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Anything, right of center is now "far-right." OK wikipedia, it took a while, but your obvious bias is now clear to all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6033:85:3047:281B:C6C2:1C83 (talk) 20:05, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
* Wikipedia is based on reliable sources. Many reliable sources described TNA as far-right. If you find reliable sources that describe it another way, that can be added (though it is unlikely to replace the "far-right" descriptor). Jlevi (talk) 20:31, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Far Right
You would also describe our founding fathers to be far right. 2606:25C0:800D:FCD7:74DB:80D4:71F3:688F (talk) 02:00, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
Constitutional magazine
Get it right you leftist Marxist commies 2601:C8:C000:1A10:8509:6B24:E48C:E408 (talk) 23:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Page:Harold Lamb--The House of the Falcon.djvu/247
a figure was advancing toward the castle. Edith saw that it was John Donovan.
He had taken only a few steps before a patrol challenged and he halted while a pair of riflemen examined him. Presently the trio began to walk back to the Kurgan. Donovan wore a sun helmet, and was immaculate in his flannels and white jacket beside the short, dingy natives. He strode ahead carelessly, hands in his pockets.
Edith had rejoiced at sight of the man she loved, moving toward her out of the wilderness of rocks. Her heart beat a brief refrain of exultation. Then she bit her lip and repressed a cry of distress.
Apparently Donovan was unarmed. He seemed to take no notice of the two guards. The light of the newly risen sun was dead in his eyes. And he was coming straight into the trap Monsey had set for him and the Sayaks.
The Russian himself was more than a little surprised. Quickly he scanned the near-by woods beyond the rocks, where there was no sign of further movement. "An Englishman, that's certain," he muttered to himself. "No one else would walk or dress like that—here. Now who?"—he glanced at Edith, then peered at the window. "By the sacred head of the Prophet, it's Donovan himself without a beard! I didn't know him at first. Look here!" He gripped the girl's arm viciously. "Silence, you hear? Not a word out of you! Or I'll order my men to shoot him down. Besides that, Abbas may skewer you with his cursed knife on his own account"
He flung a word at the Alaman and scrambled toward the stair.
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Page:A Tour Through the Batavian Republic.djvu/372
360 retire from the tumult and confusion of the city, to enjoy the tranquillity of a secluded village. Broek contains about an hundred houses, each of which is decorated and painted with the nicest care. To every house, as is the case throughout North Holland, there are two doors; one of which is never opened but when a corpse or a christening is carried from the house, and the other serves the ordinary purposes of the family. I could not learn the nature of the superstition from whence this custom is supposed to have originated; and I believe it is peculiar to North Holland. To a stranger, there is something solemn in the custom; and we could not help contemplating these doors, opened only for sepulchral rites, or to introduce a new-born infant into the christian community, with a sort of religious awe and respect.
Over some of these doors were carvings, descriptive of the lives of some of the former possessors of the houses. One of these attracted a considerable portion of our notice. It was divided into four compartments. The | WIKI |
Hibernate - What are the core interfaces of Hibernate framework?
What are the core interfaces of Hibernate framework?
1. Session Interface : The basic interface for all hibernate applications. The instances are light weighted and can be created and destroyed without expensive process.
2. SessionFactory interface : The delivery of session objects to hibernate applications is done by this interface. For the whole application, there will be generally one SessionFactory and can be shared by all the application threads.
3. Configuration Interface : Hibernate bootstrap action is configured by this interface. The location specification is specified by specific mapping documents, is done by the instance of this interface.
4. Transaction Interface : This is an optional interface. This interface is used to abstract the code from a transaction that is implemented such as a JDBC / JTA transaction.
5. Query and Criteria interface : The queries from the user are allowed by this interface apart from controlling the flow of the query execution.
What are the core interfaces of Hibernate framework?
- Configuration interface
- Transaction interface
- Query and Criteria interfaces
- Session interface
- SessionFactory interface
Hibernate - Explain how to configure Hibernate.
Explain how to configure Hibernate - Hibernate uses a file by name hibernate.cfg.xml. This file creates the connection pool and establishes the required environment....
Hibernate - What is a HibernateTemplate?
What is a HibernateTemplate? - HibernateTemplate is a helper class that is used to simplify the data access code.
Hibernate - What are the benefits of HibernateTemplate?
What are the benefits of HibernateTemplate? - HibernateTemplate, which is a Spring Template class, can simplify the interactions with Hibernate Sessions...
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How to unlock Huawei B593u-91 Mobily
Huawei B593 4G LTE CPE Router is specially designed to meet the 4G LTE Band requirements of the end users and support up to 100mbps download and allow 32 devices to be connected at a time. In Saudi Arabia, Zain and Mobily are selling this router.
How to unlock Huawei B593u-91 Mobily
Huawei B593 unlocking instructions-
1. Reset the device using the physical reset button.
2. Connect the Huawei b593 router to the PC using its LAN cable.
3. Open the web browser and log in to the device using the password as admin.
4. Navigate to System, choose Upgrade and select “upgrade file” option.
5. Select the file downloaded earlier and click on Upgrade button.
6. Wait for the upgrade to finish.
7. Once it is updated, login to the router, Go to General Settings, go to SIM Lock and enter your unlock code.
In the new version of b593, Mobily has increased the security of its router and it doesn’t allow changing the firmware. We have found a solution to that and are sharing with all.
Download the below files to be used in unlocking.
Phase I:
1. Switch off your router, disconnect the LAN Cable and insert any SIM card.
2. Press and Hold the WPS + RESET + WLAN at the same time for approximately 25 seconds.
3. Wait till all LED lights start flashing and continuous blinking, Release the WPS + RESET + WLAN.
4. If WPS led is not blinking then you need to repeat the steps 1 to 3 again.
5. Connect the router to PC or Laptop and open the B593 upgrade tool as administrator.
Multicast upgrade tool
6. Select the correct Ethernet network card of your computer from the drop down list.
7. Choose Router option from the policy drop down box .
8. Click Open and select the firmware B593.trx downloaded earlier and press the start button.
9. Without closing the multicast tool, pull out the power cable from the router and put it back. Wait for around 5 minutes till all Signal LED lights are completely on.
10. Once all LED are lit, press stop button and close the B593 upgrade tool.
Phase II:
11. Open your web browser and navigate to http://192.168.1.1.
12. You will get a message stating that your firmware is in recovery mode and you will find a recover button there.
13. Click the recover button. After complete recovery, your B593u router will restart automatically.
14. Once the device is recovered, log in and update the device again but this time choose the firmware B593u-91.tar.bz2 (update using the web browser)
15. Once the device is updated, login and enter your unlock code.
Unlock code is not free. You will have to pay 6 USD to get the Unlock Code. Kindly proceed only if you agree to pay the same.
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Page:The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - 1729 - Volume 2.djvu/520
[ 56 ] ratio. But this triangle OFK, when at a maximum, makes an angle of mean motion, which is to the angle called R, as BN, half the difference between the latus rectum and tranvere axis, is to the double of the tranvere axis. So that the ector or triangle in orbits nearly circular, is always nearly equal to the double of Bullialdus's equation. THE triangle and ector being thus determined, the equation for the tri- linear pace is accordingly determined. From what has been aid, it appears, that 1. THIS equation for the trilinear pace OKQ, is to that for the triangle OKF, in a ratio compounded of BN, the difference between the emi-tran- vere and emi-latus rectum to the emi- latus rectum, and of the duplicate pro- portion of the ine OH to the radius ; or OKQ is to OKF, in a proportion compounded of the duplicate propor- tion of the ditance of the foci to the quare of the leer axis, and the dupli- cate proportion of the line OH to the radius. For the trilinear figure OKQ and the triangle OKF, are nearly as OK and KH, which are in that pro- portion, and conequently it holds in this proportion to the double of Bulli- aldus's equation. 2. THIS | WIKI |
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Gtk2::TestHelper tests => 7, noinit => 1; # $Header: /cvsroot/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-xs/Gtk2/t/GtkTreeModelSort.t,v 1.3 2004/02/27 05:31:48 muppetman Exp $ my $list = Gtk2::ListStore -> new("Glib::Int"); $list -> set($list -> append(), 0 => 42); $list -> set($list -> append(), 0 => 23); my $sort = Gtk2::TreeModelSort -> new_with_model($list); isa_ok($sort, "Gtk2::TreeModelSort"); is($sort -> get_model(), $list); my $path = Gtk2::TreePath -> new_from_string("1"); my $iter = $sort -> get_iter($path); isa_ok($sort -> convert_child_path_to_path($path), "Gtk2::TreePath"); isa_ok($sort -> convert_child_iter_to_iter($iter), "Gtk2::TreeIter"); isa_ok($sort -> convert_path_to_child_path($path), "Gtk2::TreePath"); isa_ok($sort -> convert_iter_to_child_iter($iter), "Gtk2::TreeIter"); $sort -> reset_default_sort_func(); $sort -> clear_cache(); SKIP: { skip("iter_is_valid is new in 2.2", 1) unless Gtk2->CHECK_VERSION (2, 2, 0); is($sort -> iter_is_valid($sort -> get_iter($path)), 1); } __END__ Copyright (C) 2003 by the gtk2-perl team (see the file AUTHORS for the full list). See LICENSE for more information. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
TBR: Inside the List - The New York Times
Advertisement By DWIGHT GARNERFEB. 18, 2007 ABROAD AT HOME: Paul Auster's books like those of Jim Harrison and Charles Bukowski are often said to be more popular in France than they are in America. Still, it's a surprise, somehow, to learn that not one of Auster's sleek novels has appeared, in hardcover or paperback, on the Times list. Unlike Harrison or Bukowski, Auster, who turned 60 this year, actually lived in France in the early 1970s he worked there as a translator. (Auster's first appearances in The New York Times were his translations. In the Book Review in 1972 he translated a review by the French novelist and scholar Albert Memmi. The following year, he translated, for the Op-Ed page, an essay by Michel Foucault on the death penalty.) Auster's new novel, Travels in the Scriptorium (reviewed in this issue by Sophie Harrison), has been getting mixed notices, tilting toward negative. In The Los Angeles Times, Tim Rutten called it an elegant little book that subtly invokes the humane authority of Beckett. But James Gibbons dismantled it in Bookforum, under a tweaking cover line that read: Paul Auster: Twilight of the Idol? IMPERATIVES: The suspense writer Lisa Gardner her new novel, Hide, is No. 9 on the fiction list wants her readers' hearts to palpitate over two baseline questions: What bad thing is going to happen next? Oh, and when are these two gonna get it on? (Pauline Kael condensed these imperatives into a book title: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.) One good way to shove two characters together, Gardner writes in an essay, Secrets of Romatic Suspense, posted on her Web site, is to engage them in the classic 'grateful to be alive' sex that follows a life-threatening situation. (Does grateful to be alive sex happen much in real life? Or are life-threatening situations merely followed by shivering and bickering?) What if characters in a romantic suspense novel aren't quite ready to express their feelings in words? They'll have to have lots of sex instead, Gardner writes. The reader understands. OLIVER'S ARMY: Mary Oliver's first book of poems, No Voyage (1965), was reviewed in this publication by James Dickey, who dumped all over it. (She is good, but predictably good; one could have foretold her from reading anthologies and the poetry magazines of the day. She never seems quite to be in her poems, as adroit as some of them are, but is always outside them, putting them together from the available literary elements.) The last laugh has been Oliver's; she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and a National Book Award in 1992. First editions of No Voyage are selling on used-book sites for as much as $900 (unsigned!). Forty-two years after Dickey's review, Oliver's epiphanic nature poems still divide critics. But at 71 she is, far and away, this country's best-selling poet. According to the list on poetryfoundation.org, the top 15 best-selling poetry volumes in America as of mid-January included no fewer than five Mary Oliver titles, all published by Beacon Press of Boston. We're interested in your feedback on this page. Tell us what you think. Go to Home Page » | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Does PowerShell cache variable values?
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by dwwilson66 at 2013-01-24 05:35:52
This morning, I copied a directory from my local, networked drive to temp folder for testing. When I ran the script, this error appeared.
Get-Content : Cannot find path 'C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\Automatic_Post-Call_Survey_-_BC,_CC.txt' because it does no
t exist.
At C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\testcountexcl1.ps1:55 char:12
+ Get-Content < <<< $txtfile | Get-WordCount -Exclude (Get-Content c:\temp\exclude.txt) | select -First 15
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\users\xxxxx...ey_-_BC,_CC.txt:String) [Get-Content], ItemNotFoundEx
ception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetContentCommand
This would be expected with the move...PS can't find the path referenced...but I made the following change prior to running the script (old commented out above the new):
$input = Get-Content c:\temp\wordCount.txt
< # $inpath = "C:\users\xxxxx\desktop\cgc\tx" #>
$inpath = "C:\temp\tx"
$srcfiles = Get-ChildItem $inpath -filter "*.txt"
$notPermittedWords = Get-Content c:\temp\exclude.txt
My first inkling is that there's some kind of cache holding my $inpath variable from my last run...but have not been able to find out if that's expected PowerShell behavior. Am I misinterpreting the error or the solution? How do I flush the cache or whatever varables may be stored in memory?
by nohandle at 2013-01-24 06:39:15
How exactly did you run the script?
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Friday, December 22, 2006
How to stop Oracle XE from starting up with your computer
Eddie Awad blogs about "How to Give Your System a Break from Oracle XE".
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There was a question on OraQA about how to stop Oracle XE from starting up with your computer. When you install Oracle XE on Windows, it creates a service called ?OracleServiceXE? with a startup type of ?Automatic? which means that the service starts automatically when the computer boots.
One way to prevent Oracle XE from starting up automatically is to change the startup type of the Oracle service to ?Manual?. You can do that by navigating to your Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, double click on the Oracle service and change the Startup type to Manual.
Another way to prevent Oracle XE from starting up automatically when Windows starts is to use the ORADIM command-line tool that is available with the Oracle database. From the DOS command line execute the following:
oradim -edit -sid XE -startmode manual
Now, when you want to use Oracle XE, you start it up like this:
oradim -startup -sid XE
And you shut it down like this:
oradim -shutdown -sid XE
Or you can use the ?Start Database? and ?Stop Database? shortcuts installed with Oracle XE. Navigate to Start -> All Programs -> Oracle Database 10g Express Edition ->Start/Stop Database
Now you know how you can squeeze out a bit of extra performance from your computer when you are not using Oracle XE :)
Sources and Resources:
- Eddie Awad's Blog
- ORADIM documentation
- Related AskTom thread
2 comments:
Oracle Developer said...
I found this post very useful.
Arun said...
excellet input.
Could you also suggest, how to give start/stop privilliage to normal user; rather than using windows administator account. ( OS is windows 7 ) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1st ed, 1833, vol III).djvu/563
CH. XXXVIII.] party on the record? If it can, the question recurs, what degree of interest shall be sufficient to change the parties, and arrest the proceedings against the individual? Controversies respecting boundary have lately existed between Virginia and Tennessee, between Kentucky and Tennessee, and now exist between New- York and New-Jersey. Suppose, while such a controversy is pending, the collecting officer of one state should seize property for taxes belonging to a man, who supposes himself to reside in the other state, and who seeks redress in the federal court of that state, in which the officer resides. The interest of the state is obvious. Yet it is admitted, that in such a case the action would lie, because the officer might be treated as a trespasser, and the verdict and judgment against him would not act directly on the property of the slate. That it would not so act, may, perhaps, depend on circumstances. The officer may retain the amount of the taxes in his hands, and, on the proceedings of the state against him, may plead in bar the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. If this plea ought to be sustained, and it is far from being certain, that it ought not, the judgment so pleaded would have acted directly on the revenue of the state, in the hands of its officer. And yet the argument admits, that the action, in such a case, would be sustained. But, suppose, in such a case, the party conceiving himself to be injured, instead of bringing an action sounding in damages, should sue for the specific thing, while yet in possession of the seizing officer. It being admitted in argument, that the action sounding in damages would lie, we are unable to perceive the line of distinction between that and the action of detinue. Yet the latter action would claim the specific article seized for the tax, and would obtain it, should the seizure be deemed unlawful.
"It would be tedious to pursue this part of the inquiry farther, and it would be useless, because every person will perceive, that the same reasoning is applicable to all the other enumerated controversies, to which a state may be a party. The principle may be illustrated by a reference to those other controversies, where jurisdiction depends on the party. But, before we review them, we will notice one, where the nature of the controversy is, in some degree, blended with the character of the party.
"If a suit be brought against a foreign minister, the Supreme Court alone has original jurisdiction, and this is shown on the record. But, suppose a suit to be brought, which affects the interest of a foreign minister, or by which the person of his secretary, or of his servant, is to the postmaster-general, to bring suits in his official capacity. In such suits the United States are not understood to be a party, although the suits solely regard their interests. The postmaster-general does | WIKI |
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I currently have a list of Taxonomy terms: Fruit, Meat, Vegetables..etc. And I would like to add a drop down to a content type that will display all nodes and only the nodes that are associated to a Taxonomy Term. I am currently using the Node Reference- Select List, but the list is growing and will eventually become unmanageable.
To Summarize: In example, I select a Taxonomy term and then a "select list" displays only nodes that have been previously associated to that same Taxonomy term. I select Fruit and it displays oranges, apples, and lemon nodes only. Not... lemons, oranges, carrots, ribeyes...etc, in which, is my ever growing Node reference list now.
Thank you for any help you may lend.
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You could accomplish this by writing code (in a custom module) to ajaxify the relevant select fields. Check out the Examples module (ajax examples -> dependent dropdown) for implementation help. Here's what needs to be done roughly:
1. Use hook_form_alter or hook_form_FORM_ID_alter to add necessary #ajax options (callback and wrapper at minimum) to the taxonomy select field. The node reference field needs a wrapper (via #prefix, #suffix) and #options changed when a term has been selected (value set in $form_state['values']).
2. A function for the ajax callback returning the node reference form field.
3. Custom functionality checking which nodes are associated with the selected term to set the right options for node reference. Easiest way might be by querying them directly from the taxonomy_index database table (if you need other data (like type) include the node table as well).
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-- Russia Stocks Rise to Week High as Oil Rallies, Utilities Jump
Russian stocks rose to one-week high
as oil, the country’s chief export earner, climbed a third day
and power stocks led gains. The Micex Index (INDEXCF) gained 1.3 percent to 1,313.21 by the close
in Moscow, the highest level since May 29 after earlier sliding
as much as 0.6 percent. The benchmark gauge tumbled 11 percent
last month, the most since September. OAO Gazprom Neft, the oil
arm of Russia’s biggest company by value, added 2 percent. Power
utilities OAO MRSK Holding and Federal Grid Co. added more than
8.4 percent and OAO Mobile TeleSystems rose 4.1 percent. Oil rose as much as 2.4 percent in New York as crude
inventory shrank. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi
said officials stand ready to act as the euro region’s growth
outlook worsens. The European Central Bank held its main
refinancing rate at 1 percent. The “oil price rebound is supporting both stocks and the
ruble, giving an additional boost to banks,” Alex Kantarovich,
head of research at JPMorgan Chase & Co., said by e-mail. OAO Sberbank, the country’s largest lender, advanced for a
second day, adding 3.2 percent to 80.64 rubles. VTB Bank rose
1.9 percent to 5.3 kopeks, the highest level since May 30.
Russia’s second-biggest lender climbed for a third day after
Chief Executive Officer Andrei Kostin said the central bank will
step up efforts to halt a slide in the ruble and as the currency
advanced. Russia received almost 50 percent of budget revenue from
oil and gas sales last year. The Micex will be open for trading
June 9 and closed June 11-12 for public holidays. BRICS Futures The Micex-RTS began trading futures on benchmark equity
indexes for Brazil , India , China and South Africa today, after
the four other members of the BRICS Exchanges Alliance started
trading the contracts in March. The total volume of shares traded on the benchmark exchange
today was 42.1 billion, according to the exchange’s website.
Yesterday’s total volume was 32.2 billion shares, according to
Bloomberg data. Trading volumes on the Micex declined last week, with 221.4
billion shares changing hands, down from 306.8 billion a week
earlier, according to Bloomberg data. Stocks retreated earlier as Spanish industrial production
unexpectedly fell the most in more than two years in April as
the fourth-largest economy in Europe ’s single currency union
sank deeper into recession. ‘Dangerous’ “The situations in Greece and Spain remain the main
concerns, with the latter rapidly turning into the more
dangerous,” Peter Szopo, the head of research at Alfa Bank in
Moscow, said in an e-mailed note. Russia-dedicated equity funds posted redemptions for the
seventh week in eight, registering a net outflow of $8.2 million
in the week ended May 30, according to EPFR Global. Developing-
nation equity funds registered outflows of more than $1 billion
for the fourth consecutive week, the longest streak since the
third quarter of 2011. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 1.8 percent to 902.02
today, the most since Jan. 26. The MSCI BRIC Index of shares
traded in India, Brazil, Russia and China, fell 1.6 percent. Russian stocks trade at 4.8 times estimated earnings ,
having lost 6.4 percent this year. That compares with a 1.6
percent drop for the MSCI Emerging-Market Index (MXEF) , which trades at
9.3 times projected earnings. To contact the reporter on this story:
Ksenia Galouchko in Moscow at
kgalouchko1@bloomberg.net ; To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Gavin Serkin at
gserkin@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Consumer/Archive 1
Illustrations and Photographs
Would anyone object to me changing the photo to something more professional? This one is less illustrative than vain and creepy. --Revaaron (talk) 21:31, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
* Go for it; I totally agree about the current illustration .-- Kubigula (talk) 19:29, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Same goes for the new photo. No disrespect intended, but also has an unprofessional look to it, something snapped as a user and his wife left the mall. I'll work on finding suitable replacements, along with captions per Captions. --Revaaron (talk) 15:22, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Misc
I wonder where the first use of this term was? i dont know aey .. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Cleanup needed
There is some good information in this article, but it clearly needs citations and some organization. Right now it reads more like a loose collection of unconnected information. Kubigula 02:48, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
* Got rid of a lot of links, does that warrant a removal of cleanup tag? Onionmon 20:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
* Good job. I also just did some cleanup, so that I agree that the tag can go. Looking at the information that was in the article, it seemed logical to separate the discussion between the economic and legal notions of "consumer". I think it flows a bit better now - though it still needs expansion and more citations. -Kubigula (ave) 16:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Spelling
I understand that spelling can be a thorny issue in WP, but I think it's jarring to change the internal link in an article to "mass customisation", which then links to "mass customization". So, I think the spelling in the article ought to remain as it was for two reasons - (1) the wikilinks lead to article that use ize instead of ise; and (2) WP:MOS suggests that the dialect of the first major contributor should be followed. --Kubigula (talk) 17:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
* Also, If you want to suggest dialect neutral word choices, I would certainly be willing to work on that.--Kubigula (talk) 17:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
* It links to "mass customization", because that was created first, not because it is correct. Standard rules, non North American article or reference use Standard English. "Snorkel | Talk" 17:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
* I'm not suggesting it's correct or incorrect; it simply is. I'm a reasonable guy and I want to want to follow/reach a consensus. After you made the change, I looked to see if there was some guideline as to which dialect should be used for non-regional specific articles. The only thing I could find was the the MOS suggested that regional specific articles should use the appropriate dialect and otherwise you basically follow the choice of the first major contributor. Not much of a system, but that's all I could find. Do you know of any other guidelines/policies addressing spelling choices? Seems like this would come up a lot.--Kubigula (talk) 17:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
Dr. Calzolari's comment on this article
Dr. Calzolari has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:
"- This initial sentence "In economic systems consumers are utilities expressed in the decision to trade or not." has no meaning!
- This sentence "The consumer is the one who pays to consume goods and services produced." is not precise. There are instances in which consumers use services or goods but they do not pay. For example this is often the case in two-sided markets, such as broadcasted TV, free newspapers, or any public good (in economic sense).
- early versions of this article referred to consumers in economics (optimal consumers' choice with limited resources). These may be resumed and added to complement."
We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.
We believe Dr. Calzolari has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:
* Reference : Calzolari, Giacomo & Ichino, Andrea & Manaresi, Francesco & Nellas, Viki, 2012. "When the Baby Cries at Night: Uninformed and Hurried Buyers in Non-Competitive Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers 8856, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 15:36, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Economic Theories
Could someone who knows something about the topic add a discussion of the term's relevance in different economic theories? E.g., Does it make sense to talk about "consumers" under communism / collectivism? Does "consumer" imply capitalism? etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I might take a stab at that. I would think we could put in two economic systems and describe the consumer in both. First, a consumer in the free market is free to make choices which are the primary force in what producers produce. Second, consumers in a communist system are seen as final users of the production, but their choices are irrelevant to the producer. The communist ideal within the government is the real force which drives production, not consumer choice. The role of the consumer in a free market system is much more impactful to producers.
thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coachhull (talk • contribs) 20:39, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Not very good article
I am though that this article is not good because we have to known about consumer and how the consumer cheated from shopkeeper but not about shopkeeper Suman samanta (talk) 14:07, 8 December 2016 (UTC) | WIKI |
Cisco SG300 – Configure DHCP Relay to allow DHCP server to support multiple subnets
By default DHCP works via broadcasting on the local subnet and therefore is limited to being able to provide IP addresses for devices on its subnet only. In modern day networks this is a serious limitation as it would mean that for every subnet you would need a DHCP server – imagine the management overhead!
So how can we configure a DHCP server in one subnet to respond and provide IP addresses to clients in multiple other subnets? The answer is to use a DHCP Relay Agent.
The following article explains how to configure a DHCP relay agent for a Cisco SG300 Layer 3 managed switch.
Background Information
In my home test lab I installed a Microsoft Server 2012 DHCP server in one of my subnets (192.168.10.0/24) to be used to lease IP addresses to devices in another subnet (192.168.100.0/24).
To help you better understand what I was trying to achieve, I drew a quick diagram:
Testlab.com DHCP & Subnet Configuration
Testlab.com DHCP & Subnet Configuration
Basically to get this working I needed to configure my Cisco SG300–10 Layer 3 managed switch to be a DHCP relay so that I could get across subnet (or across VLAN) DHCP working.
What is a DHCP Relay Agent?
A DHCP relay agent is a small program that relays DHCP/BOOTP messages between clients and servers on different subnets. To support and use DHCP service across multiple subnets, the router(s) that connect each subnet must support DHCP/BOOTP relay agent capabilities.
For more information see – Support multiple subnets with one DHCP server by configure DHCP relay agents.
DHCP Relay configuration on Cisco SG300 Managed Switch
Once I had configured my Microsoft DHCP server, I then needed to enable and configure the Cisco SG300 managed switch to be a DHCP relay. Here is how I did that:
1. From a browser, navigate to the Cisco SG300 switch IP address. Log in as a user with administrator privileges
2. From the main menu, navigate to IP Configuration >> DHCP Snooping/Relay >> Properties
3. From here enable the following and then click Apply
1. Option 82
2. DHCP Relay
4. From the DHCP Relay Server Table section, click on Add. From the window that appears enter the IP address of the DHCP server (in this case 192.168.20.1) and then click Apply
5. From the main menu, navigate to IP Configuration >> DHCP Snooping/Relay >> Interface Settings. Click the Add button
6. From the window that appears, select the VLAN you want to allow DHCP for (in this case VLAN 100) and then enable DHCP Relay. Finally click Apply
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 above for each VLAN that required DHCP access. In my case it was only one (VLAN 100)
8. Test to ensure you get an IP address from the DHCP server
Microsoft DHCP Server Configuration
Although this article is not about how to configure a Microsoft DHCP server, for completeness sake, I thought I would add a few screenshots of how I configured my DHCP scope for the 192.168.100.0/24 subnet:
DHCP Scope Configuration
DHCP Scope Configuration
Cisco Documentation
If you are interested in the original Cisco documentation on how to enable and configure DHCP Relay on a Cisco SG300 managed switch then you can access it here >>> DHCP Relay Configuration on 300 Series Managed Switch.
Any questions let me know in the comments below
Thanks
Luca
Comments
1. Hello Luca,
Thanks for the above information and its really informative. Can you please also post about how to configure VLAN’s as similar to your lab as i’m trying to stimulate the same infrastructure as yours.
I’m quite new to networking and not too sure how to set it up.
Many thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Pavan
1. Hi Pavan,
To create VLANs you need a compatible layer 3 switch. The one I have is the Cisco SG300-10 (10 port) but you can get the same model with more or less ports if required. For a full list of Cisco SG300 switches, have a look here >>> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/small-business-300-series-managed-switches/models-comparison.html.
The Cisco SG300 has a GUI so it is pretty easy to create via the GUI. Alternatively you can use the CLI to create the VLANs as well. What model of switch do you have?
2. Thanks very much for getting back Luca and providing some information which i really looking for. At the moment I have a NeatGear plug and play switch which is unmanaged.
I really want to setup my infrastructure as similar to your’s. Below are the details of my lab:
I have a wireless router which i have configured just for my lab and one of the LAN ports from my ISP router is connected to the wireless lab router to provide internet access and port forwarding for RDP, netscaler etc. I have two hosts with only 2 NIC’s assigned to each.
Based on the above configuration, If i purchase a managed L3 cisco switch can I setup VLANS’s may be similar to yours to separate out network traffic for each service?
Can you please help me out with it Luca?
Many Thanks in advance,
Pavan
3. Hello Luca,
Great article.
What it you needed DHCP address from your “.20” network (the same network that hosts your DHCP server)? Would you need to relay those requests as well or will the DHCP server just catch the broadcast on its own. I assume I only want to relay requests from a VLAN other than where the DHCP server sits. Is this correct?
Thanks.
1. Hi Dan,
Apologies for the late reply. Yes that is correct, DHCP is a broadcast service, so any device that requires a DHCP lease on the same subnet as the DHCP server and with an active scope for that subnet configured on the DHCP server will get an address. You only need to configure a DHCP relay if you need to provide addresses to clients on other subnets (or VLANs).
Hope that helps
Luca
4. Hey Luca,
I have the DHCP Relay setup but how did you actually configure the switch ports?
I have an ESXi server with a DHCP server within. Then I have my SG300 setup with 3 VLANS 20,30 and 40 with ip addresses assigned and are in my DHCP scope as the same.
Is there anything specific you did on the switch otherwise to get a device direct connected to a port to get a IP address?
1. Hi Marshall,
DHCP used UDP traffic which is broadcast which means it will respond to any device on the same subnet as itself. If you need devices on other subnets to get a DHCP lease from the DHCP server then you will need to configure a DHCP relay on the SG300 as per the information in the article.
Luca
5. Hello Luca,
I got the DHCP Relay working just fine The problem is that my original router is on a 192.168.1.x network and my VM’s on my ESXI server are on 192.168.20.x and 192.168.30.x.
I cannot ping any VM on .20 or .30 network from the 192.168.1.x network that my home router provides addresses from. So are you using a business class router or normal everyday home router?
1. Hi Marshall,
Ah ok sorry I mis-understood your original post. What you need to do is you need to setup some static routes on your home router to point to the SG300 IP address. The IP address needs to be on the same subnet of your home router. Here is a screenshot of what mine looks like. Hope this helps. My home router is a Netgear R8000.
NetGear R8000 Static Routes
6. Hello Luca,
Thanks very much for the feedback. I would assume the 192.168.0.50 is the actual IP assigned to your home router? Which in my case would be the 192.168.1.1 for my ASUS router.
So I have routes that look like the following:
192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
192.168.30.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
I’m starting to think my ASUS router might be the problem. Ughhh
1. 192.168.0.50 is the IP of the SG300 which is connected to my Netgear R8000 home router (192.168.0.1). Take a look at the diagram in the post Test Lab Update – January 2015.
In order to be on your home network (192.168.1.x) and be able to route to a device on one of the VLANs, your home router needs to know where to re-direct the traffic otherwise by default it will route it out to the internet. The static route for each VLAN network should therefore tell your home router to route the traffic to the SG300 because it knows about those networks and will be able to route the traffic on.
So your static routes should be pointing to the IP address of your SG300 (it should be a 192.168.1.x IP address).
7. Thanks for the diagram. I seem to have a possible mistake in my setup according to your diagram.
The port you have going from your router directly to the SG300 you have configured for only VLAN 1 I noticed. Whereas my connection from my router to the SG300 I actually have configured for VLAN 20 and VLAN 30 as a TRUNK port.
Maybe I should just change that port to only support native VLAN 1?
Are any of the other VLAN ports on your SG300 configured as port-channels as well? Since they have multiple VLANS we can already assume they are TRUNK.
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Confusion
Confusion (from Latin confusĭo, -ōnis, noun of action from confundere "to pour together", or "to mingle together" also "to confuse") is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one’s mind about something.
Quotes
* All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
* John Adams, in Michael A. Kirchubel Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America, Mike Kirchubel, 2009, p. 246
* Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
* Anonymous, in First Epistle of Peter 2:6 (traditionally attributed to Saint Peter); this starts one of the passages through which the Society of Friends indicate divine sanction of the universal priesthood of all believers.
* When time itself shall be no more, And all things in confusion hurl'd, Music shall then exert it's power, And sound survive the ruins of the world
* Joseph Addison, in Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692)
* Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
* Joseph Addison, in a translation of Horace, Odes'', Book III, ode iii.
* If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well — in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.
* Mikhail Bakunin, in God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
* Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!
* Mehek Bassi, in Unveiling Our Illusion: New Moon/ Solar Eclipse, 29 April 2014
* Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
* Melody Beattie, in The Art of Being: 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life, Penguin, 17 April 2008, p. 92
* Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
* Bertolt Brecht, in The Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue
* Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
* Charles Caleb Colton, in History of Logan County and Ohio: Containing a History of the State of Ohio ..., O.L. Baskin, 1880, p. 577
I'm alive and it can't be bad But back on planet Earth they shatter the illusion The world's going 'round in a state of confusion
* Should feel happy, should feel glad
* Ray Davies, in "State of Confusion" on State of Confusion (1983) by The Kinks
Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt? It gets worse, the older that you get No escape from the state of confusion I'm in State of confusion I'm in
* Lyin' awake in a cold, cold sweat
* Ray Davies, in "State of Confusion" on State of Confusion (1983) by The Kinks
* What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
* Salvador Dalí, in Steven J. Simske Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 28 May 2013, p. 272
* Men tighten the knot of confusion
* Into perfect misunderstanding.
* T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (1939)
* A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
* Albert Einstein, in Anuradha Kataria Democracy on Trial, All Rise!, Algora Publishing, 2011, p. 84
* Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
* Albert Einstein, in Anslie H. Abraham Why Evil Rules - If God Is...: A Question of Believers and Non-Believers Alike, Xlibris Corporation, 13-Apr-2011, p. 9
* History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
* Gerald R. Ford, in Joy Ashe Gene Defense: A Fictional Genetic Thriller, Xlibris Corporation, 22 October 2010, p. 263
* In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
* Anne Frank, in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past, iUniverse, 2003, p. 37
* Confusion occurs, growing up in the cold world.
* Curtis Jackson, "Hate it or Love It" (January 2005)
* We are confused. Only by admitting our confusion can we begin to build something new.
* Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz “Nine Suggestions For Radicals, or Lessons From the Gulf War” in The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
* For almost a quarter of a century the affairs of the world and its ideas have been in indescribable confusion. In most cases the confusion of ideas is manifest without the aid of polemic or controversy. It is simple evidence of the chaotic state of the world.
* Lucien Laurat, Marxism and Democracy, 1940, published by the , Victor Gollancz Ltd, London; translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Text online at the ''.
* We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in a God of love as the ultimate power in the universe. The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
* Halford E. Luccock, in "Keeping Life Out of Confusion" (1938)
* The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
* Henri Nouwen, in Larry Chang Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, Gnosophia Publishers, 2006, p. 326
* Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
* George Santayana, in Larry Chang Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, Gnosophia Publishers, 2006, p. 117
* In any election, only a percentage of the people vote. Those who can't vote because of age or other disqualifications, and those who don't vote because of confusion, apathy, or disgust at a Tweedledum-Tweedledummer choice can hardly be said to have any voice in the passage of the laws which govern them. Nor can the individuals as yet unborn, who will be ruled by those laws in the future.
* Linda & Morris Tannehill, Ch. 4, "Government—An Unnecessary Evil", The Market for Liberty (1970), pp. 33–34.
* If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
* Lao Tzu, in Brian Weatherley An Essential Part of Being’, Tao Are You, 12 November 2010
* Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
* Jack Welch, in Prof. Dr. Patricia Klarner, The Rhythm of Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of the European Insurance Industry, Springer, 12-Aug-2010, p. 1
* The one who knows he is confused is not that confused.
* Zhuangzi, The Book of Chuang Tzu, as translated by M. Palmer, et. al. (Penguin: 1996), p. 103 | WIKI |
Foundation Training
Foundation Training
November 26, 2019
Foundation Training – The strength of a human body lies on its foundation. The main purpose of the foundation is to hold our body’s structure and keep it upright. Well-built foundations keep it strong and healthy. However, we are now living in the 21st century where normal day typically involve activities that causes pain, deterioration and inefficiency of our body. Activities such as hunching over keyboards, bending over phone devices, commuting for hours huddled over steering wheels or even slouching out on the couch watching our favorite shows. These activities cause our bodies to break down and weaken important core stability.
That’s why (FT) Foundation Training is now sweeping the nation! Foundation Training’s birth was due to Dr. Eric Goodman’s belief that corrective movement could be the answer to his back pain and give him his mobility, health, and life back. It is designed to rewire poor patterns that affect our core stability. It uses a series of isometric poses, postures and breathing exercises to strengthen and elongate the body’s core, activate the posterior muscle chain and decompress the spine. It involves simple movement patterns and is equipment free, creating maximum power, flexibility, and endurance.
So what are the key principles of Foundation Training (FT)?
Decompression – Decompression breathing, if done well, acts as a pulley system to increase tension on the posterior chain. Decompression breathing is used during each FT exercise to re-educate the axial skeleton to use the pulley systems around the ribcage to lengthen and decompress the torso and awaken the deep muscles of the core needed to pull upwards against gravity. This new norm allows your spine to be much more decompressed and stable. Proper breathing produces a visible effect on the body, opening and rotating limbs.
Anchoring – The muscles of the pelvis, glutes, hamstrings, adductors, and iliacus help to create an equal downward pull on the pelvis, or an anchor. To create space and tension that supports the entire body, we must have something to pull upward from or against. We need an anchor in order to keep our posture expansive.
Integration and Hip Hinging – When practicing FT it is never the intent to isolate a muscle. Each exercise re-educates the body on proper integration or sharing of muscular work, and each muscle plays an important role. While some play a bigger role than others, they never act alone. When the workload is shared this eliminates the potential for one muscle to become overactive, tight, or dysfunctional. Hip hinging is an effective way to teach all the muscles of the posterior chain to work in conjunction with one another to perform the same task. It is the foundation of proper movement.
Foundation Training 5
How will you incorporate foundation training into your everyday life?
When you find yourself sitting at your desk, commuting or eating at a table you may do the SEATED DECOMPRESSION exercise: Slide toward the end of your chair and sit as tall as you can. Bring the ankles directly under the front of your knees and squeeze your feet and knees together. Sit as tall as you can, squeeze your knees, and take several forceful decompression breaths. Bring the arms up at chest height into a sphere of tension (as shown above). Take another decompression breaths and repeat as needed.
When you find yourself brushing your teeth, waiting in line, watering your garden or shopping you may do the FOUNDER exercise: Stand with your legs wider than shoulder width and the outside edges of the feet parallel to each other. Bring hands to measuring stick hand position – thumbs on the bottom of the rib cage and little finger on the top of the hips. Anchor the lower body by grabbing the ground with your feet and pulling your weight back into your heels. Take a decompression breath, increasing the distance between your little fingers and thumbs. Pull your hips back behind your heels. Keep your spine stable and your knees unlocked. Bring your arms to your side with your thumbs turned away from your body in long wing arm position. Continue decompression breathing.
