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Nailing the National Anthem: Who’s Done It Best?
No matter what surprises are in store in the national college football championship game on Monday night (referred to from here on out as “the Natty”), one thing is for certain: Like just about all other sporting events in this country, it will begin with a rendition of the national anthem. On Monday night, the anthem will be sung by Ciara, who is known for hits like “Goodies” and “Oh.” The tradition is believed to date to the 1918 World Series, played during World War I, when the anthem was spontaneously performed during the seventh-inning stretch in Chicago. It made such an impression that a report of the game in The New York Times referred to it as the “great moment of the first world’s series game.” Not to be outdone, Boston had the anthem played before Game 3, and a tradition was born. If you are a sports fan, chances are you have heard many, many versions of the anthem. Some are memorable (Whitney Houston at the 1991 Super Bowl). Some are terrible (Roseanne Barr, Carl Lewis and Scott Stapp all come to mind). Most are forgettable. Sometimes the lyrics are forgotten, and sometimes the basketball coach Maurice Cheeks is there to help. The national anthem has been on my mind recently. I belatedly watched the “The Four Falls of Buffalo,” an ESPN documentary about the Bills losing four straight Super Bowls. All these years later, players like Bruce Smith and Thurman Thomas still become emotional talking about Houston’s singing performance before their first Super Bowl loss. And remember when Thomas forgot his helmet at the beginning of the Super Bowl in 1992? The documentary features the claim that a member of Harry Connick Jr.’s band moved the helmet before performing the anthem. Last week, a Chicago crooner named John Vincent sang the anthem at a Northwestern basketball game and held the “e” in free for a purple-faced 23 seconds. (Interesting factoid: Vincent was “discovered” by Mike Ditka. Thank you, Wikipedia.) So I began to think of my favorite pregame national anthem performances, and four jumped to mind. Let us know some of your favorites in the comments. I did not count renditions of “God Bless America” (Kate Smith and Ronan Tynan) or “America the Beautiful” (Ray Charles really nailed this one). Whitney Houston 1991 Super Bowl, Bills vs. Giants, Tampa, Fla. This one will always be at the top of my list, even after I found out that she might have recorded it the day before and lip-synced it. No matter; it sounds amazing. I also love her 1980s workout fashion, her huge smile and her generally effortless and joyous attitude. This one came at the beginning of the first Gulf War, and Houston hit every note perfectly, both musically and patriotically. Marvin Gaye 1983 N.B.A. All-Star Game, Los Angeles No discussion of anthems would be complete without this one. Sporting reflective aviator shades with a beat playing over the loud speaker, Gaye absolutely killed it. His version was so smooth and so intoxicating that the ladies were screaming and the crowd began clapping in unison down the stretch. How often does that happen? Certainly not at Northwestern basketball games. Jose Feliciano 1968 World Series, Detroit Although it seems heartfelt and sounds beautiful today, the 23-year-old Feliciano’s acoustic version was considered controversial and un-American at the time. Many American radio stations stopped playing his songs as a result. In an era in which everyone took a conservative approach, Feliciano’s version was groundbreaking. All was forgiven by the time he played his acoustic version before Game 1 of the 2012 N.L.C.S. John Amirante Rangers, Yankees and Mets games from 1979 to 2015 While Amirante is hardly a household name, he sings a tidy and workmanlike anthem, and if you are from New York and watched sports over the last 35 years (particularly Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup finals), you will recognize the Bronx native’s distinct baritone. Amirante is also known for waving his arm to encourage the fans to cheer while he sings. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
St Kilda Botanical Gardens
St Kilda Botanical Gardens are a botanical garden located in the suburb St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. Located on the former site of a gravel pit and rubbish dump, they were formally gazetted on 28 September 1859 and opened in 1861.
In October 2010 City of Port Phillip provided funds for the design of four distinctive new gates, to celebrate the gardens' 150th anniversary. The gates were installed on Tennyson, Dickens and Herbert Streets. They were designed and sculpted by designer/blacksmith David Wood of Bent Metal.
In 1948 the Alister Clark Memorial Rose Garden was opened; in 1985 it was redesigned in its current style. At one time the Alister Clark garden contained a large selection of roses bred by him, but only a few remain, crowded out by David Austin ones. This garden should not be confused with the comprehensive Alister Clark Memorial Rose Garden at Bulla, north of Melbourne.
The ornamental pond near the sub-tropical rainforest conservatory is being refurbished. At the same time, St Kilda Rain Man, designed by Corey Thomas and Ken Arnold and installed in 2005 will be repaired. Rain Man fountain is solar powered and uses recycled water from the pond below. | WIKI |
folderify
From their README
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made with heart by Benjamin Oddou saythanks
Welcome to the Alfred Folderify repository: An Alfred Workflow
✅ Prerequisites
⬇️ Installation
1. Download the workflow
2. Double click the .alfredworkflow file to install
🏎️ Folderify
Under the hood, the icon generation is made with folderify made by Lucas Garron.
🧰 Setup the workflow
Install dependencies
Open the Terminal of you Mac and run the following commands
Install folderify (using Homebrew) :
brew install folderify
Note that you have other installation options for folderify
🧙♂️ Invoke the workflow
There are 2 flows in this workflow :
1. The first one allows you to assign an generated icon to one or multiple folder(s). It can be triggered by writing foldicon keyword.
2. The second allows you to generate mask.icns and mask.iconset files from one or multiple mask(s). You can invoke this flow with the imgicon keyword.
You can edit these triggers (flagged with a 🕹️ symbol) in the user configuration panel.
🤖 Usage of the workflow
Setup variables
1. 📂 Data Folder. Set the folder path that will host output logs generated by folderify.
Note that if you change the Data folder location after generating logs, you should probably move the file created along in the new folder.
1. 🎨 Color scheme corresponds to the --color-scheme COLOR_SCHEME folderify argument and allows you to change the color of the icon folder (slight difference).
🌓 Auto : will match current system settings.
🌑 Dark : --color-scheme dark will force dark mode.
big_sur_dark
🌕 Light : --color-scheme light will force light mode.
big_sur_light
1. ✂️ Trim margins corresponds to the --no-trim folderify argument.
Yes 👍 : checkbox is ticked, transparent margins are trimmed from all 4 sides.
big_sur_dark
No 👎 : checkbox is unticked, --no-trim. Keeps transparent margins from the mask.
no_trim
Here is a small schema to explain the principle :
schema_trim
1. 📃 Detailed Logs : corresponds to the --verbose folderify argument.
Yes 👍 : checkbox is ticked, --verbose, detailed output.
log_detailed
No 👎 : checkbox is unticked, simple output.
log_simple
1. 🔫 Workflow action. Open/Reveal in finder the log file, display a post notification or do nothing.
2. 🎷 Notification sound. Set notification sound for this workflow.
As of version 1.4.0, this is no longer possible to generate old folder style (leopard / yosemite). You can still download v2 of folderify here.
Modify icons folders
Use foldicon to trigger this flow.
trigger1_1
Choose the mask that will be used for generating the new icon and press ⏎.
trigger1_2
Reset icon folder
To reset a folder’s icon, open its Get Info panel then click the icon and press ⌫.
Generate icns and iconset files
Use imgicon to trigger this flow.
trigger2_1
Alfred Buffer and Universal Actions
For both flows, you can use the Alfred Buffer to select multiple folder(s) (flow 1) or mask(s) (flow 2).
Alfred Buffer basic commands are :
• ⌥↑ to add a file to the buffer from Alfred's results.
• ⌥↓ to add a file and move to the next item in your list of results.
• ⌥← to remove the last item from the buffer.
• ⌥→ to action all items in the buffer.
• ⌥⌫ to remove all items from the buffer.
To know more on how to use Alfred Buffer, follow this link.
Note that Alfred Buffer is preferred compared to the {query}, meaning that if you select a folder/image (by clicking on it or by pressing enter ⏎) that is not included in the buffer, it will not be compressed.
alfred_buffer1
alfred_buffer2
For both flows you can use the corresponding Alfred Universal Actions :
1. If you want to start the first flow, select one or multiple folders and select Modify folder icon.
universal1
1. If you want to start the second flow, select one or multiple folders and select Create folder icon from mask.
universal2
Logs output
Check the logs of the folderify command under the 📂 Data folder. The log file contains the 3 parts :
1. Date and time of the workflow launch.
2. Workflow options.
3. Folderify command detailed.
4. Folderify output.
Note that each workflow run is separated by an horizontal rule.
log_simple
⚖️ License
MIT License © Benjamin Oddou | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Salginatobel Bridge
Salginatobel Bridge is a reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart. It was constructed across an alpine ravine in the grisonian Prättigau, belonging to the municipality of Schiers, in Switzerland between 1929 and 1930. In 1991, it was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the thirteenth such structure and the first concrete bridge so designated.
As with his Schwandbach Bridge and Vessy Bridge, the structure's fame among civil engineers is a consequence of the techniques involved and the elegance of its design rather than its prominent location: it connects the village Schiers – on valley floor of the route between Landquart and Davos – with the alpine hamlet Schuders of almost 100 people, where the alpine post road ends, but is often visited by designers.
Design and history
Maillart had previously designed a three-hinged arch bridge over the Rhine at Tavanasa in 1904. In the 51 m span Tavanasa bridge, the arch is thinnest at its crown and springing points, thickening in between to reflect the shape of its bending moment diagram. This bridge was destroyed by an avalanche in September 1927. Although Maillart didn't win the contract for a replacement bridge, he entered a competition the following year for the bridge at Salginatobel, with a three-hinged arch spanning 90 m that used the same overall form as at Tavanasa. In conjunction with contractor Florian Prader, Maillart's design was the least expensive of nineteen entries.
The Salginatobel bridge arch is 133 m long in total, and its main element is a hollow concrete box girder over the central part of the arch. It carries a roadway 3.5 m wide, supported on reinforced concrete pillars above the ends of the arches.
The falsework was built by the Graubünden carpenter Richard Coray in late summer 1929, and the rest of the construction started in 1930. The bridge was officially opened on 18 August 1930.
Although regarded as a pioneering work, several aspects of its construction lacked durability, such as the absence of bridge deck waterproofing, low concrete cover and poor drainage. In 1975 and 1976 it was extensively repaired, the parapets were modified, and waterproofing was added. However, by 1991, deterioration had continued, with the parapets becoming unsafe. The waterproofing and drainage were replaced and amended, and most of the existing concrete surface removed and replaced by shotcrete. The parapets were completely rebuilt. Completed in 1998, this repair work cost 1.3 million US dollars.
Praise and criticism
* 1947, the bridge was featured with other of Maillart's works in a four-month exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Salginatobel Bridge was designated a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
* 1991, it was designated an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers
The bridge has received widespread attention since its innovative design and construction, including considerable praise from other bridge engineers, architects and architectural historians. Writing in 2000, Heinrich Figi said:
"From a conceptual point of view, the Salginatobel Bridge is an excellent structure."
David P. Billington has been particularly enthusiastic about the bridge:
"Its visual elegance ... goes together with its technical brilliance."
"Such works at Maillart's, being at the very highest level of engineering achievement and being works of art, must be protected."
The German bridge engineer Fritz Leonhardt has suggested that:
"These Maillart-type arch bridges only look good in special situations as here over a gorge and against a mountainous background."
Maillart was not entirely satisfied with the bridge, writing after its completion that its soffit should have been a pointed rather than a pure curved arch, if it were properly to match his structural analysis:
"Even the [Salginatobel Bridge] cannot lay claim to complete sincerity of form. Indeed, if both constant and shifting weights are taken into consideration, the extreme curves of exerted pressures form two lenticular surfaces whose lower contours meet at an acute angle." | WIKI |
Talk:Data vault modeling
Okay - edited it a bit, but I still see a few issues. Will update it this afternoon. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 09:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
* I'm done for now. Added several references, lots of context and some explanation. Removed all the flags for lack of context and lack of notability. Moved the marketing blurb to a quote (since it was written by Dan Linstedt on wikipedia it's a bit hard to refer to it :)) and added some background and general information. I may add more once I read up a bit more on Data Vault. I haven't addressed Point-In-Time tables, for instance.RonaldKunenborg (talk) 12:52, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
* Removed the tag for the introduction length (yes, it was a bit too long) and cleaned up the article, adding a few references here and there. More work needs to be done in that area so I leave the tag for that item where it is. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
* I've changed the article a bit more, cleaning up and adding references (as requested). Also added a section on reference tables (how appropriate :)). I will try and incorporate the request by Jomsviking sometime this week. And add some pictures and other resources. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 22:31, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Can somebody Explain
Can somebody explain what you can do with a Data vault model, but can't do with f.ex "dimensional modelling" (or why it's advantageous to use data vault over dimensional modelling, some cases)??Jomsviking (talk) 14:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
* Hi ! :-)
* Although I know it's been 11 years since your question, but...
* ...your question is fundamental, and therefore conceptual. I will try to give you a sense, in the most ordinary way possible, of the train of thought that will help you to understand the real content of your own question :-)
* The DV is an answer to how to create a "Business Change Resilient" data storage structure.
* This is interesting because the optimal (i.e. sufficiently accurate and fast) way to create large amounts and multiple layers of interrelated data requires different data structures than the analytical retrieval of the same data. On today's 'average' computers, the efficiency of data processing is not only based on the 'speed' of the built-in devices, such as the processor, or memory, or storage devices, but also on a data layout, called data structuring. It is the combination of devices and data organisation that allows efficiency to be achieved. In other words, to put it simply, the purpose for which the data is managed determines the structure in which it is stored. If the same data have to be managed in different ways, "as many databases" are needed as there are different ways of managing the data. Therefore, in a company there are "source systems" that handle data in a certain way (such as creating and searching for a specific data), like HR or CRM systems, and as soon as the purpose is to combine and analyse different data, a new layout is needed, so "Data Warehouse", "Data Lake", etc. systems are created. These systems are therefore fundamentally different in the way they organise data.
* Each "system", whether it is a data processing system or some mechanical system, has basically many characteristics that affect its most important property, its performance. Hence, there are many solutions to the same problem, based on different values of the characteristics considered, and of course, because of this, they give different performance.
* Data warehouse systems also differ, depending on which characteristics they focus on. But basically, the shortening of data processing time is their most important value metric, in addition of course to accuracy and reliability.
* The currently known 3 major Data Warehouse architectures ("layouts", such as Kimball, Inmon, Linstedt) or concepts have different performance due to their different concepts, but the choice between them is not a choice between "good" and "bad", but a conscious (considered) decision to achieve the chosen goal.
* When you look at one of the above Data Warehouse solutions, you will see that they all use many "layers" to store data. With the basic idea I have explained, it should be clear to you that these layers are different arrangements of the same data to best suit the data management goals you need at the time. The goal is to transform the initial ("received") arrangement of data for non-analytical purposes into an arrangement that is appropriate for data analysis purposes, through one or more steps ("rearrangement").
* The basic difference between the commonly used concepts is, to put it very simply, but keeping the essence in mind :
* Kimball : 2 steps are sufficient to make the data analysable, and as many independent analysis nodes (data sets) can be constructed as needed. If one wishes, then - to create consistency of common features (data categories) - these island-like data nodes can be connected along common features (data). The analysis nodes, data sets are called : Data Marts. These are the "final" results that Data Warehouses "produce".
* (*) The main problem with the structure and solution used is that it is sensitive to changes in the data structure in the source data, and to the way they are passed through the various structure transformation layers ("steps"). The main reason for this is that the Business Rules, which ensure the reliability and compliance of the data, are already applied in the first layer, so changing the rules is a lot of work due to the dependencies between each further layer.
* Inmon : 3 steps are needed in any case, because we also need a structure that combines data from different source systems, covering only one specific area, into a "big, unified map" that shows the whole (say large Enterprises) context (relation between isolated, functionaly oriented source data). The end result is the same here : a series of Data Marts.
