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In the 2020-2021 school year, the Thomas Kidd community learned a lot about themselves and the importance of diversity and inclusion. We had a reading challenge asking our students to read as many books as they could about diversity and inclusion.
We also discovered that studentss were having a hard time identifying and recognizing their feelings and body cues. Students found it challenging to talk about their feelings and they became increasingly frustrated with themselves and others. The students were happy when they were able to play with their friends outside.
Our students will be working on identifying feelings in their body and learning strategies to calm down and resolve conflicts. We will continue to support them by providing lots of time for them to play outside with friends, using more visual cues and helping them improve their communication skills so they can express their feelings more confidently. Staff will also provide more direct teaching around the connection berween liteacy and Social Emotional Learning. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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Getting the whole pointer array of the IBody2:Operations2 method
J. R.
Hello,
I am using a IBody2:Operations2 to cut a temporary body in half, and then use the resulting body or bodies for various calculations. As I understand it, after the operation is complete, the pointers, if not assigned, are lost, and cannot be retrieved (I tried GetBodies2 method, to no avail). Problem is, the standard assignment, as expressed like this,
Set tempBody = tempBody.Operations2(swBodyOperationType_e.SWBODYCUT, swCutBody, 0)(0)
only assigns one value of the array (naturally, due to the (0) at the end). Trying to assign the whole array to an array, like this,
Dim BodyArr() As Object
Set BodyArr = BodyCopy.Operations2(swBodyOperationType_e.SWBODYCUT, swCutBody, 0)
returns an error "cannot assign to array". Obviously, one could make multiple copies of the temporary body, and run the Operations2 for each body, each time assigning a different value of returned array to a different variable, but that's a very inefficient code, and will decrease the performance (in my case, there will be thousands of these operations running already, so I'm trying to code lean). Furthermore, it is difficult to determine how many bodies will result after the Operations2 method. I'd like to run Operations2 only once, and assign the whole pointer array to BodyArr. How do I do that?
Thank you in advance. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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I'm TSMonk, president and CEO of bantersoc. When I can be bothered to write something here I will.
Toodles. | WIKI |
Evercreech New railway station
Evercreech New, originally called "Evercreech Village", was a railway station at Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
The station opened in 1874 with the completion of the extension of the S&D from the nearby Evercreech Junction to Bath. It closed in March 1966 when the line was shut as part of the Beeching axe. | WIKI |
TY - JOUR AU - Islam, Sadia AU - Rahman, Syed Wahidur AU - Samdani, Tasrina Shamnaz PY - 2020/02/23 Y2 - 2021/12/09 TI - A Case Report of Rickettsial Meningitis JF - Delta Medical College Journal JA - Delta Med Col J VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Case Reports DO - 10.3329/dmcj.v7i2.45568 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/DMCJ/article/view/45568 SP - 100-103 AB - <p>Rickettsial diseases are a group of infections caused by the obligate intracellular bacteria Rickettsia. Rickettsial infections are common in southern Europe. The disease is usually characterized by the classical triad of fever, eschar and rash. Complications including neurological involvement are rarely described. We report an unusual case of meningitis in a 55 years old man presenting with high grade fever for 8 days associated with persistent headache. The patient was suspected to have enteric fever and treated with injection ceftriaxone. Forty-eight hours after admission, the presence of continued high grade fever, conjunctival congestion, headache, cough, low platelet and increased WBC count, and elevated transaminase raised the possibility of a different aetiology. Finally, Rickettsial meningitis was confirmed due to history of field visit, presence of eschar, neck rigidity, raised titre of WF OX-K antigen and the cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed increased cellularity, hypoglycorrhachia, and hyper proteinorrhachia (106 mg/dL). Patient was treated with capsule doxycycline and other supportive therapy and became afebrile within 48 hours. This uncommon clinical scenario should be taken into account in the management of patients with high grade fever on admission.</p><p>Delta Med Col J. Jul 2019 7(2): 100-103</p> ER - | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Rh lions or thereabouts, Mr. Flannigan? Why, my valet, an excellent man named Ponderby. You rather knocked him out that afternoon."
"Any advance on five hundred thousand dollars? Third and last time?"
"Six hundred thousand," said Stranleigh in a quiet voice which was nevertheless heard in the furthermost corner of the room, so great was the stillness and the tension. "Look here, Mr. Flannigan, just one word; I am going to own this property, and every dollar you bid against me I shall make you pay back when you are compelled to use this invention on your line."
"You think you can do that?"
"Certainly; we had a test of the invention this morning. Pullman car train; lots of millionaires present, and newspaper men too. The newspaper men did not flinch; I'll say that for them, but I nearly scared the mortal lives out of some of your best financial citizens."
"Six hundred thousand! Third and last time! Mr. Flannigan, it's against you, sir."
"Wait a moment," said Flannigan, as if he commanded the universe; then to Lord Stranleigh, "Go on, sir."
"I had the engineer and fireman jump off and send us along the line at sixty miles an hour against some forty trucks of railroad iron standing on the single track. If that invention hadn't worked, Mr. Flannigan, you wouldn't have had me | WIKI |
Republican senators urge Trump to embrace findings on Russia hacking
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republican senators urged President-elect Donald Trump to punish Russia in response to U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that President Vladimir Putin personally directed efforts aimed at influencing the outcome of the November election. In a joint appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain said evidence was conclusive that Putin sought to influence the election - a point that Trump has refuted repeatedly by arguing it might be impossible to tell who was responsible. “In a couple weeks, Donald Trump will be the defender of the free world and democracy,” Graham said. “You should let everybody know in America, Republicans and Democrats, that you’re going to make Russia pay a price for trying to interfere.” Both senators said they remain unsure if they will support Trump’s pick for secretary of state, former Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, who has been criticized for his close ties to Putin. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider Tillerson’s nomination. Three U.S. intelligence agencies released a joint report on Friday that concluded that Putin directed efforts to help Trump’s electoral chances by discrediting his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s email server and separately stole emails from John Podesta, who chaired Clinton’s campaign. The emails were then posted online and used to embarrass Clinton, including by Trump who frequently used the content as political ammunition. Russia was trying to undermine public faith in the democratic process, damage Clinton, making it harder for her to win and harm her presidency if she did, the unclassified report said. McCain said he supports continued investigations into the hacks. “We need to come to grips with it and get to the bottom of it and overall come up with a strategy in this new form of warfare that can basically harm our economy, harm our elections, harm our national security,” he said. Trump, whose views on Russia are out of step with his party, has repeatedly dismissed claims that the Russians were trying to help him, arguing that the charges against Russia are the product of his political opponents trying to undermine his victory. On Friday, after receiving his intelligence briefing, Trump did not squarely address whether he was told of the agencies’ belief Russia carried out the hacking. Instead, he said: “Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations” including the DNC. On Saturday, Trump wrote on Twitter that having a better relationship with Russia is a “good thing.” “Only ‘stupid’ people or fools, would think that is bad!” he tweeted. “We have enough problems around the world without yet another one. When I am President, Russia will respect us far more than they do now and both countries will, perhaps, work together to solve some of the many great and pressing problems and issues of the WORLD!” Reporting by Ginger Gibson; Editing by Mary Milliken | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Djong
The djong, jong, or jung is a type of sailing ship originating from Java that was widely used by Javanese, Sundanese, and later, also by Peguan (Mon people), Malay, and East Asian sailors. The word was and is spelled jong in its languages of origin, the "djong" spelling was a colonial Dutch romanization. In English, the jong lends its name to other ships of similar configuration, called junks, and to their characteristic style of rigging, the junk rig.
Jongs are used mainly as seagoing passenger and cargo vessels. They traveled as far as the Atlantic Ocean in the medieval era. Their tonnage ranged from 40 to 2000 deadweight tons, with an average deadweight of 1200–1400 tons during the Majapahit era. Javanese kingdoms such as Majapahit, Demak Sultanate, and Kalinyamat Sultanate used these vessels as warships, but still predominantly as transport vessels. Mataram Sultanate primarily used jong as a merchant ship rather than a warship.
For their war fleet, the Malays prefer to use shallow draught, oared longships similar to the galley, such as lancaran, penjajap, and kelulus. This is very different from the Javanese who prefer long-range, deep-draught round ships such as jong and malangbang. The reason for this difference is that the Malays operated their ships in riverine water, sheltered straits zone, and archipelagic environment and also open high sea, while the Javanese are often active in the open and high sea. After contact with Iberian people, both the Javanese and Malay fleets began to use the ghurab and ghali more frequently.
Etymology
It was claimed the word jong, jung, or junk comes from the Min Chinese word jüng. However, Chinese ocean-going tradition in Southeast Asia was relatively new – until the 12th century, most trade between the regions was carried in Southeast Asian vessels. Paul Pelliot and Waruno Mahdi reject the Chinese origin of the name. Instead, it may be derived from "jong" (transliterated as joṅ) in Old Javanese which means ship. The first record of Old Javanese jong comes from Sembiran inscriptions in Bali dating to the 11th century CE. The word was recorded in the Malay language by the 15th century thus practically excludes the Chinese origin of the word in Malay. The late 15th century Undang-Undang Laut Melaka, a maritime code composed by Javanese shipowners in Melaka, uses jong frequently as the word for freight ships. European writings from 1345 through 1609 use a variety of related terms, including jonque (French), ioncque, ionct, giunchi, zonchi (Italian), iuncque, joanga, juanga (Spanish), junco (Portuguese), and ionco, djonk, jonk (Dutch).
The origin of the word "junk" in the English language, can be traced to the Portuguese word junco, which is rendered from the Arabic word j-n-k (جنك). This word comes from the fact that Arabic script cannot represent the digraph "ng". The word used to denote both the Javanese ship (jong) and the Chinese ship (chuán), even though the two were markedly different vessels. After the disappearance of jong in the 17th century, the meaning of "junk" (and other similar words in European languages), which until then was used as a transcription of the word "jong" in Javanese and Malay, changed its meaning to exclusively refer to the Chinese ship.
People from the Indonesian Archipelago usually refer to large Chinese ships as "wangkang", while small ones are called "top". There are also terms in the Malay language, "cunea", "cunia", and "cunya" that originate from the Amoy Chinese dialect 船 仔 (tsûn-á), which refers to Chinese vessels 10–20 m in length. The "djong" spelling is of colonial Dutch origin, rendering the j sound as "dj", though both traditional British and current Indonesian orthography romanizes it as jong.
Sailing and navigation
The Nusantara archipelago was known for the production of large junks. When Portuguese sailors reached the waters of Southeast Asia in the early 1500s they found this area dominated by Javanese junk ships, operating on the vital spice route, between Moluccas, Java, and Malacca. The port city of Malacca at that time practically became a Javanese city. Many Javanese merchants and ship captains settled and at the same time controlled international trade. Many skilled Javanese carpenters are building ships in the dockyards of the largest port city in Southeast Asia.
For seafaring, the Austronesian people invented the balance lugsail (tanja sail), probably developed from the fixed mast version of the crab claw sail. The junk rig commonly used on Chinese ships may have been developed from the tanja sail.
During the Majapahit era, almost all of the commodities from Asia were found in Java. This is because of extensive shipping by the Majapahit empire using various types of ships, particularly the jong, for trading to faraway places. Ma Huan (Zheng He's translator) who visited Java in 1413, stated that ports in Java were trading goods and offered services that were more numerous and more complete than other ports in Southeast Asia. It was also during the Majapahit era that Nusantaran exploration reached its greatest accomplishment. Ludovico di Varthema (1470–1517), in his book Itinerario de Ludouico de Varthema Bolognese stated that the Southern Javanese people sailed to "far Southern lands" up to the point they arrived at an island where a day only lasted four hours long and was "colder than in any part of the world". Modern studies have determined that such a place is located at least 900 nautical miles (1666 km) south of the southernmost point of Tasmania.
The Austronesian people used a solid navigation system: Orientation at sea is carried out using a variety of different natural signs, and by using a very distinctive astronomy technique called "star path navigation". The navigators determine the bow of the ship to the islands that are recognized by using the position of rising and setting of certain stars above the horizon. In the Majapahit era, compasses and magnets were used, and cartography (mapping science) was developed. In 1293 AD Raden Wijaya presented a map and census record to the Yuan Mongol invader, suggesting that mapmaking has been a formal part of governmental affairs in Java. The use of maps full of longitudinal and transverse lines, rhumb lines, and direct route lines traveled by ships were recorded by Europeans, to the point that the Portuguese considered the Javanese maps the best in the early 1500s.
When Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, the Portuguese recovered a chart from a Javanese maritime pilot, which already included part of the Americas. Regarding the chart Albuquerque said:
"...a large map of a Javanese pilot, containing the Cape of Good Hope, Portugal and the land of Brazil, the Red Sea and the Sea of Persia, the Clove Islands, the navigation of the Chinese and the Gores, with their rhumbs and direct routes followed by the ships, and the hinterland, and how the kingdoms border on each other. It seems to me. Sir, that this was the best thing I have ever seen, and Your Highness will be very pleased to see it; it had the names in Javanese writing, but I had with me a Javanese who could read and write. I send this piece to Your Highness, which Francisco Rodrigues traced from the other, in which Your Highness can truly see where the Chinese and Gores come from, and the course your ships must take to the Clove Islands, and where the gold mines lie, and the islands of Java and Banda, of nutmeg and mace, and the land of the King of Siam, and also the end of the land of the navigation of the Chinese, the direction it takes, and how they do not navigate farther. — Letter of Albuquerque to King Manuel I of Portugal, 1 April 1512."
A Portuguese account described how the Javanese people already had advanced seafaring skills and had communicated with Madagascar in 1645:
"The Javanese are all men very experienced in the art of navigation, to the point that they claim to be the most ancient of all, although many others give this honor to the Chinese, and affirm that this art was handed on from them to the Javanese. But it is certain that they formerly navigated to the Cape of Good Hope and were in communication with the east coast of the island of São Lourenço (San Laurenzo — Madagascar), where there are many brown and Javanese-like natives who say they are descended from them. — Diogo do Couto, Decada Quarta da Asia"
Research in 2016 showed that the Malagasy people have genetic links to various Maritime Southeast Asian ethnic groups, particularly from southern Borneo. Parts of the Malagasy language are sourced from the Ma'anyan language with loan words from Sanskrit, with all the local linguistic modifications via Javanese or Malay language. The Ma'anyan and Dayak people are not a sailor and were dry-rice cultivators while some Malagasy are wet rice farmers, so it is likely that they are carried by the Javanese and Malay people in their trading fleets, as labor or slaves. Javanese trading and slaving activities in Africa caused a strong influence on boat-building on Madagascar and the East African coast. This is indicated by the existence of outriggers and oculi (eye ornament) on African boats.
Description
Duarte Barbosa reported that the ships from Java, which they called Jungos, have four masts, are very different from Portuguese ships. A Javanese ship is made of very thick wood, and as it gets old, the Javanese fix it with new planks, this way they have 3–4 planks, one above the other. The rope and the sail are made with woven rattan. The Javanese junks were made using jati wood (teak) at the time of his report (1515), at that time Chinese junks were still using softwood as their main material. The Javanese ship's hull is formed by joining planks and keel with wooden dowels and treenails, without using iron bolts or nails. The frame would be built later, after the planking (the "shell first" construction). The planks are perforated by an auger and inserted with dowels, which remain inside the fastened planks, not seen from the outside. The hull was pointed at both ends, they carried two rudders and used tanja sail, but it may also use junk sail, a sail of Indonesian origin. On top of the mast there is a top or gávea, which is used for observation and fighting. They were very different from the Chinese ships, whose hulls were joined by iron nails and strakes to a frame and bulkheads. The Chinese vessel had a single rudder, and (except in Fujian and Guangdong) they had flat bottoms without keels.
Historical engravings also depict the usage of bowsprits and bowsprit sails, with a deckhouse above the upper deck, and the appearance of stemposts and sternposts. The deckhouse is extending from the front to the back, where people are protected from the heat of the sun, rain, and dew. At the stern, there is a cabin for the ship's captain. This cabin, is square in shape and protruding ("hanging") above the sharp waterline stern (the sternpost), overhung above the water like a farmer's outhouse. The bow also has a square platform that protrudes above the stempost, for bowsprit and forward-facing gun shield/gun mount (apilan or ampilan in the Malay language). A jong could carry up to 100 berço (breech-loading artillery—likely refers to local cetbang cannon). Like other Austronesian ships, jong is steered using 2 quarter rudders. According to father Nicolau Perreira, the jong has 3 rudders, one on each side and one in the middle. This may refer to hybrid jong, with the middle rudder being like those on Chinese vessels (hanging axial rudder) or western axial rudder (pintle and gudgeon rudder). Alternatively, it may have been a long sweep to aid in harbor maneuvers. A jong has about 1:3 to 1:4 beam-to-length ratio, which makes it fall into the category of "round ship".
Barbosa also reported various goods carried by these ships, which include rice, meat of cows, sheep, pigs, and deer, dried and salted, many chickens, garlic, and onions. Traded weapons include lances, dagger, and swords, worked in inlaid metal and very good steel. Also brought with them cubebs and yellow die called cazumba (kasumba) and gold which is produced in Java. Barbosa mention places and route in which these ships visited, which include Maluku Islands, Timor, Banda, Sumatra, Malacca, China, Tenasserim, Pegu (Bago), Bengal, Pulicat, Coromandel, Malabar, Cambay (Khambat), and Aden. From the notes of other authors, it is known that there were also those who went to the Maldives, Calicut (Kozhikode), Oman, Aden, and the Red Sea. The passenger brought their wives and children, even some of them never leave the ship to go on shore, nor have any other dwelling, for they are born and die in the ship. It is known that ships made with teak could last for 200 years.
The size and construction of the jong required expertise and materials that were not necessarily available in many places, therefore the Javanese junks were mainly constructed in two major shipbuilding centers around Java: north coastal Java, especially around Rembang–Demak (along the Muria strait) and Cirebon; and the south coast of Borneo (Banjarmasin) and adjacent islands; built by the Javanese. These places have teak forests, whose wood is resistant to shipworm. Southern Borneo's supply of teak would have come from north Java, whereas Borneo itself would supply ironwood. The Mon people of Pegu also produced jong using Burmese teak.
While the Malays of Malacca of the 16th century owned jongs, they were not built by the Malay people or by the Sultanate of Malacca. Malacca only produces small vessels, not large vessels. Large shipbuilding industry does not exist in Malacca — their industry is not capable producing deep-sea ships; only small, light, fast-sailing vessels. The people of Malacca purchased big ships (jong) from other parts of Southeast Asia, namely from Java and Pegu, they did not built them.
Difference from Chinese junks
The Chinese chuán (the "junk" in modern usage) and the Southeast Asian djong are frequently confused with each other and share some characteristics, including large cargo capacities, multiple (two to three) superimposed layers of hull planks, and multiple masts and sails. However the two are readily distinguishable from each other by two major differences. The first is that Southeast Asian (Austronesian) ships are built exclusively with lugs, dowels, and fiber lashings (lashed lug), in contrast to Chinese ships which are always built with iron nails and clamps. The second is that Chinese ships since the first century AD are all built with a central rudder. In contrast, Southeast Asian ships use double lateral rudders.
The development of the sea-going Chinese chuán in the Song Dynasty (c. 960 to 1279) is believed to have been influenced by regular contacts with sea-going Southeast Asian ships (the k'un-lun po of Chinese records) in trading ports in southern China from the 1st millennium CE onward, particularly in terms of the rigging, multiple sails, and the multiple hull sheaths. However, the chuán also incorporates distinctly Chinese innovations from their indigenous river and coastal vessels (namely watertight compartments and the central rudders). "Hybrid" ships (referred to as the "South China Sea tradition") integrating technologies from both the chuán and the djong also started to appear by the 15th century.
Early eras
In the first millennium AD, the ship called kolandiaphonta was recorded in Claudius Ptolemaeus' Geography (ca. 150 AD). It is referred to by the Chinese as K'un-lun po. The characteristics of this ship are that it is large (more than 50–60 m long), the hull is made of multiple plankings, has no outrigger, mounted with many masts and sails, the sail is in the form of a tanja sail, and has a plank fastening technique in the form of stitching with plant fibers. The 3rd century book Strange Things of the South (南州異物志 — Nánzhōu Yìwùzhì) by Wan Chen (萬震) describes ships capable of carrying 600–700 people together with more than 10,000 hu (斛) of cargo (250–1000 tons according to various interpretations —600 tons deadweight according to Manguin). These ships came from K'un-lun. The ships are called K'un-lun po (or K'un-lun bo), could be more than 50 meters in length and had a freeboard of 5.2–7.8 meters. When seen from above they resemble covered galleries. Wan Chen explains the ships' sail design as follows:
"The people of foreign parts call ships po. The large ones are more than fifty meters in length and stand out of the water four to five meters (...) They carry from six to seven hundred persons, with 10,000 bushels of cargo. The people beyond the barriers, according to the size of their ships, sometimes rig (as many as) four sails which they carry in row from bow to stern. (...) The four sails do not face directly forward, but are set obliquely, and so arranged that they can all be fixed in the same direction, to receive the wind and to spill it. Those sails which are behind the most windward one receiving the pressure of the wind, throw it from one to the other, so that they all profit from its force. If it is violent, (the sailors) diminish or augment the surface of the sails according to the conditions. This oblique rig, which permits the sails to receive from one another the breath of the wind, obviates the anxiety attendant upon having high masts. Thus these ships sail without avoiding strong winds and dashing waves, by the aid of which they can make great speed."
Faxian (Fa-Hsien) in his return journey to China from India (413–414) embarked on a ship carrying 200 passengers and sailors from K'un-lun which towed a smaller ship. A cyclone struck and forced the passengers to move into the smaller ship. The crew of the smaller ship feared that the ship would be overloaded, therefore they cut the rope and separated from the big ship. Luckily the bigger ship survived, and the passengers were stranded in Ye-po-ti (Yawadwipa—Java). After 5 months, the crew and the passengers embarked on another ship comparable in size to sail back to China.
The word "jong" itself was first recorded in the Old Javanese language from a Balinese inscription from the 11th century AD. The Sembiran A IV inscription (1065 AD) stated that merchants came to Manasa in Bali using jong and bahitra. The first record of jong in literature comes from Kakawin Bhomantaka, dated late 12th century AD.
Majapahit era
In 1322 friar Odoric of Pordenone recorded that during his voyage from India to China he boarded a vessel of the zuncum type which carried at least 700 people, either sailors or merchants.
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama-Rangga Lawe (compiled as early as 1334 AD) mentioned a nine-decked jong (jong sasangawangunan) during the war with the Mongols (1293 AD). It looked like a volcano because of its sparkling and flickering thundercloud decorations, its sails were painted red. It carried 1000 people equipped with gandiwa (bow), bedil, shields, towok (javelin), kantar (long shield), and baju rantai (chainmail).
Majapahit Empire used jongs as its main source of naval power. It is unknown how many exactly the total number of jongs were used by Majapahit, but the largest number of jongs deployed in an expedition is about 400 jongs accompanied by uncountable malangbang and kelulus when Majapahit attacked Pasai. In the second largest military expedition, the invasion of Singapura in 1398, Majapahit deployed 300 jongs with no less than 200,000 men (more than 600 men in each jong). Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer argued that the largest Majapahit ships could carry 800–1000 men and were 50 depa (about 80–100 m) long. Modern calculation determined that the average jong used by Majapahit would be about 76.18–79.81 m LOA (69.26–72.55 m in deck length), carrying 600–700 men, with 1200–1400 tons deadweight and a displacement of 3333–3889 tons. The largest ones, carrying 1000 men, would be about 88.56 m LOA (80.51 m in deck length), with a deadweight of 2000 tons and a displacement of 5556 tons. A Balinese jong used by Bujangga Manik to travel from Bali to Blambangan was 8 depa (12.8–16 m) in width and 25 depa (40–50 m) in length. Among the smallest jong recorded, used by Chen Yanxiang to visit Korea, was 33-meter-long with an estimated capacity of 220 deadweight tons, with a crew of 121 people.
Prior to the Battle of Bubat in 1357, the Sunda king and the royal family arrived in Majapahit after sailing across the Java Sea in a fleet of 200 large ships and 2000 smaller vessels. The royal family boarded a nine-decked hybrid Sino-Southeast Asian junk (Old Javanese: Jong sasanga wangunan ring Tatarnagari tiniru). This hybrid junk incorporated Chinese techniques, such as using iron nails alongside wooden dowels, construction of watertight bulkheads, and the addition of a central rudder. There is an allusion in Nagarakretagama that ships and boats of Majapahit are painted red and black.
Wang Dayuan's 1349 composition Daoyi Zhilüe Guangzheng Xia ("Description of the Barbarian of the Isles") described the so-called "horse boats" at a place called Gan-mai-li in Southeast Asia. These ships were bigger than normal trading ships, with the sides constructed from multiple planks. They use neither nails nor mortar to join them, instead, they are using coconut fiber. They have two or three decks, with a deckhouse over the upper deck. In the lower hold, they carried pressed-down frankincense, above them several hundred horses are carried. Wang made special mention of these ships because pepper, which is also transported by them, was carried to faraway places in large quantities. The normal trading ships carried less than 1/10 of their cargo.
Usually, the main vessel towed behind a smaller "tender" for landing. Data from Marco Polo records made it possible to calculate that the largest ships may have had a burden tonnage of 500–800 tons, about the same as Chinese vessels used to trade in the 19th century. The tender itself may have been able to carry about 70 tons. Marco Polo also noted that they may have 2 or 3 of these tenders, and may have about 10 small boats for helping the main vessel, such as for laying out anchors, catching fish, and bringing supplies aboard. When sailing, the small boats were slung to the ship's sides.
Niccolò da Conti, in relating his travels in Asia between 1419 and 1444, describes ships much larger than European ships, capable of reaching 2,000 tons in size, with five sails and as many masts. The lower part is constructed with three planks, to withstand the force of the tempests to which they are much exposed. Some of the ships are built in compartments so that if one part is punctured, the other portion remains intact to accomplish the voyage.
European age of discovery
Florentine merchant Giovanni da Empoli (1483–1517), one of the first Italian agents to join a Portuguese armada to India in 1503–1504, said that in the land of Java, a junk is no different in its strength than a castle, because it had three and four boards, one above the other, which cannot be harmed with artillery. They sail with their women, children, and family, and everyone has room for themselves.
Passing by Pacem (Samudera Pasai Sultanate) the Portuguese came across two junks, one was from Coromandel, which was captured immediately, and the other was from Java which weighed about 600 tons, near Polvoreira (likely Pulau Berhala, 160 miles from Malacca, between Belawan, Medan and Lumut, Perak). The junk carried 300 Javanese "Moors" (Muslims) on board. The Portuguese sent out small boats to approach it, and ordered it to halt but it promptly opened fire on the fleet, its crew hurling down spears, arrows, stones, gunpowder pots, and flammable materials. Afonso de Albuquerque approached it with his entire fleet.
The Portuguese began firing on the junk, but the cannonball bounced off the hull, and then the junk sailed away. The Portuguese ships then fired on the junk's masts causing them to fall. Near dawn, Flor de la Mar (the highest Portuguese carrack) caught up and rammed the junk, while firing artilleries which killed 40 of the junk's crew. The junk was so tall that Flor de la Mar's rear castle could barely reach its bridge, and the Portuguese did not dare to board it. Their bombard shots did not damage it because it had 4 layers of board, while the largest Portuguese cannon could only penetrate no more than 2 layers. When the Portuguese tried to grapple it and attack in close combat, the crew set fire to their junk, forcing the Portuguese to pull away. During the escape, the junk's crew tried to put out the fire with great difficulty.
After two days and two nights of fighting, Albuquerque decided to break the two rudders at the side of the vessel, causing it to surrender. Once aboard, the Portuguese found Prince Geinal (or Zeinal), the son of the king of Pasai who was deposed by his relative. Albuquerque hoped he could be made a vassal for trading. They also gained such an admiration for the junk and its crew and nicknamed it O Bravo (lit. "The Brave"). The Portuguese crew pleaded with Fernão Pires to convince Albuquerque that the crew should be spared and viewed vassals of Portugal who were simply unaware of who they were actually fighting. Albuquerque eventually agreed to this.
In late 1512 – January 1513 Pati Unus of Demak Sultanate tried to surprise Malacca with 100 vessels with 5,000 Javanese from Jepara and Palembang. About 30 of those were junks weighing about 350–600 tons (except for Pati Unus' flagship), the rest being smaller boats of pangajava, lancaran, and kelulus types. The expedition may have carried up to 12,000 men. These vessels carried much Javanese artillery. Although defeated, Pati Unus sailed home and beached his armored war junk as a monument of a fight against men he called the bravest in the world, his exploit winning him a few years later the throne of Demak. In a letter to Afonso de Albuquerque, from Cannanore, 22 February 1513, Fernão Pires de Andrade, the captain of the fleet that routed Pati Unus, says:
"The junk of Pati Unus is the largest seen by men of these parts so far. It carried a thousand fighting men on board, and your Lordship can believe me . . . that it was an amazing thing to see, because the Anunciada near it did not look like a ship at all. We attacked it with bombards, but even the shots of the largest did not pierce it below the water-line, and (the shots of) the esfera (Portuguese large cannon) I had in my ship went in but did not pass through; it had three sheathings, all of which were over a cruzado thick. And it certainly was so monstrous that no man had ever seen the like. It took three years to build, as your Lordship may have heard tell in Malacca concerning this Pati Unus, who made this armada to become king of Malacca. — Fernão Pires de Andrade"
Fernão Lopes de Castanheda noted that Pati Unus' junk is built with 7 layers of planking, called lapis in Javanese and Malay, between each layer was put a coating consisting of a mixture of bitumen, lime, and oil. Pati Unus was using it as a floating fortress for blockading the area around Malacca.
The Portuguese remarked that such large, unwieldy ships were weaknesses. The Portuguese succeeded in repelling the attack using smaller but more maneuverable ships, using boarding tactics and setting fire to the junks. They did not specify the exact size of Pati Unus' junk. Irawan Djoko Nugroho suggested that it has a length of 4–5 times the Flor do Mar (a nau). This would make its size about 144–180 m, with the tonnage between 1600 and 2000 tons. Pierre-Yves Manguin put it as low as 1000 tons. Muhammad Averoes calculated the size by determining its displacement first, and obtained that the Pati Unus' junk has a displacement tonnage of 5556 tons and deadweight of 2000 tons, with an LOA of 88.56 m and LOD of 80.51 m.
Impressed by the Javanese's skill in shipbuilding, Albuquerque hired 60 Javanese carpenters and shipbuilders from the Malacca shipyard and sent them to India, with the hope that these craftsmen will be able to repair Portuguese ships in India. But they never arrived in India, they rebelled and took the Portuguese ship they boarded to Pasai, where they were welcomed extraordinarily. The Portuguese employed junks in big numbers for their trade in Asia. At least 1 jong was sailed to Portugal, to be deployed as a coast guard ship at Sacavem under the instruction of King John III, and as a warship in the Gibraltar Strait Fleet, the Esquadra do Estreito.
Tomé Pires in 1515 wrote that the authorities of Canton (Guangzhou) made a law that obliged foreign ships to anchor at an island off-shore. He said that the Chinese made this law about banning ships from Canton for fear of the Javanese and Malays, for it was believed that one of their junks would rout 20 Chinese junks. China had more than a thousand junks, but one ship of 400 tons could depopulate Canton, and this depopulation would bring great loss to China. The Chinese feared that the city would be taken from them, because Canton was one of China's wealthiest city.
In 1574, queen Kalinyamat of Jepara Sultanate attacked the Portuguese Malacca with 300 vessels under the command of Kyai Demang, which included 80 jongs weighing up to 400 tons burthen and 220 kelulus, although with very little artillery and firearms. As the supplies were dwindling and the air corrupted by disease, Tristão Vaz da Veiga decided to arm a small fleet of a galley and four half-galleys and about 100 soldiers and head out to the River of Malaios, in the middle of the night. Once there, the Portuguese fleet entered the river undetected by the Javanese crews, and resorting to hand-thrown fire bombs set fire to about 30 junks and other crafts, catching the enemy fleet entirely by surprise, and capturing ample supplies amidst the panicking Javanese. After a 3-month siege, the Javanese retreated.
Recounting his 10 years in the East Indies (1601–1611), François Pyrard of Raval (ca. 1578–1623) mentioned a wreck of a Sundanese junk in Guradu, South Malé Atoll, Maldives. The ship was carrying all kinds of spices and other merchandise from China and Sunda. On board were about 500 men, women, and children, and only 100 were saved during its sinking. The king of Maldives asserted that it was the richest ship conceivable. Pyrard thought it was the largest ship he has ever seen, with the mast being taller and thicker than those of Portuguese carracks, and the top was much larger than those of Portugal. The Sundanese queen's parents were the owner of the junk, both were drowned in the sinking. The queen, which was only a child during the sinking, survived. Pyrard believed that in Indonesia, there were built ships larger and of better material than in Portugal or any other place in the world.
The Dutch in the late 16th and early 17th centuries found that the Javanese jongs sailing in Southeast Asia were smaller than in previous centuries. Willem Lodewycksz noted that Bantenese junk had a capacity of not more than 20 last (40 tons). Willem Lodewycksz's report on one of the jongs he saw in Banten in 1596 reads:
"(Seated at the stern) were two men steering: Because (the ship) had two rudders, one on each side, and a pole in the middle which is tied to the ship with ropes under the stern (...). (These jongs) are their ships which they use to navigate the open seas to Maluku, Banda, Borneo, Sumatra, and Malacca. They have a bowsprit on the front, and near it a front mast, (and there is also) a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and from front to the back there is a structure like a house, on which they sit protected from the heat of the sun, rain, and dew. At the stern there is a room that is only for the ship captain, they have no square sail except for the bowsprit sail, under it (inside the hull) is divided into small spaces where they store the cargo. They enter through the openings on either side of the ship and this is where their fireplace/chimney is located."
The first jong encountered by the Dutch in Banten was only 16 last (32 tons) in size. The jong of Banten is mostly made in Banjarmasin, Borneo. But it's certain that Lodewycksz never saw the leviathans of Central Java, such as those from Semarang and Jepara. In December 1664, Wouter Schouten described the great jong of Java:
"They build large ships commonly called joncken (jong), which by the Javanese are used more for commerce than for warfare, some are so large that they could carry 200–300 last (400–600 tons). These are equipped with a bowsprit, foresail mast, large mast, and mizzen; but they don't have topmasts, no mars (top) nor upper sails like ours but large square lower sails made of straw or coconut bark. The upper deck of these jongs stays unusually high when the cargo is placed under the body storage. The shipmates are divided over multiple small rooms and chambers; the stern hangs like a farmer's outhouse miraculously sticking out very far over the water; you can also find a cabin for the captain there or the supercargo who is responsible for the handling of business. Because the Chinese and the Javanese depart on journeys with these jong and other types of ships for some weeks or months they usually take their wives and children with them. This means they learn the discomfort of a sailor's life from a young age."