When you find yourself doing chores such as vacuuming, ironing, raking leaves, sweeping or moving laundry you may do the INTEGRATED HINGES & ANCHORING exercise: Begin in a strong, standing decompression position with your feet about shoulder width apart and the outside lines of your feet parallel. Shift the weight into your heels, grab the ground with your feet (anchor) and take a big decompression breath, expanding and elevating your entire rib cage away from the centre of your body. Right away bring your arms into the long wing arm position by externally rotating the shoulders, extending your arms by your sides with your thumbs reaching away from your body and your elbows pulling back behind you. From this decompressed, standing position begin to hinge at the hips as you scoop your arms forward in front of you with your palms up and bring them into a sphere of tension in front of your chest. In this position feel the increased tension along the backside of the body and the inner line of the leg. Release this tension like a spring unloading as your hips come back to the centre and you return to a tall standing position. Repeat this motion while working hard to stay decompressed by maintaining the anchor in your lower body and continuing to elevate and expand the ribcage through decompression breathing.
Founder is a unique movement that focuses on the biggest joint in your body – your hips. Your hips act as your body’s center hinge. But with today’s lifestyle, we don’t learn how to properly use our hips to hinge as they were designed to work. Instead, we’re hunching our backs or using other muscles that bring on pain. That’s why the Founder is so important to learn because it’s a pain-relieving secret that your body has simply forgotten.
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FYI: Our Co-Founders, Drs. Kristian Marcial and Monica Saliu, took the Foundation certification courses and have been incorporating Foundation Training with their therapeutic and wellness treatments. Most of their patients benefited from this unique approach has avoided unnecessary surgeries, learned proper body mechanics and developed efficient exercise routine to start, break and end their daily activities. Do you trust our Co-Founders to teach you the Founder? Get it?
When you find yourself doing chores such as vacuuming, ironing, raking leaves, sweeping or moving laundry you may do the INTEGRATED HINGES & ANCHORING exercise: Begin in a strong, standing decompression position with your feet about shoulder width apart and the outside lines of your feet parallel. Shift the weight into your heels, grab the ground with your feet (anchor) and take a big decompression breath, expanding and elevating your entire ribcage away from the centre of your body. Right away bring your arms into the long wing arm position by externally rotating the shoulders, extending your arms by your sides with your thumbs reaching away from your body and your elbows pulling back behind you. From this decompressed, standing position begin to hinge at the hips as you scoop your arms forward in front of you with your palms up and bring them into a sphere of tension in front of your chest. In this position feel the increased tension along the backside of the body and the inner line of the leg. Release this tension like a spring unloading as your hips come back to the centre and you return to a tall standing position. Repeat this motion 8-10 times while working hard to stay decompressed by maintain the anchor in your lower body and continuing to elevate and expand the ribcage through decompression breathing.
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Draft for Article: Social Media Usage (In MAGA Article)
Donald Trump took the campaign slogan to social media (primarily Twitter), using the hashtag #makeamericagreatagain and its abbreviation #maga. Many found Trump's frequent use of social media to be unprofessional; however, Trump defended himself by tweeting "My use of social media is not Presidential - it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!" on July 1st, 2017 (Graham). In the first half of 2017 alone, Trump has repeated his slogan on Twitter 33 times (Whitehouse). In an article for Bloomberg, Whitehouse noted "A regression analysis suggests the phrase adds (very roughly) 51,000 to a post's retweet-and-favorite count, which is a big deal given that the average Trump tweet attracts a total of 107,000" (Whitehouse). Trump attributed social media to his victory when he said "I won the 2016 election with interviews, speeches, and social media" (Rosen). According to RiteTag, the estimated hourly statistics for #maga on Twitter alone include: 1046 unique tweets, 6,300,000 hashtag exposure, and 3600 retweets with 12% of #maga tweets including images, 59% including links, and 52% including mentions (RiteTag). Note: these figures would be even greater if all derivatives of the slogan across all social media platforms were taken into account. Trump's Twitter handle is @realDonaldTrump, and his account had 40.5M followers as of October 2017.
Works Cited:
“Donald Trump's Marketing Strategy.” Scripted, 10 June 2016, www.scripted.com/content-marketing/donald-trump-marketing-strategy.
Graham, Chris. “'Modern Day Presidential': Donald Trump Defends Use of Social Media in Twitter Storm.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 2 July 2017, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/01/modern-day-presidential-donald-trump-defends-use-social-media/.
“How Donald Trump Used SOCIAL MEDIA to Become the 45th President of the U.S.”SerpLogic.com - #RealTalk Marketing, 24 Feb. 2017, www.serplogic.com/all-things-marketing/donald-trump-social-media.
Morin, Rebecca, et al. “Trump: My Social Media Use Is 'Modern Day Presidential'.”POLITICO, 1 July 2017, www.politico.com/story/2017/07/01/trump-tweets-modern-day-presidential-240170.
Nisenholtz, Barbara BickartSusan FournierMartin. “What Trump Understands About Using Social Media to Drive Attention.” Harvard Business Review, 1 Mar. 2017, hbr.org/2017/03/what-trump-understands-about-using-social-media-to-drive-attention.
Worth, A Fort. “Meet the Make America Great Again Fund.” CNNMoney, Cable News Network, money.cnn.com/2017/09/12/investing/maga-etf-make-america-great-again-trump-republicans/index.html.
Slogan in Real Life Product: (in MAGA article)
The campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" and its derivative "MAGA" were soon to be produced on t-shirts, signs, stickers, cups etc. The most famous usage is arguably the iconic apparel worn by many of Trump's supporters online and offline. People use "red hats" to mark their political identity from each other. It has been estimated that just under a million hats has been made and sold since the campaign. All of Trump's "Make America Great Again" products were advertised as "proudly made in America", signifying Trump's determination of transferring manufacture industry back to America. However, an analysis by a fiber company showed that at least one percent of the hats were not made in America.
Work Cited: "Official Donald Trump-Mike Pence Make America Great Again Committee", https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/official-donald-trump-make-america-great-again-cap-red?variant=26118358278.
Mai-Duc, Christine. “For 'Made in America' Week, Trump Campaign Highlights Southern California Factory That Makes His MAGA Hats.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2017, www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-for-made-in-america-week-trump-1500594437-htmlstory.html.
Horwitz, Jeff. “Were Trump's 'Made in USA' Hats Really All Made in USA?” AP News, Associated Press, 8 July 2016, apnews.com/c92bcc5a84cc4c3ca1320d24de8d32f8/make-america-great-again-hats-fall-short-usa-made-tags.
Trump Campaign
MY ADDITIONS BELOW:
Parscale utilized social media advertisements with an experiment based strategy of different face expressions, font colors & slogans like "Basket of Deplorables." Parscale's specific roles included heading the oversight of the digital advertising, TV advertising, small dollar fundraising, direct mail, political and advertising budget, and was also the RNC liaison working daily with Katie Walsh who was then the Republican National Committee's chief of staff. He was also the head of the data science and research, which included polling. Parscale claims that after realizing Virginia & Ohio were unable to be swayed, he decided to re-allocate the campaign resources to Michigan & Wisconsin. This shift included the decision to send Trump to Michigan & Wisconsin and focus efforts heavily on the two states. This decision was instrumental in winning the election as as Trump won both the historically democratic states. In terms of digital advertising, Parscale utilized Facebook heavily for the campaign advertisements & staffed Facebook employees to help them navigate the Facebook platform to utilize all of the platform's capabilities. Parscale did not have data scientists or any digital team during the Republican Primary and did much of the social media advertising from his home. He would also stage competitions between tech companies to drive the lowest cost of buying on Facebook (programmatic) as well as other platforms.
Parscale was able to utilize Facebook advertising to directly target voters in swing states. Parscale cited the example on 60 Minutes that he was able to target specific universes (audiences) who care about infrastructure and promote Trump & his message to build back up the crumbling American infrastructure. Parscale utilized Facebook and social media to directly target voters in a much more extensive effort in comparison to the Clinton Campaign.
The Trump campaign initially had solely Donald Trump's personal funding to back his campaign. Parscale set up a major grassroots campaign on Facebook that brought in funding quickly from across the U.S. Parscale attributed the success of his vast social media presence to using the assistance offered by companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Google. He said that because the Trump campaign intended to spend $100 million on social media, companies in that area were prepared to assist the campaign in using that money effectively.
RESEARCH:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/trumps-use-of-digital-media-novices-may-have-helped-him-win.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parscale-tv-news-thought-i-was-a-joke/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/brad-parscale-says-trump-campaign-used-facebook-to-beat-clinton.html
https://www.parscale.com/portfolio
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/man-behind-trumps-bid-finally-take-digital-seriously/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/how-facebook-ads-helped-elect-trump/
Brad Parscale Wikipedia Expansion #maga
Brad Parscale played a large role in the Trump Campaign and promotion of Trump's political campaign slogan Make America Great Again. I believe that there is a lot that can be expanded upon under his Career section and perhaps even a sub-section containing more comprehensive information regarding the tactics and strategies that Parscale used to advance the campaign. Specifically, I would like go into greater detail regarding the Facebook promotion and different tailoring he did for his social media efforts. The importance of Parscale's work in the campaign and the various roles he held are not detailed in this page and can be updated. Parscale has recently been in the news and is gaining increasing attention. I would also consider adding more personal details regarding his other projects.
I plan to utilize the following sources:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/07/trumps-use-of-digital-media-novices-may-have-helped-him-win.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parscale-tv-news-thought-i-was-a-joke/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/09/brad-parscale-says-trump-campaign-used-facebook-to-beat-clinton.html
https://www.parscale.com/portfolio
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/man-behind-trumps-bid-finally-take-digital-seriously/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/how-facebook-ads-helped-elect-trump/
MAGA Group Sandbox:
This will be where our group work will be posted/edited.
1.) Participatory Budgeting:
Participatory Budgeting was a topic that really intrigued me and I wrote my blog post about. In it's current state, it does a good job of summarizing PB, but it lacks substance. I believe t hat I could help expand the page and grow it to have relevant information without any unnecessary information. It especially has a lot to desire in the cities that have adopted it as a lot of the information is only a sentence or two. Perhaps a pros and cons sections could be added, but I definitely want to maintain a neutral point of view.
2.) Gentrification of San Francisco:
I think there's a lot to be added in this section regarding social media resistance & forms of art/entertainment opposes gentrification in the city. The art exhibit at the YBCA had a very interesting anti-gentrification piece and the city has a lot of street art showing their disdain for the change in the neighborhood. There is a lot to be said about the social movement to stop gentrification in their neighborhoods.
3.) Hashtag activism:
This wikipedia page is just begging to be expanded with very small summaries of the impact hashtags have had in movements. There's a lot that can be added to the page as well about the rising impact of the hashtag and its importance in today's political/social climate. Once again, with these topics NPOV is necessary so I will present topics and events as neutral as possible.
Article: Antifa
I chose to pick a newer, controversial article to see if that influenced the article's credibility. To my surprise, the article was well written and cited with reputable sources. There was a subtle condemnation and generalization of the group as violent, which can easily be supported through the Berkeley Protests, etc. My only complaint being that it grouped them together as violent yet only touched on the loose structure of Antifa that allows for these examples to arise. In the Article's Header paragraph, it states "Antifa groups are known for militant protest tactics, including property damage and physical violence," at which point it cites six sources to back this claim up. What I've observed that makes Wikipedia great in my opinion, is it's dedication to being like a digital encyclopedia. This makes the wording of these articles crucial to learning about these groups. At first, I had an issue with the wording of the above statement, yet the fact that it uses 'are know for' instead of say 'utilizes' or 'employs.' This allows it to walk a fine line between giving the public perception of the group, while also citing examples of their sometimes violent protesting. It doesn't pigeonhole topics in anyway.
The article did receive a C-Grade in the seven subsections that it was classified, which included Terrorism, Politics, and others. It is it a good starting point, but there still are issues to work out in its coverage of the topic. It's a very divisive issue that even in the talk page people are arguing. Some say the article is too critical others say not critical enough. There's been a good amount of push on both sides to remove bias and present the facts, which it appears they have improved upon over the past few months. Still, some sources are opinion pieces, which does leave some to be desired.
I believe that there should be a lot more coverage into the social media aspect of the Antifa movement, which has allowed it to organize and rise up to relevance over the past few years. It only mentions social media twice in the article and glosses over the importance of it in its discussion. Also, the history section of the article is interesting to learn about the origins in the early twentieth century up to 1987, then it just ends. It would be better to have a more complete history to see their activities in the past thirty years. | WIKI |
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Obsolescence
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The end result of a new product or technology superseding the old but still functional one and the use of the new technology in place of the old becoming the preferred option
Obsolescence of information technology systems
Technology continues to evolve and the risk associated with obsolescence of information systems and record management systems must also be considered so that there is not a loss of codified knowledge over time. Many of the existing nuclear projects worldwide started in an era where knowledge was codified using hard copies and paper documents (which require special handling and care for long-term preservation), whereby now they are mostly operating using IT computer based systems. Migration from one media to another can be an expensive and sometime problematic process, with significant risks – however in the digital age migration often becomes inevitable due to the media obsolescence (media failure over time, lack of hardware to access media, lack of software to interpret the data on media, and so on).
Long-term preservation of information along with the evolution of organizational structures of a nuclear project are therefore key aspects to be considered at an early stage when planning knowledge management for all phases of a nuclear project. As it is not possible to foresee the entire technological evolution of information management, the knowledge assets of the project should be captured and codified using open, extensible and standardized technologies and media formats which will ensure that knowledge will be available across all phases.
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Walgreens To Provide One-time Bonus To Employees
(RTTNews) - Walgreens plans to make one-time bonus to its full-time and part-time hourly employees in stores and distribution centers, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bonus payment of $300 for full-time and $150 for part-time hourly employees will be paid beginning late April.
"Our store team members are working incredibly hard, in a very challenging and uncertain time and we're grateful for all they do each day," said Walgreens President, Richard Ashworth.
In addition, Walgreens has updated its attendance policy for hourly team members through the end of April, permitting individuals to stay at home due to concerns surrounding COVID-19 for situations including childcare needs, or if team members are showing signs or symptoms of illness.
If a team member contracts a confirmed case of COVID-19, the first two weeks of their absence will be paid. If they are unable to return to work after two weeks, an additional pay option may be available through disability leave. If a store, area office, distribution center or other company workplace location falls under a mandated quarantine, any impacted team members will also be paid for their absence without requiring the use of paid time off.
The company is also looking to fill more than 9,500 existing full- and part-time and temporary roles in stores across the U.S., including customer service associates, pharmacy technicians and shift leads.
Recently, Walgreens temporarily reduced store operating hours. Therefore, it is spending the necessary time, while closed, cleaning, sanitizing and stocking shelves each day.
It is implementing social distancing guidelines to ensure a safer store experience for team members, customers and patients.
Walgreens is also introducing Sanvello, a new, free mobile app for all team members to use during this time of increased stress.
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Attitude indicator
The attitude indicator (AI), formerly known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's horizon, and gives an immediate indication of the smallest orientation change. The miniature aircraft and horizon bar mimic the relationship of the aircraft relative to the actual horizon. It is a primary instrument for flight in instrument meteorological conditions.
Attitude is always presented to users in the unit degrees (°). However, inner workings such as sensors, data and calculations may use a mix of degrees and radians, as scientists and engineers may prefer to work with radians.
History
Before the advent of aviation, artificial horizons were used in celestial navigation. Proposals of such devices based on gyroscopes, or spinning tops, date back to the 1740s. Later implementations, also known as bubble horizons, were based on bubble levels and attached to a sextant. In the 2010s, remnants of an artificial horizon using liquid mercury were recovered from the wreck of HMS Erebus.
Use
The essential components of the AI include a symbolic miniature aircraft mounted so that it appears to be flying relative to the horizon. An adjustment knob, to account for the pilot's line of vision, moves the aircraft up and down to align it against the horizon bar. The top half of the instrument is blue to represent the sky, while the bottom half is brown to represent the ground. The bank index at the top shows the aircraft angle of bank. Reference lines in the middle indicate the degree of pitch, up or down, relative to the horizon.
Most Russian-built aircraft have a somewhat different design. The background display is colored as in a Western instrument, but moves up and down only to indicate pitch. A symbol representing the aircraft (which is fixed in a Western instrument) rolls left or right to indicate bank angle. A proposed hybrid version of the Western and Russian systems would be more intuitive, but has never caught on.
Operation
The heart of the AI is a gyroscope (gyro) that spins at high speed, from either an electric motor, or through the action of a stream of air pushing on rotor vanes placed along its periphery. The stream of air is provided by a vacuum system, driven by a vacuum pump, or a venturi. Air passing through the narrowest portion of a venturi has lower air pressure through Bernoulli's principle. The gyro is mounted in a double gimbal, which allows the aircraft to pitch and roll as the gyro stays vertically upright. A self-erecting mechanism, actuated by gravity, counteracts any precession due to bearing friction. It may take a few minutes for the erecting mechanism to bring the gyros to a vertical upright position after the aircraft engine is first powered up.
Attitude indicators have mechanisms that keep the instrument level with respect to the direction of gravity. The instrument may develop small errors, in pitch or bank during extended periods of acceleration, deceleration, turns, or due to the earth curving underneath the plane on long trips. To start with, they often have slightly more weight in the bottom, so that when the aircraft is resting on the ground they will hang level and therefore they will be level when started. But once they are started, that pendulous weight in the bottom will not pull them level if they are out of level, but instead its pull will cause the gyro to precess. In order to let the gyro very slowly orient itself to the direction of gravity while in operation, the typical vacuum powered gyro has small pendulums on the rotor casing that partially cover air holes. When the gyro is out of level with respect to the direction of gravity, the pendulums will swing in the direction of gravity and either uncover or cover the holes, such that air is allowed or prevented from jetting out of the holes, and thereby applying a small force to orient the gyro towards the direction of gravity. Electric powered gyros may have different mechanisms to achieve a similar effect.
Older AIs were limited in the amount of pitch or roll that they would tolerate. Exceeding these limits would cause the gyro to tumble as the gyro housing contacted the gimbals, causing a precession force. Preventing this required a caging mechanism to lock the gyro if the pitch exceed 60° and the roll exceeded 100°. Modern AIs do not have this limitation and therefore do not require a caging mechanism.
Flight Director Attitude Indicator
Attitude indicators are also used on crewed spacecraft and are called Flight Director Attitude Indicators (FDAI), where they indicate the craft's yaw angle (nose left or right), pitch (nose up or down), roll, and orbit relative to a fixed-space inertial reference frame from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The FDAI can be configured to use known positions relative to Earth or the stars, so that the engineers, scientists and astronauts can communicate the relative position, attitude, and orbit of the craft.
Attitude and Heading Reference Systems
Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) are able to provide three-axis information based on ring laser gyroscopes, that can be shared with multiple devices in the aircraft, such as "glass cockpit" primary flight displays (PFDs). Rather than using a spinning gyroscope, modern AHRS use solid-state electronics, low-cost inertial sensors, rate gyros, and magnetometers.
With most AHRS systems, if an aircraft's AIs have failed there will be a standby AI located in the center of the instrument panel, where other standby basic instruments such as the airspeed indicator and altimeter are also available. These mostly mechanical standby instruments may remain available even if the electronic flight instruments fail, although the standby attitude indicator may be electrically driven and will, after a short time, fail if its electrical power fails.
Attitude Direction Indicator
The Attitude Direction Indicator (ADI), or Flight Director Indicator (FDI), is an AI integrated with a Flight Director System (FDS). The ADI incorporates a computer that receives information from the navigation system, such as the AHRS, and processes this information to provide the pilot with a 3-D flight trajectory cue to maintain a desired path. The cue takes the form of V steering bars. The aircraft is represented by a delta symbol and the pilot flies the aircraft so that the delta symbol is placed within the V steering bars. | WIKI |
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THE BETTER SORT "How d'ye do again?" Lady Wantridge replied with an equanimity striking to her hostess. It was as if Scott's own had been contagious; it was almost indeed as if she had seen him before. Had she ever so seen him—before the previous day? While Miss Cutter put to herself this question her visitor, at all events, met the one she had previously uttered.
"Ever 'forgive'?" this personage echoed in a tone that made as little account as possible of the interruption. "Dear, yes! The people I have forgiven!" She laughed—perhaps a little nervously; and she was now looking at Scott. The way she looked at him was precisely what had already had its effect for his sister. "The people I can!"
"Can you forgive me?" asked Scott Homer.
She took it so easily. "But—what?"
Mamie interposed; she turned directly to her brother. "Don't try her. Leave it so." She had had an inspiration; it was the most extraordinary thing in the world. "Don't try him"—she had turned to their companion. She looked grave, sad, strange. "Leave it so." Yes, it was a distinct inspiration, which she couldn't have explained, but which had come, prompted by something she had caught—the extent of the recognition expressed—in Lady Wantridge's face. It had come absolutely of a sudden, straight out of the opposition of the two figures before her—quite as if a concussion had struck a light. The light was helped by her quickened sense that her friend's silence on the incident of the day before showed some sort of consciousness. She looked surprised. "Do you know my brother?"
"Do I know you?" Lady Wantridge asked of him.
"No, Lady Wantridge," Scott pleasantly confessed, "not one little mite!"
"Well, then, if you must go!" and Mamie offered her a hand. "But I'll go down with you. Not 136 | WIKI |
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coordinated with the military section of the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance. In 1969 and early 1970, agreements detailing scientific-technical cooperation between the Federal Commission for Postal Services and Telecommunications of Czechoslovakia and the Ministry of Communications of the U.S.S.R. were signed. These agreements provide for the following: compatibility of automatic telephone systems control offices with standard communications networks; cooperation in planning of radio and TV networks; and coordinated efforts in transmission of color and black and white TV signals, in the design of cables, and in the construction of ground stations for satellite communications.
Czechoslovakia continues to emphasize communications research and development, and is providing some challenge to Hungary in the microwave field, especially in the capability to produce high-quality components, such as avalanche and Gunn diodes, in quantity. The major electronic research, development, and production facility is the Tesla Nationalized Enterprises in Prague. Military radio relay equipment, deployed extensively throughout the U.S.S.R. and to a lesser extent in other European Communist countries, has been reported as possibly developed and manufactured by Tesla and its affiliated organizations. One of these, the Tesla Telecommunications Research Institute, Pardubice, continues to accomplish considerable microwave research and development work on pulse position modulation (PPM) and pulse code modulation (PCM) systems.
Particular attention is devoted to the development of digital and secure communications systems using electronic encoding and West German teleprinters. Tesla developed and produced the 24-channel KPK-24 PCM system in the mid-1960's and followed in 1970 with the 32-channel KPK-32. Another of Tesla's major efforts is concerned with the development and production of air traffic control equipment for both airborne and ground installations. Automatic reconnaissance and direction-finding equipment was developed by an experimental research institute near Prague. Microwave measuring and test equipment up to and including the 8-millimeter band was developed and produced by the Radio Technical Institute at Opocinek, also a Tesla affiliate.
The Czechoslovaks continue to develop many types of electronic components, resulting from a moderate research and development program on electron tubes and solid-state devices. Also transistors, diodes, thin-film integrated circuits, and ferrite components are under development. Silicon products technology, such as silicon epoxy molding compounds for semiconductor devices, lag Western Europe by about 3 years. The Institute of Solid-State Physics, Prague, is investigating noncrystalline semiconductors, including liquid amorphous and chaleogenide glasses and amorphous germanium. The degree of success of these studies is not known, but the knowledge gained will enable production of transistors by evaporating semiconducting films of selenium and tellurium which, in turn, will benefit miniaturization and printed circuit technology.
Czechoslovak laser research compares favorably with that of East Germany but lags in areas of military device production and hardware development. Since 1963 Czechoslovakia has developed ruby, neodymium-glass, gas, semiconductor (gallium arsenide) lasers, and considerable interest is centered on helium neon lasers. A number of serially produced solid-state and gas lasers have been placed on the market. As part of its extensive research program in the communication field, the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in Prague has studied laser transmission of audio signals and modulation and detection of laser beams. Applications of lasers in the fields of range-finding, geodesy, mine surveying, ophthalmic surgery, and plasma heating are being researched. There is, however, no evidence of directed energy weapon development. The first Czechoslovak laser radar, intended for observations of artificial earth satellites, has been installed at the Ondrejov Astronomical Institute in Prague. The instrument, in operation since March 1972, incorporated the four-axis tracking concept developed separately in East Germany, the U.S.S.R., and the United States. The U.S.S.R. furnished the tracking mount, and the laser is a Czechoslovak ruby decide rated at about 2 joules with a 20-nanosecond pulse every 10 seconds. The Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics is investigating the communications potential of lasers.
Most of the avionics equipment being used in Czechoslovakia was obtained from the U.S.S.R. and to a lesser extent from Western countries. Nevertheless, Tesla has been involved in the design of both airborne and ground installations for air traffic control, and their effort has concentrated on the development and production of precision approach radars.
The Aviation Research Institute (LVU) is reportedly developing certain instruments for the Czechoslovak-designed L-159, a delta wing twinjet, low-level attack aircraft. Details are sketchy, but the work possibly involves the development of such equipment as an instrument which would constantly plot the aircraft
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The 3 Best Defensive Stocks to Buy Now (and Never Sell)
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Investors are always looking to buy the best defensive stocks. Investing in defense stocks provides stability during uncertain times due to their reliable government contracts. Of course, such stability can be overlooked, when growth stocks are running as they have been of late.
That said, there’s always room in a well-structured long-term portfolio for stable, defensive, dividend-paying stocks. The three companies on this list below each exhibit these characteristics. With the exception of pick #1, which receives dividends from its core holdings, but doesn’t pay them out.
Thus, with the lingering effects of the 2022 bear market and investor apprehension continuing, here are three top defensive stock picks that I think are worth holding onto for the long-term.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B)
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Warren Buffet’s global conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A, NYSE:BRK-B) has achieved impressive growth over the years. With a market capitalization of $744 billion, some speculate that the stock could eventually reach $1 trillion. However, reaching such a milestone would require significant growth for one of the top stocks in terms of market value.
With its solid track record and wide-ranging holdings, many investors find Berkshire’s stability appealing. Especially when considering the volatile nature of other stocks.
While it’s difficult to predict exactly when Berkshire will reach the $1 trillion mark, it has already made significant progress toward that milestone. The company’s carefully curated portfolio positions it well for future growth and potential success.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
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As global health spending per person is projected to rise significantly by 2050, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) emerges as a key player in the pharmaceutical and MedTech industries. Despite recent underperformance due to sector rotation, drug pricing provisions and talc lawsuits, JNJ remains a prominent player in the healthcare sector.
Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical division accounts for a significant portion of its revenue, with a 7% increase in sales in the first quarter 2023. Key drugs like Stelara and Darzalex contribute to its impressive growth.
The company’s spin-off of its consumer wellness arm, Kenvue, has streamlined its structure and is expected to increase the valuation of both entities. With a strong dividend yield and substantial free cash flow, Johnson & Johnson remains a dominant player in the healthcare industry.
Duke Energy (DUK)
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Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) is a leading energy holding company with a significant electric generating capacity. Despite its recent performance, Duke remains a top dividend-paying large-cap stock. With a natural monopoly in the utility sector, Duke benefits from high barriers to entry for competitors.
Although there is room for improvement in its financial metrics, Duke maintains consistent profitability. This has helped analysts come to a moderate buy consensus on DUK, with a projected 22% upside potential.
Duke Energy may not have had a stellar start, but it ranks among the top large-cap stocks for dividend payouts. With a market capitalization of around $71 billion, Duke benefits from its natural monopoly in the utility sector, deterring potential competitors.
The company offers a forward yield of 4.39% and has increased its dividends for 18 consecutive years. This makes Duke a strong choice for patient investors seeking high-yield dividend stocks.
On the date of publication, Chris MacDonald has a position in BRK-B. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
Chris MacDonald’s love for investing led him to pursue an MBA in Finance and take on a number of management roles in corporate finance and venture capital over the past 15 years. His experience as a financial analyst in the past, coupled with his fervor for finding undervalued growth opportunities, contribute to his conservative, long-term investing perspective.
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Я пытаюсь передать массив String, но я все еще не могу его правильно
Я пытаюсь отобразить массив из класса Taxi, используя класс Place без "extends".
public class Testing {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//creating obj of Taxi
Taxi objTaxi = new Taxi();
//creating obj of Place
Place objPlace = new Place();
objPlace.displaySomething(objTaxi);
}
}
class Taxi {
String[] aaa = {"aaa", "bbb", "ccc"};
//public String getAAA() {
// return aaa;
//}
}
class Place {
public void displaySomething(Taxi aaa) { //initialize obj of Taxi
Я объявил массив типа String для хранения данных из obj-отправки этому методу. Но это дало мне ошибку, говоря, что "несовместимый тип" "required = String []" "found Taxi".
String[] array = aaa; //Cannot assign array in aaa to the array.
//print all info in the array
for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
System.out.println(array[i]);
}
//System.out.println("string from Taxi : " + aaa.getAAA());
}
}
3 ответа
ваш aaa который вы передаете методу displaySomething является экземпляром Taxi, поэтому вы не можете назначить его массиву строк.
позволяет немного изменить код
class Taxi {
String[] strings = {"aaa", "bbb", "ccc"};
public String[] getStrings(){
return strings
}
}
class Place {
public void displaySomething(Taxi taxi) {
String[] array = taxi.getStrings();
for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
System.out.println(array[i]);
}
}
}
Вы передаете объект "Такси", а затем назначьте объект Taxi массиву String []. Возможно, попробуйте сделать метод getArray внутри Taxi, который включает цикл, который вы помещаете внутри класса Place, а затем внутри Place call aaa.getArray, который, в свою очередь, распечатает массив.
String[] array = aaa;
aaa - объект Taxi, поэтому нет смысла устанавливать объект String [] для объекта Taxi. Вы хотите:
String[] array = aaa.aaa;
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Leukotriene C4
Description
Description of Leukotriene C4 with associated disease summary
Cysteinyl-leukotrienes (Cys-LTs), including leukotriene C4 (LTC4), leukotriene D4 (LTD4), and leukotriene E4 (LTE4), are generated from arachidonic acid (AA) via 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) pathway ( Samitas, Chorianopoulos et al. 2009). Cys-LTs are well-recognized inflammatory mediators ( Zagorska, Grzela et al. 2013 ). The concentration of the exhaled compounds could reflect the phenomena of inflammation and oxidative stress in patients. The measurement of mediators in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) helps to monitor the status and severity of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative stress (Ciebiada, Gorski et al. 2012). Higher level of Cys-LTs was detected in several inflammatory airway diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Since Cys-LTs have been mostly analyzed by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) which detects the complex of LTC4, LTD4, and LTE4, it is difficult to obtain each individual level (Pelclova, Fenclova et al. 2012). Although LC-ESI-MS/MS might be a platform to analyze and detect individual Cys-LT in EBC, urine, and plasma, most of studies still measured Cys-LTs as a whole composition by EIA. Description of disease(s) related to Leukotriene C4 (LTC4):
Asthma
Asthma is an inflammatory respiratory disease. Cys-LTs have been detected in EBC of patients with asthma. EBC Cys-LTs concentration was significantly higher in patients with asthma than in healthy subjects. The level of Cys-LTs would gradually increase according to the severity of asthma. Cys-LTs were involved in the pathogenesis of asthma. Cys-LTs may be a potential biomarker of bronchial asthma.
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
In adenotonsillar tissue and EBC of children with sleep apnea, the concentration of Cys-LTs was elevated. In urine, Cys-LTs concentration was significantly related to the severity of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Cys-LTs might be the cause of pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), or the consequence of upper airway obstruction during sleep. Detection of Cys-LTs concentration in EBC or urine could be a non-invasive method to estimate the status of SDB.
Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial
Basal level of Cys-LTs in EBC of allergic rhinitis (AR) patients was significantly higher than that in healthy subjects. Therefore, the measurement of Cys-LTs in EBC could be a fast and effective screening method to early detect the possibility of suffering AR. After the treatment of intranasal corticosteroid fluticasone propionate (FP), basal Cys-LTs level was significantly reduced in AR patients with and without asthma.
Sarcoidosis
The mean concentration of Cys-LTs was higher in EBC in sarcoidosis subjects as compared to healthy subjects.
Asthma, Aspirin-Induced
Subjects with asthma had significant increased level of LTC4 in EBC as compared to healthy control subjects. Following aspirin challenge, Cys-LTs level was lower in subjects with aspirin-induced asthma/aspirin-intolerant asthma (AIA) as compared to subjects with aspirin-tolerant asthma (ATA).
Asthma, Occupational
Total Cys-LTs and LTC4 in EBC were higher in patients with occupational asthma (OA). The level of Cys-LTs in EBC could be used to estimate the status of inflammation and oxidative stress, and reflect the severity of OA.
Bronchoconstriction
Asthmatic children with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) had higher concentration of Cys-LTs than subjects without exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (non-EIB) and control subjects.
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Cys-LTs were found in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALf) of studied patients with diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Compared with healthy controls, patients had significantly higher concentration of Cys-LTs in EBC. In patients, although Cys-LTs concentration in BALf was significantly higher than in EBC, there was a significant and positive correlation between Cys-LTs concentration in EBC and in BALf, which makes the non-invasive, breath-based detection method become feasible to monitor and diagnose lung cancer disease.
Lung Neoplasms
It had been demonstrated that lung carcinogenesis could induce local inflammation and enhance oxidative stress. Cys-LTs were increased in lung cancer microenvironment. Since factors unrelated to lung neoplasms, such as age and smoking status, were excluded, the difference of Cys-LTs concentration between patients and healthy control groups was mainly related to the studied neoplasmatic disease.
Pneumoconiosis
Patients with pneumoconiosis were divided into asbestos exposure and silica exposure groups. Cys-LTs were elevated in EBC of asbestos exposure subjects.
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
The level of Cys-LTs in EBC of patients with exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was different at different therapeutic stages (including outpatient clinic or hospital visit (visit 1), antibiotic therapy visit (visit 2), post-therapy visit (visit 3), and follow-up visit). Cys-LTs level at visit 1 stage was significantly greater than other stages, and the level had a decreasing trend during treatment. High Cys-LTs level might be derived from the increased 5-lipoxygenase enzyme activity in COPD patients.
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Asthma MeSH: Asthma
A form of bronchial disorder with three distinct components: airway hyper-responsiveness (RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY), airway INFLAMMATION, and intermittent AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION. It is characterized by spasmodic contraction of airway smooth muscle, WHEEZING, and dyspnea (DYSPNEA, PAROXYSMAL).
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Aspirin Sensitive Asthma MeSH: Asthma, Aspirin-Induced
Asthmatic adverse reaction (e.g., BRONCHOCONSTRICTION) to conventional NSAIDS including aspirin use. Year introduced: 2010
Link to MeSH Database: D055963
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Chemical Information
Formula C30H47N3O9S
Mass 625.778
Synonyms leukotriene C4
LTC4
Leukotriene C
Leukotriene C1
LTC (sub 4)
Leucotriene C4
5S,6R-Ltc(sub 4)
UNII-2CU6TT9V48
72025-60-6
2CU6TT9V48
CHEBI:16978
5S-hydroxy,6R-(S-glutathionyl),7E,9E,11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid
Leukotriene C(sub 1)
Leukotriene C(sub 4)
C30H47N3O9S
(5S,6R,7E,9E,11Z,14Z)-6-[(2R)-2-[[(4S)-4-amino-5-hydroxy-5-oxopentanoyl]amino]-3-(carboxymethylamino)-3-oxopropyl]sulfanyl-5-hydroxyicosa-7,9,11,14-tetraenoic acid
(5~{s},6~{r},7~{e},9~{e},11~{z},14~{z})-6-[(2~{r})-2-[[(4~{s})-4-Azanyl-5-Oxidanyl-5-Oxidanylidene-Pentanoyl]amino]-3-(2-Hydroxy-2-Oxoethylamino)-3-Oxidanylidene-Propyl]sulfanyl-5-Oxidanyl-Icosa-7,9,11,14-Tetraenoic Acid
Glycine, N-(S-(1-(4-carboxy-1-hydroxybutyl)-2,4,6,9-pentadecatetraenyl)-N-L-gamma-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl)-, (R-(R*,S*-(E,E,Z,Z)))-
LTX
AC1NQX3P
PubChem CID 5280493 | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara
The Holy Cross Cathedral, also referred to as the Catholic Cathedral of Honiara, is the cathedral church and seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Honiara (Archidioecesis Honiaranus). It is located in the city of Honiara, which is on Guadalcanal Island and is the capital of the Solomon Islands, a country in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Pope John Paul II elevated Honiara to its status of Metropolitan Archdiocese by papal bull, "Laetentur insulae multae", in 1978. Archbishop Christopher Cardone assumed the pastoral responsibility for the archdiocese in 2016. The church follows the tradition of the Roman or Latin rite.
Background and history
Honiara's first Catholic cathedral was erected at the foot of the town's Vavaya Ridge (or Vatuliva Hill; now commonly, Cathedral Hill), pending construction of the permanent cathedral. This Holy Cross was adapted from a large Quonset hut; it was blessed and opened to the public in 1957. A brick of the first Catholic mission in the Solomon Islands, built in 1845, was incorporated into its façade. The site chosen for the cathedral was believed to be that of the first Christian cross erected in the Solomons, planted by the expedition of Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568. On the same spot, the first Mass in the Solomons was celebrated by a friar from among Mendaña's crew. This expedition of the Spanish Empire was Europeans' first encounter with the Solomon Islands. Its foundation stone laid in 1976, the permanent Holy Cross Cathedral, built on the same hill where the pro-cathedral stood, was consecrated and opened in 1978. Its style has been described as "Pacific architecture". | WIKI |
Mexico or France: Which Country ETF Wins Cinco de Mayo 2022?
The year 2022 may be remembered in history due to the war between Russia-Ukraine, but every year, May 5 is remembered for a different war — between Mexico and France. Cinco de Mayo, meaning the fifth of May in Spanish, is a day of gratification for all Mexicans.
The day honors the Mexican army's incredible victory over the French militia in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Though the victory was short-lived as the French finally took over, the day became commemorative of Mexican ethnicity and is widely celebrated even in the United States.
So, let’s play a mock war between Mexico and France. This mock fight will give investors a fair idea of the present stock market scenario of the two countries.
iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF EWW – Down 2.4% YTD (as of May 4, 2022) versus 12.6% decline in S&P 500
The Mexican economy expanded 0.9% sequentially in the first three months of 2022, after a flat reading in the previous period and below market expectations of a 1.1% gain. Though the primary sector shrank 1.9%, the manufacturing and services sectors increased by 1.1%, according to preliminary estimates. The country's economy advanced 1.6 % year over year, following a 1.1% gain in the previous period and below market expectations of a 1.7% increase.
Mexico is an energy rich economy. The latest spurt in energy prices gave the economy a boost. The war in Ukraine actually hurt France more (as Europe is dependent on Russian energy). The IMF projected Mexico’s new growth for 2022 at 2.0%.
iShares MSCI France ETF EWQ – Down 15% YTD (as of May 4, 2012)
France's economy unexpectedly stalled in Q1 of 2022 compared with market forecasts of a 0.3% expansion and after an upwardly revised 0.8% rise in Q4. Household consumption shrank due to high energy cost and worsening supply chain due to the war in Ukraine (marking a decline of 1.3% versus a gain of 0.6% in Q4).
Fixed investment slowed (0.2% in Q1 of 2022 vs 0.3% in Q4 of 2021), as information and communication made up for lost investment in both transport equipment and construction. At the same time, net trade contributed only slightly to the economy (0.1 points). Year on year, the GDP advanced 5.3% in Q1, after an upwardly revised 5.5% in Q4. The IMF projects the country’s growth for 2022 at 2.9%, which is higher than Mexico’s.
The Winner
Like the actual war, the Mexican economy and market emerged winner in 2022. Its ETF has also performed better than the France ETF so far this year. However, over the long term, the battle might present us with a different victor if the situation in East Europe improves and energy and commodity prices calm down.
Plus, IMF-projected GDP growth forecast for 2022 is better for France. Moody’s Analytics Director Alfredo Coutiño said in a report Friday that Mexico’s economy had not recovered its pre-pandemic level of output. “Its weakness has extended and prospects for the year have been revised down,” Coutiño wrote, as quoted on apnews. Hence, France could see a change in luck as the year proceeds.