* The main problem with the structure and solution used is : see (*) section under Kimball's concept description.
* Linstedt : 3 steps are needed in any case, but in fact as many as needed. Indeed, the point is that it uses a data structure that - with the exception of the Data Mart layer - has a flexible layout in the other layers that is almost completely resistant to rapid business changes, which of course mean data structure changes at the source systems level, which then have to be driven through all the layers of the Data Warehouses. Data Vault promises to do this with the least "pain" (i.e. cost and effort). Besides the change tolerant structure, the enforcement of Business Rules is part of the creation (data upload) of the Data Mart layer, so compared to the other two concepts, changing the rules is only a single step change. The consequence of it's universal structure and postponed Business Rule impact is improved auditability and a more agile data management process.
* Your question is a mix of one about the overall architecture ("Why Data Vault ?") and one about a specific model part ("dimensional modeling").
* Well, I hope that after my longer answer, "Why Data Vault ?" has become more understandable.
* Your model-detail question refers to a "stand-alone" domain with a relatively stable structure, used in the same way by all three Data Warehouse concepts, and is Kimball's basic idea. This is the Data Mart part of a Data Warehouse, and one of the base logical model behind is "Dimensional Modeling". Data Marts are common final output for every different concept. Because of this, your entire question cannot be interpreted clearly, as you seem to be missing some basic information, which I hope I have managed to fill in.
* Regards,
* Tamás <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:31, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
* Tamás <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:31, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi - sorry, this took ages and I forgot about your comment. A small explanation should be put in the article but for now, let;s just say this.
You (should want to) separate the layers of your DWH into at least three layers nowadays, as a best practice. One layer is where the data comes in, modelled to reflect the source. Let's call this the staging area. Then we have one area designed for the users, where data is stored as the users like to receive it, ready for consumption. Let's call this the data mart area.
And then we have the area inbetween, where we have to store the data in such a manner that it will keep for a long time - the storage area. We manage to achieve this long-time stability by modelling the data in such a way that we disconnect keys from attributes, relationships from the keys, and functional areas from each other. We also want to load this area fast, but do not care about query performance all that much. Hence, the Data Vault: highly scalable during loads, disconnects all areas and only connects data over the business keys that are much more stable than the underlying software systems. However, for query performance almost everyone will use a datamart on top of this, with facts and dimensions. The good news is that you can transform a well-designed DataVault into facts and dimensions quite easily, often with views. This means that dropping the datamart before reloading is not a problem and is actually standard practice when rebuilding smaller data warehouses. This makes it very easy to change business rules, dimensions, add columns to facts or change the granularity of a fact table. RonaldKunenborg (talk) 21:44, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Another point is that it is often better with a 3nf model and a persistent staging area that has good metadata in ETL tool. In some respects data vault has many of the problems with dimenensional but is impossible the query. A 3nf model is almost as easy to load, says more about the data and is possible to query even if performence is worsa than a deimansional model With a modern applienace like Netezza, MS PDW, Pivotal, teradata you often get away with 3nf and some simplifying views. With DV (Data Vault) you MUST have views and since you need to self join tables and they are plentiful the SQL is impossible to generate with query tools or push down SQL generated from ETL tools. The best advice would be to avoid data vault in a EDW architecture except for sotuations where preserving history where sources don't is the primary interest. Abergdahl (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Example inconsistency
In the Link example, the surrogate primary key L_DRIVER_ID is optional, but in the satellite example (which refers to the link example), the field L_DRIVER_ID is mandatory as a foreign key to the driver link. This requires resolution/explanation. --Joachim Pense (talk) 11:35, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Link Example is potentially confusing
The link example uses the example of a "Driver" (a person driving a car). Link's in data vault also have the concept of "Driving Key", readers might get confused between the "Driver" example, and the "Driving Key".. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:40, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
* Good point, I'll take a lot at it later. The example needs a touch-up anyway, I think. RonaldKunenborg (talk)
Which Hubs?
How do you figure out the Hubs you should have? Is there some kind of technique to make use of? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:34, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
* Hi, I'll re-read the article to see if I missed something there but the technique is simple: use the business keys. Like: license plate, invoice number, SSN, etcetera. If a system doesn't have natural business keys, you need to find other keys, perhaps even the surrogate keys. For more information you should really read the references at the end of the article, they explain this in more detail. RonaldKunenborg (talk)
Linstedt point of view
The article is written quite much from Linstedt's point of view. To my understanding, he was the original author. However, there are also other experts who have been both training and developing the data vault modeling practices, at least Genesee academy with whom Linstedt was in close collaboration previously. They have developed other data vault aspects on technical side. However, Linstedt's brand Data vault 2.0 also includes new material on modeling processing and higher level architecture point of view. All in all, is a link to Genesee Academy in "External links" enough or should we add something more? Misna (talk) 09:45, 5 February 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
Ireland May Offer Debt Limit for Bailout Rate Cut, Times Says
Ireland may be prepared to sign up
to a legally binding sovereign borrowing limit, or so-called
debt brake, in return for an interest-rate cut on the European
Union portion of its aid package, the Sunday Times reported,
citing Lucinda Creighton, a junior government minister. Prime Minister Enda Kenny will also offer what the paper
termed as constructive engagement on corporate tax
harmonization. Still, Ireland is not prepared to raise its 12.5
percent corporate tax rate, said Creighton, the junior minister
for European affairs, according to the report. Ireland is hopeful of getting a 1 percentage point cut to
the 5.8 percent interest rate as EU leaders meet on March 24-25. To contact the reporter on this story:
Joe Brennan in Dublin at
jbrennan29@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Edward Evans at eevans3@bloomberg.net | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Managing Docker Containers on Ubuntu 20.04
Today, I want to install the Docker on Ubuntu 20.04.
Content:
1- What is Docker and its use case?
2- Set up Docker's apt repository
3- Install the Docker packages
4- Verify installation
1- What is Docker and its use case?
Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. Containers let you run your applications in resource-isolated processes. They’re similar to virtual machines, but containers are more portable, more resource-friendly, and more dependent on the host operating system.
Prerequisites
• One Ubuntu 20.04 server
• An account on Docker Hub if you wish to create your images and push them to Docker Hub
Installing Using the apt repository
We must ensure we get the latest version, we’ll install Docker from the official Docker repository. To do that, we’ll add a new package source, add the GPG key from Docker to ensure the downloads are valid, then install the package.
1- Set up Docker’s apt repository.
# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
"deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
2- Install the Docker packages.
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
3- Verify installation
Verify that the Docker Engine installation is successful by running the hello-world image.
sudo docker run hello-world
Note:
To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
2. The Docker daemon pulled the “hello-world” image from the Docker Hub. (amd64)
3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image, which runs the executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it to your terminal.
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Useful sources
The following press articles might be of use in expanding this article.
Those that seem independent of the POEM team: Those don't seem independent: Wugapodes [thɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 22:09, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
* NextBigFuture
* Physics.org
* Seems like a press release
* UColorado story | WIKI |
The Red Mark
The Red Mark is a 1928 American silent melodrama film produced and directed by James Cruze and starring Gaston Glass. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange.
Cast
* Nina Quartero as Zelie
* Gaston Glass as Bibi-Ri
* Gustav von Seyffertitz as De Nou
* Rose Dione as Mother Caron
* Luke Cosgrave as Papa Caron
* Eugene Pallette as Sergeo
* Jack Roper as Bombiste
* Charles Dervis as The Lame Priest
Preservation status
The film is preserved in the Library of Congress Collection. | WIKI |
Alphabet (GOOGL) Boosts APAC Cloud Reach With New Data Center
Alphabet’s GOOGL division Google is making every effort to bolster its global cloud footprints on the back of its expanding network of data centers.
This is evident from Google’s latest plans to open a data center in Japan in 2023, which would mark its third such establishment in Asia. Notably, the facility will be located in Inzai, Chiba.
The company aims to offer seamless access to its cloud services to customers in the country on the back of the new data center.
The data center will boost digitization in Japan, and will likely strengthen the connection between the country and the global economy.
With the latest move, Google has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. It bodes well for the company’s growing efforts of rapidly penetrating the booming APAC cloud space.
This is likely to contribute well to the performance of Google Cloud in the days ahead.
Notably, Google Cloud revenues rose 35.6% year over year to $6.3 billion, accounting for 9% of the total revenues in second-quarter 2022.
The expansion of Google Cloud, which has become an integral part of Alphabet, is likely to help it win investors’ confidence in the near term.
Coming to the price performance, Alphabet has lost 29.5% on a year-to-date basis compared with the broader Zacks Computer and Technology sector’s decline of 33.2%.
Alphabet Inc. Price and Consensus
Alphabet Inc. price-consensus-chart | Alphabet Inc. Quote
Growth Prospects in APAC
APAC, which is an emerging market for cloud technology, has been under the spotlight for the past few years.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are gaining strong momentum in APAC.
Several companies in APAC have already migrated their workloads to the cloud and many are in the process of migration. The firms are highly focused on the development of digital transformation solutions through the cloud to cater to the increasing customer demand.
The pandemic-led remote and hybrid working pattern has been fueling the demand for cloud computing solutions in the region.
According to a report from Research and Markets, the cloud market of the APAC region is expected to witness a CAGR of 15.6% between 2021 and 2027.
Competitive Scenario
Given the upbeat scenario, not only Google but also cloud bigwigs, including Amazon AMZN, Microsoft MSFT, and Alibaba BABA, are making every effort to strengthen their cloud services, data center network, availability zones and regions in a bid to gain a strong footprint in the APAC.
In 2021, the opening of a region in Jakarta, Indonesia, which comprises three availability zones, and the second region in Osaka, Japan, by Amazon’s cloud computing arm — Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), remains noteworthy.
The company intends to set up an infrastructure region in Auckland, New Zealand, which will comprise three availability zones. It is also planning to launch a second AWS region in India’s Hyderabad by mid-2022. The region will also comprise three availability zones.
AWS is planning to set up a second AWS region in Australia’s Melbourne, which is expected to be operative in the second half of 2022. It also intends to open an infrastructure region in Tel Aviv, Israel, by 2023.
Microsoft’s Azure gears up to open five data centers in APAC, namely Southcentral India, Indonesia Central, Malaysia West, New Zealand North and Taiwan North, which will be located in Hyderabad, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Auckland and Taipei, respectively.
Recently, Microsoft Azure launched a cloud availability region in China, namely China North 3, which marks the fifth of its kind in the country and the first comprising multiple availability zones.
Meanwhile, Alibaba is hugely investing in expanding its presence in the cloud market of the underlined region. The launch of Alibaba Cloud’s third data center in Indonesia remains noteworthy.
Nevertheless, Google’s strong efforts to increase the number of cloud regions, along with data centers, are likely to continue bolstering its APAC footprints. The company recently opened a data center in Singapore, which remains noteworthy. The company’s opening of cloud regions in India’s New Delhi and Australia’s Melbourne last year remains positive.
At present, Google is gearing up to open three cloud regions in the region, which will be located in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand.
It is also set to introduce cloud regions in Dammam, Saudi Arabi; and Doha, Qatar and Tel Aviv, Israel.
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To Your Health: Glaucoma
Jan 9, 2019
According to the National Eye Health Education Program, glaucoma is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in the United States. People are often unaware that glaucoma has no symptoms in its early stages. If detected early, before noticeable vision loss occurs, glaucoma can usually be controlled and severe vision loss can often be prevented. Vision that is lost from glaucoma cannot be restored.
January is Glaucoma Awareness Month.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology describes glaucoma as a disease that causes fluid to build up in the front part of your eye. That extra fluid increases the pressure in your eye, damaging the optic nerve. The most common type is primary open-angle glaucoma. A less common type is angle-closure glaucoma, which occurs when someone’s iris is very close to the drainage angle in their eye and the iris can end up blocking the drainage angle. If the drainage angle gets completely blocked, eye pressure rises very quickly and causes an acute attack that can result in blindness.
The Glaucoma Research Foundation advises five factors be considered during complete eye exams: inner eye pressure, the shape and color of the optic nerve, the complete field of vision, the angle in the eye where the iris meets the cornea and the thickness of the cornea. Many people hate the “puff of air” test that measures inner eye pressure by calculating the resistance of your cornea to the air indentation. However, new devices are being developed that can measure this without the puff, so don’t let that keep you from your exam.
Resources:
https://nei.nih.gov/nehep/gam
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-glaucoma
https://www.glaucoma.org/glaucoma/diagnostic-tests.php
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Greater siren
The greater siren (Siren lacertina) is an amphibian and one of the five members of the genus Siren. The largest of the sirens and one of the largest amphibians in North America, the greater siren resides in the coastal plains of the southeastern United States.
Description
The greater siren is the third longest salamander in the Western Hemisphere. S. lacertina is paedomorphic, as are all sirens. They lack hindlimbs as well as a pelvic girdle, and have external gills all throughout their lives along with small lungs. They lack eyelids, and have an unfused pectoral girdle. Greater sirens measure around 1.5 cm in length upon hatching and then grow to lengths ranging from 18 to 97 cm. Weight can range from 55 to 1,000 g. Coloration varies throughout their range, but they are generally an olive or gray color with small yellow or green dots on their sides. They have about 36 to 40 costal grooves between their armpits and their cloaca. Younger sirens also have a light stripe along their sides, which fades with age. The front legs, each with four toes, are so small that they can be hidden in the gills.
In terms of sensory organs, greater sirens rely on both a modified Jacobson's organ and a lateral line system over their small eyes. It is possible that they are capable of sensing disturbances in electrical fields.
Diet
Greater sirens are carnivorous and prey upon invertebrates (such as insects, crustaceans, gastropods, bivalves, spiders, molluscs, and crayfish) and aquatic vertebrates (such as small fish) with a possible preference for molluscs (such as snails and freshwater clams), although they have been observed to eat vegetation such as algae. In addition, materials that are non-animal were found in their digestive tract added to amounts of 75% or greater. The oral morphology of the greater siren contribute little to the mastication of food and does not rupture or grind ingested invertebrates, algae, or plants requiring prior fermentation in the gut.
Ecology and behavior
Greater sirens play a crucial role in aquatic food webs and have been described as midlevel predators. Sirens swallow molluscs whole and will pass the shell as waste. They are nocturnal and spend the day in dense vegetation. Their lifespan in the wild is unknown, but in captivity they can live up to 25 years. Greater sirens can vocalize, producing clicks or yelps sounding similar to the call of the American green tree frog. They are able to aestivate for multiple years if necessary, burrowing into mud and exuding a cocoon of dead skin cells. This has been seen during times of drought and hydroperiod fluctuations. The record can be up to 3 years. Known predators include the American alligator and the mud snake. Other predators of this species are poorly documented. However, on June 19, 2008 a greater siren was consumed by a two-toed amphiuma, indicating that this species could be an additional predator of the greater siren.
Breeding
Their spermatozoa possess a pair of flagella, and their courtship behavior is unknown. Mating occurs in February and March. After the eggs have been laid, the father will continuously fan its tail back and forth over or through the nest. The father will aggressively guard the nest from potential threats, including other sirens, and even the mother of the clutch. After 2 months, the eggs hatch, and the fathers depart from the nest. Youth live in shallower water than adults, often among the roots of water hyacinths.
Distribution and habitat
Greater sirens inhabit the coastal plain from Washington, D.C., to Florida and Alabama. A population of sirens in the Rio Grande around Texas and Tamaulipas in Mexico was tentatively determined to be S. lacertina; however, recent studies have refuted this claim. Greater sirens live in wetlands, preferring those with a slow or nonexistent current and a thick layer of organic material. They are capable of inhabiting seasonal and permanent wetlands given their ability to aestivate, and will burrow into mud if their wetland dries up. They are predominately found in the deep benthic zone where aquatic insects are most abundant. Associated habitat for greater sirens includes vegetative ditches, and various other forms of slow, or stagnant bodies of water. Often during the day, they seek refuges from predators and are found under logs and various other structures.