Decline
Anthony Reid argues that the failure of the jong in battles against smaller and more agile Western ships may have convinced the Javanese shipbuilders that the large but less agile jong faced too much risk against the European style of naval battle, so the ships they built later were smaller and faster. Since the mid-16th century the maritime forces of the archipelago began to use new types of agile naval vessels that could be equipped with larger cannons: In various attacks on Portuguese Malacca after the defeat of Pati Unus, they no longer used jong but used lancaran, ghurab, and ghali. The jongs that plied the archipelago post-1600s were ranging from 20 to 200 tons deadweight, with a possible average of 100 tons, but there are still several of them that could load 200–300 lasts (about 360–400 to 540–600 metric tons) in the early 1700s.
Production of djongs ended in the 1700s, perhaps because of the decision of Amangkurat I of Mataram Sultanate to destroy ships in coastal cities and close ports to prevent them from rebelling, in 1655. By 1677, the Batavia Daghregister reported that Mataram is lacking vessels on their own even for necessary use, and was very ignorant about the sea. After the 1700s, the role of the jong has been replaced by European types of ships, namely the bark and brigantine, built at local shipyards of Rembang and Juwana (the former shipbuilding place for jong), such ships may reach 400–600 tons burthen, with the average of 92 lasts (165.6–184 metric tons). The Dutch also realized Javanese proficiency in shipbuilding: In the 18th century, shipbuilding yards in Amsterdam employed Javanese people as foremen. In 1856, John Crawfurd noted that Javanese shipbuilding activity still existed on the north coast of Java, with the shipyards supervised by Europeans, but all of the workers were Javanese. The ships that were built in the 19th century had a maximum tonnage of 50 tons and were mainly used for river transport.
Replica
A small-sized replica is moored along the Marine March of Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore.
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Jong is an Indonesian unique unit in Sid Meier's Civilization VI video game. However, the model used in-game more closely resembles a Borobudur ship than an actual jong. | WIKI |
User:Ccondmatt/sandbox/James Eisenstein
James Eisenstein is the Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the physics department of California Institute of Technology.
Academic Career
Eisenstein received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1983-1996 he was member of staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and in 1996 he moved to take up a professorial post at California Institute of Technology.
Research
Eisenstein is recognised as a leader in experimental studies of low-dimensional systems in high magnetic field, low temperature set-ups. His seminal achievement is the first experimental realisation of the ν=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall state : this is the only known quantum hall state with an even number denominator and it is believed in the condensed matter physics community that this state shows Non-abelian statistics and other topological features. The ν=5/2 is widely cited as a candidate for topological quantum computing.
Awards
Eisenstein has received many accolades of the condensed matter physics community. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences], and a fellow of [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a recipient the 2007 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize "for fundamental experimental and theoretical research on correlated many-electron states in low dimensional systems." He has served on NRC committees and panels such as the Solid State Sciences Committee or the DCMP Executive Committee.
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"Observation of an even-denominator quantum number in the fractional quantum Hall effect", R. Willett, J. P. Eisenstein, H. L. Störmer, D. C. Tsui, A. C. Gossard, and J. H. English Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1776 - Published 12 October 1987
"Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels", M. P. Lilly, K. B. Cooper, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 394 – Published 11 January 1999
"Resonantly Enhanced Tunneling in a Double Layer Quantum Hall Ferromagnet", I. B. Spielman, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5808 – Published 19 June 2000
Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems, J. P. Eisenstein, A. H. MacDonald, Nature 432, 691-694 - Published 9 December 2004
Mutual friction between parallel two-dimensional electron systems, T. J. Gramila, J. P. Eisenstein, A. H. MacDonald, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1216 – Published 4 March 1991
Formation of a high quality two‐dimensional electron gas on cleaved GaAs, Loren Pfeiffer, K. W. West, H. L. Stormer, J. P. Eisenstein, K. W. Baldwin, D. Gershoni and J. Spector, Appl. Phys. Lett. 56, 1697 - Accepted 28 February 1990 | WIKI |
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LIFX just announced HomeKit compatibility for its Wi-Fi smart lighting devices. Not just for new LIFX and LIFX+ lighting that you can buy from today on, but for existing LIFX products already in homes. It’s a trick that comes courtesy of a software update available now that makes existing LIFX products compatible with Apple's smart-home platform. But LIFX is just the latest in a series of companies to have made older products HomeKit compatible, thanks largely to Apple loosening the restrictions it had placed on its HomeKit partners. In June, Apple announced software-based authentication for HomeKit. Prior to that, it required hardware-based authentication whereby every company making HomeKit products had to include an Apple-approved authentication chip. That chip proved to be a costly and time-consuming pain in the ass for consumers and manufacturers like Philips, that had to develop a new Hue hub which owners had to then buy (even though they already owned a hub) in order to make their existing Hue lights HomeKit compatible. Not anymore. Just before Apple lifted the hardware-authentication restriction in June, Apple listed 126 HomeKit compatible product lines of which 25 were listed as "announced," while 12 others were listed as "coming soon." That's 126 confirmed product lines in the three years since HomeKit was announced; a number that jumped to 139 in just the last three months, of which 24 are listed as "announced" and 21 are "coming soon." Perhaps the biggest boost came from Ikea when it announced in August that its entire Trådfri range of smart lights, switches, and sensors will become HomeKit compatible via a software update in the Fall. Three weeks ago, Netatmo announced that a HomeKit firmware update for its Presence and Welcome security cameras would be available before the end of the year. And then two weeks ago, Logitech announced immediate availability of a HomeKit software update for its Circle 2 camera. These aren’t new devices made for HomeKit, mind you, but existing products already in people’s homes that can now (or soon) be updated with software to make them HomeKit compatible. The list of brand new HomeKit products announced over the last few weeks includes a new lock and doorbell from August, new Hue lights, a couple of new smart locks, and a bunch of products from Elgato. It’s been a good month, with more to come in the run-up to the holidays. The HomeKit ecosystem had been plagued by lethargy due to the sometimes onerous restrictions Apple placed on manufacturers. Many of those were lifted or streamlined this summer, causing the person behind the notorious Internet of Shit Twitter account to admit they were wrong about HomeKit, saying it “now has far more potential in the long run than any of its competitors.” Potential that’s transforming into the reality of a suddenly booming HomeKit ecosystem. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Running Sage from other languages with high(er) performance?
asked 2014-07-16 04:45:14 -0500
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updated 2014-07-16 09:50:46 -0500
I'm in the process of creating af CAS tool that uses Sage as the underlying math engine. It's a web application, so most of the code is HTML/Javascript and some underlying PHP from which I'd like to use Sage. Currently I've resorted to the -c command line option and executing it through PHP with exec().
This approach is extremely slow (takes several seconds and CPU load is fairly high). This is - as far as I'm aware - a result of Sage having to load all its libraries each time it's run.
Is there any way I can optimize this approach? I would prefer an approach similar to the -c option where I can just send a command and read the printed result.
I have no issues writing a wrapper in C (or Python if neccessary), nor working with sockets (if any are available) provided it can be done as simple as the -c option (the WebSocket messages seen in Sage Cell seems too much trouble to do manually).
What I need to know is mostly whether or not it's even possible, if so then where to start otherwise I'd like to know if there are any alternative approaches?
Why not use Sage Cell/Cloud?
Several reasons:
• I don't have complete control of the UI, so I can't actually embed a Sage Cell.
• The CAS tool is part of a much larger system with other services sharing resources.
• Both are a bit overkill for the job since they include a UI and webserver - I just need to send the command and read the response.
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answered 2014-07-17 07:44:54 -0500
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I finally realised that the Sage shell is a Python shell and that it's possible to run Sage inside a Python script. With this knowledge I was able to write a Python script that can execute Sage commands and uses sockets for inter-process communication.
I decided to write the script to act as much like running sage -c 'commmand' as possible. I copied most of the code from sage/local/sage-eval and paired it up with a Python socket example and ended with the following Python script:
import socket
import sys
from cStringIO import StringIO
from sage.all import *
from sage.calculus.predefined import x
from sage.misc.preparser import preparse
SHUTDOWN = False
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 8888
MAX_MSG_LENGTH = 102400
# Create socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
print 'Socket created'
# Bind socket to localhost and port
try:
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
except socket.error , msg:
print 'Bind failed. Error Code : ' + str(msg[0]) + ' Message ' + msg[1]
sys.exit()
print 'Socket bind complete'
# Start listening on socket
s.listen(10)
print 'Socket now listening'
# Loop listener for new connections
while not SHUTDOWN:
# Wait to accept a new client connection
conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'Connected with ' + addr[0] + ':' + str(addr[1])
# Receive message from client
msg = conn.recv(MAX_MSG_LENGTH)
if msg:
if msg == "stop":
SHUTDOWN = True
else:
parsed = preparse(msg)
if parsed.startswith('load') or parsed.startswith('attach'):
os.system('sage "' + os.path.join(os.getcwd(), parsed.split(None, 1)[1]) + '"')
else:
# Redirect stdout to my stdout to capture into a string
sys.stdout = mystdout = StringIO()
# Evalutate msg
try:
eval(compile(parsed,'<cmdline>','exec'))
result = mystdout.getvalue() # Get result from mystdout
except Exception as e:
result = "ERROR: " + str(type(e)) + " " + str(e)
# Restore stdout
sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
# Send response to connected client
if result == "":
conn.sendall("Empty result, did you remember to print?")
else:
conn.sendall(result)
# Close client connection
conn.close()
# Close listener
s.close()
I saved the script to a file called sage-daemon.py in my Sage root folder. The stopmessage handler isn't really neccessary, but it's useful if anyone can "properly" daemonize the script (and also to avoid interrupting the script with CTRL+C, because that will leave the socket as in-use for a while after the script has been interrupted). See my other question http://ask.sagemath.org/question/2350... .
To run the script: sage -python sage-daemon.py This will leave the Sage shell waiting for socket input.
Here's a PHP script I used to test the functionality with:
<?php
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname("tcp"));
if (!$socket) die("Could not create socket\n");
$connected = socket_connect($socket, "localhost", 8888);
if (!$connected) echo "Not connected\n";
else {
$msg = "print solve(5*x==3,x)";
$sent = socket_send($socket, $msg, strlen($msg), 0);
if (!$sent) echo "Error sending message\n";
else {
if ($msg != "stop"){
$response = socket_read($socket, 1024);
if (!$response) echo "Error receiving response\n";
else echo $response . "\n";
}
}
}
socket_close($socket);
If successfull this should print ... (more)
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answered 2014-07-16 09:20:43 -0500
updated 2014-07-16 09:49:53 -0500
This is because everytime you run sage -c 'some command', you have to wait for Sage to start up. I remember this came up a few years ago either on ask-sage or on one of the mailing lists sage-support, sage-devel, ... and someone said one solution was to have an instance of Sage running constantly in the background, so that the request would just be executed without having to start up Sage at each request. Trying to track down a reference, I came across the following three:
sage-devel, 2011-01-15, Sage forker
sage-support, 2011-08-02, start-up time in sage scripts
sage-support, 2012-06-28, Faster sage command line startup?
It seems that sage-forker, developed by Jeroen Demeyer and Jason Grout, was an important ingredient. I don't know if it is still current or if there is now some other way to achieve the same result.
A lot of thought also goes into improving the start-up time: a quick search for sage start-up time will reveal many discussions on the above-mentioned mailing lists, and on the Sage trac. But here what you want is not to start Sage each time, more than a lower start-up time.
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sage-forker still seems to work, trying to modify it to accept a `-c` command, but not really having any luck with the Python part of the code :<
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dublin Gates
The result was keep. John254 01:38, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
List of Dublin Gates
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Delete - A list of non notable "gates" with no reliable sources for verifiability Balloholic (talk) 21:42, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
* Weak keep There is some historical significance to the seven city gates in Dublin, because they used to collect tolls from persons coming into the city, although all but one of the gates was torn down later. However, the article has no context and hasn't seen much improvement since it was put up four months ago. If nothing is added, let it go. Mandsford (talk) 22:31, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep or merge. WP:BEFORE says a nominator should attempt to find sources before nominating an article. Since these are obviously structures from before the internet age, it's quite possible the majority of sources are paper not readily available to you. Also, city gates have historic significance. The existence of at least one of these can be confirmed so I'd suggest that unless more information about these structures is presented, they should be merged in the history section of Dublin. - Mgm|(talk) 23:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
* Delete, or weak merge, certainly not a well known topic that I never remember hearing of previously. ww2censor (talk) 01:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
* I'm not sure we should delete everying WW2censor hasn't heard of, I bet they were well known when they existed. Here's a source for one. Juzhong (talk) 01:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
* Having lived in Dublin for more than 40 years with an interest in history of the city, Juzhong, you should AGF and be civil not criticise my opinion if you don't know me or my knowledge. Supply V sources and some details and I will be happy to keep. BTW, Balloholic, my hair may be grey but I was not around Dublin in the 1930s! ww2censor (talk) 04:48, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Xyr comment was perfectly civil, and you outright told everyone that your knowledge was lacking, so your accusing people of assumptions about what you know hardly has a good foundation. Your rationale was (and remains) a bad one that has no support in Deletion policy whatsoever. This isn't an encyclopaedia of what a random set of editors at any given time might have personally heard of. That route leads swiftly to chaos. Hence the reason that deletion policy has never included any such reason for deleting, or indeed keeping, things. Uncle G (talk) 05:22, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* If you say so, but imho I thought it was not very civil. I don't see where I told everyone that my "knowledge was lacking" but I assume this is your own synthesis. Regarding my reasoning, I took into account the nom's reasons and I saw that there were no decent verifiable sources. Additionally I have been unable, even since then, to find anything verifiable in addition to my knowledge. As I also wrote, I am absolutely prepared to go with a keep if someone better than me can provide some details and V sources which is what we need for this to remain. Generally I am an inclusionist and don't support deletion unless warranted. ww2censor (talk) 06:05, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep and add proper sources, which should not be difficult--any history of the city would do very well. People should search at least a little if the field is unfamiliar, before nominating. We could almost certainly have a perfectly good article on each individual one of them, as with other important historic structures even if they do not currently exist,because notability is permanent. DGG (talk) 04:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep. The topic seems notable enough, as are fortifications of any major historic town. The article has much room for improvement though. I can't even tell from it whether the gates still exist or not. — Kpalion(talk) 19:16, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keepper WP:COMMONSENSE. I can't imagine how anyone could not consider this a notable subject. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:03, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
* The article does not even tell us which gates are real and which are fictional. I could easily add Z-Gate or Lynott Gate or Edgegate or Eddie Hobbs Gate (which would be in Cork) ad nobody would be any the wiser. If Ww2censor has been around since the 1930s and cannot remember them then how can they be notable? --Balloholic (talk) 01:17, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 04:31, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 04:31, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep and expand. Notable topic that's worthy of more than a simple list. Themfromspace (talk) 04:39, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep -- I presume this is a list of the gates in the walls of Dublin when it was a walled city. It is only a stub, but it could be a useful one. I expect that the gates were demolished so long ago that little is known of any of them, but the article might be expanded to cover the Walls of Dublin, featuring its gates. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
* Keep - I think the title is unfortunate as it presumes a list and perhaps not much else. However, there is a great deal of valuable history about the walls of Dublin and its gates, not available anywhere else on Wikipedia, which I think could go in here. I myself have old drawings and maps showing the gates and would be prepared to upload a selection as soon as I get the time. Hohenloh
* Bravo. This is by no means the worst and is like Dublin quays in that as soon as I get those bloody quays deleted they will be collectively in that article and I don't want to see individual gates. --Balloholic (talk) 15:56, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
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Rh ), and my sister was amused. Well, will you allow me to call this way of passing my days pleasant? Have you yet heard of an habitation for me? I often think of my new plan of life; and lest my sister should try to prevail on me to alter it, I have avoided mentioning it to her
Hopeful for herself and her sisters, she started out upon a new road, which, smoother than any she had yet trodden, was not without its many thorns and pitfalls. For a little while she stayed with Mr. Johnson, whose house was then, as ever, open to her. But as soon as possible she moved to lodgings he found for her in George Street, in the neighbourhood of Blackfriars' Bridge. Here she was near him; and this was a consideration, as the work he proposed to give her necessitated frequent intercourse between them, and it was also an advantage for her to be within reasonable distance of the only friend she possessed in London.
Mr. Johnson made her his "reader"; that is to say, he gave her the manuscripts sent to him to read and criticise; he also required that she should translate for him foreign works, for which there was then a great demand, and that she should contribute to the Analytical Review, which had just been established. Her position was a good one. It is true it left her little time for original work, and Godwin thought that it contracted rather than enlarged her genius for the time being. But it gave her a certain valuable experience and much practise which she would not otherwise have obtained, and it insured her steady employment. She was to the publisher what a staff contributor is to a newspaper. Whenever anything was to be done she was called upon to do it. Therefore, there was no danger of her dying of starvation in a garret, like Chatterton, or of her offering her manuscripts to one | WIKI |
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Does anyone know what the Dukes of Leeds' house in the Dukeries was called, when they relinquished it, or anything else about it? Gillian Tipson 19:16, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
* Kiveton Park. http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/duker.html <IP_ADDRESS> 16:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
* That's in Yorkshire. One of the Dukes of Leeds leased a house in Nottinghamshire called Norwood Park when he was Marquis of Carmarthen, but I don't think it counts as a family seat, and in any case it is near Southwell, and can't be considered park of the Dukeries. It still exists. Greg Grahame (talk) 10:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC) | WIKI |
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* ... that Jacky Morkel scored four tries in five test matches on the Springboks tour of 1912–13?
* Reviewed: Something Beautiful (Jordan Smith album)
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“Maharana Pratap: The Legendary Warrior King”
“The brave never lose hope, even in the darkest of hours.”– Maharana Pratap
“Maharana Pratap: The Legendary Warrior King”
Introduction of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was the ruler of Mewar, a region in the modern-day Indian state of Rajasthan. He is considered to be one of the greatest warriors of India. He was born in 1540 and was the eldest son of Udai Singh II, the ruler of Mewar at the time. He was a brave and courageous leader who fought against Mughal emperor Akbar to protect his kingdom.
He is remembered for his courage, determination, and will to fight against all odds. He is a symbol of pride and honor for the people of Mewar and the entire country. He died in 1597 after a long and brave struggle to protect his kingdom and its people. He is remembered as the epitome of courage and valor in Indian history.
Overview of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was the ruler of Mewar, a kingdom in present-day Rajasthan, India. He was born in 1540 to Udai Singh II, the king of Mewar, and his second wife, Maharani Jaiwanta Bai. Maharana Pratap was known for his valor, courage, and determination. He fought against the Mughal forces led by Akbar in the Battle of Haldighati in 1576 and ultimately lost it.
However, he refused to surrender to the Mughals and even continued to fight for the independence of Mewar. He spent most of his life leading guerilla warfare against the Mughals and was successful in keeping them at bay for a long time. He is still revered in Rajasthan for his determination and courage.
Life and legacy of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap is remembered as a heroic figure who fought against the Mughal Empire and was determined to protect his kingdom of Mewar from invaders. He is celebrated for his courage, bravery, and strong leadership skills. His determination, courage, and loyalty towards his kingdom are an inspiration for generations.
Maharana Pratap is a legendary figure in the history of India and is known for his fight against the Mughal Empire. He is believed to have died in 1597 at the age of 60, which was a great loss to the people of Mewar. His legacy lives on in the form of monuments, coins, and paintings dedicated to him. His legacy is also remembered through the annual Mewar Festival, which is celebrated in his honor.
Early Life of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was born on 9th May 1540 in Kumbhalgarh, Rajasthan. His father was Maharana Udai Singh II, the ruler of Mewar. Pratap was the eldest of twenty-two brothers and sisters. As a child, Pratap was known for his bravery and courageous nature. He was taught martial arts and horse riding from a young age. He was also taught the religious and moral values of Rajputs. He was known to have a strong character and a sharp intellect.
He was also very dedicated to his studies and was deeply knowledgeable in history and the scriptures. Pratap was also a great hunter, and his ability to hunt tigers and lions earned him the title of ‘Cheetah'. He was also a great strategist and was known to have an eye for detail. He was an inspiring leader and was determined to protect the honour and integrity of his kingdom of Mewar.
Birth and childhood of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was born in the year 1540 AD in the fort of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan. He was born to Maharana Udai Singh II, the ruler of Mewar, and his mother Rani Jaivantabai. His childhood was filled with a lot of physical activities such as horse riding, archery, and wrestling. He was also trained in martial arts, and he quickly gained expertise in all the fields.
At the age of 15, Pratap was appointed as the Crown Prince of Mewar and was given the responsibility to protect and manage the kingdom. He was an extremely brave and courageous leader, and his loyalty to his kingdom was unmatched. His greatest achievement was the Battle of Haldighati in 1576, where he fought against Mughal Emperor Akbar's forces. Despite being outnumbered, he was able to survive the battle and hold his ground against the Mughals.
Early military service of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was a great warrior and leader of the Rajputs, and he was trained in the art of war from a young age. He was sent to Chittor to learn the military arts from his father, Udai Singh II.
He was trained in the use of swords, spears, archery, and horse riding. He was also taught strategies and tactics of warfare. By the time he was 16 years old, Maharana Pratap was ready to take part in the battlefield. He fought many battles against the Mughal forces, and even though he was outnumbered and outmatched, he always managed to outwit them.
He was known for his courage, determination, and leadership skills. He was able to unite the Rajputs and fight against the Mughal forces, and eventually managed to regain some of the lost territories. Even though he was never able to reclaim the full territories of Mewar, he will forever be remembered as a great warrior and leader.
Leadership of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap was a powerful and influential warrior king who reigned in the late 16th century, during the period of the Mughal Empire in India. He is renowned for his leadership, courage, and resistance to the Mughal forces, who sought to conquer the kingdom of Mewar. Pratap fought to protect his kingdom and its people, and he was successful in maintaining the independence of Mewar.
He was a true leader, who inspired his people and fought bravely to protect their freedom. He was also a man of honor, and a great example of chivalry and integrity. Pratap was determined to resist the Mughal forces, no matter the cost. He was willing to sacrifice himself and his kingdom for the cause of freedom and justice. His legacy continues to inspire people today, and his story serves as a reminder of the courage and strength that is possible when one stands up for what is right.
Battle of Haldighati
The Battle of Haldighati was fought in 1576 between the forces of Rana Pratap of Mewar and the Mughal Empire led by Man Singh I of Amer. Rana Pratap's forces were outnumbered by the Mughals, and he was eventually forced to retreat. The battle ended in a strategic stalemate, with both sides claiming victory. The battle is remembered as a heroic display of resistance against the Mughal Empire by the Mewari forces, and is celebrated in the culture of Rajasthan.
Expansion of Rajput kingdom
Maharana Pratap was determined to expand the Rajput kingdom and continued to fight against the Mughals, even after the Battle of Haldighati. He was able to regain much of the Rajput territories, including the fort of Chittor, which was taken by Akbar in 1568. He also invaded the Mughal province of Malwa and defeated Mughal forces at the Battle of Dewair in 1582. He was successful in capturing many forts, including Ajmer, Udaipur, and Kumbhalgarh.
He also formed alliances with other Rajput rulers, such as the Kachwahas of Jaipur, the Sisodias of Mewar, and the Rathors of Marwar. In 1585, he declared independence from the Mughal Empire and set up his own kingdom in Mewar, which he ruled until his death in 1597.
Major Events in Maharana Pratap's life
Some of the major events in Maharana Pratap's life include:
1. The Battle of Haldighati in 1576, where Maharana Pratap was defeated by the Mughal forces led by Man Singh I of Amber.
2. The Battle of Dewar in 1582, where Maharana Pratap successfully defeated the Mughal forces led by Akbar.
3. The formation of the peasant army of Maharana Pratap, which was a group of volunteers from the local population who joined forces with Maharana Pratap to fight against the Mughals.
4. The Siege of Chittor in 1567, where Maharana Pratap and his forces successfully defended the fort against an invading Mughal army.
The Major Battles Maharana Pratap Fought
Maharana Pratap fought several major battles in his lifetime. These include the Battle of Haldighati, the Battle of Dewar, the Battle of Gogunda, and the Battle of Khatoli.
The Battle of Haldighati was the most famous battle fought by Maharana Pratap, and it was fought in 1576 against the Mughal Empire.
The Battle of Gogunda was fought in 1582, with Maharana Pratap's forces emerging victorious.
The Battle of Khatoli was fought in 1585 and resulted in a victory for Maharana Pratap.
The Battle of Dewar was fought in 1591 and resulted in a draw, with both sides claiming victory.
Maharana Pratap also fought a series of smaller battles throughout his lifetime, and his courage and bravery were an inspiration to the people of his time.
Legacy of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap's legacy lives on in many forms throughout India. He is remembered for his bravery and patriotism, his commitment to his people, and his refusal to bow down to the Mughal Empire. He is especially remembered as a symbol of Rajput pride and resistance to outside rule. His legacy can still be seen in the many monuments, temples, and other architectural structures that were built in his honour throughout Rajasthan.
His name is celebrated in poetry, stories, and songs, and his memory is kept alive in the many festivals and fairs that take place in the region. Maharana Pratap's legacy is a reminder of the courage, conviction, and resilience of the Rajputs and the people of India.
Impact on the Rajputana Empire of Maharana Pratap
The impact of Maharana Pratap on the Rajputana Empire was immense. He was a strong leader who showed immense courage and determination to protect his people and his kingdom. He was determined to protect the sovereignty of Mewar and was willing to fight against the Mughal Empire for it. He also made sure that his people were properly provided for and cared for, and he was an inspiration to his people. He also established a strong network of alliances with various other Rajputana clans, which helped to strengthen the Rajputana Empire.
Additionally, he was an able administrator and a skilled military strategist, helping to protect the Rajputana Empire from external threats. His legacy still lives on today, and he is remembered as one of the greatest Rajputana rulers in history.
Impact on Indian History of Maharana Pratap
Maharana Pratap is a symbol of courage, patriotism, and valour in India. He is a legendary figure who fought valiantly against the Mughal emperor Akbar to protect the independence of his kingdom, Mewar. The great warrior-king refused to accept Akbar's supremacy and kept on fighting throughout his life. His efforts to protect Mewar's independence had a great impact on Indian history.
He was one of the first kings to challenge the Mughal Empire and his struggle against the Empire led to the emergence of a new wave of freedom fighters. He is revered in the Indian history for his courage and patriotism and is remembered as a great hero of India. His legacy continues to inspire the people of India to fight for their rights and freedom.
Summary of Maharana Pratap's life and legacy
Maharana Pratap is remembered as one of the greatest warriors in Indian history and a symbol of resistance against the Mughal Empire. He was born in 1540 to Udai Singh II, the Maharana of Mewar, and his mother was the daughter of the Raja of Kota. He was the eldest of 25 sons and was trained in the martial arts and equestrianism from an early age.
In 1568, the Mughal Emperor Akbar invaded Chittor and Maharana Pratap was crowned the ruler of Mewar. He refused to surrender to the Mughals and instead chose to fight for the independence of Mewar. He was defeated in the battle of Haldighati in 1576, but he refused to give up and continued to fight against the Mughals for the next 20 years.
Maharana Pratap was known for his courage, determination, and sense of justice. He was also remembered for his selflessness and loyalty to his people. He died in 1597 at the age of 57, but his legacy lives on through his descendants, who continue to be a symbol of resistance and fight for the independence of Mewar.
Maharana Pratap was an iconic figure in Rajputana history and is remembered for his courage and patriotism. He is an inspiration to the people of Rajasthan and India. His legacy of valor and honor will live on forever in the hearts of Rajputs and all Indians. Maharana Pratap's courage and determination is something that should be celebrated and remembered by all. His actions were a testament to his commitment to the cause of freedom and justice. The story of Maharana Pratap has been an inspiration to many and will continue to be so in the future.
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How did maharana pratap die?
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He also laid the foundation for a strong agricultural economy and improved the infrastructure of the state. His legacy has served as a role model for many leaders in India, who continue to strive for a just and equitable society. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Josh Brown: GE is the kind of stock that 'I have no time for' anymore
Money manager and popular blogger Josh Brown told CNBC on Monday that he sold his General Electric stock shortly after the announcement that CEO Jeff Immelt would step down. The CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management explained he had already been considering selling his stock in GE, and after the company was continuously "raked over" by sell-side analysts, he dropped out. "That's the kind of thing I have no time for," Brown, author of the widely read blog The Reformed Broker, said on "Halftime Report. " "Because we're in a market that is breaking out to record highs. Not just here. Around the world. There are thousands of stocks. ... There's opportunity everywhere." He recommended choosing from 20 to 30 stocks in the SPDR Industrial Select Sector ETF (XLI) that "look incredible." Brown also said he believes John Flannery, named to be GE's next CEO, effective Aug. 1, has no incentive to keep the company's prior guidance. "Once that happens, everyone's excited: 'Oh, he'll sell off units, he sold off financial units,'" Brown said. "OK, fine. That's like a five-year plan. That's not like a catalyst for this year." Brown said he's open to revisiting the stock in the future but for now, thinks there are better places to be allocated. "This is too much," he said. CNBC has reached out to GE for comment. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Verb
* 1) to lecture; to give a lecture; to give a speech
Noun
* 1) lecture; speech
Noun
* 1) lecture
* 2) speech
Verb
* 1) give a lecture
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Doctor Jude Ssegane Jesus Holds a Bachelors degree of medicine and bachelors degree of surgery. He is a computer specialist with a masters degree in software and web development! | WIKI |
wiki:Linux/Ubuntu/Packages/CDBSCustomRules
CDBS Custom Rules
CDBS (Common Debian Build System) simplifies debian/rules tremendously, in many cases a simple minimal configuration is sufficient:
#!/usr/bin/make -f
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
However, there comes a time when the package needs to run custom tasks at certain points during the build process. These require CDBS custom rules (hooks). Unfortunately the CDBS documentation is vague on what hooks are available.
An example (from r5u870-dkms):
binary-install/r5u870-dkms::
cp $(CURDIR)/debian/dkms.conf $(CURDIR)/debian/$(cdbs_curpkg)/usr/src/r5u870-$(SRC_VERSION)
The part before the slash (/) is the hook, the part after is the binary package name to apply it to (remember that one source package can and often does contain multiple binary packages).
The hooks can be found in
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
Custom Hooks
This is a list in the order they appear in the CDBS debhelper scripts.
makebuilddir/%
cleanbuilddir/%
configure/%
build/%
install/%
binary/%
binary-install/%
binary-post-install/%
binary-strip/%
binary-fixup/%
binary-predeb/%
binary-makedeb/%
binary-makedeb-IMPL/% | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Amazon Whole Foods acquisition: people 'mystified'
It's still unclear exactly why Amazon decided to buy Whole Foods, a company with thin margins and slowing growth. But one investor believes there's a very clear reason for doling out $14 billion on the upscale grocery chain: long term benefits. "What are they going to do with Whole Foods? People are mystified," Michael Yoshikami, founder of Destination Wealth Management, said on CNBC's "Closing Bell." Yoshikami said even if Whole Foods makes no profit at all, Amazon still benefits from the deal because of the 400-plus retail locations and logistics experience it brings with them, not to mention Amazon's positioning against upstarts like Blue Apron. "It's all about the vision and the future. Jeff Bezos is not looking next year. He's looking 20 years down the road and always has," he added. When asked about the deal during Thursday's earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky didn't dive into the details, as the deal hasn't closed yet. But he implied that the acquisition is part of a broader experiment to test out different store formats that most appeal to its customers. "We believe there won't be one solution, so we're experimenting with a number of different formats: physical pick up points and Amazon Go to online ordering and delivery to your door through Prime Now and Amazon Fresh. We'll see how customers respond," Olsavsky said. "We think [Whole Foods] are very customer-centric just like us, they've built a great business focused around quality and customers, so we're really glad to join up with them," he added. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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1. steel roof joists are manufactured with camber to
compensate for deflection
2. When concrete is held under sustained stress, the strain will continue to increase with time. Which of the following defines this time-dependant phenomenon?
1. Shrinkage
2. Temperature expansion
3. Creep
4. Contraction
3. Creep
3. Concrete should reach its designed compressive strength in how many days?
28 days
4. The most frequent used footing type at the exterior wall for load bearing wall support is
Continuous wall footings
5. Since the 1960's, thin-shell concrete roof structures have seldom been utilized in the United States and Canada primarily because
formwork is prohibitivly expensive
6. A slump cone is used to provide an indication of which of the following characteristics of concrete?
Strength and workability
7. What is the most important factor affecting the strength of concrete?
Water to cement ratio
8. A force is defined by four properties
• 1. point of application (POA)
• 2. magnitude (#, kips)
• 3. Sense (arrowhead, push or pull, C or T)
• 4. line of action (LOA) (angle with horizontal)
9. Which of the following best describes the P-delta effect?
1. lateral forces on the foundations
2. bending forces in the vertical members
3. horizontal forces in the roof sections
4. moment forces at the joint
2. bending forces in the vertical members
10. A balcony is hung from steel roof framing over a hotel atrium. Which of the following is the minimum code required increase in live load due to impact?
33%
11. Which of the following is generall the most economical material for the hoistway wall of an elevator in a woodframe, two story apartment building?
reinforced concrete
gypsum shaft wall
prefabricated concrete
concrete blocks
gypsum shaft wall
12. A one-way slab is used typically in which of the following types of buildings?
Museum
Parking
Library
Warehouse
parking
13. Which of the following would be most appropriate for a high-rise building in a high-risk seismic zone?
1. a building on stilts
2. a building with an L-shaped plan
3. a building with a symmetrical T-shaped plan
4. a building with a symmetrical square plan
a building with a symmetrical square plan
14. Which of the following is NOT a primary structural system that is employed to resist lateral loads?
1. Shear walls
2. Braced frames
3. Hinged Frames
4. moment-resisting frames
hinged frames
15. All of the following are critera for base isolation systems EXCEPT:
The system must allow lateral movement.
The system must control the movement between ground and structure.
Energy must be dissipated in the isolators.
The system must amplify ground accelerations.
The system must amplify ground accelerations.
