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AI-16636 - AI-16668 AI-16185 (con.) proceedings of the symposioa on the Techniques of Solar and Cosmic X-ray Spectroscopy, held at Holmbury, England, 22 6 23 Hay 1975, edited by L. U. icton £ J. L. culhane. ippl- au: A. B. C. Balkei Jr. S Anthony Burek. D. Reidel Publishing Coapany: 16Sep76; AI-16185.
AI-16636. Taiwan, Republic of China. 117 p. I-hsiung Ju; [Chid. By I-hsiunq Ju. 10Jun77: Al-16636.
AI-16637. A Collection of 1-hsiunq Jo's landscape paintings. Taiaan, Bepublic of China. 26 p. I-hsianq Ju; 10Jun77 (in notice: 1976): iI-16637.
AI-16639. Topological algebras. By Edward Becltenstein, Lawrence Narici £ Charles Suffel. The Netherlands. 370 p. (Notas de uateiiatica, 60) C North-Holland publishing Company: 1911ay77; AI-16639.
AI-166itO. Baroque. By John Bupert Bartin. Great Britain. 367 p. C John aupert Hartin; 26Hay77: 4I-166U0.
AI-166U1. Eiplicit a priori inequalities with applications to boundary »alue problems. By Vincent George Siqillito. Sreat Britain. 103 p. (Research notes in mathematics, 13) C Vincent George sigillito: 17Jun77: AI-166it1.
AI-166I12. Induced representations and Banach -algebraic bundles. By James (lichael Gardner Fell, with an appendix due to A. Douady S 1. Dal Soglio-Herault. Best Germany. 3tt9 p. (Lecture notes in mathematics, vol. 582) Sprinqer-Verlaq; 25Apr77: AI-166»2.
AI-16643. Invariant manifolds. By aorris i. Hirsch, Charles C. Puqh E Hichael Shub. West Germany. 119 p. (Lecture notes in mathematics, vol. 583) S Springer-Verlag ; 26Apr77: AI-166U3.
AI-1661111. The Wonderful pumplcin. By Lennart Hellsing, pictures by Svend otto. Sweden. 1 V. Appl. au: Atheneum Publishers, employer for hire in translation. O on translation: Atheneum Publishers; 25Apr77 (in notice: 1976); AI- 166111.
AI-166it5. Biochemistry of membrane transport. Edited Dy Giorgio Seaenza 6 Ernesto Carafoli. Best Germany. 669 p. (Proceedings of life sciences, PEBS svBPOsiuB, no. «2) Proceedings of the FEBS Symposium on the Biochemistry of Membrane Transport, held at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich. July 18-23, 1976. Appl. au: y. Barenholz 6 a. D. Fran. S Sprinqer-Verlag; ilApr77; AI-166U5.
Al-166146. Structure and bonding. Vol. 32. Editors: J. D. Dunitz 6 other editors. Best Germany- 171 p. Appl. au: J. ». Bilsoa. Springer-Verlaq; 30Bar77; AI- 166116.
A1-16647. The Origins of the cold war in Asia. Edited by Yonosujie Nagai 6 Ajcira Iriye. Japan. 1148 p. University of Tokyo Press; 30Har77: AI-16647.
Bargreth 6 Bobert S. Adelstein. The Netherlands. 360 p. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Contractile Systems in Non-auscle Tissues, held in Bressanone, Italy, Sept. 19-22. 1976. e Elsevier/North-Holland Biosedical Press; 27Dec76; AI- 166118.
AI-166149. Besonauce oscillations in mechanical systems. By B. a. Evan-Iwanows)ii. The Netherlands. 292 p. (5 Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company; 290ec76; AI-166it9.
AI-16650. International organization, national policies and economic development. Editors: Karl Brunner £ Allan H. Beltzer. The Netherlands. 210 p. (Carneqie- Bochester conference series on public policy, a supplementary series to the Journal of monetary economics, vol. 6) O North-Holland Publishing Company: 25nay77; AI-16650.
AI-16651. The Dark tower and other stories. By C. S. Lewis edited by Baiter Hooper. England. 153 p. Portions prev. pub. in The aagazine of fantasy and science fiction £ others. NB: compilation £ p. 7-103. The Trustees of the Estate of C. S. Lewis; 28Feb77; iI-16651.
AI-16652. Aqnolo Gaddi. By Bruce Cole. United Kingdom. 1 v. (Oxford studies in the history of art and architecture) NB: text 6 photos, of the frescoes in the Cappella della Sacra Cintola, Prato, illus. no. 55-78. Q Oxford University Press; 9Jun77; AI-16652.
AI-16653. The Bexican assassin. By Hartshorne, pseud, of Eicnard Blum. England. 350 p. Hartshorne (pseud, for gichard Blum) ; 24Bay77: AI-16653.
AI- 16651. Harmonic analysis on real reductive groups. Edited by V. S. Varadarajan. nest Germany. 521 p. (Lecture notes in mathematics, vol. 576) O Springer-Verlaq; 10Bay77; AI-16651.
iI-16655. Law, morality, and society: essays in honour of H. L. A. Hart. Edited by Peter aichael Stephan Hacker £ Joseph Baz. United Kingdom. 312 p. Appl. au: a. S. summers £ Joel Feinberg. NB: essays by B. S. Summers 6 J. Feinberg. S Oxford University Press: 19aay77; AI-16655.
41-16656. Phenomenology of spirit. By Georg Bilhela Friedtich Hegel, translated by Arnold Vincent Biller, with analysis of the text £ foreword by John Nieaeyer Findlay. United Kingdom. 595 p. Add. ti: Hegel's Phenoaenology of spirit. Translation of Phaenomenologie des Geistes. NB: analysis of text 6 foreword, e oxford University Press; 9Jun77: AI-16656.
AI- 16657. It's a funny thiuq, humour: Inter- national Conference on Humour and Laughter. Edited by Antony J. Chapman £ Hugh C. Foot, illustrated by Boy B. Behrens. Great Britain. 507 p. Proceedings from the International Conference on Humour and Laughter, held in Cardiff, Bales, July 13-17, 1976. Appl. au: B. F. Fry, B. K. Bothbart £ P. A. acGhee. a Perqamon Press, Ltd.; 27Apr77; AI- 16657.
AI-16658. Plant growth regulation; proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, Lausanne, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1976. Edited by Paul Emile Pilet. west Germany. 305 p. (Proceedings in life sciences) proceedings held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Appl. au: F. T. Addicott £ P. Albersheim. O Sprinqer-Verlaq; 12aay77; Al-16658.
AI-16659. Local service pricing policies and their effect on urban spatial structure. Edited by Paul B. Downing. Canada. 164 p. O The University of British Columbia; 30Bay77; AI-16659.
AI- 16660. The Practical application of economic incentives to the control of pollution: the case of British Columbia. Edited by James B. Stephenson. Canada. 116 p. e The University of British Columbia; 16flay77; iI-16660.
AI-16661. Best buys in Saint Thomas, Bay-July 1977. Cayman Islands, British Best Indies. 27 p. OP and D International £ Virgin Islands Publications; 1Bay77; AI-16661.
AI-16662. Guatemal.la guide. By Paul Glassman. 315 p. e Paul Glassman; 22Jun77; AI-16662.
Al-16618. contractile systeas in non-muscle AI- 16658. tissues. Editors: S. V. Perry, ». Plant gr
AI-16663. Hotel da Praia and other poeas, 1936-1976. By Hilliaa Holloway Boberts. Spain. 69 p. Portion prev. pub. as New Bexican April. NB: revision 6 new poems. e Billiam Holloway Boberts: 30Apr77: AI-16663.
AI-16664. Busica disciplina; a yearbook of the history of music. Vol. 29, 1975. Editor: Armen Carapetyan, assistant editor: Gilbert Beaney. Holland. 207 p. C Armen Carapetyan: 3laar76 (in notice: 1975) ; AI-16661.
AI-16565. Photonuclear reactions 2. Edited by Sergio Costa £ Carlo Schaerf. West Germany. 301 p. (Lecture notes in physics, vol. 62) Proceedings of the International School on Electro- and Photonuclear Beactions, Erice, Italy, 1976. ippl. au: a. Bertozzi. Springer- Verlag; 26Apr77; AI-16665.
AI- 16666. Ultrashort light pulses: picosecond techniques and applications. Edited by Stanley L. Shapiro, with contributions by D. H. Juston 6 Kenneth B. Eisenthal. Best Germany. 389 p. (Topics in applied physics, vol. 18) Springer-Verlag; 15Apr77; AI-16666.
AI- 16567. Photonuclear reactions 1. Edited by Sergio Costa 6 Carlo Schaerf. West Germany. 650 p. (Lecture notes in physics, vol. 61) Proceedings of the International School on Electro- and Photonuclear Beactions, Erice, Italy, 1976. ippl. au: Stanley S. Hanna £ Evans Hayward. C sprtnger-Verlag; 26Apr77: AI-16667.
AI-16668. Interactive systems; proceedings, 6th Informatik Symposiua, Bad Hoaburg vor der Hoehe, Sept. 1976. Edited by Albrecht Blaser £ Clemens Hackl. Best Germany. 380 p. (Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 49) English 6 German. Appl. au: Allan 1. Schecr £ Bichard P. Kelisky. O Springer-Verlag; 26Apr77; Al-16668. These entries alone may not reflect the complete Copyright Office records pertaining to a particular work. Contact the U.S. Copyright Office for information about any additional records that may exist. | WIKI |
John Beardman
John Beardman (born December 5, 1937, in Youngstown, Ohio) is a contemporary American artist. He is an abstract expressionist and a major contributor to “art as process” and "action painting" influenced by Willem de Kooning. His work has been the subject of several exhibitions in New York City, Louisville, Kentucky, Birmingham, Michigan, and Nova Scotia, Canada. Beardman has received numerous creative artist's grants and fellowships. He currently lives and works in Pennsylvania and has a Studio in Manhattan, New York City.
Life and work
John Beardman was born in Youngstown, Ohio December 5, 1937.
At the age of twelve he moved with his family to a farm outside of Warren, Ohio, and started painting at the age of nineteen. He was first intrigued with gesture painting and was later influenced by Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning.
Beardman studied at Case Western Reserve University, Oberlin College and Southern Illinois University. In the 60s he also studied with Stanley William Hayter at his Atelier 17 in Paris and at the College of Sorbonne in Paris and received a certificate.
He earned his living as art professor at the University of Connecticut, Cranbrook Educational Community, Academy of Art and Oakland University from 1961 to 1990.
From 1992 to 2016 Beardman did most of his art work in his “Studio in the Woods” in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. He also made an open-air exhibition in 2008 "A Song of the Woods" at his Canadian studio.
Beardman has exhibited at various galleries, including one person exhibitions in New York City at Carter Burden Gallery, Noho M55 Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc., Allan Stone Gallery, OK Harris Works of Art, Jayne H. Baum and 55 Mercer Galleries. In Louisville, Kentucky, he has exhibited at the Brownstown Gallery and in Birmingham, Michigan, at Art Space.
He has works in both public and private collections including NBC, HDH Corp, Best Products, Harry Bober, Allan Stone, Leonard Goldenson, Cornel West, Cranbrook Educational Community, Academy of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Hudson River Museum and Carter Burden Center.
Testimonials have come from critics Donald Kuspit, April Kingsley and Karen Chambers and from art historians Meyer Schapiro, and Albert Elsen. | WIKI |
User:Dcjohnso1
=The Body Silent= The Body Silent is a personal narrative written by a Robert F. Murphy, a professor at Columbia University. This piece is a narrative of personal struggle through a spinal condition, published in 1987 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. He uses this narrative to tell his journey through a deteriorating spinal condition leading to paraplegia. Diagnosed with a tumor extending from his second cervical vertebra to the eigth thoracic vertebra in 1972. Through his narrative he tells his medical history and how the diagnosis of old medicine (late 1920's) knew very little about neurology, and left undetected problems which created a new issue in his 50's. As an anthropology professor at Columbia University, he applies his field to his medical journey. "This book was conceived in the realization that my long illness with a disease of the spinal cord has been a kind of extended anthropological field trip, for through it I have sojourned in a social world no less strange to me at first than those of the Amazon forests. And since it is the duty of all anthropologists to report on their travels . . . this is my accounting." Due to funded research of his medical experiences and conditions, he provides the readers with a description and explanation of what he deals with, with a constant discussion of future possibility and his mindset throughout.
Production
the National Science Foundation funded production of his book, and was published by Henry Hold and Company, Inc. 521 Fifth Avanue, New York, New York.
Genre
Metapathography pieces are not stories and tales of sickness, but a professional self-analysis and in-depth writing of ones personal state. Although Metapathography is not a classified genre, other authors and professionals who reviewed his material defined it set aside from a personal narrative, due to his thorough analysis of mental and physical condition.
Biography
Robert Francis Murphy was born on March 3, 1924, in Far Rockaway, New York. He grew up with a non-involved father and a mother battling breast cancer. She died when he was 14, and his grandmother took over the family. He remained studious and became a distinguished anthropologist and professor of anthropology at Columbia University in New York City, from the early 1960s to 1990. He studied many different cultures across the globe, such as the Mundurucu of the Amazon and tribes in the Sahara. At the age of 66, he died in his home in Leonia, New Jersey.
Medical History
in 1928, Murphy lost the use of his leg. A house doctor diagnosed him with "a touch of Rheumatism" which took him two weeks to recover. Murphy begins to experience muscle spasms in his anus, and in his lower abdomen in 1972, and soon had trouble urinating. he was then diagnosed with an anal fissure, meaning of a slight break in the muscle. After a few years of symptoms, he visited a neurologist and was diagnosed with a benign but slowly growing tumor in the upper part of his spinal cord. Within two years his central nervous system was severely damaged, and lost control of most bodily functions. he died in his home on October 8th, 1990.
Accomplishments
He traveled to the Amazon and Africa on anthropological field trips and created many texts. The Trumai Indians of Central Brazil (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society) (1955) Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Process in Acculturation (1956) Economic Development and Cultural Change 4. Matrilocality and Patrilineality in Mundurucu Society. American Anthropologist (1956) Vol. 58 (3:3): 414-433 Mundurucu Religion (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology) (1958) The Structure of Parallel Cousin Marriage (1959) Headhunter's Heritage: Social and Economic Change Among the Mundurucu Indians (1960) Social Distance and the Veil (about Tuareg men's veiling practices) (1964) The Dialectics of Social Life: Alarms and Excursions in Anthropological Theory (1971) Robert H. Lowie (Leaders of Modern Anthropology) (1972) Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation (1978, co-authored with Julian H. Steward and Jane C. Steward) American Anthropology, 1946-1970: Papers from the American Anthropologist (2002) Women of the Forest (1974), co-authored with Yolanda (first author)
Awards
in 1987, his book was awarded the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. | WIKI |
pathlib: удобное формирование путей в файловой системе Python 19.07.2016
В python 3 есть полезный модуль pathlib для формирование путей в файловой системе.
Сравните пример
# python 2
import os
directory = "/home/user/temp/"
filepath = os.path.join(directory, "data.csv")
if os.path.exists(filepath):
print('exist')
# python 3
from pathlib import Path
directory = Path("/home/user/temp/")
filepath = directory / "data.csv"
if filepath.exists():
print('exist')
Для python 2 можно установить командой pip2 install pathlib.
Получить домашний каталог текущего пользователя
Path.home()
Разбить путь на части
from pathlib import PurePath
PurePath("/home/user/temp/").parts
# ('/', 'home', 'user', 'temp')
Записать строку в файл и закрыть файл
p = Path('hw.txt')
p.write_text('Hello world')
Прочитать строку из файла
p = Path('hw.txt')
line = p.read_text()
Еще пример
> from pathlib import Path
> p = Path("/usr/lib/python2.5/gopherlib.py")
> p.parent
PosixPath('/usr/lib/python2.5')
> p.name
'gopherlib.py'
> p.suffix
'.py'
> p.stem
'gopherlib'
Описание тут.
Цитата
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Talk:King of the Ring (1993)/GA1
GA Review
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* A. Prose quality:
* B. MoS compliance:
* 1) Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
* A. References to sources:
* B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
* C. No original research:
* 1) Is it broad in its coverage?
* A. Major aspects:
* B. Focused:
* 1) Is it neutral?
* Fair representation without bias:
* 1) Is it stable?
* No edit wars, etc:
* 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
* A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
* B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
* 1) Overall:
* Pass or Fail:
* 1) Is it stable?
* No edit wars, etc:
* 1) Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
* A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
* B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
* 1) Overall:
* Pass or Fail:
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* 1) Overall:
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* Lead
* Some lead information is not in the body which shouldn't really occur. ✅
* I'd mix two sentences in the first paragraph a bit to prevent repetition:"King of the Ring (1993) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)." and "The WWF had held several King of the Ring tournaments in previous years but this edition signified its development into an annual pay-per-view event." ✅
* I can see the main problem is the second paragraph which makes the article seem like it's about the King of the Ring tournament. It's not. It's about the King of the Ring pay per view and the televised first round only serves as background info. First sentence is fine but mention it was the central focus "and main event". Condense the rest to the ideas of a previous televised first round and the broadcast of the second, third and final rounds. ✅
* Merge second and third paragraph info to form a "plot" paragraph. ✅
* "the event also featured" ✅
* Not enough is made of the fact that this was Hulk Hogan's final WWF PPV appearance until 2002. Mention this in the lead. ✅
* I'd like to see a new third paragraph based on information from the "Reception" section. Main points to sum up: Mainly positive reviews. 6500 fans = record low. Had 1.1 buy rate = highest till 1999. Released on VHS in N America/UK. ✅
* Background
* I'd be tempted to copy/expand this from the American Bash as a brief intro:
* "The King of the Ring event featured a card, which contained matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed either a villainous or fan favorite gimmick as they followed a series of events which generally built tension, leading to a wrestling match." ✅
* Follow this with a brief summary of how the 1993 King of the Ring tournament was conducted, noting the televised/PPV divide. Any sources to cite this would be a bonus. ✅
* Restructure: After the summary detail the outline of the TV qualifiers, then the Hogan backstory, then Michaels and the tag match. ✅
* I would remove "controversial" from Hart's loss. It wasn't the first nor last time a face had been "cheated" out of victory.
* It needs to be made clear that Jack Tunney was not the real life "WWF President". ✅
* I'd rephrase this:"Because the match was not a standard tag team match, the championship was not on the line, however."
* To this: "However, the match was not a standard tag team match thus the championship was not on the line".
* Wikilink "pin" on its first occasion. ✅
* Event
* Is there an appropriate link for "signature move"? ✅
* The mention of Hughes' use of a stolen urn from the Undertaker seems awkward as this event (nor the Undertaker) is mentioned elsewhere. Maybe you could say he hit him with a "foreign object" for the sake of clarity and simplicity?
* "followed it up by pushing him from the edge of the ring" I think off the edge of the ring would more accurately explain this. ✅
* Perhaps describe the Hart/Perfect match as a "semi-final" ✅
* "Bigelow's on-screen girlfriend" maybe saying "valet" instead could provide an interesting link. However, if she wasn't classed as his valet just ignore me. ✅
* Aftermath
* Clearly state and cite that this was Hogan's last PPV for WWF, at the moment this isn't entirely obvious. I imagine sources shouldn't be too difficult to find for that piece of information.
* I think the details of Lawler's and Hart's feud are going in to a little too much depth here. Could this be reduced.
* It isn't clear if the charges of rape and sodomy are storyline or real events. I for one know which one it is but edgier modern day storylines sometimes cover this kind of material, creating a bit of ambiguity. ✅
* Right-align the Hakushi picture as it shouldn't be popping out the "Reception" title. ✅
* Results
* I would perhaps say that the dark match length is unknown rather than n/a. ✅
* Provide a quick key for TV, PPV, and winner in bold in the tournament brackets section.
* Bold and link Bret Hart in the first "bye" section. ✅
* The "1" note against bye is inactive. ✅
* Extras
* Sourcing is fine – though is there a better source for Hogan's decision not to lose to Bret Hart? I'll take your word on TV referencing but to be honest I can't imagine a better way to reference some of that earlier "qualifiers" material.
* Add List of WWE pay-per-view events to a "See also" section ✅
* Is there no official external website link for this PPV?
If you resolve all these issues then I'll promote the article to GA. It's a good solid article as it stands now but the lead and the structure of the background section especially are currently lacking in places. Excellent work in avoiding bias and events are generally clear despite Pro-Wrestling's exhaustive "insider" jargon. As a bonus, I'll give the article a quick copyedit once you're done. Article now on hold. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 04:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
* Thanks for the review. I have started addressing these points. I am placing ✅ checks next to the the concerns that I have attempted to address, although I am not stating that they are fully resolved. GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:38, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
* I have addressed the majority of your concerns. A few that I wanted to discuss:
* 1) The sentence to include from the Great American Bash (The King of the Ring event featured a card): I tried to work this in while sounding more natural. I didn't want to say the event featured a card, because that's not how the term is generally used. The event was a card. I did include the part about feuds and storylines, but I thought saying "plots and storylines" was redundant (I also linked "storyline" to "narrative" because I don't like wikilinking to disambiguation pages). I'm not sure if what I've done works, but I think it's at least a step toward what you were looking for. I would appreciate feedback on this one.
* 2) I moved the back about the Hogan backstory, but I'm not sure if it's a little awkward now, as I have Hart's entry in the tournament separated from the rest of the entries. I had placed the part about Hogan first because it explained why Hart was in the tournament, so I'm not sure if this still need more work.
* 3) The reason Hart was entered in the tournament was because the nature of his loss was controversial, so I thought keeping the word "controversial" in was important.
* 4) I took out some detail about the Hart-Lawler feud, but I'm not sure if this is enough.
* 5) I'm not sure what you mean by a "quick key" for TV, PPV, etc. in the tournament brackets. They are all labeled in the key above the brackets, but I'm not sure if you want more.
* 6) WWE no longer holds King of the Ring tournaments, so they don't have a section for them on their website. Unfortunately, there is no official site.
* 7) Regarding Hogan's decision not to lose to Hart, I have added a second source for the refusal, although it does not cover Hogan's decision to not lose cleanly. Regarding the first source, User:Ealdgyth has placed WrestleView on her listed of reliable sources for wrestling FAs, but please let me know if you think it is sufficiently sourced now. Update: I also added the source from The Sun, as it also mentions Hogan not wanting to lose to Hart.
* 8) I'm having a hard time deciding how necessary the mention of Hughes hitting Perfect with the urn is. I agree that it is a little awkward, but that is the part of the event that I always remembered most clearly.
* It would be great if you could provide feedback on these issues. I'm not opposed to making more changes, but I would appreciate some clarification as to whether or not I'm on the right track with some of these. Thanks, GaryColemanFan (talk) 19:07, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
* I pretty much fully agree with all your approaches to these issues. I think the Bret Hart qualification information is also part of the background to the main event so I can't think of a better way of approaching it. As background info it seems absolutely fine to me. I'll agree with that use of "controversial" too. Lawler info seems extensive but not excessive; it's fine as is but be prepared to strip down further if you take it to FA. Update Thanks for adding "the Sun" source, the quality citation is much appreciated.
* One thing I will say is you should show the abbreviation of pay-per-view (PPV) in the lead and use that throughout. Thought it might seem a little easier written that way. I think your solutions to the issues I raised have been done with very well. The placement of the Undertaker's urn is still a little odd but it's only a minor issue so I'll let it pass.
* For further improvement of this article I would recommend finding appropriate material from issues of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. I also know that the British magazine Power Slam offers extensive back issues and various PPV review supplements which are sure to help. The latter source I must say will help you very much as it unusual in its serious, critical approach to professional wrestling. It all depends how keen you are on the Wikipedia PW project as I'm sure that just one issue or supplement will help improve various articles.
* I'll do a quick copyedit in a moment but otherwise I'm satisfied and will pass the article for GA. Good work on the improvements and, most of all, thanks for questioning and rationalising the issues and my suggestions! Sillyfolkboy (talk) 22:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
* Passed GA review. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 00:59, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
'If you found this GA review helpful please consider doing one yourself. Choose one from the backlog, where I found this article, or take a look at WP:GAN.' | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/La Salute è in voi
La Salute è in voi
* This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 1, 2024 by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:07, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
La Salute è in voi! was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with the Galleanisti, followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani, particularly in the United States. Translated as "Health/Salvation Is within You!", its anonymous authors advocated for impoverished workers to overcome their despair and commit to individual, revolutionary acts. The Italian-language handbook took technical content already accessible in encyclopedias, applied chemistry books, and industrial sources and wrapped it in a political manifesto and plain directions for non-technical amateurs to build explosives. American police and historians would use the handbook to profile anarchists and imply guilt by possession. It figured prominently in the prosecution of the Bresci Circle, a case that revolved around the anarchists' right to read. Ultimately, perpetrators of successful political bombings from this era had career backgrounds in explosives and were not self-taught amateurs.
* Most recent similar article(s): not many FAs in this category...
* Main editors: czar
* Promoted: 2023-02-07
* Reasons for nomination: Annual May Day nom
* Support as nominator. czar 15:50, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
* Support: appropriate topic for May Day and suitable quality. — Bilorv ( talk ) 18:04, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
* Coordinator comment: the blurb is too long, at 1,042 characters including spaces. It needs to be in the range 925 - 1,025. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:32, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
* , shortened! Thanks czar 21:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
* Weak support: appropriate, but I personally think a event or something like that would be more appropriate for this day, or maybe the Free Association of German Trade Unions would be good too. -- ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 09:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC) | WIKI |
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) particularly hydrogen peroxide as well as the
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) particularly hydrogen peroxide as well as the OAC1 proteins that regulate them play essential assignments in the migration and adhesion of cells. focusing on how microorganisms use ROS also to what level they depend with them through the related procedures of cell migration and adhesion. ROS in migration The motion and migration of cells are necessary during the advancement of microorganisms as they changeover from embryo to adult as well as for the homeostasis of adult tissue. Cell migration and adhesion also play essential assignments in the pathology of illnesses such as for example metastatic cancer that may inappropriately reactivate developmental migratory applications. However the cell actions that take place during both regular and pathological procedures are remarkably different [1] studies of the movements OAC1 have uncovered a few common features [1-7]. Migration frequently begins whenever a cell or band of cells gets a signal that creates polarization and expansion of mobile protrusions such as for example lamellipodia in direction of motion. These protrusions after that stick to the substrate which the cell is normally moving providing traction force for migration as OAC1 the lagging advantage from the cell retracts. Gradients of repulsive and attractive cues are accustomed to direct cell migration. Chemoattractants are received by transmembrane proteins on the top of migrating cells and immediate their migration by translating these cues into cytoskeletal and adhesive adjustments through effector substances. Adjustments in the substrate which cells move impact cell migration also. Immune cells for example require adjustments in the endothelium to penetrate tissue and clear an infection. Mounting evidence shows that ROS and hydrogen peroxide specifically are accustomed to relay indicators from turned on cell surface area receptors to immediate changes essential for cell motion. ROS action intrinsically within migrating cells to market motion and in the encompassing stationary cells to impact migration permissively. It has additionally been recommended that hydrogen peroxide serves as a principal chemoattractant created upon problems for attract immune system cells to wounds [8]. Within this review we discuss the most recent progress produced towards understanding the assignments of ROS in cell migration and adhesion having to pay particular focus on studies. General concepts of redox signaling Originally regarded OAC1 as entirely undesired byproducts of oxidative respiration ROS are actually known to action beneficially as signaling substances regulating various mobile features including cell proliferation migration and adhesion [9 10 The overall mechanism where ROS are believed to signal is really as comes after: (i) in response to stimuli such as for example growth elements ROS are produced at the top of cells or within intracellular compartments such as for example endosomes by NADPH oxidases; (ii) ROS enter the cytoplasm where they react with particular proteins to modulate protein function; (iii) the adjustments that OAC1 ROS induce in protein activity partly drive cellular procedures such as for example migration; and (iv) after the stimulus is normally no more present the ROS are degraded and the machine profits to its primary state. Below this technique is described by us in more detail. For the reasons of the review the word ROS is normally defined as substances filled with oxygen-centered radicals like the superoxide radical anion (O2??) aswell simply because reactive non-radical derivatives of molecular air such as for example hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) [11]. Each ROS provides distinctive properties and actions and where feasible we avoid the word ROS and rather refer to this species involved. Nevertheless due to methodological complications in calculating ROS and distinguishing between types often the specific identity of this ROS involved is normally unknown. In such instances the word ROS can be used. The Gpc4 binding of OAC1 growth chemoattractants and factors to cell surface receptors triggers NADPH oxidases to create ROS. NADPH oxidases are membrane protein complexes that generate ROS by moving electrons from NADPH (or NADH) across membranes to molecular air [12] (Amount 1 response 1). Described by the precise NOX or DUOX catalytic subunit they contain seven associates from the NADPH oxidase family members have been discovered in mammalian tissue to time [12]. NADPH oxidases are activated during cell adhesion and migration by many development. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Dynamic C++ Classes---A lightweight mechanism to update code in a running program
``Dynamic C++ Classes---A lightweight mechanism to update code in a running program'' by Gilsi Hjalmtysson and Robert Gray. In USENIX Annual Technical Conf., June 1998, pp. 65-76.
Annotation: [by Steven Richman] Hjalmtysson and Gray's dynamic C++ classes represent an upgrade system similar in spirit to but simpler than Fabry's scheme. They permit updates at class granularity by providing a library with a generic template class that serves as a proxy for indirect access to dynamic classes. Dynamic linking intromits new code. Dynamic C++ classes avoid the problem of upgrade completeness and quiescence by allowing objects with old class versions to persist until they are destroyed; an upgrade applies only to new objects. Objects of different versions can coexist because the system forces dynamic classes to inherit from abstract interfaces that cannot change across versions. This constraint necessarily limits program evolution. Further, the policy of keeping objects with out of date class versions until deletion is ill-suited to applications with long-lived objects: an upgrade is not complete until all objects from the old version have been destroyed, and this may never occur. This becomes problematic if a critical bug fix must be applied to a long-lived object. Ultimately, the onus is placed on the programmer to delete and reconstruct objects that would not otherwise be updated. It is clear, then, that automatic transformation of live objects is a desirable property in an upgrade system. Hjalmtysson and Gray's method has several strengths, though; namely, it is an efficient implementation of dynamic updates in a modern programming language and uses only those features already present in the language and linking environment--no language extensions or special runtime systems are required.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{hjalmtysson98dynamic,
author = {Gilsi Hjalmtysson and Robert Gray},
title = {Dynamic {C++} Classes---{A} lightweight mechanism to update
code in a running program},
booktitle = {{USENIX} Annual Technical Conf.},
pages = {65--76},
month = jun,
year = {1998},
url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/266962.html}
}
Also see software upgrades publications by date.
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-- France’s Fabius Says Putin’s Version of Attacks ‘Not Reality’
Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s
claim that rebels were behind the Aug. 21 chemical attack in
Syria “is not the reality,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. “The reality is clear: there was a chemical massacre, it’s
the regime of Bashar al-Assad that has the chemical weapons and
that gave the order,” Fabius said in an interview today on RTL
Radio. Putin said in a New York Times opinion article published
late yesterday that the attack was the work of the opposition.
