT by Cirt.
* The adopted restriction is:
* Kalki be allowed to edit only with the account User:Kalki.
* Any violations of the above can result in a 3 month block.
* Further transgressions, result in blocks of increasing severity (perhaps 6 months, 1 year, indefinite).
* —K: This is again an attempt to imply that there is a past MANDATE imposed entirely as PUNISHMENT upon me, and though it is to some extent a punishment, I hold it an UNJUST one. I made an AGREEMENT to use ONLY the Kalki account to edit here. I HAVE abided by it. These further statements, so far as I can see, are NEW dictatorial presumptions on the part of Cirt — who is apparently attempting to currently IMPLY or insist that simply by not disclosing accounts which had previously escaped notice, that I violated my agreement, and in some way deserve immediate and long term blocks. Cirt has attempted to impose these in the past here, and HAS thus far successfully imposed them elsewhere, because I have chosen to not yet contest them, so ably as I can. Frankly, I find Cirt's assertions to largely be distortions of fact far fouler than any reeking hogwash, and which prompt me to such observations and exclamations as I will decline to make at this time. I will state frankly that they display to me a further will to have WORDS set down which distort facts enough to permit those in whom the will to CONSTRAIN and Constrict the rights of others and indeed to PUNISH and DO HARM to those who oppose their will is very strong and even in many ways a ruling passion — and Cirt's continued strategy of PREVENTING me from editing or commenting such foully distorted assertions as he makes upon the Userpages of my accounts displays a marked will to END discussion at such points as Cirt chooses, by FORCE and ABUSE of admin powers rather than resolved more clearly and fully by discussion and reason.
The above mentioned page was created within my user-namespace by an admin who has repeatedly demonstrated an obvious will to harass, defame, and attempt to prevent me from exercising my proper rights as a human being with sincere will for truth to be heard, from MANY perspectives, and not merely RESTRICTED to such facts and DISTORTIONS of facts as are most serviceable to malicious lies and delusions about the actual activities of other human beings.
I will sincerely state my opinion in saying that I truly believe that the repeated harassments of this admin are in many ways far more contemptible than that of MOST trolls and vandals, and I sincerely believe in some ways ranks as far more damaging to the welfare of others and this wiki and wikimedia projects than even the most noxious and obnoxious of deliberate vandals. I hold the dictatorial stances promoted to be an innate insult to the very spirit which founded the very worthy projects now administered by the WIkimedia Foundation.
Even now, I am probably NOT going to immediately respond so fully as I might to all issues here, as there are many other things which concern me I must attend to, and I wish to examine and expose many of the deficiencies and flaws in this analysis at my leisure. I will probably make a far more thorough assessment of this and other matters within the next month or two. I truly hope that Cirt and others will grow more enlightened and their lives be enriched by such truths as come to prominence in coming weeks and months, as discussion on these and other important issues proceed in the proper spirit for an honorable Wikimedia wiki — and NOT one of a Kangaroo court. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:38, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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Should You Go Gluten Free?
Is there an athletic performance benefit to eliminating gluten from your diet? STACK Expert Kait Fortunato breaks down this popular diet trend.
Current news reports have turned gluten into public health enemy number one. You hear it about on popular nutrition blogs, see it blasted in magazines, and watch as grocery stores devote entire aisles to "gluten-free" products.
Recently, the Mayo Clinic released a study revealing that 1.6 million Americans are on a gluten-free diet who don't need to be. Further research has shown there's no need to eliminate gluten unless you are diagnosed with celiac disease.
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Gluten
Current news reports have turned gluten into public health enemy number one. You hear it about on popular nutrition blogs, see it blasted in magazines, and watch as grocery stores devote entire aisles to "gluten-free" products.
Recently, the Mayo Clinic released a study revealing that 1.6 million Americans are on a gluten-free diet who don't need to be. Further research has shown there's no need to eliminate gluten unless you are diagnosed with celiac disease.
So why are so many people embracing the trend? Is there a health benefit to going gluten-free? (See Can Eliminating Wheat From Your Diet Improve Your Performance?)
What Is Gluten?
Gluten is a protein found in grains such as wheat, barley, rye and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). For people with celiac disease, ingesting gluten causes an autoimmune attack on the small intestine, which renders it unable to absorb nutrients and causes problems like inflammation, weight loss and severe stomach pain. (Learn What Gluten-Free Athletes Need to Know.)
A gluten-free diet can be extremely frustrating. Common foods such as bread, crackers, sweets, and some sauces and dressings are deemed off limits. Even foods naturally gluten-free are a no-go for celiac disease sufferers if the foods become contaminated with gluten during processing.
It's tricky to self-diagnose celiac disease. The symptoms can be easily confused with other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease or diverticulitis. Only a doctor can truly determine if you have celiac disease—by taking a biopsy or administering a blood test. (Read How Athletes with Celiac Disease Can Eat Healthy and Stay Gluten-Free.)
Should You Try a Gluten-Free Diet?
The media have made "gluten-free" the latest buzzword and diet trend. Adding fuel to the fire are celebrity and athlete endorsements for gluten-free products.
A common mistake people make is to automatically assume "gluten-free" means "healthy." Gluten is what makes baked goods light and airy. In order to replicate this texture in a gluten-free product, food manufacturers use alternatives that are often nutritionally inferior to white flour, which is enriched with iron and B vitamins. In general, gluten-free packaged foods have added fat to make them taste better.
If you choose to embrace a gluten-free lifestyle, you must remove all wheat and a vast majority of carbohydrates from your diet. The reason some people lose weight and reportedly "feel better" after going gluten-free is because they've cut out refined carbohydrates (e.g., chips, crackers, cookies and white breads).
But you can do this without going gluten-free. Why make healthy eating hard on yourself? A gluten-free diet is an unnecessary commitment unless you have celiac disease.
A better alternative is to enjoy all the foods you love in moderation as part of a balanced lifestyle. Focus on eating real, whole foods and balancing your meals correctly. That is the diet that will benefit your athletic performance—more than choosing gluten-free bread over whole-wheat bread.
Photo Credit: Getty Images // Thinkstock
Topics: DIET | NUTRITION | FOODS | HEALTH | CARBOHYDRATES | BREAD | CRACKERS | CELIAC DISEASE | GLUTEN | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
William Gilbert Mair
William Gilbert Mair, (20 November 1832 – 8 July 1912), was a soldier, resident magistrate, and judge of the Native Land Court in early New Zealand.
Born at the Bay of Islands, he was the son of one of the earliest European settlers, trader Gilbert Mair. He married Jane Cathcart Black at Auckland on 15 May 1872.
At the outbreak of the Waikato War he joined the Colonial Defence Force, and took part in the fighting round Pukekohe and Rangiriri. He later reached the rank of Major in the New Zealand Militia, and took part in campaigns against the Hauhau and Te Kooti.
In 1869 he was a member of the expedition led by Colonel George Whitmore into Te Urewera, by way of Fort Galatea and the Ahikareru Valley.
His brother was Captain Gilbert Mair, who also participated in Te Kooti's War. | WIKI |
Can Stress Cause Bleeding Between Periods?
can-stress-cause-bleeding-between-periods Jamie Grill/The Image Bank/Getty Images
In some rare cases, excessive stress causes bleeding between periods. It is more common that another condition is responsible, such as pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome, infection, pelvic inflammatory disease or side effects of medication, according to WebMD. Bleeding between periods sometimes also indicates rarer but more serious conditions, such as uterine fibroids, polyps, cancer of the reproductive organs, hypothyroidism or diabetes.
Excessive stress sometimes causes changes in the menstrual cycle. An intense level of exercise, such as in professional athletes, impacts menstruation on occasion, as well. However, typically these conditions halt menstruation rather than causing more bleeding, according to WebMD. If pregnancy is a possibility, take a pregnancy test. Spotting and light bleeding are common when the egg is implanted in the uterus.
According to HealthLine, it is important to visit a doctor for bleeding between periods. Keep a record of how much bleeding occurs along with any noticeable symptoms to formulate a good patient history during the appointment. In most cases, a doctor orders blood work and performs a pelvic exam to determine the cause of bleeding. Many cases of vaginal bleeding between periods are not serious, but some cases are. Seek medical treatment when the symptoms occur to prevent a serious problem from becoming life-threatening. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Parts of the Wind Vane
In ancient times, it was believed that wind had magical powers. The first wind vane was built by Andronicus, a Macedonian astronomer, to honor the Greek god Triton. The initial design of the wind vane resembled a head and torso of a man with a fish tail.
A wind vane is a mechanical device used to measure the direction of the wind and was implemented to provide weather warnings for armies, ships and farmers. Several parts of the wind vane work together to determine wind direction. The terms "wind vane" and "weather vane" are often used interchangeably.
Purpose
Wind vanes can only measure wind directions a few meters off the ground. The instrument consists of an arrangement of a direction pointer, the two ends of which are known as the "tail" and "nose," pointing toward the direction from where the wind is going and the direction it is coming from, respectively. This is made possible due to the inherent design whereby the smaller area turns into the wind and vice versa.
Features
Wind vanes come in various designs and sizes, but they can be identified by their essentials parts--ornament, rod, cupola or dome-like structure, directional and finial.
The Ornament
The feature that makes different wind vanes unique is the decorative ornament that enhances its beauty. In ancient times, the ornamental piece was perceived as a status symbol and defined its owner. The design of the ornaments needs to be precise so that the mass on either side of the center is equal to maintain balance; at the same time, the area should not be same but should be unequal for the device to work. The ornament comes in different styles like arrows, full bodied and silhouettes, among others.
Rod
The rod, usually made of steel, is one of the critical parts of a wind vane as all the other pieces are connected to it. The height of the rod depends on the point where the vane is to be fixed and the surrounding area. The rod assists the ornament to rotate in the wind.
Globe, Directional and Finial
The globe is composed of two spheres--a large one and a small one--and are placed on the rod. The primary function of the directional piece is to indicate the directions--North, South, East and West.
At one time, finials are carved from precious stones and highlighted the top of a wind vane. It is believed that finials are better for lightning to strike at rather than at the house itself. In the past, it was believed that the finial could ward off evils, stop their progression and keep the place safe.
Cupola
The cupola is the ornate structure at the crown of a rooftop. Usually, wind vanes are placed on top of the existing cupola so as to serve as a foundation, of sorts. It is important that the size of the cupola and the wind vane be equal. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
1999 European Grand Prix
The 1999 European Grand Prix (formally the 1999 Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe ) was a Formula One motor race held on 26 September 1999 at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany. It was the fourteenth race of the 1999 FIA Formula One World Championship. The 66-lap race was won by Johnny Herbert, driving a Stewart-Ford, with Jarno Trulli second in a Prost-Peugeot and Herbert's teammate Rubens Barrichello third.
It was considered to be one of the most eventful and exciting races of the 1999 season. Going into the race Mika Häkkinen, Eddie Irvine, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard were all harbouring World Championship aspirations. Häkkinen and Irvine were tied for the points lead, with Frentzen 10 points behind them and Coulthard a further two points back. In the previous round at Monza, Häkkinen had made an unforced error while leading, Coulthard and Irvine finished only fifth and sixth and Frentzen took his second race win of the season.
In the race, a high number of retirements saw Marc Gené take sixth place for the Minardi team, their first points since Pedro Lamy's at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix. The Stewart cars took first and third, with Prost's Jarno Trulli finishing second. As a consequence of the race, Häkkinen moved into the lead in the World Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Irvine, with Frentzen a further twelve behind. In the World Constructors Championship, McLaren extended their lead to twelve points over Ferrari. It would prove to be Johnny Herbert's third and final F1 victory, also his seventh and final podium in what was the only victory for the Stewart Grand Prix team as well as their only double podium.
This would be the last time until the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix that both Ferraris in the race would fail to score points, and also the last time until the 2003 Australian Grand Prix that neither Ferrari driver finished on the podium.
Background
Heading into the race, McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen and Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine were tied for the lead of the World Drivers' Championship on 60 points each. Jordan driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen was third on 50, followed by Häkkinen's team-mate David Coulthard on 48. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren led Ferrari by six points, 108 to 102, with Jordan third on 57.
Following the Italian Grand Prix on 12 September, four teams (McLaren, Williams, Jordan, Stewart) conducted testing sessions at the Magny-Cours circuit on 14–16 September. Coulthard set the fastest time on all three days of testing. Williams, Jordan and Stewart ran for only two days at Magny-Cours. Ferrari ran their pairing Irvine and Mika Salo at the team's test circuit of Mugello. Ferrari test driver and Minardi driver Luca Badoer performed engine development work at their test track at Fiorano with Irvine performing shakedown runs. Benetton performed aerodynamic mapping tests at RAF Kemble with Arrows and Minardi electing not to test.
Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions were held before the Sunday race—one on Friday from 11:00 to 14:00 local time, and a second on Saturday morning between 09:00 and 11:00. The first practice session took place in dry conditions. The ambient temperature was 19 C and the track temperature was 25 C during the hour-long period.
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session was held from 13:00 to 14:00 local time. Each driver was limited to twelve laps with the implementation of a 107% rule to exclude slow drivers from competing in the Sunday race. The session was held on a wet track – the result of previous rainfall with isolated showers a few hours before qualifying. The ambient temperature ranged between 14 and 15 C, while the track temperature ranged between 15 and 18 C. Frentzen clinched second pole position of his career, in his Jordan 199, with a time of 1:19.910. Although he was dissatisfied with earlier problems finding the ideal setup during practice—he said that he felt fantastic to be on pole position—he believed he could have made a faster lap, as he was carrying five laps worth of fuel on board. Frentzen was joined on the front row by Coulthard who was two-tenths of a second slower.
Race
On race day the track was dry but the start was delayed when Alessandro Zanardi and Marc Gené lined up out of sequence on the grid, necessitating another formation lap. As the start was aborted during the start lights' sequence, the top five qualifiers and Jean Alesi actually jumped the start but were not penalised due to the aborting of the start. When the race finally got under way, Frentzen led from Häkkinen, but further back there was trouble at the first corner. Damon Hill's Jordan suffered an electrical failure in the middle of the pack which caused Alexander Wurz to swerve into Pedro Diniz, sending the Sauber into a barrel roll. The safety car was deployed while Diniz was helped uninjured from his car – a fortunate end result as it was later revealed that the Sauber's rollbar had failed when it hit the ground.
The race settled down with the top six Frentzen, Häkkinen, Coulthard, Ralf Schumacher, Giancarlo Fisichella, and Irvine. On lap 17, Irvine passed Fisichella after pressuring the Italian into running wide at turn 8. Whilst further back Zanardi was an unfortunate victim to the collision between Diniz and Wurz as his car was damaged from this incident earlier on and would eventually retire on lap 11 when his Supertec engine stalled. Just moments later the rain began to fall and Ralf Schumacher took advantage of the damp track to pass Coulthard. At the end of lap 20, Häkkinen pitted for wet tyres, which proved to be premature as the rain quickly blew over and the track dried. The following lap Irvine pitted for dry tyres but the stop lasted 28 seconds with the right-rear mechanics seemingly confused over a last minute change in tyre choice. Team mate Mika Salo had damaged his wing the previous lap leaving the Ferrari pitcrew unprepared for Irvine. On lap 24, Häkkinen on wet tyres was lapping around seven seconds slower than the leaders and was overtaken by Irvine over the start-finish straight dropping to 13th position. Soon afterwards, with his tyres clearly overheating, Häkkinen pitted again to change back to dry tyres emerging just in front of Fisichella, who was a full lap ahead of him.
Ralf Schumacher pitted from second position at the end of lap 27 for his scheduled first stop leaving Frentzen and Coulthard battling at the front followed by Fisichella twelve seconds behind the leaders in third place. At the end of lap 32 both Frentzen and Coulthard pitted for their first scheduled stops with both Jordan and McLaren mechanics impeccably turning their cars around in seven seconds, and both returning comfortably ahead of Schumacher. At this point in the race both Irvine and Häkkinen were well out of the points, meaning that if the order stayed the same Frentzen, Irvine, and Häkkinen would have all been tied for the points lead with two races to go, with Coulthard six points behind them.
What followed was a series of retirements. The first to fall was Frentzen, who ground to a halt at the first corner after his pitstop because he had forgotten to disable the car's anti-stall system. The team claimed it was an "electrical issue" in order to protect Frentzen. Coulthard inherited the lead and stayed out front until the rain came back with a vengeance. Coulthard chose to stay out on dry tyres while most pitted for wets, which ultimately proved to be a costly mistake, as he slid off the road and out of the race on the 38th lap as the conditions worsened. Within a handful of laps two Championship contenders had seen their hopes of winning the title fall by the wayside. Schumacher, still on dry tyres, then inherited the lead which he held until his pitstop six laps later. This allowed Fisichella, also on dry tyres, to take the lead with Schumacher in second, as the rain stopped. Meanwhile, Johnny Herbert had quietly moved up the order after changing to wet tyres just at the right time. Mika Salo would soon be forced to retire with brake problems.
The heartbreak then reached new levels. On lap 49, Fisichella spun out of the lead like Coulthard before him, giving the lead back to Schumacher. But then Schumacher too lost the lead when his right rear tyre punctured, allowing Herbert to take the lead which he would not lose. Further back the Minardis were taking full advantage of the unpredictable nature of the race with Luca Badoer in fourth and Gené in seventh. But with just 13 laps to go, Badoer's gearbox failed, denying the Ferrari test driver his first ever Formula One points and leaving him in tears. Gené was promoted to sixth, which became fifth when Jacques Villeneuve's car failed with a broken clutch, robbing the BAR team of a chance to get their first-ever point before. Behind him, Irvine and Häkkinen had fought their way back into contention for points, with Irvine holding sixth ahead of Häkkinen. After cruising for most of the race, Häkkinen turned up the pressure, eventually forcing Irvine into a mistake and taking sixth place. At the front Barrichello tried to pass Jarno Trulli for second and make it a Stewart 1–2, but ultimately had to settle for third. Meanwhile, Häkkinen caught and passed Gené for fifth to earn two invaluable points, but Gené held onto sixth ahead of Irvine to give Minardi their first point in four seasons.