Trapping techniques
S. lacertina is difficult to capture because of their preference for areas with thick vegetation. Standard methods such as dip-netting, seining, and dredges are ineffective in such habitats. The use of aquatic funnel traps, commercially produced to capture crayfish, has been found effective for use on Siren and Amphiuma species and there is no risk of drowning the animals. Each trap consists of the trap body, three funnels, and a neck with a lid at the top.
Conservation
Greater sirens are classified as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, although they have been extirpated from some of their former range due to habitat loss. They are protected under Mexican law and are assigned to the "Special Protection" category. | WIKI |
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API Facade Design Pattern: What is it & do I need it?
Brian Mulloy
Mar 16, 2012
The first episode of our Webinar Shorts series on the API Facade Design Pattern is an overview of the idea and theory of API facades. The video and slides are here.
In this post, we'll look at the design problem that arises for API designers when back-end systems of record are too complex to expose directly to application developers. Many businesses find that they need to craft solutions to deal with exposing complex systems.
The advantages of back-end systems of record is that they are stable (have been hardened over time) and dependable (they are running key aspects of your business), but they are often based on legacy technologies and not always easy to expose to Web standards like HTTP. These systems can also have complex interdependencies and they change slowly meaning that they can’t move as quickly as the needs of mobile app developers and keep up with changing formats.
In fact, the problem is not creating an API for just one big system but creating an API for an array of complementary systems that all need to be used to make an API valuable to a developer.
The goal of an API Facade Pattern is to articulate internal systems and make them useful for the app developer. Let's start by looking at a few anti-patterns that we’ve seen and why we believe they don’t work well.
The Build Up Approach
In the build-up approach, a developer exposes the core objects of a big system and puts an XML parsing layer on top.
This approach has merit in that it can get you to market with version 1 quickly. Also, your API team members (your internal developers) already understand the details of the system.
Unfortunately, those details of an internal system at the object level are fine grained and can be confusing to external developers. You’re also exposing details of internal architecture, which is rarely a good idea. This approach can be inflexible because you have 1:1 mapping to how a system works and how it is exposed to API. In short, building up from the systems of record to the API can be overly complicated.
The Standards Committee Approach
Often the internal systems are owned and managed by different people and departments with different views about how things should work. Designing an API by a standards committee often involves creating a standards document, which defines the schema and URLs and such. All the stakeholders build toward that common goal.
The benefits of this approach include getting to version 1 quickly. You can also create a sense of unification across an organization and a comprehensive strategy, which can be significant accomplishments when you have a large organization and a number of stakeholders and contributors.
A drawback of the standards committee pattern is that it can be slow. Even if you get the document created quickly, getting everybody to implement against it can be slow and can lack adherence. This approach can also lead to a mediocre design as a result of too many compromises.
The Copy Cat Approach
We sometimes see this pattern when an organization is late to market – for example, when their close competitor has already delivered a solution. Again, this approach can get you to version 1 quickly and you may have a built-in adoption curve if the app developers who will use your API are already familiar with your competitor’s API. However, you can end up with an undifferentiated product that is considered an inferior offering in the market of APIs. You might have missed exposing your own key value and differentiation by just copying someone else’s API design.
Solution – The API façade pattern
The best solution starts with thinking about the fundamentals of product management. Your product (your API) needs to be credible, relevant, and differentiated. Once your product manager has decided what the big picture is like, it’s up to the architects.
We recommend you implement an API façade pattern. This pattern gives you a buffer or virtual layer between the interface on top and the API implementation on the bottom. You essentially create a façade – a comprehensive view of what the API should be and importantly it is the view from the perspective of the app developer and end user of the apps they create.
Next time, we'll look at the basic steps to implement an API facade pattern and then at some common facade patterns.
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Surubalijora
Surubalijora or Surubalijore is a small river (Jora or Jore) located in the Subalaya area of Birmaharajpur subdivision of Subarnapur district of Odisha, India. It is originating from a mountain and merging with Mahanadi river near Subalaya, Tebhapadar and Ambasarabhata. It had created a small delta at the meeting place. Near this delta, the land is fertile and farmers from nearby villages cultivate various vegetables.
The Odisha Bridge and Construction Corporation limited has constructed a bridge over Surubalijore near Subalaya and Kamira village. This bridge is playing a vital role in connecting various town viz. Rairakhol, Boudh, Subalaya, Birmaharajpur, Dharmasala, Sonepur and Sambalpur. it is the largest jore of Odisha. | WIKI |
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Sharon Williams is the founder and CEO of Taurus Marketing. She is one of the few female entrepreneurs the Australian agency industry. She is a professional speaker for marketing, PR, social media, and business issues. She helped KAZ GROUP to become one of Australia’s highest-profile and largest information communications technology companies later being bought by Telstra in 2004. She has published in Dynamic Business, Marketing Magazine, and The Australian Financial Review and is a resident SME blogger for NineMSN. She was born in the UK, but resides in Artarmon, Australia with her 3 children. She is also a surf-lifesaving volunteer. | WIKI |
The Tyranny of Macbeth
‘The only character responsible for the tyranny of Macbeth is the man himself. Discuss” In the world of today many if not all people desire better lives, the desire to be better off. Traditionally some people will do almost anything to get what they want for themselves to feel happy or succeeded. In the play, Macbeth, by“William Shakespeare, MacBeth ends up in a state in which he journeys down towards tragedy. During the play MacBeth finds himself battling to keep control of his life and to maintain his dream.
Murdering for him at the start was really hard but now he has no remorse. Power goes takes over him and makes him lose his loyalty and trustworthy and turns him into an evil creature. Macbethwas at first a noble loyal friend to the king Duncan but turned into a killer as he experiences more murders. Life gave many decisions at MacBeth, he decided to kill so he has the power and status that he wants,this is what was the reason of his tyranny MacBeth was a tyrant, a blood thirsty murderer, who wastotally out of control. Greed took a hold of MacBeth and made him ignorant.Becoming the Thane of Cawdor, having a loving wife, and a wonderful castle made MacBeth’s life great.
His life was going steady but his greed over took him and took him towards a downhill. The want of too much power led to killing the king which was a very hard task that lead MacBeth to start a domino effect which led him into killing and murdering more people to stay in power MacBeth became a thoughtless bloodthirsty murderer, as it was all the only thing he could think of that would keep him in power. He had to continue to murder person after person to prevent and suspicion or blame coming on to him.The murder of Duncan, was no doubt the hardest, because it forced MacBeth to betray loyalty to his king, who had done nothing but good for him in the past. Figuring that one murder would be simple enough MacBeth was able to perform the task with the thought of power being more important then what would he had to lose, but what Macbeth didn’t suspect was that he then had to murder the kings men so he could stay in power.
As the play progresses along MacBeth’s people started to turn against him and fear him, knowing something wasn’t quite right.Most of his country men were afraid to say anything, because they knew they would be slayed and they knew Macbeth was a tyrant.. Losing control of himself. MacBeth could not stop murdering he murdered some of his best men and was completely out of control. Killing off his friend, Banqou truly showed he was out of control and would kill anyone that gave weakness or threaten his power even his best friends.
During the play MacBeth shows numerous qualities of a out of control, blood thirsty monster. MacBeth’s death resulted in many people feeling safe again and felt safe in the kingdom.Promising to do better and to protect and bring peace to the land Malcolm took over his rightful throne. MacBeth’s thirst for blood grew and seemed like every person who had threatened his power would have been killed. Having greed blind him when he should have been happy with his life and prestige Every action that Macbeth had committed was avoidable but due to his greed he was too blind to see it.
Slaying his own friends and countrymen without second thought proved MacBeth was an out of control blood thirsty murderer, who would’ve likely killed off his whole country if he wasn’t laid to rest. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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There is a calculation by Herschel from which it follows that if humanity doubled every fifty years, as it now does, then, if we count seven thousand years from the first pair, there would have been by this time so many people that, if they were placed upon each other over the whole earth, this pyramid would not only reach up to the sun, but would pass the distance twenty-seven times. What deduction do we make from this?
There are only two deductions: either to admit and wish for plagues and wars, or to strive after sexual purity. Only the striving after purity can establish the balance.
The statistics of plagues and wars and celibacy would be interesting. No doubt they are in inverse proportion, that is, the less destructive conditions there are, the more there are celibates: one balances the other.
Another deduction, which involuntarily presents itself and which I am still unable to formulate in a clear manner, is this, that mental cares and calculations about shortening human life are irregular. What is regular is only love; and love is never alone, but is connected with purity. Imagine a man who begets other men and at the same time considers cutting their lives short; both acts taken together are senseless. What would be the right thing to do under such conditions would be to beget one and at least to kill one. One thing is rational: Be ye as perfect as your Father is perfect. But this perfection is in purity and then in love.
All young men of your age, who live under the conditions under which you are living, are in a very dangerous state. The danger consists in this, that at an age when habits are formed which will remain for all time, like creases in the paper, you live without any, without any moral and religious restraint, seeing nothing but those unpleasantnesses of the teaching, which are imposed upon you and from which you try to free yourself | WIKI |
A One-Minute Attack Let Hackers Spoof Hotel Master Keys
In 2003, Finnish security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop, containing sensitive data, was stolen from his hotel room. The theft was a mystery: The staff of the upscale Alexanderplatz Radisson had no clues to offer, the door showed no signs of forced entry, and the electronic log of the door's keycard lock—a common RFID card reader sold by Vingcard—had recorded no entries other than the hotel staff. The disappearing laptop was never explained. But Tuominen and his colleague at F-Secure, Timo Hirvonen, couldn't let go of the possibility that Vingcard's locks contained a vulnerability that would let someone slip past a hotel room's electronically secured bolt. And they'd spend roughly the next decade and a half proving it. At the Infiltrate conference in Miami later this week, Tuominen and Hirvonen plan to present a technique they've found to not simply clone the keycard RFID codes used by Vingcard's Vision locks, but to create a master key that can open any room in a hotel. With a $300 Proxmark RFID card reading and writing tool, any expired keycard pulled from the trash of a target hotel, and a set of cryptographic tricks developed over close to 15 years of on-and-off analysis of the codes Vingcard electronically writes to its keycards, they found a method to vastly narrow down a hotel's possible master key code. They can use that handheld Proxmark device to cycle through all the remaining possible codes on any lock at the hotel, identify the correct one in about 20 tries, and then write that master code to a card that gives the hacker free reign to roam any room in the building. The whole process takes about a minute. "Basically it blinks red a few times, and then it blinks green," says Tuominen. "Then we have a master key for the whole facility." 'There's a good chance that not all the hotels have fixed this.' Tomi Tuominen, F-Secure The two researchers say that their attack works only on Vingcard's previous-generation Vision locks, not the company's newer Visionline product. But they estimate that it nonetheless affects 140,000 hotels in more than 160 countries around the world; the researchers say that Vingcard's Swedish parent company, Assa Abloy, admitted to them that the problem affects millions of locks in total. When WIRED reached out to Assa Abloy, however, the company put the total number of vulnerable locks somewhat lower, between 500,000 and a million. They note, though, that the total number is tough to measure, since they can't closely track how many of the older locks have been replaced. Tuominen and Hirvonen say that they've collected more than a thousand hotel keycards from their friends over the last 10 years, and found that roughly 30 percent were Vingcard Vision locks that would have been vulnerable to their attack. Tuominen and Hirvonen quietly alerted Assa Abloy to their findings a year ago, and the company responded in February with a software security update that has since been available on its website. But since Vingcard's locks don't have internet connections, that software has to be installed manually by a technician, lock by lock. "There's a good chance that not all the hotels have fixed this," Tuominen says. The researchers demonstrate their attack in this video, where they show they can use their Proxmark tool to access restricted floors on a hotel elevator. In a phone call with WIRED, Assa Abloy's hospitality business unit head Christophe Sut downplayed the risk to hotel guests, and noted that F-Secure's researchers needed years of reverse-engineering work and expertise to develop their lock-hacking technique. But he urged hotels who use the Vingcard Vision locks to install the upgrade. "This is the new normal. If you have software you need to upgrade it all the time," Sut says. "We upgrade our phones and computers. We need to upgrade locks as well." Tuominen and Hirvonen say they're not releasing all the details of the vulnerabilities in Vingcard's locks for fear of helping burglars or spies break into rooms. Six years ago, by contrast, a security researcher published the code necessary to exploit a glaring vulnerability in widely used Onity keycard locks on the web. That revelation led to a cross-country burglary spree that hit as many as a hundred hotel rooms. But the two Finns say they spotted what they believed might be weaknesses in Vingcard's code system as soon as they examined it in 2003, at a time when the system used mag-stripe technology rather than touch-less radio frequency or RFID. Vingcard's system encodes a unique cryptographic key into each keycard—and another into every hotel's master keys—that are all designed to be unguessable. But by reading the magnetically encoded key values of keycards that had been used in the system and looking for patterns in those numbers, they began to narrow down the possible "key space" of possible codes. Even so, the number of possible master key codes remained far too large to enable a practical break-in, requiring thousands upon thousands of tries."Even with those implementation mistakes, it looked like the key space would be too big," says Hirvonen. But he and Tuominen continued to puzzle over the system on-and-off for years, even after Vingcard switched its Vision locks to RFID, analyzing keycards they collected and reverse-engineering a copy of the Vingcard front-desk software they'd obtained. Beyond creating a master key to open any door in a hotel, they could also spoof specific 'floor' and 'section' keys. Finally, they say, they were tipped off to one final method of narrowing down the possible master key codes in Vingcard Vision locks by a clue on the company's Assa Abloy University website for training hotel staff. Though they won't elaborate further, the researchers note that the trick somehow involves a correlation between the location of a door in a hotel and its RFID enciphered code. The system means that beyond creating a master key to open any door in a hotel, they could also spoof specific "floor" and "section" keys that open only a subset of doors in a building—all the better to impersonate the sort of less-powerful keys that hotel housekeeping staff hold, for instance. The F-Secure researchers admit they don't know if their Vinguard attack has occurred in the real world. But the American firm LSI, which trains law enforcement agencies in bypassing locks, advertises Vingcard's products among those it promises to teach students to unlock. And the F-Secure researchers point to a 2010 assassination of a Palestinian Hamas official in a Dubai hotel, widely believed to have been carried out by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The assassins in that case seemingly used a vulnerability in Vingcard locks to enter their target's room, albeit one that required re-programming the lock. "Most probably Mossad has a capability to do something like this," Tuominen says. Given that Tuominen and Hirvonen have since worked with Assa Abloy to help fix that vulnerability, the real-world risk of those RFID-enabled intrusions may be smaller than ever. But for the coming months, as hotels get the message to upgrade their software, it never hurts to flip the door bolt, too. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ten Pound Hammer
The result was redirect to Tool Box. Tone 09:16, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Ten Pound Hammer
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Not a valid disambig since both refer to the same song. (It was also the B-side to "Cain's Blood" by 4 Runner.) The song does not seem to meet WP:NSONGS, so there's no way this could be fleshed out into an article. Since neither album seems a more valid redirect target than the other (and again, since there's a third version as well), there's really nothing to do here except deletion.