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74 Next comes the god of Fire, Xiuhtecutli (the Lord Fire), a very ancient deity, as we see by one of his many surnames, Huehueteotl (the old god). He is represented naked, with his chin blackened, with a head-dress of green feathers, carrying on his back a kind of serpent with yellow feathers, thus combining the different fire colours. And inasmuch as he looked across a disk of gold, called "the looking-plate," we may ask whether his primitive significance was not very closely allied to that of Tezcatlipoca, the shining mirror of the cold season. Sacrifice was offered to him daily. In every house the first libation and the first morsel of bread were consecrated to him. And finally, as an instance of the astounding resemblance that is forced upon our attention between the religious development of the Old World and that of the New, only conceive that in Mexico, as in ancient Iran and other countries of Asia and Europe, the fire in every house must be extinguished on a certain day in every year, and the priest of Xiuhtecutli kindled fire anew by friction before the statue of his god. You are aware that this rite, with which so many customs and superstitions are connected, rests on the | WIKI |
IWMPEvents::MouseMove
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The MouseMove event occurs when the mouse pointer is moved.
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[in] A bit field with bits corresponding to the left button (bit 0), right button (bit 1), and middle button (bit 2). These bits correspond to the values 1, 2, and 4, respectively. Some, all, or none of the bits can be set, indicating that some, all, or none of the buttons are pressed.
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[in] A bit field with the least significant bits corresponding to the SHIFT key (bit 0), the CTRL key (bit 1), and the ALT key (bit 2). These bits correspond to the values 1, 2, and 4, respectively. The shift argument indicates the state of these keys. Some, all, or none of the bits can be set, indicating that some, all, or none of the keys are pressed.
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Can Massage Help Chronic Fatigue?
{For several years, Bill hosted "Massage Moment", a radio spot nestled within Lionville Natural Pharmacy owner Ben Briggs' Saturday morning radio show, Health Focus on WCOJ. These 3-to-4-minute gems covered topics ranging from stress to common bio-mechanical injuries, to answering questions such as 'should I get massage before or after chiropractic?'
Listen to the audio: (originally aired 4/22/06)}
The other day I had a client call me on the phone and ask, "Can massage do anything to help Chronic Fatigue?"
I believe so ... and for several reasons:
First, understand that Chronic Fatigue is a syndrome, meaning there are probably several contributing factors. Poor diet, constant negative emotions like fear or anger, and lack of quality sleep - just to name a few - all add up and cause low energy levels, producing a general feeling of lethargy.
A lot of this is because the body is expending a tremendous amount of energy trying to maintain homeostasis in the face of all these stressors.
For instance, take the emotion we call 'FEAR'.
Fear can cause soft tissues like skeletal muscles and fascia to tighten up. They contract instinctively as a self-protection mechanism. And when they contract, they use up energy. Therefore, sustained contractions require a constant source of energy. Eventually, the body runs out of fuel, and 'voila!', chronic fatigue.
Massage can help you by manually releasing the tissues that are literally sucking the energy out of you. Through massage techniques like effleurage, petrissage and tapotement, muscles and fascia learn to relax, which means less drain on the body's energy reserves.
And since massage encourages the body to 'stand -down', it can play a significant role in improving the quality of your sleep. Often we go to bed so 'wound up' from the day's activities that when we want to turn off, we can't.
Our bodies fall into a pattern of constantly being geared up, and ready to go, to the point where we can't shut them off when the time comes! So, during times when your body needs the sleep most, it gets less and less. And even when you do finally fall asleep, it's not a restful one.
Well, no wonder!
You may be sleeping, but your body is still knotted up, maintaining tension. So, the alarm goes off, and you throw yourself into yet another day, ill-rested and stressed-out!
Again, massage can break this cycle by allowing the body to go to bed relaxed. Relaxed muscles make for better sleep, allowing the body to recharge by morning, meaning higher energy levels for the next day.
If you or someone you know is suffering from chronic fatigue, call me. I will be more than happy to discuss the problem, and make a few recommendations.
Although massage isn't a 'cure-all', it can be an important and powerful method for breaking the chronic fatigue cycle.
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Talk:Emporia State University
User box
Here is the user box for those who are an alum or current student. The code is User Emporia State University. Corkythehornetfan(talk) 21:45, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
News
"Kansas universities demolishing old buildings to save millions on deferred maintenance"; Dec 28, 2023; KAKE tv. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 06:33, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Overly detailed and promotional material about recent tuition and fees changes
Fourmile45 is insisting that this article include the following paragraph:
* As a result of the restructuring efforts, gains in efficiencies, and cost savings; in 2024 ESU was able to submit a proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents [KBOR] to reduce tuition and fees – making college education more affordable to students in Kansas. ESU’s response to the KBOR’s strategic principle of affordability was approved, resulting in a “net decrease in tuition and fees at Emporia State University.” Moreover, in an open letter President Hush announced ESU has rolled out a broad range of scholarship programs to further boost the affordability of a college education. In line with these affordability initiatives, ESU has entered into cooperative agreements with other universities, such as an “articulation agreement in which undergraduates at ESU can shorten the time to complete their bachelor’s and law degrees by taking law classes at Washburn Law during their senior year.”
Grammatical issues aside, this paragraph is both unnecessarily detailed and clearly promotional. We simply do need or want this level of detail in an encyclopedia article that is supposed to summarize the entire history, resources, organization, accomplishments, and challenges of a university that is over 160 years old. Moreover, we are not here to ensure that the university is "attractive to potential students."
I attempted to summarize this information in a much more concise and neutral manner:
* The university implemented a "net decrease in tuition and fees" in 2024.
Fourmile45, what is your objection to this more concise and neutral summary? ElKevbo (talk) 03:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
* I am sorry my information was insufficiently concise. The university has gone through a painful restructuring in which ~30 faculty in low-enrollment majors were laid-off. Someone included a long paragraph in the "Present University" section that goes into great detail about this. At one point, someone had also written in this section that the university was sanctioned by the AAUP. I verified on March 11, 2024, that ESU was not on the sanctioned list.
* My point is that there is a very long discussion of these layoffs, with negative implications for ESU. It would be nice to be able to present the other side of the story in more than a sentence or two. And there have been some positive developments that have come from this pain. A positive example is the new articulation agreements. One example involves students being able to apply law classes from Washburn University (~45 miles away) toward their undergraduate degrees during their senior year.
* I hope that you will allow me the opportunity to offset some of the negative material in the "Present University" section with positive material. For example, there is an unsupported assertion that the School of Education is no longer of high-quality. Enrollment declines have been positioned as an indication of the contributor's assertion that the School of Education is no longer of high quality. The contributor fails to acknowledge that enrollment declines in traditional teacher preparation programs have occurred across universities and across the U.S> over the past decade, reaching a low point in 2020 (Patricia Saenz-Armstrong, Aug. 23, 2023; National Council on Teacher Quality.) The good news is that such enrollments (in Kansas) have increased since then. There is also a negative discussion about the elimination of the debate team. Efficient allocation of resources has become critical at ESU and while the debate program had success, the program involved only a few students and was eliminated. Also, there is a long discussion about the elimination of the child-care services on campus. My research indicates that these university-sponsorship of such services is declining, with only 49% of universities providing them now. I would like to refute the negative implication that ESU is an outliner in this regard.
* Back several months ago, one of messages you forwarded to me noted that someone had added quite a bit of negative information about ESU (December 25, 2023). You rightly were concerned as to why there were several content inputs from me. As you recall, there was a large amount of negative information dumped onto ESU's page on Christmas Day. It takes some space tell the other side of the story and I hope that you will me to do so.
* Thank you for allowing me to respond. Fourmile45 (talk) 06:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
* Thanks for your quick reply.
* We do not seek to present a "false balance" in our encyclopedia articles where each issue or controversy is represented by two or more sides. It may be the case that some of the material currently in the article needs to be trimmed, tightened, or outright removed but those decisions need to be made because of the relative importance of that material and not simply because the material paints the subject in a light that is disagreeable to one or more editors.
* We also do not need to uncritically repeat self-promotional information from the subject of this article. And, of course, we cannot include material that is our own original research. ElKevbo (talk) 13:35, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
* Dear ElKevbo,
* Thanks for your guidance. I have inserted a compact presentation of five programmatic and other changes at ESU. They speak to the "Present University."
* I have a question for you. Will you allow me to delete a sentence related to enrollment declines? A previous contributor inserted an unreferenced assertion that "Previously, the College of Education had a reputation for quality." This is the sentence that I would like to delete. The contributor has mistakenly inferred that a decline in enrollments reflects a decrease in quality of offerings. Enrollments in schools of education across the country have experienced enrollment declines. I have a comprehensive cite that supports this. It also shows that such enrollments in Kansas have increased since reaching a bottom in the Pandemic in 2020. Fourmile45 (talk) 21:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
John E. Lee House
The John E. Lee House is a historic two-story house in Hyde Park, Utah. It was built in 1903 by Jesse Hancey for John E. Lee, and designed in the Victorian Eclectic style by Lee's father, Christian C. Lee. Lee, who was a farmer and stockraiser, lived here with his wife, Hattie Reeder Lee, until his death in 1957. The Lees were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 11, 1982. | WIKI |
Alice Embleton
Alice Laura Embleton (1876 – 1960) was one of the first women to study sciences at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and among the first group of women to be appointed Fellows of the Linnean Society in 1905. A biologist and zoologist, Embleton developed work on pesticides to improve crop production. She was also a noted suffragist.
Education and early life
Embleton was born in Epsom, Surrey, and attended Sutton High School for Girls. She enrolled at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, now Cardiff University, in 1895, and graduated in 1899 with a Baccalaureus Scientia, first class.
Career and research
In 1900, she won the 1851 Exhibition Memorial Scholarship, which annually awards a three-year research scholarship to '"young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise".
She used the £150 scholarship to work at the Balfour Laboratory at Newnham College, Cambridge, followed by a further period of study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is considered the second woman to publish on the topic of copepodology, after Edith Mary Pratt.
In 1903, she was appointed honorary zoologist to the Board of Agriculture, and won the Royal Society's Mackinnon studentship for research into Biological Sciences.
She was one of the first woman to speak at the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London. Her paper, delivered on 4 June 1903, was entitled: "Anatomy and Development of a Hymeropterous Parasite of a Scaly Insect (Lecanium Hemisphoericum)". Among with fifteen other women, she was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1905. The Linnean Society archives hold Embleton's correspondence with the Society, of which she remained a Fellow until 1917.
In 1906 she co-published the papers, "On the synapsis in amphibia" and "On the origin of the sertoli". In later life she conducted cancer research at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington.
Personal and non-academic life
Embleton was connected with a number of noted suffragists, including Evelina Haverfield, Vera Holme, and Celia Wray. The 1911 census shows that Embleton was visiting Wray at Fairfield House, Barnsley on the day of the census. Like many suffragists, the two women defaced the census paper by recording their occupation as "Getting votes for women".
The four women set up the private 'Foosack League' between themselves, the membership of which was restricted to women and suffragists. Evidence suggests the Foosack League was a lesbian secret society. The Women's Library holds correspondence between the women during World War I, in which Embleton is referred to as 'Alick', and Wray as 'Mr Wary'. In her later years, Embleton lived with Wray at The Elms in Saxmundham in Suffolk. | WIKI |
Flattie
Flattie may refer to:
* Geary 18, an American sailboat design, originally called the Flattie
* Selenopidae, a class of spiders | WIKI |
AUTHOR=Brown Alyse Christine , Peters Jessica Lee , Parsons Carl , Crewther David Philip , Crewther Sheila Gillard TITLE=Efficiency in Magnocellular Processing: A Common Deficit in Neurodevelopmental Disorders JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=14 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00049 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2020.00049 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Several neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including Developmental Dyslexia (DD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but not Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), are reported to show deficits in global motion processing. Such behavioral deficits have been linked to a temporal processing deficiency. However, to date, there have been few studies assessing the temporal processing efficiency of the Magnocellular M pathways through temporal modulation. Hence, we measured achromatic flicker fusion thresholds at high and low contrast in nonselective samples of NDDs and neurotypicals (mean age 10, range 7–12 years, n = 71) individually, and group matched, for both chronological age and nonverbal intelligence. Autistic tendencies were also measured using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient questionnaire as high AQ scores have previously been associated with the greater physiological amplitude of M-generated nonlinearities. The NDD participants presented with singular or comorbid combinations of DD, ASD, and ADHD. The results showed that ASD and DD, including those with comorbid ADHD, demonstrated significantly lower flicker fusion thresholds (FFTs) than their matched controls. Participants with a singular diagnosis of ADHD did not differ from controls in the FFTs. Overall, the entire NDD plus control populations showed a significant negative correlation between FFT and AQ scores (r = −0.269, p < 0.02 n = 71). In conclusion, this study presents evidence showing that a temporally inefficient M pathway could be the unifying network at fault across the NDDs and particularly in ASD and DD diagnoses, but not in singular diagnosis of ADHD. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
WebAssembly- Explained
Front End Development
On June 17, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and members of the WebKit project announced they will cooperate on a new binary format for web applications. It is called WebAssembly.
WebAssembly
The problem
For years, engineers working on JavaScript engines in the browsers have focused on two key stages of JavaScript running in the browser. First, it the time it takes to compile the JavaScript into machine code or bytecode (if interpreted). And second in optimizing the compiled JavaScript so that it runs faster.
Each JavaScript engine takes a different approach to compiling JavaScript source. If an engine compiles the source without doing much optimization as it goes, the start up time is faster but the code initially runs slower. If it optimizes as it compiles, the start up time is slower.
Once compiled, JavaScript engines monitor the execution paths through the program and compile the “hottest” bits into much more optimized code. You can see this in effect with technologies built with engines like google’s V8, such as NodeJS. NodeJS programs tend to speed up as time progresses while the application is executing.
While these strategies are quite well done, there is a certain point where the effort to achieve even small gains is prohibitive.
Working with V8, one observes that the code it generates is about as fast as unoptimized compiled C code. While we don’t expect the performance to be as fast as C, the observed JavaScript performance is really impressive.
There are a handful of limitations to JavaScript. For instance, there are no real binary data types in the language specification. Sure, browsers have implemented typed binary arrays, but those are library types of Objects and methods rather than specified in the language. Note that ES6 is the first ECMA standard to define such arrays.
Another limitation of JavaScript is the lack of a true integer type. The JavaScript engine can infer that your Number is an integer, but it is probably not the best idea to count on how a current JavaScript engine might optimize your code. Graphics/image manipulation and operating on audio data are two obvious examples where JavaScript is not the fastest solution for the problem.
For the past several years, all sorts of operating system or command line applications have been ported from C/C++ or other server languages into JavaScript. It seems to me like a whole lot of reinventing the wheel and countless man years’ worth of time that could have been spent on other things.
There have been attempts in the past to allow a WWW site to deploy native (e.g. compiled) code to the browser. For example, Google’s Native Client. Lacking a universal standard, it was impossible to justify using the technology without asking users to use a specific browser.
The solution
One of the more promising features recently added to some browsers is asm.js. This is a subset of JavaScript for which the browser developers can optimize the JavaScript engines. Along with a C/C++ compiler like emscripten, you can compile quite a bit of the existing C/C++ libraries and programs and run them in the browser. These libraries and programs are compiled into the subset of JavaScript that is asm.js.
WebAssembly is the result of these trends and driven by the need for advanced capabilities for applications running in browsers, browser-like environments, and likely server-side environments.
How it works
You will be able to initially compile source code in C/C++ into a binary representation of an AST tree. The binary version is what’s sent to the browser. No translation of source to binary is required on the browser side, saving a lot of start up time. The AST tree can be directly compiled into optimal machine code, be it x86 for computers or ARM for mobile devices. The implementation of this translator is much more straightforward than for an interpreted language like JavaScript and the resulting code will run quite a bit faster in practice.
While C/C++ is the initial target language for WebAssembly, there is nothing that precludes implementation of virtually any language that compiles into the AST format.
One of the clever things about WebAssembly is that it allows for the late binding (or linking) of several WebAssembly modules once downloaded into the browser. This means there can (and will) be an ecosystem of modules that you can mash together to create applications. The late binding functionality allows a C++ module to link with and call functions in a different C module. Or a C++ module can provide a function that can be called from a Java module (assuming a Java to AST compiler).
JavaScript won’t be going away. Initially, shims will compile the AST modules into ASM.JS or plain old JavaScript. Even once WebAssembly is fully implemented in all the modern browsers, JavaScript will be required to support the countless existing websites that are written in, or depend on, JavaScript. The future will still be writing lots of websites in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
From what one might glean from the WebAssembly documentation and my experience writing C++ around V8, the WebAssembly modules may or may not be running within the engine JavaScript context. Initially the only choice will be within the JavaScript environment, but the ultimate goal is to run alongside the JavaScript environment with ABI interfaces to call JavaScript from the WebAssembly context and to expose WebAssembly variables and methods to the JavaScript context.
In fact, not only will the JavaScript engine be exposed to WebAssembly modules, but so will the DOM. This means you could, in theory, write whole web applications in C and/or C++ and/or other languages that compile into WebAssembly. Any module in one of the languages can trivially call a module in a different language.
Two benefits of WebAssembly will be that what is sent to the browser will be smaller in binary format than comparable JavaScript or C/C++ source code, and that download being binary obfuscates the source code.
People have been porting all sorts of Unix goodies like Bison and YACC and even vi to JavaScript. A stated goal of WebAssembly is that you will be able to compile the real Bison, YACC, and vi and run them directly in the browser or from the command line.
The JavaScript language spec is silent about multithreading and the implementers have ignored the possibilities for threads, especially on the server side. WebAssembly allows for all sorts of common programming paradigms, including lightweight pthread style threads, and most if not all of the functionality in Unix standard and 3rd party libraries.
Security
Hackers will likely figure out how to turn the binary back into source code, but the code will be relatively safe from someone altering it or reusing it in some unauthorized manner.
While this seems like a good feature, it also means you will not easily be able to see what a 3rd party WebAssembly module is doing on your behalf once you call into it. My gut feeling is that 3rd party WebAssembly modules will come with source code that you should compile, or it will come from trusted 3rd party sources. Developers seem willing to trust CDN hosted libraries, even though they could potentially contain malicious code, but at least you can use source maps and see the code minified, unminified, etc.
It remains to be seen how secure the WebAssembly environment can be made. You’d think that modules compiled as AST binaries would be safer than a traditional binary made up of machine instructions, but it sure seems like hackers will be able to find exploits. That is, by creating the right AST binary, a hacker might be able to exercise a bug in the WebAssembly implementation.
The good news is that since the browser developers have been dealing with securing the sandbox that is JavaScript; they should end up with a secure sandbox that is WebAssembly.
Conclusion
WebAssembly is an exciting new technology that is going to improve developer and user experience, no doubt. It is likely to be adopted and well supported by the development community at large. It’s too soon to say when all the browsers will fully support it to the point we can freely deploy it and expect 100% of our users to be able to use it.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Herpes zoster (shingles) is on the rise ... why?
"We used to have chicken pox parties where the children would get exposed to chicken pox at a safe age and adults would have their immunity boosted. Now with the advent of the childhood varicella vaccine, these exposures are virtually non-existent. The disease burden of primary varicella infection is being pushed to a more dangerous older age (if and when the vaccine immunity wanes) and older adults are no longer having their own immunity boosted by the exposure to children with chicken pox."
Hello. I am Dr. Craig Hales, a physician and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I am speaking with you as part of the CDC's Expert Video Commentary series on Medscape.
Herpes zoster rates among adults have been slowly rising over time in the United States and other countries. In the United States, herpes zoster rates have increased by 39% from 1992 to 2010 among adults older than 65 years of age.
Scientists have proposed various hypotheses to explain this increase. A common hypothesis is that the increase in herpes zoster is associated with the widespread vaccination of children against varicella.[1-5] However, a new CDC study that I will discuss today adds to a growing body of evidence that this is unlikely.
Let's start with some basics. Herpes zoster, also commonly known as zoster or shingles, is a painful skin rash. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), which is the same virus that causes varicella disease (chickenpox). After a person recovers from varicella, the virus stays dormant in the sensory ganglia and can reactivate years later, causing zoster.
The reasons why the virus reactivates are not well understood. However, a person's risk for zoster may increase as immunity to VZV declines. This decline in immunity can occur as people get older or if they develop immunodeficiency because of certain medical conditions or medications.
Some scientists have suggested that exposure to varicella disease may boost a person's immunity to VZV and reduce the risk for VZV reactivation as zoster. Some studies have shown reduced risk for zoster in adults who are exposed to varicella, but other studies have not shown this effect.[6-10]
In the years following implementation of the childhood varicella vaccination program in the United States in 1996, rates of varicella in children fell dramatically. This led some scientists to speculate that increases in zoster in adults were the result of widespread vaccination of children against varicella, because adults have fewer opportunities to be exposed to varicella disease in children. However, this seems increasingly unlikely.
A recent CDC study, using Medicare data from 1992 to 2010, found that among adults aged 65 years or older, zoster rates were increasing even before the varicella vaccine was introduced in the United States.[1] Moreover, zoster rates didn't accelerate after the routine varicella vaccination program began.
We also examined whether there was a link between state varicella vaccination coverage and zoster rates. Zoster rates did not accelerate as states increased varicella vaccination coverage. In fact, zoster incidence was the same in states with consistently high vaccination coverage as it was in states with lower vaccination coverage.
Our study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that the increase in zoster rates is not a result of childhood varicella vaccination.[1,2,4,11] CDC continues to study the epidemiology of herpes zoster among adults and children and to monitor the effects of the US varicella and zoster vaccination programs.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/822982
"Like the wild-type (natural) virus, the attenuated (weakened) vaccine virus can reactivate and cause shingles."
http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/surveillance.html
Chickenpox (Varicella) Vaccine: This Is Why a Shingles Epidemic Is Bolting Straight at the U.S.
The incidence of adult shingles has increased by 90 percent from 1998 to 2013, following the release of the chickenpox vaccine for mass use. Shingles results in three times as many deaths and five times as many hospitalizations as chickenpox, and accounts for 75 percent of all medical costs associated with the varicella zoster virus.8
Even children are beginning to come down with shingles,9 as evidenced by school nurse reports since 2000, which was one of the concerns prompting Dr. Goldman to warn the CDC that it may be bringing about a shingles epidemic.
Prior to chickenpox vaccination, shingles was seen only in adults.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/02/chicken-pox-vaccine-creates-shingles-epidemic.aspx
Shingles and Mother Nature’s Own Natural Vaccine
http://articles.mercola.com/shingles.aspx
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Talk:Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
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What is the rationale for adding middle names? We typically only do that when either a person is invariably known by the longer form (which the links to here show is not the case), or to disambiguate, which isn't necessary here. Stan 06:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
* Agree. He is commonly known as Frederick Lugard. All those middle names do not need to be in the title. Page moved from Frederick John Dealtry Lugard to Frederick Lugard.--Ezeu 02:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
This biography does seem 100% positive in every way; surely he had some critics... Johncmullen1960 (talk) 05:47, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Mercenary
Lugard was a mercenary. Let's not whitewash history. His post -military career saw him take up mercenary roles in Nigeria and elsewhere, the body of the article further supports this.Akinsope (talk) 13:26, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
He was also effectively a mercenary in the Karonga War in what is now Malawi, acting for a British company fighting Swahili rivals.Sscoulsdon (talk) 05:59, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
* Well, context matters: He was encouraged to engage in the conflict by the British Consul who desired his military expertise. He was fighting Slavers and tasked with the the protection of the local people and mission stations. He was also a member of the Indian Army at the time. On the basis of all the above he was given the implicit blessing of the British Government to undertake this role. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:BDA0:5022:CBD:2B0C (talk) 15:17, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Did he say this also?
Lord Frederick John Lugard: He lacks the power of organization, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility... He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue... In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy...perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future --Inayity (talk) 13:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
* If he did, the question is whether it stems from entrenched racial animus (of which there is little evidence, Lugard was a blood-brother to numerous black Africans) or being legitimate observations from his experiences in Africa at that time (which are quite broad). In so far as critiques of black African people go in that period I have heard far worse from some notable black Pan-Africans (e.g. Alexander Crummell referred to indigenous Liberians as being worth only 1/4 of a person and would eventually conclude that colonisation was necessary)! 2001:8003:70F5:2400:2C40:CDAD:EE42:4D32 (talk) 00:28, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
image c1908 suggests also vice-admiral
— billinghurst sDrewth 05:29, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
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300 HAMILTON. the customs and manners of the East. In 1788, Mr. Hamilton quitted his agreeable retreat at Ingram's Crook, and Mr. Marshal willingly allowed his niece to pay her first visit to London under his protection. There she was introduced into an intellectual and polished circle, and became more alive to the consciousness of her own pecu liar talents. In the summer Miss Hamilton returned home, and in the autumn Mr. Marshal was attacked by an epidemic complaint, which in a few days conducted him to the grave. Miss Hamilton had now no motive for remaining at Ingram's Crook; she therefore speedily re joined her brother and sister, with whom she spent nearly two years, chiefly in the metropolis. In whatever scene she appeared, she obtained the consideration due to sound sense and discriminating judgment. At this period it was her happiness to form a friendship with a literary family, who, next to her brother, fostered her rising talents, and contributed to her future fame. In the Rev. Dr. G–, whose life was an honour to his profession, her grateful heart delighted to acknowledge the judicious adviser to those literary pursuits, which made her so extensively useful. In his wife, she found a woman congenial to her taste, who, in mind and manners, realised a l l she had con ceived o f female excellence; she became her chosen, cherished friend; and the various vicissitudes o f thirty years only confirmed the strength and tenderness o f this mutual attachment. About this time Mr. Hamilton pre pared for his return t o India, and the sisters took their leave o f him. Miss Hamilton resumed possession o f In gram's Crook, where she was rather unexpectedly gratified b y a parting visit from her affectionate brother, who took the opportunity t o re-urge what h e had often recom mended her, t o engage i n some literary pursuit, which, b y affording constant occupation t o her thoughts, might beguile the tedious season o f their separation. He took his departure from thence i n September 1791, and returned t o town; but owing t o some unexpected circumstance, his embarkation was deferred t o the spring. I n December | WIKI |
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184 situation as Minister of the United States I can not very well afford to treat with that Government myself or to appear as a supplicant before it. But I think you might, if you should deem it consistent to do so, ask the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in an unofficial and informal way whether the Government would have any objection to my crossing the Prussian territory on my way from Belgium to Hamburg. I have hardly any doubt that motives of international courtesy will induce them to grant the request.
You may assure them on your (and my) word as a gentleman, that the voyage will be undertaken for none but purposes of a strictly private nature; that for a number of years, in fact since my emigration to the United States, I have been in no connection whatever with the political affairs or parties of Germany, and that, while on Prussian soil, I shall conform myself to whatever restrictions the Government may reasonably impose upon me. Of course, if such restrictions should be incompatible with my character and position, I would then rather give up the project. It is hardly necessary that, aside from these statements, I should give you any further assurances of the perfect loyalty of my intentions.
You would greatly oblige me by conducting this affair in as quiet and private a manner as possible. I am so tired of seeing my name in the newspapers as to studiously avoid everything that might draw public attention upon me.
This is the service I wish you to do me, if you can. My wife and children are at present at a water-cure establishment near Hamburg and I desire to take them back with me to Madrid. This is a dull place, and if our affairs did not keep me busy, the ennui would kill me. I have no doubt you like Berlin, the German Athens. | WIKI |
Disability culture
Disability culture is a widely used concept developed in the late 1980s to capture differences in lifestyle that are caused or promoted by disability. Disability cultures exist as communities of people around topics of disability. The cultures include arts movements, coalitions, and include but are not limited to: poetry, dance, performance pieces, installments, and sculptures. Steven Brown, in an academic study, wrote, "The existence of a disability culture is a relatively new and contested idea. Not surprising, perhaps, for a group that has long been described with terms like 'in-valid', 'impaired', 'limited', 'crippled', and so forth. Scholars would be hard-pressed to discover terms of hope, endearment or ability associated with people with disabilities." Deaf culture has an older history, having been described in 1965, and Deaf culture can be connected to the larger disability culture, both due to deafness being viewed by others as a disability, and many deaf people being both Deaf and disabled in other ways, which is known as being Deaf plus.
Disability culture cannot be defined by one specific description or language. It is a complex blending of art, performance, expression, and community. Within this culture, the word "disabled" has been re-purposed to represent a social identity of empowerment and awareness. Like many civil rights movements in the past, disability culture challenges the norms of society, and seeks to counter oppressive entities such as medicalization and institutionalization. Its core values as a culture are reflected in art, conversation, goals, or behaviors. These core values often include: "an acceptance of human differences, an acceptance of human vulnerability and interdependence, a tolerance for a lack of resolution of the unpredictable in life, and a humor to laugh at the oppressor or situation, however dire it may be".
"The elements of our culture include, certainly, our longstanding social oppression, but also our emerging art and humor, our piecing together of our history, our evolving language and symbols, our remarkably unified world view, beliefs and values, and our strategies for surviving and thriving." -Carol Gill Ph.D.
Disability culture is a trajectory, a movement, a path, rather than a destination: "Disability culture is the difference between being alone, isolated, and individuated with a physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory difference that in our society invites discrimination and reinforces that isolation – the difference between all that and being in community. Naming oneself part of a larger group, a social movement or a subject position in modernity can help to focus energy, and to understand that solidarity can be found – precariously, in improvisation, always on the verge of collapse." - Petra Kuppers
"Disability culture, which values interdependence over the illusion of independence, privileges not a uniform perspective but the validity and value of a wide range of ways of moving through the world - and the varied perspectives those different experiences engender." - Jim Ferris | WIKI |
Senator Apple
Senator Apple may refer to:
* Adam Apple (1831–1905), Wisconsin State Senate
* Pat Apple (born 1957), Kansas State Senate | WIKI |
Connecting and running a simple query
Now everything is ready to use the driver. Here is a small example:
extern crate scylla;
extern crate tokio;
use scylla::{IntoTypedRows, Session, SessionBuilder};
use std::error::Error;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
// Create a new Session which connects to node at 127.0.0.1:9042
// (or SCYLLA_URI if specified)
let uri = std::env::var("SCYLLA_URI")
.unwrap_or_else(|_| "127.0.0.1:9042".to_string());
let session: Session = SessionBuilder::new()
.known_node(uri)
.build()
.await?;
// Create an example keyspace and table
session
.query(
"CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS ks WITH REPLICATION = \
{'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 1}",
&[],
)
.await?;
session
.query(
"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ks.extab (a int primary key)",
&[],
)
.await?;
// Insert a value into the table
let to_insert: i32 = 12345;
session
.query("INSERT INTO ks.extab (a) VALUES(?)", (to_insert,))
.await?;
// Query rows from the table and print them
if let Some(rows) = session.query("SELECT a FROM ks.extab", &[]).await?.rows {
// Parse each row as a tuple containing single i32
for row in rows.into_typed::<(i32,)>() {
let read_row: (i32,) = row?;
println!("Read a value from row: {}", read_row.0);
}
}
Ok(())
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Supplementary gadget:it is a physical gadget used in homes e.g television,radio ,DVD player,home theatre and so on etc | WIKI |
Randall STEWART v. James BRADLEY and Mary Bradley Larry Morgan v. James Bradley and Mary Bradley.
2070574 and 2070575.
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.
Nov. 14, 2008.
Certiorari Denied Feb. 6, 2009 Alabama Supreme Court 1080275.
James A. Kee, Jr., and Angela Collier Shields of Kee & Selby, LLP, Birmingham, for appellant Randall Stewart.
Joseph H. Driver and Kathy R. Davis of Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sis-son, P.C., Birmingham, for appellant Larry Morgan.
W. Brian Collins, Birmingham; and H. Arthur Edge III, Birmingham, for appel-lees.
MOORE, Judge.
Randall Stewart and Larry Morgan appeal separately from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict in favor of James Bradley and Mary Bradley. We reverse and remand for a new trial.
Procedural History
On May 6, 2003, James Bradley and Mary Bradley sued Randall Stewart and Larry Morgan seeking damages arising from the alleged negligent construction of their house. In their complaint, the Brad-leys asserted claims of negligent failure to warn, negligent installation and construction, negligent supervision, misrepresentation, suppression, breach of implied warranty of habitability, breach of contract, and “third party beneficiary.”
The trial court entered summary judgments in favor of Stewart and Morgan as to all claims asserted against them except the claims asserting negligent installation and construction, negligent supervision, and breach of contract. The case was tried before a jury on August 13, 2007. At the conclusion of the Bradleys’ case, Stewart and Morgan filed separate motions for a judgment as a matter of law. Both Stewart and Morgan again moved for a judgment as a matter of law at the conclusion of all the evidence.
The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the Bradleys. On September 12, 2007, the trial court entered a judgment on the jury’s verdict, awarding the Bradleys damages in the amount of $200,000. Morgan and Stewart filed separate postjudgment motions for a judgment as a matter of law or, in the alternative, motions for a new trial. Those motions were denied by operation of law on December 17, 2007. See Rule 59, Ala. R. Civ. P. On January 23, 2008, Stewart and Morgan each appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court; that court transferred the appeals to this court, pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975. We have consolidated the appeals.
On appeal, both Stewart and Morgan challenge the denial of their motions for a judgment as a matter of law and the trial court’s refusal to give certain of their requested jury charges. Stewart and Morgan also challenge the denial of them motions for a new trial.
Factual History
Stewart and Morgan are licensed home builders. In 2001, they collaborated on a “spec” house on Funclefburg Bend Road. On June 19, 2001, the Bradleys entered into a “Sales Contract” with Stewart and Morgan in which the Bradleys agreed to purchase the house.
On June 29, 2001, the parties attended a real-estate closing regarding the property. At that closing, the Bradleys executed a document entitled “Limited Warranty Agreement,” which provided, in part:
“1. Warranty Period. The Seller does hereby provide to the Buyer this Limited Warranty Agreement on the Dwelling for a period of one year (the ‘Limited Warranty Period’) beginning on the date of conveyance of title to the Buyer or the date of initial occupancy of the Dwelling, whichever occurs first (the ‘Limited Warranty Commencement Date’), and the Buyer does hereby agree to the terms of this Limited Warranty Agreement and further agrees to accept this Limited Warranty Agreement as the only warranty given, in lieu of all other warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, with respect to the construction of the Dwelling and the sale thereof to the Buyer. The Limited Warranty Period has been negotiated between the Seller and the Buyer as a part of the negotiation of the terms and provisions of the Contract.
“2. Limited Warranty. The Seller hereby warrants to the Buyer that, for and during the Limited Warranty Period, the Dwelling will be free from Latent Defects, as hereinafter defined. If a latent Defect occurs in an item which is covered by this Limited Warranty Agreement, the Seller will repair, replace, or pay to the Buyer the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing, any such item. The Seller shall in its sole discretion determine whether to repair, replace or pay the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing any such item. Steps taken by the Seller to correct any Latent Defect under this Limited Warranty Agreement shall not extend the Limited Warranty Period.
“4 LIMITATION UPON LIABILITY. THE SOLE REMEDY AVAILABLE TO THE BUYER UNDER THIS LIMITED WARRANTY AGREEMENT IS THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE SELLER TO REPAIR, REPLACE OR PAY THE REASONABLE COST OF REPAIRING OR REPLACING LATENT DEFECTS, AS HEREIN DEFINED, IN THE DWELLING. THIS LIMITED WARRANTY AGREEMENT DOES NOT EXTEND TO OR INCLUDE LIABILITY FOR INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
“9. Opportunity to Perform. Prior to filing any action under this Limited Warranty Agreement, the Buyer must give to the Seller reasonable notice of and a reasonable opportunity to repair, replace or pay the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing any Latent Defect covered hereunder.
“13. Notice to the Seller. The Buyer shall notify the Seller in writing before the expiration of the Limited Warranty Period of any defect covered by this warranty.... FAILURE OF THE BUYER TO GIVE SUCH WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE SELLER BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF THE LIMITED WARRANTY PERIOD SHALL BAR ANY RIGHT TO RECOVERY BY THE BUYER PURSUANT TO THIS LIMITED WARRANTY.
“15. WAIVER OF WARRANTIES AND CLAIMS. EXCEPT AS TO ANY VA/FHA WARRANTY DELIVERED TO THE BUYER AT CLOSING, IF ANY, THIS LIMITED WARRANTY AGREEMENT IS GIVEN IN LIEU OF ANY AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, HABITABILITY AND WORKMANSHIP, AND IS ALSO IN LIEU OF ANY CLAIMS FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, MENTAL ANGUISH OR DISTRESS, AND FOR DAMAGES BASED UPON NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD OR MISREPRESENTATION, AND THE BUYER HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES AND DISCLAIMS ANY SUCH WARRANTIES AND CLAIMS WITH RESPECT TO BOTH THE DWELLING AND THE REAL PROPERTY UPON WHICH THE DWELLING HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED.”
(Capitalization and underlining in original.)
According to the Bradleys, they moved into the house in the fall of 2001 and they immediately had problems with the house. It is undisputed that the Bradleys contacted Stewart and Morgan complaining of problems with the house during the fall of 2001. Stewart and Morgan described Mary Bradley’s initial complaint as involving only “punch list” items. However, Mary described her initial complaints as involving, among other things, cracking, loose molding, and unlevel floors. Mary testified as to her communications with Stewart and Morgan concerning problems with the house:
“I’ll go back to the start of it. When it first cracked and the molding around the door started coming loose, I called them out and I asked them why because we had moved furniture in the house and it had got it off level [sic]. They patched it up. They done some painting, stuff like that. The next time I had to call them out there, the children was running across the floors and the dishes trying to fall out and all that unlevel [sic]. The center beam was off.... [and] the floors was falling through. I had to take two screws and screw my curio up to the wall to level it up.”
James Bradley testified that, after moving in, he noticed that
“just that everything that you walked around, everything when you put all the furniture in there and got weight on it, it would rattle as you walked through there and everything.... The floors wasn’t level.... The water coming off the hill and ran up underneath the house when you got real rainy season, muddy.... I liked the house except for it not being level.”
James testified that he telephoned either Stewart or Morgan and that “[t]hey told me that wasn’t nothing the matter with it. They would send somebody out there and level it up the best they could. Even after they did that, the thing was still way out of level.”
James testified that Stewart and Morgan came back “again and again” and that he thought that “they sent somebody out there just about all the time to look at it every time you would say something about it but they never did fix it.” Mary acknowledged that, after her contacts with Stewart and Morgan in the fall of 2001, her next contact with them had occurred in December 2002. It is undisputed that Stewart and Morgan talked with the Brad-leys in January 2003 about their complaints.
On February 5, 2003, Mary wrote to Stewart and Morgan, again setting out her complaints about the house. Later in February 2003, after receiving Mary’s letter, Stewart and Morgan went to the Bradleys’ house to make additional repairs; they were accompanied by a representative of the manufacturer of the engineered floor system. According to Stewart and Morgan, they had been prepared to undertake whatever repairs were necessary at the house but they were specifically prepared to work on the foundation, the floor system, and the regrading of the lot. However, Mary’s son asked Stewart and Morgan to leave the Bradleys’ property without allowing them to undertake any additional repairs. The Bradleys instructed Stewart and Morgan to contact their attorney. Mary testified that, as of February 2003, she did not want Stewart and Morgan to continue to work on her house
“because they done been out there two or three times, [my son] and I were sitting at the dining room table, and we heard somebody digging under the house. We didn’t know who or what.... It was the two of them, and they were digging, laying concrete to put the pillars on to hold the house up. The others didn’t have it or they couldn’t find it. I told them, I said ‘No. No. Stop. I want an inspection of this house so I know what has got to be fixed to have this house fixed right for me to live in and it not fall down next month.’ So they never came back out. I told him I wanted an inspector out there, and he never came out.”