Post-race
It was the only race ever won by the Stewart Grand Prix team, as well as being the only time Stewart had two drivers finish on the podium. It was also first Grand Prix victory for a Ford-powered car since the 1994 European Grand Prix, the last Grand Prix victory for Johnny Herbert, the last podium finish for the Prost Grand Prix team and also the last-ever Formula One podium finish for the Peugeot engine,. Jackie Stewart considered the race greater than any of his own race wins. This was the final time that both Ferrari cars failed to score until the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix. This was also the last win for the Milton Keynes-based Formula One team until Sebastian Vettel won the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix in the pseudo-successor Red Bull Racing team.
Gené's performance, in finishing sixth ahead of championship contender Irvine, is considered by many as the deciding factor in the Drivers' Championship, for it is often believed that had Irvine passed Gené for sixth, he would have had the extra point to win the title (with Michael Schumacher letting Irvine pass him during the 1999 Japanese Grand Prix.).
Championship standings after the race
* Bold text indicates who still has a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.
* Drivers' Championship standings
* Constructors' Championship standings
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. | WIKI |
Talk:Elizabeth Chamber
The identity of Mistress Stonor
Elizabeth Stonor, wife of Sir Walter Stonor would be Lady Stonor, not Mistress Stonor.
It would appear that the Mistress Stoner who was present with Anne Boleyn in the Tower in 1536 was Isabel Stonor, not Elizabeth Stonor, whose husband was knighted in 1513 or his first wife, Anne Foliot, who had died by 1533.
Isabel Stonor was the daughter of Clement Agard of Foston, Staffordshire, and the wife of John Stonor (d.1550), yeoman of the guard to Henry VIII. John Stonor’s older brother was Sir Walter Stonor (d.1551), who married 1. Anne Foliot, the daughter of John Foliot of Worcestershire and Eleanor Moore, 2. (in 1533) Elizabeth Chamber, the daughter of Geoffrey Chamber of Stanmore, Middlesex. After Sir Walter’s death she married successively, Reginald Conyers, Edward Griffin and Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso. Walter’s daughter, Elizabeth married 1. Sir William Compton (d.1528), 2. Walter Walshe, 3. Sir Philip Hoby.
References: Anita Hewerdine, The Yeomen of the Guard and the early Tudors: the formation of a royal bodyguard. (London 2012). pp. 200-4.
LP xi, 253. 9 Aug. 1536.: "Warrant to Sir Richard Riche, Chancellor of the Augmentation Court, for a grant to John Stoner, serjeant-at-arms, and his wife, being in service with the Queen, of the farm of the priory of Goring, Oxford. Chersey, 9 Aug. 28 Hen. VIII."
Calendar of the Patent Rolls. Philip and Mary. vol. 1, p. 60: "12 Jan. 1554. Grant during the queen’s pleasure to Isabel Stoner, widow, late the wife of John Stoner, esquire, of an annuity of 20l. from Michaelmas last to be paid at four terms yearly by the treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, in consideration of her service to Henry VIII and Edward VI and to the queens consort of Henry VIII in the place of the mother of his daughters."
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Rougga
Rougga is a town in southern Tunisia located in Sfax Governorate, on the Oued er Rougga wadi. Rougga is the Berber name of the town, which is known as Raqqa in Arabic. The town is located on the site of Ancient Roman African city and former bishopric Bararus, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
A veteran of this city is mentioned in a list of soldiers from Nicopolis, a Roman garrison suburb of Alexandria, Egypt, recruited in Africa province.
The city was devastated by an earthquake in 365 after which the forum appears to have been abandoned
The 6th century was a time of great affluence for the town, with a golden solidi coin hoard testifying to this wealth. The town appears on the Roman Tabula Peutingeriana road map By the 7th century there is evidence of fortified housing, though pottery remains indicate a continuance of occupation to the 10th century, well after the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The Roman town was sacked by Ibn Sa'd in 647 AD. A Berber population moved in following the Islamic conquest and used the Roman building materials for other settlements.
Ecclesiastical history
The city was also the seat of an ancient bishopric, like many suffragan of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway, like most also destined to fade, presumably at the advent of Islam.
Its only historically documented bishop, Iulianus Vararitanus (or Bararitanus), was found on the lists of bishops in Byzacena province having attended in 484 the Council of Carthage (484) called by Arian king Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after which most Catholic bishops (including him?) were exiles, unlike their schismatic Donatist colleagues.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as titular bishopric of Bararus (Latin) / Bararo (Curiate Italian) / Baraitan(us) (Latin adjective).
It was vacant since decades, having had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Johannes Baptist Filzer (1927.02.18 – death 1962.07.13) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Salzburg (Austria) (1927.02.18 – 1962.07.13)
* Bernardo José Bueno Miele (1962.11.22 – 1967.01.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Campinas (Brazil) (1962.11.22 – 1967.01.25); next Titular Archbishop of Uppenna (1967.01.25 – 1972.07.12) as Coadjutor Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil) (1967.01.25 – 1972.07.12), succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (1972.07.12 – death 1981.12.22)
* Damián Nicolau Roig, Third Order Regular Franciscans (T.O.R.) (born Spain) (1967.04.08 – resigned 1977.11.25) while first-ever Bishop-Prelate of Territorial Prelature of Huamachuco (Peru) (1963.10.23 – retired 1981.09.13), died 1998
* Michael Augustine (1978.01.30 – 1981.06.19) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (India) (1978.01.30 – 1981.06.19); next Bishop of Vellore (India) (1981.06.19 – 1992.02.18), Metropolitan Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India) (1992.02.18 – retired 2004.06.10)
* Nelson Antonio Martínez Rust (1982.01.08 – 1992.02.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Valencia in Venezuela (Venezuela) (1982.01.08 – 1992.02.29); later Bishop of San Felipe (Venezuela) (1992.02.29 – retired 2016.03.11)
* Zef Simoni (1992.12.25 – death 2009.02.21), first as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Shkodrë (Albania) (1992.12.25 – retired 2004.01.20), then as emeritus
* Luis Rafael Zarama (born Colombia) (2009.07.27 – 2017.07.05) as Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Atlanta (Georgia, USA) (2009.07.27 – 2017.07.05); later Bishop of Raleigh (USA) (2017.07.05 – ...).
Remains
Rougga is the site of Henchir-Ronga, which comprises numerous ruins of the Roman era. including the Bararus Amphitheatre The layout of the Roman town ''is organized around a forum dominated by two temples.... also two large semi circular Cistern s, an amphitheater set in an abandoned quarry, a theater with extensive outbuildings, and a paved domus [house] with remarkable mosaics.''
The amphitheater is in modern Tunisia located at 35.21184°N, 10.7912°W
Theater
The theater is located on the opposite bank of the wadi from Bararus and is roughly oval in shape. The theater of Bararus is in bad condition, though a stage of 29½ by 30 meters is still discernible. The overall size of the arena was 98 by 73.5 meters with seating on a radial barrel vaulting the Arena walls were only 3 meters heigh and lacked a parapet. It was estimated that the arena could seat 12100 spectators. The arena may have been unfinished.
Cistern
The underground cisterns are very large. and were excavated by the French in the 20th century.
Inscriptions
Several inscriptions were found in the town, including one recording that the curator Republicae performed duties in the three cities of Thysdrus, Thaenae and Bararus.
Sources and external links
* GCatholic - (former &) titular see
* Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 469
* Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 346–347
* Auguste Audollent, lemm 'Bararus' in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. VI, 1932, col. 567 | WIKI |
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Module: Develop Apps with Heroku “Answers”
In this article, we will see the answers to Module: Develop Apps With Heroku
#1.Get to Know Heroku
Q1)A platform as a service (PaaS) is:
I)A service to help you buy and install your own server hardware
II)A way to deliver hardware and software tools, such as those needed for application development, to users as a service
III)A piece of software in the cloud that you can use just by logging in
IV)A monthly bare-metal server rental service
II)A way to deliver hardware and software tools, such as those needed for application development, to users as a service
Q2)In the hierarchy of cloud services, PaaS generally provides more out of the box than:
I)Software as a service (SaaS)
II)Salesforce Marketing Cloud
III)Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and on-premises infrastructure
IV)Visualforce pages
III)Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and on-premises infrastructure
Q3)A RESTful API is:
I)A web-based service that provides standard ways for clients to make requests and receive responses
II)A methodology for maximizing the effectiveness of any vacation
III)An Actually Pretty Informative meditation session
IV)How the web displays data in a hierarchical format readable by both people and machines
I)A web-based service that provides standard ways for clients to make requests and receive responses
Q4)Which of the following is a good use case for the Heroku Platform?
I)Customer engagement applications
II)Empowering mobile apps with an API service
III)Data manipulation
IV)Proof-of-concept or lab approaches
V)All of the above
V)All of the above
#2.Deploy Your First Heroku App
Q1)Which Heroku feature allows you to deploy a real app complete with code, config, and add-ons already configured?
I)Heroku Getting Started guides
II)Heroku Buttons
III)git push heroku main
IV)Heroku Deployment wizard
II)Heroku Buttons
Q2)Which of the following is a Heroku CLI command?
I)git push
II)git push heroku main
III)heroku create
IV)heroku new
III)heroku create
Q3)The Heroku CLI gives you the ability to:
I)Install your own Heroku instance on to your on-prem servers
II)Make a mean cup of Java
III)Leverage the most powerful interface in the galaxy to have complete control over a fully operational battle station
IV)Use Heroku with an expressive and powerful toolset on the command line
IV)Use Heroku with an expressive and powerful toolset on the command line
#3.Peek Under the Hood of Heroku
Q1)What is a Heroku dyno?
I)An on-prem server that you can install in a rack at your nearest co-location facility
II)A specialized dinosaur monitoring service delivered from the cloud
III)A managed runtime container with a Linux operating system underneath
IV)Your application code compiled and ready to be served to a variety of web clients
.
III)A managed runtime container with a Linux operating system underneath
Q2)How are languages, buildpacks, and slugs related?
I)A slug is a shortened version of a language that compiles down into a buildpack.
II)A buildpack knows how to compile code in a specific language down to a slug that runs on Heroku.
III)A language uses a slug to deploy buildpacks as a service across the entire Salesforce Platform.
IV)A slug and a buildpack are sandwiched together between several Heroku add-ons, and the result is a new open-source language.
II)A buildpack knows how to compile code in a specific language down to a slug that runs on Heroku.
Q3)Heroku add-ons are cool because they:
I)Give you the ability to add complex functionality to your application without having to manage the underlying software or infrastructure.
II)Cost nothing — billing is easy because they’re always provided at no additional cost with every Heroku Enterprise account.
III)Accessorize your dynos with over-clocked CPU power and faster I/O speeds.
IV)Can be provisioned easily from the Heroku Enterprise Flea Market system
I)Give you the ability to add complex functionality to your application without having to manage the underlying software or infrastructure.
#4.Going Further with Heroku Enterprise
Q1)What are the three access levels a user can have in a Heroku Organization account?
I)Jedi, Padawan, and Co-pilot
II)Admin, Member, and Viewer
III)Owner, Author, and Viewer
IV)Admin, Programmer, and Operator
II)Admin, Member, and Viewer
Q2)If an Organization member has the operator privilege on an app, that means the user can:
I)Deploy the app
II)Transfer the app to someone else
III)Add a paid add-on
IV)Remove a member from the Organization account
III)Add a paid add-on
Q3)Heroku Connect is an add-on that syncs Force.com data into:
I)A Heroku Postgres database
II)Only one dyno in your app’s dyno formation
III)A secondary Salesforce instance
IV)Someone else’s isolated network environment
I)A Heroku Postgres database
Q4)The Private Spaces feature can be useful if you need to:
I)Write Apex applications quickly
II)Ensure that your application’s incoming traffic originates from a allowlisted set of IP addresses
III)Speed up an application’s response time by running it on dynos that are located geographically closer to your customers
IV)Both A and B
V)Both B and C
IV)Both A and B
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-- Israeli Release of Palestinian Prisoners Divides Government
Israel ’s possible release this week
of more Palestinian security prisoners as part of the deal to
renew peace talks is deepening political divisions in Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition. The Jewish Home party, which opposes the creation of a
Palestinian state, tried to derail the release with a bill
forbidding the freeing of prisoners convicted in attacks on
Israelis. The faction, the government’s third largest, also
stirred a heated debate with a barb at Israel’s chief
negotiator. Cabinet ministers today rejected the bill, which Finance
Minister Yair Lapid deemed “very irresponsible and designed to
score public relations points,” according to an e-mailed
statement. Lapid’s Yesh Atid, the coalition’s second-biggest
partner, supports the prisoner release and a peace agreement
that would include a Palestinian state. Environment Minister Amir Peretz accused Jewish Home of
inciting violence with its opposition to the release and
criticism of chief negotiator Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.
Livni and Peretz’s Hatnua party also supports a peace agreement
that will lead to a Palestinian state. “This incitement and agitation are grave matters, and I
hope the prime minister will bring the Jewish Home to order,”
Peretz said in an interview with Army Radio. He likened it to
the incitement that preceded the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist in 1995. Livni Criticized Jewish Home over the weekend released a text message
criticizing “the freeing of terrorists so Tzipi Livni can have
the dubious honor of meeting with” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat. Israel agreed in July to release 104 Palestinian security
prisoners, some serving life sentences for deadly attacks on
Israelis, in four rounds under a U.S.-brokered deal to restart
talks that had broken down almost three years before. The first
release of 26 prisoners took place in August, with the second
scheduled to come as early as this week, pending approval by a
ministerial committee and the High Court of Justice’s rejection
of any legal challenges. “We want to reach a peace agreement with the
Palestinians,” Netanyahu said at today’s weekly cabinet
meeting, according a text message from his office. “In this
agreement, we will insist on the vital interests of the State of
Israel, first of all security, of course, and including our
ability to continue defending our eastern border.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Calev Ben-David in Jerusalem at
cbendavid@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
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Singularity Enterprise Registry Caching
By Staff
Jan 11, 2024 | How To Guides
Introduction
A proxy cache plays one of many key roles in optimizing the efficiency of container image registries, and its significance becomes even more pronounced in the context of modern software development practices. Essentially, a proxy cache is an intermediate server that sits between client requests and the container image registry. Its primary function is to store copies of frequently requested container images locally, helping to reduce the need to repeatedly download them from the upstream registry. This local caching mechanism not only accelerates the image retrieval process but also contributes significantly to the overall performance of containerized applications.
Proxy Caching
The importance of utilizing a proxy cache for container image registries is particularly evident when considering bandwidth conservation. In a containerized environment where numerous containers are deployed across distributed systems, the demand for container images can saturate network resources. By employing a proxy cache, organizations can minimize the amount of data transferred over the network by serving frequently requested images directly from the local cache. This not only enhances the responsiveness of containerized applications but also leads to considerable bandwidth savings. As the volume of containerized deployments continues to grow, the conservation of bandwidth becomes a critical aspect of maintaining efficient and cost-effective operations.
Use case
Imagine many HPC users utilizing Singularity Enterprise as their container image registry. Singularity Enterprise, known for its advanced features, includes a crucial functionality piece of software called Harbor, which provides proxy caching. This proves instrumental in a scenario where users regularly pull container images from various external repositories, such as Docker Hub or other public registries, as part of their software development and deployment processes.
Without a proxy cache, each request for a container image would directly hit the external registry (Like node 4), potentially leading to delays and increased network bandwidth consumption. However, with Harbor’s proxy caching functionality, the registry intelligently intercepts these requests. When a container image is requested for the first time, Harbor fetches it from the external registry and caches a local copy. Subsequent requests for the same image are then served directly from Harbor’s local cache, avoiding the need to repeatedly download the image from the external source.
Setup
In order to set up proxy caching capabilities in Harbor, it is necessary to add an external registry record, then create a project and mark it as a proxy cache using the external registry as its source.
First, login to the harbor registry administration dashboard. You will need the username, password and address that was specified when installing Singularity Enterprise the first time. This is most commonly “https://harbor.DOMAIN or https://registry.DOMAIN” for newer installations. After login, add a registry by clicking on the Administrator > Registries option, then click on the “+ New Endpoint” button.
Next, a pop up dialog will appear. In this example, the use case is with Docker Hub, so select the Docker Hub provider, assign it a name, and type your user and password. Even better, create a token at Docker Hub and use it in Harbor as a password, leave the “Verify remote certificate” checked to increase security, and click on the OK button.
The registry will be available on the Harbor system, and you can see it with the tag “Healthy” if the connectivity is correct.
Then, to add a project, click on the Projects option at the left menu, and click on the “+ New Project” option.
Type a name for the project. In this example, it will be “hub.docker.com”. According to the use case, we want all Singularity Enterprise users to consume the proxy cache without access restrictions by marking it as “Public”. Unlimited quota can be specified as “-1” or set a limit for it. Select it as a “Proxy Cache” by sliding the option button, select the previously created registry, and then click the OK button to create it.
Every image you try to pull from this new project will pull it from the upstream registry — in this case, it will pull from Docker Hub.
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* Remember to add Singularity Enterprise remote and create an access token through the user interface. Then we can use Docker to pull from that project, let’s measure how long does it take to pull an image,
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It now takes 13 seconds to pull the first time, if the image is removed from the local system and pulled again, it should take less time thanks to proxy caching:
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This time it takes 2.5 seconds. It is evident this mechanism significantly reduces the time it takes to retrieve images and, more importantly, conserves bandwidth by minimizing redundant downloads.