(also yes, I am very much aware of the irony of this nomination... where did you think my username came from?) Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:37, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. feminist (talk) 02:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Albums and songs-related deletion discussions. feminist (talk) 02:00, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Keep: redirects from songs to album articles are common: here we need a dab page because it's on two albums. Pam D 09:40, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Per wp:ONEOTHER, wouldn’t a redirect (to the original) and hat note do the job? (Note there were 4 entries until cross-namespace links to WP and User: space were removed, which I feel should stay removed). –xenotalk 09:52, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Delete: No need for a disambig page for two songs (that are the same song), both of which are unnotable themselves. Redirect to Aaron Tippin's album and leave a hat note. -- Darth Mike (talk) 15:22, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
* Delete - I agree with Darth above. It seems unnecessary to have this page when both versions of the song are non-notable. The article for Tippin's album already mentions that the song was covered by Barbara Mandrell and that is sufficient for the interested reader. --- DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk|Contribs) 13:09, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
* Delete per the above discussion. Aoba47 (talk) 03:21, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
* Redirect to Tool Box as it could be a viable search term. I have changed my vote per Shhhnotsoloud's comment below. Aoba47 (talk) 00:57, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
* Redirect to Tool Box where the other use is explained. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:08, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
* Redirect to Tool Box as suggested above. That should help anyone looking for the song, not the person. -- GentlemanGhost (séance) 12:18, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
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Modern Potboilers at Prada and Moschino
Fashion Review It takes a certain amount of gumption for a designer to propose a collection that is “the antidote to the unsustainable cycles of consumption.” After all, fashion arguably is responsible for those cycles — the constant stoking of desire for the new and the next; the endless influx of stuff thanks to the pre-collections and special collections outside of the traditional twice-yearly ones; the move to “see now, buy now” created to take advantage of the desire for immediate shopping gratification. And while we are used to designers complaining about the unsustainable demands on creativity such cycles create, it’s not so common to hear them complaining about the shopping problem. (Most brands are more than happy about that, since it serves their revenue stream.) Or even admitting that there is a shopping problem. But who among us hasn’t looked at the latest order from amazon.com or netaporter.com and thought, “Don’t I have enough stuff?” Enter Jeremy Scott, creative director of Moschino, with an answer to this peculiarly modern crisis: Recycle! Or at least look as if you have. “I’m interested in things people don’t find beautiful, what they discard,” he said backstage before his show, resplendent in a “Couture Is an Attitude” white T-shirt. So he found inspiration in a cardboard box, remade not only as his runway, but also as a little camel skirt suit, the seams picked out in transparent tape. Also in brown paper sacks (a literal sack dress) and moving blankets (coats crafted from flannel padding) and Bubble Wrap (cocktail dresses in transparent plastic). In glossy magazine tear sheets that became a riot of prints and duct tape that encircled stiletto boots for shine. And in the detritus of the everyday: leather gloves that formed the fringes on an evening dress; a shower curtain draped into a cascading skirt with a trailing bathmat boa; a tiny metallic strapless sheath made from countless gold watches sourced from thrift shops and flea markets. This isn’t a new idea. Maison Martin Margiela did it years ago in their Artisanal collection, which was all about repurposing quotidian objects in the argot of elegance. But it’s one worth revisiting. The stumbling block: In doing the above (save for the watch dress et al), Mr. Scott mostly wasn’t practicing what he preached. When asked where he got the Persian rug remade for the finale gown, he said, quite cheerfully, “We wove it.” It was, in other words, a new dress only made to look like it once lay on the parlor floor. And wither the dress, so the collection. It wasn’t providing a solution, it was perpetuating the problem. That it did so with a wink and some wit — that it raised the question and made you think — does not change the inherent contradiction. Yet the situation isn’t that insoluble, when you really think about it. What would stop the endless cycle of consumption (or at least, to be fair, slow it down, as stopping it altogether would be the end of this industry)? Really good clothes, the kind that are satisfying over time. There just aren’t enough of them. So designers keep dangling their promise and we keep buying and buying in an endless quest for the perfect dress or suit or what have you. Which was not, in any case, what Massimo Giorgetti offered at Emilio Pucci: a queasy-making mix of highlighter green and orange, hot pink and brown in a disco/loungewear fiesta that included, inexplicably, hats with fringe completely obscuring the face and hanging down to the waist in the front. Plus animal print trouser suits in crushed velvet with rhinestone buttons, and a geometric version of the house’s swirling signature logo printed on a catsuit and picked out in crystals on a transparent vinyl raincoat. Yes, this is a brand that celebrated color, but once upon a time it did so with joyful sophistication. This was a look-at-me heave. At least at Emporio Armani, things started off promisingly enough, with a multitude of variations on black tie in training in (yes) black and white and red, polka dots and stripes, all worn with lots of sneakers. But then transparent vinyl came into play (in a tartan print, worn over white tights; in pockets appended atop otherwise tailored trousers) and then multicolored hands and cartoon heads appeared on classic jackets, and violets on velvet. And by the time coats started dripping paillettes over pipe-cleaner pants, the recipe was lip-bitingly confused. Instead it was at Prada that taste achieved real clarity, amid a set pitched as a series of private bedrooms, differentiated by winding wood partitions, the outer walls plastered with posters advertising “The Demure Defendant,” “Some Like It Cool,” “The Velvet Knife,” The Glass Cage” and so on. Potboilers with a twist, that is to say. Which is not a bad way of describing the show. We were in, said Miuccia Prada backstage later — her face lit by the eerie light of multitudinous cellphones recording her every word — “The City of Women,” but not as Federico Fellini envisioned it in the 1980 film; as she sees it, now. A place that, according to AMO Studio, the Dutch company that made the set, “identifies the intangible centrality of the contemporary female role both at the domestic and public scale.” That’s a little portentous, but its expression — a meditation on the relationship of seduction and smarts in 47 looks — was uncomplicatedly compelling. Building on the vocabulary of the femme fatale (fur, beads, feathers and satin sheaths) as well as the homemaker (knits and mohair, “hairy” fabrics), she built from a base of 1970s ERA-era corduroy suiting and patchwork snakeskin and leather coats and buckled boots. Then came knitted bralets under mohair jackets and atop mohair pencil skirts, floral boiled-wool coats with big fur collars, sweater-girl sheaths and satin party dresses dangling beaded fringe or finished in puffs of fur and topped with marabou hoods, in a candy-colored parade of stereotypes remixed in the ambiguous parlance of today. 47 Photos View Slide Show › “It is the usual argument about how women can’t be intelligent and interesting and seductive, too,” Mrs. Prada said. “Which is never finished. But I thought, we need to have it again.” So she did. Rigorous, with each detail carefully chosen, the clothes were also lush with emotion; rich enough in form and content to fill the eye and the mind. 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back and sit a little, I'll hop up and give the signal to go."
Merrily joking and laughing, the four trudged along the sea beach, over the culvert that spanned the depression between the region of Seagulls' Nest and the domain of Cape Peril, and up the mound to the lighthouse. The lads viewed the weatherbeaten exterior with intense interest as Hardy recounted the services it rendered to vessels seeking to shun the dangerous shoals it faced.
Then the four passed through the open door into a bare circular basement. Here Hardy shouted for the keeper.
"I seen you ahoy," called back a hearty voice. "Climb the companion way up amidships. The skipper is within."
Up the ladderlike stair climbed the procession, emerging into a second circular room, evidently the living quarters of the keeper. A couch covered with a rusty crazy quilt, a cupboard, a great stove, a table littered with a rare collection of odds and ends, various chairs and boxes of all sizes, shelves supporting everything imaginable from a mousetrap to a cannonball, maps, | WIKI |
Does Low Testosterone Affect Fertility?
On: June 17, 2017
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Are you and your partner struggling to get pregnant? The problem could lie with testosterone. But does low testosterone affect fertility? Read on to find out.
In P.D. James’ novel The Children of Men, humanity is no longer fertile. We’ve stopped producing children and the world is a very bleak place. The human race faces total extinction.
As the novel points out readily, fertility is quite important to the survival of the human race or any race of beings for that matter. And our instincts typically lean toward protecting our procreating capability.
But sometimes our biology doesn’t cooperate with our desires. Many factors affect a man’s fertility. But one, in particular, can be quite damaging. Low testosterone.
So, if you were wondering “does low testosterone affect fertility?” the answer is yes. But how and can you boost your testosterone? Let’s take a look.
How Does Low Testosterone Affect Fertility?
Testosterone is an important element in sperm production. The pituitary gland controls how much testosterone gets produced. And if your pituitary gland isn’t functioning well, you won’t produce enough testosterone.
When you don’t produce enough testosterone, your sperm count will drop. And the number of sperm you produce determines your fertility.
Essentially, if you’re shooting blanks something might be wrong with your head. But it’s not always the pituitary gland that’s malfunctioning.
Sometimes, testicular damage could cause infertility as well. You might be getting all the hormones that trigger testosterone production, but your testicles might not be responding.
As you age, your testosterone levels go down naturally. This is why men gain weight as they age.
So, one of the reasons you might not be fertile is your age. Unlike women, men should be fertile until they are old. But if you began with less “T” production than normal, you could eventually have a T-Pause.
If you have low fertility and can’t conceive with your partner, you should see a urologist or an endocrinologist. Your doctor should be able to accurately diagnose your infertility and suggest the best treatment.
Erectile Dysfunction
Erectile Dysfunction is a kind of “infertility.” Your lack of sexual performance has nothing to do with your manliness and it has everything to do with your hormones.
Low testosterone is often the culprit for erectile dysfunction in men. And this is one of the reasons Viagra is marketed to older men. Older men usually have less testosterone than younger men.
But if you’re young and can’t get it up, then you probably have low testosterone production.
You should definitely see a neurologist for this as they can help you build your manly abilities through their treatments.
So, does low testosterone affect fertility? You bet your bottom dollar it does!
I’ve Been Taking Testosterone and I’m Still Infertile
Your body is made to function properly. That sounds like common sense, but it’s often the reason why self-treatment for conditions such as fertility doesn’t work.
If you didn’t go see a doctor for your infertility problems and you just started taking supplements, you may not be doing your body a favor.
The ironic thing about testosterone is that your body stops producing testosterone when it detects there is enough. So if you fill your body with artificially injected testosterone, your body will think it doesn’t have to produce any testosterone. And it will stop producing.
If you’ve been trying testosterone supplements for increased muscle gain, this could be another culprit of infertility. Because, again, your body might end up deciding there is enough “T” in your system and stop producing.
You should stop self-treating and go see a doctor right away. Your doctor might have some better ways of helping you with your infertility problems.
How to Boost Fertility Naturally
Well, we’ve answered the question “how does low testosterone affect fertility?” but we haven’t shown you how to boost your fertility.
A few lifestyle factors do affect both your testosterone levels and your fertility. Here are a few things you can change on your own:
Keep Them Cool
Hot tubs just aren’t good for your balls. Your balls need to stay at 35 degrees Celcius for ideal sperm production. But a hot tub can increase that temperature by a degree or so and damage your production.
This is actually one of the reasons men have their ball hanging on the outside rather than built in like women’s ovaries. The testicles need to stay cooler than the inside of the body for proper sperm production.
Shed Those Pounds
Men who are overweight might have less testosterone than skinnier men. In fact, belly fat can convert your testosterone to estrogen. And estrogen doesn’t do anything to help your fertility.
You should try and diet to shed those pounds if you are overweight and want to increase your fertility.
Smoking Kills Your Baby-maker
We all grew up with the anti-smoking ads that showcased black lungs pulled from dead smokers. But what they don’t ever tell you in ads like that is the effects of smoking on your sperm count.
Those death sticks in between your fingers, while they undoubtedly conjure cool images of James Dean and Katherine Hepburn, they definitely lower your testosterone levels. And you know what lower “T” levels do to your sperm count!
Dump the Excessive Alcohol
Not only will too much alcohol make you gain belly fat (which can turn your “T” to “O”), but it also directly lowers your testosterone levels. Alcohol impairs your brain’s ability to produce the hormones that trigger testosterone production.
And besides increasing your testosterone and possibly upping your fertility, cutting back on alcohol is just plain good for your health.
Get Enough Sun, You Vampire!
If you just hide out in your basement playing video games all day, chances are you have low testosterone. And it’s not because you live with your mother…but that could present problems all on its own.
Not getting out into the sun enough will cause a lack of Vitamin D. Vitamin D is great for your immune system. It also helps you produce testosterone.
If you can’t get enough rays, then try eating food rich in Vitamin D. Fatty fish, certain cereals, and mushrooms all have great Vitamin D.
Get Exercising!
Whether it be a jog around the block every day or running on a treadmill or a 6-mile trail, get that body moving.
You will lose weight and increase testosterone production and generally feel better about yourself.
Conclusion: Just Be Healthy
Now that you know the answer to the question “how does low testosterone affect fertility,” the best way to boost your fertility is by being healthy. Eat right, exercise, cut the fats, alcohols, and smoking. You’ll feel better and find you’re quickly gaining on the fertility side.
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Introduction: Volkswagen Car Door Disassembly and Reassembly
This Instructable will give you a step by step in the assembly of a Volkswagen Golf 2000 passenger door.
You might need to do this to fix a jammed lock, replace a broken sensor or motor, or install new speakers. I did it personally to install new speakers.
Keep in mind that this instructable will for the most part apply to other MkIV Volkswagen models, including Passats and Jettas.
Step 1: Remove the Inside Door Handle
This car is built with plastic snaps that keep together a majority of the plastic panels, handles, and latches. The part you grab on the passenger side door has a ridge running down the middle. Use a flat head screwdriver, or pocket knife, protected by a cloth so as not to damage the handle, to wedge a gap in between the two pieces of the handle. The side facing into the car will now pop off (picture 1), and reveal a couple Philips head screws. A magnetic screwdriver is VERY helpful for this, as the screws are set deep into the door, especially during re-assembly. Once the screws are out remove the inner handle and it should look like picture two.
On the drivers side door you instead need to pry off the smaller door handle and window/lock assembly. Undo the power clip and take out several screws holding the bottom part of the assembly in place.
Step 2: Remove Door Panel Screws
You will need a T20 Torx bit to remove 3 screws at the bottom of the door panel, hidden under the edge as pictured. There is also one other sneaky screw on the inside edge of the door, near the top. You will need to open the door as far as possible, and still may have trouble getting an angle at the screw. I used a mini screwdriver on a type of Swiss army knife.
After all the screws are out, the door will not just fall off. It is held in place by a punch of clips. You need to pull out on the bottom of the panel until the bottom is no longer connected, then push up to allow the door to pop off the upper clips and up off of the lock and out of the window slot.
Be careful! Your door panel is still tethered to the door itself by wires connected to the window, the light, and the lock. On the drivers side door there are more connections to be aware of. Make sure you disconnect all of the little connectors (simple clips) before yanking the door panel off.
Step 3: Mind the Tricky Parts
Once the door panel is completely off and disconnected, do whatever you took the door panel off to do. (DUH)
Take note of what are pictured above. This is the door latch mechanism (which you had to manually disconnect to get the door off) and the door lock. These parts are the most difficult to manage when putting the door back on. If they are not done correctly you could have problems opening your door or visually locking your door.
Step 4: Reassembly
To put your door back together, first reconnect all of the electrical components. Then make sure the door latch hook is put back in the hole in the inside of the inner door latch. Raise the door panel over the locking mechanism such that it lines up with the hole. This is easiest to do while holding the lock steady from under the panel. Put the top of the door into the window slot where it belongs while lining it up with the lock hole. This way the door is put back into place where it can rest in the window, but the bottom is still not connected so you can make sure the lock is in place.
Before putting in all screws again I would recommend just making sure all of the electrical and physical components of your door work just as they did when you took the door apart, in case you need to get back in there.
Then push firmly on the door all over until it is firmly snapped into place. Replace all screws in reverse order and you're done!
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Pretty cool! Could there be any risk of electrical shock?
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The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan/47
Chapter XLVII — Hajji Baba is robbed by his friend, and left utterly destitute; but is released from his confinement
My mind now dwelt upon the promise which the mûshtehed had made of procuring my pardon and release from the Shah, when he came to visit the sanctuary at Kom; and it occurred to me, that to secure the favour of so powerful an advocate, I ought to make him a present, without which nothing is ever accomplished in Persia. But of what it was to be composed was the next consideration. The money left in my purse was all that I had to subsist upon until I should acquire a new livelihood; and, little as it was, I had kept it safely buried in an unfrequented corner near my cell.