16. An eccentrically braced frame (EBF) utilized to resist lateral seismic forces in a building is a
frame in which diagonal members are connected to a beam a short distance from the column joint
17. Base isolation in an office building is most effective for which of the following buidling heights, assuming that the areas per floor are the same?
one story
four story
twenty story
forty story
four story
18. Buckling of a column can be reduced by which of the following? (4)
A. increasing the size of the member
B. Rotating the column
C. Bracing the column
D. Chaning the type of end restraints
E. Reducing the length of the column
F. Reducing the radium of gyration
A,C, D, E
19. A loss of soil shear strength resulting in the movement of the surficial soil layers of a building site in a direction parallel to the ground surface under earthquake conditions is most likely caused by
liquefiable solids
20. The recommended deflection criteria due to wind loading on a brick veneer wall utilizing a metal stud back up system is
L/600
21. Which of the following professions has primary legal responsibility for the performance of a building in an earthquake?
Architect
22. Which of the following material lists provides ductility in building construction in the order of highest to lowest?
1. steel, reinforced masonry, reinforced concrete, wood
2. Wood, steel, reinforced masonry, reinforced concrete
3. REinforced masonry, reinforced concrete, wood, steel
4. Steel, reinforced concrete, reinforced, masonry, wood
Steel, reinforced concrete, reinforced, masonry, wood
23. A primary cause of failure of conrete masonry walls during hurricanes is
lack of vertical reinforcement
24. Earthquake regulations of model codes are intended to provide resistance to
ground shaking
25. A structure will have a better chance of surviving an eathquake if which of the following is true
1. principal members change section abruptly
2. The load-bearing members are not equally loaded
3. All columns and walls are discontinuous
4. the structure has redundancy
the structure has redundancy
26. Which of the following considerations in structural design are based on probability as a result of historical analysis?
water pressures, wind forces, dead loads, soil pressures
wind forces
27. What is dead load?
A permanent load. The building itself.
28. What is live load?
it's anything that is not permanent (applied as a force)
29. Explain the difference between Static vs. Dynamic forces
The weight of a structure produces a static effect.
If that structure is suddenly moved or stopped from moving at which a dynamic effect occurs (through the inertia or momentum of the mass of the structure)
examples of dynamic forces-waves, earthquakes, blasts, people walking
30. What is the state of static equilibrium?
blancing of active loads and the reactions
31. Blancing of active loads and the reactions refers to what
State of static equalibrium
32. Moment = _______ x ________
force x distance
33. describe the difference between stress and strain
• stress is an internal force in a structure (not visually apparent)
• strain is what occurs from the effect of stress (effect is visible)
34. name 3 characteristics that any building must have in order to function
• 1. stability
• 2. strength
• 3. stiffness
35. Name 3 different types of stress
• linear:
• 1. tension
• 2. compression
• angular:
• 3. shear
36. What is the modulus of elasticity?
The relationship from stress to strain that is constant and proportional in magnatude.
37. What is Direct Stress Modulus?
direct stress of tension or compression (linear change<strain)
38. What is shear stress modulus?
strain measured as angular change
39. Describe yield stress
when material behaves elastically up to some point (stress magnatude at which point it begins to deform excessively)
40. Describe Strain Hardening Point
when the limit of ductile deformation is reached and the material starts to behave semi elastically for a short time then ultimatly failing.
41. Time at which a dynamic load occurs one full cycle of motion is called
Fundamental period
42. Fundamental Period is
Time at which a dynamic load occurs one full cycle of motion is called
43. STRESS = _______/__________
S=TOTAL LOAD ON THE MEMBER/ AREA OF THE CROSS SECTION
44. Construction loads
a stack of plywood on the roof, a temporary load during construction.
45. Name enviornmental loads.
enviornmental loads are unpedictable
• Rain, Snow - code
• thermal
• wind
• seicmic
• hydrostatic
• load factors
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Hagen Kleinert
Hagen Kleinert (born 15 June 1941) is professor of theoretical physics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (since 1968), Honorary Doctor at the West University of Timișoara, and at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek. He is also Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Creative Endeavors. For his contributions to particle and solid-state physics he was awarded the Max Born Prize 2008 with Medal. His contribution to the memorial volume celebrating the 100th birthday of Lev Davidovich Landau earned him the Majorana Prize 2008 with Medal. He is married to Dr. Annemarie Kleinert since 1974 with whom he has a son Michael Kleinert.
Publications
Kleinert has written ~420 papers on mathematical physics and the physics of elementary particles, nuclei, solid state systems, liquid crystals, biomembranes, microemulsions, polymers, and the theory of financial markets. He has written several books on theoretical physics, the most notable of which, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, has been published in five editions since 1990 and has received enthusiastic reviews.
Education
He studied physics at the Leibniz University Hannover between 1960 and 1963, and at several American universities including Georgia Institute of Technology, where he learned general relativity as a graduate student from George Gamow, one of the fathers of the Big Bang theory. Kleinert earned his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Career
As a young professor in 1972, Kleinert visited Caltech and was impressed by noted US physicist Richard Feynman. Later, Kleinert was to collaborate with Feynman in some of the latter's last work. This collaboration led to a mathematical method for converting divergent weak-coupling power series into convergent strong-coupling ones. This so-called variational perturbation theory yields at present the most accurate theory of critical exponents observable close to second-order phase transitions, as confirmed for superfluid helium in satellite experiments. He also discovered an alternative to Feynman's time-sliced path integral construction which can be used to solve the path integral formulations of the hydrogen atom and the centrifugal barrier, i.e. to calculate their energy levels and eigenstates, as special cases of a general strategy for treating systems with singular potentials using path integrals.
Within the quantum field theories of quarks he found the origin of the algebra of Regge residues conjectured by N. Cabibbo, L. Horwitz, and Y. Ne'eman (see p. 232 in reference ).
Discoveries
For superconductors he predicted in 1982 a tricritical point in the phase diagram between type-I and type-II superconductors where the order of the transition changes from second to first. The predictions were confirmed in 2002 by Monte Carlo computer simulations.
The theory is based on a disorder field theory dual to the order field theory of L.D. Landau for phase transitions which Kleinert developed in the books on Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter. In this theory, the statistical properties of fluctuating vortex or defect lines are described as elementary excitations with the help of fields, whose Feynman diagrams are the pictures of the lines.
At the 1978 summer school in Erice he proposed the existence of broken supersymmetry in atomic nuclei, which has since been observed experimentally.
His theory of collective quantum fields and the Hadronization of Quark Theories are prototypes for numerous developments in the theory of condensed matter, nuclear and elementary particle physics.
Together with K. Maki he proposed and clarified in 1981 a possible icosahedral phase of quasicrystals. This structure was discovered three years later in aluminum transition metal alloys by Dan Shechtman, which earned him the Nobel Prize 2011.
In 2006, he considered the existence of a novel Riemann particle. The experimental verification is still missing.
See historical notes.
String theory contributions
In 1986 he introduced stiffness into the theory of strings, which had formerly been characterized by tension alone. This greatly improved the description of the physical properties of strings. The Russian physicist A. Polyakov simultaneously proposed a similar extension, and so the model is now known as the Polyakov-Kleinert string.
Theory of distributions
Together with A. Chervyakov, Kleinert developed an extension of the theory of distributions from linear spaces to semigroups by defining their products uniquely (in the mathematical theory, only linear combinations are defined). The extension is motivated by the physical requirement that the corresponding path integrals must be invariant under coordinate transformations, which is necessary for the equivalence of the path integral formulation to Schrödinger theory.
String theory alternative
As an alternative to string theory, Kleinert used the complete analogy between non-Euclidean geometry and the geometry of crystals with defects to construct a model of the universe called the World Crystal or Planck-Kleinert crystal. In this model, matter creates defects in spacetime which generate curvature. This curvature reproduces all the effects of general relativity, but leads to different physics than string theory at the scale of the Planck length. This theory inspired Italian artist Laura Pesce to create glass sculptures entitled "world crystal" (see also lower left on this page).
Current work
Kleinert is a senior member of the faculty for the International Relativistic Astrophysics PhD (IRAP) Project, which forms part of the international network for astrophysics (ICRANet). He was also involved in the European Science Foundation's project Cosmology in the Laboratory.
Kleinert's 60th birthday was honored by a Festschrift and a Festcolloquium with 65 contributions by international colleagues (for instance Y. Ne'eman, R. Jackiw, H. Fritzsch, R. Ruffini, C. DeWitt, L. Kauffman, J. Devreese, and K. Maki).
Books
* Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter, Vol. I, " SUPERFLOW AND VORTEX LINES", pp. 1–742, Vol. II, "STRESSES AND DEFECTS", pp. 743–1456, World Scientific (Singapore, 1989); Paperback ISBN 9971-5-0210-0 (also available online: Vol. I and Vol. II)
* Critical Properties of φ4-Theories, World Scientific (Singapore, 2001); Paperback ISBN 981-02-4658-7 (also available online) (together with V. Schulte-Frohlinde)
* Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, 5th edition, World Scientific (Singapore, 2009) (also available online)
* Multivalued Fields in Condensed Matter, Electrodynamics, and Gravitation, World Scientific (Singapore, 2008) (also available online)
* Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, World Scientific (Singapore, 2008) (together with R.T. Jantzen)
* Particles and Quantum Fields, World Scientific (Singapore, 2016) (also available online) | WIKI |
Front end Ajax to achieve pagination ideas
Time：2021-5-6
1、 Explanation
When I first joined the front-end family, pagination was definitely a mountain of obstacles for me, so if you don’t have some practical experience with JavaScript or jQuery, I suggest you get familiar with these two parts first, and then look at the article here, otherwise you will feel very uncomfortable. Learning is a step-by-step process. Don’t be impatient; In addition, the author knows that there are people outside, there is a day outside, if you are a veteran programmer, I hope this article can give you another way of thinking, if there are shortcomings, please give me your advice.
2、 Implementation
Front end Ajax to achieve pagination ideas
Front end Ajax to achieve pagination ideas
This is the style we want to implement. If the current page > = 6, we need to keep 1 or 2 pages on the left side of the page and add. In order to understand the implementation of pagination in the front end, the following interface does not have parameters to set the size of the number of displays per page. By default, there are 2 displays per page.
//Load data, this function role: 1, page initialization rendering, 2, click paging call. Now you can understand it for page initialization.
//What is the current page of currentid
function loadData(currentId) {
$.ajax({
url: "{:url('articlelist/getArticles')}?currentId=" + currentId,
type: "get",
dataType: 'json',
success: function (res) {
//The paginatfactory function is the core of rendering pages, which will be introduced later.
paginatFactory(res, currentId);
}, error: function (res) {
console.log(res);
}
})
}
The structure of the data returned by the interface is as follows. Data is the data array, next is the page number of the next page, preview is the page number of the previous page, and total is the total number of pages. Here, the data structure returned by the background may be different from yours. I suggest you communicate with the background and ask them to add the required parameters（ Here you and the backstage are excluded
Front end Ajax to achieve pagination ideas
The following is paginatfactory (RES, currentid), the core function of pagination. Res is the above data, and currentid is the current page.
function paginatFactory(res, currentId) {
var html = ""; // The HTML variable stores the content to be displayed, which will not be repeated in the following loop.
for (var i = 0; i < res.data.length; i++) {
var category = res.data[i].category === 0 ? " Design article ": res.data [i]. Category = = = 1?" The front-end article is "travel miscellany";
html += " <tr>" +
" <td>" + res.data[i].title + "</td>" +
" <td>" + res.data[i].content + "</td>" +
" <td>" + category +
" </td>" +
" <td>" +
" <a class=\"layui-btn layui-btn-normal\" href=\"{:url('articlelist/edit')}? Id = + res.data [i]. ID + "\" > Edit < / a > "+
"< div class = \" layui BTN layui BTN warm removearticle \ "data id = \" + res.data [i]. ID + "\" > delete < / div > "+
" </td>" +
" </tr>";
}
$('#articlelist').html(html); // Please add a table tag with ID // articlelist in the body to see the effect.
//This is the core of pagination. In order to better view the effect, please create a UL tag with class paginate after the table with ID as articlelist just now.
//If the current page is the first page, you can't click it, « The button can't be pressed
var pageHtml = "<li " + (res.previou ? "" : "disabled") + " data-pageid='" + res.previou + "'>«</li>";
//Pagetotal to set the number of pagination display. If > = 6, the maximum number of pagination display is 6. Otherwise, you can understand
var pageTotal = res.total >= 6 ? 6 : res.total;
//Because there are two styles, it is changed according to the current page
if (currentId < 6) {
for (var j = 1; j <= pageTotal; j++) {
pageHtml += " <li " + (currentId === j ? "disabled" : "") + " data-pageid='" + j + "'>" + j + "</li>";
}
} else {
//If it's greater than 6, it'll add... And leave pages 1 and 2 on the left
for (var j = 1; j <= pageTotal; j++) {
//If it is less than 3, page 1 and page 2 always exist
if (j < 3) {
pageHtml += " <li " + (currentId === j ? "disabled" : "") + " data-pageid='" + j + "'>" + j + "</li>";
}
//It's three plus
if (j === 3) {
pageHtml += "<li disabled class='jump'>...</li>";
}
//If the current page is greater than three. Page numbers need to be rendered based on the current page.
if (currentId > 3) {
//If the current page is 7, 7-1 = 6 will be displayed on the left
if (j === 4) {
if (currentId === res.total) {
pageHtml += "<li data-pageid='" + (currentId - 2) + "'>" + (currentId - 2) + "</li>";
}
pageHtml += "<li data-pageid='" + (currentId - 1) + "'>" + (currentId - 1) + "</li>";
}
//On the current page, please note that it is disabled and cannot be clicked,
if (j === 5) {
pageHtml += "<li disabled data-pageid='" + currentId + "'>" + currentId + "</li>";
}
//Here is the current page + 1, you should understand.
if (j === 6 && currentId < res.total) {
pageHtml += "<li data-pageid='" + (currentId + 1) + "'>" + (currentId + 1) + "</li>";
}
}
//Here, if the current page is less than the penultimate page of the total number of pages. Otherwise, the following pages will not be displayed.
if (j === 6 && currentId < (res.total - 1)) {
pageHtml += "<li disabled class='jump'>...</li>";
}
}
}
//This is the last page. It is disabled
pageHtml += " <li " + (currentId >= res.total ? "disabled" : "") + " data-pageid='" + res.next + "'>»</li>";
//Here is the page Jump.
Pagehtml + = < Li class ='jump 'disabled > of "+ res.total +" pages, go to < input class ='entry' value = '"+ currentid +"'type =' > page < / Li > < Li data total = '"+ res.total +"'class ='confirm' > < / Li > "
//Final rendering
$('.paginate').html(pageHtml);
}
Here's how to call
loadData(1);// When initializing the first rendering of a page, it is equivalent to obtaining the data of the first page, so pass 1 here
/*
@Current ID current pages
*/
$(document).on('click', '.paginate li:not([disabled])', function () {
//Confirm determines whether you are clicking OK or page number
if ($(this).hasClass('confirm')) {
//Are you sure? What page do you want to get the input.
var page = parseInt($('.entrance').val());
if (page <= 0 || page > $(this).data('total') || isNaN(page)) {
Layer.msg ('Please enter correct page number ');
} else {
// following the correct number of pages, call the Ajax method.
loadData(page);
}
} else {
//Here is the call after clicking the page number.
var pageId = $(this).data('pageid');
loadData(pageId);
}
});
The CSS style is as follows
.paginate {
font-size:0;
}
.paginate li{
font-size:14px;
display: inline-block;
margin-right:10px;
text-align: center;
width:30px;
height:28px;
line-height: 28px;
border:1px solid #ddd;
}
.paginate [disabled]{
color:gray;
}
.paginate li:not([disabled]):hover {
cursor: pointer;
color:#fff;
background-color: #009688;
}
.paginate li.jump{
border:none;
width:auto;
}
.paginate li.jump .entrance{
border:1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
width:30px;
height:28px;
}
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The page "St. Martin's Chamber Choir" was initially created by Gene McCullough who was at the time a member of the Board of Directors of the choir. He is of the opinion that St. Martin's is of sufficient standing that this seeming conflict of interest is warranted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gene McCullough (talk • contribs) 13:34, 19 May 2011 (UTC+9) (UTC)
Nomination of St. Martin's Chamber Choir for deletion
(I have not be able to find a more focused place to reply to this. I trust that this will reach Eddie891 and whatever discussion there is about this proposed action.)
Yes, obviously I'm quite concerned about this nomination. Yes, there have been notices posted to the page asking for improvements. I'd like to address them:
• The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations: St. Martin's Chamber Choir is the only full-time, professional chamber choir in the Rocky Mountain region. Its singers are paid for every rehearsal and for every performance. Its singers are almost to a one professionally trained. Most of them are full-time musicians and/or educators beyond their involvement with St. Martin's. You can read the numerous collaborations. You can read the numerous regional and world premiere performances. You can read about the commissions. The choir has produced 13 CDs, including two on the Toccata Classics label. (toccataclassics.com) • Regional and world premieres and commissions: These simply are what they are. Before making such a claim, copyright holders and composers are consulted. Commissions are business transactions between the choir and the composer. Are contracts needed to verify these? • There is a call for references for the biography of the founder and Artistic Director. I'm not sure how one does this if there hasn't been a biography published in journal or book form. This bio sketch appears on the St. Martin's website and in every program. Maestro Krueger is Minister of Music at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Denver and he is on the faculty of Metropolitan State University of Denver. This bio sketch appears on both of those sites. I'm open to suggestions. • Another note about notability: There is a page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choirs_in_Colorado which lists numerous choirs around the state. I can find Wikipedia entries for the following on that list: • The Ars Nova Singers • The Arvada Chorale • The Colorado Children's Chorale • The One World Singers • The Sound of the Rockies None of these pages have been tagged with a call for more references. None has had its artistic director's bio sketch tagged as needing references. As one who knows choirs in the area, I will assert that there is only one organization in that group that reaches St. Martin's level of notability, Ars Nova.
So I look forward to a reply from one of Wikipedia's monitors. I'm up for making changes but I feel like what is on the page is justifiable. Gene McCullough (talk) 06:38, 3 March 2020 (UTC)Gene McCullough | WIKI |
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Page:A history of Hungarian literature.djvu/138
124 HUNGARIAN LITERATORE years after the publication of his finest drama, an d nobody knew that the country had lost in him her greatest tragic dramatist. Katona's play of Bdnk ban (the ba nus or palatine Bánk) is a tragedy of the finest type, and its reception was due to certain curious coincidences.• The censor forbade its prodoction on the s1 age because it dealt with the murder of a queen, a dangerous example for subj ects. Not long before, a queen had actually been killed, Marie Antoinette, a relative of the Austrian Emperor. Thus the stage was elosed to Katona's tragedy. But there was anoth ei circu msta nce which miti gated agai nst its success. Th e cha:racter of the play was oppose.d to the general tendency and taste of the times. It was an age which liked the polished and graceful in literat ure, and its taste was not satisfied by the rigidly majestic character of the tragedy. Though the patriotic element in it was likely to appeal powerfully to the public, its overpowering tragical element was not duly understood and appreciated. Katona's language displays remarkable force and terseness, but he paid no heed to the i nnova tions pf the language reformers, and that fact made an unfavo urable impression upon his critics. And finally we may mention one other circu mstance that had its im portance for bim, as for ali other authors. Katona did not belong to any literary group or clique, and conse quently remained isolated. Th e historical event which supplied Katona with his and they were found strikingly similar to the Shakespearean plays. Katona's greatness lay in his power of analysis, which enabled bim to portray faithfully the growth of the passions. His pietore of the tragical development of the soul of Bánk, leading to the inevitable explosion, with its ruinous recoil, will ever remain a masterpiece of dramatic poetry.
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1929–30 Southampton F.C. season
The 1929–30 season was the 35th season of competitive football by Southampton, and the club's eighth in the Second Division of the Football League. After finishing fourth in the Second Division the previous season – their highest position in the league to date – Southampton continued their efforts towards achieving promotion to the First Division, but finished three places lower in seventh. The club struggled at the beginning of the league campaign, remaining in the bottom half of the table due to a run of poor results. A period of form including six wins in eight games followed between September and November, enabling the Saints to move up as high as third place. The team remained in the top half of the Second Division table for most of the rest of the season, finishing in seventh place with 17 wins, 11 draws and 14 losses.
In the 1929–30 FA Cup, Southampton entered in the third round away to divisional rivals Bradford City, losing 4–1 to face elimination at the first hurdle for the third consecutive season (their worst run in the season since being knocked out of the first round in 1912, 1913 and 1914). The club ended their season as usual with two fixtures against local rivals Portsmouth, for the Hampshire Benevolent Cup and the Rowland Hospital Cup. The former (played at Fratton Park) ended in a goalless draw, while the latter (played at The Dell) ended in a 2–0 win for the travelling Pompey side. The Saints also played five friendly matches during the 1929–30 season, drawing with Aldershot Town in September, beating Corinthian in February, and drawing with a Salisbury District XI, beating Andover and losing to a Royal Air Force side in April.
Southampton used 28 different players during the 1929–30 season and had thirteen different goalscorers. Their top scorer was centre-forward Dick Rowley, who scored 25 goals in 25 appearances in the Second Division, and the club's only goal in the FA Cup. Willie Haines, the club's top scorer the previous season, ranked second with 15 goals in the league, followed by Johnny Arnold on seven league goals. Nine players were signed by the club during the campaign, with eight released and sold to other clubs. The average attendance at The Dell during the 1929–30 season was 12,786. The highest attendance was 25,934 against Tottenham Hotspur on Boxing Day 1929, which surpassed the last season's new league record of 24,247. The lowest attendance of the season was 4,881 against Millwall on 3 March 1930.
Background and transfers
Several players left Southampton at the end of the 1928–29 season. In May, inside-forward Tommy Taylor joined Welsh side Rhyl Athletic, while centre-forward Douglas Vernon – signed as an emergency replacement for Willie Haines in February – was recalled by the Royal Air Force. In June, the club sold outside-left Billy Murphy to fellow Second Division club Oldham Athletic, with fellow winger Reg Watson moving the other way as part of the deal. Also in June, the Saints signed inside-forward Bill Fraser from Aldershot Town in an "unusually complicated deal" including an initial payment of £60, another £200 from a friendly match between the two sides, £50 if he made 20 appearances for the first team during the season (which he did not), and a 5% share of any future transfer fee. The following month, inside-left Charlie Petrie and Scottish centre-forward Archie Waterston both moved to the Third Division North – the former joined York City, while the latter joined Tranmere Rovers. In August, Southampton brought in two more players – inside-right Oswald Littler joined from Rochdale (after a Football Association suspension for the player was lifted upon appeal by the club), and full-back Arthur Roberts signed from Ardsley Athletic.
Transfer activity continued during the course of the season. In September 1929, the Saints Supporters Club raised £400 to sign Scottish inside-left Peter Dougall (as well as teammate William Hood) from Clyde, with an additional £50 to be paid should either player make six appearances for the club. In October, recent amateur signing Ernie Warren left the club to sign another amateur deal with Southwick, although by March 1930 he had returned to sign for the Saints as a professional. The most significant transfer of the season came in February, when the campaign's top scorer Dick Rowley was sold to Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £3,750, the club's second highest transfer fee to date after the £3,860 received for Bill Rawlings two years earlier. In March the club signed forward Thomas Groves from Blakenall and Scottish half-back Alex Sharp from Ayr United, with Warren also returning on professional terms. Just before the end of the season, Oswald Littler left Southampton to join Southern League side Guildford City.
Players transferred in
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Second Division
Southampton began the 1929–30 Second Division campaign against Barnsley, who had finished the previous season just four points above relegation. During the game, Jerry Mackie became the first Southampton player to be sent off since James Moore in December 1920, as the Saints lost 3–1 and started off in the bottom half of the Second Division league table. A 2–2 draw with Hull City was followed by home wins over Blackpool and West Bromwich Albion, which helped the Saints move up to seventh in the league. Dick Rowley quickly established himself as the season's top scorer with consecutive hat-tricks against Chelsea and Nottingham Forest in late September, the latter of which was a 5–0 away win, and later became the first Southampton player to score four goals in an away match when they beat Bradford City 5–2 on 2 November. A week later the club reached third in the Second Division table, their highest position of the season, after having picked up six wins in eight fixtures.
The 5–2 win over Bradford City was Southampton's last away win of the season until April, with their poor form on the road holding back their hopes of promotion to the top flight. Three losses and two draws saw the club drop to tenth in the table by mid-December, although by the end of the year they had returned to the top four following three more wins. The home win over Tottenham Hotspur on 26 December was a new league record attendance at The Dell of 25,934. After Rowley was sold to Spurs in February, the club struggled to continue scoring and ultimately dropped too many points to remain in the fight for promotion. In March the club won just one game, a 2–1 home win over Bradford City, although managed to remain in the top seven of the league. Three wins out of six in April helped them move up to sixth, although a pair of thrashings at the hands of Charlton Athletic and West Bromwich Albion saw them drop back to seventh, where they finished with 17 wins, 11 draws and 14 losses.
FA Cup
Southampton entered the 1929–30 FA Cup in the third round against Second Division rivals Bradford City, who they had recently beaten 5–2 in the league. The Saints were described by club historians as being in poor form defensively, with "an awful defensive mix-up" leading to an opening goal for the hosts. Dick Rowley equalised later, but Bradford were able to score three more goals and advance. Southampton's elimination marked the third consecutive season in which they had failed to win a game in the FA Cup – their worst run since the three seasons between 1911–12 and 1913–14.
Other matches
Outside of the league and the FA Cup, Southampton played seven additional first-team matches during the 1929–30 season. The first was a friendly match against Southern League side Aldershot Town on 25 September, which ended in a 3–3 draw. Goals for the Saints were scored by Dick Rowley (two) and Johnny Arnold. The club hosted amateur side Corinthian in February, winning 2–0 thanks to a brace from Willie Haines. Three more friendlies followed in April. The first, against a Salisbury District XI, ended in a 2–2 draw with Bill Fraser and Jerry Mackie scoring for Southampton; the second was a 6–1 thrashing of Hampshire League side Andover, with goals scored by Haines (three), Fraser (two) and Arnold; and the third was a 1–0 loss at a Royal Air Force team.
The club ended the season with two games against local rivals Portsmouth, in the annual Hampshire Benevolent Cup and Rowland Hospital Cup fixtures. The former game took place at Fratton Park on 5 May and ended goalless, with both sides dominating a half each according to the Southern Daily Echo. Two days later, Southampton hosted Pompey in the Rowland Hospital Cup. The First Division visitors won the match 2–0 thanks to a pair of goals from centre-forward Methuen, although the Evening News admitted that Portsmouth were "somewhat lucky to win".
Player details
Southampton used 28 different players during the 1929–30 season, 13 of whom scored during the campaign. The team played in a 2–3–5 formation throughout, using two full-backs, three half-backs, two outside forwards, two inside forwards and a centre-forward. Goalkeeper Willie White made the most appearances for the club during the campaign, missing only two league games and the FA Cup fixture. Left-back Michael Keeping played in all but three league games and both end-of-season games. Centre-forward Dick Rowley finished as the season's top scorer with 25 goals in the Second Division and one in the cup, despite leaving the club four three months before the end of the season. Willie Haines, who took Rowley's place in the side after his departure, scored 15 goals in the league, while Johnny Arnold scored seven. | WIKI |
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NSFetchedResultsController is a really handy class. Use one of the default Core Data templates in Xcode and you’ll very quickly have a nice list of managed objects in a table view. With a few more lines of code you can get the NSFetchedResultsController to group your objects by sections. You do this by specifying a key-path in the class’s constructor method but there is another step that if overlooked will cause some confusion.
In a sample app I’ve created a food table that lists food in categories.
FetchedResultsController method grouping sections using a key-path:
Screenshot of Food sample app in wrong order.Save and quit the app a few times and you’ll see the objects seem to be in the wrong sections. If you look closer you’ll see that the objects are actually sorted in ascending name order. On looking at the code, it seems this is exactly what we asked the program to do! After some testing it also seems to show up more often if the table is a grouped one.
As per the docs, after you specify a key-path to group each section with you also need to make sure the first sort descriptor is sorting this key-path. Add a sort descriptor and everything will work as expected.
Revised fetchedResultsController method with missing sort descriptor:
Re-ordering Core Data Objects on iOS4
The Core Data framework on the iPhone is incredibly powerful. It’s also incredibly efficient and part of that is because a collection of objects only have the order that you implicitly give them. For example you typically might give an Event object a timestamp and when you pull out all the events you might sort on that timestamp.
The NSFetchedResultsController is the main power house when dealing with such a scenario and is great for the master part of a master/detail data relationship. It’s main purpose is to manage the results returned from a fetch request similar to the above and provide data for a UITableView via delegate methods. It reacts on the model level so if you delete an Event object, the NSFetchedResultsController informs it’s delegate and so updates the UITableView automatically. It’s very clever indeed!
As I found out earlier yesterday, the problem comes when you want to re-order the objects in a user-defined way. Instead of sorting on a timestamp, I wanted the user to be able to specify that one object should occur before the other… I’m working on an app that lets you place waypoints down on a map. Timestamps in waypoints aren’t much use. It’s much more critical that they have a specific order.
After some Googling I came across a useful article on CocoaIsMyGirlfriend. This helped me 90% of the way but I had problems when re-ordering. When you re-order the objects, the UITableView would move cells about seemingly at random. This is because NSFetchedResultsController is model-driven. When you re-order something using the tableview methods the view is already correct (because you’ve dragged and dropped the cell there – it’s a user-driven change) and so when the delegate detects your index changes, it walks all over your view believing the cells to be in their original position. The trick is to ‘disable’ the UI updates with a boolean in your delegate methods. Set the boolean just before your re-indexing and unset it afterwards.
For an example, see this stack overflow link on re-ordering.
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Registering a user through CB API
Community Builder provides some basic API for properly and easily creating or editing existing users while maintaining a complete structure within Joomla and Community Builder it self. Users created and edited in this manner will be completely functional and even be susceptible to basic fields validation!
To create a user you must first Include API externally if you are creating a user outside of a Community Builder plugin followed by including the Plugin & Class. Now that you've loaded the API you can include the following function for easy creation of users.
function registerUser( $firstName, $lastName, $email, $username, $password, $approve = 0, $confirm = 0, $usergroups = array() ) {
global $_CB_framework, $_PLUGINS, $ueConfig;
$approval = ( $approve == 2 ? $ueConfig['reg_admin_approval'] : $approve );
$confirmation = ( $confirm == 2 ? $ueConfig['reg_confirmation'] : $confirm );
$user = new \CB\Database\Table\UserTable();
$user->set( 'username', $username );
$user->set( 'email', $email );
$user->set( 'name', trim( $firstName . ' ' . $lastName ) );
$user->set( 'gids', array( (int) $_CB_framework->getCfg( 'new_usertype' ) ) );
$user->set( 'sendEmail', 0 );
$user->set( 'registerDate', $_CB_framework->getUTCDate() );
$user->set( 'password', $user->hashAndSaltPassword( $password ) );
$user->set( 'registeripaddr', cbGetIPlist() );
if ( $approval == 0 ) {
$user->set( 'approved', 1 );
} else {
$user->set( 'approved', 0 );
}
if ( $confirmation == 0 ) {
$user->set( 'confirmed', 1 );
} else {
$user->set( 'confirmed', 0 );
}
if ( ( $user->get( 'confirmed' ) == 1 ) && ( $user->get( 'approved' ) == 1 ) ) {
$user->set( 'block', 0 );
} else {
$user->set( 'block', 1 );
}
$_PLUGINS->trigger( 'onBeforeUserRegistration', array( &$user, &$user ) );
if ( $user->store() ) {
if ( $user->get( 'confirmed' ) == 0 ) {
$user->store();
}
$messagesToUser = activateUser( $user, 1, 'UserRegistration' );
$_PLUGINS->trigger( 'onAfterUserRegistration', array( &$user, &$user, true ) );
if ( $user->get( 'block' ) == 1 ) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
Editing a user takes an additional step, you'll first need to first Establishing $user object once the object has been established you'll need to use the following modified function with $user object passed to it.
function editUser( $user, $name ) {
$oldUserComplete = new \CB\Database\Table\UserTable();
foreach ( array_keys( get_object_vars( $user ) ) as $k ) {
if ( substr( $k, 0, 1 ) != '_' ) {
$oldUserComplete->set( $k, $user->get( $k ) );
}
}
$user->set( 'name', $name );
$_PLUGINS->trigger( 'onBeforeUserUpdate', array( &$user, &$user, &$oldUserComplete, &$oldUserComplete ) );
if ( ! $user->store() ) {
return false;
}
$_PLUGINS->trigger( 'onAfterUserUpdate', array( &$user, &$user, $oldUserComplete ) );
return true;
}
The newly created function will now register a new user or edit an existing user; there are many applications for such API such as external site integrations. In addition to the default Joomla and CB fields you can also add additional fields using the following method.
$user->set( 'FIELD_NAME', FIELD_VALUE );
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dict -- Dictionary manipulation
Syntax: dict subcommand ?arg ...?
This command manipulates TCL dictionaries. A dictionary is a Molt value containing a hash map from keys to values. Keys are maintained in order of initial insertion.
Subcommand Description
dict create Creates a dictionary
dict exists Is there a value with these keys?
dict get Gets a value from the dictionary
dict keys Gets the keys from the dictionary
dict remove Removes keys from the dictionary
dict set Sets a value in a dictionary
dict unset Unsets a value in a dictionary
dict size The number of elements in the dictionary
dict values Gets the values from the dictionary
TCL Liens
• Not all of the standard TCL dict subcommands are implemented at this time.
• dict keys and dict values do not support filtering using glob or regex matches at this time. The plan is to support glob and regex matching as an optional feature.
• dict info is not supported; it is intended for tuning the standard TCL hash table implementation. Molt relies on std::collections::HashMap.
dict create
Syntax: dict create ?key value ...?
Creates a dictionary given any number of key/value pairs.
% set dict [dict create a 1 b 2]
a 1 b 2
% dict get $dict a
1
dict exists
Syntax: dict exists dictionary key ?key ...?
Returns 1 if the key (or the path of keys through nested dictionaries) is found in the given dictionary value, and 0 otherwise. It returns 1 exactly when dict get will succeed for the same arguments. It does not throw errors on invalid dictionary values, but simply returns 0.
Looks up the key in the dictionary and returns its value. It's an error if the key is not present in the dictionary. If multiple keys are provided, the command looks up values through nested dictionaries. If no keys are provided, the dictionary itself is returned.
% dict exists {a 1 b 2} b
1
% dict exists {a {x 1 y2} b {p 3 q 4}} b p
1
% dict exists {a 1 b 2} c
0
% dict exists not-a-dict a
0
dict get
Syntax: dict get dictionary ?key ...?