Conclusion
In addition to bandwidth savings, a proxy cache also provides enhanced control and security. Organizations can implement access controls and policies at the proxy level, ensuring that only authorized users and systems have access to certain container images. This adds an extra layer of security to the containerized environment, mitigating the risk of unauthorized access and potential security vulnerabilities. The implementation of a proxy cache for container image registries is a strategic decision that not only optimizes performance and conserves bandwidth but also strengthens security measures in the dynamic landscape of modern software development and deployment.
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A pacemaker is a small electronic device attached beneath the skin of the clavicle. Its primary function is to control abnormal heart rhythms. It consists of a pulse generator, which connects to a string of leads. The leads act as conductors of electrical impulses generated by the pulse generator and sent to the heart muscles to make them contract. This helps the heart muscles to efficiently pump blood to the lungs and other parts of the body.
The techniques involved in pacemaker installation vary, but one of the most employed is epicardial electrode insertion. This technique employs small cameras that guide doctors during surgery (video-assisted thoracic surgery or VATS).
The heart is enveloped by a double-layered sac called the pericardium. The outer fibrous layer is called parietal pericardium while the inner, serous part is the epicardium. The epicardium is situated closely to the heart muscle. In this medical procedure, the electrodes are attached to the epicardium.
Recently, this technique has been replaced by even less invasive approaches. These include transvenous lead placement in the right atrium and ventricle as well as the placement of leads in the left ventricle via the coronary sinus.
The insertion of epicardial electrode usually requires thoracotomy or surgical incision in the chest wall. At times, median sternotomy is used. This is a surgical procedure where surgeons cut open the sternum and divide it to gain access to the heart. Another technique that can be used is the subxiphoid approach where a 6cm incision is made just below the xiphoid process, which is located at the lower end of the sternum.
Who Should Undergo and Expected Results?
Epicardial electrode insertion is used as a therapeutic or diagnostic procedure since the 1960s. These electrodes are installed in the epicardium and are indicated for the management of tachycardia, a condition where the heart beats faster than the normal rate.
The installation of epicardial pacing wires restores the heart’s ability to beat at a normal rate. This allows for an optimised cardiac output, which is the amount of the blood the heart is able to pump in a single minute. The goal of inserting epicardial electrodes is to optimise and augment cardiac output.
A number of studies and medical documentations show that epicardial permanent lead insertion procedure is suitable for many patients suffering from irregular heartbeats and those with chronic diseases of the heart muscle.
However, the procedure is not recommended in some cases. Some of the contraindications for this procedure are the following:
• Existing infection at the site
• Tendency of the patient to bleed profusely
• Existing bacteria in the blood signifying infection (bacteremia)
• Severe lung disease
The insertion of a temporary or permanent epicardial electrode decreases the morbidity and mortality of patients suffering from heart muscle disorders.
How is the Procedure Performed?
Epicardial electrode insertion only lasts an hour or less. Blood loss is less compared to other similar open incision procedures and often, it produces minor or virtually no complications.
If a minimally invasive procedure, such as transvenous placement of leads, is not possible or applicable, that is the only time that surgeons would perform highly invasive epicardial lead insertion procedures. With this method, the epicardial leads are inserted through a surgical incision in the chest wall (thoracotomy). The leads are burrowed down the skin (subcutaneous) and connected to the pacing generator.
Depending on the need, atrial or ventricle wires are installed. Atrial pacing wires are implanted into the right atrial appendage while the ventricular pacing wires are installed into the right ventricles’ anterior diaphragmatic surface. As soon as these wires are installed into the target location, the wounds are sutured closed to prevent further bleeding.
The wires or leads are then connected to the batteries of the pulse generator so that it can start monitoring the heart’s rhythm and intervene when necessary.
Possible Risks and Complications
Like any other kinds of invasive medical procedure, the insertion of epicardial electrodes also poses some risks and complications. However, these complications are mostly minor and immediately get resolved using appropriate drugs or with medical interventions during surgery.
Bleeding from the site where the wires were inserted is one. To resolve this, surgeons often make additional sutures in the area to prevent further blood loss.
The wires or leads used can irritate the phrenic nerve, a nerve that originates from the neck, and can also unnecessarily stimulate the diaphragm. However, this can be avoided with the correct positioning of pacing wires and by making sure they don’t touch any sensitive organs or tissues.
Surgeons require patients to adhere to their follow-up schedule so that they could carefully monitor the leads and pulse generator. They will also use this time to monitor any improvement in the heart’s cardiac output as well as check for early signs of complications.
Risks and complications abound, but potentially catastrophic ones are rare and usually result from the patient’s pre-existing conditions that are left unchecked.
References:
• US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health; “Epicardial electrode insertion by means of video-assisted thoracic surgery technique”; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15503625
• Yasir Abu-Omar, Lorenzo Guerrieri-Wolf, David P. Taggart; “Indications and positioning of temporary pacing wires”; http://mmcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/2006/0512/01248.full.pdf
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From the given name and its appellative.
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Luzern Bahnhofquai
Luzern Bahnhofquai is a quay and shipping terminal in the city of Lucerne, in Switzerland. It is located at the northwest corner of Lake Lucerne, where the river Reuss leaves the lake and flows north toward the Aare. It is served by the Lake Lucerne Navigation Company. The terminal is located across the Bahnhofplatz from Lucerne's primary railway station.
Layout
The terminal has six landing stages, numbered 1–6. No. 1 is near the Seebrücke Luzern, the stages then continue clockwise around the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre. Directly south on the Bahnhofplatz are the bus bays of the Lucerne railway station, followed by the station building itself.
Services
the following services stop at Luzern Bahnhofquai:
* Lake Lucerne Navigation Company:
* hourly service to Brunnen; some ships continue from Brunnen to Flüelen.
* during the summer months, five round-trips per day to Alpnachstad
* during the summer months, three round-trips per day to Küssnacht am Rigi
* during the summer months, three round-trips per day to Meggenhorn
Between April and mid October, the daily Gotthard Panorama Express connects the Bahnhofquai with Lugano once a day by boat and train, travelling by boat along the length of Lake Lucerne to Flüelen, and then by train over the historic high-level Gotthard route. | WIKI |
Nasal Vaccines – What you need to know
As the world once again braces itself for the new wave of Covid-19 virus, nasal vaccines have now offered a sniffing hope to the people. Developed by Bharat Biotech and approved by the Government of India, these vaccines are now formally included as a booster dose in the vaccination program and are available at hospitals, private centres and on the CO-WIN platform.
What is a nasal vaccine?
A nasal vaccine or a spray for COVID-19 is administered through the nose and aims to restrict or stop the spread of the virus in the mucosal region. This prevents the virus from triggering an immune response from cells and molecules in this region. These vaccines do not require any formal training and the entire procedure is a painless needle-free procedure. Thus, nasal vaccines not only overcome vaccine hesitancy but also remove needle-associated risks.
How do nasal vaccines work?
Nasal vaccines work on the mucosal lining and prompt an immune response right at the entry points of the virus which are primarily our nose and mouth. These vaccines stimulate immunity by developing and neutralizing IgG, mucosal IgA, and T-cell response. Also referred to as sterling immunity, nasal vaccines have been found to significantly cut down the spread of the virus even in asymptomatic and mild cases.
What are the side effects of Nasal Vaccines?
Side effects of nasal vaccines include –
● Headache
● Fever
● Running nose
● Sneezing
These vaccines are not being given to people who are allergic to any of its components, had a severe allergic reaction to it in the past and have acute infection or fever.
How are these vaccines given to patients?
Currently, nasal vaccines have been approved for people of the age group 18 years and above as booster doses. These vaccines are given as 0.5ml doses (8 drops – 4 drops in each nostril) after 4 weeks of intervals.
Can you take a nasal vaccine as a 4th booster dose?
CoWIN is currently not accepting nasal vaccines as a fourth dose. Also, regular immunization, and administering them at short intervals can cause ‘antigen skin’ which will limit the body’s ability to respond to the vaccines. This is also the reason why only people who have taken 2 doses of covid-19 vaccine are being given the option of nasal vaccines as a booster dose.
How can you opt for nasal vaccines and when will they be available?
While iNCOVACC is available as an option on the CoWIN platform, however, the doses will be rolled out in the fourth week of January 2023. These vaccines will be available near your hospitals and private medical centres.
Authored by Dr. Swati Rajagopal, Consultant – Infectious Disease & Travel Medicine, Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore
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At first blush, this looks like a well-written article: it's well-formatted, written in decent English, has a decent list of citations, and has inline references for the claims made. As a student contribution, it is certainly a good effort.
As a medical article, however, I'm not so sure. It is long on what has been attempted and how people are instructed to be gentle, and so forth, and rather short on evidence that it actually helps. Individual primary research papers (such as preliminary studies) are used to support claims. Further, the kinds of paper cited include some that are close to speculative: "TSY addresses the need for a trauma-informed yoga practice that could identify and mitigate potentially triggering environmental and physiological circumstances"; the paper cited describes itself as "a qualitative examination", i.e. an illustration based on the experiences of a small number of individuals. This is interesting and possibly illuminating, but very far from a randomised clinical trial, let alone a systematic review of a group of such trials. At best, this is suggestive preliminary evidence, which isn't my understanding of WP:MEDRS.
I think the article needs work. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:32, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
* A systematic review has been published this year. It found the evidence wobbly, based on unreliable studies. I've added it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:33, 12 September 2019 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum is a series of Indian Hindi-language adult comedy film produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Motion Pictures. The first film Kyaa Kool Hai Hum is directed by Sangeeth Sivan was released in 2005. The second film Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum is written and directed by Sachin Yardi was released in 2012. The third film Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 is directed by Umesh Ghadge was released in 2016. The first two films were well received by the audience but the third one was not up to the mark and became an average grosser.
Kyaa Kool Hai Hum (2005)
Rahul (Tusshar Kapoor) is sincere and hardworking whilst Karan (Riteish Deshmukh) is just the opposite. Both are best friends and cool wannabes. When the city is rocked with a series of rape and killings, the police with psychiatrist/psychologist Dr. Screwvala (Anupam Kher) is in search of this dreaded Serial Killer, and Rahul becomes the prime suspect, yet being innocent. Things take a funny turn when the job of nabbing Rahul is entrusted to a violent lady Inspector called Urmila Martodkar (Isha Koppikar). Urmila is taken to a salon and kept gagged with tape on her mouth while the doctor instructs how she has to be disguised, while she moans through the tape on her mouth. She enters Rahul's life on a pretext, and tries to seduce him into showing his true nature. Rahul falls in love with her and she loves him back, not remembering she is on a police force mission. By this time, Karan falls in love with D.K.(Rajendranath Zutshi) i.e. his boss's ex Kiran (Bobby Darling) who is actually the brother of Rekha (Neha Dhupia) a psychologist and Karan's ex-college mate.
After a roller coaster ride of mistaken identities and comedy of errors, the film reaches its peak when Karan is about to wed Kiran at the temple, but he is not aware that she is a transvestite, but Rekha and D.K. reach on time, where D.K. takes Kiran away and Rekha reveals that it was she who used to call and write letters to him on the name of Kiran, Karan realises his true love and reunites with her. The police are on the verge of arresting Rahul as the rapist, when the true rapist reveals himself, and turns out to be Uma Shankar Tripathi (Rajpal Yadav) and is arrested by police. Rahul and Urmila reunite and the film ends.
This film is based on the 1994 The Monster (Italian: Il mostro) French comedy film.
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* Neha Dhupia as Rekha
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* Shoma Anand as Parva
* Bobby Darling as Kiran
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* Sushmita Mukherjee as Hira Hingorani
* Anil Nagrath as Flat owner
* Dinesh Hingoo as Flat buyer
* Vijay Patkar as Constable
* Avtar Gill as Police Commissioner
* Razzak Khan as Popat (Laundry wala)
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* Tusshar Kapoor as Aditya "Adi" Chopra
* Sarah-Jane Dias as Anuradha "Anu" Marlo
* Neha Sharma as Simran Singhania
* Anupam Kher as Francis Marlo
* Razak Khan as Popat (loundry wala)
* Chunky Pandey as Baba 3G
* Delnaaz Irani as Mrs. Dev
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* Aftab Shivdasani as Rocky
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* Claudia Ciesla as Sakku (Shakuntala)
* Gizele Thakral as Sanskaar (Meri Lee)
* Darshan Jariwala as Surya Karjatiya
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Characterization of Geological Structures under Thick Quaternary Formations with CSAMT Method in Taiyuan City, Northern China
Chuantao Yu, Suoliang Chang, Yu Han, Jishan Liu, Enguo Li
Research output: Contribution to journalArticle
1 Citation (Scopus)
Abstract
A controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotelluric (CSAMT) survey was used to detect geological structures beneath the thick quaternary formation in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, northern China. Two main CSAMT survey lines with 182 survey sites were recorded. A two-dimensional (2D) inversion technique was used to interpret the CSAMT data. The inversion results suggested that: 1) there are four main buried faults named F1, F2, F3, and F4 with dip angles about 65 degrees across the survey line from west to east, the fault displacements of these faults are about 230 m, 180 m, 220 m and 200 m, respectively; 2) the depth of the bedrocks decrease from 1600 to 500 m along the survey lines; and 3) from top to bottom, there are four major layers in the survey area that include the upper layer with the resistivity less than 40 ohm-m represents unconsolidated sediments in the Quaternary formation, a second layer with the resistivity range from 40 to 120 ohm-in represents mudstone and sandstone, a third layer with the resistivity range from 120 to 280 ohm-m represents coal measure strata in the Permian and Carboniferous and a bottom layer with the resistivity higher than 280 Omega.m represents limestone in Ordovician. The CSAMT method is an effective technique for exploring buried fault of several hundred meters deep in metropolitan environment.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)621-628
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2019
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I have an HTML like ,
<table>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" data-column="A" value="5" data-row="1" /></td>
<td><input type="text" data-column="B" value="2" data-row="1" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" value="7" data-column="A" data-row="2" /></td>
<td><input type="text" value="9" data-column="B" data-row="2" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><input type="text" data-column="A" data-row="3" data-equation="A1+A2-B1" /> </th>
<th><input type="text" data-column="B" data-row="3" data-equation="B1+B2" /></th>
</tr>
</table>
And my javascript like
$('input').each(function(){
if($(this).attr('data-equation')!=undefined){
var equation=$(this).attr('data-equation');
$(this).val(calculate(equation))
}
});
function calculate(equation){
result=0;
//calculate value and return,i dont know how to calculate
return result;
}
I need to calculate the value based on data-equation,In the equation ,First element refer data-column and second refer data-row
Fiddle Demo
4
• You will need to split the expression on none alphanumeric characters and start from there. Feb 26, 2014 at 7:25
• 1
A nice question but it wont be something as simple as executing a simple equation, you ll have to write a parser to first separate all the operators and operands Feb 26, 2014 at 7:25
• Do you mean the second refers to the data-row?
– Nimnam1
Feb 26, 2014 at 7:37
• @Nimnam1 Yes.........
– Shijin TR
Feb 26, 2014 at 8:31
5 Answers 5
5
If someone is still looking for similar solution, I'd suggest http://mathjs.org/.
Simple spreadsheet-like example:
jQuery(function($) {
var calculate = function(n) {
var expr = n.attr('data-equation')
, ret = expr;
if (expr) {
try {
ret = math.eval(expr);
} catch(e) {
ret = 'Syntax error in equation!';
}
}
var obj = {};
obj[n.attr('id')] = ret;
math.import(obj, { override: true });
return ret;
};
$.fn.equations = function() {
$(this).each(function() {
var n = $(this);
n.focus(function() {
n.val(n.attr('data-equation'));
});
n.blur(function() {
n.attr('data-equation', n.val());
n.attr('title', n.val());
n.val(calculate(n));
});
if (!n.attr('data-equation')) {
n.blur();
}
n.val(calculate(n));
});
};
$('input').equations();
});
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Equations</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjs/3.5.1/math.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>A1: <input type="text" id="A1" value="2+2"/></p>
<p>A2: <input type="text" id="A2" value="16"/></p>
<p>A3: <input type="text" id="A3" value="A1+A2"/></p>
</body>
</html>
2
With substrings:
var math_it_up = {
'+': function (x, y) { return x + y },
'-': function (x, y) { return x - y },
'*': function (x, y) { return x * y },
'/': function (x, y) { return x / y }
};
$('input').each(function(){
if($(this).attr('data-equation')!=undefined){
var equation=$(this).attr('data-equation');
$(this).val(calculate(equation));
}
});
function calculate(equation){
result=0;
index=2;
var value1 = $('input[data-column="'+equation.substring(0,1)+'"]
[data-row="'+equation.substring(1,2)+'"]').val();
result = parseInt(value1);
while(equation.substring(index,index+1) !== "") {
var operator = equation.substring(index, index+1);
var value = $('input[data-column="'+equation.substring(index + 1, index+2)+'"]
[data-row="'+equation.substring(index + 2, index+3)+'"]').val();
result = math_it_up[operator](result, parseInt(value));
index += 3;
}
return result;
}
I used math_it_up function from How can I convert a string into a math operator in javascript
You can enlarge operators by adding yours(e.g modulo). Note that I didn't check if value1 or value is a valid number.
FIDDLE
1
• math_it_up is definitely the write way to map the operations. don't know why I didn't think of it.