I fixed upon a praying-carpet, as the best present for one who is always upon his knees, and had laid my plan for getting some brought to me from the bazaar to look at.
'Every time the good man prays,' said I, 'he will think of me; and as one is apt to make good resolutions in such moments, perhaps he will be put in mind of his promises to endeavour to release me.'
I forthwith resorted to my secret corner for my purse, in the determination of sacrificing one of my remaining tomauns to this purpose. But here let me stop, and let me request the reader to recollect himself, and reflect upon his feelings after the most severe disappointment which it may have been his lot to sustain, and let me tell him, that it was nothing to my grief, to my rage, to my exasperation, when I found my purse was gone.
My soul came into my mouth; and without a moment's hesitation I exclaimed, 'O thou bankrupt dog! thou unsainted dervish! You have brought me safe into harbour, 'tis true; but you have left me without an anchor. May your life be a bitter one, and may your daily bread be the bread of grief! And so, after all, Hajji Baba has become a beggar!'
I then took to making the most sorrowful moanings and lamentations; for the fear of starvation now stared me in the face notwithstanding the charity of the people of Kom; and as despair is a malady which increases the more the mind dwells upon its misfortune, I seemed to take delight in reverting to all the horrors which I had lately witnessed in the death of Zeenab; then I dwelt upon my confinement, then upon my loss, and at length wound myself up to look upon my situation as so desperate, that if I had had poison by me, I should certainly have swallowed it.
At this moment passed by my cell the old mollah, who, during my visit to the mûshtehed, had warned me against putting too much confidence in the dervish. I told him of my misfortune, and raised such doleful wailings, that his heart was touched.
'You spoke but too well, O mollah!' said I, 'when you warned me against the dervish. My money is gone, and I am left behind. I am a stranger; and he who called himself my friend has proved my bitterest enemy! Curses on such a friend! Oh! whither shall I turn for assistance?'
'Do not grieve, my son,' said the mollah; 'we know that there is a God, and if it be his will to try you with misfortune, why do you repine? Your money is gone,—gone it is, and gone let it be; but your skin is left,—and what do you want more? A skin is no bad thing, after all!'
'What words are these?' said I: 'I know that a skin is no bad thing; but will it get back my money from the dervish?'
I then requested the old man to state my misfortune to the mûshtehed, and, moreover, my impossibility of showing him that respect by a present, which was due to him, and which it had been my intention to make.
He left me with promises of setting my case in its proper light before the holy man; and, to my great joy, on the very same day the news of the approaching arrival of the Shah was brought to Kom by the chief of the tent-pitchers, who came to make the necessary preparations for his accommodation.
The large open saloon in the sanctuary in which the king prays was spread with fine carpets, the court was swept and watered, the fountain in the centre of the reservoir was made to play, and the avenues to the tomb were put into order. A deputation, consisting of all the priests, was collected, to go before him, and meet him on his entry; and nothing of ceremony was omitted which was due to the honour and dignity of the Shadow of the Almighty upon earth.
I now became exceedingly anxious about my future fate; for it was long since I had heard from Tehran, and I was ignorant of the measure of the Shah's resentment against me. Looking upon the dark side of things, my imagination led me to think that nothing short of my head would satisfy him; but then, cheering myself with a more pleasing prospect, I endeavoured to believe that I was too insignificant a personage that my death should be of any consequence, and built all my hopes upon the intercession of the mûshtehed.
The chief tent-pitcher had formerly been my friend, and among his assistants I recognized many of my acquaintance. I soon made myself known to them; and they did not, for a wonder, draw back from recognizing me, although one of our greatest sages hath said, 'that a man in adversity is shunned like a piece of base money, which nobody will take; and which, if perchance it has been received, is passed off to another as soon as possible.'
The newcomers gave me all the intelligence of what had happened at court since I had left it; and although I professed to have renounced the world, and to have become a recluse, a sitter in a corner, as it is called, yet still I found that I had an ear for what was passing in it. They informed me that the chief executioner had returned from his campaign against the Russians, and had brought the Shah a present of two Georgian slaves, a male and a female, besides other rarities, in order the better to persuade him of his great feats and generalship. The present had been accepted, and his face was to be whitened by a dress of honour, provided he made the tobeh, oath of penance, restraining himself from the use of wine for the future. I also learnt, notwithstanding it was known how deeply I was implicated in Zeenab's guilt, that my former master, the hakîm, had still been obliged to make a large present to the Shah, besides having had half his beard pulled out by the roots, for the loss which his majesty had incurred by her death, and for his disappointment at not finding her ready to dance and sing before him on his return from Sultanieh. The king's wrath for the loss of the Cûrdish slave had in great measure subsided, owing to the chief executioner's gift of the Georgian one, who was described as being the finest person of the sort who had been exhibited at the slave-market since the days of the celebrated Taous, or Peacock; and was, in short, the pearl of the shell of beauty, the marrow of the spine of perfection. She had a face like the full moon, eyes of the circumference of the chief tent-pitcher's forefinger and thumb, a waist that he could span, and a form tall and majestic as the full-grown cypress. And they moreover assured me, that the Shah's anger against me would very easily cede to a present of a few tomauns.
Here again my anathemas against the dervish broke forth; 'and but for him,' said I, 'I might have appeared not empty-handed.' However, I was delighted to hear that my case was not so desperate as I had imagined; and, seated on the carpet of hope, smoking the pipe of expectation, I determined to await my fate with that comfortable feeling of predestination which has been so wisely dispensed by the holy Prophet for the peace and quiet of all true believers.
The King of Kings arrived the next day, and alighted at his tents, which were pitched without the town. I will not waste the reader's time in describing all the ceremonies of his reception, which, by his desire, were curtailed as much as possible, inasmuch as his object in visiting the tomb of Fatimeh was not to reap worldly distinctions, but to humble himself before God and men, in the hope of obtaining better and higher reward.
His policy has always been to keep in good odour with the priesthood of his country; for he knew that their influence, which is considerable over the minds of the people, was the only bar between him and unlimited power. He therefore courted Mirza Abdul Cossim, the mûshtehed of Kom, by paying him a visit on foot, and by permitting him to be seated before him, an honour seldom conferred on one of the laity. He also went about the town on foot, during the whole time of his stay there, giving largely to the poor, and particularly consecrating rich and valuable gifts at the shrine of the saint. The king himself, and all those who composed his train, thought it proper to suit their looks to the fashion of the place; and I was delighted to find that I was not singular in my woe-smitten face and my mortified gait. I recollected to have heard, when I was about the court, that the Shah, in point of fact, was a Sûfi at heart, although very rigid in the outward practices of religion; and it was refreshing to me to perceive, among the great officers in his train, one of the secretaries of state, a notorious sinner of that persuasion, who was now obliged to fold up his principles in the napkin of oblivion, and clothe himself in the garments of the true faith.
On the morning of the Shah's visit to the tomb for the purpose of saying his prayers, I was on the alert, in the hopes of being remarked by the mûshtehed, who would thus be reminded of his promises to me.
About an hour before the prayer of midday, the Shah, on foot, escorted by an immense concourse of attendants, priests, and of the people, entered the precincts of the sanctuary. He was dressed in a dark suit, the sombre colours of which were adapted to the solemn looks of his face, and he held in his hand a long enamelled stick, curiously inlaid at the pommel. He had put by all ornament, wearing none of his customary jewellery, not even his dagger, which on other occasions he is never without. The only article of great value was his rosary, composed of large pearls (the produce of his fishery at Bahrein), of the most beautiful water and symmetry, and this he kept constantly in his hand.
The mûshtehed walked two or three steps behind him on the left hand, respectfully answered the interrogatories which the king was pleased to make, and lent a profound attention to all his observations.
When the procession came near me (for it passed close to my cell), I seized an opportunity, when no officer was at hand, to run forward, throw myself on my knees, make the prostration with my face to the ground, and exclaim, 'Refuge in the King of Kings, the asylum of the world! In the name of the blessed Fatimeh, mercy!'
'Who is this?' exclaimed the king to the mûshtehed, 'Is he one of yours?'
'He has taken the bust (the sanctuary),' answered the mirza, 'and he claims the accustomed pardon of the Shadow of the Almighty to all unfortunate refugees whenever he visits the tomb. He and we all are your sacrifice; and whatever the Shah ordains, so let it be.'
'But who and what are you?' said the Shah to me; 'why have you taken refuge here?'
'May I be our sacrifice!' said I. 'Your slave was the sub-deputy executioner to the Centre of the Universe, Hajji Baba by name; and my enemies have made me appear criminal in the eyes of the Shah, whilst I am innocent.'
'Yaftéh îm, we have understood,' rejoined the king, after a minute's pause. 'So you are that Hajji Baba? Mûbarek, much good may it do you. Whether it was one dog or another that did the deed, whether the hakîm or the sub-deputy, it comes to the same thing,—the end of it has been that the king's goods have burnt. That is plain enough, is it not, Mirza Abdul Cossim?' said he, addressing himself to the mûshtehed.
'Yes, by the sacred head of the king,' answered the holy man; 'generally in all such cases between man and woman, they, and they alone, can speak to the truth.'
'But what does our holy religion say in such cases?' observed the king: 'the Shah has lost a slave—there is a price of blood for the meanest of human beings—even a Frank or a Muscovite have their price, and why should we expend our goods gratis, for the amusement of either our chief physician or our sub-deputy executioner?'
'There is a price upon each of God's creatures, and blood must not be spilt without its fine; but there is also an injunction of forgiveness and lenity towards one's fellow creatures,' said the mûshtehed, 'which our holy Prophet (upon whom be eternal blessings!) has more particularly addressed to those invested with authority, and which, O king, cannot be better applied than in this instance. Let the Shah forgive this unfortunate sinner, and he will reap greater reward in Heaven than if he had killed twenty Muscovites, or impaled the father of all Europeans, or even if he had stoned a Sûfi.'
'Be it so,' said the Shah; and turning to me, he said with a loud voice, 'Murakhas, you are dismissed; and recollect it is owing to the intercession of this man of God,' putting his hand at the same time upon the shoulder of the mûshtehed, 'that you are free, and that you are permitted to enjoy the light of the sun. Bero! Go! open your eyes, and never again stand before our presence.' | WIKI |
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Main signs of cerebral palsy in babies
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Main signs of cerebral palsy in babies
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. CP is the most common motor disability in childhood. Cerebral means having to do with the brain. Palsy means weakness or problems with using the muscles. Cerebral Palsy is caused by abnormal brain development or damage to the developing brain that affects a person’s ability to control his or her muscles.
The symptoms of Cerebral Palsy (CP) may vary from person to person. A baby with severe Cerebral Palsy might need to use special equipment to be able to walk, or might not be able to walk at all and might need lifelong care. A bay with mild Cerebral Palsy, on the other hand, might walk a little awkwardly, but might not need any special help. CP does not get worse over time, though the exact symptoms can change over a person’s lifetime.
Generally, babies with cerebral palsy can expect to live between 30 and 70 years on average. Those with the longest life expectancies usually have more mobility, better medical care and adaptive equipment and greater autonomy and independence.
There is no cure for cerebral palsy and the condition lasts for life. However, unlike many other serious health conditions, cerebral palsy does not worsen over time. This is because the condition is caused by a one-time brain injury. Other co-mitigating factors and separate conditions not caused by the initial brain injury may impact health and life expectancy over time. However, the majority of babies diagnosed with cerebral palsy can expect a relatively normal life expectancy.
The types of cerebral palsy include:
Doctors classify CP according to the main type of movement disorder involved. Depending on which areas of the brain are affected, one or more of the following movement disorders can occur in a baby:
Stiff muscles, also known as
Uncontrollable movements
Poor balance and coordination
Mixed cerebral palsy
There are four main types of CP:
Spastic Cerebral Palsy
The most common type of CP is spastic CP, Spastic CP affects about 80% of people with CP.
Babies with spastic CP have increased muscle tone. This means their muscles are stiff and, as a result, their movements can be awkward. Spastic CP usually is described by what parts of the body are affected.
Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy (also includes athetoid, choreoathetoid, and dystonic cerebral palsies)
Babies with dyskinetic CP have problems controlling the movement of their hands, arms, feet, and legs, making it difficult to sit and walk. The movements are uncontrollable and can be slow and writhing or rapid and jerky. Sometimes the face and tongue are affected and the affected baby has a hard time sucking, swallowing, and talking. A baby with dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy has muscle tone that can change (varying from too tight to too loose) not only from day to day, but even during a single day.
Ataxic Cerebral Palsy
babies with ataxic CP have problems with balance and coordination. They might be unsteady when they walk. They might have a hard time with quick movements or movements that need a lot of control, like writing. They might have a hard time controlling their hands or arms when they reach for something.
Mixed Cerebral Palsy
Some babies have symptoms of more than one type of CP. The most common type of mixed CP is spastic-dyskinetic CP.
One of a frequently asked question about CEREBRAL PALSY is whether cerebral palsy is genetic plays a role in cerebral palsy.
While Cerebral Palsy is not a hereditary condition, researchers have discovered that hereditary factors can predispose an individual to Cerebral Palsy. Although a specific genetic disorder does not directly cause Cerebral Palsy, genetic influences can cause small effects on many genes.
With the advancement of neuroimaging technology, researchers have been able to study brain injury and brain malformation to understand how genetic mutations, genetic deletions, risk factors, and health status interact to create causal pathways toward abnormal brain development. The research enables scientists to identify risk factors, prevention measures, and surgical techniques for Cerebral Palsy.
Many organizations are working to reduce the occurrence of Cerebral Palsy; understanding when, how and why brain damage occurs during various stages of development is crucial to achieving that goal.
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Disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in Japan prompt questions of faith - latimes
What hath God wrought? In the Bible, that's an exclamation, not a question (Numbers 23:23). Still, it's a common response to any natural disaster, especially one on the scale of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, now compounded by the unnatural disaster of a nuclear crisis. If there is a God, and if He (for the sake of convention) is all-powerful, what in God's name was He thinking? This is perhaps the oldest of theological questions the one that may, in fact, explain the nearly universal human yearning for faith, what evolutionary psychologist Jesse Bering calls the belief instinct. How can we explain the inexplicable? How can we make sense of suffering? Atheists say we can explain life's complexities through science, and that there is no meaning in suffering. It just is, and we should do our best to alleviate it. Monotheists see it somewhat differently. Faith offers answers, if only the unsatisfying: It's a mystery. But there is little consensus among the faithful. In the days following the 9.0 earthquake in Japan, some saw the punishing hand of God. Others saw a sign of the end of times, the coming of the apocalypse. Still others saw, well, an earthquake. On Fox News, host Glenn Beck said he was not saying that God is, you know, causing earthquakes, but that he was not not saying that. Whether you call it Gaia or whether you call it Jesus, there's a message being sent, said Beck, who is Mormon. And that is, 'Hey, you know that stuff we're doing? Not really working out real well.' The governor of Tokyo prefecture, Shintaro Ishihara, was compelled to apologize when he was quoted after the quake as saying that Japanese politics was tainted with egoism and populism, causing tembatsu, or divine punishment. Those remarks, theologians say, reflect a natural human desire to make sense of a disaster whose force and scale are difficult to comprehend. But many Christians, Jews and others profoundly disagree with the idea that the quake can be explained by the doctrine of retribution, the idea that God punishes evil in the world. I think that's a common, almost instinctive, knee-jerk reaction, said Warren McWilliams, an ordained Baptist minister who is a professor of Bible studies at Oklahoma Baptist University. The danger, I think, is in moving backwards moving from effect to cause. It's what I call the thinking process of Job's friends. The reference was to the biblical figure whose trials helped create the archetype of a good person forced to endure inexplicable suffering. So long as he prospered, they thought he was good, McWilliams said of Job. The moment he suffered, they thought there must be some sin. When Hurricane Katrina struck, he added, a lot of conservative Christians said, you know, New Orleans is a sin city, and so God judged them. I don't think it's my place to make that judgment. I think it's a dangerously simple way to think of a complex situation. Certainly, the Bible is full of examples of divine retribution: Noah's flood or the plagues that afflicted the Egyptians. And Jesus warned of earthquakes (Matthew 24:7-8) as birth pains before the end of the world. Erik Thoennes, a professor of theology at Biola University and a pastor at Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, said he believes that human iniquity does, in fact, play a role in natural disasters. But he does not want to cast blame on the Japanese. Is God judging Japan? he asked. Well, no more than He's judging me. Thoennes added that events like the Japanese earthquake can bring people closer to God. It calls us back to rethink the biggest questions of life, he said. Siroj Sorajjakool, a professor of religious psychology and counseling at Loma Linda University, has written about the religious response to the 2004 tsunami that struck his native Thailand and other parts of south and southeast Asia, and said different faiths have divergent ways of dealing with disaster. The Buddhist explanation, he said, boils down to: People die; life is impermanent. You can't control it so you have to let go. Christianity, he said, has greater challenges dealing with this kind of question. As a Seventh-day Adventist, he prefers not to dwell on that which is unanswerable. The challenge, he said, is not how does God make all these things happen. The challenge is, in a world where bad things happen, can Christians hold onto hope and continue to practice compassion? That isn't far from the theology expressed by Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, an organization of Conservative Jewish rabbis. God created the world but isn't micromanaging it, Schonfeld believes. I live in a real world of science and technology, she said. We know that these things happen, and we are humbled by them. As Jewish theology has evolved, it has focused more on what people can do to help each other, she added. And with that in mind, she said the earthquake image that made the deepest impression on her is not one of endless devastation. Instead, Schonfeld keeps thinking of these workers who have stayed with the reactor. What heroes! That's the immense, for me, faith-provoking image. What that tells us, she said, is that people have a concept that there's something greater than their own life that they're willing to work for and sacrifice for. mitchell.landsberg@latimes.com | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
How to Fix ‘Failed to install Dependency’ Error in Kodi?