Although Stewart testified that the Brad-leys had refused to allow him to make the needed repairs, he acknowledged at trial that, by February 2003, he already had been in the crawl space of the Bradleys’ house on at least four separate occasions.
The Bradleys moved out of the house in March 2003. After moving out of the house, the Bradleys hired professionals to conduct inspections of the property. Those inspections revealed that the foundation, flooring system, brick veneer, and waterproofing systems of the house had been improperly constructed and improperly installed. Additionally, the inspectors discovered that the house had been “shimmed” or propped up with wooden blocks in multiple areas of the crawl space in an attempt to level it.
Analysis
The trial court allowed the Brad-leys’ claims of negligent installation and construction, negligent supervision, and breach of contract to go to trial. On appeal, Stewart and Morgan assert that the trial court erred in denying their motions for a judgment as a matter of law as to all three of those claims.
“In Delchamps, Inc. v. Bryant, 738 So.2d 824 (Ala.1999), our supreme court explained the standard of review applicable to a trial court’s ruling on a motion for a judgment as a matter of law:
“ ‘When reviewing a ruling on a motion for a [judgment as a matter of law (“JML”)], this Court uses the same standard the trial court used initially in granting or denying a JML. Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. v. Crawford, 689 So.2d 3 (Ala.1997). Regarding questions of fact, the ultimate question is whether the nonmovant has presented sufficient evidence to allow the case or the issue to be submitted to the jury for a factual resolution. Carter v. Henderson, 598 So.2d 1350 (Ala.1992). For actions filed after June 11, 1987, the nonmovant must present “substantial evidence” in order to withstand a. motion for a JML. See § 12-21-12, Ala.Code 1975; West v. Founders Life Assurance Co. of Florida, 547 So.2d 870, 871 (Ala.1989). A reviewing court must determine whether the party who bears the burden of proof has produced substantial evidence creating a factual dispute requiring resolution by the jury. Carter, 598 So.2d at 1353. In reviewing a ruling on a motion for a JML, this Court views the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmovant and entertains such reasonable inferences as the jury would have been free to draw. Motion Industries, Inc. v. Pale, 678 So.2d 724 (Ala.1996). Regarding a question of law, however, this Court indulges no presumption of correctness as to the trial court’s ruling. Ricwil, Inc. v. S.L. Pappas & Co., 599 So.2d 1126 (Ala.1992).
738 So.2d at 830-31.”
Leonard v. Cunningham, 4 So.3d 1181, 1184 (Ala.Civ.App.2008). Using this standard of review, we review the Bradleys’ claims to determine if they were properly submitted to the jury for resolution.
The Enforceability of the Limited-Warranty Agreement
In Turner v. Westhampton Court, L.L.C., 903 So.2d 82 (Ala.2004), our supreme court held that the parties to the sale of a new house can validly agree to limit the rights and remedies available to the home buyer in the event the house does not conform to the buyer’s expectations. Addressing the issue as a matter of first impression, the court continued:
“In Ex parte Miller, 693 So.2d 1372, 1376 (Ala.1997), a case decided under Alabama’s version of the Uniform Commercial Code, we held that a company can limit its warranty coverage. In Southern Energy Homes v. Washington, 774 So.2d 505, 511 (Ala.2000), we held that a warranty can require a certain method by which the warranty holder notifies the party giving the warranty of a defect covered by the warranty. See also Copenhagen Reinsurance Co. v. Champion Home Builders Co., 872 So.2d 848 (Ala.Civ.App.2003). If a purchaser were to attempt to hold the seller liable when the purchaser had not notified seller pursuant to the method set out in the warranty, the seller would not be liable. While these cases are based upon Alabama’s Commercial Code, we see no reason to limit the rule to cases concerning ‘goods.’ Rather, we are led by the principle of freedom of contract. Therefore, we hold that companies selling houses are similarly capable of limiting warranty coverage.
“Though we have never decided whether one can effectively disclaim the implied warranty of habitability, one can disclaim an implied warranty of personal property. Ala.Code 1975, § 7-2-316(3). Because it was the existence of an implied warranty as to personal property that was said to justify the recognition of an implied warranty of habitability of a new house, should we not hold that this court-created warranty can be contracted away where a reasonable express warranty of some duration is given to the purchaser of the new house in lieu of that implied warranty?
“These considerations lead us to conclude that the principle of freedom of contract permits a party to effectively disclaim the implied warranty of habitability. To succeed on their claim of breach of the implied warranty of habitability then, the Turners would have to offer substantial evidence indicating that they did not disclaim the implied warranty of habitability.”
903 So.2d at 91-93.
The evidence showed that the builder in Turner had given the home buyer a “Limited New Home Warranty” essentially identical to the one at issue in this case. 903 So.2d at 86. Because the evidence established that the purchasers in Turner could read the written warranty and because the purchases had produced no evidence indicating that they had not agreed to disclaim all implied warranties, the supreme court affirmed the summary judgment in favor of the home builder as to the purchasers’ claim of breach of the implied warranty of habitability.
The purchasers also appealed the summary judgment in favor of the builder as to their breach-of-contract claim. In addressing that claim, the supreme court stated:
“The Turners’ third allegation is that Westhampton breached the contract of sale by tendering a poorly built house. Specifically, the Turners argue that Westhampton contracted to build the house in accordance with the skill and abilities of a homebuilder and that Westhampton failed to perform this contractual duty. While the Turners characterize this as a cause of action for breach of contract, the cause of action is more accurately classified as one for the breach of the implied warranty of workmanship.
“... In the context of the sale of a new house, a builder-vendor such as Westhampton is obligated to construct a house that it will offer for sale in a workmanlike manner. Stephens v. Creel, 429 So.2d 278, 280 (Ala.1983). This obligation manifests itself in the implied warranty of workmanship. While improper or faulty construction constitutes a technical performance of the contract and may survive a pure breach-of-contract action, an action alleging the breach of an implied warranty, such as the implied warranty of workmanship, can overcome this obstacle.
“Upon purchasing the house, the Turners signed the warranty provided by Westhampton. The warranty, as discussed above, included a waiver of the right to sue under any other theory of breach of warranty, express or implied. In fact, the warranty explicitly stated that the Turners waived the right to sue based on a breach of the implied warranty of workmanship. Because the warranty contained a disclaimer of the very claim the Turners here allege, the trial court did not err in entering a summary judgment in favor of Westh-ampton on this claim.”
903 So.2d at 93-94.
The Bradleys urge this court to find the limited-warranty agreement unenforceable under existing Alabama caselaw. However, all the cases cited by the Brad-leys for this point predate Turner, supra. This court, as an intermediate court of appeals, is bound to follow the existing precedent of our supreme court. See Ala. Code 1975, § 12-3-16. Pursuant to Turner, the warranty is generally enforceable if supported by consideration and voluntarily and knowingly agreed to by the Bradleys.
The record affirmatively shows that the Bradleys signed the agreement indicating them assent to the limited warranty. The record contains no evidence to indicate that the Bradleys were deceived or coerced into agreeing to the limited warranty. The Bradleys do not even argue that point. They do argue, however, that they did not request a limited warranty in the sales agreement and, therefore, that the warranty could not have been supported by any consideration. In Turner, the supreme court considered similar facts and concluded that the builder in that case had offered the limited warranty at the closing in consideration for the purchasers’ waiving all other warranties. The court found such consideration to be sufficient. 903 So.2d at 93. We conclude that the Bradleys’ warranty was likewise supported by sufficient consideration and that, by accepting the limited warranty at the closing, the Bradleys modified their earlier agreement with Stewart and Morgan.
The Bradleys next argue that the language in the warranty purporting to disclaim all causes of action alleging negligence and purporting to disclaim any right to recover mental-anguish damages violates the public policy of this state. We disagree. See Ex parte Holland Mfg. Co., 689 So.2d 65 (Ala.1996) (concluding that contracts protecting one from the consequences of one’s own negligence are valid and enforceable if the parties knowingly, evenhandedly, and for valid consideration, enter into an agreement whereby one party agrees to indemnify against the other party’s own wrongs); Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Hall, 643 So.2d 551 (Ala.1994) (concluding that an agreement to indemnify a party for its own negligence is enforceable if the requisite intent to do so is clear); and Sears Termite & Pest Control, Inc. v. Robinson, 883 So.2d 153 (Ala.2003) (rejecting the argument that a limitation in a contract against recovery of consequential and indirect damages, including emotional-distress damages, was unconscionable). “Contracting parties have a right to express the limitations .under which they will be bound, and such clearly manifested limitations will be recognized by the courts.” Campbell v. Southern Roof Deck Applicators, Inc., 406 So.2d 910, 913 (Ala.1981) (citing United States Fid. & Guar. Co. v. Jacksonville State Univ., 357 So.2d 952 (Ala.1978)). See also McDonald v. Schwartz, 706 So.2d 1230, 1232 (Ala.Civ.App.1997) (“Where the parties have set out in a written contract the warranties agreed upon and have provided a remedy in ease of a breach of warranty, the remedy thus provided is exclusive.”).
Because the limited-warranty agreement is valid, we must enforce that agreement pursuant to its plain terms. Therefore, we hold that the Bradleys waived their claims alleging breach of the implied warranties of habitability and workmanship, then-claims of general negligence, and their right to seek damages for mental anguish. We, therefore, conclude that the trial court erred in denying Stewart’s and Morgan’s motions for a judgment as a matter of law as to the Bradleys’ negligent-installation, negligent-construction, and negligent-supervision claims, as well as to their right to recover mental-anguish damages.
Breaclis-of-Contract Claim
The Bradleys did not, however, waive their right to pursue a breach-of-contract claim against Stewart and Morgan by virtue of the limited-warranty agreement. As recognized in Turner, supra:
“An action alleging a breach of warranty is a subset of a breach-of-contract action. ... In the context of construction of a house, this Court explained in Stephens[ v. Creel, 429 So.2d 278 (Ala.1983),] that ‘[b]y its very nature it is the failure to construct the house in a workmanlike manner that constitutes the breach’ of the warranty. 429 So.2d at 280.”
903 So.2d at 90-91. Thus, by alleging that Stewart and Morgan had failed to convey to them a properly constructed house and had failed to honor their obligation to repair the defects in that house, the Brad-leys alleged that Stewart and Morgan had breached their obligations under the warranty agreement.
Stewart and Morgan, relying on Tuner, argue that the Bradleys failed to comply with the notice requirement of the warranty agreement and that, as a result, they waived any breach-of-express-warranty claim that may have accrued to them. We disagree because we find Tuner distinguishable.
In Tuner, the purchasers provided no notice at all to the builder until four years after the warranty had expired, and there was no indication in Tuner that the builder had accepted or acted upon the post-warranty notice provided by the purchasers. In this case, however, evidence was presented to indicate that the Bradleys had orally notified Stewart and Morgan within the warranty period that the house was cracking, sagging, and had become “unlevel,” implying foundation problems with the house. The evidence also indicated that Stewart and Morgan had acted on the Bradleys’ oral notice and had attempted to repair the house. James Bradley testified that the builders had attempted “again and again” to level up the house but that they could not fix the problem. Additionally, Stewart admitted that he had been in the crawl space under the house multiple times while the Bradleys were living in the house. Other evidence indicated that someone had attempted to prop up the foundation by “shimming” it in numerous places in the crawl space under the house.
Based on that evidence, a reasonable jury could conclude that Stewart and Morgan had waived their right to written notice by accepting oral notice and actual knowledge as a substitute.
“Waiver is defined as the voluntary surrender or relinquishment of some known right, benefit, or advantage. City of Montgomery v. Weldon, 280 Ala. 463, 195 So.2d 110 (1967). However, it is well established that a party’s intention to waive a right is to be ascertained from the external acts manifesting the waiver. Givens v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 56 Ala.App. 561, 324 So.2d 277 (1975). This intention to waive a right may be found where one’s course of conduct indicates the same or is inconsistent with any other intention.”
Waters v. Taylor, 527 So.2d 139, 141 (Ala.Civ.App.1988). See also T.J. Stevenson & Co. v. 81,193 Bags of Flour, 629 F.2d 338 (5th Cir.1980) (despite contractual provision requiring notice of breach of warranty to be sent by registered mail, seller’s responses to buyer’s initial noneomplying complaints established a course of performance allowing that notice provision to be disregarded); and Becker Roofing Co. v. Pike, 230 Ala. 289, 160 So. 692 (1935) (contractual provision requiring buyer to notify seller in writing of leaks in roof held waived in view of undisputed evidence indicating that buyer had repeatedly notified seller by telephone, that seller had accepted those calls and promised to repair, and that seller’s efforts to repair had been unsuccessful). See also § 7-2-208, Ala. Code 1975 (addressing course of performance) (repealed January 1, 2005, by Ala. Acts 2004, Act 2004-524); and § 7-2-209, Ala.Code 1975 (addressing modification, rescission, and waiver).
Stewart and Morgan next argue that the Bradleys waived any right to assert a breach-of-contract claim based on the limited warranty by failing to give them a reasonable opportunity to make the necessary repairs. Stewart and Morgan testified that they had been prepared to repair the Bradleys’ foundation and flooring system but that the Bradleys had prevented them from doing so. However, the record contains testimony from the Brad-leys to indicate that they had allowed Stewart and Morgan a reasonable opportunity to repair the defects. For example, James Bradley testified that he had repeatedly notified Stewart and Morgan of the problems with the house and that Stewart and Morgan had attempted to correct those problems “again and again.” Additionally, Stewart testified that he was in the crawl space of the Bradleys’ house “at least four times” while the Bradleys lived in the house. Further, expert testimony indicated that someone had attempted to prop up the Bradleys’ house by placing shims and wedges throughout the crawl space in an attempt to level the foundation of the house.
We conclude that the trial court did not err in allowing the jury to decide the breach-of-contract claim because a factual dispute existed as to whether the Bradleys had allowed Stewart and Morgan a reasonable opportunity to repair the house. See General Motors Corp. v. Earnest, 279 Ala. 299, 184 So.2d 811 (1966) (recognizing that jury could properly have found that, after the purchaser allowed the seller 15 tries to repair vehicle, purchaser had allowed seller reasonable opportunity but that seller could not honor its warranty); DeLoach v. General Motors Corp., 187 Ga.App. 159, 159, 369 S.E.2d 484, 485 (1988) (buyers of defective new automobile were not entitled to reversal of judgment entered on jury’s verdict in favor of seller in a breach-of-warranty action against seller when purchasers did not allow seller an opportunity, within a reasonable time, to replace or repair the defects under the terms of the warranty); and Woodruff v. Johnson, 560 So.2d 1040, 1041 (Ala.1990) (“A directed verdict [now a judgment as a matter of law] is properly granted only where there is a complete absence of proof on a material issue or where there are no disputed questions of fact for the jury’s determination.”).
Good Count/Bad Count
On appeal, Stewart asserts that this case presents a “good count-bad count” situation and requires, at a minimum, reversal for a new trial. See Larrimore v. Dubose, 827 So.2d 60 (Ala.2001) (discussing good count-bad count situations); and Aspinwall v. Gowens, 405 So.2d 134, 138 (Ala.1981). Wé agree. We have concluded that the Bradleys’ breach-of-contract claim was properly submitted to the jury while the negligent-installation, negligent-construction, and negligent-supervision claims were improperly submitted to the jury. Stewart properly presented that argument to the trial court in his motions for a judgment as a matter of law. Because the jury returned a general verdict, we are unable to determine whether the damages awarded by the jury were based on the good count — breach of contract — or the bad counts — the negligence counts. Thus, the judgment as to Stewart must be reversed, and this cause must be remanded for a new trial only on the breach-of-contract claim against Stewart. See Larrimore, supra; and Aspinwall, supra. See also AmSouth Bank v. Tice, 923 So.2d 1060 (Ala.2005) (reversing for new trial because of good count-bad count situation); and Delta Health Group, Inc. v. Stafford, 887 So.2d 887 (Ala.2004) (accord).
Jury Instructions
Morgan failed to argue the “good count-bad count” issue on appeal. We, therefore, cannot reverse the judgment as to him on that ground. “We will not reverse a trial court’s judgment based on arguments not presented to the trial court or based on arguments not made to this court.” Brown v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 864 So.2d 1100, 1104 (Ala.Civ.App. 2002). However, Morgan, as well as Stewart, did argue on appeal that the trial court erred to reversal by refusing to properly instruct the jury as to the appropriate measure of damages for injury to real property. The trial court instructed the jury as follows:
“Damages ... for a breach of contract is the sum which would place the injured party in the same condition that he or she would have occupied if the contract had not been breached. You may consider the repair cost claim by the Plaintiffs in determining the cost of damages on this issue. If you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence that the Plaintiff or the Plaintiffs are entitled to recover and you arrive at an amount of your award, you should then determine from the evidence the date the Plaintiff was entitled to the damages arrived by you and then you can add interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum from the date that you find the Plaintiff was entitled to receive the damages to the present date of today. Other damages, where the contractual duty or obligation is so related with matters of mental concern or apprehensiveness or with the feelings of the party to whom the duty is owed, that breach of that duty will necessitate or reasonably result in mental anguish and such matters were reasonably within the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made, then in such event, if the Plaintiffs are entitled to recover, they would be entitled to recover such sum as would reasonably compensate them for mental anguish. ... The Plaintiffs claim compensation for property damages to real property. Evidence has been introduced in this case about the expense of repairs to this house. The evidence may be considered by you in determining the extent of damage suffered by the Plaintiffs and is going to the question of market value. If the house could be restored to its former condition at a reasonable expense, which would exceed its reasonable market value at the time of its damage as found by you from the evidence, such reasonable repair expense would represent the damage which the Plaintiffs would be entitled to recover. If the property was so damaged that it could not be restored to its former condition and value at a reasonable expense equal to or less than its reasonable market value at the time of its damage as found by you from the evidence, then the Plaintiff would only be entitled to recover the market value less any salvage value as found by you from the evidence. The measure of damages for damage to real property is the difference in the reasonable market value of the property before its damage and the reasonable market value immediately after the damage.”
Thus, the trial court instructed the jury as to the measure of damages for injury to real property and for injury to personal property. See Garner v. Kent Excavation, Inc., 532 So.2d 1033, 1034 (Ala.Civ.App.1988) (addressing the proper measure of damages for injury to real property and injury to personal property); Alabama Pattern Jury Instructions — Civil (“APJI”) 11.26 (2d ed. 1993) (pattern jury instructions for measure of damages for injury to real property); and APJI 11.24 (pattern jury instruction regarding injury to personal property). We agree with Morgan that the trial court’s instruction was erroneous and prejudicial to him and Stewart.
In this case, the parties specified in the limited-warranty agreement the measure of damages to be applied in the event of a latent defect. In that agreement, they agreed that
“[i]f a Latent Defect occurs in an item which is covered by this Limited Warranty Agreement, the Seller will repair, replace, or pay to the Buyer the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing, any such item. The Seller shall in its sole discretion determine whether to repair, replace or pay the reasonable cost of repairing or replacing any such item. THE LIABILITY OF THE SELLER IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE OBLIGATION TO REPAIR, REPLACE OR PAY THE REASONABLE COST OF REPAIRING OR REPLACING, ANY SUCH ITEM.”
(Capitalization in original.) As a result, the trial court should have instructed the jury that, if it found in favor of the Brad-leys, it could award damages equal to the “reasonable cost of repairing or replacing” the latent defects in the Bradleys’ house. As a result, the instruction given by the trial court as to the proper measure of damages was erroneous.
Additionally, the trial court instructed the jury that it could properly consider an award of mental-anguish damages for Mary Bradley if it found in favor of the Bradleys. However, as we concluded above, the Bradleys waived any such right of recovery by virtue of their acceptance of the limited warranty. That warranty agreement expressly and conspicuously stated that it was given in lieu of any claim for mental anguish or distress. Therefore, the giving of that instruction was also erroneous.
In Southeast Environmental Infrastructures, L.L.C. v. Rivers, 12 So.3d 32 (Ala.2008), the supreme court stated:
“The standard for reviewing a trial court’s charge to the jury is as follows:
“ ‘ “In a jury case, a party is entitled to have its case tried to a jury that is given the appropriate standard by which to reach its decision, and a wrongful refusal of a requested jury charge constitutes a ground for a new trial. See, C.I.T. Financial Services, Inc. v. Bowler, 537 So.2d 4 (Ala.1988). An incorrect, misleading, erroneous, or prejudicial charge may form the basis for granting a new trial. See, Nunn v. Whitworth, 545 So.2d 766 (Ala.1989). However, the refusal of a requested, written instruction, although a correct statement of the law, is not cause for reversal on appeal if it appears that the same rule of law was substantially and fairly given to the jury in the trial court’s oral charge. See, Rule 51, Ala. R. Civ. P. When examining a charge asserted to be erroneous, this Court looks to the entirety of the charge to see if there is reversible error. See, Grayco Resources, Inc. v. Poole, 500 So.2d 1030 (Ala.1986).” ’
“Cackowski v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 767 So.2d 319, 327 (Ala.2000) (quoting Shoals Ford, Inc. v. Clardy, 588 So.2d 879, 883 (Ala.1991)). Additionally, ‘[a]ny error or defect which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties may be disregarded.’ Bishop v. State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co., 600 So.2d 262, 265 (Ala.Civ.App.1991) (citing Rule 61, Ala. R. Civ. P.). As a result, the jury instruction must be erroneous as well as prejudicial, and this Court cannot presume prejudice. Brabner v. Canton, 611 So.2d 1016, 1018 (Ala.1992); Preferred Risk Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ryan, 589 So.2d 165, 167 (Ala.1991). The appellant has the burden of demonstrating that an erroneous jury instruction was prejudicial. See Ryan, 589 So.2d at 167 (citing Dinmark v. Farrier, 510 So.2d 819 (Ala.1987)).”
12 So.3d at 43-44.
The trial court improperly instructed the jury as to the measure of damages to be considered under the breach-of-contract claim and also improperly instructed the jury that it could award damages for mental anguish. Because the jury was not given the proper instructions to use in awarding damages, on the only count properly before it, we must reverse the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict and remand the case for a new trial on the Bradleys’ breach-of-contract claim.
Conclusion
We conclude that the trial court erred in denying Stewart’s and Morgan’s motions for a judgment as a matter of law as to the negligent-construction, negligent-installation, and negligent-supervision claims. The trial court also erred in failing to grant the motions for a judgment as a matter of law as to the Bradleys’ right to recover mental-anguish damages. Because this case represents a “good count-bad county” situation and because the trial court erred to reversal in its instructions to the jury, we reverse the trial court’s judgment and remand this cause for a new trial only on the Bradleys’ breach-of-contract claim.
2070574 — REVERSED AND REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.
2070575 — REVERSED AND REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS.
THOMPSON, P.J., and PITTMAN, BRYAN, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.
. Stewart and Morgan did not dispute that the Bradleys’ house had been improperly constructed.
. We construe the evidence in the light most favorable to the Bradleys, as we must when reviewing the denial of a motion for a judgment as a matter of law. See Leonard v. Cunningham, 4 So.3d at 1183-84.
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The EDB Blog
February 10, 2017
The EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager is an enterprise management tool designed to tune, manage, and monitor a large number of Postgres deployments on servers on-premises or spread out across geographical boundaries. It is the cornerstone of the Management Suite of tools that is integrated into the EDB Postgres Platform from EnterpriseDB® (EDB) and it emerged to solve a great many challenges database administrators faced daily.
(The blog, How to Be the Master of Your Database Domain, explored EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager in greater detail.)
EDB customers use EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager for the following key features:
1. Management of multiple EDB Postgres Advanced Server deployments
2. Capacity planning
3. Performance monitoring
4. Alert Management
5. Auditing violation
6. Database Analysis
7. Postgres Expert
Recently one of EDB’s customers acquired a company that was hosting its data on Amazon PostgreSQL RDS. The customer wanted to leverage EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager to monitor the database deployments on PostgreSQL RDS.
At the time, this request was considered a real possibility. A significant amount of development expertise has gone into EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager to create a sophisticated, enterprise-class tool for managing vast deployments of Postgres. As for remote monitoring, EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager had the capacity to monitor remote databases using an agent on a designated server. EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager also provides capabilities for users, such as database administrators, to create their own custom probes, custom dashboards, and custom alerts. Combined, all of these capabilities mean EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager ultimately provides the kinds of control and flexibility DBAs needed for managing databases that are hosted in different environments.
EDB worked closely with the customer to develop a process for utilizing their subscription for the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, which is part of the EDB Postgres Platform, with PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS. The steps were formalized into a repeatable process so others could follow suit and enjoy the benefits of EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager in their cloud deployments.
The following are the steps for using EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager with Amazon PostgreSQL RDS:
Amazon PostgreSQL RDS comes with an rds_superuser, which is not the same as a super user in PostgreSQL. Rds_super role has a lot of limitations, and they effect the monitoring capabilities.
To use EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager with PostgreSQL RDS, follow these steps:
1. Use the following function to modify the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager probes so that it can leverage user defined views on some catalog tables:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION strip_pg_catalog_from_probe() RETURNS
boolean LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $function$ DECLARE rec RECORD; BEGIN
CREATE TABLE pem.probe_code_backup AS SELECT id, probe_code FROM
pem.probe WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36, 39, 47, 52, 53, 54); FOR rec IN SELECT
id, probe_code FROM pem.probe WHERE id IN (1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36, 39, 47, 52, 53, 54)
LOOP UPDATE pem.probe SET
robe_code=replace(rec.probe_code,'pg_catalog.','') where id=rec.id;
END LOOP; RETURN true; END; $function$;
2. After creating the above function, execute the above function in the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager server database as shown below:
psql -h localhost –c “SELECT strip_pg_catalog_from_probe()” pem
3. Connect to PostgreSQL RDS database as rds_super user and execute the following SQL in Postgres and the user’s defined database:
CREATE USER monitor PASSWORD 'password'; GRANT rds_superuser TO
monitor; CREATE SCHEMA rds_pem_views; SET search_path TO rds_pem_views;
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW pg_database AS SELECT oid,* FROM
pg_catalog.pg_database WHERE datname <> 'rdsadmin'; CREATE OR REPLACE
VIEW pg_tablespace AS SELECT oid, * FROM pg_tablespace WHERE spcname <>
'pg_global'; CREATE FUNCTION rds_pem_views.pg_ls_dir(text) RETURNS
TEXT LANGUAGE sql AS $function$ SELECT ''::TEXT; $function$; GRANT
ALL ON FUNCTION rds_pem_views.pg_ls_dir(text) TO monitor; GRANT ALL
ON SCHEMA rds_pem_views TO monitor; GRANT ALL
ON rds_pem_views.pg_database TO monitor; GRANT ALL
ON rds_pem_views.pg_tablespace TO monitor; ALTER USER monitor SET
search_path TO rds_pem_views,pg_catalog, "$user", public;
The above SQL will create a database user “monitor” with “rds_superuser” privileges.
As mentioned above, rds_superuser in RDS is not the same as a true superuser in PostgreSQL, therefore a schema with a view for pg_database and for pg_tablespace is created.
Views pg_database and pg_tablespace are created because the rds_superuser role has the following restrictions:
1. Rds_superuser or normal user in PostgreSQL RDS cannot access rdsadmin database;
2. Rds_superuser or normal user in PostgreSQL RDS cannot calculate the size of pg_global tablespace;
3. Rds_superuser cannot use pg_ls_dir to list the WAL files in pg_xlog directory.
4. After executing SQLs, mentioned in step three, we can now use the database user monitor for EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager monitoring.
5. For remote monitoring of PostgreSQL RDS, use the following link to add the following server:
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.14.html#
When you are following the documentation, please remember to click on “remote monitoring” and choose the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager agent (PEM Agent) for remote monitoring as shown below:
In the above, Bound Agent is pemagent running on PEM Server. Also note that the database is monitor.
After performing the above steps, the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager server can monitor PostgreSQL RDS, and it can collect all database level statistics. Also, DBAs and other users can configure all database level alerts like autovacuum, etc. EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager provides 63 templates for database level alerts. It also provides flexibility for DBAs and other users to create their own alerts based on custom probes.
Now, some users might have questions or concerns about about system level information from Amazon PostgreSQL RDS, and whether EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager can monitor that data. The answer is yes.
As an example, the following are the steps for configuring EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager to monitor the CPU utilization of PostgreSQL RDS:
1. Install the Amazon Cloudwatch tools on the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager Server using following command:
wget http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/CloudWatch-2010-08-01.zip
unzip CloudWatch-2010-08-01.zip
For more information on setting the Amazon CloudWatch command line, please use the following link:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/cli/SetupCLI.html
2. Create an IAM user on the AWS panel, and attach the managed policy “CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess”.
For more information, please refer to the following link:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/iam-identity-based-access-control-cw.html
3. Create an AWS Credential File using the following sample:
AWSAccessKeyId= AWSSecretKey=
For more information on AWS Credential file, please use the following link:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html
4. Change the permission of the above Credential file using the following command:
chmod 600 credential_file
5. Create a following script to get the CPUUtiliztion information from Amazon CloudWatch:
#!/bin/bash export
AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=/usr/local/aws/credential/credential-file-path
export AWS_CLOUDWATCH_HOME=/root/CloudWatch-1.0.20.0 export
PATH=$PATH:$AWS_CLOUDWATCH_HOME/bin export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
export AWS_CLOUDWATCH_URL=http://monitoring.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
echo -e "avg_cpu\tminimum_cpu\tmax_cpu" mon-get-stats CPUUtilization --
namespace="AWS/RDS" --dimensions="DBInstanceIdentifier=postgres" --
statistics Average,Minimum,Maximum|tail -n 1|awk '{print $3"\t"$4"\t"$5}'
6. After creating the above script, make the script executable as given below:
chmod +x rds_cpu.sh
Now you are ready to create a custom probe to use this script for monitoring with EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager.
To create a custom probe, please visit the following link:
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.29.html#pID0E0TBB0HA
Below is a snapshot of a custom probe which I have used:
By using above probes, user can create their custom alerts in EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager for monitoring CPU utilization on Amazon PostgreSQL RDS. Also they can use data for creating a custom dashboard for RDS.
The following is a snapshot of RDS CPU utilization from EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager.
If you want to know more about Custom Alerts and Custom Dashboards, please use the following links:
Creating Custom Alerts templates
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.30.html#pID0E0E40HA
Creating Custom Alerts
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.30.html#pID0E0Z60HA
Creating Custom Charts
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.28.html#
Creating Custom Ops Dashboard
https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/6.0.2/pemgetstarted/getting_started_guide.1.27.html#pID0E0HFB0HA
As you can see, the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager is very flexible and customizable to meet specific needs.
Vibhor Kumar is Director, Solution Architecture at EnterpriseDB.
This post originally appeared on Vibhor's personal blog.
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A federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit against the transgender military ban and lift the injunction blocking the ban from taking effect. In an opinion issued Monday, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote that the transgender troop policy outlined by Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE in March was not different from President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE’s plan to ban transgender people from the military. “Instead, at a fundamental level, the Mattis Implementation Plan is just that — a plan that implements the president’s directive that transgender people be excluded from the military,” wrote Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of former President Clinton. “Nothing in this Memorandum Opinion represents a final adjudication of whether defendants’ actions were constitutional. The court merely holds that whatever legal relevance the Mattis Implementation Plan might have, it has not fundamentally changed the circumstances of this lawsuit such that plaintiffs’ claims should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, or that the need for the court’s preliminary injunction has dissipated.” The opinion came in a lawsuit filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) on behalf of five unnamed service members and two recruits. “The Trump administration’s arguments to dismiss our lawsuit and move forward with the trans military ban are full of sweeping generalizations and false stereotypes about transgender people,” Jennifer Levi, GLAD's transgender rights project director, said in a statement “It’s clear Judge Kollar-Kotelly isn’t buying it—and neither should anyone else.” The suit is one of four that have been filed since Trump first announced on Twitter his intention to ban transgender people from serving in the military in July 2017. No new policy on the matter can go into effect, as courts in each case have issued preliminary injunctions that require the Pentagon to continue allowing open service while the lawsuits work their way through the court system. In March, Trump signed a memo sent to the White House by Mattis, which banned most transgender people from serving in the military “except under certain limited circumstances." After that, the Trump administration sought to have lawsuits against the policy dismissed and the preliminary injunctions lifted, arguing the cases are no longer relevant since Mattis’s policy is not a blanket ban. In her opinion Monday, Kollar-Kotelly wrote that while the Mattis plan is written with more nuance than Trump’s original tweet, it still bans transgender people from serving. “Under the Mattis Implementation Plan, those transgender persons who are not summarily banned are only allowed in the military if they serve in their biological sex. But by definition — at least the definition relevant to Plaintiffs’ claims in this lawsuit — transgender persons do not identify or live in accord with their biological sex,” she wrote. “Accordingly, the Mattis Implementation Plan effectively translates into a ban on transgender persons in the military. Tolerating a person with a certain characteristic only on the condition that they renounce that characteristic is the same as not tolerating them at all.” Kollar-Kotelly also highlighted the importance of allowing qualified individuals to serve. “It should not be forgotten that the United States military remains engaged in numerous armed conflicts throughout the world, and service members are still being injured and killed in those conflicts,” she wrote. “The public interest and equities lie with allowing young men and women who are qualified and willing to serve our nation to do so.” 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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As we enter a new month, we look forward to celebrating new things with our classes. I was so excited to do a group research activity with my class this week, not only to see how well they collaborated, but to see what they knew about as far as days we celebrate in February.
This is the list they came up with:
- Black History Month
- Valentine’s Day
- Lunar New Year
- Groundhog Day
- Family Day
Students worked with their classmates to come up with some facts about the celebrated dates. Then, they shared these facts with the rest of the class. During this activity, I saw new students stepping up as leaders and a lot of interesting conversations occurred.
Black History Month
Out of my 24 students, ten can remember celebrating this each year. They had mentioned hearing about it on the announcements or at the beginning of the month from their teacher but not much more. Last year was an interrupted year so perhaps they cannot remember much. Without researching, one student could recall the importance of learning about Black History and how she was looking forward to learning more. Many students wondered why Black History month is just one month? The discussions that came out of this were great as one grade seven offered that we should celebrate Black History as part of our history curriculum. I let her know that I agreed with this and the curriculum is starting to become much more inclusive. Ensuring these important parts of history are captured during each unit rather than once a year is something we all need to try to do. My class voted that they would all like to learn and celebrate during Black History Month this year since they hadn’t been able to remember much from last year.
Lunar New Year
One student in my room mentioned that they celebrate Lunar New Year and that they would be having a nice dinner that evening. They also wore a nice dress shirt to class and will be eating as a family that evening. Other students were unsure about this celebration and I made sure to fill them. When we are back from our Snow Day, I hope to show them an article on how families celebrated this year. No students had ever heard about this or could remember celebrating as a class in the past. One student offered that they had made a lantern in grade one.
Many students knew about this day without hearing the research and knew that it occurred each year. They did not want to celebrate or learn about this day as a class this year as they did not find it that important.
The research group found out when Family Day started and that we all have the day off for this holiday. Although we have the day off to celebrate, only four students put up their hand when asked if they would like to do something fun with their family that day. A grade 7/8 audience is hard to ask that question to because finding joy in spending time with family may be challenging to admit to their peers. We learned about how this day was created so that people can spend time to honour the importance of family and to cherish them by spending time with them. Lots of questions were asked about why we needed to have the day off. Great conversations around this as well!
This was the first celebration that was mentioned when groups selected their celebration. They knew the date of this holiday and many facts about it, not even thinking they needed to do any research. When I asked students how many had celebrated in the past, all hands went up. Students had mentioned doing crafts, going to dances, sending Valentine’s, etc. When I rephrased the question to who would like to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, only 9 of the 24 hands went up. Whether it be their age of their disinterest in this holiday, students who had celebrated in previous years would not like to anymore. One student made a comment that inspired me to write this blog post. Her comment was, “I have been forced to celebrate Valentine’s Day all my life!” This comment really shocked me as I know that in the past, I had brought in cakes, cupcakes, treats, organized dances, organized candy grams, played music, dressed up, etc. all to celebrate a holiday that may not have meant anything to my students. They may not want to celebrate a day that appears on the calendar each year. That is why when administrators mention to be careful how much emphasis you place on certain holidays, it is meant for the students who may not want to celebrate that holiday. This year, I will allow my nine students to find a way to enjoy this holiday with their peers. The other students will not have to give up any of their time on February 14th to participate in something they do not want to participate in.
Lots of food for thought with this discussion, try it with your class if you think they can respond appropriately! | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Introducing TensorFlow Similarity
TensorFlow Similarity is a newly-released library from Google that facilitates the training, indexing and querying of similarity models. Check out more here.
Often we need to be able to find things that are like other things. Similarity searching is a useful technique for doing so. In data science, contrastive learning can be used to build similarity models which can then be used for similarity searching.
Similarity models are trained to output embeddings in which items are embedded in a metric space, resulting in a situation where similar items are close to one another and further from dissimilar items. This is directly related — both intuitively and mathematically — to word embeddings, with which you are already familiar; Paris and London are close to one another, as are mustard and ketchup, but these 2 groups are comparatively further apart from one another.
In this same way, we could use a similarity model for comparing, say, vehicles. For example, BMW and Mercedes sedans would be embedded close to one another, while Yamaha and Kawasaki motorcycles would find themselves closely embedded. The motorcycles would be relatively further from the sedans, which would, in turn, be distanced from other dissimilar vehicles such as boats, motor homes, vans, bicycles, etc.
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Similarity model overview (source)
Deep learning is used to train the neural networks which often find themselves being used for these similarity models. To facilitate the training of such models, Google has very recently released TensorFlow Similarity.
Tensorflow Similarity offers state-of-the-art algorithms for metric learning and all the necessary components to research, train, evaluate, and serve similarity-based models.
After a model is trained, an embeddings index is built in order to facilitate searching. For searching, TF Similarity uses Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor search (ANN) to retrieve the closest matches. As the distance between embedded items is a function of a distance metric, lookups are both fast and accurate using ANN.
Similarity models are also flexible and extensible, allowing for an unlimited number of classes of items to be added to the model without retraining; simply compute representative new item embeddings and add them to the existing index.
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TensorFlow Similarity overview (source)
TensorFlow Similarity facilitates the training of similarity models, as well as the subsequent querying, intuitive, especially with the introduction of the new Keras model SimilarityModel(), which supports embedding indexing and querying. With TF Similarity, end to end model training and querying is straightforward.
To demonstrate, here is example code from the TF similarity GitHub Repo that concisely trains, indexes, and queries the MNIST dataset.
from tensorflow.keras import layers
# Embedding output layer with L2 norm
from tensorflow_similarity.layers import MetricEmbedding
# Specialized metric loss
from tensorflow_similarity.losses import MultiSimilarityLoss
# Sub classed keras Model with support for indexing
from tensorflow_similarity.models import SimilarityModel
# Data sampler that pulls datasets directly from tf dataset catalog
from tensorflow_similarity.samplers import TFDatasetMultiShotMemorySampler
# Nearest neighbor visualizer
from tensorflow_similarity.visualization import viz_neigbors_imgs
# Data sampler that generates balanced batches from MNIST dataset
sampler = TFDatasetMultiShotMemorySampler(dataset_name='mnist', classes_per_batch=10)
# Build a Similarity model using standard Keras layers
inputs = layers.Input(shape=(28, 28, 1))
x = layers.Rescaling(1/255)(inputs)
x = layers.Conv2D(64, 3, activation='relu')(x)
x = layers.Flatten()(x)
x = layers.Dense(64, activation='relu')(x)
outputs = MetricEmbedding(64)(x)
# Build a specialized Similarity model
model = SimilarityModel(inputs, outputs)
# Train Similarity model using contrastive loss
model.compile('adam', loss=MultiSimilarityLoss())
model.fit(sampler, epochs=5)
# Index 100 embedded MNIST examples to make them searchable
sx, sy = sampler.get_slice(0,100)
model.index(x=sx, y=sy, data=sx)
# Find the top 5 most similar indexed MNIST examples for a given example
qx, qy = sampler.get_slice(3713, 1)
nns = model.single_lookup(qx[0])
# Visualize the query example and its top 5 neighbors
viz_neigbors_imgs(qx[0], qy[0], nns)
If you find yourself looking for things that are like other things, TensorFlow Similarity may be able to help. You can find more at their GitHub repo, or check out the Hello World example to get right to it.