– Nimnam1
Feb 26, 2014 at 8:41
1
This is an alternate method to using the eval function. To implement this fully with all the mathematical operations is probably more work than it's worth so be advised there but here's a simplistic implementation. fiddle
function calculate(equation){
var vals = getValues(equation),
operators = getOperators(equation),
num1 = vals[0];
for(var i=0; i<operators.length; i++){
// simplistic you'll need to be more careful of order of operations
// if you're going to be using things other than addition and subtraction
num1 = calculateOperation(operators[i], num1, vals[i+1]);
}
return num1;
}
function calculateOperation(op, num1, num2){
// add more ops as necessary
if (op === '+'){
return num1 + num2;
} else if (op === '-'){
return num1 - num2;
}
}
function getValues(eq){
// use regex because there might be more than one character denoting a row or column
var column, row,
operatorRegex = /[\+|\-]/;
return eq.split(operatorRegex).map(function(identifier){
column = identifier.replace(/[0-9]+/, "");
row = identifier.replace(/[A-Za-z]+/, "");
return parseInt($('[data-column="'+column+'"][data-row="'+row+'"]').val(), 10);
});
}
function getOperators(eq){
var ops = eq.split(/[A-Za-z0-9]+/);
// remove the quotes and return
return ops.slice(1, ops.length-1);
}
$('input').each(function(){
if($(this).attr('data-equation')!=undefined){
var equation=$(this).attr('data-equation');
$(this).val(calculate(equation))
}
});
1
You can definitely using this plugin https://github.com/xsanisty/jquery-calx
I create this while ago, and still maintaining it, but instead of data-column and data-equation, mine using data-cell and data-formula
<form id="sheet">
<input type="text" data-cell="A1" />
<input type="text" data-cell="A2" />
<input type="text" data-cell="A3" data-formula="A1*A2" />
</form>
and just need to initiate the plugin
<script>
$('#sheet').calx()
</script>
and now, it should calculate all the formula defined inside the #sheet, you can even use a lot of excel compatible formula in it
0
it can be done with eval() function:
$(function(){
$("input").each(function(){
var col = $(this).data("column");
var row = $(this).data("row");
var val = $(this).val();
var equation = $(this).data("equation");
if(equation == undefined)
{
eval(col+row+"="+val);
}
else
{
$(this).val(eval(equation));
}
});
});
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Talk:Crime in Kenya/GA1
GA Review
This review is transcluded from Talk:Crime in Kenya/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
I am sorry but I have to fail this article. I do not believe it covers the topic well. Apart from being short, it does not talk about, say, murders or rape. It also does not give adequate crime statistics. Which region is worst? How did the crime rate change over the past decade or two? What about legal system and punishments? Is there capital punishment? The article also seems tourist-oriented... The prose seems somewhat vague and generalized.
It is also based on only three sources... which are not fully cited (suggest using cite web or similar templates). I applaud for trying to combat systemic bias, but I do not believe this article is close good article standard. Sorry... Renata (talk) 08:26, 2 June 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Do Geese Have Teeth on Their Tongues?
Birds don’t have teeth. We all know that birds have beaks instead of teeth. That’s why it’s so shocking when we see a close-up of a goose’s beak and tongue and see…teeth. Or, at least, it definitely looks like they have teeth. Whatever it is, it raises a lot of questions. Questions such as: do geese have teeth on their tongues?
In this article we’ll answer this question as well as a few others.
Do Geese Have Teeth On Their Tongue?
Geese are birds and as we mentioned, birds do not have teeth. However they do have tomia. These tomia are made out of cartilage and are part of the tongue and beak rather than being separate body parts. But, in form and function, they’re much like our teeth.
They don’t have any enamel and they aren’t made of bone, so they aren’t quite as tough and durable as real teeth, but they do the same job. They allow geese and other beaked animals (birds and turtles) to cut and tear their food.
Are geese teeth (tomia) sharp?
Very sharp, yes. While they’re made of cartilage, they’re very hard and sharp. This tooth-like cartilage is designed for ripping through grass and aquatic vegetation, and even small animals. Since geese can’t chew their food, they need to be able to rip it into small pieces before they swallow it. Geese can actually draw blood if they bite you, and they will bite when they feel threatened.
Why do geese have these tomia on their tongue?
Tongues certainly seem like an odd place to put these tomia, but there are good reasons for it. Geese most eat grasses, grains, roots, and other tough low-growing vegetation. That means they need to be able to grip it, and tear it or uproot it before they can eat it. Doing that with a smooth beak would be very hard and inefficient. The ridges lining their tongue allows them to grip the grass much better and can also help to tear it up so the geese can swallow it.
Geese aren’t exclusively plant eaters, either. They eat small insects and rodents, and their tomia help with that too. The spiky ridges along their tongue make it much easier to hold a struggling insect that’s trying to get away.
Why are geese so aggressive?
There are many reasons why geese are aggressive, but there are two main factors. First, geese are very territorial. They don’t like anything or anyone in their space, and during breeding season when they have nests full of eggs or goslings they won’t hesitate to attack a potential threat.
The second factor is that geese are used to humans. Geese have been around us for a long time, and, especially in urban environments they have largely lost their fear of humans. They may not want people in their territory, but they don’t see as being dangerous enough that they shouldn’t attack us.
Will a goose bite me?
Geese are shockingly aggressive. It’s common to assume the geese are just big ducks, and that they’ll behave like ducks, but these are very different birds. Geese are bigger, tougher, and more aggressive than ducks. Stray too close to their nest and they’ll likely chase you away, hissing like a snake.
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A goose will definitely bite you if it feels that you’re a threat. And remember, those tomia they have can do some damage. You definitely don’t want to get bitten by a goose.
How can I avoid a goose attack?
“Goose attack” doesn’t sound all that serious, until it happens to you. Having a goose charging at you is a lot more unsettling than you’d think, especially because it’s not an animal that we’re taught to treat as dangerous. And, of course, you now know that geese have teeth-like tomia and they can cause some damage if they bite you.
So, if you want to avoid being the subject of a “goose attack” viral video, here’s what to do:
• Walk backward, slowly. Don’t make sudden movements, don’t turn around and run. These things will only trigger the goose to chase you.
• Don’t try to intimidate the goose. Yelling, waving your arms, making loud noises, etc. All the behaviors you normally use to try and scare off an animal are bad ideas. They won’t intimidate the goose at all, and will probably provoke an attack.
• Don’t let your kids chase the goose. It’s understandable that children might want to touch a goose or even catch one. Don’t let them. Kids are loud, move fast, and tend to be rough with animals. Kids trying to pet or catch a goose are just going to provoke it and you really don’t want the goose biting your children.
• Don’t feed the geese. Geese are more likely to become aggressive around food. If you’re the one holding the food, you’ll be the target of their aggression.
• If a goose attacks you, remain calm. Geese attacks are never life-threatening, the worst you’ll end up with are cuts and scrapes. Don’t run, don’t panic. Cover your face and eyes. Just keep backing away slowly until the goose no longer sees you as a threat.
Conclusion
You now know that geese something teeth-like in their mouth, and they’re actually aggressive enough to use them. Geese are beautiful birds to watch, but it’s best to observe from a distance. If you’re close enough to see their tomia, you’re probably too close. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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3 Companies I Love Whose Valuations Terrify Me
There are great companies, and there are great stocks. The two are often the same, but in the case of 3D engineering and design software company Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), automation company Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), and universal lubricant company WD-40 (NASDAQ: WDFC), a great company is matched with a not so great valuation. All three trade on sky-high valuations and have some aggressive-looking earnings targets to meet in order to make them a good value.
WD-40
Let's take a look at WD-40's enterprise value (market cap plus net debt), or EV, to earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) multiple. Simply stated, EV-to-EBITDA. It's a useful metric that includes an appreciation for debt levels.
There's no way around the fact that all three of the above-mentioned companies trade on hefty absolute valuations, and WD-40 has a particularly high rating compared to its historical performance.
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The question is, does WD-40 really deserve such a high rating? It's a great company, with a ubiquitous and popular product that's sold in hardware stores and car parts retailers worldwide. However, management is falling behind on its long-term targets.
For example, up to the first quarter of 2020, management aspired toward $700 million in sales by 2025 -- only to switch that to a goal of $700 million in sales as a "long-term target" in the second quarter. You could argue that this would be fair enough, given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but I don't think it's the complete picture.
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Let's put it this way. Sales were $423 million in 2019, and management started 2020 forecasting 3%-7% sales growth -- implying sales of $436 million to $453 million for the full year. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit WD-40 in its fiscal 2020 (which ends in Aug. 31) and full-year 2020 sales came in at $408 million, representing a $37 million shortfall from the midpoint of initial guidance. Note that figure.
While the lockdowns initially hurt WD-40, it's also the case that stay-at-home measures started helping companies with exposure to spending on DIY and home improvement. Consequently, sales rose 5% in WD-40's fourth quarter of 2020 and then a whopping 26% in the first quarter of 2021. Indeed, management is guiding toward $435 million to $470 million in full-year 2021 sales, with the analyst consensus standing at $461 million.
But here's the thing. The figure of $461 million in 2021 actually represents a compound growth rate of 4.3% from 2019-2021 -- a figure that lies within management's guidance of 3%-7% for 2020, and suggests that WD-40 hasn't been hit that badly by the pandemic.
Finally, let's take a look at the Wall Street consensus for sales in the coming years. According to these numbers, WD-40 needs to grow sales by 16% a year from 2023-2025 to hit the former target of $700 million in sales in 2025. It's not hard to see why management backed off this aim.
WD-40 METRIC
2018
2019
2020
2021 EST.
2022 EST.
2023 EST.
Net sales
$409 million
$423 million
$408 million
$461 million
$487 million
$523 million
Growth
7%
3.4%
(3.5%)
13%
5.6%
7.4%
Data source: marketscreener.com, author's analysis.
All told, pandemic or no pandemic, the company appears to be falling behind on its goals, and that makes it very hard to justify buying a stock trading on a current and forward EV-to-EBITDA multiple in the high 30s.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell is the leading U.S. factory automation company and also a major player in process automation. As such, it's is a great way to play the long-term trend toward automating production and digitizing the factory. Rockwell is an exciting company, and investors can expect a snapback in growth in 2021.
Indeed, speaking on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call in November, CEO Blake Moret told investors: "It may take a couple of quarters for us to climb back to year-over-year sales growth from the Q3 trough in fiscal '20. We expect double-digit year-over-year growth during our third and fourth quarters."
While those targets look feasible given how bad Rockwell's fiscal third and fourth quarters of 2020 were, it does mean that a positive outlook is now baked into Rockwell's valuation.
Data source: Rockwell Automation presentations.
Trading on an estimated EV-to-EBITDA multiple of 22 times, Rockwell's valuation implies that the market believes it can exceed analyst estimates in 2021. That remains to be seen, and given the relatively high valuation, Rockwell is definitely a stock to put on the watch list rather than the buy list for now.
Autodesk
Autodesk has excellent growth prospects after moving to selling its design and engineering software on a cloud-based subscription basis rather than via a software license. Meanwhile, the digital revolution, 3M modeling, and the ability to collaborate remotely on design using the cloud will drive sales growth for years to come.
It's a great business, but management may well have set overly aggressive targets for the company. For example, during its investor day presentation in June management targeted $2.4 billion in free cash flow (FCF) in fiscal 2023.
Image source: Getty Images.
That's all well and good, but then on the third-quarter earnings presentation in November, management said FCF would be $1.3 billion to $1.36 billion in fiscal 2021, and then rise approximately 20% in fiscal 2022. These figures imply around $1.6 billion in 2022, meaning that FCF will have to rise 50% in 2023 for Autodesk to hit the $2.4 billion target. Frankly, that's a bit of an ask for a company aiming for high-teens annual revenue growth over the period.
Given that Autodesk trades on an estimated 2021 EV-to-EBITDA multiple of 57 times, it could prove to be a rich valuation if the company doesn't meet the target of $2.4 billion in FCF in 2023. To be fair, it's not a major concern in the long term because Autodesk has very strong growth prospects. However, for investors who don't like near-term risk, it might make sense to wait and see before buying into the stock.
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62.—(1) The Commissioners may give directions under this subsection imposing on persons specified in the directions requirements as to the giving of information with respect to, or the furnishing of documents in connection with, goods exported, or intended to be exported, in any such vehicle or container as is specified in the directions, or by such other means, or in accordance with any such commercial procedure, as is so specified.
(2) The Commissioners may give directions under this subsection providing that, before any goods are shipped for exportation, a number identifying the goods in compliance with the directions is to be given in accordance with the directions by and to such persons as are specified in the directions.
This subsection shall not come into force until such day as the Commissioners may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
(3) The Commissioners may relax any requirement imposed under subsection (1) or (2) above as they think fit in relation to any goods.
(4) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any direction given under subsection (1) or (2) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of £100. Outward entry and clearance of ships, etc.
63.—(1) Where a ship is to load any goods at a port for exportation or as stores for use on a voyage to an eventual destination outside the United Kingdom, the master of the ship shall, before any goods are taken on board that ship at that port, other than goods for exportation loaded in accordance | WIKI |
GOP group calls out five House Republicans to speak up on Ukraine | TheHill
A Republican group is calling on five House Republicans to speak out against the Ukrainian scandal at the center of an impeachment inquiry into Trump in new ads that aired on “Morning Joe” and “Fox & Friends” Thursday in their districts. The new Republicans For the Rule of Law ads target four GOP lawmakers in competitive districts, as well as Rep. Mark AmodeiMark Eugene AmodeiGOP group calls out five House Republicans to speak up on Ukraine The Memo: Will impeachment create an even more polarized nation? GOP lawmaker clarifies he doesn't back impeachment after voicing support for inquiry MORE (Nev.), who was recognized as the first House Republican to back an impeachment inquiry before he clarified his comments. GOP Reps. Fred UptonFrederick (Fred) Stephen UptonGOP group calls out five House Republicans to speak up on Ukraine House passes bill to revamp medical screenings for migrants at border Energy efficiency cannot be a partisan issue for Washington MORE (Mich.), Brian FitzpatrickBrian K. FitzpatrickGOP group calls out five House Republicans to speak up on Ukraine On The Money: Senate confirms Scalia as Labor chief | Bill with B in wall funding advanced over Democrats' objections | Lawyers reach deal to delay enforcement of NY tax return subpoena Overnight Energy: Lawmakers show irritation over withheld Interior documents | Republican offers bipartisan carbon tax bill | Scientists booted from EPA panel form new group MORE (Pa.), Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdDemocrats claim new momentum from intelligence watchdog testimony Romney: Trump requesting Biden investigation from China, Ukraine 'wrong and appalling' GOP lawmaker: 'It is terrible' for Trump to call on China to probe Biden MORE (Texas) and Jaime Herrera BeutlerJaime Lynn Herrera BeutlerGOP group calls out five House Republicans to speak up on Ukraine Dems push to revive Congress' tech office Bill allowing Congress to hire Dreamers advances MORE (Wash.) all represent districts with competitive races, according to The Cook Political Report.ADVERTISEMENT
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Republicans for the Rule of Law spokesman Chris Truax said in a statement that it is time for members of Congress to decide if they “want to be remembered as a partisan hack, or as statesmen who answered the call of history and defended the Constitution.” “Republicans in Congress must speak out against President Trump's admitted abuse of power and stand up for Congress’s duty to conduct a full investigation. They swore an oath to the Constitution, and that oath requires that they not allow the president to behave as if he's above the law,” Truax said. “Leadership is doing what needs to be done, not what’s easy and safe.” A whistleblower complaint alleges Trump solicited foreign interference into the 2020 election by pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE, a leading 2020 candidate. The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump last week after the whistleblower’s allegations emerged. Almost all House Democrats back the inquiry, but most Republicans have stood by the president and his defense of the call. Some of the Republicans the group is targeting have expressed support for the House conducting oversight, though none have called for removing Trump from office. Amodei was thought the be the first House Republican to back the impeachment inquiry, but later clarified that he supports the oversight process and “in no way” indicated “support for impeachment.” Hurd, who represents a district Cook said leans Democratic, said Sunday Congress needs to investigate the allegations against Trump but said it's “premature” to make a statement on impeachment, adding that the formal inquiry was “wordplay” to appease progressive Democrats. Hurd announced in August he is not seeking reelection in 2020. View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Robert Treat Center
The Robert Treat Center is an office and hotel complex in Newark, New Jersey, named for Robert Treat, who founded the city in 1666. One building originally opened as the Robert Treat Hotel in 1916. The landmark was later converted to an office building after the construction of a newer hotel next to it. The adjacent buildings are located at Military Park near the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, One Theater Square and New Jersey Historical Society.
A portrait of Robert Treat was prominently placed over the fireplace mantle.
In 1933, the Hotel was operated by Niagara Falls businessman Frank A. Dudley and the United Hotels Company.
The building was purchased in 1987 by The Berger Organization, which has also renovated some of the city's other commercial landmarks, such as the Firemen's Insurance Company Home Office Building and Military Park Building. They sold the Griffith Building, which they had intended to renovate, in 2018. | WIKI |
Where do I get my actual Azure Website Deployment password?
In Visual studio 2015, when I Publish my Website/Webapp to Azure, I'm able to create a new publishing profile automatically (by entering my personal Azure account credentials), this creates the .pubxml and .pubxml.user files. The deployment username is of the form "$websiteName" and the password is represented by a long series of bullet points. The .pubxml.user file contains the actual password, which is encrypted such that only my Visual Studio can read it, by decrypting it with my local Windows user account - I, as a human, have no way to see it. Also, the .user files are excluded from Source Control (but the .pubxml files are included in Source Control).
When another person on my team tries to deploy the website, they get the same deployment settings, but are prompted for the password for the "$website" account. I have no idea where to get this password from - the Azure Management portal does not display it.
If the person opens the portal and chooses to Reset the publishing profile, then they can download a new .pubxml file that contains an encrypted password that I understand only their personal Azure credentials can decrypt, but that breaks deployment for me and other users because now their saved passwords (in the .user files) is invalidated.
I understand this is a different username+password to the "Deployment Credentials" blade on the Azure portal because currently the website has no Deployment Credentials set, in addition if I were to set one, the username is different. The Portal states that those credentials are for FTP access anyway - no mention is made of the Web Deploy feature.