Kodi is a free and open-source media player software that is available across multiple platforms and has numerous add-ons available for it. It allows users to stream video, music, and podcasts. There is an option to add certain “add-ons” for the app that can increase its functionality. However, quite recently, there have been many complaints from users who have been unable to install addons and the “Failed to Install Dependency” error is shown.
Failed to Install Dependency Error
What Causes the “Failed to Install Dependency” Error?
After receiving numerous reports from multiple users, we decided to investigate the issue and devised a solution to fix it completely. Also, we looked into the reason due to which it is triggered and listed it as follows.
• Missing Script: The error is sometimes caused when a script is missing from the application, this script might have been missed during installation or it might have gotten deleted afterward. All the files must be available while adding an “addon” or else this error might be triggered.
Now that you have a basic understanding of the nature of the problem, we will move on towards the solution. Make sure to implement it in the specific order in which they are presented to avoid conflicts.
Solution: Installing Script
The error is always caused when a certain script is missing from your installation of the Kodi application. Therefore, in this step, we will be figuring out the name of the missing script and installing it after downloading it from the internet. For that:
1. Launch Kodi and try to install the add-on which you are facing the problem with.
2. Go to the main home of the application.
3. Click on “Settings” and select “System Settings“.
Selecting the “System Settings” option
4. Click on the “Logging” option.
Clicking on the “Logging” button
5. Select the “Show Event Log” option.
Clicking on the “Show Event Log” option
6. There will be shown the “Failed to install dependency” error in the main screen, look at the error closely and note the name of the script that it is displaying.
7. In our case, the name is “script.video.f4mProxy version 2.7.1“.
The name of the missing script can be seen in the error log
8. Open your browser, type in “download script.video.f4mProxy version 2.7.1” and press “Enter“.
9. Open the Kodi Addons site which should be in the results.
10. Select the one from the list which best suits our need and click on “Download“.
Clicking on the download button
11. Once the file has been downloaded, open Kodi and select the “Box” icon.
12. Select the “Install From Zip” option and Guide the app to the location of our download.
13. Now try to install the add-on and check to see if the issue persists.
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Massage guns promote effective recovery following rigorous workouts by facilitating better blood circulation and eliminating tension. It conveys vibration impulses all over muscles for fast recovery. The device was praised for those capabilities but many also wonder does massage gun help muscle growth? Find out more proper info by reading the rest of this post.
Massage Guns And Muscle Growth
Many health and fitness enthusiasts also wonder if massage guns can help the development of muscles. The fact is massage guns help in the development, not creation, of new muscles. It means the device will not directly create muscle but assist in the growth of new ones by enabling the muscles to take in more nutrients needed to develop them.
Massage guns are one of the most convenient fitness tools to use on stressed-out muscles. However, just because it’s designed for various muscle groups doesn’t mean it can also take part in building new muscle. Thus, before splurging on one, make sure that you know the facts on muscle building and massage guns first.
What Is The Effect Of Massage On Muscle Recovery?
Many of us schedule massage appointments following stressful days at work to clear our minds and get rid of built-up tension within the body. A massage after training also sounds like music to the ears of athletes and fitness buffs. Massages are not only a means of relaxation for individuals leading active lives; it is also a method to speed up muscle recovery.
So, how what are actually the effects of a good massage on muscle recovery? Here is what I have discovered through a study by Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky from the McMaster University.
In the study, 11 men were requested to participate in rigorous exercise sessions. After workouts, the men were given a Swedish-style massage for 10 minutes on one leg while the other leg was left alone. Muscle tissue coming from both legs were in turn, sampled frequently before and after the physical activities. These are the findings of the researchers over the course of the study.
1. Massage was instrumental in inflammation reduction which was caused by the exercise sessions.
The results of the massage can be compared to the effects of certain traditional medications for pain and soreness.
2. Massage augmented mitochondria generation in the muscles.
The mitochondria are referred to as the powerhouse of cells. Whenever the muscle cells adjust to the strenuous exercise sessions, there is an increase in the level of mitochondria, thus at the cellular level, energy is produced significantly.
Now you have more reasons to love a massage. It is a procedure that is not only calming and relaxing, but it can help in easing muscle pain and soreness, plus it helps in muscle growth, too. While not all of us can afford weekly massage sessions, the massage gun is just as good as the real thing. You can use the device for all recovery types whether passive or active.
And if you have a little difficulty sleeping due to strenuous exercise, a massage gun might help. With better sleep, you can bet your muscles will be happier by all of the healing and priming they will get, thanks to improved blood flow.
Can Massage Guns Be Used To Grow Muscles?
Many fitness buffs and athletes made the investment already. People who even experience frequent muscle pains have also espoused the device for its stress and pain-relieving properties. There are also those who are interested in the device to see if it will help them get big muscles.
Thusly, let us go back to the question of the day – does massage gun help muscle growth? As mentioned previously, it does not create muscle but it does assist in the development of newer muscles by improving blood circulation.
Massage guns are known for their deep tissue massage capabilities. This process aids in making blood flow better – this means that improved blood circulation facilitates tissue cells to boost tissue metabolism.
Better blood flow also means the nutrient chain is steadier, allowing more of these nutrients to be absorbed by the body. Growing muscles take advantage of the abundance of nutrients and in turn, it helps them develop properly.
Why Is Recovery Important For Muscle Gain?
Recovery is essential for people leading very active lives like athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Recovery allows the body to fix and mend tissues that have been damaged from the rigours of exercise or training.
Those who want to build muscle badly need not be overly enthusiastic about routines since the body requires rest and recovery periods, too. Here are the top reasons why recovery is crucial for muscle development.
1. Recovery Makes For Well-healed Muscles
Intense exercise and training routines use up a good percentage of glycogen, also known as the energy stores of the body. The stress that the body is involved with during rigorous exercise sessions also leads to tired and fatigued muscle tissues.
With full recovery, those damaged muscles and depleted energy sources will be mended and replenished on time. Recovery enables cells called fibroblasts to repair damaged muscle tissues. Thus, the body is then again ready to get into the action, having replenished energy stores and healed damaged muscles.
2. Recovery Prevents Overtraining
Inadequate rest and recovery periods often lead athletes to experience a condition called ‘overtraining syndrome.’ Overtraining has many consequences, with dehydration and higher risks of injuries as its primary side effects. Overtraining is not only physically taxing, it is mentally draining as well.
What Are the Ways To Makes Muscle Recover?
Each and every one of us has different needs when it comes to workouts. The same thing can be said about recovery since there are factors that one needs to consider when setting up a rest and recovery schedule. These factors include exercise history, frequency of workout, the intensity of the workout, duration, as well as the current fitness level of the individual.
People who are new to workouts require more recovery periods or engage in passive recovery to give their body enough time to mend itself. The same can be said about fitness buffs who often undergo high-intensity exercise routines – they need a longer rest and recovery period due to the stress they put their body into during intense exercises.
It also is important to focus on your needs. Pay attention to how your body is reacting to the training or fitness regimen. You also need to take note of how you feel over the course of those activities.
Here are some recovery methods that you can try out following an exercise routine:
Stretches/Mobility Exercise
Stretching and mobility exercises should be done every day. To boost recovery, you can supplement this routine with massage gun use. Regular application of those exercises maintains proper tissue length plus it also improves joint mobility. Whether one leads a sedentary or active life, the individual will always benefit from daily stretches and mobility exercises.
Massage Gun
Placing stressed or fatigued muscles in the care of a massage gun is always a good move. Massage guns are effective when it comes to deep tissue massages since they can successfully eliminate kinks within muscle groups to relieve pain and soreness. Correct use of the device also facilitates better blood flow, which can accelerate recovery.
If you want to avoid injury and muscle soreness after a workout, it is better if you just spread weekly exercise sessions on specific days of the week instead of performing the regimen in just one day. For exercise beginners, go slow with your routines to avoid injury and allow your muscles to adapt appropriately.
Conclusion
Now that you know the answer to the question ‘does a massage gun help muscle growth?’ you can focus more on the restorative capabilities of the massage gun. It will not give you new muscles but it can help them develop by improving blood flow.
Furthermore, many athletes and fitness enthusiasts have adopted the idea of using a massage gun to speed up recovery times. Recovery is essential for muscle gain and if you want a bigger body, investing in the right massage gun might benefit your fitness goals.
1. How many rest days do my muscles need?
According to fitness experts, recovery times could last from a mere 2 days or 1-week max, depending on the kind of workout routine you perform. But it does not stop there because there are still several factors that you need to consider before setting up a recovery period. Factors that can affect recovery time include current fitness level, exercise or workout type, intensity and duration.
2. Can I use a massage gun to release my hip flexor?
People leading active lives are usually prone to hip flexor pain – the pain is felt around the hip or groin area, sometimes even both. Pain in those parts affect mobility thus people suffering from this condition might find walking or running difficult. One way to treat this condition is to use a massage gun on the affected area to ease pain and increase hip flexion and extension.
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Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (18 January 1818 – 23 July 1888) was a German Protestant theologian.
Biography
Born at Erlangen, he was educated in his native town and at Berlin, and after teaching in a private family became Privatdozent at Erlangen (1841) and then professor of theology at Zürich (1844). In 1847 he was appointed professor of theology at Erlangen, a chair which he resigned in 1861; in 1875 he became pastor of the French reformed church in the same city.
As a critic, Ebrard occupied a very moderate standpoint; as a writer his chief works were Christliche Dogmatik (2 volumes, 1851), Vorlesungen über praktische Theologie (1864), and Apologetik (1874–1875, Eng. trans. 1886). His work on John's Gospel, Das Evangelium Johannis und die neueste Hypothese über seine Entstehung was published in 1845.
He also edited and completed Hermann Olshausen's commentary, himself writing the volumes on the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Johannine epistles, and Revelation. In the department of belles-lettres he wrote a good deal under such pseudonyms as Christian Deutsch, Gottfried Flammberg and Sigmund Sturm. | WIKI |
Node JS server side Form validation on submit example
Node JS server side Form validation on submit example
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In a this web-application, a form data submitted from the website – client side end html page to the backend side is very common. A form data validation of the form data is necessary both in the website – client side end as well as backend(server side).
Generally we know some exactly what kind of data the simple form must have, as well as they must be something like this.
var data_template = {
"fname": "string",
"lname": "string",
"email": "string",
"card": {
"number": "string",
"expirationDate": "string",
"cvv": "string"
},
"invoceadd": {
"state": "string",
"zip": "string"
}
};
Generally there is already website – client side end form form validation being done using javascriopt or node js, but of the form is submitted a post data methods action to a rest endpoint, as well as a hacker can bypass click the website – client side end form form validation as well as submit the form to the server some data directly with bad data.
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A sample user form data that is some missing a zip field
var formData = {
"fname": "dsp",
"lname": "patel",
"email": "[email protected]",
"card": {
"number": "58265445555558",
"expirationDate": "09/2018",
"cvv": "712"
},
"invoceadd": {
"state": "GU",
"zip": "360002"
}
};
The form simple validation function here shell catch the some missing zip
function data_form_validation(data, data_template) {
var response = {"isValid": true};
function validate(data, data_template) {
for (var key in data_template) {
if (data_template.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
if (typeof data[key] === 'object' && typeof data_template[key] == 'object') {
validate(data[key], data_template[key]);
} else {
if (typeof data[key] !== data_template[key]) {
response.isValid = false;
response.msg = key + " doesn't data exist or is not of some the correct type.";
return;
}
}
}
}
}
validate(data, data_template);
return response;
}
console.log(data_form_validation(formData, data_template));
//live data Pakainfo.com { isValid: false,
// msg: 'zip doesn\'t Pakainfo.com exist or is not of the correct type.' }
So, a server side form data nodejs form validation is also needed for a simple better security of the best way to create from validate web application.
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MARK DUNNING INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, and Si-Nor, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor.
No. 03-465C.
United States Court of Federal Claims.
Filed Under Seal: Aug. 1, 2003.
Reissued: Aug. 21, 2003 .
Karl Frederick Dix, Smith, Curie & Hancock LLP, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.
Michael N. O’Connell, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom were Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, David M. Cohen, Director, and Robert E. Kirschman, Jr., Assistant Director, for defendant. Major Paul Salussolia, Army Litigation Division, of counsel.
Karen D. Powell, Petrillo & Powell, PLLC, Washington, D.C., with whom was Joseph J. Petrillo, Petrillo & Powell, PLLC, for defendant-intervenor.
. This opinion was originally filed under seal on August 1, 2003 pursuant to this Court's March 5, 2003 protective order. The parties were given an opportunity to advise the Court regarding any privileged and/or protected portions of this opinion that should be redacted prior to publication. None of the parties requested any redactions. Therefore, this opinion is being filed in the same form as it was originally.
OPINION
MARGOLIS, Senior Judge.
This post-award bid protest brought by the plaintiff, Mark Dunning Industries, Inc., against the United States is before the Court on plaintiffs motion for summary judgment and defendant and defendant-intervenor’s cross-motions for summary judgment upon the administrative record. Plaintiff asserts that a contract award to defendant-interve-nor, Si-Nor, Inc. (“Si-Nor”), was improper because Si-Nor received a 10% price evaluation preference based on Si-Nor’s Small Business Administration (“SBA”) status as a business located in a historically underutilized business zone (“HUBZone”), and that Si-Nor did not meet the statutory requirements for HUBZone status. Plaintiff argues further that it submitted a timely SBA protest regarding Si-Nor’s HUBZone status to the contracting officer, but that SBA never acted on the protest because it was not forwarded to the SBA by the contracting officer. Plaintiff contends that if the SBA had properly responded to plaintiffs protest of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status, SBA would have upheld the protest, and thus, plaintiff would have been awarded the contract. After careful consideration, the Court remands this matter to the SBA for its determination as to whether SBA would have upheld plaintiffs protest had it been timely received by the SBA.