Looks up the key in the dictionary and returns its value. It's an error if the key is not present in the dictionary. If multiple keys are provided, the command looks up values through nested dictionaries. If no keys are provided, the dictionary itself is returned.
% dict get {a 1 b 2} b
2
% dict get {a {x 1 y2} b {p 3 q 4}} b p
3
dict keys
Syntax: dict keys dictionary
Returns a list of the keys in the dictionary, in the order of initial insertion.
% dict keys {a 1 b 2}
a b
dict remove
Syntax: dict remove dictionary ?key ...?
Removes each of the keys from the dictionary, returning the modified dictionary. The keys need not be present in the original dictionary value. If no keys are given, returns the dictionary unchanged.
% dict remove {a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4} b c
a 1 d 4
dict set
Syntax: dict set dictVarName key ?key ...? value
Given the name of a variable containing a dictionary, sets the value of the given key in the dictionary. If multiple keys are given, the command indexes down the path of keys and sets the value in the nested dictionary. The variable is created if it does not exist, and the nested dictionaries are also created as needed. Returns the modified dictionary, which is also saved back into the variable.
For example,
% dict set var a 1
a 1
% dict set var b 2
a 1 b 2
% dict set var c x 3
a 1 b 2 c {x 3}
% dict set var c y z 4
a 1 b 2 c {x 3 y {z 4}}
dict size
Syntax: dict size dictionary
Gets the number of entries in the dictionary.
% set dict [dict create a 1 b 2 c 3]
a 1 b 2 c 3
% dict size $dict
3
dict unset
Syntax: dict unset dictVarName ?key ...?
Given the name of a variable containing a dictionary, removes the value at the end of the path of keys through any number of nested dictionaries. The last key need not exist in the inmost dictionary, but it is an error if any of the other dictionaries in the path are unknown. Returns the modified dictionary, which is also saved back into the variable.
For example,
% set var {a 1 b {x 2 z 3} c 4}
a 1 b {x 2 y 3} c 4
% dict unset c ;# Remove "c" from the outermost dictionary
a 1 b {x 2 y 3}
% dict unset b y ;# Remove "y" from an inner dictionary "b"
a 1 b {x 2}
% dict unset var c ;# "c" is already not there
a 1 b {x 2}
% dict unset var b y ;# "y" is already not in "b"
a 1 b {x 2}
% dict unset var c z ;# Inner dictionary "c" is not present.
key "c" is not known in dictionary
dict values
Syntax: dict values dictionary
Returns a list of the values in the dictionary, in the order of initial insertion of their keys.
% dict values {a 1 b 2}
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Fixing comctl32.dll WIN32Exception
A C# project was recently upgraded from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0.
The program worked fine, except on a Windows 8 Pro x64 machine where this error was given:
Win32Exception: Cannot load the “comctl32.dll” DLL into memory.
The solution that worked for us (after a long search) was removing CorFlags to set the application to 32-bits mode. When a new build was created without CorFlags and setting Visual Studio to build the project to x86 instead of x64 solved the problem.
It looks like CorFlags is not reliable…
Get information from Team Foundation Server (TFS) via C# code
This code shows you how you could interact with your team foundation server. In my case a TFS 2010.
Open a new console application in Visual Studio and add these references:
• Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client
• Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client
TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("http://yourtfsserver:port/something");
List<string> changedFiles = new List<string>();
VersionControlServer VCServer = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService<VersionControlServer>();
try
{
string path = @"C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\just the path to your solution";
VersionSpec version = VersionSpec.Latest;
int deletionId = 0;
RecursionType recursion = RecursionType.Full;
string user = @"domain\yourusername";
foreach (Changeset item in VCServer.QueryHistory(path, version, deletionId, recursion, user, null, null, Int32.MaxValue, true, false, true))
{
foreach (Change c in item.Changes)
{
// c.Item.ServerItem;
}
}
}
catch { }
Happy coding ;)
C#: Save a canvas as an image
This C# code saves a Canvas as a *.PNG image:
private void CreateSaveBitmap(Canvas canvas, string filename)
{
RenderTargetBitmap renderBitmap = new RenderTargetBitmap(
(int)canvas.Width, (int)canvas.Height,
96d, 96d, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
// needed otherwise the image output is black
canvas.Measure(new Size((int)canvas.Width, (int)canvas.Height));
canvas.Arrange(new Rect(new Size((int)canvas.Width, (int)canvas.Height)));
renderBitmap.Render(canvas);
//JpegBitmapEncoder encoder = new JpegBitmapEncoder();
PngBitmapEncoder encoder = new PngBitmapEncoder();
encoder.Frames.Add(BitmapFrame.Create(renderBitmap));
using (FileStream file = File.Create(filename))
{
encoder.Save(file);
}
}
Use it like this:
CreateSaveBitmap(myCanvas, @"C:\temp\out.png");
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.
Can’t wait for the full version of MVC 4! :-)
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ASP.NET MVC: place JavaScript from a View inside the head-section by using sections
When working with ASP.NET MVC, you often need some JavaScript in your views.
The most obvious way of doing this is just adding the JavaScript inside the view:
@{
ViewBag.Title = "About Us";
}
<script type="text/javascript">
// some code
</script>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>
Put content here.
</p>
Your html source code will end up with a mess:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>About Us</title>
<link href="/Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<header>
<div id="title">
<h1>Title</h1>
</div>
<div id="logindisplay">
[ <a href="/Account/LogOn">Log On</a> ]
</div>
<nav>
<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/Product">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="/Home/About">About</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<section id="main">
<script type="text/javascript">
// some code
</script>
<h2>About</h2>
<p> Put content here. </p>
</section>
<footer>
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
As you can see in the code above, the JavaScript was added where the your view was rendered.
To keep your code clean, you can use and render sections!
Open your master View _Layout.cshtml and add a RenderSection:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>@ViewBag.Title</title>
<link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
@if (IsSectionDefined("MyOtherJavascript"))
{
@RenderSection("MyOtherJavascript");
}
</head>
<body>
Now in your View (in my case /Home/About.cshtml) add the section:
@{
ViewBag.Title = "About Us";
}
@section MyOtherJavascript {
<script type="text/javascript">
// some code
</script>
}
<h2>About</h2>
<p>
Put content here.
</p>
Now your JavaScript will be injected inside the header:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>About Us</title>
<link href="/Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/modernizr-1.7.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// some code
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- ... -->
That’s it!:)
You can add more logic to it, there is also an overload of the RenderSection in case you just want to say it is optional or not.
I demonstrated the RenderSection by injecting JavaScript into the header, but this can be used in other places (and you can also inject and render normal html code).😉
FYI: I’m using ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor engine.
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Recursive Lambda Expressions in C#
The first two samples, loop & loop2, show you a recursive Lambda Expression. The first version has some console outputs for debugging. I’ve also added a sample that gives you the 10th Fibonacci number.
The other samples are just showing you some syntactic sugar that can be used when working with Lambda Expressions.
using System;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Func<int, string> consoleResult = x => string.Format("Result: {0}" + Environment.NewLine, x);
// loop version 1 (debug)
Func<int, int> loop = null;
loop = x => { Console.WriteLine(x); return x == 0 ? 1 : x * loop(x - 1); };
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(loop(5)));
// loop version 2
Func<int, int> loop2 = null;
loop2 = x => x == 0 ? 1 : x * loop(x - 1);
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(loop2(5)));
// Fibonnaci
Func<int, int> fib = null;
fib = x => x < 2 ? x : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(fib(10)));
//-----------------------//
// Some other examples
//-----------------------//
// version 1
Func<int, int> calc = null;
calc = (x) => { Console.WriteLine(x); return x >= 1024 ? x : calc(x * 2); };
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc(2)));
// version 2
Func<int, int> calc2 = null;
calc2 = x => x >= 1024 ? x : calc2(x * 2);
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc2(2)));
// version 3
Func<int, int> calc3 = null;
calc3 = x => x >= 1024 ? x : calc3(x * 2);
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc3(2)));
// version 4
Func<int, int> calc4 = null;
calc4 = x => { return x >= 1024 ? x : calc4(x * 2); };
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc4(2)));
// version 5
Func<int, int> calc5 = null;
calc5 = (x) => x >= 1024 ? x : calc5(x * 2);
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc5(2)));
// version 6
Func<int, int> calc6 = null;
calc6 = (x) => { return x >= 1024 ? x : calc6(x * 2); };
Console.WriteLine(consoleResult(calc6(2)));
// Don't close the console directly
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
You will see a compiler error Use of unassigned local variable ‘fib’ when you try something like this:
Func<int, int> fib = x => x < 2 ? x : fib(x - 1) + fib(x - 2);
The compiler cannot use fib because it is not yet assigned.
(Depends on which side the C# Compiler evaluates first).
Have fun exploring Lambda Expressions, recursion and Func<T, TResult>😉
C# Expression Trees
Just a quick example that you can try yourself. It can be hard to write and debug Expression Trees but they are very powerful.
using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Func<int, int> f = (x) => x + 1; // Same as: x++
var result = f(1);
Console.WriteLine("My result: " + result);
// ------
var result2 = f.Invoke(1);
Console.WriteLine("My result (via Invoke): " + result2);
// ------
ParameterExpression param0 = Expression.Parameter(typeof(int)); // first parameter
ParameterExpression param1 = Expression.Parameter(typeof(int)); // second parameter
ConstantExpression const0 = Expression.Constant(1); // a constant
BinaryExpression expr = Expression.Add(Expression.Subtract(param1, const0), param0); // Same as: param1 - constant + param0
Expression<Func<int, int, int>> lambdaExpr = Expression.Lambda<Func<int, int, int>>(expr, param0, param1); // creates the lambda delegate
Func<int, int, int> compiledExpr = lambdaExpr.Compile(); // compiles the expression tree
var result3 = compiledExpr(1, 1); // executes the epxression tree with param0 and param1
Console.WriteLine("My result via Expression: " + result3);
// Don't close the console directly
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
See also the ExpandoObject in C#.
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Tom Florie
Thomas Florie (September 6, 1897 – April 26, 1966) was an American soccer forward. He played in both the first and second American Soccer Leagues, winning two National Challenge Cup titles. Florie was also a member of the United States men's national soccer team at the 1930 and 1934 FIFA World Cup. He was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986.
Early career
Born in New Jersey to Italian immigrant parents, Florie played soccer as a youth, but service in the Navy during World War I delayed the start of his career. In 1922, Florie signed with Harrison S.C. of the American Soccer League. However, he only played three games before leaving Harrison to play for American A.A. in the West Hudson Amateur League.
American Soccer League
In 1924, Florie returned to the ASL when he signed with Providence F.C. He quickly established himself as one of the top wing forwards in the league. In 1928, he began the season with Providence, now known as the Gold Bugs, before moving to New Bedford Whalers II. He later joined Fall River F.C. but, the team only lasted the spring season before merging with the New York Yankees to become New Bedford Whalers III. In 1932, the Whalers defeated Stix, Baer and Fuller F.C., 8–5 on aggregate in the National Challenge Cup final. Florie scored one goal in each of the two games. Despite this victory, the Whalers collapsed that fall, followed soon after by the entire league. Florie then moved to the Pawtucket Rangers which had jumped to the second American Soccer League. In 1934, Florie was on the losing side in the National Challenge Cup when the Rangers fell to Stix, Baer and Fuller in three games. By that time, the Rangers had left the ASL. In 1941, Florie won his second National Cup when Pawtucket F.C. defeated Detroit Chrysler, 8–5 on aggregate, with Florie scoring one goal.
National team
Florie earned eight caps, scoring two goals, with the U.S. national team from 1925 to 1934. His first cap came in a 1–0 loss to Canada on June 27, 1925. His second came a year later, this time a 6–2 win over Canada in which Florie scored. Florie was not called into the national team for the 1928 Olympics, but was called up for the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He was named as the team captain as the U.S. went to the semifinals before falling to Argentina. His last national team game came in the first round loss to Italy in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.
Florie was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986.
International goals
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Title: Modification of phenolic oximes for copper extraction
Author: Forgan, Ross Stewart
Awarding Body: University of Edinburgh
Current Institution: University of Edinburgh
Date of Award: 2008
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Abstract:
The thesis deals with the modification of salicylaldoxime-based reagents used in hydrometallurgical extraction, addressing rational ligand design to tune copper(II) extractant strengths and also the development of reagents which are capable of transporting transition metal salts. Chapter 1 reviews current solvent extractant technology for metal recovery, including the limited knowledge of the effect of substituents on extractive efficacy. Advances in leaching technology have led to systems wherein increases in process efficiency could be obtained using reagents which can transport both a transition metal cation and its attendant anion(s), and the potential advantages of metal salt extractants are discussed. The problems encountered when trying to extract hydrophilic anions selectively into organic media are also considered. Chapter 2 discusses techniques used in industry to tune reagent properties, many of which depend on the importance of H-bonding in non-polar solvents. Synthesis of a series of 5-alkyl-3-X-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde oximes (X = a range of substituents) is described and copper extraction experiments are reported. 3-Substitution is found to alter reagent strength by two orders of magnitude, with 3-bromo-5-tert-butyl-2- hydroxybenzaldehyde oxime the strongest extractant. An analysis of X-ray structures of several ligands and copper(II) complexes is given in an attempt to establish whether trends in the solid state structures can account for variations in extractant strength. A more detailed analysis of the hydrogen bonding in salicylaldoximato copper(II) complexes and ligand dimers is carried out in Chapter 3, with the aim of defining how substituent effects could be used to design reagents with appropriate extractive behaviour. 3-X-2-Hydroxybenzaldehyde oximes with no 5-alkyl substituent are synthesised and subjected to a detailed study by X-ray crystallography and computational techniques, which, alongside evidence provided by CID-MS experiments, suggest that the dominant substituent effect in determining extractant strength is the ability to “buttress” the pseudomacrocyclic hydrogen bonding motif involving the oximic hydrogen and phenolic oxygen. Ligands with 3-substituents capable of accepting H-bonds were found to be stronger extractants than those which could not, and the steric hindrance afforded by bulky substituents made 3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde oxime the weakest extractant. Ligand acidity is also noted to have a significant effect on reagent strength, with electronwithdrawing substituents lowering the pKa of the phenolic proton and increasing extractive efficacy. Chapter 4 focuses on metal salt extraction, and the development of selective, robust and hydrolytically stable reagents. Six novel extractants, based on a salicylaldoxime scaffold with a pendant dialkylaminomethyl arm, are described. Only 5-tert-butyl-3- dihexylaminomethyl-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde oxime and 3-tert-butyl-5- dihexylaminomethyl-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde oxime have sufficient solubility to be effective reagents. The former extracts CuCl2 and ZnCl2 in a highly efficient manner, with one mole of metal salt extracted per mole of ligand, twice the expected capacity. X-ray structure determination of complexes of the related ligand 5-tertbutyl- 2-hydroxy-3-piperidin-1-ylmethylbenzaldehyde oxime defines the binding mode, with the chloride anions bound to the inner sphere of the metal cations. Loading and stripping experiments show it to be an extractant with potential commercial application. Cation and anion selectivity of the two extractants defined above is the focus of Chapter 5, which begins with an overview of techniques and attempts to attenuate the Hofmeister bias, the main factor in the selective extraction of hydrophilic anions into organic media. pH loading profiles show the 3- dihexylaminomethyl isomer to be an effective CuCl2 and CuSO4 extractant, but the cation extractive efficacy of the 5-isomer is hampered by the 3-tert-butyl group. Both ligands are found to be selective for Cl- > SO4 2-, following the Hofmeister bias. Further information on anion binding is provided by solid state structures of copper salt complexes, showing that in all cases the copper(II) cation interacts in some way with the anion. Cation extraction is affected significantly by the anion present, with FeIII selectively extracted against CuII in the presence of SO4 2- which is consistent with cation-anion interactions having great influence on the overall stability of the ligand-metal salt assembly.
Supervisor: Tasker, Peter A. Sponsor: Not available
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.562220 DOI: Not available
Keywords: Chemistry ; Hydrometallurgy
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Cymbastela lamellata
Cymbastela lamellata is a species of marine sponge in the family Axinellidae.
The sponge was first described in 1961 by Patricia Bergquist as Axinella lamellata, However the name had already been used, and she renamed it in 1970 as Axinella tricalciformis.
It is known from both the Chatham Islands and from waters around Tasmania, where it has been found at depths of 6–90 m. It is a sessile, filter feeder.
C. lamellata is a dominant marine sponge in Fiordland, New Zealand. A mass bleaching event (akin to coral bleaching) of C. lamellata was reported throughout much of Fiordland following a heatwave in mid-2022, causing C. lamellata to expel their symbiotic algae. This was the largest case of temperate sponge bleaching ever recorded. Despite the bleaching event, most of the bleached sponges were found to be still alive, although at intensified risk of fish predation. | WIKI |
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One of the most important things about email is this: spam = bad. Spam is a digital, electronic form of junk mail that can be sent in bulk. It's usually unsolicited and consists of adverts from those with something to sell.
On the other hand, the email could be marked as spam when there are keywords words or structures in the email contents which would lead to spam detection for ISP. The provider would then hand over the information to email blacklists. That's why we recommend keeping your emails and newsletters clean and not overdo your keywords. That's the best strategy to avoid blacklisting
What is DNSBL?
DNSBL stands for Domain Name System Blacklist. It is a system to check emails against blacklists of spam-sending sources so that the receiving server can reject them or accept them. DNSBL is the most common IP blacklist lookup because it's very reliable and fast.
How does email checking work?
Email providers have email blacklists based on DNSBL, which checks the sender's IP address and compares it against several IP blacklists from different organizations. If there are any matches, it will be marked as spam, and your email won't reach anyone's inboxes. This is how many legitimate emails get caught in a spam trap and end up in a bulk folder.
Why does blacklisting occur?
There can be many reasons for blacklisting: viruses, malicious emailers, and spammers. You may end up on a spam blacklist if you send bulk emails (a number of messages to more than one person at a time) without prior permission, send invalid content in your email campaign, use misleading language promoting illegal activities in your message, etc. Blacklisting happens when ISPs start noticing odd activity related to your IP addresses.
What does blacklisting an IP address mean?
When a sending IP address is blacklisted, it means that the ISP has sent some notices about the email sender or there are several complaints from customers due to sending of spam messages. If such a notice is received, your domain will be added as an IP address blacklisted and mail servers will reject emails from this specific origin.
What should I do if my email is blacklisted?
First of all you should check if your server or your sending service had unauthorized use. For example, because of misconfiguration or a hacked account.
Secondly, you can check if the last mailings have a higher density of critical keywords for spam detections services.
In the case of blacklisting, you should change the sending mail server IP address to bypass blacklisting, when possible. Only with non-listed IP addresses, you can make sure that your emails and newsletters can be received by your recipients.
How long does blacklisting last?
There are several types of blacklisting, and each has its duration - from less than an hour up to three months. In some cases, ISP may remove your email address completely from their spam blacklists after a specific period of time without complaints about spam messages being sent using these emails.
If a message is rejected by a receiver, it usually takes up to seven days for the message to be removed from the server.
How do I check the email blacklist database with Emailsherlock?
To check out if your email is blacklisted, enter it in the search form above and press 'Check Blacklists'.
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tfx_bsl.public.tfxio.BeamRecordCsvTFXIO
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TFXIO implementation for CSV records in pcoll[bytes].
Inherits From: TFXIO
Used in the notebooks
Used in the tutorials
This is a special TFXIO that does not actually do I/O -- it relies on the caller to prepare a PCollection of bytes.
raw_record_column_name
telemetry_descriptors
Methods
ArrowSchema
Returns the schema of the RecordBatch produced by self.BeamSource().
May raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time.
BeamSource
Returns a beam PTransform that produces PCollection[pa.RecordBatch].
May NOT raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time.
If a TFMD schema was provided at construction time, all the pa.RecordBatches in the result PCollection must be of the same schema returned by self.ArrowSchema. If a TFMD schema was not provided, the pa.RecordBatches might not be of the same schema (they may contain different numbers of columns).
Args
batch_size if not None, the pa.RecordBatch produced will be of the specified size. Otherwise it's automatically tuned by Beam.
Project
Projects the dataset represented by this TFXIO.
A Projected TFXIO:
• Only columns needed for given tensor_names are guaranteed to be produced by self.BeamSource()
• self.TensorAdapterConfig() and self.TensorFlowDataset() are trimmed to contain only those tensors.
• It retains a reference to the very original TFXIO, so its TensorAdapter knows about the specs of the tensors that would be produced by the original TensorAdapter. Also see TensorAdapter.OriginalTensorSpec().
May raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time.
Args
tensor_names a set of tensor names.
Returns
A TFXIO instance that is the same as self except that:
• Only columns needed for given tensor_names are guaranteed to be produced by self.BeamSource()
• self.TensorAdapterConfig() and self.TensorFlowDataset() are trimmed to contain only those tensors.
RawRecordBeamSource
Returns a PTransform that produces a PCollection[bytes].
Used together with RawRecordToRecordBatch(), it allows getting both the PCollection of the raw records and the PCollection of the RecordBatch from the same source. For example:
record_batch = pipeline | tfxio.BeamSource() raw_record = pipeline | tfxio.RawRecordBeamSource()
would result in the files being read twice, while the following would only read once:
raw_record = pipeline | tfxio.RawRecordBeamSource() record_batch = raw_record | tfxio.RawRecordToRecordBatch()
RawRecordTensorFlowDataset
Returns a Dataset that contains nested Datasets of raw records.
May not be implemented for some TFXIOs.
This should be used when RawTfRecordTFXIO.TensorFlowDataset does not suffice. Namely, if there is some logical grouping of files which we need to perform operations on, without applying the operation to each individual group (i.e. shuffle).
The returned Dataset object is a dataset of datasets, where each nested dataset is a dataset of serialized records. When shuffle=False (default), the nested datasets are deterministically ordered. Each nested dataset can represent multiple files. The files are merged into one dataset if the files have the same format. For example:
file_patterns = ['file_1', 'file_2', 'dir_1/*']
file_formats = ['recordio', 'recordio', 'sstable']
tfxio = SomeTFXIO(file_patterns, file_formats)
datasets = tfxio.RawRecordTensorFlowDataset(options)
datasets would result in the following dataset: [ds1, ds2]. Where ds1 iterates over records from 'file_1' and 'file_2', and ds2 iterates over records from files matched by 'dir_1/*'.
Example usage:
tfxio = SomeTFXIO(file_patterns, file_formats)
ds = tfxio.RawRecordTensorFlowDataset(options=options)
ds = ds.flat_map(lambda x: x)
records = list(ds.as_numpy_iterator())
# iterating over `records` yields records from the each file in
# `file_patterns`. See `tf.data.Dataset.list_files` for more information
# about the order of files when expanding globs.
Note that we need a flat_map, because RawRecordTensorFlowDataset returns a dataset of datasets.
When shuffle=True, then the datasets not deterministically ordered, but the contents of each nested dataset are deterministcally ordered. For example, we may potentially have [ds2, ds1, ds3], where the contents of ds1, ds2, and ds3 are all deterministcally ordered.
Args
options A TensorFlowDatasetOptions object. Not all options will apply.
RawRecordToRecordBatch
Returns a PTransform that converts raw records to Arrow RecordBatches.
The input PCollection must be from self.RawRecordBeamSource() (also see the documentation for that method).
Args
batch_size if not None, the pa.RecordBatch produced will be of the specified size. Otherwise it's automatically tuned by Beam.
RecordBatches
Returns an iterable of record batches.
This can be used outside of Apache Beam or TensorFlow to access data.
Args
options An options object for iterating over record batches. Look at dataset_options.RecordBatchesOptions for more details.
SupportAttachingRawRecords
TensorAdapter
Returns a TensorAdapter that converts pa.RecordBatch to TF inputs.
May raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time.
TensorAdapterConfig
Returns the config to initialize a TensorAdapter.
Returns
a TensorAdapterConfig that is the same as what is used to initialize the TensorAdapter returned by self.TensorAdapter().
TensorFlowDataset
Returns a tf.data.Dataset of TF inputs.
May raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time.
Args
options an options object for the tf.data.Dataset. Look at dataset_options.TensorFlowDatasetOptions for more details.
TensorRepresentations
Returns the TensorRepresentations.
These TensorRepresentations describe the tensors or composite tensors produced by the TensorAdapter created from self.TensorAdapter() or the tf.data.Dataset created from self.TensorFlowDataset().
May raise an error if the TFMD schema was not provided at construction time. May raise an error if the tensor representations are invalid. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Rosario homers twice as Twins clobber White Sox
Rosario homers twice as Twins clobber White Sox MINNEAPOLIS — With the Minnesota Twins pushing toward the playoffs, Jose Berrios suffered a disappointing loss last week on the road against the Chicago White Sox. Minnesota’s second-year starter was determined not to let a second chance against the American League’s worst team fall short again. Berrios handled the White Sox bats, and the surging Twins’ offense did the rest on Wednesday. Eddie Rosario homered twice, and Berrios dazzled for seven scoreless innings as Minnesota beat Chicago 11-1. “It felt good,” Berrios said through an interpreter. “I felt strong. I felt healthy. I went out there thinking I didn’t want to lose another game against them and that’s what I went out there and did, and I was positive the whole day.” Brian Dozier tied his career high with four hits, and Ehire Adrianza tripled twice as the Twins won their third consecutive game and sixth in a row at home to climb within one game of the New York Yankees for the top American League wild-card spot. “It was about as good as you can draw it up,” Minnesota manager Paul Molitor said of the complete effort. “Put ourselves in a position tomorrow to come out and try to finish a sweep, and continue the start of a good homestand.” Berrios (12-6) came out looking much stronger than he did last week against the White Sox when he allowed five runs (three earned) over 5 1/3 innings in a loss. Chicago was aggressive early in the count Wednesday and Berrios threw strikes and got ground balls. The 23-year-old Puerto Rican threw just 29 pitches in the first three innings and retired 10 of the first 11 batters he faced. Berrios tied a career high with 11 strikeouts and struck out seven of the final nine batters he faced. He allowed just four hits and a walk. “I’m a competitor; I like striking out batters and I like doing it as much as I did today,” Berrios said. “It makes me feel an accomplishment, feel like I did a good job out on the mound. It feels good, obviously. It makes me feel like it was a good outing. It gives me peace of mind, in a way.” White Sox starter Derek Holland (7-14) surrendered five runs in five innings. He gave up eight hits and walked four and Chicago manager Rick Renteria admitted it was a possibility that the left-hander could be moved to the bullpen with Reynaldo Lopez ready to rejoin the rotation. “I’ve got to take whatever they give me,” Holland said, saying earlier: “The results are the frustrating part, but I’m going to take the health over results at this moment. This is something to continue to learn on and improve. I’ve had to make some big-time adjustments as well, obviously, not throwing as hard as I have in the past.” Chicago loaded the bases against Berrios in the fourth, but the runners were stranded as Berrios fanned Tim Anderson for his third strikeout of the inning. “It’s just a story of a lot of offense on their side today and not a whole lot for us,” Renteria said. Minnesota struck quickly against Holland. Dozier led off the first inning with a single through a defensive shift, and Joe Mauer pulled a ball to right field for a double that scored Dozier. Rosario hit a two-run homer to the opposite field in the third. It was just the second homer of the season against a left-hander for the left-handed-swinging Rosario. “Everything when I see lefty, I want to change a little bit my approach,” Rosario said. “Sometimes it’s a little difficult. But same plan, same plan to stay inside the ball, good at-bat, try to hitting hard the ball.” NOTES: Minnesota CF Byron Buxton left the game in the seventh inning and manager Paul Molitor said Buxton hurt himself on a swing when he lost grip on the bat. Buxton will be examined before Thursday’s game. ... Molitor said LHP Hector Santiago (upper thoracic back pain) struggled with command and velocity in his latest rehab start. Santiago has been out since July 3. ... Twins 3B Miguel Sano’s recovery from a stress reaction in his left shin is progressing slowly and the team is going to cut back on some of the work Sano has been doing. Sano is still in a walking boot and has soreness in the leg. ... Chicago manager Rick Renteria said RHP Reynaldo Lopez is likely to return to the rotation on Friday after missing two starts with discomfort in his back. ... Minnesota C Jason Castro is eligible to return on Thursday from his concussion, but it doesn’t appear he will be ready. Castro had a workout on Tuesday and is increasing his activities. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Defer Long Running Tasks to Improve the User Experience#
This guide addresses how to defer and orchestrate long running background tasks with pn.state.on_load. You can use this to improve the user experience of your app.
Motivation#
When a user opens your app, the app is loaded as follows
• the app file is executed
• the app template is sent to the user and rendered
• a web socket connection is opened to enable fast, bi-directional communication as your interact with the app.
Thus any long running code executed before the app is loaded will increase the the waiting time before your users see your apps template. If the waiting time is more than 2-5 seconds your users might get confused and even leave the application behind.
Here is an example of an app that takes +5 seconds to load.
import time
import panel as pn
pn.extension(template="bootstrap")
layout = pn.pane.Markdown()
def some_long_running_task():
time.sleep(5) # Some long running task
layout.object = "# Wow. That took some time. Are you still here?"
some_long_running_task()
layout.servable()
panel-longrunning-task-example
Now lets learn how to defer long running tasks to after the application has loaded.
Defer a Task#
import time
import panel as pn
pn.extension(template="bootstrap")
layout = pn.pane.Markdown("# Loading...")
def some_long_running_task():
time.sleep(5) # Some long running task
layout.object = "# Done"
pn.state.onload(some_long_running_task)
layout.servable()
panel-onload-example
Note that pn.state.onload accepts both sync and async functions and also accepts a threaded argument, which, when combined with enabling config.nthreads will run the callbacks concurrently on separate threads.
This example could also be implemented using a bound and displayed function. We recommend using that method together with defer_load when possible. See the Defer Bound and Displayed Functions Guide.
Defer and Orchestrate Dependent Tasks#
Sometimes you have multiple tasks that depend on each other and you need to orchestrate them. To handle those scenarios you use pn.state.onload to defer background tasks and pn.bind to trigger bound and displayed functions when the the background tasks have finished.
Lets take an example where we
• load a shared dataset.
• display the dataset in a Table
• transform the dataset and display it as a plot
import time
import panel as pn
import pandas as pd
import param
import hvplot.pandas
pn.extension(sizing_mode="stretch_width", template="bootstrap", theme="dark")
class AppState(param.Parameterized):
data = param.DataFrame()
def update(self):
time.sleep(2)
state.data = pd.DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3, 4], "y": [1, 3, 2, 4]})
def loading_indicator(label):
return pn.indicators.LoadingSpinner(
value=True, name=label, size=25, align="center"
)
def short_running_task():
return "# I'm shown on load"
def table(data):
if data is None:
return loading_indicator("Loading data")
return pn.pane.DataFrame(data)
def plot(data):
if data is None:
yield loading_indicator("Waiting for data")
return
yield loading_indicator("Transforming data")
time.sleep(2) # Some long running transformation
yield data.hvplot()
state = AppState()
pn.state.onload(state.update)
pn.Column(
short_running_task,
pn.bind(table, data=state.param.data),
pn.bind(plot, data=state.param.data),
).servable()
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So insightful, I have learnt 3 new things today!
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Nice, series, but I respectfully disagree with the "why real-time gaming and low-latency trading applications should not use microservice architecture" post.
Yes it's not a silver bullet, no you should not use microservices in all cases. But the examples and reasons provided do not make sense.
Before zooming in, let me emphasise that microservices is an architectural style: the idea that a complex domain and its applications can be split into smaller parts that are loosely coupled. See https://microservices.io for a more comprehensive description.
Your key arguments are (1) latency, (2) stateless and (3) sockets. These are all concerns at an individual service level; not at a system level. If you want to build a stateful, low-latency / high TPS service as part of your microservices platform, by all means do so.
Where things become complex, is where distributed parts of a system (as you see in microservices, but also other systems) need to agree on a transaction. CAP theorem tells us we can only have 2 out of 3 when it comes to consistency, availability and partition tolerance (impacting performance, uptime and resiliency).
THIS is the area where you need to take decisions:
* how do you want to to manage consistency: consistent (ACID) or eventually consistent (BASE)?
* do you want to adopt a microservice pattern Y/N?
* if so, how to draw to boundaries between your domains and services (understand your domain and bounded context; use event storming for discovery)
* what (sub)patterns you may or may not want to adopt, given the CAP theorem constraints. Microservices gives us the saga pattern (choreography vs orchestration based), event-sourcing, CQRS... (But there is more: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/09/21/distributed-transaction-patterns-microservices-compared#the_dual_write_problem)
My feeling is this was your aim with your article, given the examples of gaming/trading where this often is a major issue to tackle. But that still does not conclude whether microservices are - or are not - a good fit.
The answer is: it depends (default architect answer :) ).
* your game / trading problem domain, technology stack, and organisation building/running it may be sufficient complex to justify microservices
* your needs around transaction latency, scalability, resilience are solvable with the tools and technologies you see fit for your MS platform
PS if you would have written the article in the context of a REST architecture style, it would have made more sense. Because REST does prescribe stateless services, often is very chatty and therefore with lots of network round trips (and often assumes HTTP, although imo the transportation layer could also be socket based)
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Will there be a blog series on SAML, OAUTH2/OIDC ?
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Really helpful, thank you for this! Love from India!
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Subscribed and must say im really interested by this series , getting to know and learn more !
Thanks a lot
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Great approach and thanks to share this with us.
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TOTP was wow moment for me. I alway wondered how it works but never understood. Thanks for sharing
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same for me.
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Mesothelioma is a tumour of the mesothelium which is the thin lining that covers the outer surface of most of the organs in our body. More than 2,500 people in the UK are diagnosed with this disease each year.
mesothelioma
There are different names depending upon where in the body it develops, for example in the chest it is called pleural mesothelioma and in the abdomen it is called peritoneal mesothelioma. The tumours can be malignant or just benign cysts. The main cause of mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos.
Asbestos is a natural mineral found in many countries and it acts as an insulator and was used to protect against fire and corrosion until it was banned in the 1980’s. Mesothelioma doesn’t usually develop until many years after exposure to asbestos. It can take any time from 10–60 years, although the average is about 30–40 years after exposure. Construction workers, plumbers and electricians are more likely to have been exposed to asbestos and as these jobs were traditionally done by men, males are five times more likely to develop mesothelioma than females. Occasionally, mesothelioma develops in people who have never been exposed to asbestos. Mesothelioma has been linked to exposure to radiation and also to a mineral called erionite, which has been found in Turkey and North America. Mesothelioma isn’t infectious and can’t be passed on to other people. It isn’t caused by inherited faulty genes, so family members don’t have an increased risk of developing it, unless they have also been exposed to asbestos.