Solution 1:
You can get the current credentials via the Portal or PowerShell/CLI.
Azure Portal
On the portal, there is a button at the top of the webapp blade to download the publish profile (not the deployment credentials blade, but the main web app blade).
Screenshot of Azure Portal as of April 2019
Azure PowerShell
First, ensure the Azure PowerShell cmdlets are installed: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-azurerm-ps?view=azurermps-6.3.0
1. Open an elevated PowerShell window.
2. Enter $PSVersionTable.PSVersion. Ensure the output shows you have Major version 5 or later. If this command gives you an error then you're running PowerShell v1 which is ancient at this point.
3. Enter Install-Module -Name AzureRM (you may be prompted to update NuGet, in which case you should)
4. Wait for it to finish installing.
5. Enter Import-Module AzureRM
6. Enter Connect-AzureRmAccount and complete the authentication process.
7. Run this command to save the publishing profile to a file on disk (line-breaks added for readability, in reality put this on a single line). Set $WebAppName and $ResourceGroupName as appropriate:
Get-AzureRmWebAppPublishingProfile
-ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName
-Name $WebAppName
-OutputFile creds.xml
-Format WebDeploy
.publishsettings file
The .publishsettings file is an XML file (without line-breaks). Inside you'll find a document with this structure. Look for the userPWD attribute in the <publishProfile> element with publishMethod="MSDeploy". Don't use the FTP credentials (in the second <publishProfile> element) because the username is different.
The userPWD attribute value is not encrypted, but is the base64 (or base62?) encoding of completely random bytes. You can copy and paste this value directly into the credential prompt within Visual Studio's publishing wizard.
<publishData>
<publishProfile
profileName="SITE - Web Deploy"
publishMethod="MSDeploy"
publishUrl="SITE.scm.azurewebsites.net:443"
msdeploySite="SITE"
userName="$SITE"
userPWD="YOUR PASSWORD IS HERE" <-- This attribute here
destinationAppUrl="http://SITE.azurewebsites.net"
SQLServerDBConnectionString=""
mySQLDBConnectionString=""
hostingProviderForumLink=""
controlPanelLink=""
webSystem="WebSites"
>
<databases />
</publishProfile>
<publishProfile
profileName="SITE - FTP"
publishMethod="FTP"
publishUrl="ftp://SITE.ftp.azurewebsites.windows.net/site/wwwroot"
ftpPassiveMode="True"
userName="SITE\$SITE"
userPWD="FTP PASSWORD IS HERE"
destinationAppUrl="http://SITE.azurewebsites.net"
SQLServerDBConnectionString=""
mySQLDBConnectionString=""
hostingProviderForumLink=""
controlPanelLink=""
webSystem="WebSites"
>
<databases />
</publishProfile>
</publishData>
Solution 2:
If you are not familiar with PowerShell, you can try the below instruction to get the deployment username and password using the azure cli.
az webapp deployment list-publishing-profiles --name your_web_app_name --resource-group your_resource_group
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You also add --query to retrieve the "userPWD"
az webapp deployment list-publishing-profiles --name your_web_app_name --resource-group your_resource_group --query '[].userPWD' -o tsv
Output will be like
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William McGill (politician)
William McGill (29 December 1814 – 9 November 1883) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented Ontario South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1871.
McGillwas born in Glasgow, Scotland to a jeweller and watchmaker, and came to Whitby Township, Upper Canada with his parents while still young. McGill studied medicine at Willoughby Medical College in Ohio, received an MD from McGill College in 1848 and studied at Mott's medical school in New York City. He set up practice in Oshawa. In 1848, he married Julia Ann Bates. He was elected to the medical council of the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario in 1866. In 1871, he was defeated by Abram Farewell in his bid for reelection to the legislative assembly. McGill served on the county council from 1874 to 1876. He became an elder of the Disciples Church. | WIKI |
What is Hypersexuality
What is Hypersexuality
• Hypersexuality is extremely frequent in increased libido.
• Hypersexuality is currently controversial whether it should be included as a clinical diagnosis used by mental healthcare professionals.
• Nymphomania and Satyriasis were terms previously used for the condition in women and men, respectively.
Causes:
• Some research suggests that some cases can be linked to biochemical or physiological changes that accompany dementia.
• Psychological needs also complicate the biological explanation, which identifies the temporal/frontal lobe of the brain as the area for regulating libido.
• Persons suffering from injuries to this part of the brain are at increased risk for aggressive behavior and other behavioral problems including personality changes and socially inappropriate sexual behavior such as hypersexuality.
• The same symptom can occur after a unilateral temporal lobotomy.
• There are other biological factors that are associated with hypersexuality such as premenstrual changes, and the exposure to virilizing hormones in childhood or in utero.
• In research involving the use of antiandrogens to reduce undesirable sexual behavior such as hypersexuality, testosterone has been found to be necessary, but not sufficient, for sexual drive.
• Other proposed factors include a lack of physical closeness and forgetfulness of the recent past.
• Pathogenic overactivity of the dopaminergic mesolimbic pathway in the brain—forming either psychiatrically, during mania, or pharmacologically, as a side effect of dopamine agonists, specifically D3-preferring agonists—is associated with various addictions and has been shown to result among some in overindulgent, sometimes hypersexual, behavior.
• HPA axis dysregulation has been associated with hypersexual disorder.
• The American Association for Sex Addiction Therapy acknowledges biological factors as contributing causes of sex addiction. Other associated factors include psychological components (which affect mood and motivation as well as psychomotoric and cognitive function), spiritual control, mood disorders, sexual trauma, and intimacy anorexia as causes or type of sex addiction.
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Home Sleep Testing Monitor
Q. What is a Home sleep study?
A. In order to diagnose Sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, a patient must undergo a polysomnography. The traditional setting to have a sleep study conducted has been to spend the night in a sleep-labratory, where the polysomnography (PSG) equipment is used to to record the patients physiological data. Today with technology advancements a polysomnography can be performed in a remote location which would include a patients home and is called a home sleep study.
Q. Who can order a home sleep study?
A.According to medicare regulations at 42 CFR 410.32(a) state in part that "diagnostic tests must be ordered by the physician who furnishes a consultation or treats a beneficiary for a specific medical problem and who uses the results in the management of the beneficiaries specific medical problem".
Q. Can a second home sleep study be ordered if necessary?
A. Medicare allows one home sleep study per 12 month period. Sleepsales recommends checking with your local policy on coverage as other policys state, “ that it may be necessary to repeat sleep studies. Where repeat testing is indicated…”
Q. Can a Titration Study be performed in an overnight sleep laboratory?
A. Currently Medicare does not place restrictions on performing a continuous positive airway pressure titration study performed in a sleep laboratory. Sleepsales reccomends checking specifications with your local carriers.
Q. Can a physician Interpret his own sleep studies?
A. Medicare guidelines require a board certified sleep physician to interpret a home sleep study. Non-sleep specialists can perform a diagnostic study followed by having a sleep specialist record the study data through utilization of the SleepView HIPAA compliant Tele-health Portal. Please check the local coverage criteria per carrier for specifications.
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(in´tāk) the substances, or quantities of substances, that are taken in and used by the body; this refers to all routes by which foods and fluids enter the body, including by mouth, rectum, irrigation tube, or parenteral administration. the process of admission of an individual to a health facility.
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[n] - an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
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Intake
• (n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet. • (n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air. • (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
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noun an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
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In'take` noun 1. The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet . 2. the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. 3. The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
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A process for screening individual applicants for eligibility; making an initial determination whether the program can benefit the applicants; providing information about the program, its services and the availability of those services; and selecting individual applicants for participation in the program.
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A structure that diverts water into a conduit leading to the power plant.
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intake
Amount of a substance that is taken into the body, regardless of whether or not it is absorbed: the total daily intake is the sum of the daily intake by an individual from food, drinking-water, and inhaled air.
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Court process whereby a decision is made on how to proceed in a juvenile case.
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Intake
Part of pump where water enters when pump forms partial vacuum.
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The entrance to a turbine at a dam, diversion works, or pumping station.
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the intentional or accidental introduction, for instance by ingestion, inhalation or cutaneous transfer, of radioactive materials into the body
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This circuit is a circuit that sounds a siren-like sound of ambulance sirens. This circuit is different to an ambulance siren circuit generally, is to use transistors instead of IC 555. Which allows economical and easy to tailor a network.
Operation of the circuit. This cycle can be divided into three main parts is the low frequency production. Production of high frequency. The amplifier. The manufacture low-frequency includes Q1, Q2, R2, R3, C2, C3. Which will produce low-frequency out and to extend the Q3. Before you sent with high frequency of origin from Q4, Q5, R8, R9. , C5, C6 signal is included, then the output will come out to the leg E of the Q5. and then be expanded with Q6 to drive the speakers. The C1, C4 is intended to stir filter collects them. The R11 will help prevent speaker damage.
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This is a common question we are always asked. So, how accurate are paternity DNA tests?
It is important to know what our scientists are looking for when we test your DNA samples. First we sequence the DNA samples. This provides us with a list of 24 DNA locations, with a pair of numbers at each location. Next, we compare each pair of numbers between the biological mother and child. After this, we end up with one column of numbers for the child. This is then compared to the potential father’s pair of numbers.
So from this analysis, the following results are then possible:
Probability of Paternity: Test involving the mother’s DNA sample
Inclusion: Based on evidence of DNA analysis, there is a greater than 99.999% probability. The results are consistent with paternity in this case.
Exclusion: Based on evidence of DNA analysis, the father is excluded for paternity. In other words, the probability of paternity is 0%. The results are inconsistent with paternity in this case.
Also, this applies to paternity tests performed without the mother’s sample. But, you may see a slight drop in the percentage of probability. For example, this may reduce to 99.9%. But this is still proof of paternity. Please note, ‘motherless paternity’ tests are not allowed for legal purposes. Only in exceptional cases will a court accept DNA results when the mother is not available.
Why is the probability of paternity not 100%?
This is a statistical quirk! We cannot say 100% because we would have to test every other human male on the planet!
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Professor
GIUSEPPE RODRIGUEZ (Tit.)
Period
Second Semester
Teaching style
Convenzionale
Lingua Insegnamento
ITALIANO
Informazioni aggiuntive
Course Curriculum CFU Length(h)
[60/73] INFORMATICS [73/00 - Ord. 2017] PERCORSO COMUNE 6 48
Objectives
1. Acquiring knowledge and understanding.
The course is devoted to students in the first year of the Master's degree in Mathematics. It aims to provide a working knowledge of advanced methodologies in numerical analysis. These topics are presented by providing both a rigorous theoretical justification, and clear indications on some of the possible applications.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding.
The employment of the methods treated during the course in relevant applications in sciences and technology will be discussed. The student will have to implement the algorithms in a programming language and verify their performance by effective numerical experiments.
3. Making informed judgements and choices.
This course provides the students with knowledge and understanding sufficient to apply the methodologies described in the course to the solution of real-world problems.
4. Communicating knowledge and understanding.
The evaluation of the written test keeps into account the ability of the student to give a systematic and consistent exposition of the program of the course. The student's communicating knowledge will be analyzed during an oral interview and by a written report, which must contain a complete description of the assigned theme and a suitable numerical experimentation.
5. Capacities to continue learning.
This course allows students to acquire a wide expertise, sufficient to understand advanced mathematical texts and scientific papers, for widening their knowledge autonomously.
Prerequisites
1. Knowledge. The course requires a good knowledge of the fundamentals of linear algebra and of real and complex mathematical analysis. The students should have followed a first course in Numerical Analysis, treating the basic direct and iterative methods for linear systems. An essential knowledge of the Matlab programming language is required.
2. Skills. Students must be able to apply the mathematical procedures learned during the Bachelor degree and the first year of the Master degree. In detail: computation of derivatives and integrals, advanced matrix and vector computation, implementation of algorithms in Matlab or in another programming language.
3. Competence. To fully understand the course it is necessary to understand the formulation of a mathematical model, and to describe effectively an algorithm for its solution.
Preparatory courses. No preparatory courses are required.
Contents
1. Least squares problems: theory and properties (4 hours)
Motivation and historical background. Description of a least squares problem and characterization of its solution. Normal equations. Minimal norm solution.
2. Basic analytical methods (14 hours)
Cholesky factorization. Singular value decomposition (SVD). Singular system of a linear operator. Fundamental subspaces associated to a matrix. Polar decomposition. Pseudo-inverse matrix. QR factorization. Rank revealing factorization. Ill-conditioned and rank-deficient problems. Truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD). Tikhonov regularization.
3. Numerical algorithms (14 hours)
Implementation of Cholesky decomposition. Elementary orthogonal transformations. QR factorization by Householder and Givens transformations. Classic and modified Gram-Schmidt process. SVD computation. Regularization techniques. Regularization parameter estimation. Iterative methods: the gradient method and the conjugate gradient method. Preconditioning. Other projection methods in Krylov spaces. Arnoldi, Lanczos, and Golub-Kahan iterations. Applications to the solution of linear systems, to the computation of eigenvalues, and to regularization.
4. Approximation of functions and quadrature rules (10 hours)
The best approximation problem. Approximation in Hilbert spaces. Characterization of the solution. Trigonometric approximation by truncated Fourier series. Orthogonal polynomials. Gaussian quadrature rules.
5. Laboratory (6 hours)
Advanced Matlab programming techniques. Optimized implementation of the algorithms studied.
Teaching Methods
The course consists of 48 lecture hours, which also include practical lessons regarding the solution to problems and exercises. The instructor gives constant assistance to students, during the whole year, both by personal interviews and by means of e-mail messages.
Verification of learning
Grading normally consists of the evaluation of a written report, on a theme assigned by the teacher, and of a subsequent oral interview. The student must demonstrate to know and have understood the algorithms described during the course and must be able to apply them to the solution of problems.
To pass the exam the student must reach a grade of at least 18/30. To reach this goal the student must attest a basic knowledge of all the topics covered in the course. In order to achieve the maximum score 30/30, the student must demonstrate to know all the topics of the course in an excellent way, to be able to discuss them in detail, and to apply them autonomously to the solution of problems. The score 30/30 cum laude is reserved to students who show both a deep understanding of the course and an elegant exposition.
Students have the opportunity to be aware of their level of preparation during the practical lectures and through personal discussions with the instructor.
Texts
The main textbooks for the course are the following:
G. Rodriguez.
Algoritmi Numerici.
Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2008.
ISBN: 88-371-1714-0.
Å. Björck.
Numerical Methods for Least Squares Problems.
SIAM, Philadelphia, 1996.
ISBN: 978-0-89871-360-2.
Further references, aiming to deepen the understanding of selected topics, will be given by the instructor during the course, who will distribute, on particular topics, notes and other documentation.
More Information
The main tools to support teaching is the instructor’s personal web site. It provides information updated in real time, including: a lectures diary reporting the topics treated in each lecture, information on teaching activities, additional documents to support learning.
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Basic types for computer graphics in OCaml
IN THIS PACKAGE
Module Gg . Color
References.
Constructors, accessors and constants
type t = color
The type for colors in a device independent RGB color space with an alpha component. The color space is defined by a D65 white point and the ITU-R BT.709 primaries (corresponds to a linearized sRGB space). The alpha component represent the color's opacity ranging from 0., a fully transparent color, to 1. a completly opaque one.
type stops = (float * color) list
The type for color stops. A piecewise linear color curve.
val v : float -> float -> float -> float -> color
v r g b a is the linear sRGB color (r, g, b, a) as a color value.
val v_srgb : ?a:float -> float -> float -> float -> color
v r g b ~a is the sRGB color (r, g, b, a) converted to a Gg color value.
val v_srgbi : ?a:float -> int -> int -> int -> color
v_srgbi r g b ~a is the 24-bit sRGB color (r, g, b, a) converted to a Gg color value by (v_srgb (float r /. 255.) (float g /. 255.) (float b /. 255.) ~a)
val r : color -> float
r c is the red component of c.
val g : color -> float
g c is the green component of c.
val b : color -> float
b c is the blue component of c.
val a : color -> float
a c is the alpha component of c.
val void : color
void is (v 0. 0. 0. 0.) an invisible color.
val black : color
black is (v 0. 0. 0. 1.)
val gray : ?a:float -> float -> color
gray a g is the sRGB color (g, g, g, a) converted to color a value.
val white : color
white is (v 1. 1. 1. 1.)
val red : color
red is (v 1. 0. 0. 1.)
val green : color
green is (v 0. 1. 0. 1.)
val blue : color
blue is (v 0. 0. 1. 1.)
Functions
val blend : color -> color -> color
blend src dst is src blended over dst using source over destination alpha blending. See Alvy Ray Smith. Image compositing fundamentals. 1995.
val clamp : color -> color
clamp c is c with all components clamped to [0;1]. nan components are left untouched.
val with_a : color -> float -> color
with_a c a is the same color as c but with the alpha component a.
Color conversions
Note. In the following conversions all color spaces carry an alpha component. The alpha component is always left untouched by the conversions.
WARNING. Converting between color spaces may result in out of gamut colors whose components are out of the destination color space expected ranges. The client is responsible to handle these; for values of type color simply clamping these is one option. Currently some conversion do not even round trip due to floating point inaccuracies, see this issue, so it is a good idea to clamp the conversions to color.
sRGB
type srgb = v4
The type for colors in the sRGB color space with an alpha component. This is the color space used, for example, by CSS.
val of_srgb : srgb -> color
of_srgb c is the sRGB color c as a Gg color.
val to_srgb : color -> srgb
to_srgb c is the Gg color c as a sRGB color.
val to_srgbi : color -> int * int * int * float
to_srgbi c is the Gg color c as a 24-bit sRGB color (r, g, b, a), see v_srgbi.