The U.S., French, and British governments have released
intelligence reports blaming the regime for the attack, which
they say killed more than a 1,400 civilians. “It’s a version the Russians have developed for a long
time, without any credibility,” Fabius said. Fabius said “all options remain on the table” for Syria ,
and it’s the “great firmness” of the U.S. and the French
threat of military strikes that led to the Russian proposal to
put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control. Any such plan must be “rapid, credible, and verifiable,”
Fabius said in the radio interview. He said destroying a
stockpile as large as Syria’s “takes an immense amount of
time.” To contact the reporter on this story:
Gregory Viscusi in Paris at
gviscusi@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
James Hertling at
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Nokia N77
The Nokia N77 is a 3G mobile phone from Nokia, introduced on 12 February 2007 and released in June 2007. It runs on Symbian 9.1 (S60 3rd Edition). The N77's specs were somewhat basic compared with most Nseries devices at the time, but it included a DVB-H television tuner. As stated in Nokia's press release, the N77 was designed as a low-cost mobile TV to accelerate DVB-H adoption. Sporting a candybar design similar to the N73, it was the company's second DVB-H device after the N92, though it did have a smaller screen. The N77 was thus only available in limited DVB-H markets and are now hard to come by. | WIKI |
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• ciclosporin;
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• toxic epidermal necrolysis
Summary
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare disorder characterized by extensive epidermal death. Almost all cases appear to be caused by an idiosyncratic drug reaction. Proposed pathogenic mechanisms are conflicting, and the evidence for the benefits of individual treatments is inadequate, and in some cases contradictory. The mortality rate remains high. We review the literature pertaining to the pathogenesis of TEN and drug reactions in general. The rationale for therapeutic interventions, together with reported evidence of efficacy, are considered. We present a composite model of TEN, based on previous work and suggested pathogeneses of TEN, mechanisms of drug reactions and reported cytotoxic lymphocyte (CTL) cytolytic pathways. In this system, TEN, like some other cutaneous drug eruptions, is an HLA class I-restricted, specific drug sensitivity, resulting in clonal expansion of CD8+ CTLs. Cytotoxicity is mediated by CTL granzyme and possibly death receptor (DR) ligand (DR-L), probably Fas ligand (FasL). Particular to TEN, there is then an amplification sequence involving further DR-L expression. FasL is likely to be particularly important but tumour necrosis factor (TNF) may well contribute, via the TNF receptor 1 (TNF-R1) death pathway. Alternatively, we suggest the possibility of upregulation of an antiapoptotic TNF-R1–nuclear factor κB pathway, which would proscribe treatments which downregulate this pathway. None of the published data on individual treatment efficacies is sufficiently strong to suggest a definitive single treatment. Currently a multifaceted regimen appears indicated, targeting various likely intermediary mechanisms, including elimination of residual drug, immunosuppression, inhibition of DR pathways, general antiapoptotic strategies, and aggressive supportive care. Particular attention has been directed at avoiding potential conflicts between different treatments and avoiding agents that theoretically might have a net proapoptotic rather than antiapoptotic effect. Nursing on a specialized unit is of paramount importance. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Ulisse Cantagalli
Ulisse Cantagalli (1839-1901) was an Italian pottery producer in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He was born into a family of Italian pottery makers, the Cantagalli name having been associated with ceramics since the 15th century. However, it's unclear whether they were makers or merchants. It's been established, though, that they were well known in Impruneta (a town south of Florence) as “furnacers”, land and property owners, and that the Cantagalli factory was producing ceramics in Florence by the beginning of the 18th century.
Biography
Second of four siblings, Ulisse was born in 1839 and grew up enjoying a privileged lifestyle until 1848, when his father was declared bankrupt and, overwhelmed by the turn of fortune, committed suicide. His mother, Flavia Franceschi, continued to run the family business. She focused on the production of terracotta, occasionally making a few majolica pieces.
Ulisse entered the family business as a young man, determined to rebuild the family reputation. He proved to be an ambitious, talented man with a strong vision.
In 1878, Ulisse and Romeo took over the pottery factory in Florence and began to trade as Manifattura Figli di Giuseppe Cantagalli.
During the same year, Ulisse met Margaret Tod, a Scottish girl who called at his store in Florence. Margaret Tod and Ulisse Cantagalli were married in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary’s in Edinburgh, on 31 August 1880, with Ulisse’s brother Romeo, and Margaret’s brother Robert, as witnesses. Their marriage established a permanent bond between the two cities of Edinburgh and Florence.
The success of his enterprise rested in the intuition that Italian ceramics had reached a peak of artistic quality during the Renaissance and the vast, artistically informed visitors attracted by Florence would be very interested in buying high-quality reproductions.
Being Florence an Italian cultural landmark and one of the cities of the Gran Tour, he was in the ideal place to fulfill his ambitions. His Italian ceramics became prized collectors' pieces, celebrated throughout Europe, especially in Great Britain.
He died in Egypt on 29th March 1901.
Work
Ulisse Cantagalli understood that there was a vast opportunity for high-end Italian maiolica early in the 1870s. He set out to reorganize his business to emulate the early Renaissance pieces, not as fakes, but as reproductions. He equipped his factory to produce maiolica, the highest expression of Renaissance ceramic art and started training talented painters, founding a school of design aimed at teaching the art of majolica to his best workers.
His artisans thrived under Ulisse's guidance, nurturing his dream to establish a center of Decorative Arts to showcase Italian talents. At the same time, he scoured art galleries, museums and private collections in constant search of Renaissance majolicas to draw inspiration from. When he found a piece he liked, he sketched its design on a large acetate sheet, using pastel colors and tempera. His surviving sketchbook bears testimony to his draughtsmanship, great artistic ability, and eye for detail.
In the article on Cantagalli's life and work, Sheila Forbes explains how, in the 1870s, "the English influence was so compelling that Florence was styled ‘the Glorious English Florence’, a term supported by major discriminating collectors like Frederick Stibbert, and H.P. Horne, collector and art critic, who both lived in Florence, as well as other men of taste, for example, Lord Carmichael, a passionate collector of Cantagalli, John Ruskin, William Morris, and William De Morgan with whom Ulisse developed a special working relationship."
Ulisse Cantagalli relished the popularity of his work both with local collectors and foreigners on the Grand Tour, providing the discerning collectors with high-quality reproductions of Robbiane, Renaissance majolicas, lusterware and pieces in the Islamic and Moresque styles. He decorated the house of Stibbert in Florence, now a museum, made the Della Robbia style "tondi" (circular sculptures) for Palazzo Pitti. Margaret Cantagalli worked with her husband, cultivating and maintaining good relationships with British buyers.
By 1895 the Manifattura Cantagalli was famous throughout Europe, employed 121 workers and published a catalog featuring 1069 products.
Ulisse never stopped looking for new designs in Italy and abroad. In 1892 he visited the Azulejos factory in Seville, and traveled on from there to Tangier. In 1901 he went looking for inspiration in Egypt, where he was taken ill and eventually died.
The Manifattura Cantagalli continued to thrive under the guidance of Margaret Cantagalli, Ulisse's wife. After Margaret's death in 1930, her daughter Flavia took over. However, she was not successful in her attempt to break away from the company’s commitment to the traditional, and the factory was finally closed in the 1950s.
Cantagalli Mark
The Cantagalli mark was a “singing cockerel” - a visual translation of the family name. The sketchy cockerel has an open beak, extended neck; one of its claws is raised, while the other usually rests on a single line. Ulisse's early production was also identified by a shield and family crest, but from 1880 the cockerel has been on its own.
Exhibitions
The Cantagalli company impressed critics and collectors by winning prizes in major exhibitions:
- 1881, Gold medal at the Great Industrial Exhibition in Milan
- 1884, Gold medal at the General Italian Exhibition in Turin
- 1885, Diploma with Honours at the Universal Exhibition in Antwerp
- 1889, Gold medal at the Exhibition of Artistic Industries at the Artistic Industrial Museum in Rome
- 1900, commendation of the British Museum at the Universal Exhibition in Paris | WIKI |
Closed Bug 467775 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago
XUL template creating nested elements instead of siblings
Categories
(Core :: XUL, defect, P2)
defect
Tracking
()
RESOLVED FIXED
People
(Reporter: glazou, Assigned: enndeakin)
References
Details
(Keywords: fixed1.9.1, regression)
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(3 files)
A bug appeared on my mac between a build of BlueGriffon based off FF3.0.4 and a build based on mozilla-central's trunk. A sqlite database that seemed to be correctly created and used in a sqlite-based xul template with FF3.0.4 is horked with mozilla-central's trunk.
I have isolated the bug and created a small XPI for Firefox/Shiretoko. Step to reproduce the bug, please make sure you use two different profiles for FF304 and Shiretoko:
1. install the attached xpi
2. open Tools > Template bug
(notice the file tplbug.sqlite that appeared in your profile)
4. the resulting dialog is perfectly ok on FF304 and horked on Shiretoko ; the
former shows correctly the list of names in the database, the latter shows
a very high corrupted list with only one visible entry.
5. now use Shiretoko on the profile you used in FF304 and open
Tools >Templatebug ; notice this time the dialog is ok !
6. now use FF304 on the profile you used in Shiretoko and open the dialog,
notice the dialog is horked
7. furthermore, the files tplbug.sqlite in the two profiles differ...
(warning, this extensions sets pref extension.tplbug.firstRun ; make sure
to reset it if you need to clear your profile or recreate the sqlite database).
Confirming on PC/WinXP too with FF304 and Shiretoko, fresh build from today.
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Just to clarify - how is the database horked - does it not open, or what?
(In reply to comment #2)
> Just to clarify - how is the database horked - does it not open, or what?
yes it does open. Sqlite Manager also sees/handles correctly the database.
Could be a sqlite-based template bug after all.
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything here that indicates that it is a storage or sqlite bug
Component: Storage → XUL
Product: Toolkit → Core
QA Contact: storage → xptoolkit.widgets
I'm going to investigate on the template part..
Ok, DOMI shows the problem... Listitems created by the template are created nested instead of being siblings !!! So the database does not seem to be guilty here. I'll update the title of the bug.
flagging blocker191
Flags: blocking1.9.1?
Summary: sqlite database apparently horked on creation → XUL template creating nested elements instead of siblings
I made some tests with a simple database and a simple template (I'm not reusing the xpi of Daniel) and I have same issue.
I investigated and it seems that the bug appears since the landing of the patch for bug 450990. And it appears only with sqlite datasources (apparently, it is ok with rdf datasources).
So I think there is a bug in the query processor for storage, or perhaps in the content builder.
I take this bug.
Assignee: nobody → laurent
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Could we get some tests too please so this doesn't break again in the future?
Laurent, this should fix this bug. Are you writing some tests for this?
Yes Neil, I began to create tests and I will add them to those you already made for bug 378893. I'm going to test your patch, thanks Neil :-)
Neil, this patch works for me :-) See my patch for bug 378893 to have tests.
Attachment #351420 - Flags: superreview?(jonas)
Attachment #351420 - Flags: review?(jonas)
Comment on attachment 351420 [details] [diff] [review]
something like this
This patch just ensures that GetMayProcessChildren, which always returns false for storage templates, is called in both cases.
Flags: blocking1.9.1? → blocking1.9.1+
Priority: -- → P2
Comment on attachment 351420 [details] [diff] [review]
something like this
I can't really say I know this code well enough to review. Don't know who does though :(
Attachment #351420 - Flags: superreview?(jonas)
Attachment #351420 - Flags: superreview+
Attachment #351420 - Flags: review?(jonas)
Attachment #351420 - Flags: review?
FWIW, patch tested in BlueGriffon and works just fine.
Whiteboard: [needs review]
Assignee: laurent → enndeakin
Attachment #351420 - Flags: review? → review?(Olli.Pettay)
Comment on attachment 351420 [details] [diff] [review]
something like this
> nsXULContentBuilder::CreateContainerContents(nsIContent* aElement,
> nsIXULTemplateResult* aResult,
> PRBool aForceCreation,
> PRBool aNotify,
> PRBool aNotifyAtEnd)
> {
> if (!aForceCreation && !IsOpen(aElement))
> return NS_OK;
>+
>+ // don't generate children if recursion or child processing isn't allowed
>+ if (aResult != mRootResult) {
>+ if (mFlags & eDontRecurse)
>+ return NS_OK;
>+
>+ PRBool mayProcessChildren;
>+ nsresult rv = aResult->GetMayProcessChildren(&mayProcessChildren);
>+ if (NS_FAILED(rv) || !mayProcessChildren)
>+ return rv;
>+ }
Use 4 space indentation everywhere, not mixture of 2 and 4.
Attachment #351420 - Flags: review?(Olli.Pettay) → review+
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Keywords: fixed1.9.1
Whiteboard: [needs review]
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Page:Vasari - Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, volume 1.djvu/253
Rh capitular church of Arezzo, Berna painted numerous stories from the life of Our Lady, in the chapel of the Paganelli; and among the figures is a portrait, taken from the life, of the Beato Binieri, a holy man and prophet of that family, who bestows alms on the crowd of poor persons by whom he is surrounded. In the church of San Bartolommeo, also, this master executed various representations from the Old Testament, together with an adoration of the Magi, and in the church of the Spirito Santo he painted stories from the life of St. John the Evangelist. Among the figures of this last work, Berna has left us portraits of himself and of several of his friends, nobles of Arezzo. On the completion of this undertaking, the artist returned to his native city, where he painted numerous pictures on panel, both large and small; but he did not remain long at Siena, being invited to Florence, where he decorated the chapel of San Niccolo, in the church of the Spirito Santo, a work that was highly praised, and which we have already mentioned, with other pictures which were consumed in the lamentable conflagration of that church. At San Gimignano, in the Valdelsa, Berna painted certain frescoes in the ; they represent stories from the New Testament, These works he had nearly brought to a conclusion, when he unhappily fell from the scaffold to the floor, and was so grievously injured, that he died in two days, more to the loss of art than of himself, for he departed from this life to a better one. His remains were very honourably entombed in the capitular church aforesaid, by the people of San Gimignano, who solemnized his obsequies with much pomp, and who gave proof after his death of the esteem in which they held him while living, not ceasing for many months after his interment to suspend verses to his honour, in Latin and the mother tongue, on the tomb of the lamented artist. The men of that country have indeed been ever devoted to the belles lettres, and they herein rendered the | WIKI |
Icon Widget Properties
A feature that went missing in the transition from Plasma 4 to Plasma 5 was the ability to configure the icon widget. The upcoming Plasma 5.9 release is where this dialog will finally make its entry into the 5.x series.
Icon widget properties dialog
The reason it has taken so long was the way the widget used to work was quite complicated. I tried to bring it back for virtually every feature release since at least 5.5 and scrapped numerous patches before I finally found a solution.
The dialog itself is provided by KIO and has been around for ages, so why was it so hard? The old widget had various codepaths for whether the file is on a local or remote location, is writable by the user, is an application, and so on, and did most of that only on-demand when you actually wanted to edit the widget for the first time.
For example, when you drag and drop Kate from the launcher to your desktop, it will see that it has a backing .desktop file and extract information from there. However, since it’s installed in a system location, you cannot just modify the .desktop file. If you opened the edit dialog, it copied the .desktop file to a location in the user’s home and let it edit that one. If you then canceled the dialog without changing anything, the file was deleted again. And this logic was just one of many – I had a really hard time wrapping my head around this.
Firefox disguised as Anjuta
The revamped applet on the other hand always generates a .desktop file and places it in ~/.local/share/plasma_icons massively simplifying the logic for editing. I can just throw a KPropertiesDialog at it and call it a day.
The mapping heuristics are executed just once on applet applet creation where the applet inspects the URL in its config and generates a .desktop file as needed. For applications (e.g. drag and drop Kate from Kickoff to your desktop), the file is copied to this location verbatim. However, in case the “run_desktop_file” Kiosk restriction is enabled, which disallows running applications from .desktop files outside of system locations, the original file is referenced instead. This way you can still place icon widgets in e.g. corporate environments whilst keeping your users from messing them up.
For any other kind of file, a “Link” desktop file is created – that’s the one you’ll get when you do New → Link to URL in Dolphin. The applet will restore its backing .desktop file as needed, migration from the current applet to its new implementation will work seamlessly – of course the applet will delete its .desktop file when it gets removed.
Sneak peek of what’s to come in the future ;)
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1. I don’t fully understand. Also, this would probably be the wrong layer to do this.
All I basically do is QIcon::fromTheme(KDesktopFile(m_pathToDesktopFile).readIcon()); – the actual parsing/processing logic is deeper in the stack.
1. Great work! Can’t wait for the “Sneak peek of what’s to come in the future ;)” feature :-)! Will it also display album art?
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. The book ranked as a New York Times Bestseller in 2015 and won several awards, including the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry, and the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection.
In her critique of racism and visibility, Rankine details the quotidian microaggressions African-Americans face, discusses controversial incidents such as backlashes against tennis player Serena Williams, and inquires about the ramifications of the shootings of Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson. She draws on pop culture and intersperses her writing with images of various paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other digital media to "render visible the black experience".
Summary
The book consists of seven chapters interspersed with images and artworks. The first chapter details microaggressions Rankine and her friends have experienced. The second chapter discusses the YouTube character Hennessy Youngman (created by Jayson Musson) and racial incidents in the life of Serena Williams. The third chapter features more microaggressions and the nature of racist language. In the fourth chapter Rankine writes of the transition of sighs into aches, the nature of language, memory, and watching tennis matches in silence. Chapter five is a complex poem on self-identity interspersed with more microaggressions. Chapter six is a series of scripts for "situation videos" created in collaboration with John Lucas on Hurricane Katrina, the shootings of Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson, the Jena Six, the 2011 England riots in the wake of the death of Mark Duggan, stop-and-frisk, Zinedine Zidane's headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, and the verbal error during Barack Obama's first inauguration as President of the United States. The sixth chapter ends with "Making Room", a script for a "public fiction" about finding a seat on the subway, and a list of African-American men and women involved in recent police shooting incidents that concludes with the phrase "because white men can't police their imagination black men are dying". The seventh chapter is a complex meditation on race, the body, language and various incidents in the life of the author. The book is interspersed with images of various paintings, drawings, sculptures and screen grabs.
Reception
Citizen was a New York Times best seller.
The book received rave reviews from The Adroit Journal, Bookforum, The Boston Review, Brevity, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Seattle Review of Books, and Slate.
Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, wrote that "[Citizen] is an especially vital book for this moment in time. ...The realization at the end of this book sits heavily upon the heart: 'This is how you are a citizen,' Rankine writes. 'Come on. Let it go. Move on.' As Rankine's brilliant, disabusing work, always aware of its ironies, reminds us, 'moving on' is not synonymous with 'leaving behind.'"
Booklist, Kirkus, The Oxonian Review, Shelf Awareness, and The Washington Post provided positive reviews, as well.
Kirkus called Citizen "[f]requently powerful, occasionally opaque." In The Washington Post, Michael Lindgren wrote, "Part protest lyric, part art book, Citizen is a dazzling expression of the painful double consciousness of black life in America."
The book was ranked the greatest literary work of the 2010s by Literary Hub contributors.
In a reflection ahead of its tenth anniversary, writer Lisa Teasley wrote: "Yet Citizen: An American Lyric continues to be deeply, unsettlingly relevant. It captures the unequal recognition of belonging that Black citizens in white America receive. By using second person, Rankine brings us into the feelings of invisibility and hypervisibility produced by these situations." | WIKI |
fredag, oktober 06, 2006
JRuby import
OK, for those of you who thought that importing a class into the current namespace by assigning a constant, here is a small implementation (based on include_class), that lets you use import like you do it in Java:
require 'java'
class Object
def import(name)
unless String === name
name = name.java_class.inspect
end
class_name = name.match(/((.*)\.)?([^\.]*)/)[3]
clazz = self.kind_of?(Module) ? self : self.class
unless clazz.const_defined?(class_name)
if (respond_to?(:class_eval, true))
class_eval("#{class_name} = #{name}")
else
eval("#{class_name} = #{name}")
end
end
end
end
import java.util.TreeMap
x = TreeMap.new
x['foo'] = 'bar'
puts x
5 kommentarer:
yan sa...
Thanks Ola! Very cool. This seems a pretty clean way to do it..and makes sense in my brain. I thought I would somehow have to access the caller's bindings using the Kernel#bindings method, but this makes sense too...maybe even more sense
yan sa...
Ola, I'm not sure I understand why you check whether class_eval is available. Is that like a scope check to see if you're executing inside a class?
Eugene Kuleshov sa...
How about "import static" like construct? ;-)
Rich Apodaca sa...
Very nice article, Ola. I also liked the one listing 11 Ruby metaprogramming techniques.
As a variation on this approach, I've written a tutorial that shows how to map Java package names onto Ruby modules using Ruby Java Bridge.
Anonym sa...
Mmm.. Don't know if I quiote agree with you.. But I don't have a good argument against you yet :)
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Click to viewWelcome back to Ask a Biogeek, a biweekly column where UC Berkeley biology researcher Terry Johnson answers your questions, no matter how weird. Reader Mike asks:
Can you speculate on what a silicon based lifeform might look like? What would an "organic chemistry" look like for silicon, instead of carbon?
Life on earth is (so far as we know) exclusively carbon-based. Thanks to its position on the periodic table, carbon can comfortably form bonds with up to four other elements - including other carbon atoms - allowing it to form a wide variety of complicated molecules necessary for terrestrial life. Silicon, being right below carbon on the periodic table, is chemically similar in many ways, leading science fiction authors to consider the possibility of life with a biochemistry that switches out carbon in favor of silicon.
In 1894 H. G. Wells wrote:
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One is startled towards fantastic imaginings by such a suggestion: visions of silicon-aluminium organisms – why not silicon-aluminium men at once? – wandering through an atmosphere of gaseous sulphur, let us say, by the shores of a sea of liquid iron some thousand degrees or so above the temperature of a blast furnace.
Since then writers have imagined silicon-based creatures as diverse as Star Trek's Horta and the Xenomorph (though I may be cheating here, since it's unclear how rigidly the xenomorph adheres to silicon-only biochemistry).
"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" - a clear example of carbon chauvinism.
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Silicon is also a major component in microchips, so one can make a case that an artificial intelligence would be a silicon-based lifeform. So, which is more likely - stumbling upon silicon-based biochemistry out there amongst the stars, or creating life that thinks with silicon-based microchips here on earth?
Silicon is the most abundant element (barring oxygen) in the earth's crust. If silicon is so chemically similar to carbon and it's so readily available, why aren't we silicon-based? Silicon is routinely used by carbon-based lifeforms, but while (for example) diatoms (a type of algae) make their cell walls out of silica, carbon in is the backbone of their DNA, their proteins, and the basis of their biochemistry. Silicon is just along for the ride.
The answer involves subtle differences between carbon and silicon chemistry. While carbon and silicon can theoretically form very similar kinds of structures, complicated carbon-based molecules tend to the stable, while complicated silicon-based molecules tend to fall apart (especially in water).
There's a major waste disposal issue as well - carbon dioxide is a gas, and silicon dioxide (sand) is a solid. When we metabolize oxygen, we produce carbon dioxide as a waste product, but it dissolves easily in our blood for rapid waste management. If, on the other hand, we produced sand internally with every breath, chaffing would be the least of our worries. Most silicon molecules also lack chirality (or "handedness"), which is a hallmark of terrestrial carbon-based life, but not necessarily a deal-breaker.
I won't go so far as to say that there's no such thing as a silicon-based biochemistry. As Arthur C. Clarke said, "When [a distinguished and elderly] states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Being relatively young and almost completely undistinguished, my odds would be even worse. I will say that, if a silicon-based biochemistry exists, it probably doesn't use silicon the way we use carbon, and we might even have a difficult time recognizing it as life (unless it mind-melds with Spock).
Though silicon would be the basis for a chancy biochemistry, it makes (in part) a fine integrated circuit. As computation and storage become less expensive, our knowledge of how living things think has expanded, thanks mostly to increasingly powerful experimental techniques. Our brains are Gordian Knots of neurons; a tangle of cunningly interconnected cells from which consciousness arises. If we'd like to replicate that consciousness in silico, we need to do more than untie the Gordian knot - we need to somehow ascertain which strands of the intact knot interact to understand and reproduce the brain's wiring.
Alexander the Great's solution is pretty close to the mark, though he'd have needed a thinner sword. First, you section the brain into microscopically thin slices, then you image the slices. Reconstruct the images into a 3D model and you might be able to tease out which neurons communicated with each other.
A fruit fly brain - an image that took 10 months to produce.
It's also possible to help distinguish individual neurons by coaxing neurons to fluoresce different colors, a technique aptly called a brainbow.
The amazing technicolor brainbow.
Once you have a wiring diagram for the neurons in a brain, you can run a computational model of how they'd interact. Today it takes a supercomputer like Blue Brain to simulate even part of a rat's brain, but that part (the neocortal column) looks to be reacting much like a real rat's would.
A virtual rat neocortal column, according to Blue Brain.
I expect that the first silicon-based life will be a simulation of carbon-based life. While our brains rely on their three dimensional structure, ion channels, and neurotransmitters to do the grunt work of consciousness, a simulated brain could achieve the same end result without the benefit of carbon. With a little luck these exacting imaging studies will become become possible without having to chop a brain into thousands of thin slices.
When that day arrives, you'll see me stocking up on hard drives.
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The caregiving behavioural system
Attachment theory, an influential theoretical framework for the study of intimate relationships, argues that all humans are born with the capacity and motivation to engage in caregiving behaviours aimed at providing protection and support to close others. These behaviours are organized by an innate behavioural system, called the caregiving system, which is believed to have emerged over the course of primate evolution to ensure the survival of vulnerable offspring. That is, because infants in many primate species, including humans, are highly altricial (i.e., immature and helpless at birth), they cannot survive without caregiver support. Attachment theory proposes that this evolutionary pressure favoured the establishment of the caregiving behavioural system, which activates in response to a close other's distress and motivates the caregiver to provide that close other with protection, comfort, and help during times of threat or need. Caregiving behaviours are aimed at reducing the partner's distress and supporting his or her coping efforts, for example, by communicating interest in the partner's problems, expressing confidence in his or her ability to cope with the stressor, supplying love and affection, and/or providing instrumental help such as advice or tangible resources. Although this system was first conceptualized in child-parent bonds, its operation has since been established in adult intimate relationships, where both partners may occasionally take on the role of caregiver. Attachment theory assumes that the effectiveness of the caregiving behaviour enacted determines the quality of the attachment bond between a caregiver and his or her partner.
Effective caregiving
The central component of effective caregiving is the taking on of what Batson (1991) called an empathic stance toward another person's suffering or needs. This means adopting the perspective, or "putting oneself in the shoes", of the partner in order to help lessen his or her distress in a stressful situation, or to help him or her pursue personal growth and development goals in challenging contexts. The empathic stance is characterized by two key, related components: sensitivity and responsiveness. Sensitivity refers to the ability to effectively detect and interpret the partner's cues of distress, worry, or need, and to provide the type and amount of support that is well matched to the partner's wants and needs. This tailoring of caregiving efforts to the particular characteristics of the specific situation is essential for effective care. Responsiveness is the ability to provide support in a way that makes the partner feel understood (i.e., the caregiver has accurately captured the speaker's problem, needs, and emotions), validated (i.e., the caregiver confirms that the care recipient is a valued individual and that his or her feelings and responses in the situation are reasonable), and cared for (i.e., caregiver should communicate affection and concern). Caregiving that lacks these two components - for example, care that is intrusive or domineering - can lead the care recipient to feel misunderstood, disrespected, and like a burden to their partner, thereby actually impeding coping.
Invisible support
Even well-intentioned support can negatively impact the care recipient's psychological adjustment to stressful events if it is inappropriate or excessive, or inadvertently highlights the fact that the care recipient does not have sufficient skills or resources to handle stressor by him- or herself. Consequently, Niall Bolger and colleagues have put forward the idea that support is most effective when it is invisible, or operates outside of the care-recipient's direct awareness. To investigate this proposition, the researchers recruited couples in which one member was preparing to undergo a highly stressful event, the New York State Bar Examination, and had both members of the couple complete daily diary entries about given and received emotional support. They found that the law students exhibited heightened levels of depression on days they reported receiving support, but lowered levels of depression on the days when their partners reported providing more support than the law students reported receiving. That is, participants in this study gained most psychological benefits from support they were not explicitly aware of having received.
Definition and functions
In addition to giving support and reassurance during distress, another important function of caregiving within intimate relationships is the provision of support for a relationship partner's personal growth, exploration, and goal strivings. In attachment theory, this type of support is termed secure base and is postulated to encourage the relationship partner's confident, autonomous exploration of the environment outside of the attachment relationship. This phenomenon was originally observed in young children; children whose parents showed more intrusiveness were less likely to engage in play and exploration in a novel environment.
Components of the secure base
Feeney and Thrush (2010) have identified three main functional components of secure base caregiving. First, individuals can support their relationship partner's exploratory, autonomous behaviour by being available in case support is needed. This can include actions such as removing obstacles to the partner's goal pursuit (for example, taking over some household chores to free up time for the partner to engage in a new activity), being sensitive and responsive to the partner's communications of distress, and communicating readiness to help in the event that support becomes needed. Second, effective caregiving does not unnecessarily interfere with exploration. That is, effective caregivers do not provide support when it is neither needed nor desired, attempt to take over or control the activity, or disrupt the partner's goal strivings. Third, partners should communicate encouragement and acceptance of exploration (i.e., convey enthusiasm about the pursuit rather than suggest that it is not worthwhile or will somehow detract from the relationship). Individuals who perceive their partners to be available to help are more persistent in the performance of challenging activities, whereas individuals whose partners show more interference during an activity show less persistence at the task, poorer performance, less enthusiasm for the challenge, greater negativity/hostility toward their partner, and decreases in self-esteem. Partners' communications of enthusiasm are related to better performance, heightened enthusiasm, better mood, increases in state self-esteem and enhanced self-perceptions, greater enjoyment, and more positive feelings toward the partner.
Dependency paradox
All humans have a fundamental, evolutionarily-rooted need to feel socially connected to other people (i.e., to achieve "belongingness" or "relatedness"). Simultaneously, people also hold a need for "autonomy", or the desire to maintain a sense of independence and self-sufficiency. While these two psychological needs may initially appear to be contradictory (that is, it is not readily apparent how people may reconcile their need for social connection with their need for independence), psychological research shows that individuals who are more dependent on their intimate partners for support actually experience more autonomy, rather than less (a phenomenon that has been labelled the "dependency paradox"). For example, Feeney (2007) showed that individuals whose romantic partners were more comfortable with having their partner depend on them were more likely to independently pursue and achieve their personal goals over a period of 6 months (without their partner's direct assistance). Such research is consistent with the idea that the most effective type of support for promoting personal growth (e.g., accepting challenges, trying new things, exploring) is support that involves being available and prepared to help, and that individuals who feel confident in the availability of a secure base to fall back on in case their goal pursuits go wrong are less likely to actually cling to their secure base.
Variability in caregiving
Although the tendency to care for intimate others is universal, there is wide variability in the quality and amount of caregiving that individuals enact. This variability is determined by a multitude of factors, including characteristics of the caregiver, the care recipient, and the relationship; some of these factors are more stable (e.g., personality differences), whereas others are more malleable and context-dependent (e.g., motivation).
Motivation
As effective caregiving involves a great amount of responsibility, as well as the expenditure of cognitive, emotional, and/or tangible resources, caregivers must be sufficiently motivated in order to provide responsive support to their relationship partner. That is, people who do not possess enough motivation to help will be less effective at providing care that is appropriate for their partner's needs. Furthermore, individuals may differ in the degree to which they hold altruistic versus egoistic motivations for helping. Altruistic motivations are centred on the desire to advance the significant other's welfare, whereas egoistic motivations are centred on the desire to gain benefits for oneself, or to avoid sanctions for not helping and/or other negative consequences to the self. More altruistic and less egoistic motivations for caregiving are linked to better outcomes for the care recipient and enhanced relationship quality.
Skills, abilities, and resources
Effective caregiving requires the caregiver to possess sufficient cognitive and self-regulatory resources. For example, caregivers must be able to regulate the negative emotions aroused by witnessing another person in distress. Failure of this emotional regulation may lead the caregiver to become overcome by their personal distress, adopt the role of a needy person rather than the caregiver, or to distance oneself from the partner as a way of regulating that distress. Research shows that particularly severe or chronic stressors may overwhelm the caregiver and decrease his/her ability to provide support to the partner. For example, Bolger, Foster, Vinokur, and Ng (1996) found that breast cancer patients who experienced the highest levels of distress in the month immediately following their diagnosis were less likely to receive support from their husbands over the following six months.