Pleural mesothelioma is more common and makes up 90% of cases. The pleura is the smooth outer lining that covers each lung. There are two layers of this lining; the inner and outer and they normally slide over each other as we breathe aided by a fluid that the layers produce. When mesothelioma develops here the layers become thickened and press inwards on the lung and sometimes excess fluid collects between the two layers which is known as a pleural effusion. It can sometimes spread to lymph nodes throughout the body. When asbestos is disturbed or damaged, it releases tiny fibres that can be breathed into the lungs and can make their way into the smallest airways of the lungs. The body’s defence mechanisms try to break them down and remove them but this leads to inflammation in the lung tissue. The asbestos fibres can also travel through the lung tissue to settle in the outer lining of the lung (the pleura). Over many years they can cause mesothelioma or other lung diseases to develop.
Symptoms include:
• shortness of breath
• heavy sweating (especially at night)
• fever
• chest pain that feels heavy and dull or aching
• weight loss
• loss of appetite
• a cough that doesn’t go away, although this is unusual.
Also a pleural effusion may cause shortness of breath and chest pain.
The peritoneum is the outer lining that covers the organs in the abdomen and helps protect the organs and keep them in position. It also consists of two layers; the inner and outer layers. Peritoneal mesothelioma causes a thickening of the peritoneum and sometimes excess fluid will collect and cause swelling of the abdomen, which is known as ascites. Asbestos fibres can be swallowed, and some of the fibres can stick in the digestive system. They can then move into the outer lining of the abdomen (the peritoneum). Here, they cause swelling and thickening of the lining and can lead to peritoneal mesothelioma.
Symptoms include:
• swelling in the tummy
• tummy pain
• loss of appetite
• weight loss
• feeling sick
• changes to your normal bowel pattern, such as constipation or diarrhoea.
Also ascites may cause swelling in the tummy, pain, sickness and loss of appetite.
Sometimes early symptoms of mesothelioma mirror those of other diseases or physical issues such as congestive heart failure, emphysema, weight gain, or constipation. These symptoms may include shortness of breath, constant chest pain or cough, night sweats, weight loss but fluid gain, bowel obstruction, swelling of the feet, and a build-up of fluid on a chest X-ray.
Treatment will depend upon the location and stage of the tumour but there are drugs, minor and major surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and supplemental oxygen that can help to relieve symptoms and fight the cancer.
A custom-made walker has been designed by mesothelioma specialist Dr. David Sugarbaker and is known as the ‘Sugarbaker Walker’. It was designed to help patients recover quicker from surgery and to get them back on their feet and become more mobile. It includes everything that a patient needs; an oxygen tank, chest tube vacuum, IV pole, catheters and space for monitors. Its also on wheels with adjustable arm rests. It helps patients to be able to manoeuvre around with all their medical equipment and become mobile, resulting in improved and faster recovery from surgery.
References: www.macmillan.org.uk and www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com and www.asbestos.com/news | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
How does networking on Docker for Windows work
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I'm having some trouble understanding Docker for Windows and how the networking works. I can't understanding where to look between windows, hyper-v adapter/switch, ubuntu, and docker.
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Here are a few helpful bullets:
• Docker for Windows creates a Hyper-V Linux VM named MobyLinuxVM.
• Hyper-V VMs must be connected to a Virtual Switch in order to have network access
• Docker for Windows creates a Hyper-V Internal Virtual Switch named DockerNAT
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Each container has a virtual network adapter (vNIC) which is connected to a Hyper-V virtual switch (vSwitch). The first time the docker engine runs, it will create a default NAT network, 'nat', which uses an internal vSwitch and a Windows component named WinNAT
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Paul Coutts
Paul Alexander Coutts (born 22 July 1988) is a Scottish footballer who plays for club Inverurie Loco Works.
A product of the Scottish Highland Football League, Coutts' first senior professional club was his home town club, Cove Rangers who are located 4 miles south of Aberdeen. In 2008, Coutts transferred into the English Football League joining Peterborough United. He then moved to Preston North End in 2010 before joining Derby County in 2012. In January 2015, he signed for Sheffield United. He has represented the Scotland under-21 team.
Aberdeen
Born in Aberdeen, Coutts started his football career at Scottish Premier League side Aberdeen as a youth player from age 10, the club he supported as a boy before he was released aged 16 because the club thought he was too small to play professional football. Coutts said this move was "a big blow to be told by Aberdeen that I wouldn't be getting a contract but it was also a blessing in disguise."
Cove Rangers
In 2005, Coutts then moved into the Highland Football League with his local senior club, Cove Rangers. When at Cove Rangers he also had a full-time job working in the oil industry, During this time his work and football clashed with Coutts stating that, " I didn't go on the rigs but I probably would have done if I hadn't made it as a footballer. It was hard work doing a full-time job and then dashing off to training a couple of nights a week or for midweek games. Combining the two things can be pretty tiring. I did it for about a year and it was quite a tough time but I was about 17 or 18 and full of energy. Looking back, it was a good learning curve for me."
During his time at Cove Rangers he was a part of their Highland Football League title winning season, he also won the Highland Football League "Player of the Year" award in the same season. Cove's chairman Keith Moorhouse said that Coutts second season at the club "was absolutely outstanding, head and shoulders the best player in the league. He worked really hard on his upper-body strength and started to boss games." The captain of the club Kevin Tindall said that Coutts "had a good head on his shoulders. He listened to the senior players and the manager but he also had confidence in his own ability As centre-half at the time, Paul played in front of me and it was a joy to just give him the ball. We knew he would get a chance in the professional game."
Peterborough United
Coutts then joined Peterborough United on a three-year deal in July 2008 for a nominal fee after impressing with his ball control during a trial period with the club, which involved playing an hour during each of two pre-season friendlies, against a Liverpool XI and Stevenage Borough. Coutts made his professional debut for Peterborough as a substitute in a 5–4 win over Bristol Rovers, and had his first start the following game against local rivals Northampton Town, a 1–1 draw. In Coutts' first season with Peterborough, he made 37 league appearances and 4 FA Cup appearances as well as a Football League Trophy appearance as The Posh gained promotion to the Championship. On the 2008–09 season, Coutts said "I came from playing non-league in Scotland to winning promotion at Peterborough in one season, so that was probably the biggest jump for me so far."
In the 2009–10 season, Coutts made 16 Championship appearances the following season, with 1 game in the FA Cup and League Cup before attracting the interest of Preston North End in January 2010, managed by former Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson. Ferguson's replacement at Peterborough, Mark Cooper said the interest in the player was expected and Coutts was later left out of the Peterborough match day squad that played against Sheffield Wednesday on 23 January 2010. Cooper later denied unrest in the dressing room after several Posh players wanted to join Preston. Cooper was sacked by the club on 1 February 2010, as the rumours of Coutts rejoining Ferguson at Preston intensified.
Preston North End
Coutts signed a deal with Preston North End in February 2010 linking up with Darren Ferguson again at the central Lancashire club. Coutts was a first team regular under Ferguson and his successor Phil Brown, as Preston were relegated in League One in the 2010–11 season. Preston also turned down a bid from Coutts former club Peterborough United in August 2011, who had been promoted back to the Championship under Ferguson's management.
In December 2011, Coutts was named the club captain as Graham Alexander took up a coaching role after Brown was sacked as team manager and he retained the role under new manager Graham Westley who took over in January 2012. However, on 3 February 2012, he was stripped of the Preston captaincy by Westley who was unimpressed by the Scotsman's attitude. Later on in the month, former club Peterborough United dismissed interest in a loan move for the player. Coutts did remain as a regular in the team until the end of the season.
On 20 February 2012, Coutts goal against Colchester United on 6 August 2011 was one of the five nominees for the 2011 Football League Goal of Year award selected out of a shortlist of 10 by Soccer AM viewers for the 2012 Football League Awards. The award winners were announced on 11 March 2012 and Coutts lost on the award to Cardiff City's Peter Whittingham's goal against Barnsley.
Ahead of the 2012–13 season, Coutts along with 7 other players was told by the manager via SMS not to report to pre-season training as he was not in Westley's plans. Coutts had turned down a move to Peterborough United and was attracting interest from Championship clubs Derby County and Birmingham City. Chairman Peter Ridsdale stated that Derby's interest was "an enquiry at this stage rather than an offer." On 12 July 2012, Coutts began talks with Derby County with a deal being reported as close to being completed on 13 July 2012.
Derby County
On 14 July 2012, Coutts joined Derby County on a three-year contract. The fee for the player was speculated be to £150,000. On his move to Derby, Coutts said ''"This is a big move for me," he said. "I have had a few big moves along the way in terms of stepping up, and this is another one. Hopefully, I can take it in my stride. I have played in the Championship for a few seasons, so I know what it's about. It is a big step but I feel I am at a stage in my career where I can deal with it and the lads here at Derby have been great. They have made me feel welcome." He also said that his early days at semi-professional Cove Rangers made him grateful for professional career "When I look back, it certainly makes me appreciate how lucky I am to be playing football professionally and I will never take it for granted. When you have seen the other side of it, and what you could be doing, you are grateful to have the chance to go into work every day and play football."''
Coutts made his Derby debut against Scunthorpe United in the League Cup, a game which Derby drew 5–5 after extra-time but went on to lose 7–6 on penalties. Coutts made his league début for Derby in the first game of the season, a 2–2 draw at home to Sheffield Wednesday, providing an assist for the second Derby goal. Coutts added to his assist total by creating two more goals in Derby's 5–1 win over Watford on 1 September. He scored his first goal for the club in Derby's 2–2 draw at Middlesbrough on 3 October 2012. Coutts remained a regular in the starting eleven in the early part of the season, saying in a December interview that Derby had the capabilities to beat anyone in the league. He remained a fixture in the Derby starting eleven and scored his second goal of the season in a 2–1 win at Leeds United on 1 April.
He was named the 37th best player in the 2012–13 Football League Championship by the Actim Index. Coutts 2013–14 pre-season was disrupted by injury and in late September, he dislocated a knee in a match against Leicester City and was expected to take at least five months to recover.
Sheffield United
On 23 January 2015, Coutts signed for Sheffield United on an undisclosed fee, signing a contract until summer 2017. On the same day Derby County teammate Kieron Freeman also joined the Blades on a free transfer, both linking up with former manager Nigel Clough. He scored his first goal for Sheffield United in an EFL Trophy tie against Walsall on 4 October 2016. Coutts suffered a horrible injury on 17 November 2017 during a game away at Burton Albion's Pirelli Stadium when a challenge from Marvin Sordell broke his right tibia and ruled him out for the rest of the season.
On 28 April 2019 Coutts saw his second promotion with United, returning to the Premier League after a 12-year absence, but was released by Sheffield United at the end of the 2018–19 season.
Fleetwood Town
In July 2019 he signed for Fleetwood Town. He scored his first goal for the club in an EFL Trophy tie against Everton U21s on 26 November 2019.
Salford City (loan)
On 21 January 2021, Coutts joined League Two side Salford City on loan for the remainder of the 2020–21 season. He was cup-tied for Salford's victory in the 2020 EFL Trophy Final (played in March 2021).
Bristol Rovers
On 26 May 2021, Coutts agreed to join League Two club Bristol Rovers on a one-year deal from 1 July, linking up with former Fleetwood manager Joey Barton. On the eve of the new season, Coutts was announced as the new club captain. He made his debut for the club in the opening day defeat to Mansfield Town. Coutts was sent off in the 77th minute for an off-the-ball incident with Mansfield striker Danny Johnson with the latter going on to score a 96th-minute penalty to give his side a 2–1 victory. On 8 January 2022, Coutts opened his account for the club from the spot with the equaliser in a 2–1 FA Cup third round defeat to former club Peterborough United. It was revealed in April 2022 that Coutts had earned a contract extension for the following season having appeared in 23 of the league matches across the season. In the penultimate game of the season, Coutts received a second straight red card of the season, again for violent conduct, in the 98th minute of a 4–3 victory over Rochdale, leading to Coutts being suspended for the final four matches of the season, rendering him unavailable for the play-offs should Rovers miss out on automatic promotion. Coutts' absence was not missed however as Rovers thrashed Scunthorpe United 7–0 to move into third place, promoted on goals scored.
In October 2022, Coutts suffered an ankle injury in training that would rule him out until the new year. Having made a return to first-team action in December, a knee injury sustained in training in March 2023 proved worse than first feared and he was ruled out for the remainder of the season. Following the conclusion of the 2022–23 season, he was announced to have been offered a role as part of the Bristol Rovers coaching staff moving forward. He was released at the end of the season.
Inverurie Loco Works
On 6 August 2023, Coutts returned to Scotland to join Highland League club Inverurie Loco Works where he would also have the opportunity to take up a coaching role within the club. He made his debut for the club in a 2-1 win away at Huntly in the Highland League Cup on 12 August 2023. His league debut for the club came 4 days later, suffering a 2-1 defeat at home to Formartine United. On 20 September 2023 the club announced that Coutts would be supporting first team coach Jamie Watt on an interim basis along with goalkeeping coach John Farquhar until they appointed a permanent manager. On 13 October 2023 it was announced that former player Dean Donaldson would become the new first team head coach, with Jamie Lennox and Greg Moir supporting him. Coutts opened his goal scoring account with the club on 18 October 2023, scoring a penalty in the Aberdeenshire Shield quarter-final, which resulted in a 5-1 defeat at home to Buckie Thistle. He scored his first league goal for the club on 6 January 2024, a 75th minute winning penalty during a 2-1 win away to Huntly.
International career
Coutts was called up to the Scotland under-21 side for the first time in November 2008, for the friendly against Northern Ireland under-21 on 18 November 2008. He made his debut in the game, which Scotland lost 3–1. Coutts was capped 8 times by Scotland U21, with his final appearance being on 11 October 2010, a 2–1 defeat in the second leg of the 2011 European under-21 Championship qualifying play-off against Iceland under-21, Scotland lost 4–2 on aggregate and missed out on qualifying for the main tournament.
Honours
Cove Rangers
* Highland Football League: 2007–08
Peterborough United
* Football League One runner-up: 2008–09
Sheffield United
* EFL League One: 2016–17
* EFL Championship runner-up: 2018–19
Bristol Rovers
* EFL League Two third-place promotion: 2021–22
Individual
* Highland Football League Player of the Year: 2007–08 | WIKI |
Track bed
The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid. Trackbeds of disused railways are sometimes used for recreational paths or new light rail links.
Background
According to Network Rail, the trackbed is the layers of ballast and sub-ballast above a prepared subgrade/formation (see diagram). It is designed primarily to reduce the stress on the subgrade.
Other definitions include the surface of the ballast on which the track is laid, the area left after a track has been dismantled and the ballast removed or the track formation beneath the ballast and above the natural ground.
The trackbed can significantly influence the performance of the track, especially ride quality of passenger services. | WIKI |
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“Good night, sir,” He went to his room.
Val turned to the books again. Carefully he went through the one he held in his hand, page by page. It was a volume of E. P. Roe’s.
“Imagine finding anything worth while in this!” he muttered, and threw it aside to pick up another. For half or three quarters of an hour he sat before his fire, going through book after book. Not knowing what he was looking for, he found nothing. He could not seem to get on the track of anything that looked promising.
It was a puzzle, but he did not have the key. It would have been hard enough even if he had known what he wanted, but he did not know even that. He had decided that the books had something to do with the money that old Peter Pomeroy had cached somewhere—but in what way? That he could not tell, and the books he had examined left him just as much in the dark.
Now, if he only could unearth that money and hand it over to Jessica Pomeroy! The thought of the name brought him around to her, and he smiled gently. Was there ever a girl like her before? There was not, he decided. She was the recapitulation of the eternal beauty of the world.
And the way she had smiled at him to-night at times! Why, it was like spring coming suddenly on a cold winter’s day, the sun breaking through a bleak cloud, flowers poking their gay heads through the snow blankets, stars in June skies, oases—was that the proper plural?—in the Sahara, a fugitive moment of happiness⸺
At this stage the telephone rang insistently. He | WIKI |
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Wide area network (WAN) topology. Computer and Network Examples
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Campus Area Networks (CAN). Computer and Network Examples
Campus Area Network (CAN) is a computer network which provides wireless access to the Internet or LAN for the users located in two or more buildings on the limited geographical area, or in the open space surrounding these buildings. Campus Area Network is usually set in campus of a university or college, but the same kind of planning and design can be applied for other purposes, for enterprises, office buildings, military bases, industrial complexes, public places like supermarkets, entertainment centers, etc. Another form of temporary CAN can exist during some special events such as rallies, music festivals. The elementary Campus Area Network can also arise spontaneously, due to the distance of spread the radio signals from the access points that are not limited by buildings walls. It is also sensible to have additional access points for the larger and more complex CANs, located at specially places chosen for serving clients. Design easy diagrams and schemes for the Campus Area Networks with Computer Network Diagrams solution for ConceptDraw PRO. Read more | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Executive Order 14021 of March 8, 2021
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of my Administration that all students should be guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex, including discrimination in the form of sexual harassment, which encompasses sexual violence, and including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. For students attending schools and other educational institutions that receive Federal financial assistance, this guarantee is codified, in part, in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.
Sec. 2. Review of Agency Actions. (a) Within 100 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions (collectively, agency actions) that are or may be inconsistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, and provide the findings of this review to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. 1. As part of the review required under subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary of Education shall review the rule entitled ‘‘Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance,’’ 85 FR 30026 (May 19, 2020), and any other agency actions taken pursuant to that rule, for consistency with governing law, including Title IX, and with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.
2. As soon as practicable, and as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, the Secretary of Education shall review existing guidance and issue new guidance as needed on the implementation of the rule described in subsection (a)(i) of this section, for consistency with governing law, including Title IX, and with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.
3. The Secretary of Education shall consider suspending, revising, or rescinding—or publishing for notice and comment proposed rules suspending, revising, or rescinding—those agency actions that are inconsistent with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order as soon as practicable and as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, and may issue such requests for information as would facilitate doing so.
(b) The Secretary of Education shall consider taking additional enforcement actions, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to enforce the policy set forth in section 1 of this order as well as legal prohibitions on sex discrimination in the form of sexual harassment, which encompasses sexual violence, to the fullest extent permissible under law; to account for intersecting forms of prohibited discrimination that can affect the availability of resources and support for students who have experienced sex discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, disability, and national origin; to account for the significant rates at which students | WIKI |
High-density protein loading on hierarchically porous layered double hydroxide composites with a rational mesostructure
Yasuaki Tokudome, Megu Fukui, Naoki Tarutani, Sari Nishimura, Vanessa Prevot, Claude Forano, Gowsihan Poologasundarampillai, Peter D Lee, Masahide Takahashi
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
11 Citations (Scopus)
189 Downloads (Pure)
Abstract
Hierarchically porous biocompatible Mg–Al–Cl-type layered double hydroxide (LDH) composites containing aluminum hydroxide (Alhy) have been prepared using a phase-separation process. The sol–gel synthesis allows for the hierarchical pores of the LDH–Alhy composites to be tuned, leading to a high specific solid surface area per unit volume available for high-molecular-weight protein adsorptions. A linear relationship between the effective surface area, SEFF, and loading capacity of a model protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), is established following successful control of the structure of the LDH–Alhy composite. The threshold of the mean pore diameter, Dpm, above which BSA is effectively adsorbed on the surface of LDH–Alhy composites, is deduced as 20 nm. In particular, LDH–Alhy composite aerogels obtained via supercritical drying exhibit an extremely high capacity for protein loading (996 mg/g) as a result of a large mean mesopore diameter (>30 nm). The protein loading on LDH–Alhy is >14 times that of a reference LDH material (70 mg/g) prepared via a standard procedure. Importantly, BSA molecules pre-adsorbed on porous composites were successfully released on soaking in ionic solutions (HPO42– and Cl– aqueous). The superior capability of the biocompatible LDH materials for loading, encapsulation, and releasing large quantities of proteins was clearly demonstrated.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8826-8833
Number of pages8
JournalLangmuir
Volume32
Issue number35
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Aug 2016
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How do I prepare to be an ER nurse?
Education. Emergency room nurses first need to earn an associate or bachelor’s degree in nursing and then to pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). After two years of working as an ER nurse, you can get certified through the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing.
What does an ER nurse need to know?
Emergency nurses must be able to remain calm in high-stress and high-pressure situations, and that includes exuding confidence in the midst of uncertainty, Carroll says. Your ability to handle a situation with care and confidence can make a big difference in a patient’s level of comfort and calm.
How do nurses survive in ER?
These tips can help you become an effective emergency department nurse, while ensuring that you are taking care of your patients and protecting your nursing license.
1. Forget Being Task-Oriented.
2. Learn How to Prioritize.
3. Use Your Expertise.
4. Ask Questions.
5. Remember Where You Are.
6. Art, Science, and Caring.
What do you do in the ER as a nurse?
Key Responsibilities of an ER Nurse
• Triage and stabilize incoming patients.
• Perform minor medical procedures, such as setting broken bones.
• Clean wounds and apply sutures.
• Draw blood, start intravenous lines and administer medications.
• Maintain patient records.
• Transfer stable patients to hospital beds.
Why ER nurses are the best?
Along with other first responders and emergency medical professionals, ER nurses work quickly to provide the best possible care for patients who might be suffering from life-threatening injuries or illness. ER nurses work in a variety of settings, from Level 1 trauma centers to rural hospitals or clinics.
Do ER nurses get PTSD?
The prevalence of PTSD in emergency nurses was 82.96%, which was higher in nurses with shorter working background and nurses with lower levels of education. Further, the average score of PTSD was higher in married nurses.
What are some tips for new ER nurses?
10 Must-Know Tips for New ER Nurses 1 Making sure you’re adequately prepared for your new position. 2 Making sure you’re continually learning and growing as an emergency room nurse. 3 Making sure to check your biases. 4 Making sure to be a team player. 5 Making sure you’re taking care of yourself to prevent nurse burnout. More
What does an ER nurse do?
An ER nurse is one of the first responders when a patient is admitted to the emergency room. While doctors and specialists may perform emergency surgeries, nurses are typically the first to see a patient. ER nurses must be capable of assessing a dire situation quickly and making the right decision.
What makes ER nursing hacks so great?
ER nursing hacks can be just what you need to make your shift go from terrible to not-as-terrible. As nurses, we aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. We take charge, do what needs to be done, and then find a way to laugh about it in the end. Working in the Emergency Department can be especially draining – physically, mentally, and emotionally.
What are the skills needed to become an ER nurse?
To become an ER nurse, you need to successfully complete an associate or bachelor’s degree in nursing. After that, you have to take and pass the NCLEX. In addition to being a registered nurse, you also need to get certifications for the following: These are some of the skills you’ll need to be successful in this specialty. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Woman Whose Search for Daughter Led Police to Bodies on Long Island Is Killed
A woman whose daughter’s disappearance in 2010 ultimately led the authorities to unearth 11 bodies — her daughter’s and 10 others — along a desolate seaside highway on Long Island, was found dead on Saturday in upstate New York, and her younger daughter was charged with killing her, the police said. Mari Gilbert, 52, was found dead around 2:15 p.m. in the Ellenville apartment of her daughter Sarra Elizabeth Gilbert, according to the Ellenville Police Department. The younger Ms. Gilbert, 27, was charged with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, the police said. She was being held without bail in the Ulster County Jail and was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, the police said. Mari Gilbert, who also lived in Ellenville, had been trying for years to solve the mystery of what happened to another daughter, Shannan Gilbert of Jersey City, an aspiring actress who also worked as a prostitute and was 24 when she disappeared in May 2010. While searching for her, the police found the remains of 10 people — eight women, a man and a toddler — mostly along Ocean Parkway. Shannan Gilbert’s remains were subsequently found off Gilgo Beach in Babylon in December 2011. Suffolk County police officials have said they believe Ms. Gilbert wandered aimlessly after leaving a client’s home and wound up in the marshy area, while the others may have been the victims of a serial killer. None of the murders have been solved, and the police asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for help last year. Mari Gilbert, upset over the police’s inability to catch whoever killed her daughter, had hired the lawyers John Ray and Vesselin Mitev. “My attorney is going to solve this case,” she said at a funeral service for her daughter in March 2015 in Amityville, N.Y. On Sunday, Mr. Mitev called Mari Gilbert’s death a “most morbid turn in this already complete tragedy.” “There’s just no way anybody could’ve expected this,” he said. Mr. Mitev said he planned to “forge forward and seek justice on Shannan’s behalf,” using a court-appointed representative to represent the estate in the case. He said that most recently he had been trying to get the police to release 911 call records from the day Shannan Gilbert disappeared. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Critical role of a subdomain of the N-terminus of the V(1a) vasopressin receptor for binding agonists but not antagonists; functional rescue by the oxytocin receptor N-terminus
S. R. Hawtin, V. J. Wesley, R. A. Parslow, S. Patel, M. Wheatley
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
30 Citations (Scopus)
Abstract
A fundamental issue in molecular pharmacology is to define how agonist:receptor interaction differs from that of antagonist:receptor. The V(1a) receptor (V(1a)R) is a member of a family of related G-protein-coupled receptors that are activated by the neurohypophysial peptide hormone arginine-vasopressin (AVP). Here we define a short subdomain of the N-terminus of the V(1a)R from Glu37 to Asn47 that is an absolute requirement for binding AVP and other agonists. In marked contrast tO the situation for agonists, deleting this segment has little or no effect on the binding of either peptide or non-peptide antagonists. In addition, we established that this subdomain was crucial for receptor activation and second messenger generation. The oxytocin receptor (OTR) also binds AVP with high affinity but exhibits a different pharmacological profile to the V(1a)R. Substitution of the N-terminus of the V(1a)R with the corresponding sequence from the OTR generated a chimeric receptor (OTR(N)-V(1a)R). The presence of the OTR N-terminus recovered high affinity agonist binding such that the OTR(N)-V(1a)R possessed almost wild-type V(1a)R pharmacology and signaling. Consequently, a domain within the N-terminus is required for agonist binding but it does not provide the molecular discriminator for subtype-selective agonist recognition. Cotransfection and peptide mimetic studies demonstrated that this N-terminal subdomain had to be contiguous with the receptor polypeptide to be functional. This study establishes that a segment of the V(1a)R N-terminus has a pivotal role in the mechanism of agonist binding and provides molecular insight into key differences between the interaction of agonists and antagonists with a peptide receptor family.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)13524-13533
Number of pages10
JournalBiochemistry
Volume39
Issue number44
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2000
Externally publishedYes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Biochemistry
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As a new parent, you must initially analyze your child’s body part movements. Although doctors pass the infants from several tests, a lip or tongue tie sometimes gets neglected.
If you are new to this term, explore this blog about lip ties vs. typical lips. In this blog, we will explain in detail the lip tie issue, lip tie problems later in life and how to treat lip tie.
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What is a Normal Frenulum?
A frenulum is a piece of tissue that connects the gums and palate in your mouth.
Mostly, it is visible when people catch mouth ulcers for any reason. Also, this is where most people get appealing and unique piercings.
We all have a labial frenulum, which is negligible until we do fine. This part gets the most attention in lip tie as it comes in contact with the upper lip.
What is a Lip Tie?
Lip tie is a congenital disability that restricts the movement of the upper lip in infants and babies.
A piece of tissue extends from the gums and connects with the upper lip, known as the frenulum.
The problem arises when the upper frenulum is too tight, and causes decreased mobility.
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According to a breastfeeding specialist, Katie Clark, lip tie causes issues in infants while nursing and can make their early feed experience challenging.
It not only creates nursing issues, but there are chances that your baby will annoy the parents, and they will fail to diagnose the real issue.
So, a pediatrician or a lactation educator’s help is what you need.
How to Tell If the Baby Has A Lip Tie?
Now, the thing is, how do you diagnose lip ties in babies? Parents must check several lip tie symptoms in babies after the delivery.
The first sign is having a problem in latching the mother’s feed.
Having issues in latching is an evident sign that your kid is facing some oral problems, including lip tying or tongue tying.
Other signs of lip tie in babies include:
• Clicking sound while nursing
• Not gaining enough weight
• Excessive gassiness
• Chewing and gumming of nipple
• Pain while breastfeeding
• Excessive drooling and others.
Lip Tie Vs. Normal Frenulum: Differences!
Lip tie is generally a mild condition that is treatable and not as dangerous for newborns.
It is okay to stay with a lip tie until it’s not affecting the baby’s health and causing significant issues.
However, there are several differences that you can notice quickly in kids which include the illustration of their upper lip from inside.
Parents can check lip ties vs normal pictures of babies on the internet and evaluate their kids quickly.
The significant difference is the shape that develops due to the frenulum thickness.
Apart from this, classes of upper lip ties help the pediatrician diagnose and treat the issue.
For instance, class 1 ties are rare and are little to no visible for treatment.
In class 2, the upper lip tie is near the edge of the gum line, and class 3 has ULT adjacent to a structure in the mouth known as the anterior papilla.
Class 4 involves the ULT wrapped around the hard palate. Looking at the lip tie, a doctor can quickly diagnose the class and present the best treatment plan.
Lip Tie Revision
A baby with a lip tie can stay like this for some time. You can continue with it if there is no issue while feeding and no discomfort.
However, if the new mother feels some symptoms, such as pain during breastfeeding, then it is necessary to treat it as soon as possible to prevent lip tie problems later in life.
However, lip testing can be easily reversed with a simple tie procedure known as a frenectomy, which is common in child clinics.
This treatment cuts the frenulum, and the upper lip becomes free.
It improves the overall movements and functionality. After frenectomy, post-surgery exercises help kids improve feeding, eating, and speaking abilities.
Read: What You Need to Know About Lip Tie Revision?
Final Words
A lip tie makes the nursing experience challenging for both mothers and babies. It creates issues in weight gain in kids, and so they look younger than their age.
The condition is hard to spot, but with the help of a pediatrician, it can be easily diagnosed and treated.
So, parents must pay attention to this issue early to prevent complications later in life. Lip tie in adults can also occur which is also treatable with the same procedure.
In this advanced era of technology, lip-tie pictures of newborns available on the internet can benefit new parents.
FAQs
What is the difference between a lip tie and a regular tie?
In lip tie, the frenulum connected to the gum line is thicker than usual, restricting the lip’s movement and functionality.
In this condition, it becomes challenging for infants to nurse correctly.
How can I tell if my baby has a lip tie?
By checking on the significant signs and symptoms and looking into their mouth, mothers can know if their baby has a lip tie or not.
Additionally, lip-tie pictures on the internet and pediatrician visits can be helpful.
Will a lip tie correct itself?
No, it is not possible that it reverses itself. A surgery known as frenectomy is performed to get rid of a lip tie or tongue tie in which the excessive tissue part is cut with the help of a scalp or laser.
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Contest of Cithaeron and Helicon
The "Contest of Cithaeron and Helicon" (PMG 654) is a fragment of a poem by Corinna. Preserved on a second-century AD papyrus discovered at Hermopolis in Egypt, the poem tells the story of a singing competition between two mountains, Cithaeron and Helicon, which was apparently won by Mount Cithaeron.
Preservation
The poem is preserved on a second-century AD piece of papyrus, P.Berol. 13284. The papyrus was discovered by Otto Rubensohn at Hermopolis in 1906. The papyrus also preserves part of Corinna's poem on the daughters of Asopus. The editio princeps of the papyrus was published by Wilamowitz in 1907.
Twenty-three lines of the poem (lines 12–34 of the first surviving column of the papyrus) are according to Denys Page "more or less continuously legible". Traces of eleven lines survive before the well-preserved portion of the poem. Based on the length the line-ends extend beyond the later part of the poem, Edgar Lobel suggested that they were in a different meter to the better-preserved portion of the poem. As the well-preserved portion clearly begins some way into the poem, Denys Page suggests that this can be explained either by the poem changing meter mid-way through, or by the Berlin Papyrus preserving only part of Corinna's original poem. Alternatively, A. E. Harvey argues that the anomaly is more likely explained as a copyist's error, with the scribe inserting line breaks in the wrong places. The poem continues for thirty lines after the well-preserved portion, but these are impossible to interpret.
Poem
The contest poem is about a singing contest between Cithaeron and Helicon. Conflict between these two mountains is known from other sources, but Corinna's poem is the only known mention of a singing contest between the two. In Corinna's poem, Cithaeron apparently wins the contest; in other versions of the story, Helicon is the victor.
The poem is composed in six-line stanzas, of which the first five are in ionic dimeter, and the sixth is a ten-syllable clasula, of the form uu--uu-u--. The surviving part of the poem begins with one of the singers – generally thought to be Cithaeron – concluding his song, which tells the myth of how the titan Rhea hid her youngest child, Zeus, from Cronus. The poem continues with the gods voting on the winner of the contest, and awarding the victory to Cithaeron. The vote is conducted in a form of secret ballot, using pebbles placed in jars. It is unknown if actual musical contests were judged in this way, or if Corinna's use of this voting system is intended to recall judicial procedure. After the result is announced, Helicon throws a down boulder in his anger, which breaks into ten thousand pieces. John Heath reads this episode as an example of a characteristic sense of humour in Corinna's poetry.
Corinna's use of the story of Rhea and the birth of Zeus in the poem is apparently influenced by Hesiod's account of the same myth in Theogony. There are several verbal echoes of Hesiod in Corinna's version of the story, though she also adds her own innovations – such as the inclusion of the Curetes, which are not mentioned in the Theogony. Corinna's version of the poem emphasises the role of Rhea, and Diane Rayor argues that this is an example of Corinna writing for a specifically female audience.
Performance
Corinna's poems were probably mostly written for choral performance in connection with local festivals. The contest poem may have been written for performance at the Daedala, a festival in honour of Hera at Plataea, which was held in part at the summit of Mount Cithaeron. | WIKI |
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Control Microsoft 365 Group Creation
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Byomkesh Bakshi in other media
Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali detective character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring himself as "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and forensic science which he uses to solve complicated cases, usually murders occurred. Bakshi, initially appearing in the 1932 story Satyanweshi, the character's popularity immensely increased in Bengal and other parts of India.
Many film, television, radio, audio drama and other adaptations that have been made of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's series of detective novels featuring his character, Byomkesh.
Books
Saradindu Bandopadhyay penned 32 Byomkesh stories from 1932 to 1970 prior to his death. In his early stories, Ajit Kumar Banerjee is described as his companion, and chronicler of his stories. But in some cases Ajit also investigates in absence of Byomkesh (examples, Makorshar Rosh, Shoilo Rahasya). The stories are all written in traditional formal Bengali language. However, later the stories shift to more colloquial language. The later stories (Room Nombor Dui, Chhlonar Chhondo, Shajarur Kanta, Benisonghaar and Lohar Biskut) are not penned by Ajit, who was engaged in his publication business.