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Judge's Ruling Is Victory For Law Firm's Reputation
Federal District Court Judge Charles L Brieant rejects charges that Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, nation's most prominent law firm representing plaintiffs in securities class-action cases, made misrepresentations to lay claim to control of litigation against Oxford Health Plans Inc; case has highlighted friction among plaintiff firms over role of lead counsel in securities cases; ruling is important victory for Milberg Weiss, which has been subject of unflattering reports in legal and business press about its tactics; Oxford's lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell argued that two individual plaintiffs selected by Milberg Weiss were unfit to represent class of shareholders claiming to have been defrauded by company; photo of William Lerach, who pioneered Milberg Weiss's securities class-action practice (M) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
This week’s parasha is entitled, Chukat, which means “statute” and covers Numbers, chapters 19:1 – 22:1.
Chapter 19 explains the sacrifice of the red heifer and the purpose for that. The red heifer was designated as a type of sin offering, but it was for a very special type of sin. Let’s look at the instructions for this sacrifice in more detail. First off, the animal was to be a heifer. This would mean that it was a cow under three years old, which had never given birth. In addition, the color was to be red. This would immediately make the color of the animal unusual and set it apart from more common animals. In fact, this is the only sacrifice in the Old Testament that specifies the color of the animal. The animal was to be without defect or blemish, no spots or other imperfections. Indeed, later Jewish tradition specified that if even two hairs of another color, black, brown or white were found, the animal was to be disqualified. It was also never to have been put under a yoke, meaning it could not have done any work. All these requirements combine to mark the animal as special, and also in a way as pure, since the animal would not have been defiled by having been impregnated or by having done labor usually done by beasts of burden. The color, red, would also have denoted the image of blood.
Continuing with the instructions regarding the heifer, we find that the animal was to be killed outside the camp. All other sacrifices designated as sin-offerings were made inside the camp, and later at the Temple, once it was built during the time of King Solomon.
Three individuals were involved with the sacrifice: The first red heifer sacrifice was offered by Eleazar, the priest, who was Aaron’s son. Once the heifer was slaughtered, Eleazar was to take some of the blood on his finger and sprinkle it towards the Tent of Meeting. Then the whole heifer was to be completely burned: hide, flesh, blood, everything. The priest who burned the heifer was to be ritualistically clean. Then another priest, who was also ritualistically clean, was to gather the ashes that resulted from the complete burning of this sacrifice. These ashes were then mixed with a “water of cleansing,” which was then used to cleanse people who had come in contact with a dead body. This was very important because we read later in Numbers 19 that if people remained in a defiled state without being purified by these ashes mixed with the “water of cleansing,” they would not be allowed to worship at the mishkan, the Lord’s Tabernacle. The Lord’s House of Worship could not be defiled by one who was impure in such a manner. If a person did not become cleansed, and their uncleanliness stayed upon them, it was a requirement that the person be cut off from the community of Israel.
3 different people, each ritualistically clean, were involved with the red heifer sacrifice. However, once these priests participated in the sacrifice, for which they had to be ritualistically clean, they became unclean until evening. Those who were clean became unclean through offering this sacrifice, which would be used to purify others. They purposely had to defile themselves so that those who had been defiled could be made clean by the result of the red heifer sacrifice.
In chapter 20, we have 3 significant events, the deaths of Moses’s sister and brother as well as the incident of the water of Meribah. Miriam’s death is explained quite simply. The people of Israel came to the wilderness of Zin, in the modern- day Negev area of Israel, in the first month, Nisan, the month which celebrates the Passover holiday, Miriam dies and is buried.We find that at this time, no water is available for people to drink, and Moses is commanded to speak to the rock so that it will bring forth water. God commands that Moses speak to the rock, but instead Moses strikes the rock twice. Water does come forth, but since Moses, because of disobeying the Lord’s command forfeits his chance to enter the Promise Land. You might think this is harsh, but for those who have been given much responsibility from the Lord, much is required.
And finally, Aaron’s death. Moses is commanded to go up Mount Hor, with Aaron’s son, Eleazar. There, Moses takes off Aaron’s priestly garments and puts them on Eleazar, a passing of the priestly responsibility and then Aaron dies. We are not told if Aaron is buried on Mount Hor, just that he dies there, and then Moses and Eleazar go back down the mountain to the rest of the congregation of Israel.
In chapter 21, the people again grumble against Adonai and the Lord sends fiery serpents upon them and many die. Moses intercedes and Adonai commands the making of the bronze serpent so that if someone is bitten, but looks at the bronze serpent, they will live.
The parasha ends with 2 great victories which the Israelis achieve over the kings of Sihon and Og.
A few closing comments:
What a picture the red heifer sacrifice gives us of the atoning power of Yeshua for those who believe in Him. He cleanses us from our sin and allows us to draw near to God because He paid the ultimate price by dying on the cross. He who was sinless and blameless gave up His life as a perfect sin offering to atone for all sins, past, present and future. He who was pure, allowed Himself to experience the defilement of the sins of the entire human race so that He could once and for all be the perfect atonement for all people.
And, in chapter 20, Moses loses not only his earthly sister and brother, but also forfeits being able to enter the Promised Land. These events all happen in a relatively short time. I wonder if this was one of us, would we still be as Moses and accept and continue to submit to the Lord, in effect, continue to say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, or would we lose our faith? Something to think about.
And finally, as in so many chapters, disobedience versus obedience in chapter 21. Grumbling against the Lord and the plague of fiery serpents, obeying and following the Lord and victory over the kings of Sihon and Og. There was only one person who completely followed the Lord’s commands through His whole life and never faltered, like many of us would. That was Messiah Yeshua, our Lord and Savior. May His example always be in our minds and in our hearts as we live our lives. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Java Multithreading
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Multithreading is an essential technique for creating more efficient and responsive programs. In Java, it's relatively simple to implement and can make a world of difference in your applications. Let's dive into the exciting world of Java multithreading!
What is Multithreading?
Multithreading is a form of parallelism in which several independent threads of execution can be run concurrently. This enables your program to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, making it faster and more responsive. In Java, multithreading is supported by the Thread class and the Runnable interface.
Creating Threads in Java
There are two primary ways to create a new thread in Java: extending the Thread class or implementing the Runnable interface. Let's take a look at both approaches.
Extending the Thread Class
To create a new thread by extending the Thread class, you simply need to create a new class that extends Thread and override the run() method. The run() method contains the logic that will be executed in the new thread. Here's an example:
class MyThread extends Thread { public void run() { // Your thread logic here System.out.println("Hello from MyThread!"); } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { MyThread myThread = new MyThread(); myThread.start(); // Start the new thread } }
Implementing the Runnable Interface
Alternatively, you can create a new thread by implementing the Runnable interface, which requires you to implement the run() method. Then, you'll need to pass an instance of your Runnable class to a new Thread object. Here's an example:
class MyRunnable implements Runnable { public void run() { // Your thread logic here System.out.println("Hello from MyRunnable!"); } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { MyRunnable myRunnable = new MyRunnable(); Thread thread = new Thread(myRunnable); thread.start(); // Start the new thread } }
Both approaches are valid, but implementing the Runnable interface is generally preferred, as it allows your class to extend another class if needed since Java does not support multiple inheritance.
Synchronization and Thread Safety
When multiple threads access shared resources, there's a risk of data inconsistency or race conditions. To ensure data integrity, it's essential to use synchronization techniques. In Java, you can use the synchronized keyword to achieve this:
class Counter { private int count = 0; public synchronized void increment() { count++; } public synchronized int getCount() { return count; } } class MyRunnable implements Runnable { private Counter counter; public MyRunnable(Counter counter) { this.counter = counter; } public void run() { counter.increment(); } } public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { Counter counter = new Counter(); Thread[] threads = new Thread[10]; // Start multiple threads for (int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) { threads[i] = new Thread(new MyRunnable(counter)); threads[i].start(); } // Wait for all threads to finish for (Thread thread : threads) { thread.join(); } System.out.println("Final count: " + counter.getCount()); } }
In this example, the synchronized keyword ensures that only one thread can access the increment() and getCount() methods at a time, preventing race conditions and ensuring data consistency.
FAQ
What is multithreading?
Multithreading is a form of parallelism in which several independent threads of execution can be run concurrently. This enables your program to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, making it faster and more responsive.
How do you create threads in Java?
There are two primary ways to create a new thread in Java: extending the Thread class or implementing the Runnable interface. Both approaches require you to define a run() method containing the logic that will be executed in the new thread.
What is synchronization and why is it important in multithreading?
Synchronization is a technique used to prevent data inconsistency and race conditions when multiple threads access shared resources. It ensures that only one thread can access the synchronized resource or method at a time, maintaining data integrity and consistency.
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* Bell 206T TwinRanger, twin-engined civilian helicopter, variant of the Bell 206 JetRanger
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The NFL is going to learn more about declining TV ratings with the presidential election over
Through nine weeks of NFL games, TV ratings have seen a dramatic decrease from 2015. After another down week in Week 9, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reported that 26 of 27 2016 primetime games have seen a decrease from 2015. There's been a great deal of hand-wringing over the reason for the ratings decline. Perhaps the most common theory has been the all-consuming presidential election distracting fans from the game. This was even asserted by the league itself, which sent a memo to team owners saying that ratings have dropped because of "unprecedented interest" in the election. They added that ratings typically drop in election years. However, with the presidential election now over, the NFL is going to truly find out the state of the league. Ratings might not rebound immediately; the aftermath of Donald Trump's win could linger for several more weeks. However, if there was a week for the NFL to make a comeback with the conclusion of the election, it would be Week 10. Though it kicks off with a lopsided Thursday night game between the 4-4 Ravens and winless Browns, the Sunday slate has several intriguing matchups, highlighted by a Super Bowl 49 rematch between the Seahawks and Patriots. That game is preceded by a Cowboys-Steelers afternoon showdown and is followed by the New York Giants playing in primetime on Monday night. Some have surmised that the NFL's TV ratings have fallen because of a drop in quality of play. While there aren't stats to back this up, a less-than-thrilling schedule, often featuring middling teams in primetime has not, optically, done the NFL many favors. Week 10 finally presents competitive, big-market, star-studded teams playing in the first post-election weekend. If ratings don't rebound, at least slightly, it could be indicative of deeper problems with the NFL. Speaking from The New York Times' DealBook conference on Thursday, commissioner Roger Goodell suggested a few things that could be hurting the league. According to Ken Belson of the Times, Goodell acknowledged the possible need for fewer commercials and potential over-saturation of games ( something Mark Cuban once predicted). As the Washington Post's Matt Bonesteel detailed, the length of games, particularly with the high number of commercials, could also be hurting viewing audiences. The NFL could consider how better to rearrange the timing of ads to keep viewers engaged. However, these theories come second to the distraction of the election, which the NFL specifically pointed to. The election is now over, and if ratings don't begin to creep up in a promising week, the NFL may need to take a deeper look into why Americans are turning off football games. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Marbled Orb Weaver
Marbled Orb Weavers (Araneus marmoreus) are in the family Araneidae and there are 1500 species in this genus. They are a brightly colored orb weaver found hanging in large orb shaped webs from whence they get their common name of orb weaver. These colorful spiders are generally bright yellow with grayish-black markings on their abdomen. The legs are typically reddish with black and gray banding.
Although they can range in color from pale yellow, pale orange, bright orange, beige or even white with black markings. The pattern will usually vary by species as well.
They can be found from Alaska to Newfoundland, then south to Oregon and Utah, then further south to Southern Texas and eastward to South Carolina. They are common in Missouri and this particular specimen was found in St. Joseph and brought into my office for identification. It was one of the prettiest spiders I've ever seen. I captured several images of it before turning her loose, hopefully to find a mate and produce offspring.
They're almost always found in moist deciduous woodland habitats or at the edges of woodlands in August, September and October. These spiders construct a retreat made of silked together leaves in an upper corner of the web. During the day she will hide in this retreat holding onto a signal line that runs to center of the web.
This species feeds on large prey insects such as grasshoppers, cicadas and beetles. Mating takes place in early to late fall. The female will create egg sacs in October and die shortly thereafter. These egg sacs may contain hundreds of eggs and will overwinter. The spiderlings will be born sometime the following spring.
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1. The bright yellow colour is so beautiful! It is very rare to see a spider with such beautiful colours in my region.
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2. This spider is truly stunning isn't it? I couldn't wait to get it home to photograph it. She is very photogenic. What region are you from?
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3. Found one in deep woods a week ago, but no camera. We were climbing some bluffs and my daughters friend discovered it.Lots of caves and good habitat for it.
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4. That spider is extra beautiful......but she's a cicada eater???? That must be one strong web she builds. Hope I never get caught in one!
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5. I found one on my porch stairs railing, I live in Iowa, and had never seen a spider so pretty, at first I thought it was a butterfly in a cacoon or something, we took a whole bunch of pictures and thats what led me to look up what the heck kind it was. Thanks for the info!
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6. Emyrsyn I am so glad you stopped by for a visit and found something useful while you were here. These orb weavers are extra special, just because they are exceptionally beautiful. I have had several brought into my office this fall to be identified, so it seems they are showing up in all sorts of places.
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7. I have held a female that was very gigantic even for its species, it was the marbled orb Weaver and when I held it, it started to stroke the top of my index finger with its fangs and built a web on my hand, at first I thought it was trying to lick the chocolate I had on my hand from eating chocolate chip cookies, but after it made its web, it started to stroke its fangs on me again and was doing it progressively harder, I had to fling it off my hand so it wouldn't bite me, please explain why this happened, I looked up their behavior and everywhere I went is saying they are harmless, I have photos I can get of it stroking my hand as proof it really happened
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8. I noticed one of these beauties on my front porch yesterday evening. She was pretty much still and moved a little when I blew on her. I have a feeling she has deposited an egg sack somewhere on the siding of my home. She was still there this morning, which makes me think that she is probably dying. I am generally not drawn to spiders, since I have a fear of most all of them, but this spider is quite the beauty! I'm glad I found your site when I went on my search to identify this creature!
Stephanie Higgins, Buena Vista, VA
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9. She was living on my entertainment center. A shock and an amazing experience, so beautiful, just hanging out above my TV.
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10. I am from North Metro Atlanta and found one of these beauties crawling out from under the leaves I was cleaning up. Truly amazing.
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Asia stocks to focus on US markets losses, dollar strength, oil oversupply concerns, Asia earnings
Asian stocks were mixed Thursday, as traders stayed on the sidelines ahead of a speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen that analysts said could provide clues about the central bank's next move. In Australia, the ASX 200 closed down 19.77 points, or 0.36 percent, at 5,541.90. Japan's fell 41.35 points, or 0.25 percent, to 16,555.95, while across the Korean Strait, the Kospi closed near flat at 2,042.92. In Hong Kong, the climbed 0.13 percent in late afternoon trade. Chinese mainland markets reversed some of their early losses. The composite fell 17.65 points, or 0.57 percent, to 3,068.22, dragged lower by a 2.15 percent decline in the property sector. The Shenzhen composite dropped 11.26 points, or 0.55 percent, to 2,019.01. As foreign exchange, stock and bond markets all lacked direction, analysts said Yellen's speech on Friday at an annual economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was the only big talking point among traders. "If there were to be shock from Yellen (it hasn't happened yet), it would be that she plays up risk of a rate rise at the 20/21 September Federal Open Market Committee meeting - an event currently ascribed only a 27 percent probability by the U.S. rates markets," Ray Attrill, global co-head of foreign exchange strategy at the National Australia Bank, said in a morning note. "[The] most we might reasonably expect in this respect is that Yellen will now say that every meeting is now 'live'." However, Attrill added that the bigger talking point at Jackson Hole should be the effectiveness of already stretched monetary policy in tackling a new downturn. Stateside, major indexes slipped, with the S&P 500 falling 11.46 points, or 0.52 percent, to 2,175.44. The dropped 65.82 points, or 0.35 percent, to 18,481.48, while the composite was lower by 42.38 points, or 0.81 percent, to 5,217.69. Analysts attributed Thursday's sell-off in Chinese markets to concerns over the amount of spare cash in the banking system as well as fears of an overheating of the property market. Reuters reported on Thursday, citing banking sources, that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has urged other banks to spread out the tenors of their loans in a bid to reduce the risks of short-term lending. Analysts at Singapore's OCBC Bank said in a Thursday note that the PBOC's move to re-launch the 14-day reverse repo agreements, "reduced the probability of interest rate and reserve requirement ratio cut in the near term." They added the shift of liquidity supply to longer tenor might reflect the central bank's concerns over too much short term debt in the bond market. "The funding cost from 14-day reverse repo is higher than from 7-day and overnight reverse repo, which may increase costs for leverage," the OCBC analysts added. Hao Hong, chief strategist and co-head research at BOCOM International, told CNBC by phone that the Chinese central bank might even attempt to further lengthen the borrowing duration and that a 28-day reverse repo agreement might be in the cards for the future. Elsewhere, property stocks in China sold off notably, with Shenzhen-listed shares of Vanke closing down 1.88 percent, Gemdale off by 4.06 percent, Shanghai Shimao down 0.9 percent and Poly Real Estate off 2.07 percent. Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter, that authorities in Shanghai were planning to hold meetings to discuss ways to cool higher property prices. Hong told CNBC, "Shanghai is one of the cities where property prices have gone up substantially," and that it would not be surprising to see authorities introduce new policies to tame the housing market in the coming months. In the currency market, the dollar edged higher against a basket of currencies, last trading at 94.744 as of 3:20 p.m. HK/SIN, compared to levels near 94.646 on Wednesday afternoon Asia time. "With 40 hours to go before Janet Yellen's testimony at Jackson Hole, the dollar has finally caught a bid," Kathy Lien, managing director for foreign exchange strategy for BK Asset Management, wrote in a late-Wednesday note. "The greenback traded higher against the euro, Japanese yen, Swiss Franc, Canadian and Australian dollars." But, Lien added, for the most part, the dollar's performance was uneven. The Japanese yen traded at 100.42 against the greenback as of 3:21 p.m. HK/SIN on Thursday afternoon, marginally weaker than Wednesday afternoon levels near 100.35. Major Japanese exporters ended the session mixed. Shares of Toyota closed near flat, Nissan was up 1.06 percent and Sony shares reversed early losses to close flat. In company news, Australian metals and mining company South32 reported earnings from continuing operations fell 76 percent on-year, due to weaker metal prices, in the year that ended June 30, 2016. Underlying earnings came in at $138 million for the reporting period, compared with $575 million in the same time frame a year earlier. Reuters, however, said the underlying earnings managed to beat analysts' expectations of around $75 million for the company's first full year since it was spun out of BHP Billiton. Revenue was down 25 percent at $5.81 billion for fiscal 2016, compared with $7.74 billion booked in fiscal 2015. The company said it would pay a final dividend of 1 cent per share. South32 shares closed down 1.95 percent. Australian miners took a hit in the afternoon session, after iron ore futures in China sold off sharply on Thursday. The actively-traded January iron ore futures on the Dalian Commodity Exchange dropped 4.39 percent to 435.5 yuan per tonne in the afternoon local time. Rebar futures on the Shanghai Futures exchange also sold off, with the January futures contract selling off 2.12 percent to 2,541 yuan. Shares of Rio Tinto tumbled 1.45 percent, Fortescue was down 3.98 percent and BHP Billiton dropped 1.82 percent. Fortescue shares were under additional pressure after Credit Suisse downgraded the company to an Underperform rating earlier in the week, citing the impact of the expected slowdown in Chinese steel production in October-November. Volatility in the energy market remained after oil prices tumbled on Wednesday on the back of another unexpected buildup of crude inventory, renewing oversupply concerns. During Asian hours on Thursday afternoon, U.S. crude futures edged up 0.21 percent to $46.87 a barrel, after falling 2.8 percent overnight, while global benchmark Brent added 0.12 percent to $49.11, after dropping 1.8 percent on Wednesday. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said crude inventories rose 2.5 million barrels in the previous week, surpassing analyst expectations for a drawdown of 500,000 barrels, Reuters reported. — Follow CNBC International on and Facebook. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Abel Barrera Hernández
Abel Barrera Hernández is a Mexican anthropologist and human rights activist. In 1994, he founded the Center for Human Rights of the Mountain of Tlachinollan in Guerrero, for which he was awarded by Amnesty International and given the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
Life and career
Barrera was born in Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero. He later spent twelve years studying theology and anthropology.
In 1994, he returned to his home city of Tlapa de Comonfort to found the Center for Human Rights of the Mountain of Tlachinollan. At the time, indigenous and grassroots groups were on the rise in the area, and Tlachinollan worked to improve their access to education, health care, and legal representation.
Beginning in 2004, the center became active in reporting abuses by the Mexican army following the increasing militarization of the country's war on narco-traffickers. The staff reported on rapes, forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, seizure of lands, and the deliberate targeting of human rights activists; their reporting opened them to threat in turn. In May 2009, the danger to Tlachinollan's staff grew severe enough that the Inter-American Court (IAC) ordered government protection for every member of the organization. In the same year, Tlachinollan brought a case before the IAC of two indigenous women, Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú, who had been tortured and raped by Mexican military personnel; when the IAC published its findings the following year, it found the military guilty of the abuses.
By 2010, the staff included more than twenty people, handling 1,500 human rights complaints a year. Barrera's lawyer, Vidulfo Rosales, was threatened for his defense of indigenous women in May 2012, causing Tlachinollan to file a complaint on his behalf. In the same month, Tlachinollan members testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress on military abuses in Guerrero.
Recognition
In 2007, Tlachinollan won the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which came with a cash prize of US$500,000. Amnesty International's German branch recognized Barrera's work in March 2011 with its Sixth Annual Human Rights Award, given for his struggles "at great personal risk for the rights of the indigenous population in the state of Guerrero". In 2010, Barrera was given the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for "his courageous defense of the rights of rural and indigenous peoples living in Guerrero State in southern Mexico." | WIKI |
What is FAT32 SD card?
FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32) is a file system developed by Microsoft in 1996 for use with Windows 95 OSR2 and later Windows operating systems 1. It was designed as an evolution of the FAT16 file system to overcome some of its limitations, including a maximum partition size of 2 GB.
The FAT file system in general was developed in 1977 by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald for use with 8-inch floppy disks on the earliest Microsoft operating systems 2. It was designed to keep track of where files are stored on a disk or disk volume using allocation tables. FAT32 expanded the maximum theoretical partition size to 2 terabytes while also improving disk space efficiency and supporting larger files.
At its core, FAT32 keeps track of the clusters or allocation units where a file’s data is stored. It uses allocation tables to document which clusters are assigned to each file and folder. This allows FAT32 to locate files quickly and use disk space efficiently. The “32” refers to the number of bits used to identify each allocation unit, allowing for a much larger volume and file size compared to FAT16.
FAT32 Specifications
The FAT32 file system has specific technical limitations and requirements according to the original specifications laid out when it was created [1]:
FAT32 can support drive sizes up to 2 terabytes and maximum file sizes up to 4GB. The filesystem uses 32-bit cluster numbers, allowing for a maximum of 2^28 clusters. Cluster sizes can range from 0.5kb to 32kb. The default cluster size is 4kb for smaller drives and increases as drive size increases.
Each FAT32 volume consists of four regions – the reserved sectors, FATs, root directory, and data clusters. There are backup copies of the FAT table stored after the first FAT region. The root directory uses cluster chains instead of a fixed size as in previous FAT versions.
To maintain compatibility with legacy systems, FAT32 uses the old 8.3 file naming convention but also supports long file names up to 255 characters. Subdirectories can store up to 65,535 files and folders.
Advantages of FAT32
One of the biggest advantages of FAT32 is its backward compatibility and wide support across devices and operating systems (ARCHIVED: What is FAT32?). FAT32 is supported by all versions of Windows, macOS, Linux, game consoles, cameras, and many other devices. This makes FAT32 very useful for external storage devices like USB drives and SD cards that may be used across different systems.
Another advantage of FAT32 is its simple and reliable design (FAT32: Advantages and Disadvantages). The file allocation table structure allows quick lookups to find files. The cluster storage method and 32-bit addressing also make FAT32 resilient to errors. Overall, the simplicity of FAT32 allows it to work well on storage devices even if they are unplugged unexpectedly.
Compared to more modern file systems like NTFS and exFAT, FAT32 excels in cross-platform compatibility and ease of use. For removable storage intended for public use and exchange of data between systems, the plug-and-play nature of FAT32 makes it a sensible choice.
Disadvantages of FAT32
FAT32 has several notable disadvantages, especially compared to more modern file systems like NTFS and exFAT. The main disadvantages of FAT32 are:
File size limit: FAT32 has a maximum file size limit of 4GB. This makes it unsuitable for larger files like high definition videos. Any file larger than 4GB will need to be split into smaller chunks to work with FAT32 according to Profolus.
Disk size limit: FAT32 also has a disk size limit. While the maximum volume size is technically 2TB, most FAT32 formatted disks can only go up to 32GB before performance starts to degrade according to Hetman Recovery. This makes it impractical for larger high capacity storage drives.
Slower performance: Compared to NTFS and exFAT, FAT32 generally has slower read/write speeds and less efficient storage allocation. This is especially noticeable on larger drives. The simple disk architecture of FAT32 causes it to lag behind more advanced modern file systems.
Using FAT32 on SD Cards
FAT32 is commonly used as the file system for SD cards, especially cards 32GB and under in capacity. The simplicity and wide compatibility of FAT32 makes it ideal for portable storage devices like SD cards that need to work across different operating systems and devices. FAT32 allows an SD card to be read and written to by Windows, Mac, Linux, digital cameras, video game consoles, and more without any extra steps.
One of the advantages of using FAT32 for SD cards is that it allows you to make use of the full storage capacity of cards 32GB and under. The maximum file size of 4GB in FAT32 is rarely a limitation for common SD card uses like photos, videos, documents, and music files. With exFAT, some of the SD card’s storage space is wasted due to the minimum allocation unit size.
While FAT32 does have a 4GB maximum file size, this can be worked around by splitting larger files into 4GB chunks when needed. FAT32 remains a smart choice for maximizing SD card storage and portability across devices.
Formatting an SD Card to FAT32
Formatting an SD card to FAT32 allows the SD card to be read by different devices that support the FAT32 file system. Here are the step-by-step instructions for formatting an SD card to FAT32:
1. Insert the SD card into your computer’s SD card reader.
2. Open File Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac and locate the SD card. It will typically be listed as a removable disk.
3. Right click on the SD card and choose “Format”. This will open the format dialog box.
4. Under “File System”, choose “FAT32”. Leave the other options as default.
5. Check the “Quick Format” box to format the card more quickly.
6. Click “Start” to begin the formatting process.
7. Wait for the formatting to complete. This may take a few minutes depending on the SD card size and computer speed.
8. After formatting is done, the SD card will be ready to use in FAT32 format.
Some pointers when formatting to FAT32:
– Back up any data currently on the SD card first before formatting.
– FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB. If you need to store larger files, consider a different format like exFAT.
– Quick format is fine for most uses, but you can uncheck it for a more thorough full format if needed.
Checking SD Card Format
To check if an SD card is formatted as FAT32, you can use Windows Explorer or the Disk Management utility.
In Windows Explorer, right click on the SD card drive and select ‘Properties’. In the General tab, it will show the ‘File system’ – if this shows ‘FAT32’ then the card is formatted as FAT32.
Alternatively, you can use Disk Management. Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Here all disks and volumes will be shown, including your SD card. Check the ‘File system’ column to see if your SD card is listed as ‘FAT32’.
You can also use the free SD Card Formatter tool from the SD Association. Run it, select your SD card, and click ‘Format’. It will show you the current format before changing it.
On Android phones, go to Settings > Storage to see details on your SD card, including the format. There are also free apps like SD Card Formatter that can check and display the format.
Checking the format is useful to confirm whether your SD card is already FAT32 or if you need to reformat it before use.
Converting SD Card from FAT32
There are a few options for converting an SD card from FAT32 to another format like exFAT without losing data:
On Windows 10/11:
• Open File Explorer and locate the SD card drive
• Right click on the drive and choose Format
• Under File System, select exFAT
• Check Quick Format and click Start
This will quickly convert the SD card to exFAT without losing data (source: https://recoverit.wondershare.com/partition-management/fat32-to-exfat-on-windows-mac-linux.html)
On Mac:
• Open Disk Utility
• Select the SD card and click Erase
• Choose exFAT as the format and click Erase
This will format the SD card from FAT32 to exFAT on Mac OS (source: https://toolbox.iskysoft.com/data-recovery-tips/convert-fat-32-to-exfat.html)
There are also third-party tools that can convert from FAT32 to exFAT without data loss like Partition Wizard (source: https://www.diskpart.com/articles/convert-fat32-to-exfat-0310.html). However, the built-in OS tools are usually the simplest option.
FAT32 Alternatives for SD Cards
While FAT32 has been a popular file system for SD cards for many years, it does have limitations especially when it comes to larger capacity cards. Two common alternatives to FAT32 for SD cards are exFAT and NTFS.
exFAT was introduced in 2006 and was designed to be a lightweight file system to address the limitations of FAT32, especially the 4GB maximum file size. According to the Transcend FAQ, exFAT supports larger storage devices and is capable of storing files over 4GB on SD cards larger than 32GB[1]. The key advantages of exFAT over FAT32 are no file size limit, so it can support very large video and audio files that FAT32 can’t, and it works with SD cards larger than 32GB.
NTFS is another alternative to FAT32 that was designed by Microsoft originally for hard drives. It supports very large storage capacities and file sizes. According to PCMag, NTFS is ideal for external hard drives that store large media files[2]. However, NTFS may not be the best choice for removable media like SD cards since it has more overhead than exFAT.
In summary, exFAT addresses most of the limitations of FAT32 while still being lightweight. For SD cards larger than 32GB, exFAT is typically a better choice than FAT32 if you need to store large media files over 4GB in size. However, FAT32 may still make sense for smaller capacity SD cards used with older devices.
[1] https://www.transcend-info.com/Support/FAQ-748
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/fat32-vs-exfat-vs-ntfs-which-format-is-best-for-your-storage-drive
Summary
FAT32 is one of the most common file systems used for SD cards and other external storage devices. Some key points about using FAT32 on SD cards include:
• FAT32 is compatible with all versions of Windows, macOS, and Linux
• FAT32 has a maximum file size limit of 4GB and maximum partition size of 2TB
• FAT32 offers good performance and compatibility but lacks some newer features of exFAT and NTFS
• FAT32 is the default SD card format used by digital cameras
• SD cards larger than 32GB may need to be reformatted to FAT32 for best compatibility
• FAT32 SD cards can be read and written to by many devices without special software
• FAT32 is not the most space efficient for very large SD cards due to its 4GB file size limit
In summary, FAT32 provides an excellent balance of compatibility and performance for SD cards under 32GB. It remains a tried and true file system for external storage on Windows and other platforms.
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How to Reset Abs Light on Freightliner
Resetting the ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) light on a Freightliner typically requires a diagnostic tool or software that can communicate with the vehicle’s onboard computer. The ABS light illuminates when there is a problem detected within the ABS system, and simply resetting the light without addressing the underlying issue may lead to unsafe driving conditions.
Here are the general steps to reset the ABS light on a Freightliner:
1. Diagnose the Issue: Before attempting to reset the ABS light, it’s crucial to identify and fix the problem causing the light to turn on. Common issues that trigger the ABS light include faulty wheel speed sensors, damaged ABS modules, low brake fluid, or other ABS-related problems. A diagnostic scan tool will help pinpoint the specific error codes and guide you in the troubleshooting process.
2. Fix the Issue: Once you’ve identified the problem, you must address and fix it according to the manufacturer’s guidelines or seek the assistance of a qualified mechanic or service center.
3. Clear the Error Codes: Once the issue is resolved, use a compatible diagnostic scan tool or software to clear the error codes stored in the ABS system. This process is sometimes referred to as “clearing the trouble codes” or “resetting the ABS module.”
4. Turn Off the ABS Light: After clearing the error codes, the ABS light should automatically turn off if the issue has been successfully resolved. In some cases, you may need to turn off the vehicle and start it again to confirm that the light stays off.
Please note that accessing and resetting the ABS system typically requires specialized equipment and knowledge. If you are not familiar with automotive diagnostics and repairs, it’s best to take your Freightliner to an authorized service center or a qualified mechanic who has experience with commercial vehicles like Freightliners. They will have the proper tools and expertise to diagnose and fix the problem safely and effectively.
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Can I Reset the Abs Light Myself Without Taking It to a Mechanic
No, it is not recommended that you reset the ABS light yourself without taking it to a mechanic.
Here are some reasons why:
– Diagnostic equipment may be needed to accurately identify and repair the issue causing the ABS light to turn on.
– Resetting the ABS light without resolving any underlying issues can lead to further problems with your vehicle in the future.
Therefore, for safety and accuracy, it is best to take your car into a qualified mechanic who has access to specialized diagnostic tools and knowledge of how your car works.
How to Reset Abs Light on Freightliner
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What Could Cause My Freightliner’s Abs Light to Come on in the First Place
The ABS light on a Freightliner can be triggered by several different issues. These include:
• Malfunctioning sensors or wiring
• Low brake fluid levels
• Problems with the master cylinder, wheel speed sensor, or other components.
It is important to have any potential underlying issue addressed promptly to ensure safe and reliable operation of your vehicle.
Is There Anything Else I Should Check If My Freightliner’s Abs Light is on
Yes, there are a few other things you should check if your Freightliner’s ABS light is on:
* Check that the brakes are properly adjusted and lubricated.
* Inspect for any issues with the wiring or electrical connections.
* Make sure all of the components related to ABS (brake pedals, master cylinders, sensors) are in working order.
It is also recommended to have a professional inspect your vehicle if you feel uncomfortable carrying out these checks yourself.
Are There Any Common Issues That Can Cause a Freightliner’s Abs Light to Stay Lit Up
Yes, there are common issues that can cause a Freightliner’s ABS light to stay lit up.
These include:
• Faulty or corroded wiring
• Failing speed sensor
• Defective ABS module
• Low brake fluid levels
These issues should be addressed immediately by a certified mechanic in order to ensure the safety and reliability of your Freightliner.
Conclusion
Overall, resetting the ABS light on a Freightliner is relatively simple and can be done by anyone with minimal knowledge of vehicles. The process requires a few steps to complete, such as removing the fuse or checking for any existing problems in the system.
However, if these steps are followed correctly, you should be able to effectively reset your ABS light without having to take it into a mechanic.
This will not only save you time and money but also help ensure that your vehicle remains running safely and efficiently for many years to come. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:Empire Records/to do
* Talk about 'Rex Manning Day'
* Done: "Legacy" section explains the meme
* Tell the truth! This movie was about imperialism and gentrification. It's called a metaphor. | WIKI |
This is how you create a HomeKit group: combine multiple accessories
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Do you want to group multiple HomeKit accessories and control them at the same time? Then put them in a HomeKit group! In this tip, we'll show you how to create a HomeKit group and when it comes in handy.
Create HomeKit group: group accessories
Controlling your HomeKit products via the Home app or with Siri is very easy. But if you have a lot of accessories, it can become a bit inconvenient to operate each lamp or plug individually. You can group HomeKit accessories together in a HomeKit scene, but there is another way to group HomeKit accessories. You do that with a HomeKit group, so that the devices are seen as one accessory. This is especially useful for accessories that you always want to switch on and off in a group and do not have to operate individually. Grouping HomeKit devices is mainly used with lamps.
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• Control
• Cancel
• Examples
Set up HomeKit group: this is how you group accessories
Grouping HomeKit accessories works like this:
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• Open the Home app. Determine which accessories you want to group.
• Press and hold one of the accessories you want to group, then tap the gear in the bottom right corner.
• Scroll down and tap Group with other accessories.
• Choose a group name. This is the name under which all selected accessories are listed in the Home app. Choose a name that you don't already use for another accessory or scene.
• Tick the accessories you want to group. The accessories don't have to be in one room.
• Tap Done to save the group.
• You will now see that the accessories are shown as a joint tile in the Home app. Each selected accessory now belongs to the group, so you can turn them on or off with one tap. Remember that you can only group similar accessories together. So you can only put lamps together or, for example, smart plugs.
Control HomeKit group
Do you want to control a HomeKit group (for example, a group of lamps that you together), then you only have to tap the icon of that one tile to switch on all the lamps, plugs or other accessories. You can also use the name of the group with Siri, so you can ask the assistant to turn the group's accessories on or off.
Operating a HomeKit group is therefore just like with any other accessory. If only lamps are in the group, you can even adjust the brightness and color of all participating lamps at the same time. To do this, press and hold the HomeKit group tile and adjust the setting.
Do you want to know which accessories are in a group again? Here's how:
1. Open the Home app and tap and hold on the tile of the group.
2. Tap the gear.
3. At Accessories you will see a number that indicates how many accessories are in the group. Tap it.
4. You will now see all participating accessories.
You can optionally control a separate lamp in the group here individually. It is not necessary to cancel the whole group.
Cancel HomeKit group
Do you no longer want to operate the accessories as a group and view them as individual devices in the Home app? Then you can cancel the group:
1. Open the Home app and press and hold the tile of the group.
2. Tap the gear.
3. Scroll down and tap Cancel accessory group. Confirm that you want to ungroup.
All accessories are put back in the Home app as separate tiles and individually controllable devices. The previous names of the accessories can also be seen again.
Examples of grouped HomeKit devices
But when does such a configured HomeKit group actually come from? pass? In these situations, a HomeKit group is just a bit more convenient than separate accessories:
• Lamps that you always turn on together: For example, think of two lamps next to the couch. The chance that you only want to switch on the left or right lamp is probably not that great.
• Spots in a single fixture: Some fixtures, such as from Philips Hue, have several spots. If you want to operate the luminaire as one accessory, you can place the individual spotlights in a group.
• Light hoses that belong together: If you have several light hoses in the kitchen or along the stairs, for example, then you probably always want to enable them all at once.
Do you want to control HomeKit devices together from time to time, but also keep the option to easily switch them on and off individually? Then it's best to create a HomeKit scene.
There are even more ways to control HomeKit accessories together:
• This is how you use HomeKit zones to control multiple control rooms simultaneously
• Create HomeKit scenes for quick control of your accessories: this is how it works
See also
Zo gebruik je HomeKit zones to control multiple rooms at the same time
Separately from rooms, you can also set zones in HomeKit. With HomeKit zones, you can group multiple rooms together, so that you can, for example, operate the ground floor in one go. In this tip you can read how to set zones. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
White House sources think Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's ideological fulcrum, may announce his retirement today, as the justices gather on the bench for the last time this term. If that happens, Day 158 instantly becomes President Trump's biggest moment. Trump's first Court appointment, of Justice Neil Gorsuch, was a one-for-one ideological swap for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Replacing Kennedy would be even more historic and consequential: a momentous chance to edge the Court right, since Kennedy is the center of the Court — the one most willing to listen to both sides. On a controversial case, both sides pitch to him. It's been called "Kennedy's Court." No one's predicting: Court watchers say no one knows, and Kennedy has said nothing publicly. He could well wait one more year: The Court buzz is that it'll be this year or next. Lyle Denniston, who has covered the Supreme Court for 58 years, headlines a post on his website, "High drama: Supreme Court term is ending": "[R]umors have continued to make the rounds that ... Kennedy, who will be 81 in July, could reveal plans [today] to end his career. ... The longest serving of the Justices, Kennedy joined the court more than 29 years ago." Be smart: Few domestic developments could more instantly and decisively change the national conversation — blotting out almost everything else, and vastly reducing the sting for conservatives is healthcare tanks. A Washington wise man emails: "With two court appointments and maybe one more, Trump's presidency will be consequential even if he has few legislative achievements. This week may well demonstrate both." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Blackrock Expands Menu of Bond ETFs
Blackrock, sponsor of the iShares ETFs , unveiled seven bond ETFs focused on various sectors within the fixed income market. Among this group are bond ETFs targeting corporate bonds issued by financial (NYSEArca: XLF) and utilities companies (NYSEArca: XLU) along with a fund that screens for A-rated U.S. corporate bonds.