Attachment style
Personal attachment style is tightly linked to beliefs about, and strategies in, providing care to dependent others. Attachment avoidance, which is characterized by discomfort with intimacy, is related to less support giving and with keeping distance from a partner in need, particularly when the partner is experiencing higher levels of distress. When avoidant individuals do provide support, they tend to be more controlling. Attachment anxiety is related to controlling, overinvolved, intrusive, and compulsive caregiving (e.g., preoccupation with the fear that the partner will leave them if they do not provide adequate care). For example, anxiously attached individuals provide higher levels of support to partners who are about to engage in a stressful laboratory task, and this support is not matched to the level of need expressed by their partner. Anxiously attached individuals also display more negative support behaviours, such as blaming. Secure attachment is associated with more effective forms of caregiving (i.e., care that is responsive and not overinvolved).
Care recipient characteristics
Because careseeking and caregiving are highly interdependent, complimentary processes, individuals are more likely to receive caregiving efforts from their partner when they experience and express higher levels of distress or need. Individuals high in attachment avoidance, who are uncomfortable with intimacy and relying on others, are less likely to seek support during a stressful situation, and, when they do seek support, are more likely to use indirect strategies (e.g., hinting, sulking).
Benefits of caregiving
Receipt of social support, or the perception that social support will be readily available when needed, is linked to a multitude of benefits, including improvements in mood and self-esteem. Provision of effective care can also benefit the caregiver because it is likely to foster feelings of self-worth and efficacy, build confidence in one's interpersonal skills, promote the self-view that one is a moral person, and increase feelings of love and social connectedness. Research has also linked the provision of social support within intimate relationships to enhanced relationship satisfaction for the care recipient and caregiver. For example, higher levels of support in newlywed couples predicted higher relationship satisfaction two years later. Responsive care is especially important for relationship satisfaction. | WIKI |
User:Generalissima/Qitdlarssuaq
Qitdlarssuaq (c. 1795 – c. 1870) was an Inuit angakkuq who led a migration of family and followers from Cumberland Sound on Baffin Island to Northern Greenland following a blood feud. After murdering a man in the 1830s who sought vengeance on a close friend, he led a group of followers to Pond Inlet in North Baffin. Attacked by relatives of his victims, he continued with a group of fifty followers north to Devon Island. Learning from European whalers about the Inughuit territories in Northern Greenland, Qitdlarssuaq treked across Ellesmere Island and the Nares Strait before settling down. Possibly fleeing murder a second time, Qitdlarssuaq died c. 1870 on Ellesmere during an unsuccesful return to Baffin.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/qitdlarssuaq | WIKI |
Is Swedish Massage Really Effective and Safe?
Furthermore, according to some of the sources consulted, the Swedish message also includes performing vibrations . These are manipulations performed by pressing the hand on a part of the body and making it vibrate rapidly; this type of movement should promote muscle relaxation .
Finally, remember that, in many cases, the masseur can add joint mobility exercises and passive stretching exercises to the different types of manipulations mentioned above , in order to complete the effects and increase the benefits of the Swedish massage spa in Denver.
How long does a Swedish massage session last?
Normally, a Swedish massage session lasts about 50-60 minutes after which you should feel a feeling of well-being and general relaxation.
Effectiveness
Although the Swedish massage is not considered as a real therapy against ailments and diseases, there are several people who, after having experienced it, declare to benefit from it.
In fact, since it is a massage it is plausible that – if well performed by professional masseurs – it is able to promote psychophysical relaxation , to relieve small ailments (for example, muscle pains of various kinds, tensions, etc.) and to promote lymphatic and blood circulation .
However, the response to Swedish massage may not necessarily be the same in all people. Therefore, its effectiveness cannot be guaranteed in any individual and in any situation. Likewise, even the safety of this type of massage cannot be guaranteed in every person, especially if one suffers from particular diseases or disorders.
Contraindications
When Swedish Massage Doesn’t Have to Be Done
As with any other form of massage, Swedish massage also has some contraindications. More specifically, it must not be practiced on individuals who find themselves in one or more of the following situations:
Ongoing skin infections ( bacterial , viral or fungal);
Presence of open wounds, wounds not completely healed, burns or skin lesions of any kind;
Fever and ongoing systemic infections (for example, flu states );
Heart failure with edema of the lower limbs and / or the presence of cardiovascular diseases of any type;
Presence of inflammatory states ;
Presence of fractures ;
In case of recent contractures ;
In pregnancy (mothers-to-be should seek advice from their doctor before undergoing any type of massage).
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Rhodes Twenty Four
Rhodes Twenty Four was a Michelin-starred restaurant located in the City of London. Run by celebrity chef Gary Rhodes, the restaurant was located on the 24th floor of Tower 42, formerly known as the Natwest Tower and operated between 2003 and 2014.
Description
Rhodes Twenty Four opened in 2003, following the closure of restaurants City Rhodes and Rhodes in the Square the previous year. Located on the 24th floor of Tower 42 in a location formerly used by Roux Fine Dining, it served modern British cuisine described in its initial press release as "Very British Fayre". Chef Gary Rhodes was introduced into the space by Albert Roux, who put him in touch with the company looking to revamp the former Restaurant Twentyfour. The original agreement was to take over the restaurant, private dining rooms and bar for an initial five years. The restaurant was funded by Restaurant Associates, and fronted by Rhodes using the chef's signature dishes (including his bread and butter pudding and jaffa cake dessert).
Rhodes described his hopes for the restaurant on launch: "If we never get a Michelin star here, I will be very disappointed, but what I really want is customers." It won a Michelin star in 2005, which it retained until it closed as one of two Michelin starred restaurants for Gary Rhodes in London.
Reception
Fay Maschler reviewed the restaurant on the second day after opening in November 2003, giving four out five stars whilst describing the meal as good hearty food. Rick Stein, who happened to be dining with the critic, described a potted mackerel and gooseberry jelly dish as "quite nice stuff". Marina O'Loughlin, writing for the Metro in the same month, also gave four out of five stars and said that the food gave "superior comfort food with a view". Giles Coren reviewed Rhodes Twenty Four in December 2003 for The Times. He found a great deal of difficulty in booking a table, which was only alleviated after revealing himself as a restaurant critic. He described the menu as being "standard" for a Gary Rhodes restaurant, but said that it was "not in the class of Gary’s two recent closures", but "competent". He gave an overall score of six out of ten.
A review in January 2004 in The Independent described the restaurant as being like a "boardroom", but praised the use of both suet and mutton on the menu, giving an overall score of thirteen out of twenty. The Evening Standard conducted a second review in 2005, with Toby Young visiting the restaurant. He gave it two stars out of five, describing the food as "OK, but nothing special" and criticising the restaurant for only serving locally-grown, in-season produce. Mark Bolland reviewed it again for the Evening Standard in April 2008, describing it as being much like an airport terminal but said that the menu was imaginative and featured the expected Rhodes twists, but found that the service was slow and robotic; giving the restaurant three out of five stars.
As of 1 May 2014, the site is occupied by City Social, a Jason Atherton and Restaurant Associates venture. | WIKI |
Get Class 11th NCERT Solutions for Chapter 1 from the English Hornbill Textbook. Chapter 1 is a story about how the author has drawn a portrait of his grandmother with a pen and tried to unfold the beautiful relationship with her while telling the readers about his grandmother’s appearance and daily-basis activities. The NCERT solutions of this chapter have been provided after a detailed analysis of the latest syllabus issued by CBSE. Students of Class 11th can study the answers provided here to score well in their school exams.
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill Textbook (Prose) - Chapter 1
Ques: Mention the three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad.
Answer: The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad are:
- childhood – when he went to the village school and the grandmother helped him to get ready and went to school with him.
- boyhood – when he went to the city school in a bus. He shared a room with his grandmother but she could no longer help him in his studies.
- early youth – when he went to the university and was given a room of his own. The common link of friendship was snapped.
Ques: Mention three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school.
Answer: The three reasons why the author’s grandmother was disturbed when he started going to the city school are:
- She hated western Science and learning.
- She was pained to know that there was no teaching of God and the scriptures there.
- She was allergic to music. She thought it was not meant for decent people and gentlefolk. It was the monopoly of prostitutes and beggars.
Ques: Which language do you think the author and his grandmother used while talking to each other?
Answer: The author’s grandmother was not much educated. So, I think the author and his grandmother used to talk in their mother tongue—in this case Panjabi.
Ques: Which language do you use to talk to elderly relatives in your family?
Answer: Do on your own
Ques: Notice the following uses of the word ‘tell’ in the text.
- Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary.
- I would tell her English words and little things of Western science and learning.
- At her age, one could never tell.
- She told us that her end was near.
Given below are four different senses of the word ‘tell’. Match the meanings to the uses listed above.
- make something known to someone in spoken or written words
- count while reciting
- be sure
- give information to somebody
Answer: 1. Make something known to someone in spoken or written words: I would tell her English words and little things of western science and learning.
- Count while reciting: Her fingers were busy telling the beads of her rosary.
- Be sure: At her age, one could never tell.
- Give information to somebody: She told us that her end was near.
Ques: Mention the odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.
Answer: She had omitted to pray, she was not going to waste any more time talking to us. She lay peacefully in bed praying and telling her beads. Even before we could suspect, her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers.
Ques: Mention the way in which the sparrows expressed their sorrow when the author’s grandmother died.
Answer: The author’s grandmother shared a unique bond with the sparrows. She seemed at her happiest self while feeding the sparrows.
The day the author’s grandmother died, thousands of sparrows sat scattered around her dead body. They sat there in utter silence mourning the death of the grandmother. They took no notice of the bread crumbs thrown at them and flew away silently after the body was carried for the final rites. The next morning, the bread crumbs were swept away into the dustbin by the sweeper.
Ques: The author’s grandmother was a religious person. What are the different ways in which we come to know this?
Answer: The author’s grandmother was a deeply religious lady. We come to know this through the different ways of her behavior. She visited the temple every morning and read scriptures. At home, she always mumbled an inaudible prayer and kept telling the beads of a rosary. She would repeat prayers in a sing-song manner while getting the writer ready for school. She hoped that he would learn it by heart. She didn’t like English school as there was no teaching of God and scriptures.
Even while spinning at her spinning-wheel she would recite prayers. Perhaps it was only once that she forgot to say her prayers. It was on the evening prior to her death when she felt overexcited while celebrating the arrival of her grandson with songs and beatings of the drum. She continued praying and telling beads of her rosary till her last breath.
Ques: Describe the changing relationship between the author and his grandmother. Did their feelings for each other change?
Answer: During his boyhood, the author was completely dependent on his grandmother. She was a part of his life. The turning point in their friendship came when they went to city. She could no longer accompany him to school as he went there by bus. They shared the same room but she could not help him in his studies. She would ask him what the teachers had taught. She did not believe in the things that were taught at school. She was distressed that there was no teaching about God and the scriptures. She felt offended that music was also being taught. She expressed her disapproval silently. After this, she rarely talked to him. When he went to university, he was given a room of his own. The common link of friendship was snapped.
However, their feelings for each other did not change. They still loved each other deeply. She went to see the author off at the railway station when he was going abroad for higher studies. She showed no emotion but kissed his forehead silently. The author valued this as perhaps the last sign of physical contact between them. When the author returned after five years, she received him at the station. She clasped him in her arms. In the evening she celebrated his homecoming by singing songs and beating an old drum.
Ques: Would you agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character? If yes, give instances that show this.
Answer: Yes, I agree that the author’s grandmother was a person strong in character. She was a strong woman with strong beliefs. Although she was not formally educated, she was serious about the author’s education. She could not adjust herself to the western way of life, Science, and English education. She hated music and disapproved of its teaching in school.
She was a deeply religious lady. Her lips were always moving in silent prayer. She was always telling the beads of her rosary. She went to the temple daily and read the scriptures. She was distressed to know that there was no teaching about God and holy books at Khushwant’s new English school.
She was a kind lady She used to feed dogs in the village. In the city, she took to feeding sparrows. Although old in years and weak in a body she had the strength of mind. Just before her death, she refused to talk to the members of the family as she did not want to waste her time. She wanted to make up for the time last evening when she had not prayed to God. She lay peacefully in bed saying prayers and telling the beads of her rosary till she breathed her last.
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[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2068: [raster] Make out_db column of raster_columns view behave correctly
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Fri Oct 26 05:42:53 PDT 2012
#2068: [raster] Make out_db column of raster_columns view behave correctly
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Reporter: dustymugs | Owner: dustymugs
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: medium | Milestone: PostGIS 2.0.2
Component: raster | Version: 2.0.x
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Changes (by mloskot):
* cc: mateusz@… (added)
Comment:
Here is my chat on this problem with dustymags last night, copied from
http://irclogs.geoapt.com/postgis/%23postgis.2012-10-26.log
{{{
00:17:41 mloskot: dustymugs: here is the story
00:17:50 mloskot: 1. create table with raster column
00:18:03 mloskot: 2. Insert images
00:18:44 mloskot: 3. AddRasterConstraints(..., FALSE, TRUE)
-- means I say FALSE for out_db constraints
00:19:05 dustymugs: ok
00:19:07 mloskot: Does it mean, I require the out_db field
in raster_columns has NULL value?
00:19:48 mloskot: or default value (whatever it is)
00:19:48 dustymugs: let me jog my memory
00:20:36 mloskot: dustymugs: no rush, I'll try to catch you
tomorrow, it's afte 1am for me, so heading off now
00:20:44 dustymugs: OK
00:21:01 dustymugs: looking at my main raster db, the out_db
column is NULL...
00:21:06 mloskot: dustymugs: simply, I have an impression
the constraints could be documented better, but first I have to understand
it well :)
00:21:10 mloskot: right
00:21:23 dustymugs: yeah... I really need to refresh my memory
about this
00:21:32 mloskot: but, if the out_db constraint is set to
TRUE, then we have two options:
00:21:51 dustymugs: probably need to check the tickets related
to this very column
00:21:57 mloskot: a) if it's in-db raster, e.g. 3 bands,
value will be {f,f,f}
00:22:01 dustymugs: I think there is something historical...
00:22:06 mloskot: b) if out-db ratser, then {t,t,t}
00:22:24 dustymugs: your A and B examples are what the ideal
should be
00:22:25 mloskot: so, FALSE means UNKNOWN, thus seems imply
NULL
00:23:09 dustymugs: FALSE in the addrasterconstraint means
that the function does NOT attempt to add the outdb constraint... so, the
out_db column would be NULL
00:23:22 mloskot: ok, that makes sense
00:23:27 dustymugs: BUT!!!!
00:23:30 mloskot: ?
00:23:56 dustymugs: by the looks of my production database, I
DO have the outdb constraint on my raster columns
00:24:05 dustymugs: AND the out_db column is NULL
00:24:23 dustymugs: It should have some {t} or {f}
combinations
00:24:35 mloskot: yup
00:25:03 dustymugs: I'm almost certain there is something
historical reason why I didn't follow through with it
00:25:16 dustymugs: I'll need to dig through emails and the
tickets to see what is up
00:25:38 dustymugs: for 2.1, I will make the behavior
consistent though... heck... new ticket time
00:25:50 mloskot: it's not that important, but in case you'd
have a spare moment to find that, I'd appreciate, no rush though
00:25:52 mloskot: cheers
}}}
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35th Guam Legislature
The 35th Guam Legislature was the meeting of the Guam Legislature that was convened in Hagatna, Guam on January 7, 2019 and ended on January 3, 2021, during the first and second years of Lou Leon Guerrero's Governorship. It was succeeded by the 36th Guam Legislature, which began in 2021 and ended in 2023.
In the 2018 Guam election, the Democratic Party of Guam won a supermajority. This is the first supermajority Guam Legislature since the 30th Guam Legislature. This legislature is the first to have a female supermajority.
Legislative
* Speaker: Tina Muna Barnes
* Vice Speaker: Telena Cruz Nelson
* Legislative Secretary: Amanda Shelton
Majority (Democratic)
* Majority Leader: Telena Cruz Nelson
* Assistant Majority Leader: Kelly Marsh Taitano
* Majority Whip: Amanda Shelton
* Assistant Majority Whip: Regine Biscoe Lee
Minority (Republican)
* Minority Leader: Wil Castro
* Assistant Minority Leader: Louise Borja Muna
* Minority Whip: Telo Taitague
* Assistant Minority Whip: James Moylan | WIKI |
3D Printing of Open Source Hardware for Science
= 3D Printing of Open Source Hardware for Science (3DPOSHS) = Note to Professors/Instructors This graduate engineering course was originally developed and taught by Dr. Joshua M. Pearce, while acting as a visiting professor for Aalto University in Finland as a Fulbright Aalto Distinguished Chair (original course). All content is released cc-by-sa and you are welcome and encouraged to use any or all of the course at your own university. It was meant to act as two coupled courses over two Finnish terms (roughly equivalent to one U.S. semester). It made use of a bank of open source Lulzbot Taz 6 and Lulzbot Mini 3-D printers housed in the Aalto FabLab. For instructors wishing to replicate the course it is recommended to have at least one 3-D printer for every 3 students on reserve for the course as the course is printing intensive.
The general idea is that the first part of the course hones students' skills and then they apply it to a hardware challenge in their own lab. The second part of the course invites the best projects to be polished for a peer-reviewed open hardware article. For an example of the outcome of the course see the following manuscript developed by 3 course students to enable the use of 3-D printed plastic in chemical processing: Ismo T. S. Heikkinen, Christoffer Kauppinen, Zhengjun Liu, Sanja M. Asikainen, Steven Spoljaric, Jukka V. Seppälä, Hele Savin, and Joshua M. Pearce. Chemical Compatibility of Fused Filament Fabrication -based 3-D Printed Components with Solutions Commonly Used in Semiconductor Wet Processing. Additive Manufacturing 23, pp. 99-107 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2018.07.015 open access, Source files- Included SCAD and STL files for the designs tested.
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to the use of distributed digital manufacturing of open source hardware for scientific and engineering applications. Recent progress in this area has radically reduced the costs of scientific equipment, while enabling high-quality state-of-the-art customized experiments.
First this course will provide an overview of open-source hardware and technological development in theory and practice. Licensing issues will be explained. Both the use of free and open source design and manufacturing software and their user communities will be highlighted and demonstrated. Next, the course will detail the design, use and maintenance of the tools themselves and open-source electronics. In particular, the self-replicating rapid prototypers (RepRap) will be discussed in detail including: hardware, firmware, slicing and printer controller software for operating and maintaining the device. Finally the material properties, applications and ramifications of RepRap technology will be discussed along with the development of and other open hardware fabrication tools. Then, the technological evolution of the open-source digital manufacturing technology will be covered with a focus on developing innovation for improved performance and customization.
This will be a project-based course where students learn how to develop open hardware for their own experiments and assignments will develop students' skills through progressively more sophisticated design challenges. The final and most complicated challenge will be student-selected to assist their own research group and will make use of open source 3-D printers to fabricate the device.
Prerequisites. The course is meant for graduate students in science or engineering. While students in other areas with a strong interest in this topic are also welcomed they are expected to have a fundamental scientific understanding and be technically proficient.
Why Take This Course?
Why 3-D Printing? A recent report from data company Wanted Analytics found that in one month 35 percent of engineering job listings from a variety of fields, including biomedical, software, and transportation industries, required applicants familiar with 3-D printing. Forbes explains why 3D printing is such a big deal.
Why open source? You will make more money, because OS is more valuable. Recent analysis shows that jobs with the keywords "Microsoft Windows" have an average salary of $64,000, while jobs with the keyword "Linux" have an average salary of $99,000.
Why open source hardware in science? Numerous studies have now shown that custom scientific hardware creates enormous value, enables more rapid development of science, better equipment and provides jaw-dropping ROIs for science funders.
Required Course Material
Textbook: J.M. Pearce, The Open-Source Lab (Elsevier,2014). Other reading will be handouts in class, on-line reading, and emailed pdfs. See hyperlinks below.
Free and open source software needed:
* OpenSCAD,
* FreeCAD,
* Blender,
* Lulzbot Edition Cura.
Laptop computer to be brought to class.
Other Useful Books
* Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers
* Practical Laboratory Automation: Made Easy with AutoIt
* Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware (Technology in Action).
Course Organization
This course will be run as an intense seminar meeting as a group. Students will be expected to read the course material before class and actively participate in discussions. The majority of class time will be spent on projects in a flipped class format. Each student will be responsible for designing and in the final project building open source scientific hardware. Students will be responsible for giving short presentations on their projects on each sub-topic in front of the class.
Learning Objectives
* Learn the fundamentals of additive manufacturing (AM) and 3-D printing with polymers, along with those for emerging materials (e.g., metals, ceramics, flexible materials, nanocomposites, biomaterials) and complex architectures.
* Learn the fundamentals of free and open source hardware (FOSH) design, licensing, and culture.
* Understand the maintenance, trouble shooting and operation of self-replicating rapid prototype (RepRap) 3-D printers.
* Understand operating principles, capabilities, and limitations of fused filament fabrication (FFF)-based 3-D printing.
* Understand the principles of "Design for 3-D printing" and compare and contrast additive processes with conventional manufacturing in terms of rate, quality, cost, environmental impact, social control and flexibility.
* Gain hands-on experience with RepRap 3-D printers; use these machines to fabricate example parts of increasing complexity, post-process the parts, and study the results.
* Become familiar with the complete workflow of open source AM, including computational design tools, firmware, software, file formats, toolpath generation, and characterization.
* Understand how to make a new part and alter an existing part for RepRap 3-D printing for custom applications.
* Study applications of distributed manufacturing using 3-D printing specifically scientific equipment
* Understand the requirements to design open source scientific hardware
* Understand documentation necessary to publish in the field of open source scientific hardware
* Place open source 3-D printing in the context of the evolving distributed manufacturing infrastructure.
Grading
Grading: Grades will be based on 3 projects of increasing complexity.
* 1) /OpenSCAD Crystal Structure Project/ 15%
* 2) /Tool Customization Project/ 15%
* 3) /Final project/
* 4) Novel Design: CAD 20%
* 5) Novel Design: Presentation 10%
* 6) Novel Design: Documentation 40%
Late Assignments
Deduct 10% per day, up to 5 working days, then 0 grade. Only exception is for documented illness. Missed projects are penalized by the negative square of the percent total.
Course Policies
Appropriate behavior, attendance, participation and collaboration with your peers on group assignments is expected. Collaboration/Plagiarism Rules Collaboration is encouraged on the group project but the individual projects must be completed alone. Follow all University rules.
Course Schedule
OSL= Open-Source Lab textbook
Module 1: Introduction to OSH
* 1) OSL Chap. 2 OSH Introduction, Cathedral and Bazaar, Microsoft OSH, OSH intro video, TEDxBoulder - Nathan Seidle (Sparfun)- How Open Hardware will Take Over the World, Lulzbot factory tour and discussion of OSH business by Jeff Moe, The Law of Accelerating Returns by Ray Kurzweil, Do Makers Propose a More Open Source Future? - Idea Channel, PBS Digital Studios, 2015 the Year OSS went nuclear, Can Open-Sourcing Transform Electronics Hardware?
* 2) OSL Chap. 3 OS License OS License, Creative Commons copyright licenses, OS software for GNU-Linux, The Future of 3D Printing: Smarter IP Strategies, Less Lawsuits
Module 2: Open source CAD
* 1) OpenSCAD, OpenSCAD manual, MOST SCAD Libraries on Github, Object oriented OpenSCAD, RapCAD
* 2) FreeCAD, Bram de Vries FreeCAD video tutorials (starting with 1 of 8)Using OpenSCAD tricks in FreeCAD
* 3) Blender, Using Blender to Model for 3-D printing, 2D to 3D in Blender, Creating 3D models for printing with Blender: Advanced tips
* 1) Tricks - Multicolor, A few ways to strengthen 3D printed parts, 3D print from McMaster-Carr, 3DHubs - how to optimize design for FFF
* 2) Converting 2D images to 3D for printing using open source software, Images to OpenSCAD Via Inkscape, Celtic Knot SCAD, Bezier curves and knots script for Blender
* 3) Open Source Photogrammetry, Open source 3D scanners
Module 3: RepRap
RepRap
* 1) OSL Chap. 5
* 2) Watch RepRap video, The RepRap project- Ranellucci
* 3) RepRap build OSL Chap. 5, Athena_Build_Overview MOST Delta RepRap
* 4) MOST Delta mods - see also: Github MTU-MOST repositories, Open-source syringe pump, Open-source metal 3-D printer, MOST mods, another approach to PCB design
* 5) Mech strength: Mechanical Properties of Components Fabricated with Open-Source 3-D Printers Under Realistic Environmental Conditions, The Effects of PLA Color on Material Properties of 3-D Printed Components], Preprint for tensile strength for many commercial 3-D printing materials
Lulzbot
* 1) TAZ 6
* 2) Lulzbot Mini
* 3) TAZ 6 Guide
* 4) Taz Mini Guide
* 5) Lulzbot Cura Quick Print profiles
* 6) Octoprint
Software toolchain
* 1) Software - Lulzbot Cura Edition, Slic3r, Cura,RepRapPro Slicer, tweak AtoZ Cura plugin, Matter Control
* 2) Printer controllers - Printrun, Franklin -- How to Install Franklin on your delta MOST printer, Franklin use video, Using Franklin (long), Hacking Franklin
* 1) OSL Chap. 4 OS microcontrollers Arduino Tutorials, Makershed comparison, Jeremy Blum TED talk, Nathan Seidle- SparkFun
Module 4: OS Community
* 1) RepRap IRC, RepRap Forums, RepRap Groups
* 2) Arduino Forum, Arduino google group
* 3) Free and open repositories of designs, Yeggi 3DP search, STL Finder
* 4) Tricks: support, raft, parts, orientation, fill, slicer choice, pictorial guide to problems,pictorial guide to reprap print trouble shooting, RichRap Slic3r is Nicer, living hinges, post processing
* 5) Appropedia, demo page
Module 5: OS Science
* 1) OSL Chap. 1 examples 3D printable science equipment
* 2) OSL Chap. 6
* 3) OSL Chap. 7
* Policy: Quantifying value of FOSH, ROI, Science for All: How to Make Free, Open Source Laboratory Hardware, Scientific American, National Academy of Engineering Special Issue on Open Source Hardware
Bonus material
* 1) Post processing 3D hubs summary
* 2) Recyclebot, Open Source Ecology TED talk
* 3) The Economist-- A third industrial revolution, Where we go from here - types of OS3DP Open-source metal 3-D printer
* 4) First International Workshop on "Low-cost 3D Printing for Science, Education and Sustainable Development, 25. Hopes and Fears, 27. Open Hardware and Arduino, 31. Prehistoric Collections: Digitizing the Leaky collection and interesting perspectives on digital rights and proprietary museum collections, 33. Bringing a CAD model into a physical object: Ranelucci video, 54. The future of 3D printing: Another Ranelucci video.
Part 2: Advanced 3-D printing of open source hardware for science
Part 2: Advanced 3-D printing of open source hardware for science (By Invitation Only) The best student projects from period 1 will be selected to be further refined in period 2 of the course. This will focus on documentation, design optimization, validation, technical specification evaluation, economic analysis and writing for the peer-reviewed literature. The course outcome will be a peer-reviewed publication submitted to a journal such as HardwareX, a new journal from Elsevier, to encourage open design of scientific hardware.
Prerequisites: Part 1 and invitation from instructor. Grading: Grades will be based on preparation of an open source hardware article for peer review.
Schedule
Note to instructors: This second part normally only meets once per week and operates more as an independent study. In my group we use a algorithm for paper writing, which is particularly useful for writing many papers at the simultaneously and it is a good way to introduce new students to academic writing.
* 1) Importance of publishing, Introduction to algorithm: MOST paper writing], Pearce, J.M. How to Perform a Literature Review with Free and Open Source Software. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 23(9), 2018. open access
* 2) OS Research, Journals selection, Impact factor, h-index (see below)
* 3) Methods and HardwareX template Lit review due
* 4) Results/Figures, How to make a figure to publish,Review Process, Outline, Reviewers, Journal Selection due
* 5) Discussion, Future work and Conclusions, Penultimate design/experiments due
* 6) Draft 1 Due Presentations
* 7) Final Project Full Documentation due midnight
Potential Target Journals
Core open hardware for science journals
* HardwareX
* Journal of Open Hardware
Traditional
* PloS One
* The Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA) is now SLAS Technology
* Instruements and Experimental Techniques
* IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
* Review of Scientific Instruments
* Measurement Science and Technology
* Speciality journals in your field
Pure OA journals
* Designs
* Instruments
* Inventions
* Technologies
3D printing specific journals
* 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing journal (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers)
* The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
* Rapid Prototyping Journal. The international journal for research on additive manufacturing and 3D printing.
* Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
* Additive Manufacturing
* 3D printed materials and systems
* Progress in Additive Manufacturing
* International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
Protocol Journals may have interest
* Nature Protocols
* MethodsX
Impact Factor
The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. In any given year, the impact factor of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year, of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years, divided by the total number of articles published in that journal during the two preceding years. So are articles in that journal getting cited fast after publication. * Because citation counts have highly skewed distributions, the mean number of citations is potentially misleading if used to gauge the typical impact of articles in the journal rather than the overall impact of the journal itself. For example, about 90% of Nature's 2004 impact factor was based on only a quarter of its publications, and thus the actual number of citations for a single article in the journal is in most cases much lower than the mean number of citations across articles.
* The strength of the relationship between impact factors of journals and the citation rates of the papers therein has been steadily decreasing since articles began to be available digitally.
* Open access improves citation rates., Princeton
Lists:
* http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
* http://www.scijournal.org/
* https://jcr.incites.thomsonreuters.com/JCRJournalHomeAction.action?
Top journals in the 20+ (Nature and Science ~40), solid highly selective journals in teens- high single digits (Proceedings NAS is 9), specialty journals >1 (e.g. APL 3.4), new or unknown journals <1.
There is a big change with time based on popularity of the subject.
h-index
The definition of the index is that a scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times. Thus, the h-index reflects both the number of publications and the number of citations per publication. The index is designed to improve upon simpler measures such as the total number of citations or publications. The index works properly only for comparing scientists working in the same field; citation conventions differ widely among different fields.
Input data comes from subscription-based databases such as Scopus and the Web of Knowledge provide automated calculators. Harzing's Publish or Perish program calculates the h-index based on Google Scholar entries.
You can also somewhat predict your future hindex. The variables you have control over are variables are number of articles, number of distinct journals and number of articles in top journals.
To compare to older colleagues: The m-index is defined as h/n, where n is the number of years since the first published paper of the scientist; also called m-quotient. You can also subtract the difference in your starting years from their Google Scholar profile.
h-index: (goals for faculty at major research universities)
10≤h≤12: might be a typical value for advancement to tenure (associate professor) h≈18: advancement to full professor 15≤h≤20: fellowship in the American Physical Society might typically occur at this level h≥45: membership in the US National Academy of Sciences may typically be associated with such a value, except in exceptional circumstances.
Academic Web Presence
Strongly recommend claim your profiles on all 3 websites and manage them as well as set up accounts on the following: For helping ensure authorship For spreading your work open access For networking and jobs
* Orcid,
* Research ID,
* Academic.edu,
* Research gate,
* LinkedIn | WIKI |
John A. Spizziri
John Anthony Spizziri (born September 2, 1934) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1972 to 1978, representing District 13C for a single two-year term from 1972 to 1974 and then representing the 40th Legislative District for two terms, from 1974 to 1978, following the creation of the 40-district structure for the New Jersey Legislature in 1973. In addition to his private law practice, Spizziri served as attorney to the Planning Board for the Borough of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey for 43 years.
Early life and education
Spizziri earned degrees from Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences and from the Georgetown University Law Center. Born in Paterson, New Jersey and a resident of Franklin Lakes when he served in the Assembly, Spizziri was elected to the Wyckoff Township Committee in 1966. In 1972 he was appointed as attorney to the Planning Board for the Borough of Franklin Lakes, serving in that capacity until his retirement in 2015.
Legislative career
In the 1971 general election, the last in which districts were allocated by county, Spizziri (with 29,416 votes) and his Republican running mate C. Gus Rys (with 30,714) defeated Democrats Anthony Spataro (22,850) and Marjorie A. Wyngaarden (22,670) to win the two seats in District 13C, covering portions of Bergen County. With the creation of the 40-district New Jersey Legislature and the first election under this format held in 1973, Spizziri (who received 28,156 ballots cast) and Rys (29,386) were elected to office representing the 40th Legislative District, defeating Democrats Vincent A. Girardy (27,793) and Paul S. Konstadt (26,957). In the 1975 general election, Spizziri (topping the balloting with 31,614 votes) and Rys (with 31,470), were re-elected, defeating Democratic challengers Rose Brunetto (21,170) and Paul Lewis (20,851).