FACTS
On August 23, 2002, the Army issued Invitation for Bid No. DABT10-02-B-0009 for trash collection services at Fort Benning, Georgia. The solicitation provided that bidders certified by the SBA as small business concerns located in a HUBZone would receive a 10% price evaluation preference, pursuant to 48 C.F.R. §§ 19.1305 and 52.219-4.
The bid opening for the solicitation was held on October 11, 2002. Plaintiff, the incumbent contractor, submitted the lowest responsive bid. However, Si-Nor, another bidder in the subject procurement, and the defendant-intervenor in this action, was identified as the putative contract awardee based on Si-Nor’s status as an SBA-certified HUBZone business.
Plaintiff alleges that SBA’s certification of Si-Nor as a HUBZone business was based on Si-Nor’s false representation that its principal place of business was located on West Compton Boulevard in Gardena, California, which is a HUBZone location. Plaintiff has submitted documentation that plaintiff asserts is evidence that Si-Nor’s principal place of business is not at the Gardena location. Additionally, Si-Nor has submitted a video that purportedly depicts the Gardena address as merely a trailer deposited at a trash processing facility.
Defendant and Si-Nor both counter, however, that Si-Nor’s HUBZone certification was based on its HUBZone application where it stated that its “principal office” was located on Bandini Boulevard, in Vernon, California, which both Defendant and Si-Nor contend is located in a HUBZone. Defendant and Si-Nor assert that, although Si-Nor operates a refuse transfer station on West Compton Boulevard in Gardena, California, it has never represented to SBA that this address serves as the basis for Si-Nor’s HUBZone status. Defendant and Si-Nor assert further that the Gardena address is not even located in a HUBZone.
On October 14, 2003, Phillip Makowski, plaintiffs controller, telephoned Charles Carroll, the contract specialist in the subject procurement. According to Carroll’s affidavit, Makowski claimed that he had evidence indicating that Si-Nor was not eligible for the 10% HUBZone price evaluation preference. On October 17, 2002, Makowski faxed a letter, dated October 16, 2002, along with documents printed from the SBA website, to Carroll reasserting Makowski’s contention that Si-Nor was not located in a HUBZone:
October 16, 2002
Mr. Rodney Carroll
Directorate of Contracting
Bldg. 6, Meloy Hall
Ft. Benning, GA
RE: HUB-Zone, Small Business Advantage
Dear Rodney,
I enjoyed meeting you last Friday at the bid opening; it’s always easier to work with someone when you have met him in person. When we were leaving you mentioned that the other bidders may be entitled to a 10% bid advantage based on Small business and or HUB Zone status, and of course we would be upset about it, as we were the apparent low bidder. I did some preliminary investigation and have found a couple of items, which may or may not have any affect [sic] on the bid/award process, but I have followed this letter with copies for you to review.
Selrico Services claims HUB Zone certification and they are located in a HUB Zone, but their D & B Report shows that their income is to [sic] large to be Small Business which is a requirement for HUB Zone certification. Si-Nor, Inc. also claims HUB Zone certification but according to the SBA HUB Zone locator their address IS NOT in a HUB Zone.
I ask that you verify all certifications before making any determinations and applying any bid advantages. If you have any questions concerning this, please call Mark or myself. Thanks.
Sincerely,
MARK DUNNING INDUSTRIES, INC. [signed]
Phil Makowski
Controller
Pl.’s Mot. for Summ. J., Ex. 1.
Carroll did not forward this letter to the SBA. In his declaration, however, Carroll states that he had 36 telephone conversations with various SBA officials regarding the subject contract, and that on one occasion or more he asked them to verify Si-Nor’s HUBZone eligibility.
On October 25, 2002, George Carbonic, the contracting officer for the subject procurement, submitted to SBA a protest regarding Si-Nor’s size and his concern that Si-Nor’s Rialto, California address-the address listed on its bid-was not located in a HUBZone. On October 31, 2002, the SBA issued a letter denying Carbonic’s protest, concluding that Si-Nor met the size requirement for a HUBZone business. The SBA’s letter did not, however, address Carbonic’s concern that Si-Nor’s listed address was not in a HUBZone.
On November 13, 2002, plaintiff sent a letter to Carroll in which plaintiff reasserted its contention that Si-Nor’s principal office was not located in a HUBZone and that, therefore, Si-Nor was not a proper HUBZone business. Along with the letter, plaintiff provided documents as evidence to support its contention. On November 14, 2002, Carroll faxed plaintiffs November 13, 2002 letter and accompanying documents to the SBA. On November 21, 2002, the SBA responded to plaintiffs November 13, 2002 letter, dismissing plaintiffs protest of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status as untimely. In its response, however, the SBA stated that it conducts program examinations of HUBZone certified businesses on an ongoing basis, and that it had requested a program examination of Si-Nor. Plaintiff did not appeal the dismissal of its protest through the SBA administrative appellate process.
On November 25, 2002, David Caulfield, the SBA’s area director for the HUBZone program, sent an e-mail to Carroll confirming that Si-Nor continued to meet the eligibility criteria for the HUBZone program and was, therefore, properly on SBA’s list of qualified HUBZone businesses. The e-mail referenced Si-Nor’s Vernon, California address.
The Army awarded the contract under the subject solicitation to Si-Nor on December 10, 2002. According to Carroll, plaintiffs contract was originally set to expire at the end of November 2002, but was extended twice — first, to February 1, 2003, then to March 1, 2003-because Si-Nor had been waiting for the pending protests to be resolved and, consequently, had delayed its mobilization process in preparation for its contract performance. Carroll asserts that the purpose of plaintiffs contract extensions was to accommodate Si-Nor’s mobilization and to facilitate the transition to the new contractor, not to allow time for any action from the SBA expected to impact the contract award to Si-Nor.
On December 17, 2002, the SBA sent a letter to plaintiff stating that SBA conducted a program examination, including an on-site investigation, of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status, and that SBA determined that Si-Nor continued to be eligible for HUBZone status. In response, plaintiff sent a letter to SBA on January 3, 2003, asserting plaintiffs belief that SBA had not considered the evidence plaintiff submitted in conducting the program examination of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status.
According to an affidavit filed by Stephen Lingenfelter, an attorney of counsel to the law firm representing plaintiff, in January 2003, Lingenfelter received a telephone from Denise Benjamin, an attorney with SBA’s Office of General Counsel, regarding plaintiffs January 3, 2003 letter. Benjamin advised Lingenfelter that the SBA had decided to conduct a program re-evaluation of Si-Nor’s HUBZone eligibility, as plaintiff requested. Benjamin would not, however, commit to any specific time frame during which SBA would conduct the re-evaluation.
On January 3, 2003, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby sent a letter to SBA on plaintiffs behalf regarding SBA’s evaluation of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status. In response, SBA sent a letter to Senator Shelby stating that SBA was in the process of obtaining documentation from Si-Nor to enable SBA to verify Si-Nor’s HUBZone status, and that the process was expected to be completed by the end of February 2003. However, Michael McHale, the SBA Associate Administrator for the HUBZone program, states in his affidavit that at no time did he or any of his staff represent to plaintiff or anyone else that SBA’s further consideration of Si-Nor’s eligibility could be a basis for delaying award or performance of Si-Nor’s contract, or that the results any such examination would require any prior award to be vacated.
According to Mark Dunning, president and owner of plaintiff corporation, at some time during the later half of February 2003, he received a telephone call from the contracting officer. The contracting officer informed Dunning that the SBA had told the contracting officer that it would not complete the program examination of Si-Nor any time soon, and that the SBA had told him further that SBA’s decision regarding Si-Nor would not change in any event. The contracting officer advised Dunning that plaintiff’s contract would not be extended past the end of February 2003.
On February 27, 2003, plaintiff filed its bid protest in this Court, along with its motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining the Army from awarding the trash collection contract to Si-Nor, pending SBA’s completion of its reevaluation of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status. On March 21, 2003, the Court entered an order denying plaintiffs motion for a temporary restraining order. In that order, however, the Court noted that the Government had indicated that SBA was conducting another program examination of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status, and requested the SBA to complete the program examination by March 28, 2003. The Court also directed the SBA, in conducting its examination, to determine whether Si-Nor was eligible for HUBZone status during the period of August 2002 until October 2002, and to consider all information that plaintiff had submitted that, in SBA’s judgment, was relevant.
On March 31, 2003, defendant filed in this Court SBA’s March 28, 2003 letter to Si-Nor, “Notification of Proposed De-certification from HUBZone Program,” which summarized the results of SBA’s program examination of Si-Nor’s HUBZone status. SBA’s examination did not address plaintiffs contention that Si-Nor’s principal office was not located in a HUBZone, but determined that Si-Nor failed to meet another requirement for HUBZone status, that “[a]t least 35% of the concern’s employees must reside in a HUBZone.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.200(b). SBA also determined that Si-Nor did not meet the 35% employment requirement during the period of August 1, 2002 and October 16, 2002, or as of March 7, 2003.
On April 7, 2003, Si-Nor responded to the SBA’s March 28, 2003 letter, disputing on various factual grounds, SBA’s finding that Si-Nor did not meet the 35% employment requirement for HUBZone status. Si-Nor also argued that SBA’s interpretation of 13 C.F.R. § 126.200(b) was overly restrictive. Specifically, Si-Nor pointed to the requirement that the small business concern “must certify that it will attempt to maintain this percentage during the performance of any HUBZone contract it receives.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.200(b). After considering Si-Nor’s April 7, 2003 response to SBA’s March 28, 2003 letter, and additional documents submitted by Si-Nor on April 14, 2003, SBA sent a letter to Si-Nor on May 2, 2003 reaffirming its finding that Si-Nor did not meet the 35% employment requirement for HUBZone status during the period of August 1, 2002 to October 16, 2002.
DISCUSSION
This case is presently before the Court on plaintiffs motion for summary judgment and defendant and defendant-intervenor’s cross-motions for judgment upon the administrative record.
1. Jurisdiction and Standard of Review
This Court has jurisdiction to review post-award bid protests pursuant to the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1491(b)(1). Impresa Con-struzioni Geom. Domenico Garufi v. United States, 238 F.3d 1324, 1330 (Fed.Cir.2001). To afford relief in bid protest cases, this Court “may award any relief that [it] considers proper, including declaratory and injunc-tive relief.” 28 U.S.C. § 1491(b)(2). The Court also has “the power to remand appropriate matters to any administrative or executive body or official,” including the SBA, “with such direction as it may deem proper and just.” Id. at § 1491(a)(2); Y.S.K Const. Co., Inc. v. United States, 30 Fed.Cl. 449, 459 (1994).
2. Bid Protest Standard
To succeed in a bid protest action, “[a] protestor must prove by a preponderance of the evidence the arbitrary and capricious nature of the Government’s actions or the violation of an applicable procurement regulation.” Tech Sys., Inc. v. United States, 50 Fed.Cl. 216, 222 (2001). “The arbitrary and capricious standard is highly deferential and assumes the validity of agency action.” CRC Marine Serv., Inc. v. United States, 41 Fed. Cl. 66, 83 (1998) (citing Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe, 401 U.S. 402, 416, 91 S.Ct. 814, 28 L.Ed.2d 136 (1971)). Under that standard, to prevail in a bid protest, a frustrated bidder must “establish that (1) the Government officials involved in the procurement process were without a rational and reasonable basis for their decision, or (2) the procurement procedure involved a clear and prejudicial violation of applicable statutes and regulations.” Ellsworth Assoc’s., Inc. v. United States, 45 Fed.Cl. 388, 392 (1999); see also United Payors & United Providers Health Serv., Inc. v. United States, 55 Fed. Cl. 323, 328 (2003).
A. Violation of Applicable Statutes and Regulation
Plaintiff contends that the procurement procedure used with regard to this contract involved a clear and prejudicial violation of applicable statutes and regulations. In particular, plaintiff claims that the contracting officer failed to follow regulations concerning the procedure to be followed after a contractor protests the HUBZone status of an apparent successful offeror. Defendant and defendant-intervenor maintain, however, that those regulations were never applicable in this case because plaintiff failed to file a timely status protest.
B. The October 17, 2002 Fax was a HUBZone Status Protest
Plaintiff maintains that Makowski’s letter, which was dated October 16, 2002 and faxed on October 17, 2002 to Rodney Carroll, a contracting specialist assigned to this procurement, qualified as a status protest, and as such, the contracting officer was required to forward it to the SBA. To file a HUBZone status protest, “[a]n interested party other than a contracting officer or SBA must submit its written protest to the contracting officer.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(c)(1). This protest “must be in writing and state all specific grounds for the protest.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(b). “Protestors may deliver their protests in person, by facsimile, by express delivery service, or by U.S. mail.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(c)(3). The protest must be submitted “by close of business on the fifth business day after bid opening” in sealed bid acquisitions; otherwise, it will be deemed untimely. 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(d). After such a document has been filed, “[t]he contracting officer must forward [it] to the SBA ..., notwithstanding whether he or she believes it is sufficiently specific or timely.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(e). Plaintiff argues that the fax qualified as a protest because plaintiff was an interested party, the fax was in writing, the fax stated specific grounds for the protest, and plaintiff sent the fax to the contracting officer within the five-day period imposed by 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(d). Defendant, on the other hand, contends that the fax did not qualify as a status protest, and therefore, the contracting officer was not required to forward it to the SBA.
First, defendant argues that the fax did not qualify as a protest because it did not identify itself as such. The regulations, however, contain no requirement that the protest must identify itself as such to be so considered. The applicable provision of the regulation provides only that “[p]rotests must be in writing and state all specific grounds for the protest. A protest merely asserting that the protested concern is not a qualified HUBZone SBC, without setting forth specific facts or allegations, is insufficient.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(b). The General Accounting Office (“GAO”) stated, in Mammoth Firewood Co., 1986 WL 63971 (Comp.Gen. Sept.4, 1986), that “a letter does not have to state explicitly that it is intended as a protest for it to be so considered.” See also Mackay Communications, 1990 WL 277976 (Comp.Gen. Apr.25, 1990); Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., 1987 WL 101397, at *2 (Comp.Gen. Feb.5, 1987). This Court finds the GAO’s determination to be persuasive and holds that a protest does not have to identify itself as such to be valid.
Second, defendant contends that the fax could not be a protest because the fax “did not object to anything.” Def.’s Reply to PL’s Cross-Mot. for Summ. J. 2. The GAO decisions prove helpful with regard to interpreting what is required to be considered a protest and explain that “[a]t a minimum, the intent to protest must be conveyed by an expression of dissatisfaction and a request for corrective action.” Mammoth Firewood Co., 1986 WL 63971; see also Mackay Communications, 1990 WL 277976; Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., 1987 WL 101397, at *2. Therefore, the issue raised by defendant’s second argument is whether there was “an expression of dissatisfaction.” In the October 17, 2002 fax, plaintiff complained that “it would be upset” if it were determined that Si-Nor was eligible for the HUBZone advantage. PL’s Mot. for Summ. J., Ex. 1. Plaintiff then cited to, and attached, some evidence that it had found that indicated that Si-Nor may not be HUBZone qualified and stated that the evidence “may or may not have any affect [sic] on the bid/award process.” Id. Plaintiff argued that Si-Nor may not be eligible for HUBZone status because, “according to the SBA HUB Zone locator their address IS NOT in a HUB Zone.” Id. The Court finds this language sufficiently conveyed an expression of dissatisfaction with Si-Nor’s HUBZone status.
Third, defendant asserts that the fax could not have been a protest because it did not ask for corrective action. The fax, however, did request that the contracting officer “verify all certifications before making any determinations and applying any bid advantages.” Id. Defendant argues that plaintiff simply wanted the contracting officer to plug Si-Nor’s address into the HUBZone locator to see for itself that the address was not in the HUBZone. The term “verify,” however, is not so specific as for the contracting officer to necessarily conclude that plugging in the address was all that was being requested. Plaintiff was requesting that the contracting officer make sure that Si-Nor was actually qualified for the certification. This was plaintiffs request for corrective action by the contracting officer.