'For the first time, investors and advisors can fine tune sector exposure in their fixed income portfolios just like they have done in their equity portfolios,' said Matt Tucker, Head of iShares Fixed Income Investment Strategy at BlackRock. 'Now they can overweight and underweight sectors and do sector rotation to capture bond sector returns over business cycle changes.'
Here's a snapshot of the new iShares bond ETFs:
iShares Aaa - A Rated Corporate Bond Fund (NYSEArca: QLTA) - The first ETF to provide single-trade access to the highest quality corporate debt issuers, broadly diversified across sectors and maturities. The fund is designed to track the Barclays Capital U.S. Corporate Aaa - A Capped Index
iShares Barclays U.S. Treasury Bond Fund (NYSEArca: GOVT) - Offers exposure to a broad range of U.S. Treasuries maturities (1-30 years) in one trade. Designed to track the Barclays Capital U.S. Treasury Bond Index, the new fund allows investors to shift towards U.S. Treasuries in times of negative market sentiment.
iShares Barclays CMBS Bond Fund (NYSEArca: CMBS) - The first ETF to provide exposure to investment grade commercial mortgage-backed securities. The new iShares ETF can complement the iShares Barclays MBS Bond Fund ( MBB ) and help investors express tactical views on the commercial real estate market.
iShares Barclays GNMA Bond Fund (NasdaqGM: GNMA) - The first ETF to offer a flexible and cost-efficient way to invest in a diversified portfolio of fixed-rate, mortgage-backed securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ). GNMAs are the only mortgage securities explicitly supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
iShares Financials Sector Bond Fund (NYSEArca: MONY) - The first ETF to offer targeted exposure to investment grade U.S. corporate financial sector bonds. Today 33% of the U.S. corporate bond market comprises financials sector bonds. The new fund is designed to track the Barclays Capital U.S. Financial Institutions Capped Bond Index.
iShares Industrials Sector Bond Fund (NYSEArca: ENGN) - The first ETF to express a view on the industrial sector, which comprises 56% of the U.S. corporate bond market. The new fund is designed to track the Barclays Capital U.S. Industrial Bond Index.
iShares Utilities Sector Bond Fund (NYSEArca: AMPS) - The first ETF to provide a flexible and cost-efficient way to express a view on the U.S. utility corporate bond sector. It is designed to track the Barclays Capital U.S. Utility Bond Index.
According to BlackRock Investment Institute's ETP Landscape, global flows into fixed income ETFs reached record levels in January 2012 by attracting $9 billion in net new assets, up from the previous monthly record set of $6.7 billion set in January 2009.
Other Launches Target Energy and Inflation
Van Eck Global introduced a new fund that targets the energy sector called the Market Vectors Unconventional Oil & Gas ETF (NYSEArca: FRAK).
'Unconventional technologieswhich include hydraulic fracturing, lateral or deep sea drilling, high pressure gas injection, and advanced 3D imagingmay have potential to transform the global energy landscape by dramatically increasing supply and altering import needs,' states Van Eck. 'New extraction techniques applied to traditional resources have led to significant, 'game changing' increases in North America's natural gas supply capacity.'
FRAK invests in companies involved in developing and distributing coal bed methane, coal seam gas, shale oil, shale gas, tight natural gas, tight oil and tight sands.
The fund takes a global approach and has 70% of its assets in U.S. based companies, with 28.5% in Canada and 0.3% in Australia.
FRAK charges annual expenses of 0.62%.
Finally, ProShares added the ProShares UltraPro 10 Year TIPS/TSY Spread ETF (NYSEArca: UINF) and ProShares UltraPro Short 10 Year TIPS/TSY Spread ETF (NYSEArca: SINF).
Breakeven inflation (BEI) is a widely followed measure of inflation expectations.
UINF aims for 3x daily performance of theDow Jones Credit Suisse 10-Year Inflation Breakeven Index, while SINF provides inverse or opposite 3x daily performance on the same index.
Both ETFs charge annual expenses of 0.75%.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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 |
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238 in Mr. Spencer's writings, many of the numerous obiter dicta are as inconclusive as they are entertaining. There is a substance of sound wisdom in the book which entitles it to the careful attention of all.
2. Small and Vincent, Introduction to the Study of Society. Books II-V inclusive.
This manual also is a preparation for sociology, and distinctly disclaims the intention of offering a system of sociology. It is a laboratory guide to observation of social facts in some of their most obvious—even if not most commonly observed—relations. The habit of observation and explanation of concrete facts which the manual is designed to form, must be the constant means of getting the material of sociology, unless one is to be contented with book science rather than objective science. Before there is primary fitness for dealing with sociology proper the practice of observing, analyzing and correlating concrete social facts must have become fixed habit.
It would be well if students would devote the time assigned to study of society for a year to observation of their own community, and to arrangement of results, after the method illustrated in the parts of the manual indicated, before venturing into the field of systematic sociology. Assuming that students have thus had an adequate introduction to a valid method of studying society—which in our opinion bears about the same relation to the science of sociology that the first ten experiments performed by beginners in the laboratory have to the science of chemistry—they may then begin to ask how men have succeeded in systematizing social facts, i. e., they are now ready for an introduction to sociology. The most available literature for that purpose, to students who have followed our advice thus far, will be:
3. Small and Vincent, Introduction. Book I. These five chapters survey the origin and scope of sociology in the most elementary and general way, and suggest some of the important questions which the sociologists have at present under discussion.
4. Professor Franklin H. Giddings, The Theory of Sociology. A brief monograph, the promise of a larger work to be issued at once. Many differences of view are apparent between 3 and 4. These simply illustrate our second preliminary remark, which amounted to the caution that sociology is in a very early stage of formative process. Study of facts and criticism of explanations is at present our business.
5. J. S. Mackenzie, Introduction to Social Philosophy. 2d ed. This | WIKI |
User:Cemlynjones
This is my home page in Wikipedia. I will be adding links to this page as time goes by.
Cemlyn Jones<EMAIL_ADDRESS>+9657081632 | WIKI |
Talk:2010 U.S. F2000 National Championship
Non-points Laguna Seca race
The USF2000 will have a double-header round on May 20-23 at Laguna Seca, supporting the ALMS and Star Mazda. Should we include that race in this article, as it's done with the Melbourne race in V8 Supercar seasons' articles and the Surfers Paradise race in 2008 IndyCar season's article? --NaBUru38 (talk) 03:32, 9 April 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
Does GREY pubic hair mean infertility?
Does GREY pubic hair mean infertility? A: Graying of the hair is a natural part of the aging process and it’s often genetic with certain ethnic groups graying earlier than others. In most instances, inheritance determines not only your hair color but also when graying begins. It’s no indication that something is wrong with your fertility.
The hair follicles contain melanin. As people age, these follicles begin to die off, and there is less melanin in the hair. As the follicles die and melanin decreases, the color of the hair fades to silver, gray, or white. This process happens with hair all over the body, including pubic hair.
According to obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Daryl Daley, greying pubic hairs are normal, and if it happens with young girls there is usually a genetic linkage. “It does not affect libido. Hairs eventually grey everywhere with age, but a young girl with grey hair down there is usually a genetic linkage.
Before you go on a plucking rampage (ouch!), know that it’s a totally normal rite of passage. “Just like the hair on your head, as you age, the hair in the pubic area will also thin and gray,” says Sejal Shah, M.D., a New York City dermatologist and RealSelf contributor.
Why is my pubic hair turning gray? The hair follicles contain melanin. As people age, these follicles begin to die off, and there is less melanin in the hair. As the follicles die and melanin decreases, the color of the hair fades to silver, gray, or white. This process happens with hair all over the body, including pubic hair.
What causes white hair on the private part at early age? According to obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Daryl Daley, greying pubic hairs are normal, and if it happens with young girls there is usually a genetic linkage. “It does not affect libido. Hairs eventually grey everywhere with age, but a young girl with grey hair down there is usually a genetic linkage.
Are GREY Pubes normal? Before you go on a plucking rampage (ouch!), know that it’s a totally normal rite of passage. “Just like the hair on your head, as you age, the hair in the pubic area will also thin and gray,” says Sejal Shah, M.D., a New York City dermatologist and RealSelf contributor.
Does GREY pubic hair mean infertility? – FAQ
Why is my pubic hair two different colors?
The color is determined by the amount of melanin (a pigment substance) in each hair, which can be different because the amount of melanin is different in different parts of your body. This makes hair lighter and eventually grows gray, both on the head and in the pubic area.
Why is my hair turning white at the tips?
As we get older, the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle, that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color — like gray, silver, or white — as it grows.
Can GREY hair reversed?
There are certain health conditions and lifestyle factors (like smoking and stress) that could contribute to going gray earlier. As of now, there are no effective treatments that can reverse or prevent gray hair.
Why do I have white hair on my balls?
Ingrown hairs occur when trimmed or shaved hairs curl and grow backward into your skin. This leads to irritation, and irritation can lead to infection. If infection occurs, it can produce bacteria-filled pus that makes spots of irritation look white.
Why can I pull my pubic hair out easily?
Trichotillomania (pronounced: trik-oh-till-oh-MAY-nee-uh) is a condition that gives some people strong urges to pull out their own hair. It can affect people of any age. People with trichotillomania pull hair out at the root from places like the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or pubic area.
Why is my pubic hair black?
Melanin is the thing responsible for the colour of your skin and hair on your body. The type of melanin responsible for the hair around your genitals is called Eumelanin. This is sometimes referred to as the black/brown melanin and is stronger around your nether regions, hence why the hair is darker.
Is it healthier to have pubic hair?
As mentioned above, pubic hair serves a protective function by trapping pathogens that could otherwise enter your body. Removing pubic hair may therefore make a person more susceptible to common infections, such as UTIs, vaginitis, and yeast infections.
Why does female pubic hair grow fast?
Part of the perception that your pubic hair grows much faster than the hair on your head may be due to the growth cycle it follows. That means the same pubes that started to grow will shed in about a month to a month and a half. Hair on your head follows a much more spread out process.
Is it OK to pluck white hair?
“Plucking a gray hair will only get you a new gray hair in its place because there is only one hair that is able to grow per follicle. Your surrounding hairs will not turn white until their own follicles’ pigment cells die.” Kraleti doesn’t recommend plucking or pulling the hairs out.
Why do I sometimes find hair that is black at root but white at the tip?
Actually , it’s absolutely normal . There is nothing to worry about . It can happen because of pollution , excessive heat or because of the bad hair routine which many people follow because of which they have to suffer through greying of hair .
Why do I have white hair at 18?
Gray hairs before the age of 30 are normal.
“It’s not unusual to have a few gray hairs even if you’re 18 or 20,” says Cotsarelis, noting that a gray hair occurs when the follicle stops producing melanin, the pigment that gives hair its color.
Why do I have GREY hair at 30?
Your hair follicles produce less color as they age, so when hair goes through its natural cycle of dying and being regenerated, it’s more likely to grow in as gray beginning after age 35. Genetics can play a role in when this starts.
Is gray hair caused by stress?
A new study shows that stress really can give you gray hair. Researchers found that the body’s fight-or-flight response plays a key role in turning hair gray. Your hair color is determined by pigment-producing cells called melanocytes.
Why do I have white hair at 15?
White hair at an early age can also indicate a vitamin B-12 deficiency. This vitamin plays an important role in your body. Your body needs vitamin B-12 for healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen to cells in your body, including hair cells. A deficiency can weaken hair cells and affect melanin production.
What is the white stuff on my pubic hair?
Trichomycosis axillaris is a superficial bacterial colonization of the hair shafts in sweat gland–bearing areas, such as the armpits and the pubic area. Basically, you will find white, orange, yellow substance over the hair, like a coating. But this is not a disease, there are no symptoms and it is curable.
Do your pubes ever stop growing?
Does pubic hair cease growing once it’s reached a certain length? With body hair, which typically does not grow as long as head hair, the rate at which it falls out is greater. This results in hair that appears to reach a certain length then stops growing.
Do pubes stop growing at a certain age?
As you age, your pubic hair, just like the hair on your head, will naturally start to thin and turn grey. Part of the aging process includes hair loss and the slowing of the rate of hair growth. Typically, hair in the armpits, chest, and pubic region will start to thin and turn grey later than scalp hair.
What is the Rapunzel syndrome?
Rapunzel syndrome is an extremely rare condition seen in adolescents or young females with psychiatric disorders consisting of a gastric trichobezoar with an extension within the small bowel. The delays in diagnosis are common since in its early stages, it is usually asymptomatic.
Can pulling out pubic hair cause bumps?
Shaving, waxing, or plucking pubic hairs increases your risk for an ingrown pubic hair. That can cause a small, round, sometimes painful or itchy bump to form. The bump may be filled with pus, and the skin around the bump may also become darker.
What age does pubic hair turn gray?
Some people develop their first strands of gray or white hair in their 30s or 40s, whereas others develop white strands in their 20s or teenage years.
Is shaving female pubic hair healthy?
It’s not necessary to remove the hair in this area to keep your body clean. In fact, there are no health benefits to removing pubic hair. Shaving: Some girls say that shaving pubic hair is “high maintenance” because the hair usually grows back in just a couple of days. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Macario Hing-Glover
Macario Darwin Yen Hing-Glover (born 4 April 1995), known in China as Yan Xinli, is an American soccer player who plays for Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua as a right-back.
Club career
Hing-Glover played for NK Istra 1961 in Croatian First Football League.
He signed for NK Krško in February 2018, eventually leaving the club in December 2018.
After a three-year stint in Finland with HIFK in Veikkausliiga, Hing-Glover signed with fellow Veikkausliiga side SJK ahead of the 2023 season. However, on 20 March 2023, Hing-Glover joined Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua for an undisclosed fee.
Honors
Spartak Trnava Shanghai Shenhua
* Slovak Cup: 2018–19
* Chinese FA Cup: 2023
Individual
* Veikkausliiga Team of the Year: 2021 | WIKI |
TE_connect
Example: TE_connectTerminal Emulator Connection Functions
Connects the terminal emulator to the specified host. (Windows only)
int TE_connect( const char *com_string, unsigned int timeout );
com_string A string that contains the details used to connect an RTE script with a host. The string may contain the host name, and the communication type. The actual contents of the string will depend on the type of communication specified.
timeout The maximum time (in milliseconds) to wait for the terminal emulator to connect to the specified host.
The TE_connect function is generated by VuGen when you record a connection to a host. The contents of com_string are used for connecting to the host.
If the first attempt to connect is not successful, several retries are attempted to connect successfully. To set the maximum number of times that a script tries to connect, enter a number in the Maximum number of connection attempts box on the RTE tab of the Runtime settings dialog box.
Details of each connection are recorded in the report file output.txt.
For example: Connect succeeded on try 1: comm–type = tn5250;host-name = as400;
Note 1: The TE_connect function must always be recorded into a script. Do not type or paste the function into a script. When you record a connection, PowerTerm creates various files in the script directory. These files contain various settings that describe the connection.
Note 2: Do not include more than one TE_connect statement in a script. The second TE_connect statement will fail with an "already connected" error.
Note 3: The TE_connect function must always be the first function in the vuser_init section of the script.
Return Values
This function returns 0 if it succeeds, and a negative error code if it fails. It also sets the global variable TE_errno. TE_find_text does not print an error message when it fails.
Parameterization
The following argument can be parameterized using standard parameterization: com_string | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
mé
Etymology 1
.
Interjection
* 1) bleat the cry of a goat
Verb
* 1) love, like
Verb
* 1) love, like
Etymology
From.
Pronoun
* 1) I, me
Etymology
From.
Noun
* 1) May (month)
Etymology
Inherited from.
Conjunction
* 1) but
Etymology 1
From, , from , from ,.
Pronoun
* 1) me
Etymology 2
From, from , from.
Noun
* 1) sea
Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).
Pronoun
* 1) I
* "sga"
* "sga"
- Is mé as apstal geinte.
Determiner
* : my, of mine
Etymology
From.
Pronoun
* 1) mine
Noun
* 1) a side
* 2) region, area
* 1) region, area | WIKI |
The story of San Sabazio is related to that of Saints and Martyrs Trofimo and Dorimedonte (Trophimus and Dorimedont), who were killed during the reign of Emperor Aurelius Probus (276-282). Scholars consider the passio, which relates the story of the three, as doubtful, both due to the many affinities with other stories of passios, and for the relative peace experienced by Christians under Emperor Aurelius Probus. The story goes that Trofimo and Sabazio were in Antioch when the emperor’s edict was issued, requiring Christians to make sacrifice to pagan gods. Having refused to follow this practice, they were arrested, tried and tortured so ferociously that Sabazio died. Trofimo survived and was imprisoned, receiving the visits of Dorimedonte, a Christian senator who was soon imprisoned with him for refusing to burn incense to Castor and Pollux. They were both beheaded. Combining reality and legend, the story of these three saints bears witness to the increasing number of conversions to Christianity on the part of eastern princes and rulers, even including a Senator. The empire was being transformed from the inside, and would not be able to stop a faith issuing from palaces, villas, universities and squares, from Persia to Portugal. The statue currently on Spire G36 is a copy made in 1987, whose author is unknown. Perhaps it is a marble work of the Fabbrica. This theory is also underpinned by documents of the Archives, which inform us that the original statue of San Sabazio Martyr, a 19th century work by Giuseppe Buzzi, was carried to the marble workers’ site in 1907 to be copied. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Trump country faces worst long-term climate change
Many regions facing the biggest economic threats from global warming voted for President Trump and GOP candidates in the 2018 midterms, new analysis released via the Brookings Institution shows. Why it matters: It highlights how lots of areas facing the greatest peril are backing policymakers who oppose strong federal steps to cut emissions. But the authors argue that the granular data offers a political opportunity to push for climate policies — if advocates can get the message right. What they did: The paper uses data on projected long-term harm and benefits by region from the Climate Impact Lab research consortium. They examined changes in farm yields, coastal damage from rising seas, heat-related threats to workers, and more. The authors grafted those projections onto voting patterns in recent elections. What they found: "Activists who want to change the political equation can derive a clear strategy from the harm data: Work in the reddish swing states by focusing spotlights and cost accounting on the severe economic effect wrought by climate change," the paper states. "Party attitudes on climate change could shift quickly there as people are confronted with climate reality," argues the analysis titled, "How the geography of climate damage could make the politics less polarizing." By the numbers: 9 of the 10 states facing the biggest long-term losses in county income voted for Trump in 2016, including Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama, the analysis states. Counties that voted for Trump will face, by the end of the century, average GDP loss of 4.8%, compared to 3.3% in counties that Hillary Clinton carried, the paper estimates. In congressional districts that backed Republicans last November, residents face an average 4.4% hit to regional income, compared to a 2.7% loss projected for districts that backed Democratic candidates. The bottom line: "Drill down on the political geography of climate damage and it becomes clear that in much of the country Republicans are voting for people who are opposed to climate policy, even as they are most exposed to climate impacts," the paper states. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
How do you treat a cold in your eye?
How do you treat a cold in your eye?
Your doctor may recommend bathing your eyes in warm water, using warm or cold compresses, and sometimes using artificial tears. If you wear contact lenses, you’ll need to remove them until your eye cold is gone.
How do you get a cold out of a baby’s eye?
To clear away discharge, dip a clean piece of gauze or soft cloth in some lukewarm water then gently wipe the corner of the eye. If a blocked tear duct affects both eyes, always use a new area of the cloth or gauze to clean the other eye.
What does cold in eyes mean?
An eye cold occurs when you have viral conjunctivitis, commonly called “pink eye.” Viruses affect mucous membranes in your body, including those in the eyes, lungs, and nose. Viral conjunctivitis is highly contagious and can be spread by person-to-person contact or by touching an object contaminated by the virus.
How do you treat an eye infection in a child?
Treatment depends on the type of bacteria that have caused the infection. Treatment often will include antibiotic drops or ointments to the eye, warm compresses to the eye, and correct hygiene when touching the infected eyes.
How do you get rid of eye mucus?
String, White Mucus People with allergic conjunctivitis may have to pull white, stringy mucus out of their eyes. A specialist may prescribe you eye drops or oral medications if the allergies become severe. Your eye doctor might also suggest using chilled, over-the-counter, artificial tears a couple of times a day.
What are the symptoms of eye flu?
What are the common Signs and Symptoms of Eye Flu?
• Redness of the white of the eye and inner eyelid.
• Increased tears.
• Itchiness in eyes.
• Blurred vision or burning eyes.
• Thick, yellow discharge that forms over the eyelashes.
• Sensitivity to light.
How do I know if my child has an eye infection?
How do you know if your child has an eye infection?
1. Discharge that is green, yellow, or bloody.
2. Eyelids that are stuck together after waking from sleep.
3. Red eyes or eyelids.
4. Feeling that something is stuck in the eye.
5. Eye pain.
6. A white or gray sore on the iris.
7. Increased sensitivity to light.
8. Sudden blurry vision.
What is an eye cold?
An eye cold occurs when you have viral conjunctivitis, commonly called “pink eye.” Viruses affect mucous membranes in your body, including those in the eyes, lungs, and nose. Viral conjunctivitis is highly contagious and can be spread by person-to-person contact or by touching an object contaminated by the virus.
Can a cold cause watery discharge from the eye?
An eye cold will usually cause a watery rather than thick discharge and may accompany a common cold or respiratory tract infection. Bacterial conjunctivitis often occurs at the same time as an ear infection, and the discharge tends to be thick instead of watery and often affects just one eye.
Why are my eyes sensitive to light when I have a cold?
A common symptom of a cold is frequent headaches. When everything is congested, your brain really feels the impact. When this happens, your eyes can become extra sensitive to the light. There isn’t much you can do in this case other than make like a vampire and stay away from the light.
Do you have an eye cold or conjunctivitis?
You may also have watery discharge from your eyes when you have an eye cold. It is important that you distinguish between the different types of conjunctivitis to ensure that you indeed have an eye cold and that it is not another form of conjunctivitis.
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62 have every man to vote on the same terms and conditions. The legislature, after some fighting, decided to leave the matter with the voters, who were to vote Yes or No, on the question. Now was the most favorable opportunity for the publication of an Afro-American journal; but there was not one then issued in the land.
About this time, Mr. Willis A. Hodges, a man full of zeal and devotion for his race, enthused by utterances from the editorial columns of The New York Sun calling on the voters to vote "No," prepared an article in answer to these utterances, and sought space for the same in The Sun's columns.
Mr. Hodges' article was published for a fifteen-dollar consideration; but its sentiment was modified, and it was published in the advertising columns. Mr. Hodges upon inquiry relative to the alteration of his article and the manner of its publication, was told—"The Sun shines for all white men, and not for colored men." He was also told if he wished the Afro-American cause advocated, he would have to publish a paper himself for the purpose.
Right here, Mr. Hodges, as was the case of all his friends with whom he consulted, saw the irreparable loss his people had sustained by the suspension of Afro-American newspapers, formerly published in New York.
As has been said, there was not a paper published by an Afro-American, at this time, in the Union. Mr. Hodges, being a man of energy, public-spirited and to the manor born, hastily came to the conclusion that one should be published in New York city by Afro-Americans. He consulted with leading Afro-Americans who had been interested in former publications, only to be discouraged. All seemed to be seeking personal ends, and not what, at this time, demanded the closest attention of their leading minds.
Finally, Mr Hodges met with an old friend, Thomas Van | WIKI |
Gundel pancake
A Gundel crêpe (original Gundel palacsinta) is a crêpe-like variety of pancake from Hungary.
Overview
The first Gundel crêpe was created and invented by Károly Gundel, who made the pancake with ground walnuts, raisins, and rum filling, served flambéed in a dark chocolate sauce made with egg yolks, heavy cream and cocoa. The original recipe is secret; only the Gundel restaurant knows it. The restaurant serves 25,000 portions to their guests annually.
Austria
The dessert is well known in Austrian cuisine. They recommend this pancake sometimes as chocolate-walnut palatschinke or walnut palatschinke in Austria. It is usually served with whipped cream and normally does not contain raisins. The Hotel Sacher presents it based on the original prescription, with caramelized walnut. | WIKI |
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Don't wait. Vaccinate!
We all need shots (also called vaccinations or immunizations) to help protect us from serious diseases. National Immunization Awareness Month in August is a great time to learn more about vaccines and remind family, friends, and coworkers to stay up to date on their shots1.
Even if you were vaccinated when you were younger, protection from some vaccines can wear off or the virus or bacteria that the vaccine protects against changes so your resistance is not as strong. As you age, you may also be at risk for vaccine-preventable diseases due to your age, job, hobbies, travel, or chronic health condition2.
There are many reasons to get vaccinated, here are just a few3.
• You may be at increased risk for complications from certain diseases if you have a chronic health condition or weakened immune system. Adults with chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease and those with weakened immune systems are more likely to develop complications from certain vaccine-preventable diseases. These complications can include long-term illness, hospitalization, and even death.
• You can help protect those who can't get vaccinated. People with certain medical conditions (like pregnant women or people undergoing cancer treatment) may not be able to get certain vaccines, but are very vulnerable to illness. Vaccines can help prevent the spread of contagious diseases to them. For example, newborns that are too young to get vaccinated for whooping cough are also most at risk of severe illness from the disease. In cases where the source is known, 4 out of 5 babies caught the disease from someone in the home - a parent, sister or brother, grandparent, or babysitter.
• You don't want to miss what's important to you. Spending time with family and friends or taking time out for your hobbies may not be possible if you get sick. Vaccines can help you stay healthy and enjoy the things you like to do.
• You don't want to pay the price of getting sick. Adults who get a vaccine-preventable disease face the financial costs of medical visits and treatment, in addition to other costs like taking time off work, hiring babysitters, and traveling to and from healthcare professionals.
• You like to travel - or have to travel for work. Travel can present exciting opportunities, but it can also put you at risk for certain diseases. Make sure you only bring back great memories, not illness! If you are going to travel internationally, you might need additional vaccines. See the vaccinations and travel checklist.
Did you know that adults need vaccines too? If you didn't, you are not alone.
CDC recommends that all adults get the following vaccines2:
For this month’s challenge, we encourage you to take this brief, online Vaccine Quiz4 to help you understand what vaccines you may need. Then print your results and discuss them with your doctor or health care professional next time you make an office visit.
Sources:
1. Healthfinder.gov National Immunization Awareness Month
2. CDC Adult Vaccinations: An Important Step in Protecting Your Health
3. CDC 10 Reasons To Get Vaccinated
4. Adolescent and Adult Vaccine Quiz | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Panoploscelis
Panoploscelis (commonly referred to as spiny lobster katydids or giant lobster crickets) is a genus of very large insects belonging to the true katydid tribe Eucocconotini, which is a subfamily of the Tettigoniidae. Like the other members of the suborder Ensifera, Panoploscelis are part of the insect order Orthoptera, which also contains crickets, grasshoppers and locusts. Members of this genus are among the largest katydids of the Neotropics.
These terrestrial, predatory insects are endemic to the remote and relatively inaccessible neotropical rainforests of Central and South America. Little is known about this genus, because data thus far have been collected from a very limited number of specimens. The first specimen, a female of the species P. armata, was described in 1869 by Samuel Hubbard Scudder. The male of the species P. specularis was described for the first time in 2003.
Taxonomy
The subfamily Pseudophyllinae was first described by Hermann Burmeister in 1838. The tribe Eucocconotini was first described by Max Beier in 1960. There are currently four recognized species of Panoploscelis:
* P. angusticauda (Beier, 1950)
* P. armata (Scudder, 1869)
* P. scudderi (Beier, 1950)
* P. specularis (Beier, 1950)
Distribution
All species of Panoploscelis are endemic to the neotropical rainforests of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Guyana, especially in the higher drainage of the Amazon River.
Morphology
Like many other arthropods, these insects have an exoskeleton composed largely of sclerotin. The cuticle and sclerites are reddish-brown in color, with the dorsal surfaces being more deeply pigmented than the ventral.
As with all katydids, these insects have one pair of forewings (referred to as tegmina) and one pair of hindwings. In contrast to many other katydids however, the tegmina of Panoploscelis only partly cover the hindwings. The hindwings themselves are vestigial, extending only roughly 25% the length of the abdomen. These massive brachypterous insects are therefore incapable of flight.
The tibia is longer than the femur in all three pairs of limbs; the combined length of these structures exceeds the length of the body in the case of the hindlimbs. Short cerci are present in both sexes. The antennae are filamentous and exceed the length of the body.
There is significant sexual dimorphism in the genus. The males can measure up to 60 - 75 mm in length, while females are slightly longer at 69 - 83 mm. The subgenital plate is longer in the male than in the female. Females are easily distinguished from males by the presence of a large, sword-shaped ovipositor which measures nearly half the length of the body.
Tegminal sound generator
Katydids produce acoustical signals by rubbing their tegmina together, a mechanism referred to as tegminal stridulation (first described by Dumortier in 1963). Male Pseudophyllinae katydids (and females of some species, such as Pterophylla camellifolia) have stridulatory apparati on their tegmina for generating such signals. This is thought to be a means for social communication such as the attraction of a mate, and also to protest when disturbed by a potential predator or other animal. The presence of sophisticated hearing organs in both males and females supports the assertion that communication by sound plays an important role in the lives of the Panoploscelis.
Both male and female Panoploscelis insects possess asymmetric tegmina upon which fully developed stridulatory organs are located. In the males of the genus Panoploscelis, the tegminal stridulatory organ consists of a file, a scraper (referred to as a plectrum), and an amplification device, as is found in other katydids. The file—consisting of a transverse vein with a single row of teeth—is located on the right wing, while the scraper consists of the sharply upturned right edge of the left wing. The thin glassy membrane of both wings, especially the larger left wing, functions as a diaphragm or drumhead to amplify the sound that is produced when the file is moved over the scraper.
In contrast to the single file of the male, females of the genus Panoploscelis, however, have anywhere from three to six such files (crossveins) on the right wing, depending on the species.
P. specularis
It is relatively easy to distinguish P. specularis from the other three species, because only in this species is the distal spine of the fore femur directed anteriorly. Also, the fastigium frontis is tubercular and obtuse in this species, where it is spiniform and acute in the other three species. Another distinguishing feature is that there is a small tubercle or nodule on the medioventral portion of the scape (the first or basal segment) of the antenna of P. specularis, in contrast to the erect distal spine in this location in the other three species. Finally, the dorsal surface of the femora are unarmed (lacking in spines) in this species, whereas the other three species possess spines at this location.
Behavior and ecology
Panoploscelis are terrestrial, predatory insects which dwell in the humid understory of the Amazon rainforest. They are nocturnally active, foraging for food at night. They are mostly herbivorous, although opportunistic carnivory has been observed; their diet includes leaves and small insects. They often leave a characteristic pattern of holes, arranged in a straight line horizontally across leaves upon which they have fed. They typically return just prior to dawn to a designated and well-concealed resting place within vegetation or leaf litter, where they remain throughout the day.
Defensive adaptations
An important source of nutrition for many vertebrates, including birds, bats, snakes, lizards and monkeys, katydids are a critical link in the food chain in their biome. Intense predatory pressure from these animals has forced these insects to evolve certain morphological and behavioral defensive defenses to avoid predation by other animals. Primary defensive adaptations are employed to avoid potential predators, while secondary adaptations are used only after the insect has been disturbed or provoked.
Primary defensive adaptations against diurnally active predators such as monkeys include the use of camouflage such as the brown color of their bodies, and concealment within vegetation or debris on the forest floor. Primary defensive adaptations against nocturnally active acoustically orienting predators such as leaf-nosed bats and other foliage-gleaners include the use of stridulatory signals characterized by a single tone at high frequency and of short duration.
Secondary defensive adaptations include acoustical alarm displays, regurgitation of material from the stomach, and the use of their powerful mandibles to inflict a painful bite. Autohaemorrhaging of hemolymph, which contains toxic phytotoxins, is another defensive strategy used by many species of katydids and possibly also the members of genus Panoploscelis. In addition to these adaptations, their massive size and the strength of their heavily armored, thorny legs offers them significant protection.
Relationship with humans
They are sometimes consumed by local indigenous people such as the Siona and Secoya people of eastern Ecuador. | WIKI |
Git through an NTLM Proxy (Corporate Firewall) for drupal.org
Borrowing from answers in this Stack Overflow question, here's how you can get through a corporate (Microsoft) NTLM Proxy to clone git repositories from drupal.org:
cd into your drupal contrib directory (or wherever you want to put the repository).
$ export http_proxy="http://username:[email protected]:port/"
$ git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/[projectname]
Basically, you're first setting an environment variable to tell your shell to use an HTTP proxy, with your username/password combo. This variable will be used when making connections to git.drupal.org (and other services, like github). You can also set this in your ~/.profile, .bash_rc, or .bash_profile so it will be saved for future Terminal sessions.
If the above method doesn't work, you could do a couple other things - try setting up a local proxy on your own computer. You could use NTLMaps for linux/bsd/osx (I use this to share my proxied connection over WiFi to iOS devices), or use Authoxy for the Mac, and then authenticate against your own localhost proxy on a port of your choosing. This works better for more restrictive firewalls.
For example, if you use NTLMaps or Authoxy, you may be able to get away with just setting a git config variable:
$ git config --global http.proxy http://localhost:[port]
Comments
Your first two commands will not work through a NTLM proxy unless you're using Git 1.7.10 onwards, see my updated comment on the stackoverflow question you linked.
with this configuration we can only clone htpp and what about git clone git://github.............. ???
dose not work with a ntlmaps configiration
what is the solution
On Windows, you can use Px for Windows which can punch through NTLM proxies without having to configure the username/password. As long as it is running on a Windows system that has logged onto the domain, it can authenticate on that user's behalf. Makes life super easy for tools like Git.
http://github.com/genotrance/px | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Fit Over 50 – Stretching Exercises
Published: 06-16-2009
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Fitness instructor Margie Weiss demonstrates how to get fit over 50 including stretching.
Margie Weiss: Hi! I am Margie Weiss and this video is getting fit over 50. The final segment here is stretching. The first two stretches if you only do two stretches in your whole life these are the two to do because of their value in back strength and back health. The first one is a forward fold and this is for your hamstrings and your glutes. The object behind this is not to tuck under and duck your head and put the top of your head towards your knee, but to take your back as if its a book and fold forward. You are not going to go as far with your back flat but you are going to get the right muscles which is from the waist, spans down all the around to the hamstring. So Christina can get down pretty far but if she were not as flexible, say she were up here, it's okay to pull or fold but dont round, reach out towards your toes and she can reach past, a lot of people by the time they hit 30, 40 can only get about this far which is okay. Wherever you are going to start, still fold flat forward, because then you are going to feel it in the right spot. When you finish the exercise you shake out a little bit, shake out your legs usually as you do it, you can also when you do the exercise breath in which is a little bit tighter position as you exhale the stretch will tend to go down a little bit far, you breath in again, exhale again that way you release the muscles, release the ability to stretch so that you can fold and go little bit farther. Second one thats for the back of the legs and the back of the glute. So you would want to do the opposite and thats the front and thats the hip flexure. The hip flexures are tendons that attach the quad muscles to the core. You are going to put foot forward, it's going to be slightly bent. Most people when they do this exercise will put their foot in too close. You have to have your foot farther way from your body than your knee. Then you can take that back knee if you out the one hand down just a little bit you can slide this knee back, just a little bit farther. Once you get your balance or you can put your hand on a chair for your balance, you can lift the chest up, so that your back is vertical. That way the weight of your body is over top of your hip flexure which is what you are trying to stress. So you are gently trying to press downwards into that hip flexure and you can feel that. If a hip flexure is tight, its going to draw your body forward, put a lot of pressure on the lower back which is why the hip flexure tightness can very often cause lower back issues. Get out of it safely by putting both hands on the floor and kind of swinging that leg around. Now we are going to do two exercises for the upper body. So we are going to stand up for those and again we will work on the chest and the back just like we did in terms of strength. So for the chest we are going to put our hands behind the back or come out and then breath in and look up and look the arms come up just a little bit. It's going to open the whole chest here and if you breath in and you fill up your lungs it's going to expand the chest and by looking back you get a really good stretch for the upper body. Then keeping your hands in the same position just lean over, this one is often harder for people who havent worked out, because many people can't get their hands as far, they can only get them right about here. So you may want a spotter to help just gently. Press here, remember you are in control when you do stretches, dont have the spotter in control. You can always just let your hands drops at the end and the basic way to get out of it is to just release. Once you are down there, hands go on your thighs and you slowly bring you way up by bending your knees round your back so that you get the lower back one vertebrae at a time to really get the top. Because often when you are stretching, you are holding a position for a long period of time, it's not like when you are leaning over and coming right back up and you have held it for a long time and then people will stand up really straight, really fast and you can injure your back. So when you are down there stretching for a long period of time and stretches should generally go for about 20 to 60 seconds. So you are down there for a while. So go ahead and safeguard yourself by hands on the thighs, around your back and bring it on up, also good because sometimes we can get light headed if you try to stand up too fast after an exercise. So those four exercises are really good, two for the upper body and two for the lower body to stretch-out after a workout. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Chapter 7 Open Science
7.1 Transparency
7.2 Inclusion
Opening science does not only mean that scientific products should be openly accessible, or that the scientific process should be open to scrutiny: it also means that science should be open to anybody to participate. Historically1, this has not been the case
7.3 Free/Libre and Open Source Software
For science to be open, it is important that the infrastructure that is built is free to use, and will remain free in perpetuity. This infrastructure should be owned by the community, not one or more commercial organisations. Therefore, it i important to build this infrastructure using Free/Libre and Open Source Software.
Software can be free in two ways: free as in beer and free as in speech. Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) is free in both ways, the Free signifying the first way, and the Libre signifying the second way.
Although choosing to use FLOSS packages does not completely eliminate so-called ‘vendor lock-in,’ it does eliminate many forms. For example, consider these six types of vendor lock-in (see https://twitter.com/jeroenbosman/status/1194618057181794306 for the origin):
A. Disincentives to combine offerings from various vendors 1. User interface and technical compatibility 2. Sales combinations and package deals B. Disincentives to switch to another vendor 1. Knowledge investments 2. Data/procedure adaption 3. Data applicability 4. Collaboration opportunity
Of these, A2, B3 and B4 are eliminated by using FLOSS solutions.
An additional benefit of FLOSS is that it is generally more secure [suggested reasons are that “developers are usually also users of the software, developers are members of a community of developers, public availability of the source code and fast bug removal practices since thousands of independent programmers testing and fixing bugs of the software”; Pandey and Tiwari (2011)].
7.4 Open Data
7.4.1 Types of data participants provide
There are three types of data participants can provide: personal data, creations, and facts.
7.4.1.1 Personal data
Personal data are data about a person, and are that person’s property as established in the General Data Protection Regulation (Crutzen, Peters, and Mondschein 2019). Unless a person decides to release their personal data under a license or into the public domain, these data can never be owned by another person or organisation: at most, those can temporarily control those personal data.
7.4.1.2 Creations
Creative works are copyrighted by their creator, as estbalished in intellectual property law. Qualitative data are usually creations of the data provider, and as such, the data providers (participants) hold copyright of those data.
7.4.1.3 Facts
Data that are not about persons and that are not creative works are facts, which intellectual property law defines as existing in the public domain. Anonymized quantitative data in psychological research usually falls within this category.
Since these data are nobody’s property, one could argue that there is a moral obligation to make the data public so that it is not only defined as existing in the public domain, but it actually is available in the public domain.
7.4.2 Raw data
It has been argued that “[Without] raw data, [there is] no science” (Miyakawa 2020). The availability of raw data has many benefits. One is that it enables the close scrutiny required when one aims to engage in an exercise as complex as the scientific endeavour. The analyses that raw data are subjected to that ultimately lead a researcher to their conclusions comprise many decisions. To err is human, and each of these decisions is therefore subject to some probability of error. When engaging in complex endeavours, therefore, some errors are inevitably made. Making raw data available increases the oppotunities to correct these.