In 1977, Spizziri sponsored legislation that would require leasing agents to be licensed and to return any fees charged in excess of $10 if the agent was unable to find an appropriate apartment unit for the prospective renter.
In May 1977, a New York City resident was arrested for having several prescription tranquilizer pills in an unmarked vial, after a jacket holding the vial was dragged away by a dog and was found by someone who turned it into the police; the individual who owned the jacket—and the pills that had been inside it—had removed the pills from a labeled prescription bottle and placed it in an unmarked pillbox in order to take the medication over the course of the day, but was arrested by the local police and the Bergen County Prosecutors Office was considering indicting the individual under a provision of state law that prohibited individuals from transporting certain prescription tranquilizers in anything other than the marked medicine bottle in which the medication had been dispensed by a pharmacy. Spizziri proposed legislation in the General Assembly that would allow people to carry two days worth of medication in an unmarked vial, as long as the individual could demonstrate a medical need for carrying the pills and had documentation demonstrating the nature of the prescription along with details of the prescribing physician and pharmacist. He noted that many of his colleagues in the legislature would often carry prescription medication in unmarked vials.
After his two-term Assembly partner and former running mate C. Gus Rys announced in March 1977 that he would not run for re-election, Spizziri faced a primary battle fought between competing groups within the Republican Party in Bergen County and came in third with 6,670 votes, behind W. Cary Edwards (7,656) and Walter M. D. Kern (6,952). Among the 120 primary contests being held that year statewide for the entire New Jersey Legislature, Spizziri was one of four incumbents, and the only Republican, to lose their bid for renomination in the primaries.
Personal life
Spizziri married Alexandra Vitale, with whom he has two children. Upon his retirement in 2015, the couple moved to Ryegate, Montana. | WIKI |
Canadian Pacific Airlines floatbase
Canadian Pacific Airlines built this modern float base on the waterfront of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1946 to serve as an office, staff housing, and mooring for its fleet of bush planes. Yellowknife was a very active aviation centre during the late 1940s as a result of renewed gold exploration after World War II. The aviation industry however was very tumultuous and many bankruptcies and mergers occurred throughout history, and many airline companies came to use this float base in Yellowknife, including: Canadian Pacific Airlines (1946–1949), Yellowknife Airways (1949–1951), Associated Airways Limited (1951–1956), Pacific Western Airlines (1956–1966), Northward Airlines (1966–1978), and Air Dogrib (1978–1980s).
In more recent years, the old float base was renovated into a micro brewery and pub known as Bush Pilot Brew Pub (1993-1997) and then as a private residence. The CPA float base was designated a City of Yellowknife Heritage Site in 1992. | WIKI |
The Supreme Court's travel ban ruling — replacing, not overruling Korematsu | TheHill
In the 5-4 Trump v. Hawaii decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the last iteration of the administration’s travel ban, Proclamation No. 9645. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roberts reversed the lower court's’ rulings on statutory grounds, stating, “The Proclamation is squarely within the scope of presidential authority under the INA [Immigration and Nationality Act].” Chief Justice Roberts also explained why the proclamation was constitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, writing, “The Proclamation is expressly premised on legitimate purposes: preventing entry of nationals who cannot be adequately vetted and inducing other nations to improve their practices. The text says nothing about religion.” In doing so, Trump v. Hawaii surprisingly also overturned Korematsu v. United States, the court’s infamous ruling upholding the internment of Japanese descendants during World War II based on evidence that the government presented as necessitating internment in the name of national security. The winding path the travel ban took to the Supreme Court is important context for examining the administration’s national security justification relied on by the court. During the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump repeatedly made disparaging remarks about Islam and Muslims, often referring to keeping them out of the country. One week after taking office, President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE signed an executive order (travel ban 1.0) that, among other things, banned the entry of nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. Confusion and litigation ensued, and an internal Department of Homeland Security report commenting on travel ban 1.0 found that “country of citizenship is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity.” Slightly more than one month later, the administration issued a revised second travel ban on March 6, 2017 (travel ban 2.0). Changes included explicitly stating that it did not apply to dual citizens (i.e. individual who are both U.S. citizens and citizens of one of the listed banned countries) and lawful permanent residents. The new executive order also explicitly presented travel ban 2.0 as evidence-based. On September 24, 2017, the same day travel ban 2.0 was set to expire, the administration issued a proclamation creating the ban’s third iteration (travel ban 3.0). The president presented the Proclamation as a response to a classified July 2017 government report described as a “worldwide review” of countries’ security vetting systems. The opening words of the April 25th oral argument in Trump v. Hawaii by General Noel J. Francisco, arguing on behalf of the government, cited this still-classified report: “After a worldwide multi-agency review, the president’s acting Homeland Security Secretary recommended that he adopt entry restrictions on countries that failed to provide the minimum baseline of information needed to vet their nationals.” Francisco referenced the report multiple times during oral argument, one time prompting the following response from Justice Sotomayor: General, the problem is that I don't see that that material was reviewed by the judges below, by the Ninth Circuit or the Fourth Circuit judges. I thought that the government had kept confidential and refused to share, either with the litigants or the courts, exactly what was done, how, what the evaluation and how it was applied to all those countries in the world. Francisco responded to Justice Sotomayor, “I think that under the duty of regularity or good faith, or whatever you want to call it, that one branch of the government owes to another coequal branch of the government, there is a very strong presumption that what is being set out there is the truth.” The Court in Trump v. Hawaii ultimately extended this good faith presumption of truth to accept the executive’s contention that, despite evidence suggesting the travel ban is a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity, the government ordered the ban in the name of national security. The court also extended this presumption for the Japanese War Crimes cases culminating with Korematsu, and that choice took almost 75 years to repudiate. Amongst the about eighty amicus briefs filed in Trump v Hawaii, the pair relevant to this history are the briefs authored by the Japanese American Citizens League and co-authored by the children of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui. Justice Sotomayor relied on these briefs in her dissenting opinion to question whether upholding the travel ban while overturning Korematsu was actually a victory. Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and Yasui were Americans of Japanese descent who defied orders of curfew and/or removal for internment after then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Congress then passed legislation making it a federal crime to defy of any restrictions or orders under the Executive Order. These actions paved the way for Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt to issue a series of proclamations the led to the mass removal and incarceration of approximately 110,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens. The findings in General DeWitt’s final report that justified the Japanese internment included the following: Intelligence services records reflected the existence of hundreds of Japanes eorganizations… actively engaged in advancing Japanese war aims….The continued presence of a large, unassimilated, tightly knit and racial group, bound to an enemy nation by strong ties of race, culture, custom and religion along a frontier vulnerable to attack constituted a menace which had to be dealt with. The Supreme Court majority opinion in Korematsu accepted these and other findings put forth by the government as accurate national security intelligence, stating that it could not reject the military’s judgment as unfounded. In other words, the Court extended a carte blanche good faith presumption of truth, yielding total deference. As Justice Sotomayor details in her dissent in Trump v. Hawaii, “our Nation has done much to leave [Korematsu’s] sordid legacy behind.” Justice Sotomayor cites in her opinion the Congressional acts of 1971 and 1988 to undo the Korematsu decision. There was also 2011, when then-acting Solicitor General confessed error in the Japanese War Crimes cases. Confessions of error is a legal practice where the United States Solicitor General admits that the Court ruling in the government’s favor was a mistake. In a Fordham Law Review article, Neal Katyal, who was that acting Solicitor General in 2011, and the counsel of record in Trump v. Hawaii, recounts how there was enough evidence to counter the government’s claim of mandating the internment of people of Japanese descent in the name of national security. Justice Sotomayor’s concluding remarks in her dissent in Trump v. Hawaii rightfully shun the characterization that the majority “seized the moment” to overrule Korematsu: “By blindly accepting the government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity toward a disfavored group, all in the name of a superficial claim of national security, the Court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one ‘gravely wrong’ decision with another.” Anita Sinha is an assistant professor of law and the director of International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law. View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
sel fragment #
Select the third option in Menu. If used alone, this fragment will work for MenuItem under Menu, which located directly under main element. But if combined with menu fragment, this can be used to reach deeper level of MenuItem
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SnomIPPhoneMenu xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../minibrowser_test.xsd">
<Title>press softkey</Title>
<Menu name="m1">
<SoftKeyItem>
<Name>F1</Name>
<Label>[@id="m1mi3"]</Label>
<Url>http://docs.snom.io/xml_minibrowser/examples/xml/fr_sel.xml#sel=[@id="m1mi3"]</Url>
</SoftKeyItem>
<SoftKeyItem>
<Name>F2</Name>
<Label>[@name="m1mi4"]</Label>
<Url>http://docs.snom.io/xml_minibrowser/examples/xml/fr_sel.xml#sel=[@name="m1mi4"]</Url>
</SoftKeyItem>
<MenuItem name="m1mi1" id="m1mi1"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="m1mi2" id="m1mi2"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="m1mi3" id="m1mi3"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="m1mi4" id="m1mi4"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="go to m2m1mi3" id="m1mi5">
<Url>snom://mb_nop#menu=/SnomIPPhoneMenu/*[@id="m2"]/*[@id="m2m1"]&sel=[@id="m2m1mi3"]</Url>
</MenuItem>
</Menu>
<Menu name="m2" id="m2">
<Menu name="m2m1" id="m2m1">
<MenuItem name="m2m1mi1" id="m2m1mi1"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="m2m1mi2" id="m2m1mi2"></MenuItem>
<MenuItem name="m2m1mi3" id="m2m1mi3"></MenuItem>
</Menu>
</Menu>
</SnomIPPhoneMenu> | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Configuring mixed-mode authentication
Mixed mode authentication enables users to sign in to your website using both Windows Active Directory authentication and standard forms authentication.
Forms and AD user name conflicts
Active Directory users cannot authenticate if an existing forms user has the same user name (only the common name of the AD user is processed, i.e. without the domain component). In these cases, the system cannot create an account for the AD user. You can avoid these conflicts by renaming the existing forms user.
When a user signs in using Active Directory credentials for the first time, the system automatically creates a matching user account in the Kentico database and also imports the user's domain groups as roles. The imported roles do not authorize the users to perform any actions in Kentico by default. You need to configure permissions and UI personalization settings for the imported roles manually if you wish to use them.
Disabling the automatic role import
If you wish to disable the automatic import of user domain groups as roles in Kentico, add the following key to the /configuration/appSettings section of your project's web.config file:
<add key="CMSImportWindowsRoles" value="false" />
Prerequisites
For mixed mode authentication to work, the application must be able to access the following attributes of user objects in Active Directory (i.e. the attributes cannot be protected or confidential):
• memberof
• userAccountControl
Configuring mixed authentication
To enable mixed authentication mode:
1. Edit your application's web.config file.
2. Make sure that the mode attribute of the <authentication> element in the <system.web> section is set to Forms (this is the default value for Kentico projects):
<authentication mode="Forms">
3. Add the LDAP connection string of your Active Directory service into the configuration/connectionStrings section:
<connectionStrings>
...
<add name="CMSADConnectionString" connectionString="<LDAP connection string>" />
</connectionStrings>
• Replace the <LDAP connection string> text in the code above with the actual connection string. Enter it according to the following format:
LDAP://mydomain.example.com/DC=mydomain,DC=example,DC=com
The first part is the full domain. In the second part, the same domain is divided into DC (domain component) units.
4. Modify the membership and roleManager elements under the configuration/system.web section according to the following:
<membership defaultProvider="CMSProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="30">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="CMSProvider" type="CMS.MembershipProvider.CMSMembershipProvider, CMS.MembershipProvider" connectionStringName="CMSConnectionString" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Hashed"/>
<add name="CMSADProvider" type="CMS.MembershipProvider.CMSADMembershipProvider, CMS.MembershipProvider" connectionStringName="CMSADConnectionString" connectionUsername="username" connectionPassword="password" />
</providers>
</membership>
<roleManager defaultProvider="CMSRoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".ASPROLES" cookieTimeout="30" cookiePath="/" cookieRequireSSL="false" cookieSlidingExpiration="true" cookieProtection="All">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="CMSRoleProvider" type="CMS.MembershipProvider.CMSRoleProvider, CMS.MembershipProvider" connectionStringName="CMSConnectionString" applicationName="SampleApplication" writeExceptionsToEventLog="false"/>
<add name="CMSADRoleProvider" type="CMS.MembershipProvider.CMSADRoleProvider, CMS.MembershipProvider" connectionStringName="CMSADConnectionString" connectionUsername="username" connectionPassword="password" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
• Replace the following values:
• username – the user name of an Active Directory account that has read permissions for the required users and groups in your domain. Must include the fully qualified domain name, for example: office.example.com\johns
• password – the Active Directory password for the specified account
Users can now sign in with their Active Directory user name (without the domain) and password, or their standard Kentico user name and password.
You can also allow users to sign in using their full Active Directory user name (e.g. MyName@office.example.com) by adding the following key to the appSettings section of your web.config file:
<add key="CMSADDefaultMapUserName" value="userPrincipalName" />
Password features not supported for Active Directory users
The passwords of Active Directory users are stored externally and are not managed by Kentico. For these users, the system does not support any features related to password changes or requirements (for example Password reset, Password expiration, Password policies).
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Smee (disambiguation)
Smee is a character in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan novels.
Smee may also refer to:
* Alfred Smee (1818–1877), English surgeon, chemist, metallurgist and inventor
* Smee cell
* Anthony Smee (born 1949), English theatre producer and actor
* Phil Smee (Philip Lloyd-Smee), English music journalist and album cover designer
* Raymond Smee (1930–2019), Australian water polo player
* Roger Smee (born 1948), English footballer
* Sebastian Smee, Australian arts critic
* Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE), a manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing equipment based in Shanghai, China
* Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics (SMEE), a regional chapter of the International Society for Ecological Economics | WIKI |
Sam Razavi
Samad Razavi (born 25 September 1980), is an English professional poker player and actor based in Brighton, United Kingdom. He is the UK and Ireland Poker tour, Cork (Republic of Ireland) leg, champion 2012, Asia Pacific Poker Tour (ANZPT Melbourne leg) Grand Final Champion, 2012 Asian Poker Tour India leg Champion and Asian Poker Tour 5 Time Player Of the Year.
Before turning professional, he worked and trained as an actor before finding a way to succeed in poker as a pro, Razavi himself will admit, that he can put his success down to a single goodwill payment, due to a technical problem from an online poker site, providing a catalyst for his good fortune, as he won his initial bankroll in a small tournament on that site 'with their money' in 2007. After this Razavi found himself playing medium stakes 'Heads Up' cash, no limit Texas hold 'em poker in volume to create a 'wage'.
Sponsorship
Attracted by the play-your-way-into-sponsorship ideals and fresh ideas set up by Neil Channing on http://blackbeltpoker.com, in 2010 Razavi set about gaining enough 'belt points' by playing a huge amount of volume on the 'Black Belt Poker' I-poker 'skin' with the intention of becoming a sponsored professional at 'blue belt' level. He succeeded doing this in October 2010 and quickly rose another level in the program to become 'Brown belt'. The next step in the sites program is the final one, as high as you can get, and was something not-yet achieved by a player and that was to become a 'Black Belt' sponsored player, Razavi was the first to achieve this by a 6th-place finish on 23 January 2011 at the Aussie Millions Main event, poker tournament for a cool A$225,000.
Humour
Razavi's reputation as the joker of the pack amongst the UK's poker fraternity was then confirmed when he won the Cork leg of the 2011 UKIPT (UK and Ireland poker tour) dressed in emerald Irish fatigues, beard and with a table mascot, a leprechaun named 'Seamus'. Razavi also went on to win the player-of-the-year in that series with numerous other cashes in the other legs which earned him free entry into all the next seasons tour legs http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2011/10/sam-razavi-wins-ukipt-leaderboard-7461.htm.
As the joker of the pack he has been noted by the website, poker news (UK) for his eccentric and fun filled antics both in person and on social media sites http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/11/sam-razavi-to-become-a-pop-star-9474.htm that are apparently frequently fuelled by Jagermiester and an imaginary friend called 'Gilly'.
This makes Razavi one of the most socially fabled advocates of having fun whilst playing poker which ultimately is a long drawn out game that requires patience and can prove quite boring in lengthy multi day events due to multi table tournaments events modern structures.
Notable Results
In 2012, Razavi notched up several notable live cashes on his hendon mob profile page totalling $550,000 USD, the best of which was his first-place finish at the ANZPT grand final which is the Australian leg of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour for winning a mere $20 online satellite he came home with a return-of-investment of A$326,125 $339,745 USD and the trophy that carries a title in-line with EPT, WPT and WSOP status of being part of one of pokers recognised 'triple crown' achievements.
The latest achievement to date for Razavi was winning the India leg of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) in Goa, this also confirmed his status as Asian Poker tour (APT) player of the year 2012, which gives him free entry into all the next seasons events in 2013 http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2012/12/black-belt-sam-razavi-APT-Player-of-the-Year-9644.htm By 2015 Sam had won the title of APT Player of the Year a record 4 times. | WIKI |
Optimization Method for Resilience of Integrated Electric-gas System With Consideration of Cyber Coupling
Jian Chen, Ziliang Lin, Haoran Zhao, Qiuwei Wu, Guanyu Song
Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review
Abstract
The continuous development of information communication technology and energy coupling technology has gradually transformed traditional energy systems into modern integrated energy systems with typical cyber physical characteristics. Therefore, the resilience analysis of integrated energy systems in the context of cyber physical system is more complicated. This paper described the interrelationships between cyber system and energy system in terms of control, energy supply, and network topology connection. At the same time, with the consideration of dynamic power flow of natural gas and the coupling relationship between physical layer and cyber layer in distribution network reconfiguration, a resilience optimization analysis model of integrated cyber electricity-gas system based on directed multicommodity flow model was established. Moreover, a two-step optimization framework of resilience and economy was constructed. Firstly, the network reconfiguration was performed with the minimum load loss as the optimization goal, and then the economic operation optimization was solved by alternating direction multipliers method (ADMM) based on the network structure determined in the first step. Finally, case study was presented to verify the validity and correctness of the model and method.
Original languageChinese
JournalZhongguo Dianji Gongcheng Xuebao
Volume40
Issue number21
Pages (from-to)6854-6863
ISSN0258-8013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
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User:Aadarsh AD Rajpurohit
Aadarsh AD Rajpurohit
Is a Youtuber and a writter also have a page on instagram as "letmerelateyou born on 1 January 1999 Lives in indore india, he is also a content creator on instagram also have page on facebook with th"e name Aadarsh AD Rajpurohit , His real name is Aadarsh Rajpurohit But he is also known as his name "AD". he is known for is good voice. his Father name is suresh Rajpurohit and mother Name is kiran Rajpurohit. | WIKI |
Fox legal analyst Jarrett: Mueller investigation 'illegitimate and corrupt' | TheHill
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "illegitimate and corrupt" during an interview with Sean Hannity late Wednesday while referring to the FBI as "America's secret police." "I think we now know that the Mueller investigation is illegitimate and corrupt," said Jarrett, formerly an anchor on Court TV. "And Mueller has been using the FBI as a political weapon. "And the FBI has become America's secret police. Secret surveillance, wiretapping, intimidation, harassment and threats. It's like the old KGB that comes for you in the dark of the night banging through your door," he continued. "By the way, this is not a game. This is not hyperbole you are using here," Hannity said. "No. Ask Paul Manafort, they came for him and broke through his front door," Jarrett replied. "And if it can happen to him, Gregg," Hannity said. "It can happen to all of us," Jarrett replied. "Absolutely." The commentary comes following revelations that two members of Mueller's investigative team, Peter Strzok and Andrew Weissmann, were found to have sent anti-Trump text messages and emails, respectively, in the past. "The FBI is a shadow government now," Jarrett told Hannity. "It has become highly politicized. Peter Strzok is the perfect example of it. He led both the Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE investigation and until recently the Mueller investigation. This is a guy who has corrupt political motives. We now know it. The Congress has the emails, but he is the tip of the iceberg. There are others, especially Andrew Weissmann and, as you pointed out, Jeannie Rhee." Hannity, a staunch supporter of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, has made the investigators' texts and emails a central theme of his program this week. Hannity Wednesday night called the Mueller investigation into possible Russian collusion with Trump campaign associates "something you would see in a banana republic." Fox News's Laura Ingraham reported on Wednesday night that Rhee was hired by Mueller this past summer to work on the probe. "She formerly worked in the Obama Justice Department as a deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel — offering advice to the administration," according to FoxNews.com. Trump has weighed in on the Mueller controversy as well recently, retweeting several reports over the weekend. Report: “ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE” Now it all starts to make sense! Tainted (no, very dishonest?) FBI “agent’s role in Clinton probe under review.” Led Clinton Email probe. @foxandfriends Clinton money going to wife of another FBI agent in charge. View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
1994–95 Scottish Challenge Cup
The 1994–95 Scottish Challenge Cup was the fifth season of the competition, which was also known as the B&Q Cup for sponsorship reasons. It was competed for by the 30 member clubs of the Scottish Football League. The previous champions were Falkirk, who defeated St Mirren 3–0 in the 1993 final.
The final was played on 6 November 1994, between Dundee and Airdrieonians at McDiarmid Park in Perth. Airdrieonians won 3–2 after extra time, to win the tournament for the first time.
First round
Caledonian Thistle and Greenock Morton received random byes into the second round.
Source: SFL
Second round
Source: SFL | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ayak
The result of the debate was TRANSWIKI and DELETE. -Splash talk 19:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
ayak
definition of an obscure Inuit word--unclear why page exists! Hynca-Hooley 00:06, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per above. -- Jay (Reply) 00:18, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete as non-English dicdef. Royal Blue T / C 00:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per all. —Eternal Equinox | talk 01:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete per nom. PJM 02:47, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Delete, dicdef. You definitely need to look at the history to understand what's going on here. Ayak used to redirect to AYAK which now redirects to Ku Klux Klan--because AYAK supposedly stood for "Are you a Klansman?". Then someone fixed the double-redirect and someone else decided to unlink to the KKK and... basically it's kind of a collaborative glitch, I think. · rodii · 04:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Ku Klux Klan. Pepsidrinka 05:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Move to Wiktionary. That is the place for definitions. --Cymsdale 12:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Of random Inuit words!? · rodii · 14:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Of all words, more or less. --Tone 14:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Why can't we share what a inuit word is, why do we have to redirect to the KKK. looks racest and selective to share KKK info and not inuit words. its AYAK an obsure KKK meaning. Wikipedia should not have anything on this page rather then redirect to the KKK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
* Move to Wiktionary. --Tone 14:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Transwiki to Wiktionary, as above. --Karnesky 17:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Transwiki to Wiktionary they'll probably want it American Patriot 1776 18:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
* Redirect to Ku Klux Klan. Grandmasterka 01:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
* Transwiki <IP_ADDRESS> 22:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
* Transwiki as above. AP 02:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
* KeepI think this is a good meaning to have here. Wikipedia should not delete this page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Batmanand (talk • contribs)
* Delete as dicdef, which is not allowed under the policy, and unexpandable. Batmanand | Talk 12:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
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SLC14A1
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Solute carrier family 14 (urea transporter), member 1 (Kidd blood group)
Identifiers
Symbols SLC14A1 ; HUT11; HsT1341; JK; RACH1; RACH2; UT-B1; UT1; UTE
External IDs OMIM613868 MGI1351654 HomoloGene9285 IUPHAR: 982 GeneCards: SLC14A1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE SLC14A1 205856 at tn.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 6563 108052
Ensembl ENSG00000141469 ENSMUSG00000059336
UniProt Q13336 Q8VHL0
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001128588 NM_001171010
RefSeq (protein) NP_001122060 NP_001164481
Location (UCSC) Chr 18:
45.72 – 45.75 Mb
Chr 18:
78.1 – 78.14 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
Urea transporter, erythrocyte is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC14A1 gene.[1][2]
Function[edit]
The SLC14A1 codes for a urea transporter (UTB) that is expressed in erythrocytes and kidney. SLC14A2 and SLC14A1 constitute solute carrier family 14. UTB proteins constitute the Kidd antigen system.
References[edit]
1. ^ Olives B, Mattei MG, Huet M, Neau P, Martial S, Cartron JP, Bailly P (Aug 1995). "Kidd blood group and urea transport function of human erythrocytes are carried by the same protein". J Biol Chem 270 (26): 15607–10. doi:10.1074/jbc.270.26.15607. PMID 7797558.
2. ^ "Entrez Gene: SLC14A1 solute carrier family 14 (urea transporter), member 1 (Kidd blood group)".
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Kerala’s past and present through the eyes of a Dalit historian
In this second part of an interview with FORWARD Press, P. Sanal Mohan, professor of History at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, and author of the widely acclaimed Modernity of Slavery: Struggles Against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala, says none of the castes categorized as OBC or SC today, including the Ezhavas, was considered Hindu before the Temple Entry Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Yet, the Sangh Parivar has set its sights on co-opting Narayana Guru today, although he is not amenable to this exercise. Guru was born into an Ezhava family but he taught everyone to transcend caste and religion and practised what he preached.
Where did Ezhavas fall in the socio-economic structure of 19th-century Kerala?
In the older historical documents of the 9th century, we find Ezhavas being referred to as an enslaved group but later the Ezhavas elevated themselves from this position. In 1817 there was a proclamation by the Travancore queen by which castes that were enslaved, other than those in the agrarian economy as labourers in the agricultural fields, were liberated. Therefore, in the 19th century, we find Ezhavas, too, as agricultural labourers or performing various economic activities. However, they were not agrestic slaves [slaves who were bought and sold along with the land or ‘rented’]. They were marginal farmers leasing land from the upper-caste landlords (janmis) and, towards the end of the 19th century, they also became well-to-do farmers. This is true for most parts of Kerala including Malabar, where Thiyyas [a caste similar to Ezhavas] had improved their lot. Between the 18th and 19th centuries, it is quite probable that they had been free from many of the fetters associated with an enslaved status. But, as I said, there was also a group of agricultural labourers from the Ezhavas and their numbers may not have been comparable to the Pulayas or the Papayas. If you want to look at the formation of the labouring castes in Kerala, those who were actually working in the fields, we need to make a distinction of this kind. In the 19th century, most of the physical labour in the wetland rice fields was being extracted from the slave castes. By slave castes I mean mostly Dalits. There could have been a small segment of Ezhavas involved in agricultural labour.
What was the contribution of Narayana Guru to this transformation both in his Ezhava community and outside his community?
Narayana Guru’s contribution was quite seminal, quite central, to the transformation of Kerala. It is also worth mentioning that the Ezhava community had members involved in diverse social and economic activities. So, you would find a section of wealthy people engaged in agriculture, trade and commerce, etc, forming towards the end of the 19th century and there was also a class of intellectuals coming up. There was in fact an intellectual tradition to which most of the scholars who have studied the Ezhava community refer to. There was a tradition of Sanskritic scholarship and practice of Ayurveda. When we look at the biography of Sri Narayana Guru, we see that he learnt from teachers who were from the same social group. If you look at the socioeconomic condition of the Ezhavas, you will be able to identify people involved in a range of occupations – physical labour to intellectual labour to managing the economy to those who were in the abkari (liquor) business. Therefore, it was quite diverse and when Guru founded his movement, he had the backing of these people. In 1905, they organized the first industrial exhibition in Kerala. So, we find that an economically very powerful social group had already formed within the Ezhava community.
Because of the extreme diversity within this particular social group we find people involved in a variety of professions and also a class formation within that social group. I think what gave a different thrust to the Sri Narayana Guru movement was a class of people who could support the movement financially – unlike the social movements of Dalits who were mostly agricultural labourers. Things weren’t much different during the first half of the 20th century as far as the Dalits were concerned. Now when I say Guru was central to the transformation of Kerala, I mean the social movements he founded and the kind of ideological, scholarly work he did. As a scholar, as a sanyasi, social activist, thinker, ascetic, all of these rolled into one – that gave a substantial reach to him. Or rather we could say that it was something quite unusual for the times because he combined spiritual and social power, which culminated in the founding of the movement. If we look at the mid-19th century situation in Kerala, before all these reforms of the 20th century were born, we find the Protestant missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and London Missionary Society (LMS) working among the Untouchable castes in Travancore but they were not just in the southern part of Kerala (Travancore) but also in north Kerala (Malabar), especially the Basel Mission. Because of this, the region today identified as Kerala had undergone a certain kind of transformation well before the so-called 20th-century reform movements, caste reform movements and anti-caste movements emerged. We have quite a few unknown figures mostly from the Dalit communities of that time. There was also a segment of the Ezhavas who joined the Protestant missionary churches. Therefore, we have this very interesting kind of transformation. It is important because this happened before the coming of the modern social movements and mobilizations or before the genesis of modern politics and we have these missionaries intervening against caste slavery, with thousands of slave-caste people joining the missions. The LMS had their congregations from Quilon (Kollam) towards the south Travancore, including regions that are today part of the Tamil Nadu state. The CMS was at work from the north of Quilon upwards. From all these areas thousands joined the missions, both from the slave castes as well as the Ezhavas. And in the Tamil-speaking region there were the Nadars.
This also goes along with the history of the movement known as Ayyavazhi. This was a very powerful social movement that emerged in the 19th century in the south Travancore region among the Nadar community. The founder of the movement was Vaikundaswamy, also known as Muthukutty Swamy. He is known affectionately by different names, including Ayya Vaikundar, within the community and larger society. He was a staunch critic of caste and worked against it. He died in 1851. He was a forerunner to almost all of what we refer to today as the anti-caste social movements. But then this actually happened at a time when these Protestant missionaries were very active in both the regions of Travancore, in the south as well as in the north. So before the movements of the 20th century we had these missionaries and the movement of Vaikundaswamy. The missionaries had a critique of him and he had critique of the missionaries too but you will see that he was also influenced by the things happening around him. Before the movements of the 20th century or the late 19th century, when Sri Narayana Guru becomes very active and subsequently Ayyankali becomes active, we had unsung heroes within the Dalit community – people who weren’t known outside their congregations, yet they were instrumental in transforming the communities because thousands joined the missions and this missionary interface unleashed the potential of people. It was not just one-way traffic. It was not just the missionaries going to these communities, it was also the people going in search of the missionaries and asking them to come and teach them. This happened in a big way in the case of the Mala Arya tribal community in today’s Kottayam district. One of the Anglican missionaries, Henry Baker Jr, went and taught them but he went there at the request of the elders of the community. There are good research works available on this. What I want to say is this: The movement of Sri Narayana Guru takes place but before that we have the mobilization of the enslaved castes by the missionaries. This is my observation. People do disagree with this. Usually the modern transformation is narrated as single, one-dimensional – the kind of changes that took place within these communities spearheaded by, for example, Sri Narayana Guru’s movement – but in fact if you critically look, you will also see that well before this, the missionaries were mobilizing the untouchable slave castes, people were using the public roads, wearing white clothes amid all this oppression and violence. So we need to complicate the presently available narrative. In most histories, the modern changes begin with the consecration of Shiva [idol] by Sri Narayana Guru in Aruvippuram. We need to push it back in time where you have different kinds of initiatives, especially by people from the slave castes, that actually led to the gradual undermining of the caste order.
Why do you think the narrative is what it is now? Is it because the rightwing, the RSS and the BJP, are trying to co-opt the icons and so there is an effort on the part of the others to reclaim them, and in the process the contemporaries or the forerunners are pushed into the shadows?