The stories are not very complicated but very engaging, with a long series of surprising events. The stories present a range of crimes from the first story, Satyanweshi, where Byomkesh destroys an international drug racket, to household mysteries and crimes like Arthamanartham and Makorshar Rosh.
Sharadindu did not want to continue the Byomkesh stories, due to which he stopped writing from 1938 to 1951. During that time he busied himself writing scripts for films in Bombay. After his return to West Bengal, Byomkesh stories were still in demand so he wrote Chitrachor (Picture Imperfect) in 1951 and other stories gradually on to 1970, when his last story "Bishupal Badh" (Killing of Bishupal) was left incomplete owing to his untimely death.
List
There are 32 published and 1 unpublished Byomkesh stories. The list is chronologically arranged.
Color key
* indicates "story".
* indicates "novel".
* indicates unfinished writings.
Television and streaming
Actor Gaurav Chakrabarty won a Tele Academy Award (Best actor in a leading role) in 2014 for his role as Byomkesh Bakshi for Byomkesh.
* Sushant Singh Rajput and Anand Tiwari reprised their roles from Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! in a 2015 episode of the long running Indian TV Series C.I.D. to promote the films.
* Actor Abir Chatterjee and Ritwick Chakraborty promoted the film Byomkesh Pawrbo in a daily soap Goyenda Ginni in Zee Bangla, as themselves respectively.
Radio
The Sunday Suspense series of 98.3 Radio Mirchi (Kolkata) adapted several novels of Byomkesh Bakshi for audio stories which include Satyanweshi, Pother Kanta, Makorshar Rosh, Agnibaan, Roktomukhi Neela, Khunji Khunji Nari, Arthamanartham, Adwitiyo, Monimondon, Cholonar Chondo, Lohar Biscuit, Achin Pakhi, Sajarur Kanta, Durgo Rohosyo and Chitrachor, performed by Mir Afsar Ali as Byomkesh and Deep as Ajit.
Audio drama
The Satyanweshi audio drama series created by actor Aneesh See Yay adapted twenty two novels and eight original audio drama of Byomkesh Bakshi in Malayalam Language
Films
* {{legend|#a4d4f4|Indicates they are part of Star Productions film series}}
* {{legend|#a2e9a4|Indicates they are part of Anjan Dutt film series}}
* {{legend|#f7b9a4|Indicates they are part of Shree Venkatesh Films film series}}
* {{legend|#e4d4f4|Indicates they are part of Yash Raj Films film}}
Video games
A hidden objects game for mobile devices called Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!: The Game was released by Games2win in 2015.
Legacy
* A popular fictional detective named "Vyomkesh", has been referenced by Sita in Amish Tripathi's book Sita: Warrior of Mithila.
* He was referred in The Big Bang Theory episode named "The Mommy Observation". | WIKI |
Talk:Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism
Lerman's criticism
Yesterday, I included a reference to a recent self-published article by the British scholar of antisemitism Antony Lerman on Yale's decision to close the YIISA. Someone has now removed this, for reasons that I do not believe are appropriate.
Let's address the possible concerns about using Lerman's piece:
(i) It's a self-published source.
WP:RS gives fairly clear guidance on this point: "Self-published material may be acceptable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." Antony Lerman is a noted scholar in the field of antisemitism and his material has been published in many third-party publications. His piece clearly meets the minimum standard for inclusion on this regard.
(ii) It's a "POV hit piece."
This was a reason cited by User:Plot Spoiler in reverting the edit here.
The assertion that Lerman's article is a "POV hit piece" is an opinion, not a verifiable fact. Lerman is a longtime opponent of the YIISA, and his article takes a strong position against the organization. This gives his article a POV, but it does not make it a "hit piece." As long as we indicate that these are Lerman's opinions rather than uncontested facts, there is no problem on this regard either.
(iii) It "has serious BLP issues."
This was another reason cited by User:Plot Spoiler in reverting the edit. I am not aware of any BLP issues in Lerman's article; he makes critical statements toward other public figures, but I do not believe any of his comments constitute BLP concerns. Specific examples would need to be provided if we are to reject the piece for this reason. In any event, my edit did not only referenced Lerman's views on the YIISA, not his criticisms of any other public figure.
I should clarify that I am not accusing User:Plot Spoiler of acting in bad faith; I simply do not believe the reasons given for the reversion were appropriate. CJCurrie (talk) 03:11, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
* Are you sure you want to defend the inclusion of material that policy only states "may be acceptable"? I think you're on pretty shaky ground when policy only grudgingly admits a possibility of including the kind of source you're using; we're a very long way from wholehearted endorsement here. In addition, the piece in question has quite a few negative things to say about quite a few individuals—as a simple example, it states the director of the initiative had "little experience of antisemitism research"—so it seems obvious to me that one must take WP:BLP concerns seriously. Jayjg (talk) 03:53, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
* I interpret "may" to be synonymous with "can" in this context, and I don't agree with your reading of the policy as "only grudgingly admit[ting] a possibility." Rather, I regard it as indicating that self-published material by experts meets the minimum standard for inclusion. Whether any particular self-published essay should be included on any particular Wikipedia article is of course dependent on a whole range of considerations that the policy cannot and should not address -- it merely allows for the possibility. I fully accept that a self-published source may not be a preferred source even if it meets the minimal definition of acceptability; these things need to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
* Concerning WP:BLP, I fail to see how writing that a public figure "[has] little experience of antisemitism research" could be regarded as an unwarranted attack. The fact that Lerman has written negative (i.e., critical) things about certain public figures seems neither here nor there on this regard.
* I should add that noting Lerman's support for the Yale decision would be entirely consistent with WP:NPOV, particularly given that the article is currently a bit one-sided in its orientation.
* On another matter, are you certain that your intervention in this dispute is consistent with past arbitration rulings, given the YIISA's engagement with the Israel-Palestine conflict? CJCurrie (talk) 04:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
* I interpret "may" as "this is a source of last resort", for obvious reasons: The best kinds of sources are obviously respected academics, publishing in their fields, in peer-reviewed journals or by academic presses. We then move on down the line to e.g. publications in non peer-reviewed sources, then op-eds in respected newspapers, then op-eds in tabloids, until we finally scrape the bottom of the barrel - something one had to publish on one's blog, because no-one was willing to provide the space or money to actually print your opinion. Policy doesn't forbid it, but it's obvious we should be looking for better. As for BLP, it is not concerned only with "unwarranted attacks", but with any negative material about living people; I recommend you re-review the policy carefully, as its scope is far broader than you indicate here. And finally, I am under no personal editing restrictions, and my actions are entirely consistent with past arbitration rulings, unless you believe reasoned and fairly mild comments on a topic have been forbidden by some arbcom case. Jayjg (talk) 04:33, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
* I hardly think that a self-published scholarly editorial by a noted expert on antisemitism could be construed as "scraping the bottom of the barrel." Concerning BLP, I think we may be getting off-topic. My original edit read, "Antony Lerman, a British scholar of antisemitism, has supported Yale's decision to close the YIISA, which he has described as a politicized group that was devoted to the promotion of Israel rather than to serious research on antisemitism." There are no BLP issues in this statement, and the fact that Lerman made critical remarks about public figures in the source article strikes me as irrelevant to this discussion. If others are aware of a policy decision that states or implies otherwise, please let me know. Concerning editing restrictions, I'll need to review the matter a bit further before responding. CJCurrie (talk) 05:58, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
* Lerman's blog post is not the worst possible source one could imagine, but, as explained, it's at the low end of what could be considered reliable, and should only be used in extremis. Concerning BLP, if you read the policy, you'll see it's quite concerned with what's in external links, regardless of how they are used in an article. One shouldn't be linking to articles which go against the spirit of BLP, even if the article itself doesn't happen to quote or paraphrase the specific material that was BLP-problematic. Jayjg (talk) 01:21, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I agree that self-published sources normally fall on the low end of the reliability spectrum, but I also think we need to evaluate each source on a case-by-case basis. Lerman is a scholar of antisemitism and his essay is written as academic commentary. It's a credible work by any reasonable standard and particularly by the standards of self-published sources. In any event, this may be a moot point: I see that Daniel Treiman has written about both Lerman and Lipstadt's reactions to the YIISA closure on the JTA site. Would you agree this is an acceptable source? CJCurrie (talk) 01:49, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
* Sure, that's acceptable. Jayjg (talk) 02:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Package Details: cmst-git 2016.04.03.11.g9a45c29-1
Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/cmst-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: cmst-git
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Upstream URL: https://github.com/andrew-bibb/cmst
Licenses: MIT
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hagabaka commented on 2015-03-22 15:03
Most -git packages on AUR use whatever version is determined by pkgver() instead of "latest":
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=150&C=0&SeB=n&K=-git&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Search=Go
This version is not always accurate of course, and either way makepkg will run pkgver() again to determine the current version. However the pkgver() value at the time of the last PKGBUILD update is still more useful information than "latest", because you know that the PKGBUILD should work for that commit/revision at least.
So I don't think changing the wiki to suggest "latest" as a standard for VCS PKGBUILDs is a good idea.
WhyNotHugo commented on 2015-03-22 08:35
@flamusdiu
Nope, that change will never happen:
a) Indeed, AUR helpers can't know if it's out-of-date or not because this tracks the latest git version. Until the latest HEAD is downloaded and pkgver() ran, there's no way to know if it's out of-date or not, hence, they'll report that an update is needed. Most packages won't actually re-build/package/compile if the pkgver has not increased. If your AUR helper does you should report the issue.
b) There's no single value for pkgver. This PKGBUILD builds the latest for git. As soon as there's a commit upstream, the pkgver that this package builds has changed. There's not a change I'll keep re-uploading the package every time there's an upstream commit.
c) Using "latest" is proper practice, since, again, this PKGBUILD does not target any specific version (and stating the contrary is merely wrong).
I'll see if I can update the wiki with these details, so we can formally standardize these already common practices.
flamusdiu commented on 2015-03-22 02:12
@hobarrera: you need to update the pkgver in the PKGBUILD file. "latest" isn't the correct way to do this. Right, every time I run "aura -Au," It appears to be out-of-date. Usually, when building Git sourced PKGBUILDs, it will update the pkgver var properly. Just use that one to create the source tarball instead of leaving "latest."
WhyNotHugo commented on 2015-01-25 18:35
@hagabaka No problem.
hagabaka commented on 2015-01-25 02:59
Sorry, I misclicked on flag-out-of-date.
hagabaka commented on 2015-01-20 17:16
The current PKGBUILD fails because debian/copyright is no longer in the respo. Here is a PKGBUILD that fixes that and a few formatting inconsistencies, as well as adds a pkgver() that follows the cmst package's version scheme:
https://gist.github.com/3466ff2eca6749b50448
AlfredoRamos commented on 2014-11-15 11:12
cmst-git E: Files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor but no call to gtk-update-icon-cache or xdg-icon-resource to update the icon cache
cmst-git E: Missing custom license directory (usr/share/licenses/cmst-git)
cmst-git E: Dependency hicolor-icon-theme detected and not included (needed for hicolor theme hierarchy)
sekret commented on 2014-08-01 19:15
No I meant if you checkout with https, that port should be open. You use git://[...], I suggest to use https://[...]. But to be fair, I don't know what's the default git port and if there's any difference.
WhyNotHugo commented on 2014-07-31 10:46
@sekret: That's the mirror I'm currently using.
sekret commented on 2014-07-26 11:48
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Lin Hu
Lin Hu may refer to:
* Lin Hu (warlord) (1887–1960), warlord of the Old Guangxi clique
* Lin Hu (general) (1927–2018), deputy commander of the PLA Air Force | WIKI |
Seems that transaction is not enabled on my MySQL DB
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When running start transaction -> updates -> rollback in MySQL script having set autocommit = 0 I do not get any errors, but the updates are not rolled back. I gave the MySQL user ALL permissions and still the same. Here are some details about the test I'm running. It uses a simple table, created with: "create table a ( id serial primary key);" Following is the test script: delete from a; set autocommit = 0; start transaction; insert into a(id) values(1); rollback work; select count(*) from a; So the script makes sure the table is empty, Then it starts a transaction, insert a row and rollback the insert. As the "insert" was rolled back, the "select" should indicate that table still contains 0 rows. Running this on PostgreSQL: $ psql < test1 DELETE 0 START TRANSACTION INSERT 0 1 ROLLBACK count 0 This is the expected behavior, 0 rows in the table as the insert was rolled back. Running the same on my MySQL DB: $ mysql -u < test1 count(*) 1 Having 1 row following the rollback indicate that the "insert" was NOT rolled back, just as in non-transaction mode. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Author talk:Patrick Henry Pearse
The term UK would not be applicable as at the time it was not used. The full title at the time would have been “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.” Ireland still being a distinct geographical area. --Domer48 12:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
I have removed the UK cat, as per above. Removed Catholic Cat, his religion did not make him notable. --Domer48 21:54, 3 August 2007 (UTC) | WIKI |
Talk:Strategery
- Shouldn't the SNL block at the bottom of the page be removed? Call-in talk show host, M-F 5pm E.T. at KGOV.com 800-8Enyart (talk) 22:10, 11 May 2011 (UTC) - This article cites the Washington Post as a primary source attributing first use of the term to satirists, and not to Bush. If anyone ever wants to further research the matter, they might contact Saturday Night Live's writers of 1 January 1999 to verify that they coined the term in jest and did not in fact select if from a source that attributed it to Bush. If Bush indeed first used the term, that should be included in this article.
- Findlay I'm so never-mindish about this, but are you Pointy-viewificating that damaging government property in the White House is a practical joke when making unwelcome edits to an openly editable pseudo-encylcopedia projection is classificated as vandalism? Dubious 20:41, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
"Hotly debated"
I removed a phrase stating "The actual origin of the word is hotly debated". In the context the phrase was used, the phrase seemed to discuss origins of the word "Bushism" which is not the topic of this article. The real problem, however, is that I reviewed dozens of Internet links found by searching "stategery" in combination with "Bush" "invented" "coined" and other terms and found no evidence of hot debate. I found evidence of one-sided attributions of the term by critics of Bush. And I found the sourcs cited in which A. A leading Washington newspaper attributed the term's origing to SNL; B. A video in which satirists can be seen using the term; C. A transcript after those events in which Bush is quoted using the term; D. Other sources explaining Bush now uses the term to describe various cabinent meetings after taking office.
What's more, the present tense suggested some ongoing debate, even further raising the author's burden of proof to find not just any debate, but on-going debate. So, I found no hot debate on record. No folklore departments at major universities studying the term. No liberal newspapers suggesting Bush first used the term. No actual citations of any use of the term before the 1/1/99 SNL satire.
I would suggest either A. finding evidence of such debate; B. mounting a personal attack against this contributor to avoid confronting the fact that no such evidence could be found; C. attending to the content of the corpus rather than to identity and ego issues related to perceptions of authors. An additional option that might work with either "A" or "C" would be to appreciate and assimilate any lesson in human relations that might arise from this experience in collaborative editing.
"B" should be an easy option because: A. Findlay enjoys community prestige and might likely get away with it; B. This contribotor intentionally acted in a manner typical of regular contributors but without any of the prestige necessary to defend such behavior; C. Community standard here often revolve around demeaning an unpopular character while defending a popular character offering a similar ad hominem rhetoric.
And to extinguish any notion of POV on this contributor's part regarding the content of the article, I think Bush should be arrested and tried for war crimes. But I still think this article should be written with accurate, neutral information about how the term "strategery" originated with Bush's critics and was used by his less informed critics in an attempt to damage him politically.
And to those who are feeling their blood boil and preparing a response of slurs and personal attacks as they read this edit summary, edit summaries are an appropriate part of editorial discussion. Carefully consider your own motivations before you reach unsupprotable conclusions about mine. In the present environment, this sort of summary is just what this collectivity needs. Dubious 21:27, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
* Too many words. Narcissistic.
My Edits
The term came from Saturday Night Live. There is no debate about it. It is so certain that SNL coined the term that citing the Washington Post article in the main text is unneccesary, but I left it in as a link. Since SNL coined the term, the article needed to lead with that, so I moved the discussion of the SNL sketch to the beginning of the article.
"Strategery" has nothing to do with H.W. Bush, nor does the term Bushism. If you look at the Wikipedia entry for "Bushism", it doesn't mention H.W., so I took out the reference to H.W.
Are we trying to sell tapes for Amazon? Who cares if you can buy the episode on Amazon. It's a non sequitor, it's gone.
I took out the discussion of the practical jokes by the Clinton staffers because it was also a non sequitor. The sign "office of strategery" wouldn't be, but there was no authority cited for it, so I thought the contributor might have confused it with the fact that the Bush White House refers to the "Department of Strategery". Therefore, I added that discussion to the article and provided the citation.
I took out the reference to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for two reasons: (1) it's a stretch to cite the IMDB as a source of authority for what goes on in the Bush White House, and (2) the IMDB is an online source, yet no link was provided to support this claim.
I'm not sure that it's proper to say what Bush's critics are aware or not aware of in using the term Strategery, since it is very unlikely that all of them are unaware of the word's origin. It's likely that most of the critics are aware of the origin when they use it to ridicule him.
-- Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)
I used to work with a guy who used that term a lot, and not as an ironic use. This would have been '97-'98, since I only saw him once after that. He was an old ad-agency hand, so I assumed it was industry slang. Either way, it's a nonsense word, I don't see how it's notable enough to be listed here, and giving first attribution to SNL is ludicrous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Pronunciation
How is this word pronounced? --WhiteDragon 14:39, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
"struh-TEEDGE-er-ee", IPA: [stɹʌˡtidʒɚri] --EmersonLowry 18:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Use as a Real Term
Since its coining, strategery has also come to be used to mean "The strategic application of strategies" and could be considered synonymous with "Meta-strategy", just as mis-underestimation (Another 'Bushism') has come to mean an "Underestimation that proves to be significantly detrimental to the one who makes it". One can underestimate something without significant harm, but mis-underestimating implies that the underestimation had disastrous results. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
* I can not imagine President Obama or his staff using these words. Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
* Oh BTW, the Soviet Union failed because they misunderestimated two things: The human capacity for evil and the human capacity for good. Just thought I'd mention that. Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:19, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Should be deleted
This is silly trivia, not something worthy of having an encyclopedia article on. Are we going to write articles on every goofy term that enters the language? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:09, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
* Maybe move it to the other wiki? Jimw338 (talk) 19:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC) | WIKI |
Stock investors wonder whether the bond market knows something they don't
It's a question asked in a foreboding tone when markets behave a certain way: "What does the bond market know that the stock market doesn't?" The market behavior that prompts this query is a decline in Treasury yields coinciding with rising stock prices, and it's what we're seeing so far this year. The 10-year Treasury is near its 2019 low of 2.60 percent, while the is at its year-to-date high, up more than 12 percent. The conceit of the question is that receding bond yields are a signal of slowing economic growth, rising financial risks and waning risk appetites. If any combination of those forces is at work, then a steady climb in stock indexes would seem incongruous and perhaps ill-fated. Yet there are reasons to doubt that there's any inherent inconsistency or acute vulnerability to the market in the current trend of strong stocks and subdued yields. For one thing, there's nothing all that unusual about stock and bond prices rising together. (Yields move inversely to prices) It was the rule for most of the 1980s and '90s. And this relationship played out over previous phases of the current economic cycle. In 2014, the 10-year Treasury yield sank from 3 percent to 2.1 percent over the course of the year, and the S&P 500 gained more than 11 percent, posting new record highs. Likewise, over the course of 2017, when yields slanted lower as stocks had one of the gentlest ascents in memory, rising 20 percent with hardly any pullbacks. Then there's the fact that in recent months both stocks and bonds are pricing in a transparent and patient Federal Reserve, which is able to take this posture because inflation appears well-contained. This also is helping to compress volatility in both stocks and bonds, with the CBOE's equity volatility index below 14 at a five-month low. Taken together, slim bond yields, a gentle Fed and ebbing volatility tend to support or expand equity valuations, even with corporate profits seen going flat in the first half of the year. Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group, points out that the markets are responding in concert to an economy coming off a scare over potential overheating and a possible Fed mistake. "It is not that the bond market knows something the stock market doesn't," he argues. "Although Treasury yields often fall and remain lower at the start of a recession, they also frequently decline and remain lower when the valuation of stocks and bonds rise together. Rather than signaling a pending recession, recent action in the Treasury market more likely reflects the common aftermath of a mid-cycle overheat within an ongoing expansion." The kinds of stocks gaining favor also fit with a low-yield environment: dividend-rich utilities and real-estate investment trusts are near all-time highs. So is the S&P Invesco 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV), which contains more stable companies rather than cyclically geared ones. And big growth stocks – those promising many years of expected rising cash flows to come – are leading again: The Russell 1000 growth index has outpaced its value counterpart by 1.5 percentage points in the past month. The 52-week high list from Wednesday speaks to this preference, featuring the likes of Mastercard, PayPal, Intuit and American Tower. All this suggests that the market is not recklessly pricing in a big economic acceleration or earnings snapback that the bond market isn't. Equities are mostly recovering the nasty downside overshoot of December while investor sentiment and positioning have gradually returned toward a more neutral state. Low Treasury yields would be a bigger worry for stocks if the yield curve were flattening further, or if corporate bonds were being shunned. The Treasury yield curve has been narrow but steady this year, between 0.15 and 0.2 percentage points between the 2- and 10-year maturities. And the risk spreads on high-yield corporate debt have tightened up since December and are back toward November values, which is pretty consistent with the S&P 500 trading back up to early November levels. All of this helps explain how stocks have managed to rally while yields trend lower. But it doesn't answer the question of how long it can go on this way, or just how much further lift stocks can derive from a patient Fed and undemanding corporate-debt costs. Back in the first half of 2016, with global yields remaining quite low and a similar mix of dividend-centric and growth stocks carrying the market higher, the S&P traded up to a forward price/earnings multiple above 17, until profit forecasts finally bottomed and growth expectations picked up. Right now, the S&P 500 trades at 16.3-times forecast earnings for the next 12 months. The estimates for 2019 earnings are down a bit more than 7 percent since their October high, while the S&P 500 is off a bit more than 4 percent from its peak. One could argue that stocks have already given companies credit for weathering this profit slowdown and resuming growth later this year, with most of the projected improvement slated for the fourth quarter. At some point, soon or not, this could seem like an overly rosy outlook and perhaps then stocks would be on more fragile footing. But it won't be because the bond market now "knows" anything that's particularly scary. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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306 Among the pledges and assurances given by General Kearny to the inhabitants of New Mexico, in order to render them better satisfied with the new form of government which he established, prior to his departure for California in the fall of 1846, was a guarantee of protection against the Indians in their vicinity. The Apaches, as we have seen, were temporarily quieted; and while on his way to the Pacific coast, the general issued an order at La Joya, in October, requiring Colonel Doniphan, of the first Missouri mounted volunteers, then at Santa Fé, but previously instructed to report to General Wool at Chihuahua, to make a campaign with his regiment into the country inhabited by the Navajo Indians. This was one of the fiercest and most implacable tribes west of the Mississippi, occupying the greater part of the territory between the waters of the Rio Grande and those of the Rio Colorado of the West, and its warriors had long been "the terror and scourge" of the northern provinces of Mexico.
Colonel Doniphan left Santa Fé on the 26th of October, and having divided his command into separate detachments, invaded the Navajo country by three routes. This expedition was attempted late in the season, and was not brought to a close until the troops had suffered severely from the intense cold of winter. Their daily march was through drifts of snow which blocked up the valleys, and across mountains covered with ice. Every portion of the Indian territory was visited, and near three-fourths of the tribe, though almost entire strangers to the American name, were collected at the Ojo Oso, where a permanent treaty was made with them. The object of the expedition being attained, Colonel Doniphan returned to the Rio Grande, near Socorro, on the 12th of December. He then crossed | WIKI |
FAQs
Is there a link between Breast Cancer and Sunlight?
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It is not appropriate to ban commercial UV tanning units.
New South Wales (Australia) is proposing to ban commercial sunbeds from December 2012. Public submissions are open until 26 Oct 2012. Read here our submission on why we say it's not appropriate to ban commercial sunbeds:
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How much vitamin D do you need?
Unfortuneately there is no simple answer to this. We recommend maintaining a light tan for your skintype year round. Based on my personal experience as a skin type 2B this is about one sunbed session per week for a bit more than the minimum time for that sunbed type. Darker skin people require more exposure to generate vitamin D.
Do sunbeds enable you to produce vitamin D?
YES most definitely they do. As a general rule the newer sunbeds give more stable UV exposure, for this reason we'd recommend these over the older models. Check this out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQx7DyYXjcw
Are sunbeds dangerous?
Any equipment used incorrectly or inappropriately can be dangerous. Sunbeds used appropriately are not dangerous and are even beneficial to your health.
Studies show that it is overexposure to UV light (via sunlight or sunbeds) that is 'dangerous', this includes sunburn and excessive repeated exposures, such as daily use of a sunbed. In our view using a sunbed to the point that you burn or daily is inappropriate and indeed is sunbed abuse. You should NEVER sunburn and you should follow your operators guidelines for an appropriate session time for your skin type. A general guideline on frequency is to use a sunbed every 2nd day to build up your tan over 3-4weeks then reduce this to once a week or fortnight to maintain your tan. You'll not only get a great looking tan you'll enjoy the benefits of having sufficient levels of vitamin D and all the health benefits that go with that.
Should I buy a sunbed from Trade Me or similar?
Our advice is know what you're buying. We've seen some people buy old dungers and other people get bargains. There are lots of old sunbeds out there now that are difficult (or impossible) to get parts for; probably they'd be fine for home users, check they are going and know if they are giving a tan. Sunbed tubes can look like they are working but no longer give out enough UV light to give you a tan. Also check out power supply requirements, some sunbeds require 3phase power. Another factor is the acrylics, we've seen some that have gone to their local plastics place to replace these; these don't let UV light through so do not work on a sunbed. Buyer Beware!
Can I use a sunbed when I’m pregnant?
Yes you can. During pregnancy your hormones will change; because of this you may not react the same as you would usually to UV exposure. Some women experience blotchiness in their tan, others become hyper-sensitive. We advise that you significantly reduce the amount of time you are on the sunbed and as per usual avoid over exposure. Enjoy!
You also need vitamin D during pregnancy. Here's a link to a short video shows why vitamin D is important during pregnancy: http://www.grassrootshealth.net/
Why do I have to wear goggles on a sunbed?
The potential risk of eye injury from unprotected UV exposure is serious and real. The skin on your body is thinnest around the eyes; UV light can easily penetrate this skin, causing burns, cataracts, poor night vision or possible permanent loss of sight. Closing your eyes is insufficient to prevent UV light penetration. You only have one set of eyes, take care of them, use goggles every time you use a sunbed.
We recommend purchasing your own goggles to avoid the risk of catching eye diseases from using goggles that have not been sterilised properly.
Will my moisturizer enhance my tan?
Moist skin tans best, daily moisturizing locks in moisture and enhances your tanning results. However be careful in choosing your moisturiser as not all are made equal. Often moisturizers contain mineral oil which will not only clog your pores, but also strip away your tan. All Supre and Hempz moisturizers will develop and maintain your healthy tan and skin. Use tanning lotions while on a sunbed, and moisturize daily.
Are Hempz moisturisers safe to use with acrylic nails?
Yes, Hempz moisturisers do not contain lanolin so may be used with acrylic nails. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Is it safe to lift a car with a jack stand? Learn the right way to use it here!
Jack stands are designed to distribute the weight of your car evenly so that it doesn’t rest in one spot. That means that there’s no pressure on any one part of your car when you’re using them to lift it up. But is it safe to lift a car with a jack stand?
Yes, it’s safe to lift a car with a jack stand. Jack stands are designed to keep the car in place while you work underneath it, and they’re built to support far more weight than the weight of your car.
If you follow the instructions in your owner’s manual and make sure that the jack stand is securely placed on a solid surface, you can use it safely during all kinds of maintenance tasks.
If you’re unsure about whether or not something is safe to do in your car, consult an expert to check for you.
Is it safe to lift a car with a jack stand
Importance of using a jack stand
When you’re working on your car, it’s tempting to just lift the whole thing up with a floor jack. But that can be dangerous if you don’t use a jack stand to keep it stable.
Here are some reasons why:
1. A floor jack isn’t designed to hold the weight of your car, and it won’t do so safely. You should always use a jack stand when you’re working on your car, even if you’re just changing a tire.
2. A floor jack doesn’t distribute the weight evenly under your car, which can cause damage to its structure. Using a jack stand will help prevent this from happening.
3. If your vehicle falls over while you’re using a floor jack and there is no one nearby to help catch it or support it with another tool like a jack stand or axle stand, then there could be serious injury involved in trying to prevent damage from occurring (from falling on top of someone else underneath).
Is it safe to lift a car with a jack stand?
The answer is yes, as long as you follow the proper procedure. First, make sure that your jack stand is securely placed on a solid surface. If you can’t get the car to sit squarely on your jack stand, you’ll need to either remove some weight from the car or find another way to stabilize it.
You then want to make sure that you are using a jack stand that’s appropriate for the weight of your car. Always read the instructions carefully and follow them exactly.
Tips you should never forget:
• If the car is lifted more than three inches, it should be on jack stands.
• Make sure the jack stand is placed under a solid part of the car and not where there are holes or gaps.
• If there are any doubts about whether or not to lift your car with a jack stand, contact your mechanic.
Can you lift a car with jack stands?
You can lift a car with jack stands. Jack stands are designed to support the weight of your car when it’s up on jacks, so they’re perfectly capable of lifting the car off the ground.
However, there are some things you need to remember when using jack stands:
Your car should never be lifted more than 4 inches off the ground by jack stands unless you’re working underneath it and need extra space for your tools. This minimizes the risk of tipping over.
You should always use two jack stands on each side of your vehicle and have them both rated for at least half its weight before attempting to lift it. This will help ensure that if one stand fails, there will still be another one holding up the vehicle.
Always make sure that your jack stand is positioned so that it won’t slip out from under the frame if you turn or twist against it while working under the hood or fender wells (or wherever else), which could cause serious injury if it were to happen unexpectedly while someone is still underneath.
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Is it safe to raise the car on four jack stands?
If you follow the directions provided by the manufacturer when installing your jack stands and you’re careful about how much weight you put on each stand, then yes, you can safely raise your car on four jack stands.
The main reason this is true is that jack stands are designed to take loads of weight, and they’re rated for how much they can hold without breaking or bending. If you’re using four strands as recommended by the manufacturer of your car (and if they were installed correctly), it will take an awful lot of force to cause them to fail.
That said, there are some things to keep in mind when using jack stands:
Make sure each jack stand is placed directly under one of the car’s wheels and not between two wheels.
If a stand isn’t properly centered under a wheel, it may not be able to support as much weight as intended and could break or bend when too much weight is applied to it.
How long can I leave my car on jack stands?
In most cases, you can leave your car on jack stands for up to 24 hours. It’s important to remember that every vehicle is different, so if you’re trying to figure out how long you can leave your car on jack stands. So, make sure you take into account the size of your tire and wheel as well as how much weight it could support.
If you’re not sure whether or not your vehicle is safe, check with a professional mechanic for advice.
Is it safe to use one jack stand?
Yes, it is safe to use one jack stand. A lot of people think that using just one jack stand is unsafe, but in reality, it’s totally fine.
The reason why people think it’s unsafe is that they’re worried about the jack stand slipping and falling off the car while they are working on it.
This can be a problem if you’re working on something that requires you to be under the car (like changing your oil), but if you’re just doing some basic maintenance or repairs, then this should not be an issue at all.
In fact, using only more jack stands can actually be safer than using one because it gives you more stability and helps prevent tipping over accidents that might happen if there is no stability.
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Where to put jack stands under a car?
You should put it under the car, and it has to be closer to each wheel. You need to ensure it is placed under the strong body of the car.
You’ll need to find a solid place to put the jack stands under your car. Generally, this will be one of three places:
The frame: The frame is the most common place to put jack stands. It’s strong and sturdy, and it’s unlikely that any part of your car will move or shift while you’re underneath it.
The axle: You might also want to put jack stands underneath your axle if you’re working on an older vehicle or if it has been sitting for some time with rust forming on its axles.
This could cause them to give out and collapse under any weight applied; thus, placing jack stands here will prevent this from happening while you’re working under your vehicle.
The wheels: Finally, if both of those options aren’t feasible, for example, if there isn’t enough room between the frame and axles, then try putting them underneath one or both wheels instead.
How to use jack stands?
Jack stands are a great way to lift your car up safely and securely. They’re usually made of metal, with a rubber coating on the bottom to prevent scratches. When you’re using them, it’s important to make sure they’re stable before you put your car on top of them.
It’s also important to remember that jack stands should never be used as permanent lifting devices: they should only be used for a few seconds at a time so that if your jack were to fail or slip out of position, you wouldn’t be left standing under your car with no way to get out from under it.
If you want to know how to use jack stands properly, here’s what you need to know:
1. Make sure that the vehicle is parked on level ground so that it doesn’t tip over when you put a jack stand under one of its axles.
2. Place a jack stand under each axle, making sure that it’s centered directly below where the axle rests on its suspension assembly (usually called a “spring” or “shock absorber”).
3. Lower each stand until its top edge is about 2 inches above ground level, then place a rubber mat between the jack stand and the floor so that it doesn’t scratch up your garage floor or driveway surface when you take off your vehicle’s tires later on down the road.
Do jack stands fail?
Jack stands are the best way to raise a car for maintenance or repair. They’re simple, reliable, and effective. But do jack stands fail?
Jack stands fail if you don’t use them correctly. For example, if you’re using them to support a vehicle that’s too heavy for them, or if you’re not using them properly, like not making sure they’re stable and level before using them, you could end up with some pretty nasty consequences.
Can you use a car jack without stands?
Yes, you can use a car jack without stands, but it is not safe. The most important thing to know when using a car jack is to always follow the instructions that come with it. This is because different models of jacks have different safety features, and you should always make sure that you’re following the instructions for your specific model.
However, if you’re using a jack that doesn’t have any safety features, there are some things to keep in mind:
First and foremost, never place anything under or around the jack while it’s being used. This includes other people, pets, objects, or anything. If something were to fall on top of your jack while it was being used, it could cause serious injury or death.
Make sure that all bystanders are at least three feet away from the area where you’ll be using your jack before proceeding further with this process.