Second, because most decisions a researcher makes are subjective, re-analyses of the same raw data can yield different conclusions - and in fact, this has been shown to be the case (Silberzahn et al. 2018). This means that the original researcher’s results and conclusions are to a degree arbitrary: consequences of the route the researcher ended up taking in the garden of forking paths (Gelman and Loken 2014). Re-analysis of the same data can yield insights into which forks play a particularly large role in determining the final destination, and as such, which decisions require especially comprehensive justifications.
Third, many research questions can be answered with existing data. That requires the data to be available.
7.4.3 Processed data
7.4.4 Born Open Data
Born Open Data (Rouder 2016) are data that …
7.5 Open Materials
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The safe dose of sedative
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• Sedatives, such as benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and sleep medications, are prescribed to treat anxiety, sleeping problems, and seizures. Tolerance, dependence, and addiction are possible outcomes of sedative use, especially. Jun 10, · Key takeaways: Sedatives are a group of medications that are sometimes called depressants, tranquilizers, or hypnotics.
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It is the preferred drug for analgesia in short. 5 เม.ย. The intravenous dose is mcg/kg ( mcg in adults), titrated in 50 to mcg increments. Elderly, debilitated, or ASA III/IV patients: 20 mg every 10 seconds (1 to mg/kg) IV until onset of induction; rapid boluses should not be used, as this will increase the likelihood of undesirable cardiorespiratory depression including hypotension, apnea, airway obstruction, and/or oxygen desaturation. Intramuscular. The drugs used in conscious sedation vary based on delivery method: Oral. You'll get a shot. You'll swallow a tablet containing a drug like diazepam (Valium) or triazolam (Halcion). This means your body has become used to the drug and. Dependence also becomes evident when you need a higher dose to achieve the same effect. RECOMMENDED IV SEDATIVE. DOSE. (min). ONSET OF. ACTION. Doses exceeding recommended ranges should be documented in the patient's chart. DRUG.
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* MONGOLIA. 722 MONGOLIAN RACE. Mongolia proper during this period has no his- torj'; its people were making liistory lor theiii- selves, but outside their own country. Driven 'out of China in 1308 bj- the founder of the Ming dynast_v, the contemporary of Tiniur, the Klialkhas, who had established their rule there under Kublai, retired to their former home nortli of the Gobi, still hoping for an opportunity to reconquer their lost territory, but a great leader did not arise. In 1043 a new dynasty came to the throne of China — the .lanchus — with the help of certain of the Jlongnl tribes wliose seats lay near the Manehurian frontier. In 1088 war broke out between the Kleullis of Sungaria and the Klialkhas, and the latter, being defeated in lU'JO, sought the aid and protection of China. Both were cheerfully given; but it was not till seven years later that warlike operations, led by the Emperor K'ang-hi iu person, resulted in the utter defeat of the Eleuths, and the death of their leader. Gal- dan. Sungaria became a Chinese possession, and all the tribes of Mongolia became vassals of the Emperor. Valuable presents from time to time, the softening influence of Buddhism, the spread of .Moiiacliism. and the personal influence of the Dalai l.ama of Tibet have preserved peace ever since. Bini.ioGK.M'iiY. Prjevalsky, Mongolia, the Tuiit/ut ('duiiI))/. and Ihi; Soliludcs of Tibet, trans, by Delmar Jlorgan (London, 1876| ; Keclus, Tiouvclle gcorjraphie universcUe, vol. vii. (Paris, 1882) ; I'unipelly. (Icoloijiciil Itcsrarrhcs in China, Montjolin, and Jajxin (Washington, 1806) : Gilmour, Amon(f the Momjols (New York, 188:i| : id.. More Aljoiii the Moniiolx (ib.. 18!t3) ; Rockliill. The Land of the hama.i ( ib., 1S!)1 ) ; id., Diarii of a Journej/ Through Monfiolia and Tibet (Washington, 18!)4): PodznC'elT, Mongolia and the Mongols (Saint Petersburg, I8!tl ; and for the history, D'Ohsson, lli.stoire deif Mongols (The Hague, 18:i4-.35) ; Woltl", drsehiehtc der Mongolen (Breslau. 1872) : Iloworth. llislorg of the Mon- gols (London. 1870-78) : Elias, liistory of the Moghuls of Crntral Asia (ib., 1808); Boulger, Uistorg of China (ib.. 1S!)8). MONGOLIAN RACE. Tliat divisiim of man- kin<l which is etiaraet<Mistically .Asiatic and had its primitive home on the continent of ,sia, whence it has sent out liranches into I'uropc. Africa, the islands of the Pacific, and. in the opinion of some authorities, even to the con- tinent of America. Brinlon, who termed this the Asian race, included in it the Sinitie peoples (Chinese, Tibetans, Indo-Chinese) and the Sibiric peoples (Tnngnisic. Mongol ic, Tataric. Finnic, Arctic, and .Fapanese- Korean groups), while he regarded the MalayoPolynesian peoples as a branch descendeil from some aneeslral tribe in -Xsla. Keane moilitics this view and regards the .Malay type as distinctly Mongolic. and also has an ceani<' .Mongol group (iiKJudiiig all the peoples of .Malaysia and Polynesia who arc not of Indonesian, Negritie, Australasian, I'npiuin, or Melanesian stocks), one of the divi- sions of his Homo Mongidicu». Both (liese scholars reject the theory which would derive the American almrigines from a Mongolian stock. Some of the earlier ethnologists saw a large Mon- golian ('Turanian') element in Western .sia and Europe, of which fragments were to be seen in Sumerinns and Ilittites, Pelasgians and Etrus- cans, Iberians and Happies, Piets, and other iso- lated peoples, .'vbuiidant evidence, however, is now forthcuniing that Europe and Western -Asia have from prehistoric times been in the pos- session of peoples belonging to the .Mediterranean branch of the white race and their more northern and southern congeners. The view of other au- thorities that the Celts are largely Mongolian lacks proof, as do also the views of those archae- ologists who explain certain industrial and social ])lienomena of later prehistoric Europe by in- vasions of Mongolian or Jlong(dized (leoplcs from .sia. (Jiitside of the Finno-Ugrian or I'ral- .ltaic peoples of Xortheasleni Europe and the later Mongol and TurkoTataric peoples of Southeastern Russia, the Magyars of Hungary, the Turks of the Balkan Peninsula, and the Huns, Avars, and Bulgars. who came in the wake of the great migration of Germanic peoples (the last- named still surviving to some extent in the Sla- vieized Bulgarians), the Mongolian population of Europe has probably never amounted to much at any epoch, the greatest invasions luiving taken place in historical times during the .Middle -Ages. Western .sia, Europe, and Northern .frica have been as characteristically the environment of the white as the great mass of the Asiatic continent has been that of the yellow race. The members of the Mongolian race jiossess, as a rule, straight, coarse hair (abundant on the head, less on the face, very scanty on the body), yellowish skin, a brachycophalous (or meso- cephalous) head-form, prominent cheek-bones, a roundi.-.li face, a small nose, and small black eyes, with slight elevation of outer angle and vertical fold of skin over the inner canthus. Their stature is medium or below the average. The ■Jlongolian spots' (q.v.) are also considered by some ethnologists a difTerentiating characteristic of this race. Certain bodily characteristics, as the relative proportion of trunk, limbs, anil lie.-d of the typical Mongolian, have led many authori- ties to consider this the most child like of all the human races. Color of skin, statuic. and other peculiarities of a .somatic nature account for the opinion of some that the Mongolian race is nearest to the original human stock, while the white, black, brown, and red races are held to represent greater divergences from the primitive type. That the Mongolian type should be the nearest to the original race and at the same time the closest to the child, who best represents the general human type, is very (irobablc. Phys- ically, then, the Mongolian race is of peculiar interest. Intellectually it runs a gamut equal to that of the white race, from the lowest Iriljcs of Siberia, through the half-civilized peoples of Central Asia and the borders of China, to the great, ancient, and almost stagnant civilization of China, and beyond that to the rapidly advanc- ing and progressive Japanese. Consult: Miiller. Per ugrischr Volhsstnmm (Leipzig. 1837); Rittieli, Die Ethnogrnphie Kusslands (tiotlia, 1S7H) ; Latham, h'ussian and Turk (London, 1S78) ; Helle von Samo, Die VofAor des osmanisehen Keiches (Vienna, 1877): Vflmbfry, Die primilirc Kiillur des turhotatarischen Volkes (I.,eip7.ig, 1871)); id., I'rsprung der Magyarrn (Vienna. 18S.'l) ; iJ., Pas Tiirkenvolk (U'ipzig, 188.5); Winkler. Vral- attiiisehc Volkrr und Spraehen (Berlin, 1884); V}SavY, I'-rpi'dition s<ientifi<iu< fran(:aisr en Kus- sie. en Niberic, etc. (Paris. 1878-80) ; Ten Kate, Zur Craniologie der Mongoloiden (Berlin, 1882) ; | WIKI |
Tech Earnings Provide a Breather From the Selling
Get the DealBook newsletter to make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power-brokers who shape them.__________ Strong earnings reports from technology companies since Wednesday’s close have provided respite from the selling that had gripped stock markets this month and wiped away this year’s gains. The context: Technology stocks, which had propelled the broader indexes to records this year, continued to be battered Wednesday. Heavyweights like Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook all saw their stock fall by more than 5 percent. Plummeting shares in semiconductor makers also weighed on the market, after Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and AMD offered disappointing outlooks. AMD’s shares are down 14 percent Thursday morning. The news: Shares of technology companies are rebounding Thursday, bolstered by the results of some of the sector’s most prominent names. Twitter reported a 29 percent year-over-year gain in revenue on Thursday morning, and Microsoft issued strong earnings after the market closed on Wednesday thanks to the performance of its cloud-computing division. And even the troubled automaker Tesla reported its biggest-ever profit, driven by cost-cutting and delayed payments to vendors. Shares in all three were up in early-morning trading on Thursday. The Nasdaq Composite is up 2 percent, a day after suffering its biggest one-day decline in seven years. What to watch: Two more technology titans could provide more good news for the markets this week. Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, are expected to report strong financial results after the closing bell. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Build a Node.js COVID-19 CLI using The Weather Company Disease Tracker API
Tracking a disease’s progression is incredibly useful in a pandemic like COVID-19. The Weather Company created a Data Disease Tracker API that allows you to track the progression of a disease for a given location. It provides information regarding active diseases including confirmed cases, deaths, and recoveries over a period of up to 60 days in the past.
In this tutorial, I show you how to connect a Node.js application to the Weather Company Data Disease Tracker API endpoint.
Prerequisites
Steps
1. Obtain a Weather Company API Key
2. Obtain a HERE Location Services API Key
3. Install the CLI application
4. Run the CLI application
Obtain a Weather Company API Key
If you’re participating in the Call for Code Global Challenge, you have access to The Weather Company API for COVID-19 Disease Tracking.
Go to the Call for Code Weather website and register. A time-limited API key will be sent to you via email. The documentation for the Weather Company APIs for Call for Code can be found here.
Obtain a HERE Location Services API Key
When using the application, you may pass it a geocode (for example, ‘35.843686,-78.78548’), a postal key (for example, 90210:US), or an address. If you pass an address, the application will try to use HERE Location Services for geocoding.
To access the HERE Geocoding API, an API Key is required. Follow the instructions outlined in the HERE Developer Portal to generate a free API Key.
Install the CLI application
To run this application on your local machine, from a terminal window:
1. Go into the cloned repository directory:
$ cd twc-disease-tracker-api-nodejs
2. Install the application globally to make it available as a command-line script:
$ npm install -g .
Note: To uninstall the script, run:
npm uninstall -g twc-disease-tracker-api-nodejs
When using the application, you can pass the API keys as command-line arguments or set them as environment variables. To configure your API keys in environment variables, from a terminal window:
3. Set your Weather Company Data API key
$ export TWC_APIKEY=<YOUR_TWC_APIKEY>
4. (Optional) If would like to be able to pass an address (instead of geocode or postal key), set your HERE Location Services API key:
$ export HERE_APIKEY=<YOUR_HERE_APIKEY>
Run the CLI application
Note: For more detailed usage information, see the in-app help page which you can access by executing: covid-cli --help
Use the command covid-cli <location> to display a table of total accumulated reported cases for the given location’s county, state, or country. The location can be a geocode (latitude, longitude), a postal code (for example, 90210:US) or an address (if the HERE API is configured), as the following commands show:
Using geocode
The following command requests data about cases at a specific latitude and longitude.
shell
$ covid-cli 42.35866,-71.05674
Using postal key
The following command requests data about cases in a specific postal code (in this case, 02109).
shell
$ covid-cli 02109:US
Using postal address
The following command requests data about cases at a specific address.
shell
$ covid-cli 'Boston, MA'
Sample output
The sample output would look like the following:
Total accumulated COVID-19 reported cases in the past
14 day(s) for Suffolk County (Population: 722023)
┌─────────┬──────────────┬───────────┬────────┐
│ (index) │ dateReport │ confirmed │ deaths │
├─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ '2020-04-17' │ 6820 │ 0 │
│ 1 │ '2020-04-16' │ 6820 │ 120 │
│ 2 │ '2020-04-15' │ 6279 │ 120 │
│ 3 │ '2020-04-14' │ 5872 │ 106 │
│ 4 │ '2020-04-13' │ 5579 │ 88 │
│ 5 │ '2020-04-12' │ 5359 │ 81 │
│ 6 │ '2020-04-11' │ 4926 │ 66 │
│ 7 │ '2020-04-10' │ 4534 │ 56 │
│ 8 │ '2020-04-09' │ 4041 │ 50 │
│ 9 │ '2020-04-08' │ 3600 │ 42 │
│ 10 │ '2020-04-07' │ 3245 │ 41 │
│ 11 │ '2020-04-06' │ 2929 │ 28 │
│ 12 │ '2020-04-05' │ 2658 │ 26 │
│ 13 │ '2020-04-04' │ 2429 │ 24 │
└─────────┴──────────────┴───────────┴────────┘
You can specify the (location) level of the data to retrieve or the number of days (maximum 60) through command-line options. The following command shows that you are looking for the latest data from New Bedford, Massachusetts in the last five days:
Command
$ covid-cli 'new bedford, ma' --level state --days 5
Output
When I ran that command, it returned these results:
Total accumulated COVID-19 reported cases in the past
5 day(s) for Massachusetts (Population: 6949503)
┌─────────┬──────────────┬───────────┬────────┐
│ (index) │ dateReport │ confirmed │ deaths │
├─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ '2020-04-17' │ 32181 │ 1245 │
│ 1 │ '2020-04-16' │ 32181 │ 1245 │
│ 2 │ '2020-04-15' │ 29918 │ 1108 │
│ 3 │ '2020-04-14' │ 28163 │ 957 │
│ 4 │ '2020-04-13' │ 26867 │ 844 │
└─────────┴──────────────┴───────────┴────────┘
You can also pass API keys as command-line options. The command-line options override any set environment variables. A HERE API Key is required only if you plan to pass an address instead of geocode or postal key. The following command is looking for data about a specific address in Cambridge, MA:
Command
shell
$ covid-cli 'cambridge, ma' --twcapikey XXXXXXXXXX --hereapikey XXXXXXXXXX
Output
When I ran that command, it returned these results:
Total accumlated COVID-19 reported cases in the past
14 day(s) for Middlesex County (Population: 1503085)
┌─────────┬──────────────┬───────────┬────────┐
│ (index) │ dateReport │ confirmed │ deaths │
├─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ '2020-04-17' │ 7206 │ 0 │
│ 1 │ '2020-04-16' │ 7206 │ 188 │
│ 2 │ '2020-04-15' │ 6681 │ 188 │
│ 3 │ '2020-04-14' │ 6254 │ 163 │
│ 4 │ '2020-04-13' │ 5983 │ 149 │
│ 5 │ '2020-04-12' │ 5660 │ 137 │
│ 6 │ '2020-04-11' │ 4872 │ 109 │
│ 7 │ '2020-04-10' │ 4447 │ 93 │
│ 8 │ '2020-04-09' │ 4045 │ 80 │
│ 9 │ '2020-04-08' │ 3545 │ 69 │
│ 10 │ '2020-04-07' │ 3187 │ 69 │
│ 11 │ '2020-04-06' │ 2950 │ 42 │
│ 12 │ '2020-04-05' │ 2632 │ 38 │
│ 13 │ '2020-04-04' │ 2468 │ 32 │
└─────────┴──────────────┴───────────┴────────┘
Conclusion
Now that you know how to connect your Node.js application to The Weather Company API for COVID-19 Disease Tracking, you are equipped to extend your knowledge and find new and creative ways to fight the disease.
Resources
The Weather Company – COVID-19
Call for Code – The Weather Company
Call for Code – COVID-19
HERE – Geocoding and Search
Node.js
License
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Realistic matching odds
An interesting article by Balding led me to the following line of thought.
Suspect related to donor
In a typical criminal DNA case, the matching odds calculation presented by the laboratory to the court assumes that the suspect is either the donor or is unrelated to the donor. Consequently the odds against a match at random are astronomical, such as 1014 for a typical CODIS (i.e. United States) STR profile.
If instead the suspect can make a case that the donor might be his brother, the matching odds drop considerably – maybe 106. The most authoratitive recommendation in the US on this point states:
But what are "possible contributors"?
"Possible contributors"
Since the excerpt states that possible contributors should be tested, apparently they are considered to be rather definite people. But that's puts the suspect in an unfair either/or situation:
1. Either there is no chance at all that the suspect is related to the donor (unless by identity), or
2. there is a very good chance.
3. Nothing in between, such as a slight chance.
But common sense says there is always a slight chance. Maybe the suspect doesn't even know that he has a brother. Nonetheless, from the court's point of view he might. And even a slight chance changes the matching odds radically.
Intermediate view
The point is that the fair computation of matching odds would be some sort of weighted odds between the "unrelated random man" computation (e.g. 1014) and the "brother or other close relative" computation (formulas 4.8 and 4.9, e.g. 105). Even a very slight weighting on the second possibility gives a result several orders of magnitude smaller than the "unrelated" computation.
To reiterate – the "unrelated" computation is based on idealized, i.e. unrealistic, assumptions, such as the assumption that the suspect is either the donor or is completely unrelated to the donor. At the other unrealistic extreme, we imagine that the suspect is either the donor or the brother of the donor. A reasonable intermediate view, in my opinion, is that assuming the suspect is not the donor then he is probably nearly unrelated to the donor but there is some small chance that the donor is his close relative, so a more relevant matching odds calculations is some weighted average between the two numbers I mentioned (ok, and also of other intermediate numbers representing other relationships, more distant than brother).
Weighted average
Here's an example.
Degree of relationship Prob thereof Prob relative matches Chance of such match
sibling 1/4096 1/150000 1/630e6
parent/child 1/4096 1/160e6 1/640e9
uncle/nephew/halfsib 1/2048 1/19e9 1/40e12
1st cousin 1/1024 1/620e9 1/630e12
1/32 allele sharing IBD 1/512 1/5.9e12 1/3e15
1/64 (=second cousin) 1/256 1/23e12 1/5.8e15
1/128 1/128 1/48e12 1/6.1e15
1/256 (=third cousin) 1/64 1/71e12 1/4.6e15
1/512 1/32 1/88e12 1/2.8e15
1/1024 (=fourth cousin) 1/16 1/97e12 1/1.6e15
1/2048 1/8 1/100e12 1/820e12
1/4096 (=fifth cousin) 1/4 1/110e12 1/420e12
unrelated 1/2 1/110e12 1/220e12
Cumulative weighted matching chance= 1/630e6
Matching odds calculated conventionally are 110e12 (1.1 • 1014). Maybe 630 million is a more meaningful number. The estimate 1/4096 as the relative chance of a brother being the culprit (assuming the suspect is not), is a completely arbitrary number. Notice, though, that the weighted average is 100% dominated by the "brother" term. The "random man" matching number is completely irrelevant. The final result depends on only:
1. the matching odds for siblings
2. the conditional probability a sibling is the donor, given that the suspect is not.
The DNA•VIEWTM profile computation tool DNA odds offers the above computation as an option ("Uniqueness estimate").
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PACIFIC INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. MOUNTAIN INN, INC., Roy Brumfield and Katharine P. Brumfield, Defendants, J. Orville Cheney, Commissioner of Revenues, State of Arkansas, Intervenor.
No. 519.
United States District Court W. D. Arkansas, Fayetteville Division.
Aug. 26, 1964.
Kaneaster Hodges, Newport, Ark., Courtney C. Crouch, Springdale, Ark., for plaintiff.
E. J. Ball, Rex Perkins, Fayetteville, Ark., for Mountain Inn, Inc.
W. B. Putman, Fayetteville, Ark., for the Brumfields.
JOHN E. MILLER, Chief Judge.
This is a diversity action commenced by the plaintiff March 3, 1964, seeking judgment against the defendants in the sum of $130,236.12 and foreclosure of a second mortgage. Plaintiff, Pacific Industries, Inc., (Pacific), is a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in that State and is the corporate successor of Itasca Draperies, Inc., (Itasca), also a Texas corporation with its principal place of business in that State. The defendant, Mountain Inn, Inc., (Inn) is an Arkansas corporation with its principal place of business in Fayetteville, Washington County. The individual defendants, Roy Brumfield and Katharine P. Brumfield, (Brumfield), are citizens of the State of Arkansas and residents of Fayetteville, Washington County.
Plaintiff, Pacific, in its complaint alleged: On or about April 25, 1962, defendant Inn and Itasca entered into a purchase and sale agreement for the sale of certain furniture, fixtures and equipment to be delivered by the plaintiff’s predecessor, Itasca, and installed in the hotel and motel operated by the defendant Inn at Fayetteville, Arkansas. The complaint contains a specific description of the furniture, fixtures and equipment shipped to and installed in the Inn under the purchase agreement at a total sales price of $147,188.98. To the purchase price there was added what is described in the complaint as “tax 3%” in the amount of $4,415.67 for a total obligation of $151,604.65.
It was further alleged that the Inn agreed to pay a “Time Price Balance” of $169,873.20 for the property described in the agreement payable in 60 consecutive monthly installments beginning May 28, 1962, in the amount of $2,831.22 and bearing interest after maturity at the highest legal contract rate; that the purchase agreement instrument reserved title in the seller until payment was made in full of the entire debt. That this instrument was sufficient in form as a financing statement, was signed by the seller and purchaser, and was properly filed in the office of the Secretary of the State of Arkansas. That the plaintiff, Pacific assigned and delivered all its interest in the purchase contract instrument to Westinghouse Credit Corporation (WCC). That the individual defendants Brumfield executed an agreement with WCC under the terms of which they personally guaranteed the debt due WCC under the assigned purchase contract; that the individual defendants executed an escrow agreement with WCC under the terms of which they placed with the First National Bank of Fayetteville, Arkansas, the following described corporate stock:
20 shares of Union Carbide
45 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey
30 shares of Westinghouse
10 shares of Kennecott Copper
30 shares of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
12 shares of Morgin Trust
7 shares of Sun Oil
€0 shares of General Motors
It also was alleged that the guaranty agreement and escrow agreement were executed to secure the payment of furniture, fixtures and equipment in the assigned purchase contract. That on January 29, 1962, defendant Inn executed and delivered to WCC the second mortgage conveying the following described lands in the City of Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas: Lots 2, 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 28 in the original town (now city) of Fayetteville, which was to secure the payment of the debt due by the terms of the purchase contract. That the second mortgage was given subject to a first mortgage executed by the defendant Inn to certain individuals as the Trustees for Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Teamsters Union, dated October 1,1960, and of record in Washington County Mortgage Record Book 545 at page 190, and to a supplemental mortgage between the same parties dated January 1, 1962, to secure an additional $50,000, making the sum due under the first mortgage $725,000.
The complaint further alleged that on or about April 25, 1962, the first mortgagee, Central States, et al., entered into an agreement with WCC, in which it agreed that the furniture, fixtures and equipment sold to Inn by Pacific would remain personal property so that the holder of the above described purchase agreement would have recourse in the enforcement and payment of the debt. That on January 5, 1962, plaintiff entered into an agreement with WCC, and by the terms of which it agreed to guarantee the payment of any contract assigned to WCC and that it would repurchase these contracts in case of default of payment in 60 days. That defendant Inn and individual defendants Brumfield executed an extension of the debt with WCC. That defendant Inn has failed and refused to pay the installments due under the terms of the purchase agreement and the extension agreement, and that WCC demanded that the plaintiff, Pacific, perform its guaranty contract to repurchase the purchase agreement.
On or about March 1, 1964, plaintiff, Pacific, paid WCC the full consideration for the purchase contract, whereupon W CC reassigned and redelivered to the plaintiff the purchase agreement, the guaranty agreement, the escrow agreement, the second mortgage and the mortgage agreement and waiver. The title to these five documents is now in the plaintiff. That the plaintiff elected, as authorized by the terms of the purchase agreement, to accelerate the maturity of all of the installments due under that agreement, and that the corporate defendant Inn and the individual defendants Brumfile are now indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $130,236.12, together with interest at 6 percent per annum from March 1, 1964. That the purchase agreement provided for the payment of attorneys’ fees in the event of litigation to enforce the obligation.
In its prayer plaintiff seeks judgment against the defendants in the sum of $130,236.12 (at the trial plaintiff’s attorney stated amount due is $115,483.17), with interest at 6 percent per annum, for any additional sums which plaintiff may be forced to pay to protect its security, for a first lien on all of the described furniture, fixtures and equipment sold by plaintiff’s predecessor, Itasca, a first lien on all corporate stock held in escrow by First National Bank of Fayetteville; to have a lien on the real property described in the first and second mortgages subject to the first mortgage; appointment of a commissioner to sell said property and lands, if judgment is rendered in favor of plaintiff and is not paid within a reasonable time fixed by the court, a receiver be appointed to take charge, manage and preserve all the above-described property; that any purchaser under a sale of the above described property be decreed to have the right to immediate possession of the property and be given a writ of assistance to be issued by the Clerk of the Court, and that the equity of redemption, as well as all rights or possibilities of dower and homestead, of the individual defendants be foreclosed and barred and that the plaintiff be awarded an attorneys’ fee equal to 15 percent of the debt due by the defendant and for costs and all other proper relief.
On April 14, 1964, defendants Brumfield filed their answer in which they admitted the court has jurisdiction of the controversy and the parties, and denied the purchase contract was executed or entered into on April 25,1962, and affirmatively alleged that the contract was signed by Inn on January 27, 1962, and that it was materially altered by changing the date from January 27 to April 25, 1962. They also alleged that the contract is void as it provides for a charge of interest in excess of that allowed by the law of Arkansas.
Defendants admitted the purchase agreement was assigned by Itasca on or about April 26, 1962, and delivered to WCC; that they signed the alleged guaranty agreement in favor of WCC, but in defense averred that it is void for want of consideration because it provides for interest in excess of the rate allowed by the law of the State of Arkansas.
Defendants also averred that they are not bound by the guaranty agreement because it was special and not general and thus not assignable; admitted they executed the escrow agreement but averred that it is void because of the lack of consideration of the guaranty agreement; admitted the execution and delivery to WCC of the second mortgage of the real property involved; that a waiver was executed by the first real property mortgagee in favor of the second mortgagee, WCC, which provided that the furniture, fixtures and equipment would remain personal property.
The individual defendants in their separate answer admitted that the corporate defendant has not performed the purchase agreement contract, and they averred they are without knowledge as to whether the plaintiff reacquired said contract from WCC. They further alleged that if plaintiff reacquired the purchase contract from WCC, plaintiff acquired no title or property rights therein for the following reasons:
1. That the purchase agreement has been materially altered by the plaintiff and provides for interest at a rate in excess of that provided by law and under the law of Arkansas is absolutely void.
2. That the guaranty agreement executed by the individual defendants is void because it has been materially altered and provides for interest at a rate in excess of that allowed by law; that neither WCC nor Pacific gave any consideration to the individual defendants for their execution of the guaranty agreement.
3. That the escrow agreement is without force and effect because the original purchase contract is void for the reasons given above, and that the guaranty agreement is void for the reasons given above, and that neither WCC nor Pacific gave defendants any consideration for the execution of the escrow agreement.
Defendants in their answer further admitted that plaintiff is entitled to accelerate the payments under the purchase agreement provided that their defenses as otherwise set out are without foundation, and that Inn is in possession of all property described in the complaint except the corporate stock described in the escrow agreement. Defendants denied that the personal property, stocks and bonds and mortgaged real property is in danger of loss by being removed or materially injured, and that the property is insufficient to discharge the debt alleged to be due the plaintiff.
Defendants admitted the contract provides for attorneys’ fees but denied that the plaintiff is entitled to an allowance for attorneys’ fees. The prayer in the separate answer of the defendants Brumfield is that the plaintiff take nothing and that the complaint be dismissed and for all other proper relief to which they might be entitled.
Defendant Inn’s separate answer contains substantially the same admissions and denials, together with a counterclaim in which it alleged that the plaintiff impliedly warranted that the furniture and fixtures were fit for the purposes for which they were intended; that the warranty has been breached by virtue of the unfitness of the furniture and fixtures, but at the trial the counterclaim was withdrawn and abandoned by Inn.
On April 18,1964, Pacific filed a motion for the appointment of a receiver, and on April 20, 1964, the court appointed Mr. Charles E. Aubrey, an officer of plaintiff, as receiver of the property of Inn, and required a bond to be posted in the sum of $10,000. The order provided that the receiver operate the hotel-motel business and preserve and conserve the assets of the corporate defendant. It further provided that an inventory of the property be prepared and filed with the Clerk of the Court.
On July 8, 1964, the Commissioner of Revenues, State of Arkansas, sought to intervene. In his petition he alleged that tax in the amount of $4,415.67 collected by the plaintiff, Pacific, had not been remitted to the State of Arkansas or to intervenor whose duty it is to collect it. Intervenor prayed that plaintiff be required to pay the State of Arkansas that sum plus 10 percent penalty, plus interest at the rate of one half of one percent per month from May 28, 1962.
On July 9,1964, Foremost Dairies, Inc., a corporation, filed a motion to continue the receivership of defendant Inn for the benefit of general creditors. Foremost in its statement in support of its motion stated that Inn is indebted to it in the amount of $1,061.15, said balance due on open account for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered to Mountain Inn between February 26, 1964, and April 22, 1964.
On July 10, 1964, defendants Brumfield filed an amendment to their answer in which they admitted that the corporate defendant executed an agreement with WCC in January 1963 amending the terms of the original purchase contract and extending it, but they denied, however, that the extension was executed with WCC by them individually. Defendants further alleged that the guaranty agreement and the escrow agreement are unenforceable in that they were personal and special guaranty agreements in favor of WCC, and that subsequent to the execution of said guaranty agreement the terms of the original contract of sale were materially altered without the consent of the individual defendants. They also adopted the allegations of the original answer, and prayed that the complaint against them individually be dismissed.
At the trial the court allowed the intervenor to dismiss its petition as all taxes due and payable the State of Arkansas had been paid in full.
On July 13, 1964, the case was tried to the court and the parties adduced evidence, ore tenus and documentary. The motion of Foremost Dairies to continue the receivership was considered by the court but action was deferred. At the conclusion of all the testimony the case was submitted and taken under advisement by the court and the parties were requested to submit briefs in support of their respective contentions, which have been received and considered by the court.
The issues as developed by the pleadings, testimony and briefs may be stated generally as follows: (a) Is the primary obligation (conditional sales contract) between Inn and Pacific usurious? (b) Is the personal guaranty and escrow agreement executed by the individual defendants supported by consideration?
CLAIM OF USURY
The defendants, as heretofore stated, contend that the primary obligation of Inn exacts an amount of interest in excess of that allowed by law and is, therefore, usurious. The defendants cite Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, Sec. 13, which provides:
“All contracts for a greater rate of interest than ten percent per annum shall be void, as to principal and interest, and the General Assembly shall prohibit the same by law.”
Ark.Stat.Ann., Sec. 68-602 (1957 Repl.), provides:
“The parties to any contract, whether the same be under seal or not, may agree in writing for the payment of interest not exceeding ten (10) percent per annum on money due or to become due.”
A conditional sales contract, such as that involved in the instant transaction, falls within the above cited constitutional and statutory provisions. As provided in Ark.Stat.Ann., Sec. 68-603:
“No person or corporation shall, directly or indirectly, take or receive in money, goods, things in action, or any other valuable thing, any greater sum or value for the loan or forbearance of money or goods, things in action, or any other valuable thing, than is in Section one [§ 68-602] of this act prescribed.”
See, Sloan v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 228 Ark. 464, 308 S.W.2d 802 (1947); and Hare v. General Contract Purchase Corp., 220 Ark. 601, 249 S.W.2d 973 (1952).
In the instant case the cash or sale price of the furniture and equipment as reflected in the conditional sales contract is $151,604.65. A down payment was credited against the cash sale price in the amount of $15,160.46, resulting in a principal balance of $136,444.19. To the principal balance a finance charge, or time price differential, was added in the sum of $33,429.01. The total amount of the obligation thus after credit of the down payment and addition of the finance charge amounted to $169,873.20. The conditional sales contract further provided that “Buyer agrees to pay the time balance in sixty (60) consecutive monthly installments, beginning on the 28th day of May 1962, and on the same day of each month thereafter. Each installment shall be in the amount of $2,831.22, except the last installment, which shall be $2,831.22, and shall bear interest after maturity at the highest legal contract rate.”
The finance charge or time price differential is an amount exacted for the forbearance or extension of time for the payment of the principal balance, and is therefore interest as contemplated by the Arkansas Constitution and Statutes. Sloan v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., supra. An examination and comparison of the finance charge and the principal unpaid balance in the instant action, i. e., $33,429.01 on an unpaid principal balance of $136,444.19 for a period of 60 months, reflects an interest rate less than the legal maximum.
There is also a provision in the personal guaranty executed by the defendants Roy and Katharine P. Brumfield which provides for an attorneys’ fee of 15 percent of the principal obligation. The plaintiff in its brief concedes that such attorneys’ fees may not be allowed under the law of Arkansas. Brown v. Merchants & Planters Bank & Trust Co., 202 Ark. 684, 152 S.W.2d 548 (1941). A provision for attorneys’ fees, although void, does not per se render an otherwise valid contract usurious. As stated in Brown v. Merchants & Planters Bank & Trust Co., supra, at page 691, 152 S.W.2d at page 551:
“The contract was for compensation for attorneys, and while it was not a proper charge against appellants, it did not make the original contract usurious. This court has frequently held that an agreement for an attorney’s fee is void, but that such a provision in a contract does not make the contract usurious. This fee was not paid and the trial court held that it could not be collected.”
The collection by the seller-obligee of an amount designated and labeled as “sales tax,” for which the seller is unquestionably liable to the State of Arkansas normally should not be computed as part of the interest or an exaction for forbearance. Defendant Inn contends that the collection of the item designated “sales tax” was a sham, and the seller did not intend to pay the state tax. It cites Wilson v. Whitworth, 197 Ark. 675, 125 S.W.2d 112 (1939); Winston v. Personal Finance Co. of Pine Bluff, 220 Ark. 580, 249 S.W.2d 315 (1952); and Strickler v. State Auto Finance Company, 220 Ark. 565, 249 S.W.2d 307 (1952).
However, the court cannot infér that the seller’s lack of diligence in paying the tax in the instant case was a subterfuge to collect an amount in excess of the lawful interest rate. When, as in the instant case, conduct on the part of the seller in not remitting the tax to the State Revenue Department is capable of an explanation which, if reasonable, does not create a presumption of bad faith, the court may not properly infer it. In view of the explanation of the delay in paying the tax, the court is of the opinion that neither Itasca nor Pacific intended to charge interest in excess of ten percent, and the primary obligation between Inn and Itasca (Pacific) is therefore not usurious.
PERSONAL GUARANTY
The plaintiff contends that the personal guaranty executed by the defendants Brumfield on January 29, 1962, was an integral part of the negotiations and purchase agreement, which it contends was executed April 25, 1962. Plaintiff, therefore, takes the position that the personal guaranty is supported by sufficient consideration and contends that it was executed as a part of the original negotiations with respect to the purchase of furniture, fixtures and equipment.
The individual defendants contend (1) that the guaranty executed by them was in addition to and as a result of demands and threats made by Itasca and Pacific in telephone conversations in December 1961; (2) that the transaction involving purchase of personal property and services supplied by Itasca was consummated in November of 1961 and not later than the first week of December 1961; and (3) that the personal guaranty was exacted from them by James Cqllins, President, Pacific Industries, as additional collateral because of a demand made upon Collins by WCC in connection with the financing agreement between Itasca and WCC that he personally guarantee the payment of the purchase price to WCC as set forth in the contract. The individual defendants thus take the position that their individual guaranty of the debt of Inn is without any consideration.
In addition they contend that they executed the personal guaranty because of a threatened breach of contract by Itasca. Mrs. Brumfield in her testimony stated that Collins by telephone threatened to keep his men from returning to the job after the Christmas holidays and from completing the carpet laying and other installations of furniture and equipment unless the Brumfields signed a personal guaranty in favor of WCC. Mrs. Brumfield further stated that the hotel was scheduled to open in January and that when the personnel of Itasca left for the Christmas holidays in December, the job was only one-third to one-half completed. Thus, the defendants take the position that because of economic hardship and threatened breach of contract they were coerced into executing the personal guaranty.
A personal guaranty by an individual to assume or become a surety for the debts of another must be supported by consideration to be enforceable as any other contract must be supported by consideration to be enforceable.
In 38 C.J.S. Guaranty § 26b, at pages 1163-1164, it is stated:
“Where the contract of guaranty is made before or at the same time as the principal contract, and both contracts form parts of the same transaction, one consideration is sufficient for both the principal and the collateral contract and there need not be any other consideration than that moving between the guarantee and the principal obligor under the principal contract; and in some jurisdictions this rule is prescribed by statute. In accordance with this rule, where a guaranty of payment of a note is made before or at the time of the execution of the note, the consideration for the note is the consideration for the guaranty, and no further consideration is necessary. So, also, the delivery of property to a third person on the faith of a guaranty of payment is a sufficient consideration for the guaranty; and where a guaranty of a lease is executed before or at the time of the execution and delivery of the lease, the consideration for the lease is the consideration for the guaranty.
“Although a contract of guaranty is executed subsequently to the principal contract, it is regarded as being made at the same time so as to constitute a part of the same transaction and be supported by the same consideration, and not to require a new consideration, where it is executed pursuant to an understanding had before and is an inducement to the execution of the principal contract; or where it is delivered before any obligation or liability is incurred under the principal contract; or where it is made pursuant to some provision in the principal contract; or where the principal contract does not become operative until the execution of the guaranty; or where the contract of guaranty expressly refers to a previous agreement between the principal debtor and the creditor which is executory in its character and embraces prospective dealings between the parties.” (Emphasis added.)
Thus, requisite consideration to support a personal guaranty agreement may generally be summarized as follows: (a) If executed on or before the execution of a primary debt obligation, it is enforceable if induced by and given in consideration of the primary debt obligation; (b) if executed subsequently to the execution of the primary obligation, it may be enforced if supported by additional consideration either moving to the original obligor or to the guarantor; (c) any detriment incurred by the obligee of the primary debt and which is induced by the guarantor will support the guaranty obligation; and (d) in some instances courts have found consideration which will support a personal guaranty when the guarantor is a stockholder and director of the corporation which incurred the principal debt or obligation without additional further consideration because of the relationship of a guarantor and the corporate obligor.'