An effort of that kind has been there for a very long time. But even the official narrative – I don’t know if we can use this term – found in school textbooks begins with what people in this part of India refer to as “Kerala’s renaissance”. That is a completely different textualized account of Kerala’s modernity that begins with the so-called “renaissance movements” – although I don’t use that term – which is pinned to this particular moment of consecration of Shiva by Sri Narayana Guru. In the brahmanical order, only Brahmins can consecrate idols. Guru came from a low caste that also suffered from relative untouchability, but he did the consecration. This has often been advertised as a moment of the renaissance movement, which I contest as not being correct. In official histories this is thought of as a big moment and the roles of these reformers and those who led these movements are highlighted because subsequently they were considered Hindus by the Travancore State or the Government of India. Whereas we know that until the Temple Entry Movement [of the 1920s and 1930s], none of these people was Hindu. Ezhavas were never thought of as Hindus. Now, we have a different situation where all of them have been put together as Hindus. Therefore, the rightwing Hindutva forces try to appropriate these reformers and movements. Because the Sri Narayana Guru movement has a significant presence even now, appropriation is not very easy but RSS and BJP have been doing that. Even during the last election, the official leadership of the Sree Narayana Guru Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP) formed a political party called Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS). But what happens during such situations is that they hardly think of the ideas of Sri Narayana Guru or the ideological aspects of the movement. BJDS found nothing wrong in aligning with the Hindutva ideology of the BJP and the RSS, which is their fundamental resource to control Indian polity. If you go by the actual ideas and teachings of the Guru, it is impossible for you to follow the RSS or the BJP. But the compulsions of politics become such that they go along with this rightwing group. The other side of this story is that the RSS think tank – I don’t know if that’s the right term – called Bharatiya Vichara Kendra in Kanyakumari, especially under their ideologue the late P. Parameswaran, have published books on Sri Narayana Guru and are trying to appropriate Sri Narayana Guru. To the very end, Guru remained a reformist, a sanyasi. He made public proclamations that he didn’t have any affiliation with castes, although some people who were with him continued to think that he was an Ezhava because he was born to Ezhava parents. But he assumed a self which was definitely away from castes. That is how he had gone to a different plane, but the community didn’t. Most of the reformed Ezhavas began thinking of themselves as Hindus especially after the Temple Entry Movement (Vaikom Satyagraha, Guruvayoor Satyagraha). In fact, this movement created a Hindu community among them, because until that time none of the castes categorized as OBCs or Dalits today could ever claim to be Hindus.
But we should also remember the fact that from the middle of the 19th century onwards, large congregations of Protestant Christians were drawn exclusively from the Ezhava community. So, the CMS had a pastorate in Mavelikara. Now it could be a diocese. If you go by the reports of the CMS missionaries of the 19th century, you will realize that 80 per cent of the congregation there came from the Ezhava community. Similarly in many parts of Kerala – especially in the north where the Basel Mission was active – 80 per cent of the Church of South India are former Thiyyas. So even when the Sri Narayana Guru movement was very strong and Guru himself was alive, he was not really worried about the question of “conversions”. The people were threatening to leave the Hindu religion unless temple entry was proclaimed, but Guru wasn’t concerned. That’s the context in which he would say that whatever your religion the most important thing is to be a good human being. Therefore, I think that Guru’s role was really significant in transforming Kerala society.
But we also find a number of other people who were contemporaries of Guru, for example Ayyankali. There were many occasions when Ayyankali would interact with Guru but the rank and file of Guru’s movement would never think of Ayyankali as part of them. That was an interesting situation. There are quite a number of reasons for that. Although some sections of Dalits today and also the RSS would be happy to appropriate Ayyankali, he was not amenable to that. Although some of his public statements would make him dear to the Hindutva forces, if you analyze his statements in his context and the histories of the movement he led, etc, there is nothing to suggest that he would be in favour of this sort of Hindutva thinking. Those who want to appropriate Ayyankali say that he was not in favour of Pulayas becoming Christians. The reason for that was that – as I understand from reading the source material of that period – Pulayas becoming Christians would weaken the combined efforts of the Pulayas to bring people together in the movement and fight against the oppressors. But if you look at the Pulaya people’s history, you will realize that even within Ayyankali’s [extended] family, a section had already become Christians. They were part of the LMS church in Trivandrum. Even the biography of Ayyankali by the late T.H.P. Chentharasseri refers to people who were part of Ayyankali’s movement but belonged to the LMS Church. He refers to the vadhyars, that is, teachers, Thomas and Harris, of the LMS school – these were all Pulayas who were part of the LMS church but were quite active in Ayyankali’s movement. When there were riots, as they were described in the police records of 1914-15 but which were in fact caste violence unleashed by the upper castes against the Pulayas, the Pulaya Christians were also attacked. There are narratives of Salvation Army aiyyas (pastors in the Tamil tradition) having been attacked and Salvation Army churches burnt down. All of these were in the Venganoor area, where Ayyankali also came from, which is a little removed from Trivandrum city. According to the 1915 missionary records of the LMS for Quilon, whenever there was caste violence involving the Nairs and Pulayas, the Nairs would attack both the so-called Hindus and Christians – those who had joined the missions – and one of the missionaries based in Quilon wrote that his congregation could not attend the church service because they didn’t have any clothes. Their huts had been burnt down and whatever was their Sunday best was also burnt. It took another six months for this missionary to raise enough money to buy clothes for these people. For the next six months, he reports to the mission headquarters in London that his people couldn’t come to the church. I have seen material in the state archives which tell a very different story – according to the everyday histories of these organizations Ayyankali definitely had the support of the Pulaya Christians. But unfortunately a segment of Dalit intellectuals never likes to talk about it because they think “oh you are bringing in Dalit Christians, missionaries”, etc. Yet, the written material shows that there was so much shared feeling – not just feeling but sharing of this phase of the movement, people coming together against caste atrocities, oppression, inequality. When they came together, it was without the religious divide. We had in Kottayam a very important Dalit leader, Pampady John Joseph. He was a schoolteacher but he left the job and joined the missionaries and eventually went into organizing Dalits. His idea was that Dalits should come together, forgetting the religious differences. This is the early 20th century, around 1920. He was the first person to write to British Parliament about the problems of Dalit Christians. My personal view is that we need to look at the complexity of that time, but most people don’t.
There was unity among Dalits across the religious divide but the Ezhavas weren’t willing to join forces with the Dalits. There was still that divide.
We read about, for example, the Nair-Ezhava violence through the whole of the 19th century. Likewise there used to be violence against Pulayas unleashed by the Ezhavas and also by Nairs. This was the social situation in which people were in certain ways entangled. Now when we look at the histories of caste violence, there was a greater chance of violence by the immediate dominant caste, even by the immediately upper layer of the bottom rung. There used to be this sort of conflict taking place. Now the social movements of the 20th century definitely had a chance to ease these social tensions but we do find in many places a lot of violence taking place, for example, on the question of school admission and so on, which is known to a certain extent in the case of Ayyankali – he went to enrol a girl student in a school, he was refused entry and the girl could not be enrolled and subsequently the school was burnt down. All of these problems have been talked about. Likewise, we also find in many places, violence between Ezhavas and Dalits. That’s because of the fact that these revolutionary ideas, the social plane on which Sri Narayana Guru stood, were not acceptable to his followers. The reason was that they knew that this levelling would be bad for their social dominance. In fact, the same thing happened within the church. Among Protestants, especially in the CMS, we find quite a number of instances of mobilization against Dalit Christians by Syrian Christians. So this sort of politics did exist among Christians and between various castes. That was a complex situation. It was the great fear of the possible social levelling because in the run-up to the mobilization for the abolition of slavery – it was all done by missionaries – the upper-caste landlords, Nairs as well as Syrian Christians, thought that if this happened, the Pulayas and Parayars would stop working in their farms, rice fields. They petitioned the government saying that slavery should never be abolished. They thought that these people would become free and put the economy in jeopardy by demolishing the economic structure. From around the 1850s to the 1950s, that is over a period of 100 years, we find lots of narratives of caste violence; unfortunately, there isn’t much research available on them. I was really surprised when I researched in the village where I grew up and people talked about the violence that existed in their former villages in Kottayam district, from where all these people migrated to the north of today’s Kerala. People associate the 1950s and 1960s with the Communist movement and social movements and so on but caste violence was rampant, including a lot of killings. I was really surprised. We really need to question the social history of Kerala, especially of the 19th and 20th century, that we are familiar with. Everything appears neat and clean but the actual situation was the contrary.
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As Veteran’s Day is celebrated here in the United States it’s time to reflect on those brave men and women who have fought in wars and gave their time and sometimes their most valuable possession, their lives.
Whether we believe in a war or why it happened, lives are changed because of wars and those who served and their families and communities will always be affected. During WW1 and WW2 the government offered a program called “Victory Gardens.” It served several different purposes.
Victory Garden’s – their purpose
The main goal was to have as many people as possible plant their own gardens. This helped ease the demand on the government to produce food and that money could be spent on the soldiers and supplies. The impact of people growing potatoes and carrots alone helped the government immensely.
At times shipping and being able to supply food became difficult for the government. Food was rationed and if you had your own garden, no matter how small, you could stretch your rations out. Those who could grow their own food helped with shortages and often time’s gardeners had more than they could use and gave to their neighbors.
There was one more very important reason for the victory gardens. Gardening is relaxing. It gave families time together and time to think about other things than the war. It was a fun sort of therapy and the exercise was good for everyone too.
How the Victory Gardens worked
The government offered gardening programs. The programs varied from state to state but posters were hanging in building and ads printed in newspapers offering information and telling about the value of Victory Gardens.
Seeds and garden supplies were given to participants as long as the supplies lasted. Those who participated were encouraged to save seeds for their next year’s gardens and instruction on how to save seeds were supplied to them.
People grew gardens anywhere they could. Backyards, porches, containers, and even rooftops in cities all had gardens. Old abandoned lots were turned into lush gardens and even schoolyards grew vegetables. If it could hold dirt it could be a garden!
Many of the cities gave parts of their parks to be used as Victory Gardens. Golden Gate Park and Central park in NYC were two of the many who participated.
Victory Gardens future
The last Victory Garden called The Richard D. Parker Memorial Victory Garden or “Fenway Victory Gardens” is located in Fenway Massachusetts just outside of Boston Massachusetts and is still operating. It was started in 1942.
Richard Parker was responsible for the creation of Fenway Garden Society whose goal was to preserve the gardens. He was an active gardener until his death in 1975. The Memorial garden has four separate garden sections and a museum. The garden grows more flowers than vegetables today but the legacy lives on.
Today with the current war there is again a cry for Victory Gardens. It is to help out with food supplies but it is also to promote the green movement and improve our air and environment by planting green crops that help fight pollution and ozone depletion. Its also recognizes the value of gardening as being relaxing and a family event.
One of the current Victory garden projects is called Victory Gardens 2007+. The collecting and saving of seeds is also stressed in the program and the idea that growing a garden is good for the environment.
For those of you with family in the war or those who want to help in a small way, plant a garden.
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Solitary confinement
is a form of imprisonment in which an is isolated from any.
Quotes
* Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
* Noam Chomsky
* We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have known for thousands of years that to lock a sick person into solitary confinement makes him worse. They have known for thousands of years that a poor man who is frightened of his landlord and of the police is a slave. They have known it. We know it. But do the great enlightened mass of the British people know it? No. It is our task, Ella, yours and mine, to tell them. Because the great men are too great to be bothered. They are already discovering how to colonise Venus and to irrigate the moon. That is what is important for our time. You and I are the boulder-pushers. All our lives, you and I, we’ll put all our energies, all our talents into pushing a great boulder up a mountain. The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
* Doris Lessing Paul Tanner, in "Free Women: 1"
* I have come to this conclusion: the aim of solitary confinement is brain-washing, so that prisoners, deprived of normal living conditions, lose their unique human characteristics, their train of thought and ideas, and their physical and psychological health.
* Narges Mohammadi, letter written during her imprisonment at the, 2018.
* Les objets extérieurs ont une action réelle sur le cerveau. Qui s’enferme entre quatre murs finit par perdre la faculté d’associer les idées et les mots. Que de prisonniers cellulaires devenus imbéciles, sinon fous, par le défaut d’exercice des facultés pensantes.
* External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
* Jules Verne, Ch. XXVI: The worst peril of all
* I woke up with the same thought: will this be the day? Will this be the day I lose my sanity and discipline? Will I start screaming and never stop?
* Albert Woodfox on his experience in solitary confinement, written in his book Solitary, published after his forty year imprisonment, as quoted in the Vox article "The case against solitary confinement"
* The United States is a nation of second chances, but the experience of solitary confinement too often undercuts that second chance. Those who do make it out often have trouble holding down jobs, reuniting with family and becoming productive members of society. Imagine having served your time and then being unable to hand change over to a customer or look your wife in the eye or hug your children.
* President Barack Obama in Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement, a 2016 Op-Ed for the Washington Post. | WIKI |
Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko
Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko (19 March 1955 – 21 December 2020) was a Nigerian traditional ruler.
Biography
Born to Olu Erejuwa II (1951–1986) and wife Olori Eyinagboluwade, Emiko was the 20th Olu of Warri. He succeeded his brother Olu Atuwatse II, who died in March 2015. He was crowned Ogiame Ikenwoli I on 12 December 2015 at Ode-Itsekiri, the ancestral home of the Itsekiri people, in a ceremony which was witnessed by many dignitaries in Nigeria, such as the Secretary to the Federal Government David Babachir Lawal, the Delta State Governor Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Emmanuel Uduaghan (former Governor Delta State), and Bola Ahmed Tinubu the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC). He was the Olu of Warri and was married to Olori Mary Emiko. They had three children.
Emiko reportedly died on 21 December 2020, from COVID-19-related complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. | WIKI |
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Also the redirect Touri Balourchi. More 9/11 victims whose articles are better served in Wikimemorial. Robert LeBlanc is a judgement call, but the current article does not appear to present evidence that passes the "more than average professor" test. Rossami 06:52, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Delete all. Davodd 09:15, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
* Insuficient claims to notability. Wikimemorial and delete. Average Earthman 12:54, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Delete all. DJ Clayworth 17:15, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Transwiki all. -Sean Curtin 17:16, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Memorial and delete all. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:27, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Delete - move to memorial - Tεx τ urε 21:55, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
* Memorial all. Niteowlneils 18:11, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Daughters of the Confederacy
The result was speedy keep. Nothing resembling a valid rationale for deletion has been presented. Courcelles (talk) 18:59, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
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* Keep - no policy-based deletion rationale offered. Wikipedia (as any other reference work) covers many organisations and products that hold trademarks, and does not require the trademark holder's permission to do so. Cordless Larry (talk) 17:49, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
* Keep. Perfeclty notable topic. Ridiculous rationale for deletion, from an obvious partisan inside the group, likely concerned about the (accurate) description of the group as working to maintain white supremacy. Binksternet (talk) 18:34, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
* Sppedy Keep but maybe we need to prominently note on the talkpage that UDC is trying to not only influence the page but delete it. Legacypac (talk) 18:46, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
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agree with me, then Germany will raise a hue and cry. And the more he attempts this, the sooner will he and his perish, and I reappear. God rouses many hearts, even those of the populace, so it is not likely this business can be frustrated by force, or, if they try to do so, it will become ten times as powerful as before.
Murner is silent. What the he-goat (Emser) will do, I know not, but I do not believe that you will write. You would be led astray, which would be the bitterest news I could hear. So long as you and Amsdorf, etc. are there, there is no lack of shepherds. Do not anger God by speaking thus, and make us appear ungrateful. Would that all, even cathedrals, had a fourth part of the teachers of the Word that you have. So thank God for enlightening you. I have expended many words on you.
The Cardinal of Mayence has a hundred sworn enemies, and Dr. Schifer is very ill with fever. Some say he is dead. A bishop who was very hostile to me at Worms has come to grief. I have no other news, for I am a hermit, a very monk without cowl and robe; you would see a knight and scarcely recognize me.
Tell Amsdorf that the pastor in Hirschfeld (Feldkirche), an upright man, has also married, so it is not you alone who have a newly married provost. I fear that the provost in Cambray may be dismissed, and now that there may be other mouths to fill it would be serious. If he can only believe that the Lord, the universal Shepherd, still lives, who will not suffer even a bird to starve.
Greet and admonish him, and I shall do the same, so that all may rejoice together. By doing so you will do me a favor, and it will be a joy to God, and a grief to the devil and his followers.
Your despondency is my greatest trial, your joy is mine also; so live at peace in the Lord, to whom I hope you commit me even as I do you.
Maintain the Church of Christ over which the Holy Ghost has made you bishops, but not gods.
Give all my friends my love, of whom there are many. You need not greet M. Eisleben, or the fat Flemmischen, for I am writing them. But remember Johann Scherd- | WIKI |
TensorFlow Example in Python
TensorFlow is a powerful tool for machine learning. In this post we will show you how to get started with TensorFlow in Python.
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Introduction to TensorFlow
TensorFlow is a powerful tool for machine learning. It allows you to easily build and train neural networks, and has a wide variety of applications.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to get started with TensorFlow in Python. We’ll cover the basics of TensorFlow, including how to install it, basic concepts, and some example applications.
Installing TensorFlow
Before we can start using TensorFlow, we need to install it. TensorFlow is available for both Linux and Windows. You can find instructions for installing TensorFlow on the TensorFlow website.
Once you have TensorFlow installed, you can import it into your Python code like this:
import tensorflow as tf
Basic Concepts
TensorFlow is based on a few key concepts:
Tensors: A tensor is a generalization of vectors and matrices to higher dimensions. In TensorFlow, all data is represented as tensors.
Graphs: A graph is a set of computations that take place in order. In TensorFlow, these computations are represented as nodes in a graph.
Sessions: A session is a way to execute a graph. Sessions are used to evaluate tensors and perform computations on graphs.
TensorFlow Basics
TensorFlow is an open source library for numerical computation, specializing in machine learning applications. According to the TensorFlow website, “TensorFlow is a tool for machine learning that allows users to easily create and train neural networks to recognize patterns in data.” In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the basic concepts of TensorFlow in Python.
As the name suggests, TensorFlow deals with data in the form of tensors. A tensor is simply a multidimensional array. In other words, it’s an n-dimensional matrix. In terms of machine learning, we can think of a tensor as an n-dimensional data structure that can represent items such as images, audio recordings, and text. The number of dimensions in a tensor is called its rank. For example, a rank 0 tensor is a scalar (a single value), a rank 1 tensor is a vector (a one-dimensional array), and a rank 2 tensor is a matrix (a two-dimensional array).
Tensors are often used to represent the features of data samples (such as images) that will be fed into a machine learning model. Each element in the tensor corresponds to a certain feature of the data sample. For example, in an image recognition task, each pixel in an image would be represented by an element in the tensor. Similarly, in natural language processing tasks, each word in a sentence would be represented by an element in the tensor.
In order to perform computations on Tensors, we need to first construct them using TensorFlow operations (ops). Ops are nodes in what is called a computational graph; they take Tensors as input and produce Tensors as output. In other words, ops take some input data (in the form of Tensors), perform some computation on that data, and return the results of that computation (also in the form of Tensors). Each op has a unique name so that it can be identified within the graph; this name is generally chosen to describe what kind of computation the op performs. For example, there are ops for addition and subtraction, matrix multiplication and transposition, and so on.
Once we have constructed our graph of ops, we need to execute it in order to actually perform the computations defined by the ops. This is where Sessions come in. A Session is an environment for running ops; it manages allocating resources like memory and GPUs so that ops can be executed efficiently and correctly on different devices such as CPUs and GPUs. When we create a Session object within Python code (by calling tf$\rightarrow$Session() ), this object encapsulates all computations done within that session until we call sess$\rightarrow$close() . All ops created within our program will not actually do any computation until they are run inside such aSession .
TensorFlow Operations
TensorFlow provides multiple built-in operations that you can use to construct your own models. You can also import these operations from the tensorflow.python.ops namespace.
Operations that you can perform on Tensors:
-tf.add
-tf.subtract
-tf.multiply
-tf.divide
-tf.mod
-tf.pow
-tf.square
You can also use the following comparison operations on Tensors:
-tf.equal
-tf.not_equal
-tf.less
-tf.less_equal
-tf.greater
-imported from the ops namespace: greater_equal, and logical_and, logical_not, and logical_or
TensorFlow Graphs
TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) that flow between them. This flexible architecture lets you deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API.
A TensorFlow graph consists of two parts:
– The **definition** of the computational graph, typically built using the Python API.
– A **runtime** environment that executes the computational graph.
TensorFlow Sessions
In order to evaluate the results of a TensorFlow graph, we first need to create a session. A session encapsulates the control and state of the TensorFlow runtime. For example, the following code creates a session that will evaluate the graph defined above:
“`python
sess = tf.Session()
“`
Once we have created a session, we can run our computational graph using the “`run()“` method. This method takes in an optional feed_dict parameter that allows us to specify values for our placeholders:
“`python
output = sess.run(c, feed_dict={a:[[1,2],[3,4]]})
print(output) # [[5 7] [9 11]]
“`
TensorFlow Layers
TensorFlow layers is a high-level API that allows you to easily construct and compose neural networks. Layers package together multiple components, including a variable representing the layer’s state (typically a set of weights), a transformation from inputs to the layer variable (typically called a kernel), and an activation function. You can use layers to:
– Build models that are easy to reason about
– Build neural networks with better mathematical properties
– Take advantage of recent advances in deep learning while still writing code that is easy to understand
Layers are composed of three child classes: Layer, Dense, and Conv2D. Using these three child classes, you can build any type of layer for your neural network.
##Title: Eating Healthy on a Budget
##Heading: Meal Planning
##Expansion:
Planning ahead with simple, healthy meals is one way to save both time and money. By investing a little time upfront, you can make healthy eating easier and less expensive. Here are some tips for meal planning on a budget:
1. Make a list: Before you go grocery shopping, take inventory of what you already have on hand and make a list of what you need. Planning ahead will help you avoid impulsive purchases and reduce food waste.
2. Set a budget: Determine how much you can reasonably spend on groceries each week or month. Once you have a budget in mind, stick to it as best you can.
3. Choose recipes wisely: When meal planning, choose recipes that make use of similar ingredients so that you can get more bang for your buck—and reduce food waste. Also, look for recipes that can be easily adapted to your budget and taste preferences.
4. Get creative with leftovers: One way to save money and time is by getting creative with leftovers. If you have extra cooked chicken on hand, for example, repurpose it into soup or salad later in the week.
5. Shop smart: In addition to planning ahead, be mindful of where (and how) you shop for groceries—both in terms of cost and convenience. For example, buying in bulk at warehouse stores may be cheaper overall but may not be practical if you don’t have access to a car
TensorFlow Keras
TensorFlow is a powerful tool for machine learning, but can be daunting for new users. In this example, we’ll use TensorFlow to build a simple neural network in Python.
We’ll start by importing the necessary libraries:
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow import keras
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Next, we’ll define our inputs and outputs:
#inputs = [[0., 0.], [0., 1.], [1., 0.], [1., 1.]] # OR: inputs = np.array([[0., 0.], [0., 1.], [1., 0.], [1., 1.]])
#outputs = [[0.], [1.], [1.], [0.]] # OR: outputs = np.array([[0.], [1.], [1.], [0.]])
TensorFlow Datasets
TensorFlow is a powerful library for doing complex math with data flow graphs. Datasets are a fundamental need for training machine learning models with TensorFlow. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to create and work with datasets in TensorFlow.
This tutorial uses the Iris flower dataset which you can download from http://www.dropwizard.io/1.0.2/docs/. The Iris dataset is a de-facto standard dataset used in many machine learning examples and competitions, so it is a good one to start with.
Once you have downloaded the iris dataset, unzip it and put it in the same directory as your Python code. The dataset is in CSV (comma-separated values) format, so we will use TensorFlow’s built-in CSV reader class to read the data into a TensorFlow dataset object.
TensorFlow Estimators
TensorFlow estimators are a high-level API that allows you to easily build models without having to code very much. In this example, we’ll use the TensorFlow estimator class to build a linear regression model.
TensorFlow Serving
TensorFlow Serving is a flexible, high-performance serving system for machine learning models, designed for production environments. TensorFlow Serving makes it easy to deploy new algorithms and experiments, while keeping the same server architecture and APIs. TensorFlow Serving provides a simple standard API and runtime to develop servables – TensorFlow models that can be served individually or together in an ensemble.
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Infoscience
Thesis
Physical Phenomena in Dynamic Failure of Concrete at the Mesoscale
The aim of the present thesis is to model numerically the dynamic failure behavior of concrete at the mesoscale. Concrete is the world's most widely used construction material and the structures made of it are subjected to dynamic loads during their long service lives. However, the physical mechanisms leading to its dynamic failure are not well understood. We consider concrete from a mesoscopic point of view, where coarse aggregates, mortar paste and the interfacial transition zone can explicitly be represented. The explicit modeling of the first-level heterogeneities makes mesoscale the most convenient scale to study fracture. The well-established finite-element method is used for the numerical analysis. Fracture is modeled by cohesive elements, which are inserted dynamically when the stress at an inter-element boundary exceeds a local threshold. A robust and scalable parallel implementation of the method is utilized to analyze large scale three-dimensional models. We begin analyzing the influence of material heterogeneities by modeling limited aggregate patterns. This approach allows us to focus on a single propagating crack and to isolate the changes in the elastic field and stress wave interactions. Fracture behavior is analyzed by using the Brazilian splitting test with a physically identified heterogeneity and the pre-strained plate configuration. The crack tip is shown to be repelled by the stiffer inclusions while it is attracted to the denser ones. Furthermore, by introducing denser media around the crack propagation direction, we are able to decrease its steady-state velocity. The crack is slowed down by trapping the mechanical waves in the denser region thus limiting the energy flowing to its tip. We argue that the criterion for crack branching should be based on the available energy instead of the crack tip velocity as suggested by early works. A three-dimensional mesoscale model is then developed to obtain the total mechanical response of concrete. The specimens are subjected to uniaxial tensile loading in a dynamic setting and the so-called ``rate effect'' is investigated. Micro-inertial forces are shown to be insufficient in two and three dimensions making a rate-dependent material model necessary to account the strengthening due to the moisture content in pores. Finally, a percolation analysis is carried out to investigate cluster properties such as number and size distribution. With a parametric study, we consider physically admissible ranges of coarse aggregate contents, random material parameters, applied strain rates and simulation box sizes. The size distribution of the clusters is defined by a power-law fit regardless of the parameters mentioned above, indicating a universal phenomenon is at play. Damage evolution is further studied by comparing the percolated damage clusters with the final cracking map.
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1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,710 When I feel low
2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,400 When I feel blue
3 00:00:07,750 --> 00:00:10,136 And it's my mind | WIKI |
MKDEP(1) AerieBSD 1.0 Refernce Manual MKDEP(1)
NAME
mkdep — construct Makefile dependency list
SYNOPSIS
mkdep [-ap] [-f file] [flags]
DESCRIPTION
mkdep takes a set of flags for the C compiler and a list of C source files as arguments and constructs a set of include file dependencies which are written into the file .depend. An example of its use in a Makefile might be:
CFLAGS= -O -I../include
SRCS= file1.c file2.c
depend:
mkdep ${CFLAGS} ${SRCS}
where the macro SRCS is the list of C source files and the macro CFLAGS is the list of flags for the C compiler.
The options are as follows:
-a
Append to the output file, so that multiple mkdep may be run from a single Makefile.
-f file
Write the include file dependencies to file, instead of the default .depend.
-p
Cause mkdep to produce dependencies of the form:
program: program.c
so that subsequent makes will produce program directly from its C module rather than using an intermediate \&.o module. This is useful for programs whose source is contained in a single module.
FILES
.depend
file containing list of dependencies
SEE ALSO
cc(1), cpp(1), make(1)
HISTORY
The mkdep command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
AerieBSD 1.0 Reference Manual August 26 2008 MKDEP(1) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Valentin Yoskov
Valentin Yoskov (Валентин Йосков; born 5 June 1998) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Septemvri Sofia on loan from CSKA 1948 Sofia II.
Career
Born in Burgas, Yoskov joined Cherno More's youth team at the age of 13, having arrived from Chernomorets Burgas. In the 2014–15 season, he scored 28 goals for the U-17 squad.
Yoskov made his senior debut for the club in a 1–0 league loss against Levski Sofia on 23 October 2015, playing the final seven minutes in place of Todor Palankov. Four days later, he scored his first goal in a 5–0 away win over Vihar Stroevo for the Bulgarian Cup.
On 17 June 2017, Yoskov was loaned to Second League club Nesebar. On 22 July, he made his debut for the club in a 2–3 away defeat by Tsarsko Selo, coming on as substitute for Stamen Angelov. He scored the last goal in the game. Yoskov returned to his parent club for pre-season training in preparations for the 2018–19 season. | WIKI |
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Tool for querying and submitting image orders to Natural Resources Canada's Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS)
Project description
EODMS API Client
Conda (channel only) PyPI ReadTheDocs
A Python3 package for querying, ordering and downloading from the REST API provided by Natural Resources Canada's Earth Observation Data Management System (EODMS).
Heavily influenced by the utterly fantastic sentinelsat package: https://github.com/sentinelsat/sentinelsat
Usage:
Full documentation and real-world example on ReadTheDocs!
Quickstart:
Create a new environment with conda
$ conda create -n eodms-env eodms-api-client -c conda-forge
$ conda activate eodms-env
... or install with pip (not recommended: may clobber your Python installation, may be problematic with Windows+GDAL)
$ pip install eodms-api-client
Use the CLI
Given a geojson polygon, query (but do not order) the RCM collection for products in the last 24hrs and dump the results to a geojson file for inspection (query_results.geojson)
$ eodms -c RCM -g query_aoi.geojson --dump-results
Same query as above, but this time submit an order for all products found by the query instead of saving a result file
$ eodms -c RCM -g query_aoi.geojson --submit-order
Use interactively in a Python REPL
Repeating the same query as the CLI example above in a Python REPL allows you to manually inspect the results and do all sorts of interesting things with the query result geodataframe.
For example, one may wish to inspect the image metadata to check approximate download sizes. One may also want to inspect the image footprints to ensure that they are ordering only the images which have most-optimal coverage of their query_aoi.geojson polygon.
>>> from eodms_api_client import EodmsAPI
>>> x = EodmsAPI(collection='RCM')
>>> x.query(geometry='query_aoi.geojson')
>>> type(x.results)
geopandas.geodataframe.GeoDataFrame
List of possible CLI arguments
$ eodms --help
Usage: eodms [OPTIONS]
Options:
-u, --username TEXT EODMS username (leave blank to use .netrc or
be prompted)
-p, --password TEXT EODMS password (leave blank to use .netrc or
be prompted)
-c, --collection TEXT EODMS collection to search [required]
-s, --start TEXT Beginning of acquisition time window
(default to 1 day prior to now)
-e, --end TEXT End of acquisition time window (default to
now)
-g, --geometry PATH File containing polygon used to constrain
the query results to a spatial region
-pt, --product-type TEXT Limit results to a certain image product
type
-pf, --product-format [GeoTIFF|NITF21]
Limit results to a certain image product
format
-rel, --relative-orbit TEXT Limit results to the desired relative orbit
Id
-abs, --absolute-orbit TEXT Limit results to the desired absolute orbit
Id
-ia, --incidence-angle TEXT Limit results to the desired incidence angle
-ial, --incidence-angle-low TEXT
Limit results to scenes that have incidence
angles greater than this value (degrees)
-iah, --incidence-angle-high TEXT
Limit results to scenes that have incidence
angles less than this value (degrees)
-rb, --radarsat-beam-mode TEXT Limit SAR collection results to the desired
beam mode
-rm, --radarsat-beam-mnemonic TEXT
Limit SAR collection results to the desired
beam mnemonic
-rp, --radarsat-polarization [CH+CV|HH|HH+HV|HH+HV+VH+VV|HH+VV|HV|VH|VH+VV|VV]
Limit SAR collection results to the desired
polarization
-ro, --radarsat-orbit-direction [Ascending|Descending]
Limit SAR collection results to the desired
orbit type
-rl, --radarsat-look-direction [Left|Right]
Limit SAR collection results to the desired
antenna look direction
-rd, --radarsat-downlink-segment-id TEXT
Limit SAR collection results to the desired
downlink segment Id
-rs, --rcm-satellite [RCM1|RCM2|RCM3]
Limit RCM collection results to the desired
satellite
-cc, --cloud-cover TEXT Limit optical results to have less than this
amount of cloud cover [0-100]
-rn, --roll-number TEXT Limit NAPL results to the given roll number
-pn, --photo-number TEXT Limit NAPL results to the given photo number
-o, --output-dir PATH Directory where query results and downloaded
imagery will be saved [default: .]