Secondarily, make sure that there’s nothing above where your car will be parked once raised (such as tree branches or other vehicles). If something were to fall on top of your car while being raised up into position, it could cause serious damage.
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Safety tips when using a jack stand?
When you’re working on your car, you want to make sure you’re doing everything correctly. That’s why we have these safety tips for using jack stands.
1) Make sure the ground is level and solid before setting up a jack stand. If it isn’t level or solid, don’t use it until it’s fixed.
2) Never lean on a jack stand. The jack stand will only hold up so much weight, and if you lean too heavily on it, there’s no telling what will happen.
3) Never put yourself into a position where the car could fall on top of you while changing tires or performing other maintenance tasks, and always be aware of where everyone is in relation to each other and the work area.
4) Use two jack stands under each tire. If one fails, the other will still hold the vehicle up.
5) Make sure that your jack stand is in good condition before using it, and look for cracks or rust on the metal surface of the stand. If you find any, don’t use that stand!
6) Always check the weight rating of your stand before using it (usually stamped right on top). If your vehicle weighs more than what’s recommended on the side of the stand, get another stand.
Conclusion
If you are concerned about your safety with using a jack stand, then this post on is it safe to lift a car with a jack stand gives insight into all you need to know. It is safe to lift a car with a jack stand as long as you have done your research and followed the instructions carefully.
There are many things that can go wrong when you are lifting your car and putting weight on one side of the vehicle, so you need to make sure that you have done everything correctly before attempting this project. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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WOMAN'S HOME positions where the fire makes things cosy. If there is a window near a chimney corner, put a simple screen round, so that hght without draught is obtained. Remember that well-arranged light for everyone is no un- important matter, and if a couple of fresh switches for table lamps have to be added, the money will be well laid out if extra comfort is given, and fees to the oculist are saved. The wear and tear in temper from badly arranged common rooms in the house sends many a son into chambers, or daughter to her club. Put a foot muff or fur rug beneath the writing-table, unroll your stored squares of carpet or warm felt, and put them in sitting and bedrooms. Let every window, however daintily draped with diaphanous casement curtains in the summer, be furnished in the winter with a curtain ample enough to draw right over the entire window. Nothing adds to the cosiness of a room as thick draught - excluding curtains. There are many kinds of door coverings, from the Cordova I A woman's corner. Light comes over the shoulder, a screen prevents draught. Books, magazines, workbox, are all handy. Artificial light is provided for and a high fender footstool is ready for the tired housekeeper It is not for us to argue about the matter, but, simply accepting things as they are, to make a few suggestions which may alleviate the situation. It is quite easy to get in a couple of men for an hour and move the heavy pieces of furniture essential for daily requirements into a sovith room, and far less trouble than constantly surrounding oneself with screens and footwarmers. Sometimes a warm wall, or the close proximity of a well-heated room, makes the choice of the winter sitting-room easy, and the woman who thoroughly understands the art of making herself and other people comfortable will see to it that every advantage is taken of all favourable conditions. Exigencies of space, special require- . ments of the difterent members of a family, or other objections may make the removal into another room impossible, in which case the plan of campaign must be more subtle. The Spare Room Lounge chairs which have filled a natural place near the windows should during the winter be put in definite A screen for an Adams room. This is partly home made, American cloth in a pearly shade being painted with bunches and garlands of flowers. For spring, apple blossoms and daffodils ; summer, a bunch of roses ; autumn, dahlias ; winter, chrysanthemums and Christmas roses. Trophies beneath carry out the symbols of the seasons | WIKI |
5 Podcasts (and Potcasts) to Digest After the DNC
Last week, Hillary Clinton became the first woman nominated for president by a major political party. But what about other women making their mark on the fight for equality in the workplace—including the edibles market? This week, we’ve got podcasts (and potcasts!) about female entrepreneurs, from tech startups to San Francisco’s “original brownie lady.” We’ve also got shows on science, from Bill Nye on climate change to Gimlet on fracking, and a look at how polling worked in Jed Bartlett’s White House, from the minds behind The West Wing Weekly and the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast. There’s like two months until the first presidential debate; you’ll need something to tide you over. Fans of Jed Bartlett and Aaron Sorkin should listen to the whole season of The West Wing Weekly, where Hrishikesh Hirway (host of Song Exploder) and Joshua Malina (who played Will Bailey) dissect each episode of the show. But everyone should listen to this special partnership with the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast, in which Hirway and Malina come together with Nate Silver and his team to investigate how much The West Wing’s depiction of polling mirrors reality. Do Democrats actually vote early? How does the wording of a poll manipulate its results? How much do pollsters actually use data to make sexual innuendos? (Warning: There are spoilers for The West Wing in this episode, in case you’re one of those people who think the statute of limitations is more than 20 years.) Listen here. Fans of Jed Bartlett and Aaron Sorkin should listen to the whole season of The West Wing Weekly, where Hrishikesh Hirway (host of Song Exploder) and Joshua Malina (who played Will Bailey) dissect each episode of the show. But everyone should listen to this special partnership with the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast, in which Hirway and Malina come together with Nate Silver and his team to investigate how much The West Wing’s depiction of polling mirrors reality. Do Democrats actually vote early? How does the wording of a poll manipulate its results? How much do pollsters actually use data to make sexual innuendos? (Warning: There are spoilers for The West Wing in this episode, in case you’re one of those people who think the statute of limitations is more than 20 years.) Listen here. Wendy Zukerman, host of Australian podcast Science Vs, brings her show, and her inimitable delight for asking questions about science, to Gimlet. In the first episode, Zukerman tackles fracking, with enthusiasm and wonder. Should we actually worry about fracking chemicals in our drinking water? Why does it cause earthquakes? How can we figure out whether natural gas is better for the environment than coal? Plus, a prog rock song about oil. Listen here. Wendy Zukerman, host of Australian podcast Science Vs, brings her show, and her inimitable delight for asking questions about science, to Gimlet. In the first episode, Zukerman tackles fracking, with enthusiasm and wonder. Should we actually worry about fracking chemicals in our drinking water? Why does it cause earthquakes? How can we figure out whether natural gas is better for the environment than coal? Plus, a prog rock song about oil. Listen here. In this four-part series from Note to Self, two working moms come up with a tech platform to solve a problem they face daily: How can women balance work and the logistics of raising a kid? The full series is one piece StartUp, two pieces applied lessons of Lean In, but the last episode, where the women reflect on feminism’s role in the tech industry, is particularly worth a listen—as is the bonus episode about lead parenting with Princeton political scientist Andrew Moravcsik. Listen here. In this four-part series from Note to Self, two working moms come up with a tech platform to solve a problem they face daily: How can women balance work and the logistics of raising a kid? The full series is one piece StartUp, two pieces applied lessons of Lean In, but the last episode, where the women reflect on feminism’s role in the tech industry, is particularly worth a listen—as is the bonus episode about lead parenting with Princeton political scientist Andrew Moravcsik. Listen here. To launch her startup, Meridy Volz didn’t court angel investors—instead, she tossed a hexagram and consulted the I Ching, an ancient divination text. That’s what to expect from San Francisco’s “original brownie lady.” This 1960s-flower-child-turned-entrepreneur spent the 1970s baking marijuana brownies and delivering them in elaborate costumes, flouting the law. Hear from Volz and her daughter, Alia, brought back to childhood by the smell of pot cooking with chocolate—and read Volz’s original recipe here. To launch her startup, Meridy Volz didn’t court angel investors—instead, she tossed a hexagram and consulted the I Ching, an ancient divination text. That’s what to expect from San Francisco’s “original brownie lady.” This 1960s-flower-child-turned-entrepreneur spent the 1970s baking marijuana brownies and delivering them in elaborate costumes, flouting the law. Hear from Volz and her daughter, Alia, brought back to childhood by the smell of pot cooking with chocolate—and read Volz’s original recipe here. Star Talk, the chart-topping science podcast where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson answers listeners’ cosmic queries, has its first spinoff, hosted by beloved science guy Bill Nye. In the first episode, Nye talks to Gavin Schmidt, climatologist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, about climate change: which ancient organisms are brought to the surface by melting glaciers, why we shouldn’t expect any more ice ages, how molten salt can harness energy, and whether champagne may soon come from England. Star Talk, the chart-topping science podcast where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson answers listeners’ cosmic queries, has its first spinoff, hosted by beloved science guy Bill Nye. In the first episode, Nye talks to Gavin Schmidt, climatologist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, about climate change: which ancient organisms are brought to the surface by melting glaciers, why we shouldn’t expect any more ice ages, how molten salt can harness energy, and whether champagne may soon come from England. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Friendship Trophy
The Friendship Trophy is a football match, contested on an irregular basis by just two teams: Norwich City and Sunderland. The match dates back to the camaraderie forged between fans of the two clubs at the time of the 1985 Football League Cup Final that they contested. Norwich City won the 1985 Football League Cup Final, however at the end of the First Division Season, both teams were relegated to the Second Division.
"Mackem and Canary mingled and drank happily together. “The Sunderland supporters were magnificent and everyone seemed to mix, it was light-hearted and very nice,” judged Norwich manager Ken Brown after his team had lifted the trophy thanks to a Gordon Chisholm own goal. On the London Underground, Norwich fans sang “we won the cup”, while Sunderland’s retorted with: “we scored the goal”."
Nowadays, the Friendship Trophy is awarded to the team with the winning aggregate score in competitive matches over the season between the two sides. As such, Sunderland are the current holders of the trophy, having won 4–2 over the two league games in the 2017/18 EFL Championship season.
The trophy was most recently contested in March 2024, when the teams played at Carrow Road in the EFL Championship. Norwich won 1–0 in that match, though Sunderland won 3–2 on aggregate due to their 3–1 victory at the Stadium of Light in October 2023.
This trophy is only infrequently contested, as it requires both Norwich City and Sunderland to be in the same division, or to be drawn together in a cup competition, which last happened in 2009, when Sunderland beat Norwich City 4–1 in the Football League Cup. The most significant cup meeting after the 1985 final was the semi-final of the 1991–92 FA Cup at Hillsborough, which Sunderland won 1–0.
In 2013, Talksport named The Friendship Trophy one of football's most pointless awards. | WIKI |
The earliest groups of gold objects began to be produced in Ireland between 2200 and 1800 BC. Although earrings, bracelets, a gold pin, and decorated gold bands and plaques have been found the most prevalent type of jewellery at the time were Lunulae. These were flat crescent shape sheet of gold which were worn as neck ornaments. The word lunula was first used in the 18th century. It is derived from the Latin for 'little moon'.
Lunulae are regarded as the most characteristic gold object of the Irish Early Bronze Age. Of the approximately one hundred lunulae found in Western Europe over eighty of these have been found in Ireland. It is widely believed that these lunulae found outside of Ireland are exports or may have been made abroad by travelling Irish craftsmen. Instead of Ireland receiving influences from abroad the process, in this case, seems to work the other way around. These lunulae offer the first strong evidence that Ireland had a distinctively Irish cultural form.
These lunulae are made using flattened gold which is hammered to an extremely thin sheet and formed into a crescent shape. This was finished with two small discs of gold which are set at right angles to the plane of the crescent. The lunulae are often decorated with incised or punched geometric patterns which were applied with considerable skill. These designs can be compared with decoration found on pottery and spearheads found from that era. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Condylonucula
Condylonucula is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Nuculidae.
The species of this genus are found in Central America and Northwestern Africa.
Species:
* Condylonucula bicornis (Gofas & Salas, 1996)
* Condylonucula cynthiae Moore, 1977
* Condylonucula maya Moore, 1977 | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Syed Ali Akbar
The result of the debate was delete as copyvio. Gamaliel 23:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Professor Syed Ali Akbar
Bio of a professor. 'Sources' include an obituary and his own personal diary. Notability shaky at best. Delete as vanity/obituary.--InShaneee 23:18, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
* Keep - seems notable, at least in Hyderabad. Help counter the systemic bias in Wikipedia.--Ezeu 23:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
* My Residence Hall Director is pretty notable in Rock Island. He started a program to recycle old computers for environmental reasons. Everyone for 15 miles who reads a newspaper knows...do you see where I'm going here? --InShaneee 23:41, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
* Keep and cleanup mostly wikify. Notable Pakistani professor with three books to his credit. People who receive an obituary are often notable and this appears to be the case here. Capitalistroadster 23:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
* Delete. This is clearly a copyvio. I wish people would do some rudimentary research before a knee jerk keep vote, such as, oh I don't know, following the links provided by the anon editor... Gamaliel 23:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
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User:Mr. Ibrahem/Ascending cholangitis
Ascending cholangitis, also known as simply cholangitis, is a bacterial infection of the bile ducts. Symptoms may include fever, yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes, abdominal pain, itchiness, confusion, and pale stools. Generally the pain is in the right upper aspect of the abdomen. Complications can include septic shock and liver abscesses.
About 85% of cases occur due to a common bile duct stone. Other causes include strictures of the biliary ducts, pancreatic cancer, HIV/AIDS, roundworms, and tapeworms. Diagnosis is based on symptoms, lab results, and medical imaging.
Initial treatment is with intravenous fluids and antibiotics. Biliary decompression is than generally carried out via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with sphincterotomy, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, or endoscopic ultrasound guided drainage. The gallbladder may be removed at a later point in time. Severe cases have a risk of death of 50%.
Ascending cholangitis is uncommon, affected less than 200,000 people per year in the United States. People around the age of 50 to 60 are most commonly affected. It is more common in Native Americans and Hispanics and less common in African and Asian Americans. The condition was first described by Jean-Martin Charcot in 1887. The word is from Greek chol- meaning bile, ang- meaning vessel, and -itis meaning inflammation. | WIKI |
Bays (album)
Bays is the fourth studio album by the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop, released on 23 October 2015 through their own record label, the Drop. The album is named after the band's own studio, Bays, in Kilbirnie in southern Wellington. Bays charted internationally and topped the New Zealand albums chart, where it was also certified gold.
Critical reception
Anna Wilson of Renowned for Sound described the album as having a "heavier focus on genre fusion than the group's previous releases, with a few ska undertones here and there" and ultimately called it "an easy listen and well structured, retaining Fat Freddy's Drop['s] classic chilled style". Chris Familton of The Music called it a "sublime addition to the band's discography" and wrote that the group "continue as they left off on the last album, if anything hitting a stronger strain of dark dub techno infused rhythms". The New Zealand Herald felt that the album "sees the seven-piece outfit more focused and dynamic than ever", on which Fat Freddy's Drop "warm you up, and then turn your head inside out", concluding that "the more you listen, the more you'll find to love".
Jennifer Quinlin stated that the "tunes are immersive and refined, and are as much at home in the venues of Europe as they are in the beachside cafe in Wellington. This is a perfect album for lazy summer days with friends, or a road trip with the windows down." Sam Moore of Drowned in Sound remarked that if "you're already quite familiar with FFD's genre-splicing and casual beat-dropping, then you'll likely find a lot to love in Bays", opining that it "stay[s] mostly true to that dub/reggae ethos" and the group does not "mess around too much with the agreed formula". | WIKI |
How to Boot a Toshiba From a CD
By Greyson Ferguson
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When using a Toshiba computer you may find the need to boot your computer from a CD. Booting your computer from a CD allows you to avoid using the installed Windows operating system. You may need to do this to correct an issue with the current operating system or to install software onto your computer. Whatever the reason, you can boot from a CD, as long as you have either a Windows startup CD or a boot disk.
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Power on your Toshiba computer. Insert either the boot disk or the Windows startup disk into the CD drive.
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Shut down the computer just as you normally would (click "Start" followed by "Shut Down").
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Restart the computer and press "F8" over and over again. Eventually a boot screen appears on your monitor asking how you want to start up your computer.
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Select the "Boot form CD" option and press enter. The computer now launches the contents of your disk. Follow the prompts of the CD to finish the boot. If you want to abort the CD boot press the "Esc" button until you return to the boot screen, then boot from the operating system.
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Alejandro Alcalde
Graduado en Ingeniería Informática en la ETSIIT, Granada. Creador de El Baúl del Programador
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Some time ago I needed to add height and width attributes to all images on this blog. So I wrote a python script, here is the main idea:
To parse the data, I’ve used BeautifulSoup:
#!/bin/python
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from os.path import basename, splitext
from PIL import Image
import glob
# Path where the posts are, in markdown format
path = "/ruta/ficheros/*.md"
# Iterate over all posts
for fname in glob.glob(path):
# Open the post
f = open(fname)
# Create a BeautifulSoup object to parse the file
soup = BeautifulSoup(f)
f.close()
# For each img tag:
for img in soup.findAll('img'):
if img != None:
try:
if img['src'].startswith("/assets") == True:
# Open the image
pil = Image.open("/ruta/carpeta/imagenes" + img['src'])
# Get its size
width, height = pil.size
# Modify img tag with image size
img['width'] = str(width) + "px"
img['height'] = str(height) + "px"
except KeyError:
pass
# Save the updated post
with open(fname, "wb") as file:
file.write(str(soup))
Hope you find it useful, you can visit the script at github.
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Registrar of Newspapers
Office of the Registrar of the Newspapers for India (official name), more popularly known as Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), is a Government of India statutory body of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for the registration of the publications, such as newspapers and magazines, India. It was established on 1 July 1956, on the recommendation of the First Press Commission in 1953 and by amending the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867. The Office of the Registrar of Newspapers for India is headquartered in New Delhi. RNI regulates and monitors printing and publication of newspapers based on the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 and the Registration of Newspapers (Central) Rules, 1956. The registrar is designated as Press Registrar, and Dhirendra Ojha a 1990 batch senior IIS officer is the current Press Registrar and Head of Department.
The Press and Registration of Books Act contains the duties and functions of the RNI. On account of some more responsibilities entrusted upon RNI during all these years, the office is performing both statutory as well as some non-statutory functions. Online registration system was formally inaugurated in 2004 by the Information and Broadcasting Minister S. Jaipal Reddy.
Duties
Under statutory functions, RNI performs the following duties
* Compilation and maintenance of a Register of Newspapers containing particulars about all the newspapers published;
* Issue of Certificate of Registration to newspapers published under valid declaration;
* Scrutiny and analysis of annual statements sent by the publishers of newspapers every year under PRB Act containing information on circulation, ownership etc.;
* Informing district magistrates about availability of titles, to intending publishers for filing declaration;
* Ensuring that newspapers are published in accordance with the provisions of PRB Act 1867 and the rules made thereunder;
* Verification under Section 19-F of PRB Act, of circulation claims furnished by the publishers in their Annual Statements; and
* Preparation and submission to the Government on or before 31 December each year, a report containing all available information and statistics about the press in India with particular reference to the emerging trends in circulation and in the direction of common ownership units etc.
The following fall under the non-statutory functions:
* Formulation of Newsprint Allocation Policy – Guidelines and issue of Eligibility Certificate to the newspapers to enable them to import newsprint and to procure indigenous newsprint;
* Assessing and certifying the essential need and requirement of newspaper establishments to import printing and composing machinery and allied materials.
Registration
Registrar maintains the legal procedures for registering a newspaper, which can be summarised as:
* 1) As a first stage, the applicant applies for title verification of the publication to the jurisdictional District Magistrate. The District Magistrate will get the title verified from RNI.
* 2) After receiving the title verification letter from RNI, the applicant needs to file a declaration for authentication before District Magistrate.
* 3) After authentication, the newspaper must be published within 6 weeks if it is published once a week or oftener than that. In case of any other periodicity, the first issue should be published within 3 months from the date of authentication.
* 4) After the first issue is published, the applicant needs to file an application for RNI registration, enclosing the following documents
* 5) Title verification letter
* 6) Authenticated declaration
* 7) An affidavit for no foreign tie-up
* 8) First issue and latest issue of the publication
* 9) Content intimation/ confirmation in the prescribed form
* 10) Certificate intimating appointment of the printer
Registration of Publication
* All publications of India as well as publication imported in India for sales require the mandatory registration with RNI. They are also required to submit their annual report on circulation numbers.
* As of 31 March 2024, there are 17,573newspapers and 1,00,666 periodicals are registered with RNI. | WIKI |
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Stockholm, 19 October 1813 – Clapham, London, 18 January 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has assured him a position in the history of behavioural science and psychiatry.
Biography
According to his naturalisation papers, Rejlander was born in Stockholm on 19 October 1813. He was the son of Carl Gustaf Rejlander, a stonemason and Swedish Army Officer. During his youth, his family moved to the Swedish-speaking community in Rauma, Grand Duchy of Finland (then part of Russia). In the 1830s, he relocated to England, initially settling in Lincoln, England. In the 1850s he abandoned his original profession as a painter and portrait miniaturist, apparently after seeing how well a photograph captured the fold of a sleeve.
He set up as a portraitist in the industrial Midlands town of Wolverhampton, probably around 1846. In the early 1850s he learned the wet-collodion and waxed-paper processes at great speed with Nicholas Henneman in London, and then changed his business to that of a photography studio. He undertook genre work and portraiture. Rejlander also produced nude studies, mainly for use as studies by painters, and later revealed that his early work was made with the aid of a local troupe of theatrical performers.
Rejlander undertook many experiments to perfect his photography, including combination printing, which he did not invent; however, he created more elaborate and convincing composite photographs than any prior photographer. He had articles feature in the Wolverhampton Chronicle newspaper, on 15 November 1854 an article called "Improvement in Calotypes, by Mr. O.G. Rejlander, of Wolverhampton" it suggests that by 1854 he was experimenting with combination printing from several negatives. He was a friend of photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll), who collected Rejlander's work and corresponded with him on technical matters. Rejlander later created one of the best known and most revealing portraits of Dodgson. Like Dodgson, Rejlander's work included many pictures of "undraped" children:
* "The remarks of his contemporaries bear witness to both his attainments and to the influence which he exercised. Some of his critics were exuberant. Thus one speaks of his undraped children as being as 'beautiful as those of Della Robbia, Flamingo, and Raphael.' Mr. H. Robinson, the immediate successor to Rejlander, who was also for many years a rival in seeking public applause for genre photography, calls the foregoing 'wonderful pictures of nude children.'"
Rejlander participated in the Paris Exhibition of 1855. In 1856 he made his best-known allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images (akin to the use of Photoshop today, but then far more difficult to achieve) in about six weeks. First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows a man being lured to paths of vice or virtue by good and bad angels. The image's partial nudity, which showed real women as they actually appeared and not the idealised forms then common in Victorian art, was deemed 'indecent' by some. Rejlander was also accused of using prostitutes as models, although Rejlander categorically denied this and no proof was ever offered. Reservations about the work subsided when Queen Victoria ordered a 10-guinea copy to give to Prince Albert. Victoria and Albert would go on to purchase three copies of the work, all of which are now lost.
Despite this royal patronage, controversy about The Two Ways of Life in Scotland in 1858 led to a secession of a large group from the Photographic Society of Scotland, the secessionists founding the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1861. They objected to the picture being shown with one half of it concealed by drapes. The picture was also shown at the Birmingham Photographic Society with no such furor or censorship. However the Photographic Society of Scotland later made amends and invited Rejlander to a grand dinner in his honour in 1866, held to open an exhibition that included many of his pictures.
Rejlander moved his studio to Malden Road, London around 1862 and largely abandoned his early experiments with double exposure, photomontage, photographic manipulation and retouching. Instead, he became one of Britain's leading portraitists, creating pictures with psychological charge. He became a leading expert in photographic techniques, lecturing and publishing widely, and sold work through bookshops and art dealers. He also found subject-matter in London, photographing homeless London street children to produce popular 'social-protest' pictures such as "Poor Joe," also known as "Homeless".
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson visited Rejlander's Malden Road studio in 1863. Carroll was in the process of relocating his studio and sought Rejlander's advice regarding its design. Around 1863 Rejlander visited the Isle of Wight at the request of Julia Margaret Cameron and helped teach her photography.
Some of Rejlander's images were purchased as drawing-aids by Victorian painters of repute, such as Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In 1871 he contributed photographs to Darwin's classic treatise on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
Personal life
Rejlander married Mary Bull in 1862, who was twenty-four years his junior. Mary had been his photographic model in Wolverhampton.
Rejlander became seriously ill from about 1874. He died in 1875 with several claims on his estate, and costly funeral expenses. The Edinburgh Photographic Society raised money for his widow on Rejlander's death, and helped set up the Rejlander Memorial Fund. His grave is in Kensal Green Cemetery, and a new stone was placed there in 2012.
Collections
Rejlander's work is held in the permanent collections of many institutions worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Clark Art Institute, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Media Museum, Bradford, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. | WIKI |
Beyond Appearances
Beyond Appearances is the fourteenth studio album by Santana, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).
The album took seven months to make, and involved a mostly different line-up from the previous one, Shangó (released in 1982): apart from Carlos Santana, singer Alex Ligertwood and percussionists Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow and Orestes Vilató were still with the band. This was singer Greg Walker's first album with Santana since Inner Secrets - he had left in 1979, and returned in 1983. As a result, the band had two vocalists at the time. It also was bassist Alphonso Johnson's first of two albums with the group, having joined in 1984; and the only one to feature Chester C. Thompson on drums and David Sancious on keyboards. It also was the first with Chester D. Thompson on keyboards; he would remain with the band until the 2000s.
Musically, it was firmly in the style of the 1980s, making much use of synthesizers and drum machines.
Beyond Appearances performed relatively poorly, reaching only fifty on the Billboard album chart; one of its tracks, "Say It Again", reached number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (though it performed better on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number fifteen).
Original vinyl release side one
* 1) "Breaking Out" (Alphonso Johnson, Alex Ligertwood) – 4:30
* 2) "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
* 3) "How Long" (Robbie Patton) – 4:00
* 4) "Brotherhood" (David Sancious, Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 2:26
* 5) "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Raul Rekow) – 5:04
Original vinyl release side two
* 1) "Say It Again" (Val Garay, Steve Goldstein, Anthony La Peau) – 3:27
* 2) "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Orestes Vilato) – 4:06
* 3) "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:17
* 4) "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08
* 5) "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58
CD release
* 1) "Breaking Out" (Johnson, Ligertwood) – 4:30
* 2) "Written in Sand" (Mitchell Froom, Jerry Stahl) – 3:49
* 3) "Brotherhood" (Sancious, Santana, Thompson) – 2:26
* 4) "Spirit" (Johnson, Ligertwood, Rekow) – 5:04
* 5) "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 5:58
* 6) "Who Loves You" (Santana, Thompson, Vilato) – 4:06
* 7) "I'm the One Who Loves You" (Mayfield) – 3:17
* 8) "Say It Again" (Garay, Goldstein, La Peau) – 3:27
* 9) "Two Points of View" (Ligertwood, Santana) – 4:54
* 10) "How Long" (Patton) – 4:00
* 11) "Touchdown Raiders" (Santana) – 3:08
Personnel
* Carlos Santana – guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, vocals
* Alphonso Johnson – bass
* Chester D. Thompson – synthesizer, bass, keyboards, organ
* David Sancious – rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar
* Chester Cortez Thompson – drums, bass pedals
* Greg Walker – lead and background vocals
* Alex Ligertwood - rhythm guitar, lead and background vocals, harmony
* Bryan Garofalo - bass
* Steve Goldstein - synthesizer, Fairlight CMI, keyboards
* Craig Krampf - drums, DMX drum machine
* Armando Peraza - bongos, percussion, shakers, congas
* Orestes Vilato - bells, timbales, percussion, cymbals, woodblocks, vocals
* Mitchell Froom - string synthesizer
* Raul Rekow - chekere, congas, shakers, vocals
* David Adelstein - synthesizer, DMX drum machine, synthesizer bass
* John Woodhead - guitar
* Anthony LaPeau - background vocals
* Craig Hull - guitar
* F. Bob Getter - string bass
Credits
* "How Long" arrangement: Robbie Patton, David Adelstein
* "Say It Again" associate producer: Steve Goldstein
* Mitchell Froom appears courtesy of Slash Records
* Recorded by Val Garay & Richard Bosworth at Record One, Los Angeles
* Assisted by Duane Seykora
* Mixed by Val Garay at Record One
* Additional recording: Plant Studios, Sausalito
* Assistant engineer: Wayne Lewis, Glen Holguin
* "Right Now" mixed by Jim Gaines
* All information gathered from back cover of vinyl release. | WIKI |
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http://ubuntuforums.org – I'm using a seagate ST32000542AS drive connected to the ICH7 controller of my d945gclf2 motherboard. When accessing the disk i'm getting errors and the drive speed is way to slow. I tried to disable NCQ, but that seems not to solve the problem. the drive is formatted as ext 4 and mounted from fstab Code: /dev/sdb1 /sg ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 dmesg error: Code: [ 1915.354201] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:88:b7:a7:34/00:00:92:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 69632 in [ 1915.354204] res 51/84:58:e7:a7:34/84:00:92:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus err (Hardware) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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nisons, but you needn't carry it so far. The fact is, boys," he continued, sitting down in his arm-chair with some difficulty—"the fact is Loreta an' I have come to the conclusion that our Mr. Winthrop Jennison's grown to be a pretty shady and suspicious sort of character. His life an' his business seem to be matters that honest folks needn't inquire into too closely. There, Loreta!"
"Now, Obed!" retorted Mrs. Probasco, in great annoyance, "you oughtn't to say that! You don't know, for certain, any more than I do."
"May be I don't know so much. May be I know more—more even than I've let on, my dear! For one thing, I haven't ever yet given you the particulars of what Clagg told me that last afternoon I went over to pay the rent an' learn if Mr. Jennison 'd come from Boston."
"Mr. Clagg? What did Mr. Clagg say, Obed?" asked the wife, her work and the boys forgotten in her sudden anxiety. Evidently the mysterious Mr. Jennison was a standing topic of debate between the pair. "How could you keep so still about it?"
"Well, I'll let you hear now," Obed replied, | WIKI |
Talk:William Hamilton (diplomat)
Birth date
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10978.htm
http://worldroots.com/foundation/britain/williamdouglasdesc1634.htm
and The Illustrated Almanac of Science, Technology and Invention by Raymond L Francis (Plenum Press, 1997) give the birth date of Sir William Hamilton as 13 December. | WIKI |
How to prevent cascading of delete with hibernate?
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by elnora , in category: Java , a year ago
How to prevent cascading of delete with hibernate?
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To prevent cascading delete in Hibernate, you can follow these steps:
1. Remove the cascade delete annotation or attribute from the parent-child relationship mapping. By default, Hibernate's @ManyToOne, @OneToOne, and @OneToMany annotations have CascadeType.ALL or CascadeType.REMOVE set, which causes cascading deletes.
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// Parent entity class
@Entity
public class Parent {
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "parent", cascade = CascadeType.ALL) // Remove cascade delete
private Set<Child> children;
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}
// Child entity class
@Entity
public class Child {
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "parent_id")
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}
1. Manually delete the child entities before deleting the parent entity. This way, you have full control over the deletion process and can handle any necessary validations or operations before deleting.
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for (Child child : parent.getChildren()) {
entityManager.remove(child);
}
entityManager.remove(parent);
By removing the cascade delete annotation and manually deleting child entities, you can prevent the cascading deletion behavior in Hibernate. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Jokes aside, this is an interesting discovery. Traces of opium were discovered in pottery in Israel estimated to be around 3,500 years old. The pottery appears to have been used in burial rituals although the specific use is not entirely clear. What is opium? Opium is a chemical found in opium poppies that can be processed to produce drugs such as morphine, heroine, codeine, and hydrocodone. Yes, that’s right, opium is the base for all drugs classified as opiates (hence the name "opiate" is close to the word "opium"). Opium in its raw form was used both medically and recreationally well before the production of the previous drugs mentioned. There is some evidence that opium was used in ancient times as an intoxicant and anesthetic, well, for obvious reasons. It was also used to help manage cough, dysentery, and diarrhea. It was widely used until the early 1900s when safety and side effects of most things were impacted during the emergence of entities like the Food and Drug Administration became more common worldwide. Opium and its derivatives are now considered controlled substances and legally cannot be used without a prescription in the United States. Circling back to the post, what’s the significance of finding traces of opium in them? It paves the way for some theories that have yet to be proven. For example, it has been thought that opium might have been used by priests to reach “a higher state of spirituality”. According to texts, that was true for Sumerian priests and even for Egyptians, who used opium for warriors and priests for both its psychoactive effect and its medicinal qualities for pain management. One of the theories concerning the pots that would explain why they had traces of opium is that they would be used in ritualistic graves for ceremonial meals and/or used for traditional rituals performed by people for their dead relatives. It would make sense that someone seeking to communicate with the dead would use opium in an attempt to call the spirit of someone who has passed. It would make even more sense that with the help of opium the user would be able to “see” the spirit they were attempting to call while under the influence. Because the opium- pots were found at a burial site, archeologists have been provided with some insight to some of the assumptions and theories concerning burial rituals that are based on text and tradition. In short, this discovery has given some additional proof and validity to things that were believed to be true without any “hard evidence”. It’s like treating a wart the “wives’ tale” way with a potato and burying it in the yard only to find that potatoes do in fact produce a chemical that helps resolve warts and that there is no need to bury the potato in the yard to remove the blemish. It works, you know it works, but you don’t necessarily know which steps of the process “actually work”. Cool, right? | FINEWEB-EDU |
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104 in a body, preceded by their kawasses, carrying their swords and tall silver-headed sticks, going toward the Governor's castle, which was in sight. My brother ran up for a moment to tell me that Tîreh and the villages in its neighborhood had united to attack Hâifa, and three or four hundred of the peasantry were just outside the walls, attempting to effect an entrance. We were actually in a state of siege. The two gates were closed and guarded, and wherever its walls were very weak, detachments of impromptu volunteers were placed. I sat alone watching, and wondering what would happen. Men were parading the streets, making a great noise, and armed with old guns, staves, and swords of all shapes. The boys followed their example by marching about with sticks, shouting lustily, seemingly half for fun and half for fear. I could hear the firing of guns now and then from the back of the town, and the loud screams of the terrified women and children.
Girls from the neighboring houses and the court below flocked into my room, with their mothers, crying and trembling. They wondered why Madam Inglesi, as they called me, did not show any signs of fear. I tried to calm them, saying, "Be at rest, Allah is good." But they almost nonplused me by replying, "Allah is good! Praised be Allah! But the sons of Tîreh are bad!" And they refused to be comforted.
A group of heavily-armed, mounted horsemen were prancing about, as if to excite all the people to action. The consuls returned from the castle, where a council had been held. They had drawn up a protest against the Government, and signed it. I was told that four of the most venturesome of the attacking party had been shot under the south wall, and some of our townspeople had been slightly wounded. The Tîrehites had retreated; but as it was expected that they would renew the attack at night, preparations were made to resist it; for the walls of Hâifa are not very strong, and could easily be scaled or broken down. | WIKI |
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (politician)
Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (24 August 1849 – 18 January 1902) was an American-born British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1902.