CIE L*u*v*
type luv = v4
The type for colors in the CIE L*u*v* color space with a D65 reference white point and an alpha component. The meaning and range of the components is:
• L* is lightness in the range 0. to 100.
• u*'s practical range is -134. to 220.
• v*'s practical range is -140. to 122.
val of_luv : luv -> color
of_luv c is the L*u*v* color c as a Gg color.
val to_luv : color -> luv
to_luv c is the Gg color c as a L*u*v* color.
CIE L*C*huv
type lch_uv = v4
The type for colors in the CIE L*C*huv color space with a D65 reference white point and an alpha component. This color space is CIE L*u*v* with polar coordinates, the meaning and range of the components is:
• L* is the lightness in the range 0. to 100.
• C* represents chroma, in the range 0. to 260.77 in practice.
• h represents hue in radians in the range 0. to 2pi.
val of_lch_uv : lch_uv -> color
of_lch_uv c is the L*C*huv color c as a Gg color.
val to_lch_uv : color -> lch_uv
to_lch_uv c is the Gg color c as a L*C*huv.
CIE L*a*b*
type lab = v4
The type for colors in the CIE L*a*b* color space with a D50 reference white point and an alpha component. The meaning and range of the components is:
• L* is lightness in the range 0. to 100.
• a* and b*'s practical range is -128. to 127.
val of_lab : v4 -> color
of_lab c is the L*a*b* color c as a Gg color value.
val to_lab : color -> v4
to_lab c is the Gg color c as a L*a*b* color.
CIE L*C*hab
type lch_ab = v4
The type for colors in the CIE L*C*h*ab color space with a D50 reference white point and an alpha component. This color space is CIE L*a*b* with polar coordinates, the meaning and range of the components is:
• L* is the lightness in the range 0. to 100.
• C* represents chroma, in the range 0. to 181.02, but less in practice.
• h represents hue in degrees in the range 0. to 2pi.
val of_lch_ab : lch_ab -> color
of_lch_ab c is the L*C*hab color c as a Gg color.
val to_lch_ab : color -> lch_ab
to_lch_ab c is the Gg color c as a L*C*hab.
Color spaces
type space = [
| `XYZ
| `Lab
| `Luv
| `YCbr
| `Yxy
| `RGB
| `Gray
| `HSV
| `HLS
| `CMYK
| `CMY
| `CLR2
| `CLR3
| `CLR4
| `CLR5
| `CLR6
| `CLR7
| `CLR8
| `CLR9
| `CLRA
| `CLRB
| `CLRC
| `CLRD
| `CLRE
| `CLRF
]
The type for color spaces. These correspond to the ICC v4 supported color space, see the specification, section 7.2.6.
val space_dim : space -> int
space_dim s is the dimension of the color space s.
val pp_space : Format.formatter -> space -> unit
pp_space s prints a textual representation of s on ppf.
Color profiles
type profile
The type for ICC color profiles. A color profile can describe the characteristics of a color space, an input or output device and provide a mapping to a profile connection space (PCS), which is either CIE L*a*b* or XYZ with a D50 white point. For more information about ICC profile consult the ICC FAQ and the ICC v4 specification.
This module defines only a profile for the color space of color and a grayscale color space.
val profile_of_icc : string -> profile option
profile_of_icc s is a profile from the ICC profile byte stream s. None is returned if s doesn't seem to be a ICC profile.
Note A profile value is returned if a color space can be extracted, it doesn't guarantee a correct ICC profile byte stream.
val profile_to_icc : profile -> string
profile_to_icc p is p's ICC profile byte stream.
val profile_space : profile -> space
profile_space p is p's color space.
val profile_dim : profile -> int
profile_space p is space_dim (profile_space d).
val p_gray_l : profile
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Biography
Nicola Filippo is the playfully baroque nom de guerre of Guy Ayres who was born in Peoria, Illinois 1957. Little is known of his early years; when interviewed about his childhood, Filippo refers to it as "a chaotic household" and an "unconventional childhood". Filippo attended Otis College of Art and Design and the California College of the Arts. Upon completing his education, he traveled extensively in Italy, visiting many museums and churches and studying what had been done by earlier artists and seeking to incorporate it in his style.
In the mid 1990s Filippo surfaced as a painter and sculptor of what he refers to as building blocks of his art work today. Much of this early work was destroyed by the artist. A pivotal point in Filippo's art career was when he photographed a collection of collage pieces by the artist Ray Johnson for the 1999 Whitney Museum exhibit of Johnson's art work New York.
Taking a financial outlook in 2000, Filippo launched a design and import line using Balinese silver, pearls, shell and Javanese scarves under the brand name of Mr. Guy. Represented by Priorities, a Los Angeles showroom, the line was successful until it was discontinued in 2007, which turned Filippo's attention entirely back to fine art.
Filippo's collage pieces began to gain moderate attention; however due to the playful erotic content, the art work remained taboo for mainstream galleries. Some of the earliest shows were through the Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles. Though not specifically homo-erotic the free use of genital representation on both his male and female figures was an obstacle many galleries are shied away from.
In 2007, Filippo's work was shown by Sex Art Gallery in Amsterdam, 2010 at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, 2012 12 Inches of Sin at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas, 2014 12 Inches of Sin-Le Salon Des Refuses Du Peche at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas, 2015 12 Inches of Sin-Le Salon Des Refuses Du Peche at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas and 2016 12 Inches of Sin-Immersive at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas, 2017 12 Inches of Sin VI at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas, 2018 12 Inches of Sin VII at the Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas.
In addition to fine art Nicola Filippo began in 2010 to explore advertising work for firms such as Serino Coyne.
Nicola Filippo has gifted art work to the Tom of Finland Foundation and Palm Springs Museum of Art; his work is also in numerous private collections. Most notable is the Hieghet and Wilson collection of San Francisco.
Early supporters and patrons of Nicola Filippo's art include his spouse Producer and Screenwriter Gerald Ayres (m.2013), art historian Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, curator Lisa Lyons and film maker Agnès Varda.
Collage
Filippo's most notable collage elements are nude figures of men and women, generally vintage, with playful text and bits of Americana found or acquired. Multiple layered and strongly colored these small collages radiate color and flow with gesture. The early works consisted of printed transparencies laid over painted cardboard with collage underneath and over. Later works consist entirely of assorted paper. | WIKI |
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warning: cannot find entry symbol _start - while compiling to .so
Vitaly_B_Intel
Employee
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Hello I am running Linux Ubuntu and am compiling using icpc (intel compiler), I want to get a shared library so I used the command:
icpc -o myShared.so -std=c++11 -shared -DSTDC_HEADERS -D __cplusplus=201103L -fpermissive -DPT_XX_DEV -fexceptions -frtti -DANDROID -w -fstack-protector -fPIE -fPIC -pie -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Wformat-security -I/home/admins/aaa/include -I/home/admins/bbb/include a.cpp b.cpp c.cpp $(LIBS)
while libs is a list of shared and static libraries used,
the interesting thing that if I delete $(LIBS) I am getting the same warning, so in my opinion it probably means that it doesn't link at all....
the warning is:
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000007040
I read about this warning in previous topics, and I discovered that this warning connected to the entry point of the program, but as far as I understand - there shouldn't be entry point in shared library.
Does anyone have an idea how to resolve it?
Thank you very much!
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Shenghong_G_Intel
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Hi Vitaly,
You should not use -pie when generating shared library.
PIE: position-independent executable
PIC: position-independent code (shared library)
See below to help you understand the issue:
(Note: -shared and -fPIC/-fPIE should be used together, -pie and -fPIE/-fPIC should be used together)
$ cat temp.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {printf("hello\n");return 0;}
$ icc temp.c -shared -fPIC -o out
$ file out
out: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, not stripped
$ ./out
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ icc temp.c -pie -fPIC -o out
$ file out
out: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not stripped
$ ./out
hello
$ icc temp.c -shared -fPIE -o out -pie
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000000690
$ file out
out: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
$ ./out
-bash: ./out: /lib/ld64.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
$
When -pie is used, it will generate a executable in fact, which can run, so, "main" is required as entry point. -pie will told the compiler to generate an executable, and -shared will told the compiler to generate shared library, you are using these options together and it is a conflict. (Note: I've tried with GCC and it seems like there are some differences, but normally, -pie and -shared is a conflict, with ICC, when -pie is used before or after -shared, it will always take effect, with gcc, it seems the order matters, but the key point is that, using -pie and -shared together is incorrect.)
Thanks,
Shenghong
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TimP
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In my installations, gcc 5.2 (the current release but newer than the default version) doesn't support -pie, while gcc 6.0 (which I built from trunk) does. Thanks to Shenghong for beginning to explain these options.
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Vitaly_B_Intel
Employee
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It solved my problem.
thank you for your help!
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Kittur_G_Intel
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Nice to know and this was a good question :)
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What Is Depression?
Yes, you can be normal, suffer from clinical depression, and not be going crazy. In fact, in any given year more than 17 million people suffer from clinical depression. Unlike feeling "down in the dumps" for a few days or grieving over a loss, clinical depression can last from as little as a few weeks to as long as several months or even years and significantly affect daily living.
While some persons with depression are able to work, with considerable effort, others can barely get out of bed. People with depression may still smile, but no longer enjoy life. They may feel sadness or simply not be able to feel anything at all. Their concentration and memory are often reduced. They may sleep too much or too little or eat too much or too little. Things that formerly were pleasant no longer are. There is nothing to look forward to. Even sex is a chore. Thoughts of suicide and suicidal behavior become a genuine concern. Making matters worse is that many people blame themselves for being depressed.
Children, adolescents, adults, and older persons suffer from depression. Traumatic and stressful events—losing a job or a family member—can trigger a depression. So can biological factors such as change in body chemistry or a physical illness. Depression affects our minds, emotions, moods, social activity, and bodily functioning. Depressed people begin to think the future is hopeless ("things will never get better") and feel helpless to make positive changes in their predicaments. They worry, can be easily angered, and are sometimes irritable. Their moods can be so negative that they do not want to bathe or change their clothes. They are more aware of pain in different parts of their body. They withdraw from others and may feel others do not care about them. They may push away the very people they want to have assisting them.
There is substantial help for depression. Psychologists are expertly trained mental health providers, and they can administer comprehensive assessments to help identify the depth and causes of depression. For some persons the causes are negative and distorted thinking patterns. For others the causes are ineffective coping skills following misfortune. And for others the causes involve dysfunctional family relationships. Psychologists utilize psychotherapy or "talk therapy." They may use hypnosis, family-based therapy or a behavioral intervention. Some persons experience dramatic improvement in a few sessions; other persons require more ongoing treatment. Psychologists may refer persons for medication as research shows many individuals benefit from the combination of psychotherapy and antidepressant medication. While medication alone can be quicker to relieve symptoms than psychotherapy, the use of psychotherapy alone results in a lower relapse rate, teaches coping mechanisms, and does not have physical side effects.
Depressed people feel others have abandoned them and do not receive the support they feel they deserve. They may be correct. Living with a depressed person can be difficult and put a strain on friendships and family relationships. A depressed individual may feel they do not want or need help and will "snap out of it" after a while. While snapping out is possible, most people require expert help. Family members often participate in treatment in some way and by including loved ones in treatment, the depressed individual not only improves his/her own well being, but also the well being of those s/he loves.
We now know that depression is highly related to numerous physical problems—cardiac conditions, hypertension, headaches, chronic pain, and muscular-skeletal pain among others. While depression is more likely to strike those with a family history or those who previously have had an episode of depression, almost anyone can be a candidate for the onset of depression.
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Synchronize goroutines in your tests
29 Aug, 2014
3 minute read
I have been working on an emulator for the MOS 6502 Microprocessor, written in Go. As part of this package I have also implemented a minimal 6551 Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter. The 6551 provides serial IO and is easy to use in combination with the 6502.
When the microprocessor writes a byte to the 6551 it is stored in the tx (transmit) register where it’s available for other hardware components to read.
In order to make my emulator available using websockets (more on that in a later post), I had to know when a new byte became available. In a real hardware design I’d probably have to use the \CTS (Clear to Send) input pin to signal the 6551 I’m ready to read the next byte of data.
But, my goal is to emulate the Microprocessor not a complete computer hardware design.o
The logical option in Go would be to use a channel that receives new bytes when they are written by the Microprocessor.
I quickly devised the following:
type Acia6551 struct {
// ... ommitted for brevity
output chan []byte
}
This would allow me to create an instance of type Acia6551 and supply it with an output channel.
The calling code would start a goroutine waiting for output on this channel.
output := make(chan []byte)
acia := &Acia6551{output: output}
go func() {
for {
for _, b := range <-output {
// Handle output byte
}
}
}()
Awesome. This worked very well in my websockets prototype.
The problem is: how do you test this? How do you test that bytes written by the microcontroller to the Acia are actually sent out to the output channel?
The solution was to create a goroutine in the test and use another channel to synchronize the writing of the byte with the output appearing on the output channel.
func TestAciaOutputChannel(t *testing.T) {
var value []byte // Used to store the output value from the channel
output := make(chan []byte) // The output channel
done := make(chan bool) // Channel signaling we're done waitign
acia := &Acia6551{output: output}
// Create a goroutine, waiting for data on the output channel,
// and sending a signal when data arrived.
go func() {
value = <-output // Block, waiting for []byte
done <- true // We're done!
}()
acia.WriteByte(0x00, 0x42) // Writes a single byte of data to the 6551
<-done // Wait for the output to be received and stored in `value`
if value[0] != 0x42 {
t.Errorf("Expected output not received through output channel")
}
}
This is an example of simple synchronization using a seperate channel, in this case chan bool. It worked great in my tests to verify data was actually written to the output channel.
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کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8172382 1526329 2015 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Thermal neutron flux monitors based on vibrating wire
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
مانیتورهای جریان نوترون حرارتی بر اساس سیم ارتعاشی
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم ابزار دقیق
چکیده انگلیسی
Two types of neutron monitors with fine spatial resolutions are proposed based on vibrating wires. In the first type, neutrons interact with a vibrating wire, heat it, and lead to the change of its natural frequency, which can be precisely measured. To increase the heat deposition during the neutron scattering, the use of gadolinium layer that has the highest thermal neutron capture cross-section among all elements is proposed. The second type uses the vibrating wire as a “resonant target.” Besides the measurement of beam profile according to the average signal, the differential signal synchronized with the wire oscillations defines the beam profile gradient. The monitor׳s spatial resolution is defined by the wire׳s diameter.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - Volume 797, 11 October 2015, Pages 37-43
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Viktor Khain
Viktor Yefimovich Khain (Виктор Ефимович Хаин; 26 February 1914, Baku – 24 December 2009, Moscow) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani geology scientist, academician of Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1987) and a number of national and international academies.
Early years and education
He was born in Baku. He graduated from the geological survey department of the mining faculty of the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (now the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy). Following his work for Aznefterazvedka (Azerbaijan Oil Exploration Company) until 1938, he moved on to the Azerbaijan Oil Scientific Research Institute and worked there until 1941. In 1940, he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Leningrad Central Scientific Research Institute of Geological Exploration. As a Red Army draftee between 1941 and 1945, he served in a Baku Air Defense Army regiment until 1945.
Academic career
In 1945, Khain started working for the Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences where he was soon appointed head of the regional geology department, teaching at the same time a course on geotectonics at the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute. Under his guidance, a monograph titled “Geology of Azerbaijan” as well as a geological map and a tectonic map of Azerbaijan were published. In 1947 he defended his doctoral thesis on geological structure and oil and gas potential of the South-Eastern Caucasus at the Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. In 1949 V. Khain was awarded professorship in the oil and gas geology department and worked there until 1954, having published in the interim a fundamental monograph titled “Geotectonic basics of oil exploration”. He moved to Moscow in 1954. The geologist's selfless work was highly appreciated, and in 1966 V. Khain was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and became a USSR AS academician on geotectonics and geophysics in 1987.
Recent initiatives
In 2009, Khain together with his student – Vice-president of the International Academy of Sciences (IAS) Health & Ecology, IAS and RANS academician, Doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, Professor Elchin Nusrat oglu Khalilov came up with an initiative called Geochange Communiqué on global change of the geological environment. The Communiqué provides geological and geophysical evidence to substantiate the existence of global changes of the geological environment, the changes which cause Earth's seismic and volcanic activity to increase significantly and its magnetic pole drift to accelerate to a great extent, ultimately leading to global climate change. The Communiqué supported by WOSCO (World Organization for Scientific Cooperation) Scientific Coordinating Board has been signed by well-known scientists, public and political figures and experts. The Communiqué is designed to be submitted to the UN, European Union, international organizations and heads of states.
Throughout his life, V. Khain closely collaborated with many world scientists, taking an active part in joint researches and international projects. Khain's scientific support contributed to the creation of the Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes.
Editorial work
V. Khain was an editorial board member of the most authoritative Russian and international journals such as “Geotectonics”, “Science without Borders. Transactions of the International Academy of Science H & E”, “Nature”, “Moscow State University Herald. Geology”, “Higher School Proceedings. Geology and Exploration”, among others. He was also the “Geology” journal's editor-in-chief.
Awards, honors, academic works
* USSR State Prize (1987)
* Alexander Karpinsky gold medal (1992)
* Winner of Lomonosov prize (1993) for “Global tectonics of Earth” series
* State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) for a number of fundamental scientific works.
V. Khain was USSR AS and RAS academician, USSR and Russian Federation State Prize Laureate, author of over 1000 scientific works including nearly 60 fundamental monographs, honorary doctor of the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, honorary member of the European Academy of Sciences, full member of the International Academy of Science, Munich honorary member of French, London, Bulgarian and U.S. geological societies, member of the International Committee on the History of Geological Sciences (1984)
In 1991 he was awarded the Gustav-Steinmann-Medal of the German Geological Society, Prestwich Medal of the French Geological Society, Golden Medal and Diploma of the First Degree of the World Organization for Scientific Cooperation, Nobel Prize Laureate Pavlov golden badge award of the International Academy of Science Health & Ecology.