-dr, --dump-results Whether or not to create a geojson dump
containing the results of the query
-dfn, --dump-filename TEXT Filename for query results geojson
[default: query_results]
--submit-order Submit an order to EODMS from the results of
the current query parameters
--record-id TEXT Specific Record Id to order from the desired
collection
--record-ids PATH File of line-separated Record Ids to order
from the desired collection
--order-id TEXT Specific Order Id to download from EODMS
--order-ids PATH File of line-separated Order Ids to download
from EODMS
--log-verbose Use debug-level logging
--version Show the package version
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
ToDo:
• query RCM
• query and order RCM
• order with provided record Ids (no query necessary)
• download given item Ids (no query or order submission necessary)
• blindly order (skip extra metadata fetching, just order whatever is returned by query)
• add support for other collections:
• Radarsat2 (WIP)
• Radarsat1 (WIP)
• PlanetScope (WIP)
• add multi-select functionality for supported collection parameters
• allow for collection-switching for an existing EodmsAPI instance (must re-evaluate params and rebuild search_url)
• readthedocs documentation
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Michael Sabia
Michael John Sabia (born September 11, 1953) is a Canadian businessman and civil servant. From 2009 until January 2020, Sabia was president and CEO of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. He previously was CEO of BCE Inc. from 2002 to 2008. In November 2019, the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy announced that Sabia would be its new director. He was in that role from February to December 2020, when he was appointed by the Government of Canada as Deputy Minister of Finance.
On May 23, 2023 Sabia was announced as the next CEO of Hydro-Québec, Quebec's public electricity utility.
Personal life
Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Sabia is the son of Michael Joseph Sabia and Laura Sabia (née Villela); both of his parents are of Italian descent. He attended Ridley College in St. Catharines. Sabia received his undergraduate education from the University of Toronto, and he earned his graduate degree at Yale University.
His wife, Hilary Pearson, is the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. In 2016, Sabia was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Career
Sabia held a number of senior positions in Canada's federal public service during the 1980s and early 1990s, including Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet of the Privy Council Office. Sabia's supervisor at that time, Clerk of the Privy Council Paul Tellier, left the public service in the early 1990s to assume the presidency of a Crown corporation, Canadian National Railway. He subsequently persuaded Sabia to follow him to help in privatizing the company. Sabia held a number of executive positions at Canadian National Railway during the 1990s, including the position of chief financial officer.
He left Canadian National Railway to join Bell Canada Enterprises in 1999 and became chief executive in 2002, succeeding Jean Monty. In 2007, the BCE board of directors accepted an offer from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to privatize the telecommunications company. Later that year, Sabia said he would leave Bell after the privatization deal was finalized. Sabia left Bell in July 2008 and was succeeded by George Cope. By December 2008, following the collapse of the debt market, the privatization deal fell apart.
On March 13, 2009, Sabia was named chief executive of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), succeeding Fernand Perrault. At CDPQ, he was both president and CEO. On February 15, 2017, CDPQ announced that Sabia's mandate as president and CEO was renewed until March 31, 2021. Bloomberg said in 2019 that "under Sabia's tenure, the Caisse dove into international markets. About 64% of the fund, which manages the pension savings for the province of Quebec, is now in global markets versus 36% in 2009."
Sabia was a member of the Canadian Government's Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which advised the Canadian finance minister on economic policies to achieve long-term sustainable growth. In 2016, the council called for a gradual increase in permanent immigration to Canada to 450,000 people a year.
On November 12, 2019, it was announced that Sabia would be leaving CDPQ to become head of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, ending his term at CDPQ a year early. He started the new role in February 2020. Sabia was replaced as head of CDPQ by Charles Emond in January 2020.
In April 2020, Sabia was appointed as Chairperson of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. In June 2020, he was named to the board of directors of the Mastercard Foundation.
On December 6, 2020, it was announced that Sabia would replace Paul Rochon as Deputy Minister of the federal Department of Finance. On January 27, 2021, Tamara Vrooman was appointed to succeed Sabia as Chairperson of the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
On May 23, 2023 Sabia was named as the next CEO of Hydro-Québec, the province of Quebec's public electrical utility. Sabia replaces Sophie Brochu in that role. | WIKI |
Augmented truncated dodecahedron
In geometry, the augmented truncated dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids ($J67 – J68 – J69$). As its name suggests, it is created by attaching a pentagonal cupola ($C5v$) onto one decagonal face of a truncated dodecahedron. | WIKI |
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Caught in the Middle (Anastacia song)
"Caught in the Middle" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Anastacia. Written by Anders Bagge, Lauren Dyson, Javier Gonzalez and Ninos Hanna and produced by Bagge, it was released on July 28, 2017. The song served as the lead single for her seventh studio album Evolution (2017).
Music video
A music video for "Caught in the Middle" was filmed on 20–21 June 2017, and directed by Peter Svenson. The music video was released to Anastacia's VEVO on August 4, 2017.
Track listings and formats
* Digital download
* 1) "Caught in the Middle" – 2:55 | WIKI |
AI Filter Improves Positive Predictive Value of Atrial Fibrillation Detection by an Implantable Loop Recorder
By Suneet Mittal et al
The purpose of this study was to determine whether incorporation of a 2-part artificial intelligence (AI) filter can improve the positive predictive value (PPV) of implantable loop recorder (ILR)–detected atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes.
1500 AF episodes were evaluated from patients with cryptogenic stroke or known AF who underwent ILR implantation. Each episode was annotated as either a true or false AF episode to determine the PPV. A 2-part AI-based filter (Cardiologs, Paris, France) was then employed using a deep neural network (DNN) for AF detection. The impact of this DNN filter on the PPV was then assessed.
The cohort included 425 patients (mean age 69 ± 10 years; 62% men) with an ILR. After excluding 17 (1.1%) uninterpretable electrocardiograms, 800 (53.9%) of the remaining 1,483 episodes were manually adjudicated to represent an actual atrial arrhythmia. The PPV of ILR-detected AF episodes was 53.9% (95% confidence interval (CI): 51.4% to 56.5%), which increased to 74.5% (95% CI: 71.8% to 77.0%; p < 0.001) following use of the DNN filter. The increase was greatest for AF episodes ≤30 min. The most common reason for a false-positive AF event was premature atrial contractions. There was a negligible failure to identify true AF episodes.
Despite currently available ILR programming options, designed to maximize PPV in a given population, false-positive AF episodes remain common. An AI-based solution may significantly reduce the time and effort needed to adjudicate these false-positive events.
Read more at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Reference
Mittal S, Oliveros S, Li J, Barroyer T, Henry C, Gardella C. AI Filter Improves Positive Predictive Value of Atrial Fibrillation Detection by an Implantable Loop Recorder. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Feb 8:S2405-500X(20)31298-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2020.12.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33582099. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Motivator
I have frequently asked whether the fields are being extracted well. The easiest method to answer this question is to look at log format documentation. For some vendors, I have located decent documentation while for others, I have not.
The easiest question is whether there is a single website where log format validation/explanation data can be found. The second is where log formats can be validated for the common vendors. Currently, infoblox has caught my interest. What is the best way to find the keys to these log formats? Many of these vendors have options to log using different formats including xml, json, csv, etc, so obviously there would be different keys for each log format option.
When it comes to extracting structured xml, I have encountered difficulty with multiple child events where each child event contains different values. This leads to a side question regarding the best approach to handling structured xml data. Regarding the cleanest parsing with Splunk, is there a best format? I have been told that some people have recommended xml over csv or json. I do not see advantages to structured xml logging over other formats, because of increased license usage and extraction complexity over simple key-value pairs.
When I turn to the various vendor's Splunk apps, oftentimes the best I get is the opportunity to reverse engineer the format by closely decoding the regex. For poorly written regex extractions, this job is even more time consuming and frustrating. If you recommend using the Splunk apps to decode the log format, then how do you increase the efficiency of that process?
I have found log format validation for:
TMG
IIS
Response Codes
Thycotic1
Thycotic2
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Splunk Employee
Splunk add-ons are provided to make useful data coming from logs that a customer understands. By making useful, I refer to reporting, charting, correlation and other ways to work with the data. Splunk engineering and the community do the job of analyzing the log formats and integrating them with Splunk.
There is not a one way to figure out a log format and this is a problem we deal with every day.
If you need to understand a specific log format, I recommend reading the documentation and taking some product training.
For infoblox, you can get some information here: http://dnsworld.blogspot.com/2011/04/explanation-of-infoblox-logs.html
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Which product training would your recommend? I've taken Splunk Data Admin. Still lost on how to validate log format use. My current challenge is VMWare Horizon.
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Piotr Roszatycki > constant-boolean > constant::boolean
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NAME ^
constant::boolean - Define TRUE and FALSE constants.
SYNOPSIS ^
use constant::boolean;
use File::Spec;
sub is_package_exist {
my ($package) = @_;
return FALSE unless defined $package;
foreach my $inc (@INC) {
my $filename = File::Spec->catfile(
split( /\//, $inc ), split( /\::/, $package )
) . '.pm';
return TRUE if -f $filename;
};
return FALSE;
};
no constant::boolean;
DESCRIPTION ^
Defines TRUE and FALSE constants in caller's namespace. You could use simple values like empty string or zero for false, or any non-empty and non-zero string value as true, but the TRUE and FALSE constants are more descriptive.
It is virtually the same as:
# double "not" operator is used for converting scalar to boolean value
use constant TRUE => !! 1;
use constant FALSE => !! '';
The constants exported by constant::boolean are not reported by Test::Pod::Coverage, so it is more convenient to use this module than to define TRUE and FALSE constants by yourself.
The constants can be removed from class API with no constant::boolean pragma or some universal tool like namespace::clean.
BUGS ^
If you find the bug or want to implement new features, please report it at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=constant-boolean
AUTHOR ^
Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>
LICENSE ^
Copyright 2008, 2009 by Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@cpan.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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Rh XVI. — North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus; by S. W.. (With Plates I-IV.)
the past two years I have had the opportunity of studying nearly all the specimens of preserved in the, a study undertaken in the preparation of a revision of the American forms, and, it is hoped, of the of the world also. The accumulation, however, of material recently has made the completion of the task a more arduous one than was at first suspected. I have therefore determined to publish from time to time the more important results obtained, with the hope eventually of gathering the whole together in a final monographic revision. Furthermore, I am convinced that specimens of this order of are not as rare in America as has been believed, and hope to continue field search until the more important characters of the group have been established. I have already said, and I repeat, that the of the plesiosaurs is very perplexing; I doubt if that of any other order of reptiles is more so, chiefly because of the fragmentary nature of much of the known material.
I desire in this place to express my sincerest thanks to those gentlemen who have generously aided me by the communication of material under their charge, and in particular to Dr. Witmer Stone of the, Professor Henry F. Osborn of the , President Slocum and Professor Cragin of , and to my old friend, Mr. William H. Reed, curator of paleontology of the. I am especially grateful for the generosity with which Professor Charles Schuchert, the curator of the Geological Department of the, has placed freely at my disposal the rich collections of that museum, collections which I had, for the most part, assisted in making a good many years ago; and to which were added many useful notes made by the late Professors Marsh and Baur, and by myself while an assistant in that museum twenty years or more ago. Professor Marsh had begun, before his death, the critical study of the plesiosaur material of the Yale Museum, and had had much of it prepared and some illustrations made. All of this has been placed at my disposal. Professor Marsh had not definitely determined any of his species, and had only tentatively located some of them in genera, aside from the species described by him as . Most of the
, Vol. XXI. No. 123—, 1906.
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Germany's Scholz wants to be force for euro integration in Merkel's cabinet
March 16, 2018 / 3:03 PM / a few seconds ago Germany's Scholz wants to be force for euro integration in Merkel's cabinet Reuters Staff 1 Min Read PARIS (Reuters) - Germany’s new finance minister said on Friday after talks with his French counterpart that he wanted to be a force for further integration in the euro zone in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government. German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a news conference following his meeting with French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris, France March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Slideshow (2 Images) Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, who replaced austerity champion Wolfgang Schaeuble, replied with a simple “yes” when a journalist asked him if he intended to push for further convergence in the single currency area. Reporting by Richard Lough; Writing by Joseph Nasr in Berlin, editing by Thomas Escritt | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Dev Kit freeze when trying to change text in cooking menu
Hello.
For few days now Ark Dev Kit completely freezes when I click on mod description box and today there is a new addition to this wonderfull bug, with change notes freezing as well <3.
The problem is that there is no way of changing notes or/and description, even if I try to force change the file through explorer, the dec kit completely ignores any changes to it and freezes completely when I click on description/notes text box.
I got around first one by simply having my description in a text file and updating it through steam client after uploading and update, though the problem is that it’s not possible for change notes. Few days ago I had to completely reinstall Dev Kit, because my description contained invalid character (™) and I couldn’t change it in a any way, not being able to upload my mod to steam.
Why is that happening, I understand Dev Kit has mini freezes time to time because of loading files to memory (usualy takes up to 5-10sec), but come on… a text box? I left it running for about 15 minutes and nothing changed.
Running on i7-4790, msi gtx 980, 16gb ram, samsung 960gb ssd, so that kind of thing should not be my pc’s fault
Happened to me as well, it’s either some characters like " or just too long text that causes all the fields to go insane. Good news is, you can edit the fields outside the Dev Kit, just go to ARKDevKit\ModTools\ModConfigs\MODNAME.vdf and open it up with NP++ or whatever and edit the fields. Save the file, open Dev Kit and you can again use the cooker like normal. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Binding logic
Gilles Dowek, Thérèse Hardin and Claude Kirchner, from LPAIR 2002, long version available at Gilles Dowek’s website:
We define an extension of predicate logic, called Binding Logic, where variables can be bound in terms and in propositions. We introduce a notion of model for this logic and prove a soundness and completeness theorem for it. This theorem is obtained by encoding this logic back into predicate logic and using the classical soundness and
completeness theorem there.
2 Responses to “Binding logic”
1. 1 Samuel Gélineau October 7, 2009 at 6:04 am
Hmm! What would the language corresponding to that logic look like?
For now, let’s focus on implementing a function counting variable occurrences. Assume the predicate symbol “=” of arity , with the usual equality axioms. Also assume the following (function_symbol : arity) pairs.
zero :
suc :
app :
lam :
countV :
countV’s behaviour is defined by the following axioms.
countV(x x) = 1
countV(x y) = 0
countV(x app S T) = countV(x S) + countV(x T)
countV(x lam(y S)) = countV(x S)
2. 2 Samuel Gélineau October 7, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hmm! What would the language corresponding to that logic look like?
For now, let’s focus on implementing a function counting variable occurrences. Assume the predicate symbol “=” of arity ⟨0, 0⟩, with the usual equality axioms. Also assume the following (function_symbol : arity) pairs.
zero : ⟨⟩
suc : ⟨0⟩
app : ⟨0, 0⟩
lam : ⟨1⟩
countV : ⟨1⟩
countV’s behaviour is defined by the following axioms.
countV(x x) = 1
countV(x y) = 0
countV(x app S T) = countV(x S) + countV(x T)
countV(x lam(y S)) = countV(x S)
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John Stonhouse
John Stonhouse may refer to:
* Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet (creation of 1628)
* Sir John Stonhouse, 5th Baronet (d. 1681), of the Stonhouse baronets of Amberden Hall
* Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet (creation of 1670) (1639-1700)
* Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet (c. 1672-1733), MP for Berkshire
* Sir John Stonhouse, 6th Baronet (d. 1740), of the Stonhouse baronets
* Sir John Stonhouse, 7th Baronet (c. 1710-c. 1767) (had succeeded in the baronetcy of 1670 in 1733), of the Stonhouse baronets
* Sir John Stonhouse, 8th Baronet (d. c. 1770), of the Stonhouse baronets
* Sir John Brooke Stonhouse, 13th Baronet (c. 1797-1848), of the Stonhouse baronets | WIKI |
Gorgonian twig coral
The gorgonian twig coral (Homphyton verrucosum) is a species of gorgonian sea fan in the family Anthothelidae.
Description
This coral grows as finger-like branches which may be single or relatively unbranched. The polyps are numerous and cover the entire colony except for the basal region. It is variably coloured in red, yellow or orange.
Distribution
This sea fan is found only around the South African coast from False Bay to Sodwana in 20–40 m of water. It is endemic to this region.
Ecology
This coral is often found covered with an unidentified encrusting sponge. | WIKI |
If the existence of slavery in the South was not the major factor that led to the Civil War, the issue that did lead the South to choosing to secede from the union was whether new states would have slavery or not. 5. After the civil War was over and the slaves were freed, the south enacted The Black Codes to keep African
Civil War The Civil War was a war fought between 1861-1865. It was also know as the War Between the States. During this time rights for African Americans were limited. They wanted to be treated equally and fought for equal rights. The South felt that Lincoln should not do slavery and take away their economy or their way of life.
William Seward was a leading anti-slavery figure who later became secretary of state in the Lincoln administration. He believed that the two systems held by the North and the South (free labour and slavery) were “incompatible”. He stated that eventually America would have to become either fully a free labour nation or a slaveholding nation. While not everyone felt so strongly about this in the North (many didn’t care about the slavery issue at all) it was a reason that soldiers and leaders on either side went to war and fought for (in the North to end it, in the South to defend it). Lincoln was of the opinion that while he would never accept the extension of slavery he would make no direct attempt to interfere with it where it existed.
Plantations were a big part of the economy in the South because that’s where they grew their cotton, and without slaves, the plantations would die. The economy was a cause in the Civil War because the North and South started to realize who wanted slaves and who didn’t. Another important cause of the Civil War was conflict between the North and the South about the issue of slavery. Slavery was a big issue in the South, whereas the North yearned for the abolish of slave labor. According to Document 1, Railroads were slim in the South, for the reason that slaves would have an easy way to escape.
How accurate are they? a. Part of the regional tensions were due the northern delegates wanting to end slavery and the southern delegates wanting to increase slavery .Mason of Virginia was against slavery, he felt the government should have more power over slavery. His predictions are pretty accurate. Ellsworth from Connecticut considered in moral light, ought to free those already in the country.
The Confederates also hoped for a peaceful separation. Shortly after his appointment as provisional president Jefferson Davis and his secretary of state, Robert Toombs of Georgia, left to a mission to Washington to secure recognition and to transfer of all federal property to Confederate authorities. Davis and Toombs also sent three commissioners to Europe to explain the reasons for the creation of the Confederacy and to secure recognition and treaties of amity and commerce. The confederates knew that support from the south was critical, for without a navy or industry of its own, the Confederacy had to have foreign backing. They placed primary reliance on European, and particularly British, dependence on their cotton, believing this ensured a favorable response.
But what led brothers to fight against brothers? Today we realize slavery as a moral issue, but in the nineteenth century, people saw this as a solution to economic problems rather than a moral issue. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery. The South had an economic interest in the spread of slavery to the new territories
(2) Both the North and the South had different views of the compromise. The South wants it the way they want it. The Southern delegates wanted the slaves to be counted in the census. (2) The South wanted this because they would have more people in Congress. If the South had more people in Congress the South would be able to override the north in laws pertaining to the slaves.
“Apostles of Disunion” In Apostles of Disunion, Charles Dew attempted to explain what led to the South’s decision to secede and ultimately cause a civil war. The one reoccurring theme he brings up as the major reason for the South’s secession was their widespread pro slavery attitude held at the time. Dew believed that if slavery had not existed, then the civil war would have never occurred. Throughout his writings he showed this Southern pro slavery attitude and used several examples to support this idea. Two of his best used examples were the the popular propaganda speeches made by slave owners in attempt to gain allegiance against the North and the South’s almost hatred of the Republican Party as a whole.
Lesson 2 Journal Entry Objective 1 1. I would guess the main causes of the Civil War would be the issue of slavery and the opposing views of each section of the United States. Since Northerners were beginning to oppose slavery, the South saw that as a threat to their economy. While the North embraced change, the South wanted to continue the static lifestyle. These causes ultimately led to the Civil War, which was a turning point in American history because of its radical results. | FINEWEB-EDU |
biofluorescence
Noun
* 1) The emission of previously absorbed light by fluorescent proteins in a living organism. | WIKI |
-- China's Stocks Rise After Rate Increase; Insurers Rally, Developers Plunge
China’s benchmark stock index rose
to a six-month high on speculation the nation’s first interest-
rate increase since 2007 will help tame inflation and contain
asset bubbles. China Life Insurance Co. and Ping An Insurance (Group) Co.
rose more than 4 percent after Mirae Asset Securities said
insurers will outperform in a rising rate environment. Liquor
maker Kweichow Moutai Co. and Tsingtao Brewery Co. led gains
among consumer stocks that are less dependent on the economy.
China Vanke Co. and Poly Real Estate Group Co. slumped at least
6 percent as higher borrowing costs may deter demand for housing. “The interest-rate increase is more of a symbolic move and
won’t have too much impact on the ample liquidity,” said Zhang Ling , a fund manager at Shanghai River Fund Management Co. “We
are overweight on consumer stocks as this industry is what the
government wants to be as the major driver for growth.” The Shanghai Composite Index , which tracks the bigger of
China’s stock exchanges, gained 2.10, or 0.1 percent, to
3,003.95 at the 3 p.m. close, the highest since April 21. The
measure dropped as much as 2 percent. Most Asian markets fell on
concern higher rates will slow China’s economic growth, while
the yuan slid the most in four months on speculation the rate
increase will cut the need for currency gains to curb inflation. China’s CSI 300 Index added 0.6 percent to 3,396.88, led by
consumer and energy stocks. The Shanghai gauge has jumped 27
percent from its 2010 low on July 5 after lagging behind rallies
in other emerging markets and as a rising yuan lured higher
capital inflows. Morgan Stanley said it’s staying “bullish” on
Chinese stocks after the central bank increased rates, saying
that “early rate hikes very rarely conclude a market peak.” Rate Increase The central bank yesterday boosted the benchmark one-year
lending rate to 5.56 percent from 5.31 percent. The deposit rate
was increased to 2.5 percent from 2.25 percent. Officials acted
before data tomorrow that may show inflation accelerated to the
fastest pace in almost two years in September. China Life, the nation’s biggest insurer, jumped 4.5
percent to 27.88 yuan. Ping An, China’s second-biggest insurer,
advanced 7 percent to 66.98 yuan. China Pacific Insurance
(Group) Co., the third largest, rose 6.3 percent to 28.67 yuan. China’s life insurers will benefit from improved investment
returns and gain flexibility to price products, Ivan Cheung , a
Hong Kong-based analyst at Mirae Asset Securities, wrote in a
report dated today. The rate increase is a “positive signal” for the nation’s
equity market as it supports a view that economic growth may
have bottomed out and is set to recover, Frank Li and Peng Chen,
analysts at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, said in a report. Investors
should buy Chinese stocks on any “dips,” Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. analysts said. Yuan-denominated assets become more
attractive and the decision indicates confidence among policy
makers on the strength of the economy, Citic Securities Co. said. Consumer Stocks China’s manufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in four
months in September, while industrial output rose 13.9 percent
in August, exceeding economists’ estimates. Citing the economy’s
outlook, Moody’s Investors Service on Oct. 8 put the nation’s
debt rating on review for a possible upgrade. A gauge of consumer staples producers rose 3.3 percent for
the biggest gain among the CSI 300’s 10 industry groups.
Consumer stocks may benefit from the rate increase as investors
rotate to companies whose profitability is less affected by the
economy, said Zhao Zifeng , who helps oversee about $10.2 billion
at China International Fund Management Co. Moutai, China’s biggest producer of baijiu liquor by market
value, advanced 2.5 percent to 167.41 yuan. Wuliangye Yibin Co. ,
the second biggest, climbed 4.6 percent to 36.15 yuan. Tsingtao
Brewery, the second-biggest by volume, rose 1.2 percent to 36.99. Coal Stocks Coal stocks rose as the rate increase signals the
government’s confidence in the economy’s strength and the
resilience of fuel demand, according to Essence Securities Co. Datong Coal Industry Co. , China’s third-largest coal
company by capacity, soared by the 10 percent daily limit to
23.82 yuan. Pingdingshan Tianan Coal Mining Co., the listed unit
of the fifth-largest producer of the coal, rose 6.2 percent to
24.21 yuan. “The market’s interpretation is that the interest-rate
increase indicates a strong economy, which will increase demand
for coal,” said Li Dagang , an analyst at Essence Securities Co.
in Shanghai. “And also some institutional investors have been
adding to their allocations for coal stocks so they won’t miss
the boat during this rally.” Property Bubble The Shanghai Composite has fallen 8.3 percent this year
after the government raised bank reserve requirements three
times to curb lending growth and slow record gains in property
prices. Ma Jun , head of Hong Kong and China strategy at Deutsche
Bank AG, said higher borrowing costs will hurt the outlook for
developers and commodity producers. Vanke, the nation’s biggest listed developer, dropped 6.1
percent to 8.92 yuan. Poly Real Estate, the second biggest, slid
7.8 percent to 13.98 yuan. Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. , the listed unit of nation’s
biggest maker of the lightweight metal and also called Chalco,
retreated 3.8 percent to 12.30 yuan. -- Zhang Shidong , Richard Frost , Chua Kong Ho . Editors: Allen Wan ,
Reinie Booysen To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story:
Zhang Shidong in Shanghai at +86-21-6104-3040 or
szhang5@bloomberg.net ; To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Linus Chua at lchua@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Optical Communication
Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information. It can be performed visually or by using electronic devices. The earliest basic forms of optical communication date back several millennia, while the earliest electrical device created to do so was the photo phone, invented in 1880.
Optical communication is any type of communication in which light is used to carry the signal to the remote end instead of electrical current. Optical communication relies on optical fibres to carry signals to their destinations. This communication was first developed in the 1970s. Fiber optics has revolutionised the telecommunication industry and played a major role in the advent of the information age. Because of its advantages over electrical transmission, optical fibres have largely replaced copper wire communications in core networks in the developed world.
An optical communication system uses a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal. When electronic equipment is not employed the 'receiver' is a person visually observing and interpreting a signal, which may be either simple (such as the presence of a beacon fire) or complex (such as lights using color codes or flashed in a Morse code sequence).
Modern communication relies on optical networking systems using optical fiber, optical amplifiers, lasers, switches, routers, and other related technologies. Free-space optical communication use lasers to transmit signals in space, while terrestrial forms are naturally limited by geography and weather. This article provides a basic introduction to different forms of optical communication.
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You don’t need to take a tablet each day. There are delivery keep watch over strategies that ultimate weeks, months, and even years with little effort in your phase – and no surgical treatment. They are secure and efficient for many wholesome ladies.
Which one is right for you?
“The very best way of birth control for any girl is the process that she’s going to make use of accurately and constantly,” says Elizabeth Micks, MD, MPH, an appearing assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology on the University of Washington Medical Center.
Find out what’s to be had, what’s concerned, and how smartly each and every one works.
The IUD
This is a small, T-shaped software that your physician puts within your uterus, or womb, after supplying you with a checkup. It can keep there for three to 10 years, relying on its sort.
Once the IUD is in position, you don’t need to do anything to stop being pregnant. They are 20 occasions more practical than tablets, patches, or rings. Fewer than 1 in 100 ladies get pregnant all through their first yr at the IUD.
Your physician can simply take away it if making a decision you would love to get pregnant otherwise you not need to use it.
Hormonal IUDs are plastic and unlock the hormone progestin. This thickens the mucus to your cervix (decrease phase of your uterus), which helps to keep sperm from coming into. It additionally thins the partitions of your uterus. This helps to keep a fertilized egg from attaching to it, which is a component of being pregnant.
Four manufacturers of hormonal IUD are to be had: Kyleena, Liletta, Mirena, and Skyla. All depend at the identical drug, known as levonorgestrel. Liletta and Skyla ultimate for three years. Mirena, which has the next dose, lasts for five years. Kyleena releases the bottom dose of hormones for the longest quantity of time, additionally lasting for 5 years. Mirena too can cut back heavy menstrulbleeding as much as 90% after the primary 6 months.
“It’s so efficient in treating ladies with heavy bleeding, painful classes, even ladies with endometriosis [a disorder of the uterus], fibroids [noncancerous tumors], and different issues,” Micks says.
Continued
The downside for some ladies is getting via the ones first 6 months. “Hormonal IUDs can lead to a lot of irregular bleeding in the beginning, which for a lot of women is really not acceptable,” Micks says. “Women do not like spotting (light bleeding between periods).”
Copper IUDs are hormone-free. Copper works like a spermicide and prevents sperm from fertilizing an egg. If an egg does change into fertilized, it can save you implantation of an embryo.
Women who need a hormone-free shape of birth control (which means much less doable unwanted side effects) continuously make a choice those units. Hormone-free delivery keep watch over, despite the fact that, does now not have the similar impact in your menstrual cycle.
“It’s not true for all women, but in general, periods may be a bit heavier and crampier with the copper IUD,” Micks says. “It’s now not a technique that we’d make a choice in a girl who’s already having heavy classes.”
Birth Control Implant
Your physician inserts this small, skinny, and versatile plastic rod into your arm. Like a hormonal IUD, the implant releases progestin into your frame. It works for as much as Three years, and your physician can take away it any time sooner than that.
Also like IUDs, implants also are 20 occasions more practical than tablets, patches, or rings.
Some ladies have abnormal bleeding all through the primary 6 to 12 months. For maximum, classes get lighter and occur much less continuously.
“What comes with the implant is that it’s very unpredictable,” Micks says. “Some will stop having periods, but some will have quite a bit more bleeding.”
With her sufferers, Micks says, “in the event that they don’t see themselves short of to get pregnant inside of a yr, then I like to recommend that they do an IUD or an implant,” she says. “They can have it taken out any time, even a day later, a month later, whenever.”
The Shot (Depo-Provera)
This way protects towards being pregnant for three months at a time. It makes use of progestin to do this.
Only 1 in 100 ladies who get the shot each and every 12 weeks will get pregnant. For those that don’t get their shot on time table, 6 out of 100 will get pregnant.
Continued
Similar to different progestin strategies, the shot may cause abnormal bleeding all through the primary yr. About part of ladies can have fewer and lighter classes after that. Others could have recognizing or heavier, longer classes.
The shot may cause bone thinning, which stops after the injection wears off. For this reason why, ladies in peril for osteoporosis must use a special shape of delivery keep watch over.
If you wish to have to make use of the shot for greater than 2 years, you must communicate on your physician concerning the dangers and the advantages of proceeding it. Women with breast most cancers and those that take some medicines for Cushing’s syndrome (a illness from being uncovered to prime ranges of the hormone cortisol) additionally must now not get it.
Some ladies would possibly now not need the shot as it calls for going to a health care provider’s administrative center each and every Three months. In some portions of the U.S., ladies can get a prescription for an injection they offer themselves. If giving your self a shot makes you squirm, in finding out if there are handy puts to get it — similar to an area well being heart — sooner than making a decision.
If you wish to have to get pregnant throughout the subsequent yr, you could believe different strategies of delivery keep watch over. It can take 10 months or extra to change into fertile once more after you prevent the shot.
Combination Birth Control
Like maximum delivery keep watch over tablets, the patch and the hoop save you being pregnant with the hormones progestin and estrogen. You use the patch and the hoop for three weeks, then prevent for one. During this “week off,” you get your duration. Some ladies, who need to prevent their classes utterly, don’t take every week off.
Women who take the fourth week off continuously get lighter classes with much less signs.
You will have to exchange your patch or ring on time. Nine out of 100 ladies who don’t use them as directed get pregnant.
Like the tablet, each the patch and the hoop can carry your possibility for blood clots. They’re now not really useful for ladies with possibility components for stroke, blood clots, or center illness, similar to ladies over 35 who smoke.
Continued
The patch is a skinny, beige, plastic decal that you simply put on in your pores and skin always for every week. You stick it at the outdoor of your higher arm, your again, your in the back of, or your abdomen. You exchange the patch each and every week for three weeks, then usually take every week off.
Some ladies bitch that the patch falls off or irritates their pores and skin the place it is implemented.