In the instant transaction plaintiff does not allege that any additional consideration was given in exchange for the guar-, anty. It does, however, contend that the guaranty is a part of and supported by consideration of the principal debt or obligation, citing Beeson v. LaVasque, 144 Ark. 522, 525, 223 S.W. 355, 356 (1920), in which the court held that a personal guaranty was supported by sufficient consideration because it “was attached to and is part of the original contract.” The case recognized the guaranty as an integral part of and executed contemporaneously with the primary obligation. This rule is stated in 24 Am. Jur., Sec. 49, Guaranty, p. 906, as follows:
“If the promise of the guarantor is shown to have been given as part of a transaction or arrangement which included the creation of the guaranteed debt or obligation, it is not essential to a recovery that the promise shall have been supported by a consideration other than that of the principal debt — that is, one and the same consideration may suffice for both contracts where the contract of guaranty has been entered into at the time of creation of the principal obligation. For example, a guaranty of payment is supported by a consideration where it accompanies and is the inducement of a sale of goods.”
The plaintiff also takes the position that the negotiations and transactions between the parties began in November 1961 and continued through and were consummated April 25, 1962, and thus all prior writing and negotiations became merged in the instrument dated April 25, 1962. The plaintiff, in support of its contention that the guaranty dated January 29, 1962, became merged in the instrument dated April 25, 1962, cites and relies upon the following:
Harrower v. Insurance Co. of North America, 144 Ark. 279, 222 S.W. 39 (1920), in which the court at page 281 of 144 Ark., at page 40 of 222 S.W., said:
“It is familiar law that prior oral agreements and antecedent writings forming a part of the negotiations for a contract become merged in the subsequent written contract and are incompetent as evidence for the purpose of enlarging the scope of such written contract. * * * The policy issued and delivered constituted a contract between the parties and all antecedent negotiations and agreements were merged into it.”
(Citations.)
12 Am.Jur., Sec. 232, Contracts, p. 755, in which it is stated:
“Where the parties intend a writing to be the sole memorial or integration of the contract, the writing embodies the contract and, accordingly, the interpretation of the contract consists of the interpretation of the writing. * * * In the absence of mistake or fraud, a written contract merges all prior and contemporaneous negotiations in reference to the same subject, and the whole engagement of the parties and the extent and manner of their undertaking are embraced in the writing.”
The record reflects and the court finds that Itasca in a letter dated November 29, 1961, to Mountain Inn considered the contract consummated on that date. This letter is as follows:
“ITASCA CONTRACT STUDIOS
1511 Bryan Street, Suite 631
P. O. Box 2580
Dallas 21, Texas
“Winslow Taylor
Executive Vice-President November 29, 1961
“To: Mountain Inn, Inc.
“Attention: Mr. & Mrs. Roy Brumfield
“As per written commitment to you by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and their oral commitment to us we hereby agree to supply, deliver and install furnishings and fixtures for the Mountain Inn in Fayetteville, Arkansas in accordance with attached schedules and prices and with future schedules and prices to be completed. Any additions, subtractions and changes must be mutually agreed upon by Mr. & Mrs. Roy Brumfield and by Itasca Contract Studios.
Terms: Approximate total amount of sale $150,000.00 to $160,000.00
Down payment 10% of total sale
Balance due and payable in 60 equal and consecutive monthly installments at interest rate of 4^4% per annum add-on.
/s/ Winslow R. Taylor.”
The testimony is convincing and the court finds that the negotiations with respect to the personal guaranty of the Brumfields and the escrow of Mrs. Brumfield’s personal corporate stocks began sometime after the 1961 Christmas holidays. On January 5, 1962, the Vice President of Itasca telegraphed defendant Mrs. Roy Brumfield as follows:
“HI 2-7377
“Mrs. Roy Brumfield
“This is our firm commitment to proceed with financial agreement exactly as outlined in Westinghoúse letter to you November 6. Only additional requirement is Escrow arrangement on your personal stocks as per your conversation with Rod Hill this morning. No Escrow on real estate. Mr. Clester, Collins, Hill and self all understand this deal as above. Please approve by return wire for record and our installation men will arrive tomorrow. Will call in morning with information on china and other items.
Win Taylor.”
On January 29, 1962, the President of Inn, defendant Roy Brumfield, transmitted the conditional sales contract executed by him on behalf of the corporation to Itasca. This letter recites the exact provisions with respect to the monthly payments and amounts, and reflects that the conditional sales contract itself was executed by Brumfield the 27th day of January 1962. With respect to the contention by Brumfield that the contract was consummated in January and not April, as asserted by the plaintiff, his letter of that date contained the following directions for the insertion of the date on which the first installment under the purchase contract was to be made:
“The date within which the furniture and fixtures is to be installed in the new addition to the Mountain Inn Hotel and the date the first installment of $2,831.22 is to begin are in blank, and you are authorized to complete these blanks by inserting a date for payments to begin which will be on or before 45 days following completion of the installation of the furniture and fixtures and the execution of a certificate of acceptance that the delivery and installation of the furniture and fixtures have been made.”
r. us, the documentary evidence clearly establishes and the court so finds that all of the duties and obligations of the parties had become fixed and were reduced to writing on or before January 27, 1962. The only act remaining as of January 29, 1962, was the insertion of the date of completion of the installation of the furniture and fixtures by the seller with the condition that the first payment begin 45 days after the completion of the installation of the furniture and equipment. Assuming arguendo that as of January-29, 1962, the parties had not reduced their obligation and financial arrangements to writing, a contract was in existence as of that date because the obligations and duties of the parties had been agreed upon and were fixed. There is no indication in the record that the parties conditioned the execution of the insertion date of the completion of the installation as a condition precedent to the existence of their duties and obligations. If the parties had agreed that the writing itself should be executed by both parties as a condition precedent to their obligations and duties, this would control the instant action.
In Arkansas, as well as in the majority of other jurisdictions, the making of a valid contract requires no writing whatever. See Corbin on Contracts, One Vol., 1952 Ed. As stated in Sec. 31, at page 49:
“So far as the common law is concerned, the making of a valid contract requires no writing whatever; and even if there is a writing, there need be no signatures unless the parties have made them necessary at the time they express their assent and as a condition modifying that assent.”
Had the parties contemplated the signing and execution of the written memorandum as a condition precedent to the existence of their obligations and duties, the following principle, of course, would apply:
“On the other hand, the court may be convinced that the parties did not mean to be bound until the formal document is executed, in which case there is no contract until its execution by both parties.”
In the instant transaction the evidence conclusively establishes, and the court so finds, that the parties considered their duties and obligations determined and fixed in November 1961. It is apparent that the defendant corporation, Inn, had committed itself to purchase furniture, fixtures and equipment and services in the amount of between $150,000.00 and $160,000.00. The parties had also discussed and agreed upon in detail specific items of furniture and equipment to be furnished by Itasca with leave, however, to make certain substitutions, additions or subtractions. At this point in time the essential requisites of a binding contractual obligation came into existence as the duties and obligations of the parties were definite and certain.
The letter to Mountain Inn from Itasca of November 29, 1961, and the telegram of January 5, 1962, support the conclusion that the parties did not intend the execution of a written memorandum as a condition precedent to the creation of their obligations and duties. Assuming, however, that the written memorandum was essential to bind the parties, the execution by Brumfield on January 2Y, 1962, contained in detail every essential element of the transaction. Thus, there can be no doubt that the contractual obligations of the parties were in existence and enforceable, definite and certain prior to the execution of the personal guaranty and the escrow agreement by the individual defendants, Roy and Katharine P. Brumfield.
The court finds that the contract between Itasca and Mountain Inn, Inc., was entered into in November 1961 and was complete in all material respects. Under it Itasca sold to Inn and agreed to install the furniture, fixtures, etc. The Inn became liable for the purchase price, the specific amount of which was to be determined upon completion of the installation.
There was introduced into evidence Exhibit X, which is a copy of a guaranty executed by James M. Collins, President of Itasca Draperies, Inc., the predecessor of plaintiff, Pacific. The copy that was introduced into evidence is not dated, but by its terms Mr. Collins became absolutely liable to WCC for any default by Mountain Inn, Inc. The document does show that on March 2, 1964, Mr. Collins paid WCC and the contract was reassigned to' the plaintiff as the successor of Itasca.
Pursuant to the November 1961 agreement Itasca began performance of the contract in December 1961 by supplying certain articles of furniture, fixtures and equipment and installation of carpets. The employees of Itasca were on the job until the 1961 Christmas holidays when all of the employees, or a majority, returned to Dallas, Texas, and did not return to the job site at Mountain Inn, Fayetteville, Arkansas, after the holidays. Naturally the Brumfields were very anxious for Itasca to complete the installation, and called Itasca over long distance telephone and requested that it proceed with the installation. In the meantime, Collins had attempted to assign the contract between Inn and Itasca to WCC, but before WCC would accept the assignment and advance to Itasca the money to finance the deal, Collins was required by WCC to execute the guaranty hereinbefore referred to. Therefore, Collins, as President of Itasca, did not desire to proceed with the performance of the November 1961 contract without additional security, and immediately began discussions with WCC and no doubt enlisted WCC’s aid in his efforts to obtain the personal guaranty of the Brumfields and the escrow agreement. As a result of the demands made by Itasca through its President and other officers, with the cooperation and help of WCC, upon the Brumfields and the threat of Itasca that it would not complete its contract, the Brumfields were faced with the possibility of a long, ruinous delay and with no legal remedy available against Collijis’ threatened breach of the contract other than equally ruinous, time-consuming and costly litigation. Therefore, the Brumfields submitted to the economic pressures imposed upon them, and on January 29, 1962, the contract of guaranty was executed and subsequently on April 16,1962, the escrow agreement was executed.
In Missouri Pac. R. Co. v. Fields Brothers, 134 Ark. 273, 203 S.W. 1036 (1918), the shipper applied to the station agent of the defendant railroad to furnish a common boxcar for the shipment of a carload of apples from Russellville to Little Rock. The defendant refused to accept the apples for shipment in a common boxcar and demanded that the plaintiff ship in a refrigerated car. The shipper paid the freight rate for the refrigerated car and instituted suit for the difference between carriage in a common boxcar and a refrigerated one. Judgment was rendered in favor of the shipper in the trial court, and the Supreme Court of Arkansas, in affirming the judgment, at page 276 of 134 Ark., at page 1037 of 203 S.W. stated:
“They were at the mercy of appellant, and were driven to the necessity of accepting the character of car dictated, or of refraining from shipping their product to the market. It is true, as suggested by appellant, that courts will only enforce contracts, and not make them; but it is also true that courts will not enforce contracts entered into by the coercion of one of the parties. Appellees were entitled to the car ordered, under the agreed statement of facts in this case, upon the payment of the usual freight rate, and therefore have a right to recover any additional freight exacted and obtained by appellant.”
The court realizes the possibility that was open to the defendants — attempt to secure another supplier — however, it is not speculation to assume that no other contractor would begin or assume the installation of fixtures and equipment when a prior contract is in existence and disputed. The evidence fails to establish any benefit derived by the individual defendants by virtue of their becoming personally liable as guarantors for the corporate obligation. The individual defendants likewise received no part of the original consideration in the conditional sales contract. The only arguable benefit they derived from the entire transaction is at most an indirect one as officers or stockholders of the Mountain Inn, Inc. This court cannot in equity compel the performance of an obligation exacted in circumstances which so strongly indicate actual duress and coercion even though it might be established that the personal guaranty was supported by sufficient consideration.
Therefore, in accordance with the above, judgment and decree will be entered in favor of the plaintiff, Pacific Industries, Inc., and against the defendant, Mountain Inn, Inc., for the sum of $115,-483.17, with interest at 6 percent per annum from March 1, 1964, and providing that the plaintiff have a first lien on all furniture, fixtures and equipment furnished to Mountain Inn, Inc., by Itasca Draperies, Inc.; a lien on the real property hereinbefore described, subject to the lien of the first mortgage executed October 1, 1960, and supplemental mortgage dated January 1, 1962, to Central States, et al. That if the amount due hereunder from Mountain Inn, Inc., to the plaintiff be not paid within 20 days from the date of the entry of the judgment and decree, the property shall be sold by a commissioner named in the decree and in accordance with the conditions named in the decree and the law governing the sale of property in the foreclosing of liens.
The decree shall also provide that the receiver heretofore appointed shall submit a formal report as of the date of the sale and that the amount of money accumulated by the receiver as a result of the operation of the propei’ty shall be held for credit upon the judgment herein in the event said property does not sell for a sum sufficient to pay the amount due together with court costs and cost of sale. In the event the property does sell for an amount sufficient to satisfy the judgment herein, said funds accumulated by the receiver shall be deposited in the registry of the court until further orders of the court. That the complaint of plaintiff against the defendants Roy Brumfield and Katharine P. Brumfield be dismissed for want of equity; that the personal stock described in the escrow agreement and now in possession of the First National Bank of Fayetteville, Arkansas, shall be retained by said bank in its possession until further orders of this court. That the plaintiff is not entitled to recover attorneys’ fees.
The attorneys for plaintiff shall submit for entry within ten days a precedent for decree in accordance with the above.
. $169,873.20 added to the initial down payment of $15,160.46 results in total purchase price of $185,033.66.
. The tax was paid to the State of Arkansas on June 4, 1964.
Ark.Stat.Ann., See. 84-3108 (1960 Repl.), provides that a vendor of personal property for use or consumption in this State shall collect the tax and the amount shall be displayed separately upon the instrument evidencing the sale.
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“GUARANTY
“Westingkouse Credit Corporation
933 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh 22, Pa.
Re: Mountain Inn, Inc.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
“Gentlemen:
“In consideration of you, herein called ‘Corporation’, purchasing or otherwise acquiring from and/or entering into with the party named above, herein called ‘Obligor’, conditional sale agreements, trust receipts, ehattie mortgages, leases, notes or other obligations or choses in action, herein called ‘Contracts’, the undersigned and each of them, jointly and severally, do absolutely and unconditionally guarantee to Corporation and its affiliates, the full, faithful and prompt performance, payment and discharge by Obligor of any and all covenants, conditions and obligations provided to be performed by Obligor in any and all such Contracts and/or any and all agreements of Obligor with Corporation now in force or hereafter made.
“Notice of acceptance of this Guaranty is hereby waived. Presentment, protest and demand, and notice of protest and demand of any and all Contracts are hereby waived. Any rights to extension, composition or otherwise under the Bankruptcy Act or any amendments thereof, or under any state or other federal statute are hereby waived. The extensions of the times of payment or the renewal of Contracts or the extensions of the times of performance of agreements or any other compromises, adjustments, or indulgences may be granted to Obligor without notice to undersigned.
“Failure of the Corporation to insist upon strict performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and covenants of any Contract or to exercise any right therein contained ■ shall not be construed as a waiver or. relinquishment for the future of any term, provision or covenant thereof, but, as to the undersigned, the same shall continue and remain in full force and effect. Receipt by the Corporation .of payment or payments with knowledge of the breach of any provision of any Contract shall not, as to the undersigned, be deemed a waiver of such breach.
“The liability of the undersigned under this Guaranty shall be primary and in any right of action which shall accrue to the Corporation under any Contract, the Corporation may, at its option, proceed against the undersigned, jointly or-severally, together with the Obligor, or may proceed against the undersigned, jointly or severally, without having commenced any action" against or having obtained any judgment against Obligor. If any claim against undersigned hereunder is referred to an attorney for collection, then undersigned shall pay 15% of the amount thereof as an attorney’s reasonable fee.
“This Guaranty may be terminated by undersigned serving written notice upon Corporation, but as to all Contracts purchased or acquired and all obligations of the Obligor, contingent or absolute, incurred up to the time of the receipt of such notice or such subsequent effective date as may be stated therein, this Guaranty shall be continuing and unconditional until the same are fully paid, performed or discharged. The Guaranty shall not be discharged or affected by the death of any of the undersigned, but shall bind their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and the benefits thereof shall extend to and include the successors and assigns of Corporation.
“Dated this 29th day of January, 1962.
WITNESS
/s/ Mollie Renner /s/ Roy Brumfield
/s/ Josephine Burson T. Roy Brumfield
WITNESS
/s/ Mollie Renner /s/ Katharine P. Brumfield
/s/ Josephine Burson Katharine P. Brumfield
ACCEPTED
WESTINGHOUSE CREDIT CORPORATION
By /s/ J. R. McClester
Witness
. “ESCROW AGREEMENT
“Westinghoúse Credit Corporation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Dear Sir:
“This agreement serves to provide an escrow arrangement and personal stocks of Mrs. Roy Brumfield. In purchasing the furnishings for the Mountain Inn, several items of security were pledged by the Mountain Inn and by the Brumfields. In addition, it is understood that the stocks listed on the attached sheet, and forming a part of this memorandum, are a part of the agreement.
“These stocks are assigned irrevocably as pledged collateral to substantiate the monthly payments due over a 5-year period to Westinghoúse Corporation. They can be sold in the public market to apply on the payment of this note only in the event that Mountain Inn is three months delinquent in the payment of this note. It is further understood and agreed by the parties that the First National Bank of Fayetteville, Arkansas, is to act as the Escrow Agent for the parties and in the event the indebtedness is paid by the Brumfields, then in that event said agent is authorized to return the stocks to Mrs. Brumfield.
/s/ Katherine P. Brumfield
Mrs. Roy Brumfield
/s/ Roy Brnmfield
Roy Brumfield”
(Notarization omitted.)
. The Westinghoúse letter was not offered in evidence. In response to inquiry made by the court to the attorneys, the attorney for Brumfields stated they did not have letter or a copy of it but that it was left in the files of Inn when the receiver took charge. The attorneys for plaintiff made no offer to produce the letter.
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Wynn Resorts board may face liability over payouts for alleged misconduct
Fallout continued Monday from the sexual misconduct and assault allegations against Wynn Resorts Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn as the casino giant's stock fell further. Now corporate governance experts say the company directors may face the possibility of civil liability. The allegations were first reported Friday by The Wall Street Journal, which said there was a "pattern of sexual misconduct" in the workplace by the casino mogul as well as a $7.5 million financial settlement paid to a manicurist who allegedly was pressured into having sex in 2005 with the executive. Wynn has denied the allegations. Some experts say the board could "be shielded under some circumstances" if it's proven in court that they've acted in good faith. At least two law firms have said they are investigating Wynn Resorts and the board's fiduciary role in light of the alleged misconduct. Regardless, the role of the board and the allegations of misconduct by the CEO are likely to keep the stock under pressure until the issue has been resolved, say experts. Indeed, several major brokerages have issued hold investment ratings on the stock because of the uncertainties. Wynn Resorts said in a statement Friday its board of directors formed a special committee to investigate the allegations. A Wynn Resorts corporate spokesman told CNBC on Monday, "Mr. Wynn continues as the CEO of the company. The work of the Special Committee of the Board will take as long as it takes to do a thorough review." The corporate spokesman added, "The company and its employees remain focused on delivering superior experiences to our guests." "Allowing someone, which is the assertion being made, to engage in an ongoing pattern and practice of behavior which subjects the company to liability raises the specter of legal liability for those who have oversight of that CEO," said Darren Robbins, who has served as lead counsel for more than 100 securities class actions and is founding partner of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP. Added Robbins, "[Steve Wynn] is both a board member and an executive in the company, and so it's the responsibilities of the directors of the company to oversee it and make sure senior employees and the board itself acts in compliance with applicable law." Robbins said that given the significant stock price decline of Wynn Resorts the allegations put the company and senior insiders potentially at risk for individual liability for failing to act earlier. Shares of Wynn Resorts fell 9.3 percent on Monday after declining more than 10 percent on Friday. Several law firms, including Levi & Korsinsky as well as Bronstein, Gerwitz & Grossman LLC, have disclosed they launched investigations into Wynn for possible breaches of fiduciary duty by certain officers and directors of the Las Vegas-based company. "What the declining stock price indicates is that the information that was unknown to investors is of greater significance, obviously, because as it comes out the price of the stock is declining," said Robbins, who said he has been contacted by Wynn Resorts shareholders about the matter. According to the Journal, the alleged misconduct incident in 2005 was vaguely referenced in a lawsuit later brought by the CEO's ex-wife, Elaine Wynn, who is seeking control of her stock in the company. Wynn's ex-wife was ousted from the board in April 2015 after serving 13 years as a director for the company she co-founded. Elaine Wynn reportedly learned about the sexual misconduct incident in 2009 and is said to have alerted a representative for the board right away, according to reports. It's unclear if the representative for the board informed other board members at the time about the allegations and financial settlement to the manicurist. On Friday, CEO Wynn said in a statement that "the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous." Legal experts say the Wynn Resorts board may end up determining that this isn't a short-term PR problem but that keeping the CEO in the current role could end up doing more harm over the long term to the brand. As a result, they say the board may be persuaded to make the change. "It is likely that the board could come up with the answer this is going to do damage to the firm on a long-term basis because, in many ways, Steve Wynn is the brand," said Michael Chasalow, professor of law at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles. "Because of that, his reputation impacts the brand of the hotel." Chasalow said the board needs to make a business judgment, so if they "gather information in good faith and in the interests of the firm then they should be shielded." But Chasalow said corporate boards generally have a fiduciary duty to act once they know about a situation that could have a material impact on the company. "If you have an officer who is engaging in bad behavior that can result in liability for the company, then you still have an obligation to act," said Chasalow. "Certainly, sexual misconduct could be liability for the [company]." Then again, Chasalow said that corporate liability could hinge on whether the CEO's alleged misconduct was in his capacity as an officer or "just personal." That said, he indicated a case for liability could be created if there's an expectation that personal misbehavior would be likely to take place in the workplace too. Legal experts say Elaine Wynn may have less culpability if she alerted authorities internally about the alleged sexual misconduct by her ex-husband. Still, they said she could have resigned voluntarily from the board at the time if she wanted to send a message. A spokesperson for Elaine Wynn said she had no comment Monday. An attorney for Elaine Wynn didn't respond to a request for comment for this story. Jill Fisch, a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, said courts have traditionally not viewed board of directors' core role in oversight or risk management as including tracking the personal conduct of senior executives. However, she said that importance today is growing as general awareness of the issue of workplace harassment and assault increases. Fisch, an attorney who specializes in securities regulation and corporate governance, said that there's a chance the case could set legal precedent or that the courts might eventually provide guidance for boards going forward as to what the appropriate course of conduct and level of oversight should be in these type of conduct issues. "It's an evolving issue," said Fisch. "This kind of misconduct, for better or worse, has not had a material impact on an executives' ability to be effective. And I think now with the whole '#metoo movement' that's changing." | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eye Iris
Eye Iris
I stumbled across this by accident earlier this week while looking for material related to my pshychology class (which is apparently a cleverly disguised biology class. Go figure :/ ). Anyway, this image got my attention right quick, so I decided to put it up and see what everyone else thinks. This image is used on the page eye; the photo originates from the commons and is already featured over there.
* Nominate and Support TomStar81 (Talk) 10:42, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
* Support. Great photo, and encyclopaedic. It should be put in the article Iris (anatomy) too, since it's better than the photos that are there. Stephen Turner (Talk) 11:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
* Weak oppose, the big spot of glare on the right really wipes out a lot of detail, and the image is blurry at full res. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 15:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
* Support. The image is gorgeous. Sharkface217 21:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
* Support Not much more to say than amazing. Staxringold talkcontribs 02:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* Strong support What a featured picture should be. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 04:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* Support Great image but would appreciate it if you could remove that little blood vessel on the bottom right as it is distracting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antilived (talk • contribs)
* Comment. Please don't. I would change my vote to oppose if you did that, because I don't think photos should be manipulated in that way. Stephen Turner (Talk) 10:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose. Irregular focus, and lack of sharpness for nature of subject to my eye (perhaps downsampling would help?). Also composition - if it's of the iris then it should be more centred and there's too much sclera; if it's of the whole eye then it's cut off. --jjron 09:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose. The glare and the off-center composition are the biggest problems.--ragesoss 16:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
* Support Some minor features already explained that aren't good, but looking at the big picture, it is a very good picture that illustrates and focuses on the subject. Hello32020 02:49, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
* Weak oppose. I recall an old message board thread (outside Wikipedia, of course) in which hundreds of people took photos of their eyes, often with stunning results. I've seen better eye macro photos than this one, although this is not really that bad, although it has some problems as the above editors have mentioned. I think that an enterprising Wikipedia editor with a bit of time and a really good camera can do better. Snurks T C 06:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose. It seems to me that a picture of an eye should be easily obtainable by anyone. Thus, we shouldn't accept anything less than perfection. howch e ng {chat} 17:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
* [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Oppose Per above. Once my exams are over, I'm sure I'll be able to get a better image with my new Sigma 150 macro. --Fir0002 06:37, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
* I keep having to remind myself that you are also in school; that comment about having to take exams really caught me off guard. Pretty quick here I am going to be taking a wikibreak for the exact same reason. I wish you good luck and God speed with your exams. TomStar81 (Talk) 08:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
* Thanks Tom and likewise for you; I appreciate your support. --Fir0002 09:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
* Oppose. Could benefit from downsampling, but even then a better picture could be obtained. -- Tewy 02:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
* Support although i would prefer the iris to be directly in the center of the image rather than having the white parts uneven — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahadland1234 (talk • contribs)
* Support I also would prefer it in the center, but it's very good anyways. | — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndonicO (talk • contribs)
* Oppose per Howcheng. --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
9.5/7. --Nautica Shad e s 17:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC) | WIKI |
EQT, Bain Consider Acquisition of Nobel Biocare, NZZ Says
EQT Partners AB and Bain Capital LLC
are considering a purchase of dental implant maker Nobel Biocare
Holding AG (NOBN) , NZZ am Sonntag reported, citing two unidentified
sources. EQT, a Stockholm-based private equity company, has been
looking at Nobel Biocare as a takeover target “for some time,”
NZZ reported today, citing the sources. EQT didn’t reply to a
written request for information, the newspaper said. Bain, a U.S. buyout fund manager, has been trying to decide
for “several months” whether Nobel Biocare is a “buy” or
whether the shares will fall further, according to the report.
The investment company has had “informal contact” with Rolf
Watter, Nobel Biocare’s chairman, the report said. Bain declined
to comment on whether it was considering Nobel Biocare, while
Watter said the company hasn’t received an offer and isn’t “in
talks.” Nicolas Weidmann, a spokesman for Nobel Biocare, confirmed
Watter’s comments to Bloomberg News today and said “so far we
have had no contact and are in no discussions with anyone.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Dermot Doherty in Geneva at
ddoherty9@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Matthias Wabl at
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110 STAT. 3009 -593 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996 "(4) NOTICE.— I f the immigration judge decides that the aUen is removable and orders the aHen to be removed, the judge shall inform the alien of the right to appeal that decision and of the consequences for failure to depart under the order of removal, including civil and criminal penalties. " (5) MOTIONS TO RECONSIDER.— "(A) IN GENERAL.—The alien may file one motion to reconsider a decision that the alien is removable from the United States. "(B) DEADLINE. — The motion must be filed within 30 days of the date of entry of a final administrative order of removal. "(C) CONTENTS. —The motion shall specify the errors of law or fact in the previous order and shall be supported by pertinent authority. "(6) MOTIONS TO REOPEN. — "(A) IN GENERAL.— An alien may file one motion to reopen proceedings under this section. "(B) CONTENTS. —The motion to reopen shall state the new facts that will be proven at a hearing to be held if the motion is granted, and shall be supported by affidavits or other evidentiary material. " (C) DEADLINE. — "(i) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided in this subparagraph, the motion to reopen shall be filed within 90 days of the date of entry of a final administrative order of removal. "(ii) ASYLUM.—There is no time limit on the filing of a motion to reopen if the basis of the motion is to apply for relief under sections 208 or 241(b)(3) and is based on changed country conditions arising in the country of nationality or the country to which removal has been ordered, if such evidence is material and was not available and would not have been discovered or presented at the previous proceeding. "(iii) FAILURE TO APPEAR.— The filing of a motion to reopen an order entered pursuant to subsection (b)(5) is subject to the deadline specified in subparagraph (C) of such subsection. "(d) STIPULATED REMOVAL. —The Attorney General shall provide by regulation for the entry by an immigration judge of an order of removal stipulated to by the alien (or the alien's representative) and the Service. A stipulated order shall constitute a conclusive determination of the alien's removability from the United States. "(e) DEFINITIONS. —In this section and section 240A: "(1) EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES.— The term 'exceptional circumstances' refers to exceptional circumstances (such as serious illness of the alien or serious illness or death of the spouse, child, or parent of the alien, but not including less compelling circumstances) beyond the control of the alien. "(2) REMOVABLE.—The term 'removable' means— "(A) in the case of an alien not admitted to the United States, that the alien is inadmissible under section 212, or "(B) in the case of an alien admitted to the United States, that the alien is deportable under section 237.
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php developer
The PHP developer and role of PHP developers
A php developer is a professional who creates applications, websites, etc using the scripting language.
PHP is a scripting language which means hypertext preprocessor that is executed on the server. It is a scripting language for server-side web development and it usually operated on a web server. It is a script used to create web pages, applications, images or websites. It is a server-side programming language used for interacting with other database languages. A php developer is a professional who creates applications, websites, etc using the scripting language.
Role of a php developing professional
A professional is responsible for using logic to write an application to the server. They perform various types of duties such as developing back-end components, creating an application and connecting the application to the web-based services. They help the front-end executives by integrating their tasks with their applications. So, the php developers usually develop a program as specified by the customers. Their main task is to test, troubleshoot and maintain the database and software development by the software engineers.
They are engaged in developing and coding logic to the servers. They should also maintain the database and should interact with the front-end developers to integrate the applications. The php developers should have knowledge of php programming and should understand the MVAC designs. They should also work with the front-end technologies and should use programming languages such as HTML 5, CSS3, and Java Script etc. Their main job is to integrate the technologies with various PHP modules.
The following are the responsibilities of php developers:
They should write the back-end code and use various php models. If the customers have troubleshooting problems with their applications, then the php developers respond to their request. They should also respond to the integrated requests of the front-end developers. They should also finalize the features and test various web applications. They also update or alter the applications to improve the performance of the site.
The php website developer usually completes a bachelor’s degree in computer science. He should be knowledgeable about php web frameworks and also about front-end technologies. The developer usually uses scripts such as Java Script, CSS3, and is familiar with SQl databases. They should possess better problem-solving skills.
The php developer is engaged in writing the web application logic. They are engaged in developing back-end components and can connect the applications to the web services. The developers are also engaged in integrating the plug-in for frameworks. Such developers should be detail oriented and should manage back-end services, maintain the database and build some front-end elements for the other developers. The main role of the php website developer should solve some complex problems and should store data such as the key-value stores, blob stores etc.
They should have strong knowledge of PHP frameworks and should understand the synchronous pattern of the php. The developer should also understand the MVC designs also. They should integrate the multi-data sources and the databases in an application. They should also create various schemes to present and support various business procedures. They should also understand the code versioning tools.
These professionals can earn higher salaries if they prove their proficiency in this subject.
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The Ultimate Guide to Upgrading Your NA Miata’s Radiator
The NA Miata, also known as the Mazda MX-5 Miata, is a classic roadster that has been beloved by car enthusiasts for generations. However, one common issue that many owners of the NA Miata face is overheating. This is often due to the car’s stock radiator being inadequate for the demands of high-performance driving.
Fortunately, upgrading your NA Miata’s radiator is a relatively easy and cost-effective way to improve its cooling system and prevent overheating issues. In this ultimate guide, we will discuss everything you need to know about upgrading your NA Miata’s radiator.
Why Upgrade Your NA Miata’s Radiator?
The stock radiator that comes with the NA Miata is typically made of aluminum and plastic, and is designed to meet the basic cooling needs of the car. However, when you start pushing your Miata to its limits on the track or during spirited drives, the stock radiator can struggle to keep up.
An upgraded radiator can provide better cooling capacity, improved heat dissipation, and increased durability. This is especially important if you have made performance modifications to your Miata, such as increasing horsepower, adding a turbocharger, or installing a supercharger.
Choosing the Right Radiator
When choosing a radiator for your NA Miata, there are several factors to consider. These include:
1. Material: Radiators are typically made of aluminum, which is lightweight and offers excellent heat transfer properties. Look for a radiator that is made of high-quality aluminum for optimal performance.
2. Cooling Capacity: The radiator’s cooling capacity is measured in rows and thickness. A radiator with more rows and thicker core will have a higher cooling capacity, which is important for high-performance driving.
3. Fitment: Make sure to choose a radiator that is specifically designed to fit your NA Miata. This will ensure a proper installation and prevent any fitment issues.
4. Brand: There are many reputable radiator brands on the market, such as Mishimoto, Koyo, and CSF. Do your research and read reviews to find a radiator that is reliable and high-quality.
Installing Your New Radiator
Once you have chosen the right radiator for your NA Miata, it’s time to install it. While installing a radiator is a relatively straightforward process, it is recommended to have some mechanical experience or seek help from a professional if you are unsure.
Here are the general steps for installing a new radiator:
1. Drain the coolant from your old radiator.
2. Remove the hoses and mounting brackets from the old radiator.
3. Install the new radiator in place of the old one, making sure all hoses and mounting brackets are properly connected.
4. Refill the cooling system with fresh coolant.
5. Start the engine and check for any leaks or issues.
By following these steps and choosing the right radiator for your NA Miata, you can significantly improve its cooling system and prevent overheating issues. Upgrading your radiator is a simple yet effective way to enhance the performance and reliability of your beloved Miata.
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Priscilla
Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin Prisca, derived from priscus. There is a theory that this biblical character was the author of the Letter to the Hebrews.
The name first appears in the New Testament either as Priscilla or Prisca, a female leader in early Christianity. The name also appears along with Maximilla, referring to two female leaders of the Montanist movement of the 2nd century AD.
The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596), and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th century.
It increased in usage in the United States in the 1930s due to the influence of actress Priscilla Lane and again in the late 1970s and early 1980s due to the influence of actress Priscilla Presley.
Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
* Priscilla, an early Christian of the New Testament and companion to Paul the Apostle
* Priscilla and Maximilla, charismatic prophets of the 2nd century Montanist movement
* Priscilla (Brazilian singer) (born 1990), Brazilian singer and songwriter
* Priscilla Ahn, American singer
* Priscilla Achapka, Nigerian environmental activist
* Priscilla Alcantara (born 1996), Brazilian singer-songwriter, television presenter and actress
* Priscilla Alden (c. 1602 – c. 1680), member of Plymouth Colony, wife of John Alden
* Priscilla Almodovar (born 1967), American chief executive officer of Fannie Mae
* Priscilla Atkins, Aboriginal-Australian leader, advocate and television producer
* Priscilla Barnes (born 1954), American actress
* Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1761–1828), British noble
* Priscilla Betti (born 1989), French singer and actress
* Priscilla Block, American singer
* Priscilla Braislin (1838–1888), American mathematician
* Priscilla Chan (born 1985), American philanthropist, wife of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
* Priscilla Chan Wai-Han (born 1965), singer from Hong Kong
* Priscilla A. Clapp (born 1941), United States diplomat
* Priscilla Cohn (1933–2019), American philosopher and animal rights activist
* Priscilla Crabb (1864–1931), New Zealand temperance activist and community leader
* Priscilla Coolidge (1941–2014), American recording artist and sister of Rita CoolidgePriscilla Dean (1896–1987), American actress
* Priscilla Diaz (MISSPSTAR/P-Star) (born 1994), American rapper, singer and actress
* Priscilla Duffield (1918–2009), American woman who worked on the Manhattan Project
* Priscilla Gagné (born 1986), Canadian judoka
* Priscilla Garita (born 1968), American actress
* Priscilla Giddings (born 1983), American politician
* Priscilla Gneto (born 1991), French judoka
* Priscilla Guthrie, American government official
* Priscilla Hill (born 1960), American retired figure skater
* Priscilla Hiss (1903–1984), wife of Alger Hiss and alleged communist who was put on trial
* Priscilla Hon (born 1998), Australian tennis player
* Priscilla Horton (1818–1895), English singer and actress
* Priscilla Kayira, Malawian radio broadcaster, presenter and television personality.
* Priscilla Kemble (1756–1845), English actress
* Priscilla Kuye (born 1940), Nigerian lawyer
* Priscilla Lane (1915–1995), of the singing Lane Sisters
* Priscilla Leung (born 1961), Hong Kong legislator, barrister and associate professor
* Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (born 1982), Canadian track and field hurdler
* Priscilla Lopez (born 1948), American singer, dancer and actress
* Priscilla Maria Veronica White (1943–2015), known professionally as Cilla Black, British singer, television presenter, actress and author
* Priscilla McLean (born 1942), American composer, performer, artist, writer, and reviewer
* Priscilla Meirelles (born 1983), Brazilian model, host, actress, environmentalist, and beauty queen
* Priscilla Monge (born 1968), Costa Rican artist
* Priscilla Morand (born 1993), Mauritian judoka
* Priscilla Morgan (born 1934), British actress
* Priscilla Morrill (1927–1994), American actress
* Priscilla Namingha (1924 - 2008), Hopi-Tewa potter
* Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), English writer
* Priscilla Negrón (born 1984), Ecuadorian actress
* Priscilla Nzimiro (1923–1951), physician from Nigeria
* Priscilla Okyere (born 1995), Ghanaian footballer
* Priscilla Owen (born 1954), United States federal judge for the Fifth Circuit
* Priscilla Paetsch (1931–2017), American violinist, composer, artist, and horse trainer
* Priscilla Pitts, New Zealand writer and art curator
* Priscilla Pointer (born 1924), American actress and mother of actress Amy Irving
* Priscilla Presley (born 1945), American actress and businesswoman and ex-wife of Elvis Presley
* Priscilla Schwartz, Sierra Leonean lawyer
* Priscilla Shirer (born 1974), American author, motivational speaker, actress, Christian evangelist
* Priscilla J. Smith, American lawyer and activist
* Priscilla Stud (1864–1929), British Christian missionary and wife of Charles Studd
* Priscilla Taylor, American model and actress
* Priscilla Cooper Tyler (1816–1889), acting First Lady of the United States, daughter-in-law of President John Tyler
* Priscilla Tyson (born 1955), American Councilwoman
* Priscilla Wakefield (1751–1832), English Quaker educational writer and philanthropist
* Priscilla Welch (born 1944), British marathon runner
* Priscilla Wong (born 1981), Hong Kong television actress and host
* Priscilla Young (1925–2006), English social worker
* Prisilla Rivera (born 1984), volleyball player from the Dominican Republic
Fictional characters
* The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994 comedy-drama film
* Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical), musical of the 1994 film with the same name
* Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France, a 2013 book by Nicholas Shakespeare
* Priscilla "Pris" Stratton, a replicant character from the 1982 film Blade Runner
* Priscilla, character from the film 1981 miniseries Peter and Paul
* Priscilla, a sweet cactus mouse or aye-aye in the 2011 animated action comedy film Rango
* Priscilla Mullins, a main character in the 1979 film Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
* Priscilla White, the main character in the 2009 comedy film American Virgin
* Priscilla, character in the 2008 martial arts film Chocolate
* Priscilla Stasna, a main character in the American sitcom The King of Queens
* Priscilla, character in the 1993 film Bank Robber
* Priscilla Kelly, character in the television show, The Bold and the Beautiful
* Priscilla Kitaen, real name of Voodoo, a comic book character appearing in Wildstorm and DC Comics.
* Priscilla Lapham, a main character in the 1957 film Johnny Tremain
* Priscilla Pig, Bob Cratchit's father in the 2006 animated comedy film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
* Constable Priscilla Smith 'Smithy', a main character in the 2010 Australian television police drama Cops L.A.C.
* Priscilla Maine, New York society member in the 1920 silent drama film The Dark Mirror
* Priscilla P, was a member of the " Happiness Patrol on Terra Alpha" in the second serial of the television series Doctor Who
* Priscilla, a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance
* Priscilla, an antagonist in Norihiro Yagi's dark fantasy manga, Claymore
* Priscilla, a romantic poet and bard in an action fantasy role-playing video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
* Crossbreed Priscilla, a character in an action fantasy role-playing video game Dark Souls.
* Priscilla, a Simon Kidgits character developed by Simon Brand Ventures
* Priscilla Barielle, a character from the light novel/anime series Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World·
* Priscilla, a Honey Possum from Jim Henson's Animal Show
* Priscilla the Princess Pony, a collectible character from the 2008 British children’s online game Moshi Monsters | WIKI |
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