V. Khain was Honorary Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dynamic Geology department. In 2007, he was elected Honorary President of the International Academy of Science, Munich.
Scientific activities
In 2009, E. Khain was elected honorary president of World Organization for Scientific Cooperation|WOSCO (World Organization for Scientific Cooperation). In recent years, he devoted his scientific researches to the most important problems of humanity, investigating seismic and volcanic activity cycles and their interrelation with other geological and cosmic factors. His studies on global changes in the geological environment have made it possible to view Earth's climate change processes and geological life from a new perspective. These research topics are dealt with in his fundamental monographs and articles.
In recent years, he devoted his scientific researches to the most important problems of humanity, investigating seismic and volcanic activity cycles and their interrelation with other geological and cosmic factors.
Selected publications
His studies on global changes in the geological environment have made it possible to view Earth's climate change processes and geological life from a new perspective. These research topics are dealt with in his fundamental monographs and articles:
* V. E. Khain, E. N. Cyclicity of geodynamic processes: its possible nature, Moskau 2009
* V. E. Khain, E.N.Khalilov. Cyclicity of geodynamic processes: Its possible nature. Moscow, Scientific World, 2009, p. 520;
* V. E .Khain, E.N.Khalilov. Spatiotemporal patterns of seismic and volcanic activity. Burgas, Bulgaria, SWB, 2008, p. 304
* V. E. Khain, E.N.Khalilov. ABOUT POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY UPON SEISMIC AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES: LONG-TERM FORECAST. SCIENCE WITHOUT BORDERS. Transactions of the International Academy of Science H & E.Vol.3. 2007/2008, SWB, Innsbruck, 2009 ISBN 978-9952-451-01-6 ;
* V. E. Khain, E.N.Khalilov. GLOBAL CLIMATE FLUCTUATION AND CYCLICITY OF THE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. Transactions of the International Academy of Science H & E. Vol.3. 2007/2008, SWB, Innsbruck, 2009 ISBN 978-9952-451-01-6 ; | WIKI |
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io s. vm. OCT. 12, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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the Nottingham Congress of the British Archaeological Association, 1906, entitled which was published in the Journal of the Association for December, 1906, pp. 231-68 <with twenty-two valuable illustrations). See also the ' Report of the Committee on Ancient Earthworks and Fortified En- closures,' presented to the Congress of Archaeological Societies, 5 July, 1905, where the excavation of several ancient defensive a,nd other works is noted.
* Earthworks of the Moated Mound Type,'
Whether Woodbury Hill be prehistoric or not one cannot say, but it was conjectured by Drs. Stukeley and Coker that Bere Regis is the site of a Roman station an opinion -confirmed by the large circular entrench- ment to which MB. ADDY alludes. The date on which the fair was " holden " has evi- dently been shifted, for at the beginning of last century it opened on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, which is, I think, 8 Septem- ber. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.
NONJTJBOBS: REV. BENJAMIN WAY (10 S. viii. 229, 277). The Rev. Benjamin Way, the second son of John Waye of Bridport, Devon, according to Burke's ' Landed Gentry' (1853 edition) was ejected from the living of Barking, Essex, in the time of the Commonwealth. The same authority adds that he died at Bristol in 1680; conse- quently he could not have been one of the Nonjurors of 1689. That he should have been ejected in the time of the Common- wealth seems unlikely, and ' The Noncon- formist Memorial ' (London, 1775) mentions Mr. Way among the list of ministers ejected or silenced after the Restoration, par- ticularly by the Act of Uniformity of 1662, and this fits in with the date of his death as given by Burke. A. H. ABKLE.
SlLK FIBST MENTIONED IN THE BlBLE
(10 S. viii. 231, 276). Pere Cibot, S.J., was quite accurate in his statement that in his Old Testament the only mention of silk was that in Esther viii. 15. Cruden's 'Con- cordance' (to the Authorized Protestant Version) supplies four references, viz., Gen. xli. 42, Prov. xxxi. 22, Ezek. xvi. 10, 13. But, as MB. KOPSCH remarks, Pere Cibot quoted from his own Latin Vulgate, which in fact does use the term sericus '(silken) only once, namely, in Esther viii. 15. In the four places of reference given in the more definite a term than byssus or byssinus, a term signifying (a garment of) fine linen or cloth, and not necessarily of silk. Pere
* Concordance,' the Vulgate makes use of no
Cibot's accuracy is good testimony to his knowledge of the Bible, for accurate con- cordances were in his time (1735) unknown, and to ascertain a fact of this sort was in those days by no means so easy as it is now.
DOM BASIL WELD, O.S.B. Fort Augustus.
According to the Vulgate, silk is only mentioned twice in the Bible (I believe), viz., in Esther viii. 15, " amictus serico
palho," and Apoc. xviii. 12, " merces
send." The Revised Version has " fine linen," and the Vulgate " stola byssina" and " byssus " in Gen. xli. 42 and Proverbs xxxi. 22, when the Authorized Version has " silk." Both R.V. and A.V. have " silk " in Ezek. xviflO, 13, when the Vulgate has " subtilia " and " polymitum."
JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT. [MR. STAPLE-TON MARTIN also thanked for reply.]
SEBVIUS SULPICITJS AND BBET HABTE (10 S. viii. 205). In one of Voltaire's romances a widower, who recently has lost his wife, meets a widow, whose husband has just died. They are both inconsolable. A year after- wards, when they are quite cured of their sorrow, they meet again. I forget whether they marry one another or not!" But they jointly erect a temple to Time the consoler.
E. YABDLEY.
The sentiment expressed is a common one. Thus in Schiller's Wallenstein's Tod,' Act V. sc. iii., we find :
Denn was verschmerzte nicht der Mensch? Vom
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Wie vpm gemeinsten lernt er sich entwohnen, Denn ihn besiegen die gewalt'gen Stunden. So also in Chateaubriand's ' Atala ' Father Aubry says:
" Croyez-raoi, mon fils, les douleurs ne sont point eternelles; il faut tot on tard qu'elles tinisseut, parce que le cceur de 1'homme est lini ; c'est une'de nos grandes miseres : nous ne sommes pas meme capables d'etre longtemps malheureux."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
EDWABD DEVEBE, HTHEABL orOxroBD (10 S. vii. 409). Mr. Bond is wrong, and the 'D.N.B.' correct. Sir William Cecil married his first wife, Mary Cheke, sister of Sir John Cheke, in August, 1541 ; she died in February, 1543, their son Thomas, who later became Earl of Exeter, having been born in May, 1542 (see^Nares's Memoirs of Lord Burghley,' vol. 1. chaps, v. and vi.). The second wife, Mildred Cooke, was married in December, 1545. The adult issues were Anne, Countess of Oxford ; Elizabeth, who married the eldest son of Lord Wentworth ; | WIKI |
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152 in diplomacy, having failed to obtain the mission to Paris, wished the dignity of a special envoy to London, and was supported by Wilson Gary Nicholas. The friends of Madison were willing to depress Monroe, whom John Randolph was trying to elevate. Even Mrs. Madison, in the excitement of electioneering, allowed herself to talk in general society very slightingly of Monroe; and there were reasons which made interference from Mrs. Madison peculiarly irritating to Monroe's friends. Dr. Logan, the senator from Pennsylvania, while helping Madison to satisfy Napoleon in regard to St. Domingo, was prominent in suggesting that it would be well to set Monroe gently aside. This coalition of Madison, Smith, Logan, and Wilson Gary Nicholas was so strong as to control the Senate.
The second Resolution was adopted Feb. 14, 1806; and a week afterward. General Smith and Dr. Mitchill were appointed a committee to carry the two Resolutions to the White House. Two years later, in response to Monroe's complaints. President Jefferson explained how these senators managed to impose on the Executive a policy of their own.
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This article was written by User:Prino who is apparently the subject (see Autobiography). Further, the subject of the article is only notable for having had an entry in the 1991 Guinness Book of World Records. This does not seem to be a sufficient criterion of notability (see Notability_(people)). I note that Guinness ultimately removed all hitchhiking entries, so presumably hitchhiking no longer meets even Guinness' threshhold for notability. Finally, there are no reliable sources provided in the article (one blog and one self-published thesis). siℓℓy rabbit ( talk ) 17:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete as per the nomination. RayAYang (talk) 21:15, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. Black ngold29 07:07, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
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Nested Forms
Added in 2.1.0
Matestack provides functionality for reactive nested forms.
This works in conjunction with rails' accepts_nested_attributes_for. From the rails documentation on nested attributes:
Nested attributes allow you to save attributes on associated records through the parent. By default nested attribute updating is turned off and you can enable it using the accepts_nested_attributes_for class method. When you enable nested attributes an attribute writer is defined on the model.
There is a little bit of setup required to enable this. There's a need for accepts_nested_attributes_for, index_errors on a models' has_many associations and an ActiveRecord patch.
Consider the following model setup, which is the same model found in the dummy app in the spec directory (active in this dummy app):
class DummyModel < ApplicationRecord
validates :title, presence: true, uniqueness: true
has_many :dummy_child_models, index_errors: true
accepts_nested_attributes_for :dummy_child_models, allow_destroy: true
end
class DummyChildModel < ApplicationRecord
validates :title, presence: true, uniqueness: true
end
Index Errors
Note the has_many :dummy_child_models, index_errors: true declaration in the Dummy Model declaration above.
Normally with rails, when rendering forms using Active Record models, errors are available on individual model instances. When using accepts_nested_attributes_for, error messages sent as JSON are not as useful because it is not possible to figure out which associated model object the error relates to.
From rails 5, we can add an index to errors on nested models. We can add the option index_errors: true to has_many association to enable this behaviour on individual association.
ActiveRecord Patch
Matestack nested forms support requires an ActiveRecord patch. This is because index_errors does not consider indexes of the correct existing sub records.
See rails issue #24390
Add this monkey patch to your rails app
module ActiveRecord
module AutosaveAssociation
def validate_collection_association(reflection)
if association = association_instance_get(reflection.name)
if records = associated_records_to_validate_or_save(association, new_record?, reflection.options[:autosave])
all_records = association.target.find_all
records.each do |record|
index = all_records.find_index(record)
association_valid?(reflection, record, index)
end
end
end
end
end
end
Controller Setup
Adjusting strong params for nested form support does not differ from what needs to be done when using classsic Rails forms, e.g.:
def dummy_model_params
params.require(:dummy_model).permit(
:title,
dummy_child_models_attributes: [:id, :_destroy, :title]
)
end
Example
class ExamplePage < Matestack::Ui::Page
def prepare
@dummy_model = DummyModel.new
# optional: build new instances before render:
@dummy_model.dummy_child_models.build(title: "init-value")
@dummy_model.dummy_child_models.build
end
def response
# use a normal form config, nothing new here
matestack_form form_config do
form_input key: :title, type: :text, label: "dummy_model_title_input"
# use all kind of input components for the parent model here!
@dummy_model.dummy_child_models.each do |dummy_child_model|
dummy_child_model_form(dummy_child_model)
end
# optional!
# lives outside of form_fields_for
form_fields_for_add_item key: :dummy_child_models_attributes, prototype: method(:dummy_child_model_form) do
# type: :button is important! otherwise form submission may be triggered when adding an item.
button "add", type: :button
end
button "Submit me!", type: :submit
end
end
# use a partial for all dummy child model forms
# used for existing child models or as a 'prototype' form for new child models
# when called from form_fields_for_add_item prototype, the first param is nil
def dummy_child_model_form dummy_child_model = DummyChildModel.new
form_fields_for dummy_child_model, key: :dummy_child_models_attributes do
# do not use IDs for input fields!
# IDs are assigned automatically in order to have unique IDs for each input
form_input key: :title, type: :text, label: "dummy-child-model-title-input"
# use all kind of input components for the child model here!
# optional!
# has to be placed within a form_fields_for component
form_fields_for_remove_item do
# type: :button is important! otherwise form submission may be triggered when removing an item.
button "remove", type: :button
end
end
end
end
Dynamically Adding Nested Items (Optional)
As in the example above, you can dynamically add nested items. As the comment in the code suggests type: :button is important, otherwise form submission may be triggered when removing an item.
# lives outside of a form_fields_for component!
form_fields_for_add_item key: :dummy_child_models_attributes, prototype: method(:dummy_child_model_form) do
# type: :button is important! otherwise form submission may be triggered when removing an item
button "add", type: :button
end
Dynamically Removing Nested Items (Optional)
As in the example above, as well as dynamically adding items, you can dynamically remove nested items. Again, important: type: :button is important, otherwise form submission may be triggered when adding an item.
# has to be placed within a form_fields_for component!
form_fields_for_remove_item do
# type: :button is important! otherwise form submission may be triggered when adding an item.
button "remove", type: :button
end
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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 29/October 1886/Are Black and White Colors?
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ARE BLACK AND WHITE COLORS?
By HARRY AUSTIN DOTY.
ALTHOUGH there is no general agreement as to whether black and white are or are not colors, it is very commonly held both by scientists and artists that they are not colors. Encyclopædias, dictionaries, and text-books usually class black and white separately from colors, defining the former as the absence of all color and the latter as the sum of all colors. Von Bezold ("Theory of Color," p. 41) says, "An object appears black if, in the light falling upon it, those species of rays are wanting which alone it is capable of reflecting"; and, again, "White and black . . . which, indeed, are not colors at all in the true sense of the word." But, on page 90 of the same work, the heading of paragraph 48 is "White is a mixed color"; and, again, on page 113 it is stated that "white and all the very pale colors which are closely allied to it must be counted among the cold colors." It is not meant to attach much importance to such little inconsistencies in this very excellent work, but simply to indicate an indecision regarding the limitation of the word color. For another instance may be quoted Field, an English artist, who says of black that the artist is bound to regard it as a color; that "it is colorless, but extinguished light"; that "to be perfect it must be neutral with respect to color and destitute of sheen or reflective power in regard to light," and that "there is no perfectly pure and transparent black pigment." And the same author regards white light as colorless. These latter quotations are not made to emphasize their obvious inaccuracies, but to further illustrate the absence of anything like a unanimity of opinion regarding the classification of black and white in the chromatic scale. Many other opinions might be quoted, showing not only an indecision on the particular point herein discussed, but also widely different ideas concerning the nature of black and white.
In endeavoring to answer the question propounded we can do little more than test the propriety of restricting the application of the word color to less than the entire range of visual impressions. It will be necessary first to inquire just what relation black and white have to other retinal impressions.
At the outset it should be noted that we have no retinal standard. An object may convey a color impression which varies in the same individual with the conditions of rest or fatigue of the eye, with the character of the prevailing illumination, and also according to the influence of neighboring bodies which may produce effects of contrast. There is often a temporary or permanent difference in the color-perception of the two eyes of the same person; and among persons there are of course still wider differences, even excluding abnormal eyes from the comparison. It is easy to mix a paint which will be called black by one and gray by another, and with a little less illumination the most sensitive eye might detect no gray whatever in the mixture; and even among a number of pigments, all of which would be classed as undoubtedly black, one may by comparison see differences and be able to select some which are "blacker" than the rest. Crumple a piece of white paper, and it exhibits lights and shades of greatly different degrees, some of the shades perhaps being deep enough to be designated black, and all intermediate shades may exist, but any two persons would not be likely to agree upon exactly at what particular shade should be drawn the line between gray and black. The retinal impression, therefore, under ordinary circumstances is not a reliable guide to the classification of the cause which produces it.
Consider, then, how we get impressions of color from objects. The sun emits waves of light varying in length by infinitesimal gradations between the extreme red and the extreme violet of the solar spectrum. As far as our purpose is concerned, we may disregard the ultra-violet and ultra-red rays, which are without perceptible effect upon the retina. These luminous or visible rays, acting together, produce in the eye the impression of white; separately, the longest waves produce red; those a little shorter, orange, and so on to the shortest, which produce violet. Aubert calculated that there were at least one thousand distinguishable primary color-impressions to be obtained from the solar spectrum. These rays of various lengths falling upon the things about us are partly absorbed, partly reflected, the latter portion producing in the eye sensations of color. Nearly all of our color-sensations are produced by this "selective reflection," and it will be unnecessary here to consider the other causes of color-production. Reference will be made, however, to subjective color-impressions further on. Now it is very rare indeed, or never, that but one kind or length of waves is reflected by a pigment or surface; usually several kinds are present, and even surfaces having apparently a pure color not uncommonly reflect rays differing considerably in wavelength from those of the predominant kind. Or, to put it another way, the rays from a surface having a definite hue may find their representatives in the solar spectrum not only in the portion corresponding to that particular hue, but also in one or more remote parts of the spectrum. For instance, the light from green leaves contains not only, in predominance, green rays, but some red rays and some violet rays, which find their representatives in the middle and each end of the spectrum respectively. It is true, further, that almost every hue in nature or art is made up not only of several kinds of rays, but of all kinds found in the spectrum; that is, some white light is almost always present in that which we receive from illuminated surfaces.