The ring is an alternative choice. Sold below the title Annovera or NuvaRing, it’s small ring that you simply insert to your vagina, very similar to a tampon. You depart it in for three weeks. After that, you’re taking every week off to can help you enjoy a duration, With Annovera, then you definately reinsert the hoop. With NuvaRing, you insert a brand new ring.
It is conceivable for the hoop to fall out sooner than it’s time to switch it. If that occurs, simply rinse it and put it again in. If it’s damaged, you must insert a brand new one.
The patch and the hoop aren’t as efficient as IUDs, implants, or photographs. But some ladies nonetheless make a choice them, Micks says, as a result of they really feel extra in keep watch over of a technique they are able to prevent at any time with no physician discuss with.
Sources
SOURCES:
Elizabeth Micks, MD, MPH, appearing assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, University of Washington Medical Center.
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Planned Parenthood.
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Charles Knox (priest)
Charles Knox (10 January 1770 – 30 January 1825) was Archdeacon of Armagh from 1814 until his death.
The 6th son of the 1st Viscount Northland, he was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College there. He was Member of Parliament for Dungannon from 1798 to 1799. He was ordained in 1799 and held livings at Dunkerron, Drumachose and Urney. He was a Prebendary of Derry from 1807 and St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1817. He was the father of Primate Knox and brother of Bishops William and Edmund Knox. | WIKI |
Jacques Bonnaffé
Jacques Bonnaffé (born 22 June 1958) is a French actor and stage director. He has appeared in more than ninety films since 1980.
Debut
Jacques Bonnaffé was formed at the Lille Conservatory after his high school years in Douai (North) where he practiced amateur theater.
At 20, he started in the film Anthracite directed by Édouard Niermans.
In 1995, he is the French voice of actor Kevin Spacey in the film The Usual Suspects.
He is also dedicated to poetry and readings of Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Mousseron or other authors such as Ludovic Janvier, Valérie Rouzeau, Jacques Darras or Jean-Pierre Verheggen. He directs plays with contemporary authors like Joseph Danan, Jean-Christophe Bailly in Nature loves to hide. Since September 2015 he is everyday on France Culture for his column "Jacques Bonnaffé read Poetry".
Audio books
He also recorded several audio books:
* Discourse on the Method by René Descartes (2003)
* Gargantua by François Rabelais (2004)
* La main coupée by Blaise Cendrars (2005)
* L'Oral et Hardi by Jean-Pierre Verheggen (2003)
* L'Oral et Hardi by Jean-Pierre Verheggen (2013), Camino Verde version | WIKI |
DCDS
Reversibility and branching of periodic orbits
Ana Cristina Mereu Marco Antonio Teixeira
Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 2013, 33(3): 1177-1199 doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1177
We study the dynamics near an equilibrium point of a $2$-parameter family of a reversible system in $\mathbb{R}^6$. In particular, we exhibit conditions for the existence of periodic orbits near the equilibrium of systems having the form $x^{(vi)}+ \lambda_1 x^{(iv)} + \lambda_2 x'' +x = f(x,x',x'',x''',x^{(iv)},x^{(v)})$. The techniques used are Belitskii normal form combined with Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction.
keywords: normal form Lyapunov center theorem. resonance reversible systems Periodic orbits
DCDS-B
Limit cycles in uniform isochronous centers of discontinuous differential systems with four zones
Jackson Itikawa Jaume Llibre Ana Cristina Mereu Regilene Oliveira
Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B 2017, 22(9): 3259-3272 doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2017136
We apply the averaging theory of first order for discontinuous differential systems to study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the periodic orbits of the uniform isochronous center of the differential systems $\dot{x}=-y+x^2, \;\dot{y}=x+xy$, and $\dot{x}=-y+x^2y, \;\dot{y}=x+xy^2$, when they are perturbed inside the class of all discontinuous quadratic and cubic polynomials differential systems with four zones separately by the axes of coordinates, respectively.
Using averaging theory of first order the maximum number of limit cycles that we can obtain is twice the maximum number of limit cycles obtained in a previous work for discontinuous quadratic differential systems perturbing the same uniform isochronous quadratic center at origin perturbed with two zones separately by a straight line, and 5 more limit cycles than those achieved in a prior result for discontinuous cubic differential systems with the same uniform isochronous cubic center at the origin perturbed with two zones separately by a straight line. Comparing our results with those obtained perturbing the mentioned centers by the continuous quadratic and cubic differential systems we obtain 8 and 9 more limit cycles respectively.
keywords: Limit cycle averaging theory uniform isochronous center discontinuous polynomial system
DCDS
Isochronicity for trivial quintic and septic planar polynomial Hamiltonian systems
Francisco Braun Jaume Llibre Ana Cristina Mereu
Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A 2016, 36(10): 5245-5255 doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016029
In this paper we completely characterize trivial polynomial Hamiltonian isochronous centers of degrees $5$ and $7$. Precisely, we provide simple formulas, up to linear change of coordinates, for the Hamiltonians of the form $H = \left(f_1^2 + f_2^2 \right)/2$, where $f = (f_1, f_2): \mathbb{R}^2\to \mathbb{R}^2$ is a polynomial map with $\det D f = 1$, $f(0,0) = (0,0)$ and the degree of $f$ is $3$ or $4$.
keywords: polynomial Hamiltonian systems Isochronous centers Jacobian conjecture.
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Nicklaus Design
Nicklaus Design is a company, founded and run by American professional golfer Jack Nicklaus, that designs and constructs golf courses. As of Feb 2019, the company had designed over 410 golf courses and 57 more under development around the world. These courses include Harbour Town Golf Links, Hacienda Riquelme Golf Resort in south-east Spain, and Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, where the Memorial Tournament is played. Nicklaus Design is a family business, with Nicklaus's four sons and his son-in-law all involved with the company. As of 2008, the design team included Jim Lipe and Chris Cochran. | WIKI |
National Key Points Act, 1980
The National Key Points Act, 1980 (Act No. 102 of 1980) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that provides for the declaration and protection of sites of national strategic importance against sabotage, as determined by the Minister of Police (previously known as the Minister for Safety and Security) since 2004 and the Minister of Defence before that. The act was designed during apartheid to secretly arrange protection primarily for privately owned strategic sites. It enables the government to compel private owners, as well as state-owned corporations, to safeguard such sites owned by them at their own cost. The act, still in force and unamended since apartheid, came under the spotlight after President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead was declared a National Key Point in 2010 amid controversy over public expenditure on upgrades to the property. , the act is officially under review.
Apartheid legislation
In an apartheid-era debate on disinvestment from South Africa in 1990, chief representative of the African National Congress (ANC) to the United States Lindiwe Mabuza said the act contributed to institutionalised oppression of black South Africans. The ANC, which has been the country's ruling party since 1994, made a submission to a special Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing on the role of business during apartheid in 1997 in which it characterises the act as "the privatisation of repression" and states: "The National Key Points Act of 1980 created another network of collaboration between the apartheid security forces and the private sector." The act contributed to significant growth in the private security industry and "the integration of state and private sector security companies with a uniform security strategy". In February 2013 Mosiuoa Lekota, COPE leader, former ANC member and former Minister of Defence, described the act still in force unamended under an ANC government as "dastardly apartheid legislation". In November 2013 Lekota said in a Parliamentary debate about the act: "I am reminded about George Orwell's Animal Farm published in 1945. At the end, the past perpetrators of oppression and the revolutionaries who come to power are indistinguishable. Yet, how quickly, brazenly and unapologetically the ruling party uses an act it would have despised and rejected before, and rightly so, to shield its embarrassment and do damage control. Using a past law that does not even have a veneer of transparency, accountability or constitutionality devalues our constitution. The strategic abuse of the National Key Points Act is visibly and nakedly an abuse of office. It is regressive and objectionable. Only those who are morally bankrupt will use the old act as it is."
Administration of the act
, the administration of the act falls under the Government Security Regulator subprogramme of the Protection and Security Services programme of the South African Police Service (SAPS). The role of the Government Security Regulator is described in various official sources as follows:
* The SAPS Annual Report 2010/2011 states: "The Government Security Regulator provides for security regulations, evaluations and the administration of National Key Points and strategic installations."
* The SAPS Annual Report 2011/2012 and the SAPS Annual Report 2012/2013 states: "The Government Security Regulator relates to National Key Points evaluated in compliance with the National Key Points Act. Strategic installations were audited in terms of the Minimum Physical Security Standard guidelines at national and provincial government departments."
* According to the South African Defence Review 2013, the safeguarding of critical infrastructure assigned to SAPS "entails the administration, protection oversight and at times the physical protection of national key points" and the Department of Defence plays a supportive role.
The Government Sector Security Council (GSSC) was launched by SAPS in 2006 to primarily coordinate, monitor and regulate security of certain National Key Points that are not privately owned.
National Key Points include diverse critical infrastructure sites such as airports, power stations, banks and sites in the munitions and petrochemical industries including oil refineries. The majority are not state-owned. The list of sites declared as National Key Points was formerly not available to the public, but it was released in January 2015 pursuant to an order of the Johannesburg High Court. It was revealed that the list contained 204 entries; there are a further 248 state-owned strategic installations which do not fall under the act.
An advisory committee appointed by then Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa in May 2013 clarified that:
* Military facilities fall under the Defence Act, 2002 and prison facilities fall under the Correctional Service Act, 1998 and are therefore not required to be declared National Key Points.
* Designated areas and sites have been declared and in some cases the declaration does not cover the entire site, for example the declaration in respect of airports only applies to designated areas and not the entire airport.
* There are no restrictions under the act that prevent people from gathering next to National Key Points.
Secrecy
The government formerly asserted that it was not obliged to publicly disclose the details of sites that have been declared National Key Points. The Department of Police refused the requests of the Right2Know Campaign in 2012, and the Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Opposition in 2013, to disclose a list of National Key Points citing security concerns. This refusal was appealed to the Johannesburg High Court, which ordered the government to release the list. On 22 January 2015 the government abandoned its attempt to appeal the ruling, and the list was made public.
The act furthermore restricts the disclosure of information regarding security measures implemented at National Key Points and any incident that occurred at a National Key Point, defined as "any occurrence arising out of or relating to terroristic activities, sabotage, espionage or subversion". Such disclosure could constitute a criminal offence subject to penalties, but the public and journalists were unable to comply with the act as they did not know which sites have been declared National Key Points.
Critics including academics, environmentalists, the media, the Right2Know Campaign, the Institute for Security Studies and opposition parties in Parliament have expressed their concerns about the lack of transparency about National Key Points and the implications thereof, in particular:
* the use of the act to avoid government accountability on matters of public interest such as corruption and environmental hazards,
* the use of the act to protect corporate interests,
* the use of the act to restrict freedom of expression entrenched in the Bill of Rights, and
* the lack of clarity on offences and penalties that may be imposed in terms of the act on the uninformed public and journalists.
Legislative review
The act has been amended twice, during apartheid in 1984 and 1985, expanding the ministerial powers granted by the act.
A new piece of legislation, the National Key Points Act and Strategic Installations Bill, was drafted in 2007 to replace the act when Charles Nqakula was Minister for Safety and Security (later known as Minister of Police). The bill was opposed by labour and civic organisations as it represented few changes in the original legislation and was considered equally draconian and was not finalised. The draft bill made provision for privately owned National Key Points, publicly owned Strategic Installations and a temporary designation of Places of Importance for privately or publicly owned sites.
In 2012 constitutional law expert Pierre de Vos stated that the act is outdated, referring to the Official Secrets Act of 1956 repealed in 1982, and contravenes the country's post-apartheid constitution. In February 2013 Deputy Minister of Public Works Jeremy Cronin publicly criticised the act, saying "This Parliament does need to look at this anachronistic and problematic piece of legislation, it may well be unconstitutional."
On 30 May 2013, then Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa announced plans to table a redrafted bill in Parliament early in 2014. In November 2013 then Leader of the Opposition Lindiwe Mazibuko tabled a private member's bill, the Protection of Critical Infrastructure Bill, in Parliament with a more transparent system subject to Parliamentary oversight and without the existing wide discretionary ministerial powers open to abuse. Mthethwa subsequently presented the findings and recommendations of an advisory committee he appointed in May 2013 to Parliament, stating "The National Key Points Act has been criticized in the recent past for being based on old apartheid legislation. It also became clear to us that this Act needed to be revised for various reasons, key amongst these is the need to align it with the Constitution and other more recent legislations. In addition there has been criticism that the actual use of the Act to address infrastructure security is inappropriate." In March 2014, Mthethwa announced that the legislative review would be held over to the country's next administration following the 2014 general election in May. Following the election, Mthethwa was replaced as Minister of Police by Nkosinathi Nhleko, who was appointed to President Jacob Zuma's cabinet in his second term of office. In a submission to Parliament on 14 August 2014 regarding his Nkandla homestead, Zuma said Nhleko must expedite the legislative review.
Nkandla homestead
The act came under the spotlight during revelations about public expenditure on President Jacob Zuma's private residence at Nkandla, first exposed by Mail & Guardian journalist Mandy Rossouw in December 2009. The site was declared a National Key Point by then Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa in April 2010, and the act was invoked by government officials in an attempt to justify the expenditure, withhold information about it, and prevent anyone from taking or publishing photographs of the homestead.
In addition to public expenditure on upgrades not related to security, Zuma did not safeguard his residence at his own cost in contravention of Mthethwa's declaration in terms of the act.
In her final report on security upgrades to Zuma's Nkandla homestead published on 19 March 2014, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found that Zuma had unduly benefited from the R246 million the state had spent on the upgrades, criticised Mthethwa and other government officials for maladministration and instructed Mthethwa to urgently institute a review of the act. Mthethwa's term of office as Minister of Police ended in May 2014.
Following criticism in the media of the photo ban, the government released a clarifying statement that "Government has no problem with the media publishing pictures of National Key Points, including President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla residence, as it is part of their daily line of duty. However, zooming into safety and security features of National Key Points is a challenge as it compromises national security." | WIKI |
Confidant of Israel's Netanyahu turns state's witness in corruption case - media
JERUSALEM, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state about alleged corrupt dealings between the government and the country’s biggest telecoms group, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
Shlomo Filber, who was arrested this week along with top executives at Bezeq Telecom, had been a personal appointment of Netanyahu’s to head the Communications Ministry.
Police now suspect Bezeq received regulatory benefits, and in return, Netanyahu received favourable media coverage on a popular news website that is also controlled by Bezeq’s former chairman.
The Bezeq executives have denied the allegations.
Israel’s Ynet news website reported that Filber has now agreed to testify for the state in the case, a development that could further complicate things for Netanyahu as he battles mounting corruption allegations.
Israeli authorities were not immediately available to confirm that a deal with Filber had been reached.
On Tuesday, police alleged that Netanyahu’s former spokesman tried to bribe a judge to drop a fraud case against Netanyahu’s wife. Netanyahu himself is suspect in two other investigations.
The right-wing leader, in office for 12 years since 1996, has denied wrongdoing in any of the cases, calling them a political “witch hunt”. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Robert Birsel) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Belette and I worked side by side, bent double among the poles, our heads nearly touching, and sometimes as I stripped the vines my hand would brush against her, and then she would rear up like a young colt and give me a smart slap, or squeeze a bunch of grapes in my face. Naturally I retorted with another, till the red juice ran down over her sunburned bosom. You never saw such a little devil as she was, but I could not catch her off her guard. We always kept a wary eye on each other, for she knew well enough what I was after; but she always seemed to be saying, "Don't you wish you may get it?" On my side, I was just like a cat with his eyes half shut, watching a mouse and ready to pounce at the right moment. "Wait till I catch you, my lady!" I thought.
One afternoon in this very month of May,—our summers must have been hotter in those days,—the air was like an oven, a furnace seven times heated; for hours black threatening clouds had been coming up, big with the storm which still held off, so that we melted under the heat, and the very tools stuck to our fingers. Belette had been singing in her garden, but after a while I could neither see nor hear her, till at last I caught sight of her sitting on a stone under the shed roof, asleep; her lips parted, her head leaning back against the | WIKI |
briancrockett
Dangerous Modal Window Behaviour with Scripting
Discussion created by briancrockett on Jun 12, 2013
Latest reply on Jun 13, 2013 by debi
I don't know if this has been brought up before. (Didn't find anything via Google search)
If you launch a script from a modal window and that script runs subscripts in other files, those scripts are ignored and do not run. When you run debugger and try to step into those external scripts it just steps over them. This is completely transparent to the user and generates no error dialog. So basically only scripts in the file that contains the modal window will run all others are just skipped over with out any feedback.
This could be dangerous to your data integrity if one of those subscripts was being used to create a subset of records to work on. You could end up applying changes to your whole database.
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How long after back surgery can I get a massage?
In conclusion, it is safe and beneficial to receive deep tissue massage after surgery. However, ensure that the incision healing is complete before going for a massage. The process usually takes between six to eight weeks after surgery.
Can you have a massage after a spinal fusion?
It’s important you do not receive a massage before you’re done healing from surgery. This rule actually applies to any post-rehabilitation program. Dr. Mark Giovanini will perform the necessary follow-up evaluations before recommending alternative therapies.
Can I get a massage after a back injury?
You CAN get massage therapy when you have an acute injury, as long as the therapist you work with understands soft tissue conditions. Licensed therapists will have the training needed to help you heal and avoid further injury.
How long does it take for back muscles to heal after surgery?
It can take 6 months to a year for your backbone to heal. A laminectomy or discectomy removes a bit of tissue from the spine area. You may get better in 12 weeks. Whichever you had, care for your back after surgery usually follows the same general steps.
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How long does it take for lumbar nerve to heal after surgery?
Conclusion: In lumbar radiculopathy patients after surgical decompression, pain recovers fastest, in the first 6 weeks postoperatively, followed by paresthesia recovery that plateaus at 3 months postoperatively. Numbness recovers at a slower pace but continues until 1 year.
What can’t you do after spinal fusion?
Avoid strenuous activities, such as bicycle riding, jogging, weight lifting, or aerobic exercise, until your doctor says it is okay. Do not drive for 2 to 4 weeks after your surgery or until your doctor says it is okay. Avoid riding in a car for more than 30 minutes at a time for 2 to 4 weeks after surgery.
Is heat or ice better after back surgery?
Ice will help after surgery and we recommend using ice packs over the incision or around areas of pain. Make sure you have a barrier between your skin and the ice pack to avoid frost burn and do not leave ice in place for longer than 20 minutes. You should gradually use less pain medications while recovering.
Should I get a massage if my back hurts?
Massage can be a helpful add-on to conventional medical care for back pain. It can reduce discomfort and get you back on your feet faster. It can take weeks to months to completely recover from a flare-up of low back pain.
What type of massage is best for lower back pain?
While the typical Swedish and deep tissue massages are good for relief from back pain, a particularly effective technique for lower back pain is Shiatsu massage. Shiatsu massage applies pressure to different parts of the body in a rhythmic sequence.
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What is the fastest way to recover from back surgery?
General wellness plan
1. A good pain doctor/physical therapist. Make sure you know who to call if you are still in pain after surgery. …
2. Sleep. Your body will do most of its healing while you sleep. …
3. Walks. …
4. Patience. …
5. Massage therapy. …
6. Good attitude.
How long does it take for surgery to fully heal?
This is why surgical wounds typically heal faster than other kinds of wounds. Surgery cuts normally take 6 to 8 weeks to heal, according to St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. Wounds may also heal faster or better if you keep them covered.
What is the best exercise after back surgery?
Walking Exercise Program
Walking is one of the best exercises you can do after a lumbar laminectomy or discectomy surgery. 1 Why? Because walking helps to improve blood flow throughout your body. This helps to bring in oxygen and nutrients to your spinal muscles and tissues as they heal.
Why does my leg still hurt after back surgery?
Although spine surgery has become much more reliable in the last 20 years or so, some patients will still have leg pain after a lumbar decompression surgery for spinal stenosis or a disc herniation. Sometimes this is a temporary condition as the nerve root or roots take time to heal. This can take days to weeks.
How long does it take to recover from L4 L5 back surgery?
It will take about 4 to 6 weeks for you to reach your expected level of mobility and function (this will depend on the severity of your condition and symptoms before the operation). When you wake up after lumbar decompression surgery, your back may feel sore and you’ll probably be attached to 1 or more tubes.
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Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The 2016 Presidential Race | HuffPost
WASHINGTON -- Facing an increasingly narrow path to the nomination and failing to thwart Donald Trump's dominance, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) withdrew from the 2016 presidential race on Tuesday. Tonight, I'm sorry to say that path has been foreclosed, Cruz said in a speech Tuesday night in Indianapolis, but the voters chose another path. We are suspending our campaign, he added. As Trump barreled toward the 1,237 delegates required to win, Cruz's campaign in recent weeks resorted to increasingly desperate measures, mounting a last-ditch effort to win the Indiana primary, one of the only remaining primary states that gave Cruz a chance of winning. But Indiana turned out to be the final nail in the coffin -- Trump won handily in the Hoosier State, including among social conservatives, a demographic that in theory favored Cruz. To reinvigorate his campaign, Cruz last week named former presidential candidate and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate, even though candidates typically do not name their running mate until they have amassed enough delegates for the nomination. His campaign also announced a plan to coordinate with the campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the other remaining candidate. Kasich's team agreed to pull resources out of Indiana and cede the race there to Cruz. However, this effort quickly backfired, when each candidate caused confusion by diminishing its importance. Kasich said voters in Indiana should still vote for him. Like many of the GOP candidates and party leaders, Cruz underestimated the strength of Trump's appeal. Initially, he often defended Trump instead of attacking him, strategizing that he could pick up Trump's supporters if the businessman exited the race. But when it became apparent that Trump's populist and nationalist rhetoric was resonating with Republican voters, with the reality television star dominating the majority of the primaries, Cruz began to target Trump on the debate stage and on the campaign trail -- to little avail. Once positioned as a strong threat to become the Republican presidential nominee, the Texas senator was the first candidate in either party to officially declare his intent to run for the presidency in 2016. Bypassing the typical first step in a presidential campaign -- the exploratory committee -- he kicked off his campaign in March of 2015 with a rousing speech at Liberty University, the Christian university founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. What is the promise of America? The idea that -- the revolutionary idea that this country was founded upon, which is that our rights don't come from man. They come from God Almighty, he said in his announcement speech. A star of the tea party movement, Cruz made social conservatism and religious liberty a fundamental part of his pitch to voters. He highlighted his staunch opposition to gay marriage on the basis of religious freedom, particularly after the Supreme Court decision in June 2015 that legalized gay marriage nationwide. In response, Cruz said he would introduce a constitutional amendment to hold elections for Supreme Court justices. Over the summer, he held a religious freedom rally in the key state of Iowa, during which he proclaimed that there is a war on faith in America today, in our lifetime and bemoaned the persecution of Christians. But despite touting his conservative credentials and fashioning himself as an anti-establishment candidate, Cruz never quite managed to rally conservatives around him. The Texas senator was hugely unpopular among his colleagues, with most GOP lawmakers reluctant to endorse him until it became clear he was the only viable option to potentially halt Trump's momentum. Only then did Republicans begin backing him, though many gave tepid reasons for doing so and perceived him merely as the lesser of two evils when compared to Trump. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced his support of Cruz just weeks after joking that he wanted to murder him. Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told students at Stanford University that Cruz was Lucifer in the flesh and a miserable son of a bitch. Cruz's campaign never had the enthusiasm and fervor of Trump's insurgency. For example, when Cruz introduced himself at the second GOP debate in September, the audience responded with silence. And while Cruz portrayed himself as an outsider, most voters viewed him as an establishment candidate, compared to the brash, take-no-prisoners Trump. As the reality of Cruz's downfall and Trump's presumptive nomination begins to sink in, the Republican party faces a serious dilemma: whether to support Trump as the party's nominee and potentially hand Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton the presidency, or risk further damage to the party with Trump at the helm. Soon after Cruz's announcement Tuesday, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus urged his party to unite around Trump. .@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton But it's unclear if Cruz will now back him. He didn't mention Trump in his speech Tuesday night, and when pressed by NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday, he repeatedly dodged the question. Why can't you answer the question of whether you can support Donald Trump or not? Todd asked Cruz. But Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Cruz interrupted. Let me finish this point I'm making. Ahead of the Indiana primary, Cruz continued to place his bets on a contested convention and tried to make the case that he was the best alternative to stop Trump. But in the end, no one could stop him. Also on HuffPost: Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? Here's how. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION. In several directions methods of cultivation in Vizagapatam differ from those in the south. Rice-fields (especially in Pálkonda, where the Nágávali silt is very rich) are often left unmanured for years together, but the seedlings are given a good start by plentiful supplies of fertilizers to the seed-beds. Where manures are used, the wild indigo and sunn hemp plants are frequently ploughed in when green. Dry land, on the other hand, which in the south is often neglected, is here usually plentifully manured, especially with tank silt, and ragi and cambu (and sometimes cholam) instead of being sown are transplanted in dry fields from seed-beds after rain, the seedlings being put out by hand in a furrow and their roots covered over by ploughing another furrow alongside. Instead, again, of being threshed directly they are harvested, as in the south, the crops are often stacked on the fields for months until the ryot has nothing more emergent to do. Except in Pálkonda, double crops of paddy are rare, the wet-fields being either utilized, after the paddy has been removed, for growing gingelly, green gram, or a multiplicity of garden crops and vegetables, usually with the help of wells; or being sown with ragi during the south-west monsoon and then with paddy with the north-east rains later on. The paddy is of very numerous varieties, differing from taluk to taluk, and it is not possible to point to any one kind as being universally the most popular. Vizagapatam rice has a high character and it is said that at one time rice used regularly to be sent from Gódávari to Anakápalle to be exported again as Vizagapatam rice.
On the hills the paddy is practically all of it rain-fed, but on the 3,000 feet plateau some is raised in the beds of nullahs and irrigated with their water. Gunupur, Jeypore and Naurangpur taluks (see the accounts of these in Chapter XV) are the three tracts where most is raised. Gunupur rice is favourably known as far afield as Calcutta. The crops grown in poducultivation (see p. Ill) are usually dry grains like sámai, hill cholam and the like. The greater part of the seed is thrown on the higher part of the patch and left to be washed down to the lower portions by the rains. The careful terracing of the hills carried out by the Savaras in Gunupur is alluded to on p. 257.
In 1904 an Agricultural Association was formed at Vizagapatam. It has held two most successful cattle shows and has opened an experimental farm on 21 acres of land near Vizianagram granted by the Rája's adoptive sister. The District Board will very shortly open a veterinary hospital at Vizagapatam. 103 | WIKI |
Down for the Count
wordplay, the CROSSWORD COLUMN Laura Taylor Kinnel enters the ring an unknown, and leaves victorious. SUNDAY PUZZLE — Sunday constructor debuts are great. Not to detract from weekly constructor debuts, which are also wonderful, but a big grid makes a big splash and enables someone to dramatically unfurl those newly fledged wings (newly fledged to us, anyway). According to Will Shortz’s print intro, Laura Taylor Kinnel teaches math (surprise!) and is the director of studies at a Friends boarding school in Pennsylvania. Ms. Kinnel traces her interest in crosswords to this venue, solving the Sunday puzzle in The Times with her grandmother. This grid is a really good challenge, and it’s also very highly designed! I missed a whole level of intricacy in the theme before consulting with the constructor, and as always, it will be interesting to see how many solvers picked up on everything themselves. All in all, this is a very masterly, auspicious debut. This whole grid is no easy A, but it does move along. There are some misdirects in the fill that could be frustrating early in the solve, like ORES for “aces,” ECHECK instead of “PayPal” and PEONS for “serfs.” There are also some terms and names you really need to have had in your head already: SPEE, JAROMIR, ABSCISSA, ATMAN … 47A: This is a number clue that I’m considering a red herring, although that could be an oversight (and not my first, if you read on to the explainer below). I don’t know why we’re specifically flying from D.C. to L.A. in exactly 23 minutes, except to calculate that distance and time to MACH SIX. 54A: Marge Simpson knows her herbs and spices; chervil, turmeric and that “whisper of MSG” make a delicious PORK CHOP. 86A: This entry with a number might not be a red herring. It seems at first like kind of a cheap shot. I’ve been hearing a lot about this singer Mariah Carey lately and thought she might be the answer here, but she’s not; NO ONE is. It strikes me that this clue might be a winking answer to a question that solvers could ask at the end of this grid.* 70D: Funny to think that to “preserve something” could mean to actually put it in a jam, or a jelly, like a BERRY. 76D: You probably know this, but it’s a debut and a fact that always makes me wonder: Why do we go through customs ON ARRIVAL? It always feels counterintuitive to put a captive audience on a plane for hours, then funnel them into a slightly larger earthbound venue just to wait again. But there’s probably a good reason for it, travel logistics are always tight as a drum. You may notice that this grid has bilateral (mirror) symmetry, right/left, which allows for the arrangement of its many thematic parts, including a center column at 22D, 41D, 77D, 102D. As far as horizontal theme entries go, the two huge spans are in there at 20A and 74A, both equation-related. Then there’s a helpful self-reveal at 39A that refers to those two spans as well as itself (39A) and the delightfully clued throwaway entry at 101A. On top of all of that, every entry in this puzzle plays a supporting role today, as we will discuss. It’s pretty neat. I confess that I physically shivered at the clue at 20A: “1/x, for x,” but this is really simple math, guys, just buckle down and get a few crosses. That 1/x is a fraction; x/1 is its reciprocal, and it’s also equal to x (because anything divided by 1 is just itself, of course). A lengthy term for reciprocal in this case is MULTIPLICATIVE INVERSE. Also, you’ll probably agree that this is the worst of the theme entries to figure out. The other span is the representation of what’s probably the most famous physics equation, one that could very well pop right into your mind when thinking “space-time fabric”: THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY. (This same entry debuted in a 1965 Sunday puzzle, also as part of a theme, clued like so: “Subject of 1905 paper.” Ouch.) Between them in the grid, at 39A is that revealer, which does have a hint: “Abstainers.” At first glance, TEETOTALERS works to solve that hint. On second glance, that “TOTALERS” gives this entry a clever wordplay connection to the general gist here (just noticing this made me feel so clever, but little did I know). That last horizontal themer? I know a bunch of Little Richard songs and never really thought about the “inspired” nature of their lyrics, but with a cross or two, TUTTI FRUTTI was a piece of cake. “A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom!” are the lyrics referred to by Rolling Stone, by the way. Try as I might, this last one wouldn’t twist into anything arithmetic for me, so I knew I had to be missing something regarding this theme. Back to that revealer at 39A: “Abstainers … or the central column’s answers vis-à-vis 20-, 39-, 74- and 101-Across, respectively.” To the downs, in that central column. At 22D, quite simple fill: “Complement of turtle doves” has to be TWO. At 41D, right below, another carol, tra la la: “We _____ Kings” must be THREE. Next clue in the line is a billiards reference, which is fine, because even if you don’t play, FOUR is a terrific guess for “Purple pool ball,” at this point. At 102D, finally, to have “A short rest” is commonly to take FIVE (there’s also music for this phrase, your brain might be telling you). The next step here is pretty logical. Take a look at where each of the entries in that four-part numerical column — the entries TWO through FIVE — begins. (*Where’s one? I don’t know — we’re starting with TWO today, there’s no one.) Notice that each numerical down entry starts in the dead center of one of the theme entries. So in MULTIPLICATIVE INVERSE, for example, that second T is the beginning of TWO. And in TEETOTALERS, that third T is the beginning of THREE. THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY uses an “F” for its overlapping letter with FOUR, as does TUTTI FRUTTI (with FIVE), but the geometric result is the same — those horizontals with centered stems are forming four distinct T’s. Is that what Ms. Kinnel means by TEETOTALERS? Brilliant. Amazing. Each horizontal themer, added to a number in a down entry (totaled?), results in a TEE. But hold up! Record scratch! There’s something else, alluded to slightly in the last paragraph. How many T's in each across theme entry, from top to bottom? We already did the top examples: two T’s in 20A to go with TWO, three T’s in 39A to go with THREE … is that what Ms. Kinnel means by the puzzle’s title, “Down for the count?” Now: How many T’s in the rest of the puzzle? How’s that for a knockout? It’s particularly fun to debut on the Sunday before Christmas, since my crossword creation habit began exactly a year ago when I decided to make a year-in-review crossword for our annual family letter! In the process of figuring out how to make that first puzzle, I was thrilled to discover the plentiful online resources for aspiring constructors, and was amazed by the enthusiastic encouragement of beginners from experienced constructors and in Wordplay’s “How to Make a Crossword Puzzle.” Together, the resources and encouragement got me thinking that maybe I could make a publishable crossword. Later, the specific, gently delivered feedback from Times editors on three rejected submissions helped me know what to focus on improving. (Imagine if educators were to universally trade the “weeding out” mentality for an “encourage and provide targeted feedback” approach … ) This puzzle evolved from the idea of doing something numerical with 39-Across. The happy discovery that its central letter was also the start of 41-Down inspired me to learn the tiny bit of RegEx (thanks, Jim, Jeff and XWord Info!) needed to find other pairs. Then came the revelation that the words which ended up in the central column could fit there so nicely, and the idea for the block design followed. I had begun working on filling in the grid around the theme entries when one of Jeff’s XWord Info notes sparked the idea of doing so in such a way that the T’s in the theme entries were the ONLY ones anywhere in the puzzle (resulting in a “tee total” for the whole puzzle of 2+3+4+5). The title came after I’d finished everything else. About half my clues or lightly edited versions thereof are in the published puzzle. Of these, about a quarter are interesting/original. I like how the editors re-clued 114-Across, 22-Down and 41-Down for the season! The only clue I was really sad to lose, particularly given the timing of the puzzle’s appearance, was “Nativity scene?” for 60-Down. Thanks to my known test solvers, cousin Don and spouse Geoff, and to all — known and unknown — who have helped bring this to fruition! Subscribers can take a peek at the answer key. Trying to get back to the puzzle page? Right here. What did you think? | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Taking something that can't be done, and then doing it.
by Jiří {x2} Činčura
Coalesce and ternary operator - combination that made my brain hurt
Published 2 Jul 2015 in .NET, Best practice or not?, and C#
Often I like exploring all the nuances in languages and what you can do chaining stuff together. Today was not the day. Statement that was “clearly” correct was returning wrong values. Splitting it to pieces and executing produced expected values. After maybe an hour I finally understood my mistake. Let’s have a look.