Early life
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Ellis Bartlett of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Sophia Ashmead of Philadelphia. He was the elder brother of William Burdett-Coutts, and, through their father, they claimed to be descended from Richard Warren, one of the passengers on the Mayflower.
Shortly after the death of his father in 1852 his mother moved the family to England, where he went to school at Torquay, before entering Christ Church, Oxford in 1867 (after a short time at St Mary Hall, Oxford). He graduated with first class honours in Law and History in 1871, and was called to the bar in 1877. While at Christ Church he was a keen athlete and won the silver medal at the 1870 AAC Championships.
He was for a while one of HM's Inspectors of Schools.
Politics
Ashmead-Bartlett was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eye, Suffolk, in the 1880 general election. In 1882 his caricature by "Spy" was published in the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair (21 October 1882) under the title "The Patriotic League". The Eye constituency was redefined under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, and in the general election of 1885 he ran for, and won, Sheffield Ecclesall constituency, which he held until his death in 1902. He served as Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the governments of Lord Salisbury from 1885 to February 1886 and August 1886 to 1892. He was knighted in the 1892 Dissolution Honours.
During the 1890s Ashmead-Bartlett championed the cause of Swaziland against the administration of the South African Republic. In late 1899, during the Second Anglo-Boer War, he travelled to South Africa to lobby the British Commander, Lord Roberts, for a position. In March Lord Roberts sent him to Swaziland to meet the Queen Regent. During this meeting the Queen Regent requested British protection for Swaziland. It is unclear if he initiated this request.
Personal life
In 1874 he married Frances Christina Walsh. His eldest son by this marriage, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, was a war correspondent who became famous for his reporting of the Battle of Gallipoli. | WIKI |
Forty years ago Monday, Greenwich residents joined the millions of Americans tuning in to watch an epochal moment unfold live on television: The first landing of a human being on the moon. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong descended a ladder to the moon's surface with Buzz Aldrin and, after leaving the first human footprints in history in the lunar dust, uttered those famous words: "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." While many in town saw the iconic event on their TV screens, a lucky few who call Greenwich home today say they had the privilege of being on the front lines during the Apollo mission -- as journalists, NASA engineers and scientists. Today they, too, are recalling the exhilaration of witnessing two American astronauts become the first to touch down on the moon's Sea of Tranquility, marking the culmination of America's space race with the Soviet Union. "You know the way Boston feels when they win the pennant against the Yankees in the World Series? That's how everybody felt that day," said former First Selectman Jim Lash, adding: "It was a great moment for the country." For Lash, 65, it also was the culmination of years of work on the NASA space program, first as an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, later, as an engineer at Boeing's labs in New Orleans. A steady orbit At MIT in the mid-1960s, Lash helped develop the computer guidance system that would later allow the cone-shaped Apollo command module to maintain a steady orbit around the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the surface for 2 1\/2 hours. In the late '60s, Lash also headed the Boeing team of engineers that developed a monitoring system for the Apollo's "first-stage booster" -- the large rocket at the bottom of the stack that generated the initial thrust to get the massive spacecraft off the ground during lift-off from Earth. This monitoring system allowed NASA scientists to track the conditions and performance of the booster during flight through a radio transmission device that beamed data from temperature, pressure and fuel-flow sensors mounted on the rocket's body to the aerospace command centers on Earth. Working with NASA also gave Lash the rare chance to rub elbows with a number of famous astronauts, he said. "I have some really cool pictures of me with (former astronauts) John Glenn and Alan Shepard," said Lash, adding that astronauts were more actively involved in the design and testing of the space equipment back then, and thus were more accessible to engineers like him. Today Lash, who served as first selectman from 2003-07, looks back fondly on his time with the space program. "We were doing some very interesting, very challenging things. It was a lot of fun," said Lash, who went on to work as assistant dean at Tulane University's business school before entering the venture capital business. Dawn of computers Richard Bergstresser, 75, who held the town's chief elected office from 2001-03, worked on an IBM technical support team during the 1960s that helped NASA scientists, among other clients, run a new computer system that could perform multiple calculations at once, and prioritize various calculation tasks. It was this system that NASA used as part of its preparation for the Apollo 11 launch on July 16, 1969. While viewed as "state-of-the-art" during the 1960s, these computer system were archaic by today's standards, said Bergstresser, who began working with IBM at a time when most computers filled large, air-conditioned rooms, and had far less memory than even the low-end PC's today. "Things were very primitive then," Bergstresser said. Still, computer technology would not have advanced as quickly as it did in the ensuing decades were it not for the billions of dollars that the federal government poured into improvements as part of the space program, he noted. "The space program probably jump-started the computer industry today by five or 10 years," added Lash. It also helped spur improvements in medical technologies, such as heart-rate and blood-pressure monitors, which were specially adapted during the 1960s to monitor the health of astronauts in space, Lash said. Many of the metal alloys, plastics and other materials developed during the Apollo program would later show up in an array of consumer goods, from telephones to cars, Bergstresser also noted. While others were involved as scientists, Greenwich resident Emerson Stone experienced the moon landing as a newsman. As CBS vice president in charge of radio news, Stone, now 81, was tasked with orchestrating the network's radio coverage of the moon mission -- from the launch, to the lunar landing, to the flight home. For Stone, the assignment came with an enormous sense of responsibility, he said, knowing that his coverage would define how many listeners would remember one of the most significant events in the country's history. As the lead radio producer for CBS, Stone also had to carry out the delicate task of ensuring that each member of his news team, from reporters to editors to producers, to his stable of on-call expert commentators, would all be in the right place at the right time during the 28-hour block that the network had set aside for radio coverage. "We spent months, just planning the nuts and bolts aspects -- 'Where was Tony going to be on such-and-such a day?' " 'If Smith couldn't go to this or that, would Jones be able to step in for him?'" Beyond the pressure of pulling off such a monumental assignment, there also was a genuine concern in the newsroom about the safety of the astronauts if the mission went awry, he said. To complete the flight successfully, the Apollo crew would have to travel a half-million miles, round-trip, and achieve a precise landing on the moon on its first attempt, as there was not enough fuel to make a second pass. If the first landing attempt failed, the astronauts risked being stranded on the moon with no way of returning to Earth, Stone said. "We were all on tender-hooks," he said. "They had one shot to land, and if the legs broke off (of the landing craft), or something else went wrong, there was no coming back. It could've been awful." The gravity of the astronauts' situation also put his own work as a journalist into perspective: "If something went wrong for us, sure, (the news coverage) might not look as good, but at least you wouldn't have somebody die." For Stone, one of the most memorable moments was witnessing the awesome power of the Apollo craft's rockets during take-off, seen from the safety of a radio broadcast trailer set up about a quarter-mile away from the launch site at Cape Canaveral, Fla. "During the take-off you almost felt as though you were on the flight," Stone remembered. "When the thing went up, you first got this great belch of flame and fire, and you could watch it through the window going up, up, 250 feet, 300 feet. Then suddenly, it felt like a giant hand had taken hold of our trailer and was shaking it as the shock waves came. " After that, you could only see (the space craft) on TV." | FINEWEB-EDU |
I deal with people in all stages of cold and flu symptoms -- from the first aches and pains to full-blown fever and congestion. Here are a few tips I give all of my patients and customers during the cold and flu season to help both prevent and treat the cold and flu naturally.
First off, make sure you're doing everything you can to boost your immune system to prevent illness. In addition to staying hydrated, eating a healthy diet that incorporates a variety of foods and getting good rest, I advise people to take daily vitamins and minerals to keep their body in top working condition. By giving your body that nutritional support, you're much better equipped to fight off seasonal sickness.
Want to nip symptoms in the bud? Have some favorite products on hand at home, so when the first signs of a cold or flu appear you have them readily available. Researching what works best for you and your family in advance will also create a sense of empowerment. Here are a few natural products that have worked time and again for many people:
Oscillococcinum, a homeopathic remedy, has been clinically proven to reduce the duration of the flu when taken at the first sign of symptoms; herbal tinctures that include immune-boosters; cold and sinus blasters; zinc lozenges for a sore and irritated throat; and an elderberry syrup at the first sign of a cough.
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Depressed Addicted Women — Issues in Treatment and Recovery
Depressed addicted women are quite common. Women tend to be vulnerable to a substance-induced depression, for example. Women are also likely to have had a pre-existing depression before their substance use started. If women with both conditions do not resolve their depression, there is a higher risk for relapse in early sobriety. It is likely in that case that women will use substances in order to self-medicate the depressive symptoms.
The Problem Is a Two-Way Street
Co-existing depression and addiction is a two-way street. That is, depression threatens sobriety and continuing to use substances is likely to cause depression. The two conditions support and reinforce each other, each making the symptoms of the other worse. Addiction recovery is more than abstinence. It requires that one acquire healthier coping strategies and routines in daily life. With still active depression, however, one is apt to lack the energy and motivation to make necessary changes in early sobriety.
Women, Depression and Anger
Women in our culture tend to be prone to depression rather than to anger problems, although anger is frequently a significant element in depression. Men, on the other hand, are often socialized to more freely express anger, but not other emotions such as sadness and grief. Consequently, there can be significant differences in the ‘depressive styles’ among all people, but particularly between Men. Women are apt to have more worry and rumination, or repetitive and negative thinking, in their depressive symptoms, and this may be a result of socialization as well. Researchers have documented that many women do not feel as free to express negative thoughts and emotions as many men do. However, the symptoms and dynamics of depression for everyone are rather universal.
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Firewall is a network safety system that screens and controls the incoming and outgoing community traffic based mostly on predetermined safety rules. A laptop virus is a malware program that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (probably modified) into other laptop programs, knowledge information, or the boot sector of the exhausting drive. Buffer overflows occur when an excessive amount of data is sent to a computer it could actually’t deal with, and it causes a shutdown. Through the course of utilizing the Internet and your pc, you might have are available to contact with laptop viruses. Then after they call, and in case you comply with letting them take over your computer to fix the problems, they actually metal all of your checking account passwords and more.
A virus is usually dangerous and may corrupt information, overwrite information, or burn up system assets, and slow it down in the course of. In this methodology we are going to discussing some ways, utilizing them you can also make your pc virus free and also your computer will run sooner and carry out higher. A hardware firewall will not decelerate your computer or cause problems along with your software program firewall put in in your pc. As the macro language has change into increasingly powerful the threat of most of these pc viruses has graduated to extra vital kinds of pc viruses.
Running anti-spyware software has become a widely known factor of pc safety practices for computer systems, particularly these operating Microsoft Windows. Usually, you simply want to install a system utility program, and let it run within the background to routinely preserve your pc running fast, stable, and secure while you’re utilizing your pc for other duties like net searching.
However, opposite to what Weinstock suggests, moral judgments usually are not absent from computer virus paranoia. Conficker rapidly spread to quite a few vital laptop networks, including these of the English, French, and German armed forces, causing $9 billion in damages. The trouble with virus protection is that the jaggoffs creating the viruses will all the time be at the least one step ahead of these charged with creating fixes and protection software to combat them. I started to panic and will really feel a really costly computer mending approaching. Oh great, I thought, no pc for weeks.
Samething with MalwareBytes, scanned, removed, restarted comp and was not capable of finding the virus anymore, but the virus nonetheless pops up and was MalwareBytes was not capable of detect it anymore. SpyHunter is a powerful, actual-time anti-spyware application certified by West Coast Labs’ Checkmark Certification System and designed to assist the typical computer person in protecting their PC from malicious threats. McAfee and all the opposite anti-virus companies are still stumped as to the right way to discover and remove the virus. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Platinum based cancer drugs and next generation therapeutics
Platinum based cancer drugs
Despite nearly 50% of all anti-cancer treatments being platinum-based, there is an urgent need to develop novel therapeutics beyond those currently in use.1 The first platinum-based anti-cancer chemotherapeutic, cisplatin, was granted clinical approval in 1978. Only two further platinum drugs have gained full global approval namely carboplatin and oxaliplatin.2 Although hugely successful, the widespread application and efficacy of platinum drugs are hindered by their toxic side effects, their limited activity against many human cancers and their susceptibility to acquired drug resistance.3 As a consequence, many investigations have been conducted into trying to develop novel chemotherapeutics that would (i) have a mechanism of action different to classical platinum drugs and thus potentially overcome resistance issues by changing the metal centre and/or (ii) selectively target cancerous cells and thus have a more favourable toxicity profile as compared to platinum(II) drugs.
Keeping this in mind, our Group’s main research focus is the development of a new class of drugs - rationally designed to overcome the above mentioned shortcomings of classical platinum drugs. Herein, two such examples of our research are presented.
Next generation cancer therapies
Firstly, we took into consideration immunosuppressed patients undergoing chemotherapy. There are several bacterial strains that are clinically significant in the context of cancer and cause healthcare-associated infections in the immunocompromised including central venous or peripheral line infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Acknowledging this, we have successfully developed a dual-functioning anti-bacterial and anti-cancer ruthenium(II)-arene complex incorporating a derivative of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin.4 This novel ruthenium complex showed potent cytotoxicity towards a range of human cancer cells (both cisplatin and oxaliplatin resistant and p53 knockout) and is as potent as the clinically approved cisplatin. To get some further insight into its mechanism of action, cell cycle analysis and induction of apoptosis were carried out. These studies indicate that this cytotoxic agent begins to induce apoptosis after 24 h of drug exposure, but most importantly that this may not be the only cell death process occurring. To examine its toxicity in healthy cell lines, a simple in vivo Galleria mellonella larvae model was utilised. The complex was well tolerated across the concentration range tested. The anti-bacterial activity of the ligand - derivative of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (a building block of this novel agent) and the cytotoxic agent was also evaluated in nine different bacterial strains. While the ligand alone showed excellent anti-bacterial activity across all nine strains, the complex only showed moderate activity on a selected strain of Escherichia coli and its clinical isolate and on a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Despite the novel ruthenium complex being highly cytotoxic, we concluded that the difference between the concentrations that show anti-cancer and anti-microbial activity was too great to warrant further investigations given the likelihood of a build up of resistance.
Following on this, we decided to change the metal centre from ruthenium to copper as there are numerous examples of copper complexes possessing anti-microbial activity.5 Copper complexes have also been developed as anti-cancer agents with two copper(II) complexes of the Casiopeínas® family in clinical trials. In addition, copper-phenantroline derivatives have received much attention due to their ability to intercalate DNA as well as their ability to act as chemical nuclease agents.6 We thus sought to combine into one drug molecule the anti-microbial and anti-cancer properties of the previously mentioned derivative if the antibiotic ciprofloxacin with the anti-cancer properties of the copper-phenantroline framework. We successfully developed a library of novel dual-targeting copper-N,N-CipA complexes in which N,N is 1,10-phenantroline or a designer ligand, DPQ or DPPZ.7All complexes possessed potent anti-cancer activity towards two human cancer cells (MCF-7 and DU145) and are as potent as the clinically approved doxorubicin. In a similar manner as for our previously reported ruthenium work, we also wanted to determine the toxicity of these chemotypes towards healthy cells. The same simple in vivo model was utilised. The least toxic complex was found to be the DPQ analogue. To understand the mechanism of action of these novel complexes, DNA binding properties and interactions with nucleic acids were explored. These studies suggested that all tested complexes could be considered as DNA intercalators. All complexes were also found to exhibit excellent nuclease activity. The mechanism of action of quinolones is not yet fully understood. It is envisaged that the quinolones bind to DNA, inhibiting bacterial topoisomerases thus preventing the bacteria from replicating.8 Keeping this in mind, inhibition of topoisomerase I was carried out and of the series the DPPZ analogue showed highest topoisomerase I inhibitory activity.
Drugs targeting novel molecular targets
Secondly, in recent years, many investigations into new molecular targets which may present unique opportunities for therapeutic exploitation have been carried out. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes have been identified as novel cancer targets, the inhibition of which suppresses tumour cell proliferation.9 One such example is the clinically approved HDAC inhibitor, suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), which not only possesses potent anti-cancer activity but also demonstrates selectivity towards tumour cells over normal cells.10 SAHA is well tolerated by patients at doses which induce a potent anti-cancer effect. We have successfully derivatised SAHA to facilitate it’s binding to platinum core and we managed to develop a library of platinum(IV)–HDAC inhibitor prodrugs, which feature a cisplatin core and two modified SAHA ligands. We are currently working on increasing the solubility of these novel complexes and examining their mechanism of action.
Summary
In conclusion, we have developed a series of novel metal complexes as potential anti-cancer agents. This is just a small portion of the work we are trying to carry out in our Group to overcome the drawbacks associated with the current anti-cancer drugs in clinical use. Of all the complexes developed, we have already selected our lead candidates that have great potential to enter clinical trials at a later stage in the drug process development and currently warrant further investigations.
References
1 Galanski, M., Jakupec, M. A. and Keppler, B. K. (2005) ‘Update of the Preclinical Situation of Anticancer Platinum Complexes: Novel Design Strategies and Innovative Analytical Approaches’, Current Medicinal Chemistry, 12(18), pp. 2075-2094.
2 Kelland, L. (2007) ‘The resurgence of platinum-based cancer chemotherapy’, Nature Reviews Cancer, 7, pp. 573-584.
3 Wheate, N. J., Walker, S., Craig, G. E. and Oun, R. (2010) ‘The status of platinum anticancer drugs in the clinic and in clinical trials’, Dalton Transactions, 39, pp. 8113-8127.
4 Ude, Z., Romero-Canelón, I., Twamley, B., Fitzgerald Hughes, D., Sadler, P. J. andMarmion, C. J. (2016) ‘A novel dual-functioning ruthenium(II)–arene complex of an anti-microbial ciprofloxacin derivative — Anti-proliferative and anti-microbial activity’, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 160, pp. 210-217.
5 Hanahan, D. and Weinberg, R. A. (2000) ‘The Hallmarks of Cancer’, Cell, 100(1), pp. 57-70.
6 Rivero-Muller, A., De Vizcaya-Ruiz, A., Plant, N. Ruiz, L., and Dobrota, M. (2007), ‘Mixed chelate copper complex, Casiopeina IIgly®, binds and degrades nucleic acids: A mechanism of cytotoxicity’, Chemico-Biological Interactions,165(3), pp. 189-199.
7 Ude, Z., Kavanagh, K., Twamley, B., Pour, M., Gathergood, N., Kellett, A. and Marmion, C. J. (2019) ‘A new class of prophylactic metallo-antibiotic possessing potent anti-cancer and anti-microbial properties’, Dalton Transactions, 48, pp. 8578-8593.
8 Boulikas, T. (2009) ‘Clinical overview on Lipoplatin: a successful liposomal formulation of cisplatin’,Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs,18(8), pp. 1197-1218.
9 Mottet, D. and Castronovo, V. (2008) ‘[Histone deacetylases: a new class of efficient anti-tumor drugs]’, Medical Sciences, 24, pp. 742-746.
10 Griffith, D., Morgan, M. P. and Marmion, C. J. (2009) ‘A novel anti-cancer bifunctional platinum drug candidate with dual DNA binding and histone deacetylase inhibitory activity’, Chemical Communications, pp. 6735-6737.
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Your Privacy We use cookies to improve your experience on our site and to show you relevant advertising.To find out more, read our updatedprivacy policy. OK More information Skip to main content This job is no longer available Search jobs Salary: £56,245 - £76,697pa plus benefits package Fixed-term for 3 years An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an energetic, enthusiastic and skilled Programme Manager to support the set up and establishment of the Tree of Life Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The Tree of Life Programme is a leading part of a global, collaborative initiative which aims to sequence the genomes of all species of life on Earth in the next 10-20 years. The role will be based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute on the Wellcome Genome Campus. You will be skilled at developing and implementing project plans as well as coordinating project teams to support and deliver the needs of the Programme. 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DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar has airlifted 24 armored vehicles to Mali, in a move it said would help the countries of the African Sahel region combat terrorism. Qatar has increased efforts to show it is a force for good in international security since its Gulf Arab neighbors imposed a diplomatic and economic boycott on it in June 2017, accusing it of supporting terrorism. Qatari military planes delivered the vehicles, its foreign ministry said, adding the shipment would help “combat terrorism and establish security not only in the Republic of Mali but also in the African Sahel countries known as the G5.” The G5 of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania last year created a military taskforce to root out jihadist violence. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have agreed to provide about $150 million to the G5 Sahel force. Reporting by Eric Knecht, Writing by Nafisa Eltahir, Editing by Robin Pomeroy | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Wayne Brown (New Zealand politician)
Infobox
Infobox. A full infobox would be useful (as other Auckland Mayor candidates have). With date of birth, current offices etc. This should be able to be obtained from public records (from his previous offices) and news sources.
This source says 1946 rather than 1945 []
Possibly companies would be relevant? His public directorships can be obtained here: [] TransControl (talk) 22:36, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
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* Wayne Brown 2022 Auckland Mayoral Race election photo.jpg
* I've found a freely-licensed photo of him. Not very good, though. See his Commons category. Schwede 66 03:56, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
Move
I suggest following his mayoral win this should be moved to 'Wayne Brown (politician)) --TransControl (talk) 02:47, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
* Moved. Schwede 66 05:13, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
Full legal name Wayne Kelvin Forrest Brown
I not a few sources, including search of directorships just use the short name , which brings up many Wayne Browns.
The historic data for Television New Zealand Ltd directors shows his full legal name is Wayne Kelvin Forrest Brown
Doesnt seem to be easy to alter references to a more specific search of 'this' Wayne Brown Okerefalls (talk) 20:00, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
flood response section is poorly written and badly cited
The facts of Brown's response are still emerging and it seems there is too much hype around the situation to present a factual account at this stage. Citation needed tags have been removed without citations added, and opinionated language has been removed then reverted. This is a controversial subject and should be locked if it continues to be editorialised. 2407:7000:A227:1400:148C:8831:EEF1:E98B (talk) 20:48, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
This is controversy around this topic which needs to be noted and addressed factually. Vivatveritas (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Auckland Transport ChairBoard and Air New Zealand Share sale
Hey,
Can someone add Wayne Brown AT Chairman that is going on? https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/132985316/five-idiots-wayne-brown-slams-councillors-over-auckland-transport-vote MagicMagicKing (talk) 06:22, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Can someone also add the sale of Airport sales as well? | WIKI |
WordSmith (software)
WordSmith Tools is a software package primarily for linguists, in particular for work in the field of corpus linguistics. It is a collection of modules for searching patterns in a language. The software handles many languages.
Development and acquisition
The program suite was developed by the British linguist Mike Scott at the University of Liverpool and released as version 1.0 in 1996. It was based on MicroConcord co-developed by Mike Scott and Tim Johns, published by Oxford University Press in 1993. Versions 1.0 through 4.0 were sold exclusively by Oxford University Press, the current version 8.0 and previous versions are now also distributed by Lexical Analysis Software Limited. The software runs under Windows. WordSmith is a download-only product which is registered by entering a code costing 50 pounds sterling for a single user license. However, WordSmith 4.0 can now be downloaded and used free.
Functionality and applications
The core areas of the software package includes three modules:
* Concord is used to create concordances, so all the hits from a search within a previously defined body text.
* WordList lists all the Words or on word forms that are included in the selected corpus and statistical data are different from the text corpus.
* KeyWord creates a list of all those words and word forms according to certain statistical criteria in the text corpus significantly occur rarely or frequently.
Each of the modules offers a number of other features in relation to the text corpus or text being analysed. Thus, for example, collocation and dispersion plots are computed with a concordance search. In addition, there are a number of additional modules that are useful for the preparation, clean-up and format the text corpus. WordSmith Tools can be used in 80 different languages. WordSmith Tools is - along with several other software products similar in nature - an internationally popular program for the work based on corpus-linguistic methodology. It is used by investigators in assorted fields as can be seen in the list below of works using the software.
Papers which use WordSmith
* lists many articles, books, chapters which have used WordSmith.
* Comparing corpora with WordSmith tools: how large must the reference corpus be? Tony Berber-Sardinha Proceedings WCC '00 Proceedings of the workshop on Comparing corpora - Volume 9 Pages 7–13
* Teacher Training Curriculum Policies in Brazil: Possibilities of Wordsmith Tools Craveiro, Clarissa & Aguiar, Felipe (2016). Teacher Training Curriculum Policies in Brazil: Possibilities of Wordsmith Tools. Transnational Curriculum Inquiry 13(2)
* Wang, Shih-Ping, and Khunkhenova Tatiana. "CORPUS RESEARCH ON HEDGES IN LINGUISTICS AND EFL JOURNAL PAPERS." International Journal of Education 9.1 (2017): 45-52. Wang, Shih-Ping, and Khunkhenova Tatiana. "CORPUS RESEARCH ON HEDGES IN LINGUISTICS AND EFL JOURNAL PAPERS." International Journal of Education 9.1 (2017): 45-52. | WIKI |
Models and Theories in Human-Computer Interaction/Reverse engineering the brain
Let's face it. Reading Kurzweil's theory on Accelerated Returns is like reading the inside cover of a science fiction novel. At least, that's how it feels to start reading his theory. However, slowly but surely, he starts to make some sense. After all, he has some rather convincing arguments and examples.
In this response, I need to take issue with his statement that, "There is no reason why we cannot reverse engineer the human brain, and essentially copy its design." As a software engineer, albeit not an artificial intelligent professional, I still think Kurzweil is oversimplifying the nature of "copying" the brain's design. I agree; I think we have made advancements in artificial intelligence. However, to programmatically create an artificial brain takes more than simply having the hardware computational power to do so. It takes an exact, intimate knowledge of how the brain works. I do not believe some innovation, or paradigm shift, as Kurzweil calls it, will suddenly provide that level of insight in the evolution of technology.
I was reading an article recently by Business Insider, where Dr. Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said "As central as the brain is to our existence, we understand very little about how it actually works (2015)". And this is a message I hear most frequently about our brain's inner workings: we simply know very little about how the brain works. On this particular topic, I think Kurzweil is absolutely wrong, and is confusing mathematical intrigue with scientific proof.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-about-the-brain-2015-5#ixzz3dRyJdg5s
Kurzweil and Hybrid Humans (Jessica Ashdown)
Kurzweil asserts that, based on the theory of Accelerated Returns, that humans are moving towards a singularity or hybrid between the biological and non-biological. In other words, human-machine hybrids. He states that this hybridization and swift advancement in technology inevitably pushes humans to be more integrated with said technology. To me, the validity of his arguments are two-fold. On the one hand, it's questionable whether or not technological advances could really "reverse engineer" the brain as Kurzweil asserts. There are some things (as of yet), that technology has not been able to solve or understand. Amongst these things is the human brain. In an article published in the New York Times, researchers for the National Institute of Health point out that while "science found a genetic code...there is no brain-wide neural code; no electrical or chemical alphabet exists that can be recombined to say 'red' or 'fear' or 'wink' or 'run'".1 It would seem to me, that if science has yet to figure out exactly how the brain works and how to "control" it, the idea that we could "reverse engineer" seems implausible or far off at best. On the other hand, even if the brain could be reverse engineered and hybrid humans were possible, the question of whether or not that is ethical arises. Would these "hybrid" humans have the same rights as "regular" humans? At what point would they be considered "human" or "not human"? Would they have to abide by the same laws and regulations as "regular humans"? To me, one cannot ignore the weight of these questions. Just because it's possible to do something doesn't mean that it's ethical. With all of the controversy of technological advances such as cloning, even if human hybrids were possible, there may be ethical road blocks along the way to it becoming a reality.
Reference: 1. Gorman, J. (2014, November 10). Learning How Little We Know About the Brain. Retrieved June 20, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-little-we-know-about-the-brain.html?_r=0 | WIKI |
10 reasons Yanks should fear Phillies | Newsday
Get breaking news alerts from Newsday Turn on notifications? Desktop notifications are on You might be using private browsing or have notifications blocked. Please enable notifications or using normal browsing mode. Please log back in to enjoy your subscription. Thank you for being part of the Newsday family. Forgot your password? We can help go here. Ryan Howard #6 of the Philadelphia Phillies runs out of the batters' box on his 2-run home run in the bottom of the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Four of the NLCS. (October 19, 2009) Credit: Getty Images The Philadelphia Phillies are the National League champions and the defending World Champions. But that's only one of ten reasons the Yankees should fear them in the World Series.>> Complete Yankees World Series coverage DEPTH IN THE LINEUP: No one will contest the Yankees have an amazing lineup one through nine. The same can be said for the Phillies who are the Yankees of the National League. The Phillies live by the home run. They hit 224 during the regular season, tied for second in the MLB. Seven players in their starting lineup have 10 or more home runs. Guys like Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez have more than enough pop behind Ryan Howard. Ryan Howard #6 of the Philadelphia Phillies runs out of the batters' box on his 2-run home run in the bottom of the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Four of the NLCS. (October 19, 2009) CLIFF LEE: The Phillies acquired the 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner from Cleveland in late July to bolster their pitching staff. In three postseason starts, he is 2-0 with a 0.74 ERA (two earned runs) in 24 1/3 innings. His numbers against the Yankees aren't especially dominant, but he did beat them earlier this year on April 16, the day they opened the new Yankee Stadium. NO HOME-BALLPARK ADVANTAGEThink the power-hitting Yankees have the advantage at Yankee Stadium? Think again. The Phillies tied for second-most home runs in MLB with 224, only 20 behind the Yankees. When the Phillies faced the Yankees in the Bronx this year, they matched the Yankees with six home runs, so they're just as likely to take advantage of the homer-friendly wind currents as the Yankees. PEDRO POWER: He once famously declared that the Yankees were his daddies. But he also once famously declared Wake up the Bambino, maybe I'll drill him in the ---. Clearly, there's no team Pedro Martinez enjoys pitching against more than the Yankees. With a brilliant seven-inning, two-hit, shutout performance against the Rockies in Game 2 of the NLDS, Pedro proved he's still got plenty of guile left to go with his competitiveness. THE PHILLIES ARE THE CHAMPS: What better reason do you need to fear a team than the fact they're the defending world champions? And this year's team is arguably more dangerous, with the additions of lefthanded ace Cliff Lee and power bat Raul Ibanez. The flip side of the coin is that no team has repeated as World Series champs since the Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000. THE PHILLY CROWDS: Yankees fans are reputed as some of the most intimidating in sports. But even a New York fan might say about his Philadelphia counterpart: Those guys are outta their minds! The history of Phillies fans tormenting opponents is long and ugly, including a famous incident in 1999 when fans hurled batteries at Cardinals outfielder J.D. Drew. Will the nasty treatment of a likely target, such as Alex Rodriguez, knock the Yankees off their game? PHILLIES WON THE SEASON SERIES: It's a very small sample, but the Phillies did win a three-game series against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in May. While Philadelphia starters allowed just seven runs in 20 innings in the series (3.15 ERA), the Phillies dinged up CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte, the Yankees' likely top starting trio in the World Series, for 12 runs in 21 innings (5.14 ERA). BRAD LIDGE'S POSTSEASON SUCCESS: Lidge had an awful regular season in 2009 following a tremendous 2008. His ERA in 2009 was 7.21 with 11 blown saves. But when the calendar hits October, he flourishes for the Phillies. Lidge has three saves this postseason and has not allowed a run. He is no newbie to October baseball; he has 16 postseason saves in 38.1 innings pitched. The Philadelphia Phillies' mascot, Phillie Phanatic, performs during a rally in view of City Hall in Philadelphia. Try our new Search Privacy Policy | Terms of service |Subscription terms |Your ad choices | Cookie Settings |California Privacy Rights |About Us |Contact Newsday |Reprints & permissions |Advertise with Newsday |Sitemap |Help | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Jamie Dimon letter: JPMorgan spent $9.5B on tech last year
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank spent $9.5 billion on technology in 2016 and has plans this year to introduce products for digital banking, online investment advice and electronic trading. In his annual letter to shareholders on Tuesday, Dimon said the bank is also "collaborating with some excellent fintech companies to dramatically improve our digital and other customer offerings." Among the leading bank executives, Dimon has established himself as the biggest presence in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, making regular trips West to meet with tech executives and venture capitalists. He made headlines in his shareholder letter two years ago, warning investors that "Silicon Valley is coming." Rather than view potential banking disruption as a threat to JPMorgan, Dimon has embraced new technologies. About $3 billion, or almost one-third, of last year's investment went to "new initiatives," including $600 million on fintech solutions and projects. Dimon highlighted partnerships with emerging tech companies like Zelle for consumer payments, Roostify for online mortgages, TrueCar for auto finance and On Deck Capital, which provides loans to small businesses. The JPMorgan CEO also took a swipe at the U.S. immigration system and how it hurts this country's ability to compete globally. Dimon said that about 40 percent of people receiving advanced degrees in science, technology engineering and math at American universities are from other countries. Yet they have no legal way to stay when they're finished with school. "We are forcing great talent overseas by not allowing these young people to build their dreams here," Dimon wrote. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Maliboomer
The Maliboomer was an attraction at the Paradise Pier section of Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, US. Manufactured by S&S Power, Mailboomer was a Space Shot attraction, meaning it launched guests from the bottom of the tower instead of slowly lifting them to the top and dropping them from there. The ride was pneumatically powered, with three connected towers, each with its own independent ride system. It also contained "Scream Shields", used to block the screams from reaching residents of Anaheim and neighboring Garden Grove as the park is located near a residential area.
History
In the late 1990s, Disney wanted to build a cheaper theme park next to Disneyland with the use of off-the-shelf rides. One of these attractions would be a drop tower named Maliboomer. The concept came from a space-themed version of the High striker attraction on many boardwalks and carnivals. The name also hinted at this theme, since it alludes to the beach town of Malibu, California. In 1998, Disney revealed more details about the new park, including the name Disney's California Adventure. Maliboomer would be a Space Shot ride built by S&S Power and feature three towers. Construction of Maliboomer would begin one year later in 1999.
Maliboomer officially opened to the general public on February 8, 2001, along with the park. With a max height of 180 ft, it was the park's tallest attraction upon opening.
As part of the park's multi-year, $1.1 billion expansion, Maliboomer was originally planned to be refurbished, but it was later announced that the ride would not survive the park's expansion. On August 6, 2010, Disney California Adventure announced that Maliboomer would be closing. The ride's last operating day was September 7, 2010, and the dismantling of the attraction began shortly afterwards.
The ride's former concrete pad and railings remained for several years and its spot was used for character meet and greets and a smoking area. On June 28, 2019, the Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind attraction, inspired by Disney·Pixar's Inside Out, opened in the space where Maliboomer once stood. | WIKI |
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