Now, if blackness were the complete absence of light, the question as far as it is concerned would be much simplified; but I shall endeavor to show that black is not a negative impression. All black pigments and materials reflect light, and many of them to an extent which makes the fact readily demonstrable. Compare under a bright illumination half a dozen black things to be found in any home—cloths, book-covers, etc.—and it will be seen on a more or less close examination that they are not identical in appearance. Color-makers have their blacks of various intensities and shades. One of the commonest of blacks, lampblack, in comparison with some others, appears a very obvious gray. These black surfaces and pigments can not all be devoid of reflecting power, as they would then be incapable of making any impression upon the retina, and the differences must therefore be due to the various amounts or kinds of light which they reflect. Moreover, light reflected by black pigments is white light; that is, they reflect all the different kinds of rays in sunlight. Professor Rood ("Text-Book of Color") found that the black pigments used in his experiments reflected from two to six per cent as much white light as white paper (which, itself, reflects about forty per cent of the light falling upon it), the light being the same in kind and quantity as that from white paper under a sufficiently feeble illumination. There are, it is true, small differences in black pigments in power of reflecting the various components of white light. Blue may be slightly in excess of the normal proportion in white light, and so on, but these are so trifling that they do not affect the question before us. A black pigment with no reflecting power seems to be unknown, and is probably an impossibility. And it is by no means certain that absolute darkness should be taken as a standard of blackness, for several reasons. The impossibility of reaching the standard in practice and of making comparisons in perfect darkness would render it valueless. But the most important objection to it is this: after the retina has ceased to be affected by light, there become manifest certain subjective impressions, perhaps caused by circulation of the blood in the retina, which are not at all suggestive of black;[1] in fact, a very black pigment appears to the writer much "blacker" than the darkness of a closet. The influence of contrast, which is of course impossible in perfect darkness, seems to be necessary to the impression of the most intense black. An utter absence of retinal excitement would, of course, be no sensation at all, and would be of no more use as a standard of blackness than is the blind spot of the eye, of which we are unconscious until we find by experiment that it is capable of intercepting a retinal image. It seems legitimate, therefore, that black, which, as far as we know it, is but a feeble white, should be classed with other sensations produced by light.
Inasmuch as black is nothing more than white very greatly reduced in intensity, if we can show that white is entitled to rank as a color, evidently black also should be similarly ranked. But with white the case is somewhat different from that of black, in that we have a recognized standard of white light, viz., the sum of the rays in the solar spectrum. These, as already stated, acting in concert upon the retina, produce the impression which we call white. The fact, however, that white light is composite, affords no reason for placing it without the scale of colors, for as far as the sensation produced by it is concerned it is quite as simple as red or green, and no eye is able to analyze it into its components. On the contrary, the sensation of white is brought into close relation with many colors because, like them, it may be produced by various mixtures of less than all kinds of rays. According to Rood, the following pairs of spectrum colors when combined produce a white which is indistinguishable from complete sunlight: red and green-blue, orange and cyanogen-blue, yellow and ultramarine-blue, greenish yellow and violet, green and purple. Groups of three or more kinds of rays may also produce a white, and these white mixtures seem to differ in no essential respect from such other mixtures as yellow and red, which make orange, or red and violet, which make purple. That all of the solar rays produce together white seems to be simply an accident of the retinal constitution; for it is quite conceivable, and consistent with the color theory of Young and Helmholtz, that an eye might be so constituted that the combined effect of the solar rays might be, for instance, blue, while pairs of colors similar to those mentioned might still produce white; and under these circumstances white would probably be called a color and blue would be the standard. Something of this kind does take place under artificial illumination. By gas or oil light, which are both very yellow compared with sunlight, a piece of paper which in sunlight is white would still be looked upon as white, although we know perfectly well that the light it sends to the eye is yellow in hue. The white of daylight appears blue by gaslight. On the other hand, objects which are yellow in daylight we are apt to believe white by gaslight, as they appear of the same hue as white paper seen under the latter light. These illusions are explained by the fact that the prevalent illumination is always regarded as white, no matter what hue it has referred to the standard of sunlight. White paper reflects equally well all the rays falling upon it, and, artificial light having an excess of yellow rays, the paper is really yellow in that light; a yellow object has the property of reflecting principally yellow light, which it exercises in gaslight the same as in sunlight, and it also is yellow under the former illumination; the white paper and yellow object, therefore, appear of the same hue; but knowing the paper to be white, and through an error of judgment accepting the prevailing illumination as white, the yellow object appears of this color. In view of these facts, it would seem that deductions drawn from the composition of white light are in favor of making it one of the colors. As supporting this view of the matter, might be mentioned Langley's investigations which have shown that the true color of sunlight, before some of its constituents have been filtered out by the atmosphere, is decidedly blue; and that, according to Brücke, ordinary daylight is slightly reddish in tint. It might be claimed as a reason for excluding white from the color series that it has no representative in the solar spectrum, but there is equal reason for excluding purple, unquestionably a color, which has no type in any part of the spectrum, being produced only by a mixture of rays from the red and violet portions of the spectrum. And it has been proved by several observers that all of the spectrum colors when increased in intensity tend toward white, and if made dazzling actually become white. Accepting this fact in a liberal sense, it is plain that white has a representative in every part of the spectrum; and this tendency toward white with increasing illumination being also a property of black, we have a direct argument for the inclusion of the latter with the colors. In conclusion, it may be urged that the adoption of white and black into the chromatic scale is desirable for the sake of simplicity and uniformity in the nomenclature of this subject.
1. With the writer these subjective images often take the form of a circular, or irregular, greenish ring closing in or contracting over a violet background near the center of the apparent field of view, other similar rings succeeding each other in the same way at pretty regular intervals. Although having no bearing upon the subject, it might be added that these images, with others of a similar character, may always be observed in darkness after retiring; and I have a number of times thought I had detected, during the moments between waking and dreaming, a merging of these images, with exaggerations and mental accompaniments, into dreams. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Shoulder arthroplasty
Like the hip and knee, the shoulder joint may become arthritic and painful as people age. Associated conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, and events such as a traumatic injury or rotator cuff tear, may speed the degenerative process.
Shoulder arthroplasty is a successful, pain-relieving option for many people. During the procedure, the humeral head andglenoid are replaced with metal and plastic components to alleviate pain and improve function. Arthroplasty is usually done only after more conservative treatments (such as physical therapy, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications) have failed. Rather, the decision to proceed with shoulder arthroplasty should be agreed upon by both patient and doctor. In some cases, arthroplasty may be the only option that relieves pain and allows the patient to regain better function.
Shoulder arthroplasty is probably underutilized as a treatment for shoulder arthritis. This could be because physicians who are not specialized shoulder orthopaedic surgeons are less aware that shoulder replacement surgery is an option for their patients. In any case, the number of shoulder replacement procedures will likely increase as the population ages.
How long might a shoulder replacement last? What should a patient expect to gain?
There is data of a 93% survivorship of the prosthesis at 10 years and 87% at 15 years. Also, relief from moderate or severe pain is achieved in 83% of shoulders at an ave. follow-up of 10 years. Active abduction (the ability to raise the arm to the side) improves by an average of 40 degrees to an ave. of 120 degrees.
Who performs shoulder replacement surgery?
Patients may be better off visiting a shoulder specialist surgeon who sees a large volume of cases, siting that the number of times a surgical procedure is performed may have a bearing on how well it is done.
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RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Perham, Richard N.YR 2000 T1 Swinging Arms and Swinging Domains in Multifunctional Enzymes: Catalytic Machines for Multistep Reactions JF Annual Review of Biochemistry, VO 69 IS Volume 69, 2000 SP 961 OP 1004 DO https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.biochem.69.1.961 PB Annual Reviews, SN 1545-4509, AB ▪ Abstract Multistep chemical reactions are increasingly seen as important in a growing number of complex biotransformations. Covalently attached prosthetic groups or swinging arms, and their associated protein domains, are essential to the mechanisms of active-site coupling and substrate channeling in a number of the multifunctional enzyme systems responsible. The protein domains, for which the posttranslational machinery in the cell is highly specific, are crucially important, contributing to the processes of molecular recognition that define and protect the substrates and the catalytic intermediates. The domains have novel folds and move by virtue of conformationally flexible linker regions that tether them to other components of their respective multienzyme complexes. Structural and mechanistic imperatives are becoming apparent as the assembly pathways and the coupling of multistep reactions catalyzed by these dauntingly complex molecular machines are unraveled., UL https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.biochem.69.1.961 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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232, but kind Indians are mostly lazy, and reputed simple—at all events, are seldom chiefs; chiefs among the red men being taken from the active, and those accounted wise. Hence, with small promotion, kind Indians have but proportionate influence. And kind Indians may be forced to do unkind biddings. So "beware the Indian, kind or unkind," said Daniel Boone, who lost his sons by them. But, have all you backwoods men been some way victimized by Indians?—No.—Well, and in certain cases may not at least some few of you be favored by them?—Yes, but scarce one among us so self-important, or so selfish-minded, as to hold his personal exemption from Indian outrage such a set-off against the contrary experience of so many others, as that he must needs, in a general way, think well of Indians; or, if he do, an arrow in his flank might suggest a pertinent doubt.
" 'In short,' according to the judge, 'if we at all credit the backwoodsman, his feeling against Indians, to be taken aright, must be considered as being not so much on his own account as on others', or jointly on both accounts. True it is, scarce a family he knows but some member of it, or connection, has been by Indians maimed or scalped. What avails, then, that some one Indian, or some two or three, treat a backwoodsman friendly-like? He fears me, he thinks. Take my rifle from me, give him motive, and what will come? Or if not so, how know I what involuntary preparations may be going on in him for things as unbeknown in present time to him as me—a sort of chemical preparation in the soul | WIKI |
Neocycloceras
Neocycloceras is an extinct genus of nautiloid included in the Pseudorthocerida that lived during the Late Devonian and Mississippian (early Carboniferous). Neoclycloceras is characterized by a slender, generally circular shell with slightly oblique, sinuous surficial annulations. Its sutures have dorsal and ventral saddles and lateral lobes and become more oblique with age. Saddles point forward, lobes to the rear. Dorsal saddles are broad and low but the ventral ones are high and conspicuous. The siphuncle is located between the center and venter and is nummuloidal, composed of rounded expanded segments, the inside of which contains a continuous laminar lining that is thickest in the middle of the segments and thinnest at the septal necks. Neocycloceras has been found in Pennsylvania in North America and in Morocco in north Africa. | WIKI |
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300 of arrest. He may be innocent. I have no deeper motive, but if the one for whom she is working is not a German called, or passing as, Muller, you might have some satisfaction in exonerating him."
The curate reflected a moment.
"He is not, Mr Carrados," he replied decidedly. "But please don't ask me anything more."
"Very well, I won't," said Carrados, rising. "Our numismatic conversation has taken a strange turn, Mr Hosier. There is a text for you—Money at the root of everything! By the way, I can do you one trifling service." He picked up the anonymous letter, tore it across and held it out. "You have done all you could. Burn this and then you are clear of the matter."
"Thanks, thanks. But won't it get you into trouble with the Admiralty?"
"I make my own terms," replied Carrados. "Now Mr Hosier, I have been an ill-omened bird, but I had no suspicion of this when I came. The 'long arm' has landed us this time. Will you come and dine with me one day this week, and I promise you not a single reference to this troublesome business?"
"You are very good," assented Hosier.
"I am at Cliffhurst"
"Cliffhurst?" was Hosier's quick exclamation.
"Yes, at the Rose and Plumes."
"I—I am very sorry, Mr Carrados," stammered the curate, "but, after all, I am afraid that I must cry off. This week"
"If the distance takes up too much of your time, may I send a car?"
"No, no, it isn't that—at least, of course, one has to consider time and work. Thank you, Mr Carrados; you are very kind, but, really, if you don't mind" | WIKI |
Why did ancient emperors live so short?It has a lot to do with the concubine system.
Understand the ancient history of friends have such a concept, in ancient China, a lot of at an early age he began to reign as the emperor, it is because they the previous emperor die earlier, there are a lot of short-lived emperor in Chinese history, such as the period of han emperor of han dynasty, and han and emperor, and Song Ying emperor of song dynasty, and in the late qing dynasty emperor,What made these emperors live so short?There were many reasons for the emperor’s short life, such as disobedience, infirmity, and hard work, but the main reason was ruined in his private life.There were many such emperors. As early as the Qin Dynasty, there was a king, Huhai, the son of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng.But Huhai was too young for some Kings.Legend has it that Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty would play a game of “role play” with his maids, pretending to be merchants and letting them pretend to be buyers.In addition, he often took advantage of his noble status to molest civilian women, who would take her to the palace. When he was in power, the number of concubines reached the peak, and he also paid the price for his adultery. In the prime of his life, he looked emaciated when he should have been mighty and strong, and soon died.The Emperor of Ming Dynasty had worse than him, that is, in January, the son of Heaven Zhu Changluo, after his father Emperor Wanli left for the west, Zhu Changluo ascended to the throne, but he has been in the harem, enjoying his son’s day, only a month later, the new emperor died of sudden illness.In China, the limit of the emperor system actually has a lot of, also have a lot of people can control the emperor, especially the young emperor, the queen mother, for example, if the new emperor ignore, the queen mother will punish the emperor, prime minister and minister of many also can supervise and urge the emperor, but successive emperors were found a loophole, that is his personal life, can the emperor in his own harem completely release,The system of serving the emperor was also in vain.In the history of development, gradually formed a shi tomb system, this system can restrict the time and frequency, luck his emperor wanted enough is enough, don’t infatuated with women, should be concerned about, but the system has almost no effect in any of the dynasty, emperor has many concubines want more luck, the emperor was thinking, the queen mother also want to have grandchildren,Ministers also wanted to see their daughters marry the emperor to give birth to the dragon seed.Actually shi lay system are not the same in every dynasty, the emperor’s concubines quantity many, the emperor who all don’t know, may be the earliest time will be concubines “recommendations”, each other during the reign of liu bang, he is under the recommendations of other concubines luck thin lady, very lucky, is the luck make thin lady got pregnant with the Chinese emperor,But this kind of recommendation model is obviously not a good method.Later, there came the theory of portraits. Painters would put concubines on the drawings for the emperor to choose, but the emperor was greatly troubled by this. The biggest problem was that the portraits did not match himself.Since the artists could not be trusted, the emperors wanted to challenge the new way of choosing pictures without looking at them, just like opening a blind box, which was so exciting. This was the “card flipping system” in the Qing Dynasty, and a special organization named “Jing Shi Fang” was formed at that time to take charge of the emperor’s nightlife.Will mention here as the characters in ancient emperor yongzheng emperor, his reign although time is not long, but he devoted by decades of time to the qing dynasty was once again the first in the world, this is related to him about the new worship room, if one of the emperor himself in the evening time for all the concubines, how strong you are, his countryYongzheng stipulated that the jing Shi Fang should strictly limit the time of the emperor’s stay in the harem. If the emperor’s interest did not exceed the specified time one day, the Jing Shi Fang had the right to take the concubines away by force directly. The emperor could not punish the Jing Shi Fang, but should examine himself and reward the Jing Shi Fang.Yongzheng not only asked himself this, he also asked the emperor to strictly abide by it and not change it.However, the emperor is always the honor of the ninth five, Yongzheng’s wish did not come true, the emperor of the late Qing Dynasty also appeared a short life and weak situation, although not necessarily in private life, but more or less some contact.Ancient emperors lived for a short time, so the next king would be younger, which would cause many reasons, such as ministers monopolizing power and eunuchs in chaos. Every event would increase the burden of the people. As the feudal Qing Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history, concubines also became history.Do you think the ancient emperor why short life, short life of the emperor you know who? | FINEWEB-EDU |
Peter Grant
Peter Grant may refer to:
Sportspeople
* Peter Grant (athlete) (born 1954), Australian Olympic sprinter
* Peter Grant (footballer, born 1879) (1879–1937), Scottish footballer
* Peter Grant (footballer, born 1965), Scottish football player and coach, played for Celtic and Scotland, manager of Norwich City
* Peter Grant (footballer, born 1994), Scottish football player, played for Falkirk, son of footballer born 1965
* Peter Grant (rugby union) (born 1984), South African rugby union player
Other people
* Peter Grant (1714–1824), Last survivor of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
* Peter Grant (abbé) (died 1784), Scottish Roman Catholic priest, agent and abbé
* Peter Grant (politician) (born 1960), SNP politician elected 2015
* Peter Grant (journalist), journalist for The Wall Street Journal
* Peter Grant (music manager) (1935–1995), English music manager
* Peter Grant (pastor) (1783–1867), Scottish pastor, poet and songwriter known as Pàdraig Grannd nan Oran
* Peter Grant (singer) (born 1987), English singer
* Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University
* Peter Grant (VC) (1824–1868), Irish Victoria Cross recipient
* Peter J. Grant (1943–1990), British ornithologist
* Peter Mitchell Grant (born 1944), Scottish academic
* Peter Grant (sculptor) (1915–2003), Irish sculptor
* Peter Grant, Canadian businessman and complainant in Grant v Torstar Corp, a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on defamation
Other uses
* Peter Grant (book series), a series of fantasy novels by Ben Aaronovitch | WIKI |
Trump: 'I have nothing to do with Russia' | TheHill
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE claimed Monday night that it's Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and her cronies who have gotten too cozy with the Russians. The GOP nominee, who has made both Democrats and Republicans nervous by heaping praise on Russia's strongman President Vladimir Putin in the course of his campaign, used a rally in Florida to raise questions about financial ties between Clintonland and the Kremlin. Trump attacked Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta for having an opaque business relationship with a Kremlin-backed investment firm. "Podesta's also linked to a major Kremlin-backed firm in Russia," Trump said Monday night in Tampa, Fla. "You know the way every time Russia's brought up they say, 'Oh Trump.' What do I have to do with it? And now they're linked." Trump then hit the Democratic nominee for the sale of U.S. uranium assets to the Russians during her tenure as secretary of State. As the New York Times reported, about $2.35 million of undisclosed cash flowed to the Clinton Foundation over the same period that Uranium One was trying to convince U.S. government agencies, including Clinton’s State Department, to approve a Russian takeover. "Remember that Hillary Clinton gave Russia 20 percent of American uranium," Trump told his crowd Monday night. "And you know she was paid a fortune. They got a tremendous amount of money." "She always likes to tie me in with Russia," he added. "I have nothing to do with Russia, folks, OK. I'll give you a written statement. Nothing to do." View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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