Pretty simple code. Here’s the simplified version (I know it looks weird, but I wanted to remove all noise to make it easy to go through).
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Basically I call first method NullableTrue and if the result is not null I expect the value to be returned. The coalesce operator should take care of that, right? Hence with the values I’m returning the value printed should be True. Or…
When you try to execute the code, the result will be False printed. Nothing magical, just plain old operator precedence. Stuff you learn basically as a first thing in math or programming. Still, as I nicely indented my code I confused myself with the different order. 8-) This code is actually evaluated like this.
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Using floor() in Kotlin
Kotlin, Programming, Android Development1 min read
When working with numerical values in Kotlin, you often encounter scenarios where you need to round down a decimal number to the nearest whole number or to a specific decimal place. Kotlin provides a neat solution to this through the floor() function. In this article, we'll delve into the usage of floor() in Kotlin, explore its applications, and provide practical examples to illustrate its utility.
Understanding the floor() Function
The floor() function in Kotlin is a part of the kotlin.math package. Its primary purpose is to return the largest (closest to positive infinity) double value that is less than or equal to the given argument. This means that when you pass a floating-point number to the floor() function, it returns the largest integer that is less than or equal to the given number.
Syntax
The syntax for using the floor() function is quite straightforward. It takes a single parameter, which is the number you want to round down. Here's the basic syntax:
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In this example, the floor() function takes the decimal number 5.8, and the result is 5.0, as it represents the largest integer that is less than or equal to 5.8.
Example Use Cases
Let's consider a few practical scenarios where the floor() function can be incredibly useful.
Scenario 1: Discount Calculation
Suppose you are developing an e-commerce application and need to calculate the discounted price of a product. You might offer a discount rate of 20% on certain items. When calculating the discounted price, you would need to round down the resulting price to ensure that customers are charged a precise amount. Here's how you can achieve this using the floor() function:
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4 val originalPrice = 50.0
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8 println(finalPrice) // Output: 40.0
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Scenario 2: Conversion of Measurement Units
Consider a situation where you need to convert measurements from one unit to another, such as converting feet to meters while ensuring that the result is rounded down to the nearest whole number. The floor() function can be utilized in this context as well:
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5 val meters = floor(feet / 3.281)
6 println(meters) // Output: 3.0
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timer.h File Reference
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string>
#include "asserts.h"
#include "types.h"
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Classes
class timer
Used as a stopwatch. More...
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const std::string current_time (void)
Return the current time.
std::string stamp (const pid_t=0, const int a_indention=0)
Generate a timstamp string.
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const timer null_timer (0, 0)
A null timer.
Function Documentation
const std::string current_time ( void )
Return the current time.
Definition at line 542 of file timer.cc.
References make_time_string_(), and TRY_nomem.
Referenced by vault_stats_report::assign(), and stamp().
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std::string stamp ( const pid_t = 0,
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Generate a timstamp string.
Definition at line 552 of file timer.cc.
References current_time(), pid(), estring::right, and TRY_nomem.
Referenced by test(), and log_manager::write().
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Variable Documentation
const timer null_timer(0, 0)
A null timer.
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Montearagón
Montearagón, Montaragón or Monte-Aragón ("Mount of Aragon") can refer to the following places and sites:
* Castle of Montearagón near Huesca, Aragon
* Mancha de Montearagón, a historic comarca in La Mancha region, Castile-La Mancha
* Montearagón, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha
* Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha | WIKI |
Page:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 14.djvu/832
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ia the Arabic style adopted after the reconquest of the city by Alfonso VI. Mention must also be made of other notable buildings although not of Christian origin — the ancient mosque del Crista de la Luz (reconstructed in the tenth century) and the syna- gogues of Santa Maria la Blanca (thirteenth century?) and del Transito (fourteenth century). Many e.xcellent architects, sculptors, and painters worked in Toledo in the numberless monastic and parochial churches of the city, but especially in the construc- tion and embellisliment of the cathedral. Among the painters the most important was Dominico Theo- tocopuHs, caOed "El Greco", native of Crete, who established himself at Toledo and produced numerous works (chiefly of religious character) which are highly prized and studied at the present time, and which represent one of the most curious phases of Spanish art, marking the point of departure of the modern national art. Many important religious buildings are also to be found in various parts of the diocese, among which may be mentioned : the ancient collegiate church (at present a parish church of Talavera de la Reina) , a three-naved Ogival building started by Archbishop Jimenez de Rada in 1211 and finished be- tween the thirteenth and fif- teenth centuries; the ancient collegiate church of Torrijos (also used at the present time as a parochial church), a three- naved edifice founded and en- dowed bv Dona Teresa Enriquez (built between 1.509 and 1518), an interesting example of the florid Ogival style and the Gothic Plateresque of the transition period; the parochial church of Tembleque, also of the early sixteenth century, an example of the transition period from the Gothic to the Renaissance; and the parochial church of Tepes, a magnificent temple of three naves, designed liy the celebrated architect Alonzo Covarrubias and built between the years 1533 and 1552 in the style of the transition period Gothic Plateresque and Grecian Romanesque.
Famous in the history of Toledo are its councils, held in greatest veneration by the sovereign pontiffs, and the source of the purest religious and moral doctrines. They were national and provincial; those held in the years 396 and 400, first of those whose acts have been preserved, opposed the heresy of the Priscillianists and legislated for the reform of the clergy. In 440 or the beginning of 448 a national council seems to have been convoked which once more condemned the doctrines of Priscillian. The second provincial council (527) promulgated five canons in which various points of discipline were estabhshed. In the national council held in 540 decisions concerning the reformation of certain disciplinary usages and practices were adopted. The most famous of ail the councils of Toledo was the third national council (held in .589), in which King Reccared, the prelates, and grandees, proclaimed their abjuration of the Arian heresy and made a profession of faith according to the doctrine of the Council of Nicsea. In addition, the bishops issued religious decrees against the remaining vestiges of ancient idolatry, restricted the rights of the .lews, commanded that the statutes of previous ooimcils and the decrees of the sovereign pontiffs be observed, and promulgated other canons of great importance for the reformation of accepted usages and the resto-
ration of ecclesiastical discipline. Another national council (597) promulgated two canons relative to the episcopal and priestly state. In the provincial council commonly called the Council of Gundemar (tilO) the metropoUtan jurisdiction of the bishops of Toledo over the entire Province of Cartagena was expHcitly stated. In the fourth national council (6.33), one of the most important held in Spain, pre- sided over by St. Isidore of Seville, very important measures in both canonical and political matters were adopted. The fifth national council (636) was also political in its prescriptions, which were directed towards the defence of the king. The sixth (638) approved constitutions relating to discipline, morals, and political matters. The seventh (646) estabhshed certain canons which had been promulgated in previous councils. In the national council which is said to have been held in 650 the heresy of the Mo- nothelites, who denied that Christ had two wills, was con- demned. In the reign of the Visigothic king, Recesvindo, besides the councils which are classed as doubtful, were held: the eighth provincial council (653), in which some interesting points relating to discipline and civil law were decided; the ninth provincial (655), in which matters of discipline were dis- cussed; and the tenth national (656) in which certain canons referring to the monastic life were sanctioned. The eleventh provincial council (675), held during the reign of Wamba, for- mulated certain prescriptions in regard to discipline and the re- form of certain usages, concern- ing the clergv in particular. The tuclfth (6S1) and the thirteenth 'l^oi national, and the four- ■ I'lith (6S4i provincial, councils were held (luring the reign of "- loLEDo Ervigius. The twelfth and
thirteenth councils approved certain canons relating to discipline and other usages commonly in practice; and the fathers assembled at the fourteenth pro- fessed their adherence to the Sixth fficumenical Council. The fifteenth national council (688) con- firmed the doctrine contained in an apologetic treatise written by St. Julian, Archbishop of Toledo, who presided at the council. The sixteenth and seventeenth (694) councils were also national; the first imposed penance and declared an anathema against Archbishop Sisebert (who had plotted against King Egica), and the second discus-sed various dis-. ciplinary measures. It is believed that still another national council was held during the Visigothic period between 700-712, the acts of which have been lost, but it is said that canons relative to the preserva- tion of the integrity of faith and to the regulation of certain usages were promulgated.
After the reconque.st of Toledo by the Christians (1085) at least ten provincial councils were held in the city of Toledo, some of them being of great interest for the canonical history of Spain. .Arch- bishop Raimundo convened that held in 1138, in which certain difficulties existing between the arch- bishop and the canons with regard to the distribution of the revenues of the Church were adjusted and the number of canonries definitely fixed. The archbishop. Infante Don Juan de Arag6n, presided over the coun- cil of i;i23 which prescribed a fornuda with regard to articles of faith, the commandments, and the sacraments, and formulated canons relative to points of discipline. The provincial councils of 1324 and | WIKI |
Talk:Neeraj Kumar Singh
Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is a page for a soldier who won a country's highest peacetime gallantry award, posthumously, and shared the award with fellow army man- Mukund Varadrajan, who has a separate page on Wikipeda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aggarsandeep (talk • contribs) 11:25, 27 January 2015 (UTC) | WIKI |
The oncolytic peptide LTX-315 triggers necrotic cell death
Sabrina Forveille, Heng Zhou, Allan Sauvat, Lucillia Bezu, Kevin Müller, Peng Liu, Laurence Zitvogel, Gérard Pierron, Øystein Rekdal, Oliver Kepp, Guido Kroemer
Résultats de recherche: Contribution à un journalArticleRevue par des pairs
32 Citations (Scopus)
Résumé
The oncolytic peptide LTX-315 has been designed for killing human cancer cells and turned out to stimulate anticancer immune responses when locally injected into tumors established in immunocompetent mice. Here, we investigated the question whether LTX-315 induces apoptosis or necrosis. Transmission electron microscopy or morphometric analysis of chromatin-stained tumor cells revealed that LTX-315 failed to induce apoptotic nuclear condensation and rather induced a necrotic phenotype. Accordingly, LTX-315 failed to stimulate the activation of caspase-3, and inhibition of caspases by means of Z-VAD-fmk was unable to reduce cell killing by LTX-315. In addition, 2 prominent inhibitors of regulated necrosis (necroptosis), namely, necrostatin-1 and cycosporin A, failed to reduce LTX-315-induced cell death. In conclusion, it appears that LTX-315 triggers unregulated necrosis, which may contribute to its pro-inflammatory and pro-immune effects.
langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)3506-3512
Nombre de pages7
journalCell Cycle
Volume14
Numéro de publication21
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 1 janv. 2015
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Sasang constitutional medicine
The Sasang constitutional medicine or Sasang typology is a typological constitution medicine of Traditional Korean medicine. It was systematized by Yi Je-ma in his book Dongyi Suse Bowon: Longevity and Life Preservation in Eastern Medicine (동의수세보원, 東醫壽世保元) in 1894. It divides people into four body types based on their biopsychosocial traits. The classification was derived from the five body types of Traditional Chinese medicine described in an ancient Chinese medical book Lingshu Jing of Huangdi Neijing.
Classification system
Sasang typology divides people into four types based on their biopsychosocial traits with a combination of yin/yang and greater/lesser: tae-yang ( 태양, ) or "greater yang"; so-yang (소양, ) or "lesser yang"; tae-eum (태음, ) or "greater yin"; and so-eum (소음, ) or "lesser yin".
Each type consists of a classification of pathology, medicine and hygiene depending on personality, psychological status and organ functionality. It is considered that one cannot escape the category of biological body type, and the strengths and weaknesses of organs, both major and minor, depend on the type.
Tae-yang
Tae-yang have large lungs and a small liver. They have superiority in function, and often have feelings of inferiority.
Tae-eum
Tae-eum have a large liver and small lungs. They are tall and the majority gain a lot of weight. They are patient and have a reserved personality. Therefore, if they are given a task, they will not give up, no matter what task it is. Because of this personality, they are prone to gambling.
So-yang
The so-yang type has a large spleen, and small kidneys. They have whitish skin. Like so-eum, many of this type are skinny.
So-eum
The so-eum type have large kidneys and a small spleen. They are short, and many are skinny. Due to weak intestines, they very often have digestive problems. Many enjoy a meat diet. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eritrea at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The result was draftify__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit 01:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Eritrea at the 2024 Summer Olympics
* – ( View AfD View log | edits since nomination)
Fails WP:GNG and WP:TOOSOON, with one source being about Olympic entry standards that doesn't mention Eritrea, and the other being a tweet about an Eritrean cyclist winning the African Cycling Road Race Championships, however it doesn't mention the Olympics. The only thing I could find is | this, however it is quite short and is largely interview. A PROD was contested by page creator. JML1148 (talk | contribs) 07:18, 7 June 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗ plicit 13:52, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Olympics and Africa. JML1148 (talk | contribs) 07:18, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
* Perhaps it should be draftified, but in any case the names of the competitors need removing as there is no certainty at all that these persons will compete. E.g. the cyclist secured a place for Eritrea in the Olympic race, but Eritrea is free to send any cyclist they want (or none at all), the qualification was for the right to send one person, not individually for that person. Claming that these 6 persons will compete is at best way premature, and at worst just wrong crystal balling. Fram (talk) 07:36, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
* It was draftified, but was then reverted by EurekaLott as the article was too old. Draftification until more information is available is probably the best option. JML1148 (talk | contribs) 10:47, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Draftify per above points. I agree with the WP:TOOSOON but this will probably become relevant once the 2024 Summer Olympics start and would probably be best just to wait until we get coverage. Kline | yes? 14:32, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
* We have so many of these sorts of articles that are all WP:TOOSOON - there's an entire infobox on them! - and they'll all be notable at some point in the reasonably near future, and we have a number of impatient editors who are willing to start these pages that I'm not sure it's worth anyone's time to bother enforcing WP:TOOSOON for these as a set. I don't want to !vote keep though since the correct decision would be to bulk draftify X at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Just draftifying Eritrea and not say Costa Rica seems inconsistent and incorrect to me. SportingFlyer T · C 16:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
* Draftify I guess, since there are no sources cited which are about the subject of the article. However the event is due to start in about a year and there will very likely be some sources about the subject soon. This AfD shouldn't be used to delete any version of the article which does have sources. Hut 8.5 17:49, 15 June 2023 (UTC)Dper *Draftify - per Too soon Grahaml35 (talk) 18:56, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
* Delete, Best to wait for 2024 for article to be made.DarkHorseMayhem (talk) 22:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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Gordon Binder
Gordon M. Binder (born 1935) is an American businessman.
Early life and education
Gordon Binder was born in Missouri. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.
Career
Binder worked in managing position at Litton Industries and the Ford Motor Company. He served as Chief Financial Officer at the System Development Corporation. In 1982, he joined Amgen as CFO. From 1988 to 2000, he served as its CEO.
He is the Founder and Managing Director of Coastview Capital, a private investment firm. He also serves as Chairman of SRU Biosystems. He sits on the Boards of Directors of Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Cellular Genomics, PhRMA and the Biotechnology Industry Organization. along with Henri Termeer.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the American Enterprise Institute. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. | WIKI |
Coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea
The national coat of arms of Equatorial Guinea (Escudo de Guinea Ecuatorial; Armoiries de la Guinée équatoriale; Brasão de armas da Guiné Equatorial) was adopted on 21 August 1979.
This coat of arms shows a grey shield, which contains a silk cotton tree. This represents the location where the first treaty was signed between Portugal and the local ruler. Over the shield, there is 6 six-pointed stars, representing the mainland and the five main islands.
Motto
Underneath the shield is the national motto of Equatorial Guinea, Unidad, Paz, Justicia ("Unity, Peace, Justice"). The motto was adopted in 1968. During the dictatorship of Francisco Nguema (1972–79) the arms and motto were changed, a combination of different tools and swords with a cock overall, and motto on two stripes, in the middle of the arms Trabajo (work), and below Unidad, Paz, Justicia, but the original 1968 coat of arms' motto was restored afterward. | WIKI |
Feature Request Webif remote
JGHummy
Member
Hi
I would like to see the remote report the mode the box is in and adjust the codes it sends to match this.
Thanks
Ezra Pound
Well-Known Member
It is possible for the Custom Firmware to force the Humax to display what 'Humax Mode' it is in BUT communication with the Remote control is only one way, it isn't possible to send instructions to the remote from the Humax. If the plan is for the Humax to detect what mode the Remote is currently in and change the 'Humax mode' on the Humax to match the remote, this would require the Humax to be 'listening' in all 6 modes simultaneously, which it wouldn't be able to do continuously. I guess it would be possible to kick off a 'find-remote' function via the Web-If that polled the 6 'Humax modes' while looking for input from the remote and the permanently setting the 'Humax Mode' to this found mode, then exiting with 'Your remote and Humax are currently set to X Mode'
af123
Administrator
Staff member
I don't know where the current mode is stored, but I'd be able to watch for real remote key presses and detect the mode from that. The IR package sees all incoming IR traffic and it's already possible to work out what mode the original remote is in, by turning on debug mode. I suppose for initial setup it could be useful to report the mode directly but setup is generally a one-time operation.
One thing to watch out for would be those people who have 2 or more Humax products and have them set to different modes. The package would keep switching modes if I understand your suggestion correctly...
Posted on the move; please excuse any brevity.
Ezra Pound
Well-Known Member
Ah O.K., so although the Humax won't react to all 6 modes, it will receive all modes and the CF can log them, I think it would be safer to work out what mode is sent from the Remote and the display 'current remote mode is X mode, do you want the Humax to adopt this mode Y/N'. I'm not sure this is what the OP wanted but it's the only way to get the two in sync.
Which of the logs do the ir codes get stored?
af123
Administrator
Staff member
It's the humaxtv.log as long as you have enabled debugging with (IIRC) diag ir3/debugon
Posted on the move; please excuse any brevity.
Ezra Pound
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Found it after a bit of digging around, HERE, I'm sure I looked in the humaxtv.log Ah well. Ive found this is useful :-tail -f /tmp/humaxtv.log
Code:
Real IR code: 0x000001 0xea151000
Real IR code: 0x000001 0xea151000
Real IR code: 00000000 0xed121000
Real IR code: 0x000001 0xed121000
Real IR code: 00000000 0xec131000
Real IR code: 0x000001 0xec131000
Is each ir code made up of both Mode and button info?
OP
J
JGHummy
Member
It is possible for the Custom Firmware to force the Humax to display what 'Humax Mode' it is in BUT communication with the Remote control is only one way, it isn't possible to send instructions to the remote from the Humax.
Hi
I don't want the humax to send instructions to the remote but vice versa
EG If the humax is in mode 2 the remote displays that and sends the codes the humax expects in that mode
It's all gone above my head now:)
Thanks
Black Hole
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I don't understand how you think that could be done. The only way to tell the handset to send in any particular mode is to do the "OK+0" routine, then press the mode number (unless somebody figures out how to connect to the handset's internals and accesses the programming interface).
Normally the Humax puts up a message on-screen to prompt for the mode number, and changes mode itself to match - but if the Humax is not operational and in view, the handset will still change mode regardless (and in that way cease to control the Humax because it is out of sync). The CF can detect the mode coming from the handset, and maybe could provide an alternative method of updating the mode the Humax is in (if/when somebody can find where the mode is stored in the database), but it cannot affect the mode the handset is in.
OP
J
JGHummy
Member
I don't understand how you think that could be done. The only way to tell the handset to send in any particular mode is to do the "OK+0" routine, then press the mode number (unless somebody figures out how to connect to the handset's internals and accesses the programming interface).
Normally the Humax puts up a message on-screen to prompt for the mode number, and changes mode itself to match - but if the Humax is not operational and in view, the handset will still change mode regardless (and in that way cease to control the Humax because it is out of sync). The CF can detect the mode coming from the handset, and maybe could provide an alternative method of updating the mode the Humax is in (if/when somebody can find where the mode is stored in the database), but it cannot affect the mode the handset is in.
Hi
What do you mean by the handset ?
Are you talking about the physical remote ?
If so that is not what I mean
Thanks
Black Hole
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Well, what do you mean then? Specify. Inadequate questions receive inadequate answers. We have all read "remote" as meaning "the remote control" ie "handset" so far.
If you mean the Web Interface (WebIF), as has already been stated the CF can't control the mode of the Humax itself (until and unless somebody finds the relevant entry in the database, if indeed the relevant data is stored in the database and not in some other subsystem). The virtual remote on the WebIF has its mode selected via the Settings page (on the WebIf).
OP
J
JGHummy
Member
Well, what do you mean then? Specify. Inadequate questions receive inadequate answers. We have all read "remote" as meaning "the remote control" ie "handset" so far.
If you mean the Web Interface (WebIF), as has already been stated the CF can't control the mode of the Humax itself (until and unless somebody finds the relevant entry in the database, if indeed the relevant data is stored in the database and not in some other subsystem). The virtual remote on the WebIF has its mode selected via the Settings page (on the WebIf).
Hi
I'm sorry you interpretation is such
The title of the thread contains WebIf remote
perhaps I should have said virtual
I was unaware of the settings page sorry
This is what I was asking for the virtual remote to send the codes required for the mode the box is in
I have changed the virtual remote to Mode 2
Mode 2 is what my box is set to confirmed by
ir CURMODE MODE (thanks af123 )
However key presses from the virtual remote are having no effect on box
Should I start another thread for this ?
Thanks
Ezra Pound
Well-Known Member
There is some confusion (on both parts) here, I'll try to clarify, there are 3 items that can be in one of 6 'Modes', they are the Remote Control, the CF ir package and the Humax operating system, here are the rules :-
1) the remote control mode can only be changed by O.K. + 0 followed by 1-6 (not by Humax operating system or Custom firmware)
2) the Settings >> Remote Control Settings >> Select Remote Control Mode ONLY sets the CF ir (not the Humax operating system or Remote Control)
3) When the CF ir is changed (in 2 above) it will not take effect until after a reboot
4) Although the CF can't read the current mode of the Humax operating system, It can change it, Notes HERE
5) when ir CF changes the Humax operating system Mode (in 4 above) it does not change the CF ir mode (in 2 above) at the same time
The main aim is to re-synchronise the remote control and the Humax operating system, this could be achieved by reading the Mode part of the remote control's current setting with the Custom Firmware and then setting the Humax operating system to that Mode using ir CURMODE MODE DELAY2 MODEX where X is the mode discovered by the CF from the remote control's sent commands
EDIT
After a bit more testing I realised that there is a 7th Universal mode used for changing Modes, If say the Humax OS was in mode 3, I assumed that the CF ir also needed to be in Mode 3 to communicate with it, however it doesn't, because :-
Code:
0X FB04 1000 = 'button 2' in mode 1
0X FB04 10FA = 'button 2' in mode 2
0X FB04 10FB = 'button 2' in mode 3
0X FB04 10FC = 'button 2' in mode 4
0X FB04 10FD = 'button 2' in mode 5
0X FB04 10DE = 'button 2' in mode 6
but
0X 8D70 10FF = 'mode set' in universal
0X 8D72 10FF = 'button 2' in universal
Because of the above it should always be possible to display the TV current Mode from the remote control even if the function buttons are out of sync. I have added some notes to the WiKi HERE, to make sure the O.K. + 0 procedure is done correctly
OP
J
JGHummy
Member
2) the Settings >> Remote Control Settings >> Select Remote Control Mode ONLY sets the CF ir (not the Humax operating system or Remote Control)
3) When the CF ir is changed (in 2 above) it will not take effect until after a reboot
Hi
The Humax OS and remote are in mode 2
Sorry a reboot of what ?
Thanks
Ezra Pound
Well-Known Member
A reboot of the Humax i.e. place the Humax in standby with the Remote Control power button or the Humax 'Big' centre button, wait 30 seconds and then turn Humax back on
Black Hole
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You generally do need a reboot for settings changes to take effect. Another way to reboot it is via the button on the Diagnostics page.
Ezra Pound
Well-Known Member
My note 4 in #12 covers af123's comment, he says he doesn't know where the current mode is stored, which means he can't read it, however it is possible to change (or control) the current mode with ir CURMODE MODE DELAY2 MODEX
Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
Ah, yes, by injecting commands as if they were button presses on the remote. That is what I would call a "blind" operation (shoot and hope) - but I admit it will have the desired effect.
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tocks ended Friday higher, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 logging a fourth straight record close. It would seem investors have decided to focus their attention on the strong earnings season, which has allayed fears about about the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus and its impact on economic growth.
Among other names, the market cheered strong earnings results from Disney (DIS) after the media and entertainment giant on Thursday not only delivered its strongest top and bottom-line performance since pre-pandemic, the company also issued strong new subscriber guidance for its Disney+ streaming service. The rally in Disney stock helped the Dow to eke out a gain of around 15.53 points, or 0.04%, to end the session at 35.515.38.
The S&P 500 index added 7.17 points, or 0.16% to close at 4,468, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index eked out a gain of 6.64 points to close at 14,822.90. These gains are far from robust, but for the Dow and S&P 500 it’s pretty significant. As noted, it’s their fourth straight record close — the longest streak in almost four years since both indexes had a five-day run that ended on Oct. 20, 2017. For the Nasdaq, it was noticeable that tech stocks struggled to gain ground this week.
When looking at the 0.2% rise this week in the iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF (IVW) which trailed the 1.3% weekly rise in the iShares S&P 500 Value ETF (IVE) this suggests investors are once again re-assessing the growth versus value trade. It’s also no coincidence that this slight divergence occurred during the same week that the U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan supported $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. Assuming that the packaged is passed by the House and then signed into law by President Joe Biden, it is poised to send cyclical stocks higher.
As such, value-oriented cyclical shares could outperform into the third quarter. Financial stocks in particular, suggesting the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) could be a strong play. That said, the spread of the delta variant and its potential impact won’t be going away. And this reality will keep tech stocks such as the FAANGs — Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX), and Google parent Alphabet (GOOG , GOOGL) — on the radar of growth investors as a way to offset the Delta risk.
All told, despite seemingly overbought conditions in the market, there are still tons of under-appreciated buying opportunities that can give portfolios an immediate boost.
As for earnings, here are the names I’ll be watching this week.
Home Depot (HD) - Reports before the open, Tuesday, Aug. 17
Wall Street expects Home Depot to earn $4.39 per share on revenue of $40.4 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings were $4.02 per share on revenue of $38.05 billion.
What to watch: Home Depot has benefited from a consistent rise in new home construction and home-related remodeling projects. Home Depot stock has responded favorably, soaring 26% year to date, besting the 18% rise in the S&P 500 index. The shares have enjoyed a strong run over the past six months, rising more than 20% compared to 13% rise in the S&P 500 index. But can the housing market remain resilient? "While we remain bullish on the duration of home improvement demand, accelerating cost pressures could curb the magnitude of second-half revisions against steep compares," noted analysts at Baird & Company. The firm noted that revenue growth has indeed moderated, but the two-year growth rate is still at around 30%. And the Baird believes the expected 5% rise for revenue in this quarter is seen as conservative. The company’s guidance on Tuesday will be closely-watched to determine the sustainability of the housing market.
Walmart (WMT) - Reports before the open, Tuesday, Aug. 17
Wall Street expects Walmart to earn $1.54 per share on revenue of $135.92 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to $1.56 per share on revenue of $136.82 billion.
What to watch: Rising just 3% year to date, trailing the 18% rise in the S&P 500 index, Walmart stock hasn’t performed as well as investors would like. But that could change after its earnings results, according to Bank of America analyst Robert Ohmes. Citing strong Q2 report from Walmart, along with raised Q3 guidance, driven by back-to-school/general merchandise strength, the analyst assigned a Buy rating on the stock with price target of $185, calling for potential gains of 25%. Among other bullish commentary, Ohmes expects Walmart to keep growing market share in groceries and online sales growth that may outpace Amazon (AMZN), citing Walmart’s expanded e-commerce capabilities. Expectations are high heading into the earnings report. Whether from its record top-line beats to strong same-store sales, to consistent execution across all product categories to margin expansion, Walmart’s recent results have been nothing short of impressive. But the company is now facing much tougher comps. Can it continue to deliver on Tuesday?
Cisco (CSCO) - Reports after the close, Wednesday, Aug. 18
Wall Street expects Cisco to earn 82 cents per share on revenue of $13.02 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to 80 cents per share on revenue of $12.15 billion.
What to watch: Shares of Cisco have been in a nice uptrend, rising some 50% since last November, driven not only by the economic recovery, but also rising demand for infrastructure and networking services. While the pandemic has indeed impacted Cisco’s business as it forced enterprise and commercial customers to either delay orders or suspend projects entirely, the company remains in a strong position to benefit from rising demand for digital networks for both educational and business needs. What’s more, evidenced by recent acquisitions, Cisco continues to shift its business model more towards software and applications, particularly those services that generate high recurring revenues. And thanks in part to its diligent cost controls, the company has amassed tons of financial firepower for more acquisitions or organic expansion. With the share priced still trading at such cheap valuation, combined with its strong dividend yield, now would be the time to take a long look at Cisco. But for that to matter, the company on Wednesday will want some assurances that Cisco can pivot quickly to new growth businesses to offset the revenue declines in the legacy segments.
Nvidia (NVDA) - Reports after the close, Wednesday, Aug. 18
Wall Street expects Nvidia to earn $1.02 per share on revenue of $6.34 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earnings came to 55 cents per share on revenue of $3.87 billion.
What to watch: Up 33% year to date, while surging 52% over the past year, shares of the graphic chip powerhouse has been one of the best performers not only among the chip stocks, but also in the entire tech sector. Nine straight quarters of earnings beats have gotten investors less concerned about valuation and more in-tuned with Nvidia’s growth capabilities in key markets for graphics cards, particularly those that are used in video games. What’s more, the company has taken the lead in chip productions for high-growth areas such as network data-center, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, among others. Calling the company a best-in-class artificial intelligence play, Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann recently reiterated a Buy rating on the stock and boosted the price target from $200 to $250. Nonetheless, Nvidia’s guidance on Wednesday will be the key factor in whether the stock continues its march higher or succumbs to profit taking.
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