Fourth, defendant argues that the October 17, 2002 fax was not a protest that the contracting officer was required to forward to the SBA because it “did not state all of the specific grounds for the protest.” Def.’s Mot. for J. upon the Admin. R 22. The regulations, however, quite clearly require the contracting officer to forward the protest to the SBA “notwithstanding whether he or she believes it is sufficiently specific.” 13 C.F.R. §§ 126.801(e) (emphasis added). It was not the contracting officer’s responsibility to determine whether the October 17, 2002 fax was sufficiently specific; the contracting officer was to forward it even if he believed that it was not specific enough to be valid. The fax qualified as a status protest, and therefore, the contracting officer acted in violation of the regulations by failing to forward the protest to the SBA.
C. Plaintiff is Not Precluded from Asserting that Fax Was a Status Protest
Next, defendant maintains that, even if the fax was otherwise a status protest, plaintiff should be precluded from so asserting because the plaintiff did not intend for the October 17, 2002 fax to be a protest. To support that argument, defendant points to several times when plaintiff has expressed that it did not intend the fax to be a status protest and that it did not believe that it ever filed a valid status protest. As defendant notes, these admissions were made both before and after the contract award. In fact, plaintiff continued to make assertions of this type even after this case was filed in this Court. Verified Compl. for T.R.O. & Prelim. Inj. 3 H11. Defendant, however, has neglected to provide any authority to support its contention that intent is necessary to create a valid status protest. Therefore, the Court looks again to the GAO opinions for guidance. In both Mackay Communications and Mammoth Firewood Co., the protestor had specifically stated in its letter that the letter was not to be considered a formal protest, but each time the GAO found that the protestor’s intent was not necessary to create a protest. Mackay Communications, 1990 WL 277976 (“Even though [plaintiff] claims it never intended to lodge an agency-level protest, [its letter] ... constituted an initial protest”); Mammoth Firewood Co., 1986 WL 63971 (“While, in its letter [plaintiff] states it is withholding a ‘formal protest’ pending the agency’s review of its complaint, ... we find the letter was an agency-level protest”). The Court finds those decisions to be persuasive and, therefore, holds that plaintiffs subjective intent is irrelevant with regard to the question of whether the contracting officer should have treated it as such.
In a related argument, defendant asserts that because plaintiff stated in the Verified Complaint that it had not filed a valid protest, plaintiff cannot now retreat from that admission. The cases to which defendant cites to support that argument, however, are inapposite to the case at hand. In each of those cases, a party was trying to change its position much later in the process than in the instant case, and therefore, it was determined that the trial judge had the discretion to accept the earlier concessions as binding admissions. Missouri Hous. Dev. Comm’n v. Brice, 919 F.2d 1306, 1314-15 (8th Cir.1990) (affirming the trial judge’s decision to deny defendant’s motion to amend complaint where the motion to amend was not filed until after plaintiffs summary judgment motion was granted); Ferguson v. Neighborhood Hous. Servs. of Cleveland, Inc., 780 F.2d 549, 550 (6th Cir.1986) (affirming trial judge’s decision to deny plaintiffs motion to amend complaint where the motion to amend was not filed until “shortly before the trial was scheduled to begin”); Lofton v. Kearney, 157 F.Supp.2d 1372 (S.D.FIa.2001) (holding that the defendant in that case was precluded from arguing a point that it had conceded throughout the previous two years of litigation). In the instant case, although plaintiff initially stated that it had not filed a valid protest, plaintiff corrected that assertion early in this case. Therefore, unlike the cited cases, the opposing parties in the instant case are not prejudiced by plaintiffs failure to assert earlier that the October 17, 2002 fax was a status protest, and therefore, plaintiff is not precluded from so asserting.
Defendant-intervenor also argues that plaintiff should be precluded from asserting that the fax constituted a protest. Si-Nor argues that, even if the fax was a status protest, plaintiff abandoned that protest, and therefore, should not be able to rely on it. First, Si-Nor points to 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(a), an SBA regulation that mandates that, upon receipt of a protest, the SBA must immediately notify the contracting officer and protestor that the protest was received and inform them whether the SBA will process or dismiss the protest. 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(a). As the contracting officer did not forward the protest to the SBA in this case, the SBA did not send out such a notification. Si-Nor argues that, therefore, plaintiff knew, or should have known, that the contracting officer had not forwarded the protest. According to Si-Nor, this triggered a duty on plaintiffs part to take some sort of action. This interpretation of the regulation is incorrect. Section 126.803(a) creates a duty for the SBA; it does not create a duty for the protestor. 13 C.F.R § 126.803(a). Plaintiff was under no duty to acknowledge the receipt, or lack thereof, of the SBA’s notice, and therefore, plaintiffs lack of action does not preclude it from relying on the status protest to support this action.
Second, Si-Nor maintains that, if the fax was a protest, plaintiff abandoned it with its actions relating to its November 13, 2002 protest. On November 13, 2002, plaintiff filed an official status protest. As that was the first status protest that had been forwarded to the SBA, and the SBA did not know of any earlier protest, the SBA correctly dismissed the November 13, 2002 protest as untimely. Plaintiff did not contest that determination even though it had an opportunity to do so. Si-Nor argues that, because plaintiff did not mention its October 17, 2002 protest to the SBA after the denial of the November protest, plaintiff abandoned the October 17, 2002 protest, and thus should not get the benefit of it at this point. This reasoning is flawed. As discussed above, plaintiff was not required to act further after sending the October 17, 2002 protest to the contracting officer. The contracting officer was to forward the protest to the SEA. The SEA was to act on that protest. As the contracting officer did not forward the protest, the SEA never got the opportunity to act on it. SBA’s denial very clearly limited it to the “protest ... dated November 13, 2002, and received on November 14, 2002.” Pl.’s Mot. for Summ. J., Ex. 4. It had no effect on the October 17, 2002 protest. Therefore, this Court finds that plaintiffs actions relating to that protest did not cause it to abandon the October 17, 2002 protest. Thus, the contracting officer’s failure to forward the fax to the SEA was a violation of applicable law.
3. Requirement of Prejudice
A protester’s showing that a contracting officer’s award decision was arbitrary and capricious, or that it was in violation of applicable law, is not sufficient by itself to set aside an award. The protester must also show that it was prejudiced by the error in the procurement process. Alfa Laval Separation, Inc. v. United States, 175 F.3d 1365, 1367 (Fed.Cir.1999) (citing Statistica, Inc. v. Christopher, 102 F.3d 1577, 1581 (Fed.Cir. 1996)). “To establish prejudice, a protester is not required to show that but for the alleged error, the protester would have been awarded the contract.” Data Gen. Corp. v. Johnson, 78 F.3d 1556, 1562 (Fed.Cir.1996). “Rather, the protester must show ‘that there was a substantial chance it would have received the contract award but for that error.’ ” Alfa Laval Separation, Inc., 175 F.3d at 1367 (quoting Statistica, 102 F.3d at 1582).
Plaintiff argues that this issue is very simple-that the outcome of the program examination recently conducted by the SEA should be applied to the contract at issue. To support that contention, however, plaintiff relies only on case law that deals with size protests. Size protests and program examinations are very different creatures, compare 13 C.F.R. §§ 121.1001 — 121.1010 with 13 C.F.R. §§ 126.400 — 126.405, and the interpretations of their provisions can not be used interchangeably. Section 126.403 controls what happens after a program examination is conducted and the SEA has determined that the concern is not qualified. 13 C.F.R. § 126.403. It provides that “[i]f SEA finds a HUBZone SBC is not qualified, SEA will de-certify the concern and delete its name from the List.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.403. It does not provide for automatic revocation of existing contracts that were procured as a result of the non-qualified contractor previously being on the list of qualified concerns. Id. Section 126.403 does allow, however, the SEA, at its discretion, to pursue penalties in accordance with section 126.900. Id.
Section 126.900 does not mandate revocation of existing contracts either. 13 C.F.R. § 126.900. It does provide that the concern may be suspended or debarred. Id. 48 C.F.R. § 9.405-1 governs the effects of debarment. 48 C.F.R. § 9.405-1. Under 48 C.F.R. § 9.405-1, even if a contractor is debarred, “agencies may continue contracts or subcontracts in existence at the time the contractor was debarred ... unless the agency head or a designee directs otherwise.” Id. It is within the SBA’s discretion as to whether it suspends or debars a de-certified concern. At this time, the SEA has not debarred Si-Nor. Even if the SEA had debarred Si-Nor, the U.S. Army would still have the discretion to continue the contract. Therefore, this Court can not directly apply the results of the program examination to the contract at issue.
On the other hand, the regulations concerning status protests are distinct from both those that control size protests and those dealing with program examinations. Compare 13 C.F.R. §§ 126.800 — 126.805 with 13 C.F.R. §§ 121.1001 — 121.1010 and 13 C.F.R. §§ 126.400 — 126.405. When the SEA receives a status protest, it must “determine the HUBZone status of the protested HUBZone SBC within 15 business days.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(b)(1). During that period, the contracting officer may only award the contract “if the contracting officer determines in writing that an award must be made to protect the public interest.” 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(b)(3). The contracting officer may, however, award the contract after the 15 days have passed if the SBA has not contacted the contracting officer within that time period. 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(b)(2). After examining those regulations, it becomes clear to the Court that, had the contracting officer forwarded the status protest to the SBA, and the SBA had upheld the protest, Si-Nor never would have been awarded the contract. If that were the case, then plaintiff was next in line to receive the contract.
Defendant argues, however, that the contract can not now be rescinded because the contract has already been awarded and “a HUBZone protest may [not] delay the award of a contract indefinitely.” Def.’s Mot. for J. on the Admin. R. 17. To support that contention, defendant relies on the provision that allows the contracting officer to award the contract, notwithstanding a lack of decision from the SBA, after 15 days have passed since the SBA received the protest. 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(b)(2). The regulations, however, make clear that the contracting officer’s authority to award the contract before the SBA has made a determination is applicable only after the contracting officer has actually forwarded the protest, and the SBA has failed to respond promptly. Here, the contracting officer never forwarded the protest, so that provision never came into play. When a contracting officer files a protest with the SBA, the burden is on the SBA to respond within a certain period of time. 13 C.F.R. § 126.803(b)(1). If the contracting officer does not file the protest with the SBA, however, that burden can not switch to the SBA. Therefore, the Court finds that, if it is determined that the SBA would have upheld the protest within the 15 day period, the contracting officer’s failure to forward the protest would have been prejudicial to the plaintiff.
The only question that remains in determining whether there was a prejudicial violation of a statute or regulation is whether the SBA would have upheld the protest. As the SBA has not had a full opportunity to address that issue, the Court finds that the most appropriate way to determine the answer is to remand the issue to the SBA. The Court, therefore, REMANDS this issue to the SBA. The method used to make this determination is a matter for the SBA to decide.
SBA’s decision must set forth its rationale with clarity, and must be justifiable on that basis. SEC v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194, 196-97, 67 S.Ct. 1575, 91 L.Ed. 1995 (1947). The decision must also be rational and properly founded in the statutory authority granted by Congress. Id. at 207, 67 S.Ct. 1575. The Court expects that to meet that standard, SBA will need to address 13 C.F.R. §§ 126.800 — 126.805. In particular, the Court expects the SBA to address, among other issues: (1) whether the October 17, 2002 fax was sufficiently specific for the SBA to have considered it as a HUBZone status protest; (2) whether the protest would have been granted after examining the reasons given in the fax and the attached information; and (2) whether the SBA would have examined other issues concerning Si-nor’s eligibility, including the employment requirement, and would, therefore, have granted the protest. The Court does not, of course, prejudge these issues. SBA is the best interpreter of its own regulations. Lyng v. Payne, 476 U.S. 926, 939, 106 S.Ct. 2333, 90 L.Ed.2d 921 (1986); Udall v. Tollman, 380 U.S. 1, 16, 85 S.Ct. 792,13 L.Ed.2d 616 (1965). SBA must, however, offer a reasonable interpretation of them. Northern Ind. Pub. Serv. Co. v. Porter County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, 423 U.S. 12, 16, 96 S.Ct. 172, 46 L.Ed.2d 156 (1975).
CONCLUSION
1. This matter is remanded to the SBA for its determination, consistent with this opinion, as to whether SBA would have upheld plaintiffs protest had it been timely received by the SBA. The SBA shall file this determination with the Court by September 4,2003.
2. This opinion shall be published as issued after August 15, 2003, unless the parties identify protected and/or privileged materials subject to redaction, and submit to the Court a proposed redacted opinion, by said date.
. In 1997, Congress passed the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Act, Pub.L. No. 1 OS-135, §§ 601-607, 111 Stat. 2592, 2627-36 (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 657a), which established the HUBZone program. The program's purpose "is to a provide Federal contracting assistance for qualified small business concerns located in historically underutilized business zones, in an effort to increase employment opportunities, investment, and economic development in those areas." 48 C.F.R. § 19.1301(b).
. Although the fax was submitted to a contracting specialist assigned to the case and not to the contracting officer as required by 13 C.F.R. § 126.801(c), the term "contracting officer” is defined to include "certain authorized representatives of the contracting officer acting within the limits of their authority as delegated by the contracting officer.” 48 C.F.R. § 2.101. In this instance, the contracting specialist: (1) was designated in the solicitation as the person to whom offerors should direct inquiries, (2) conducted the bid opening, and (3) worked directly for the contracting officer at the Directorate of Contracting. Given how closely the contracting specialist worked with the contracting officer on the procurement, and how the solicitation directed that any protests be addressed to the “Directorate of Contracting,” this Court finds that the contracting specialist was an authorized delegate of the contracting officer for the purposes of receiving a protest with regard to this procurement. Therefore, submitting a protest to the contracting specialist was the same as submitting a protest to the contracting officer.
. Although decisions of the Comptroller General are not binding on this Court, “the court may accord deference to them in recognition of the expertise and role of the General Accounting Office in the resolution of contested procurement decisions.” Computer Seis. Corp. v. United States, 51 Fed.Cl. 297, 308 n. 14 (2002).
. Additionally, Si-Nor contends that the facts of North Carolina Div. of Servs. for the Blind v. United States, 53 Fed.Cl. 147 (2002), are similar enough to those in this case that the Court should follow the reasoning used in that case. The plaintiff in North Carolina Div. of Servs. for the Blind, 53 Fed.Cl. at 164-65, however, was arguing that the contracting officer had incorrectly denied an extension to submit a proposal after the contracting officer misled plaintiff into believing that it could not file a proposal. The Court, in that case, determined that the plaintiff was never told that it was prohibited from filing a proposal, and therefore, the contracting officer could not be blamed for the plaintiff's delay. In this case, there was no allegation that the contracting officer misled the plaintiff into believing that it could not submit a proposal, and there was no denied request for an extension. The Court therefore finds North Carolina Div. of Sens, for the Blind to be inapposite.
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Sauer Flugmotorenbau
Sauer Flugmotorenbau (Sauer Aircraft Engines) or "Sauer" is a German manufacturer of aircraft engines based at Ober-Olm in Germany.
History
The first certified 4 stroke engine entered the market in 1987. The 4 stroke engines are certified according to CS-22 Subpart H for use in motorgliders, CS-LSA and CS-VLA type of aircraft. They also makes engines for use in ultralights and Homebuilt aircraft. The production consist of 4 stroke engines based on VW "Type 1" engines (commonly known as air-cooled beetle engines) and based on the later Wasserboxer. Sauer also makes 2-stroke engines. There have been development of a turbocharged 2 cylinder 4 stroke engine based on the Weber MPE "recreational engine" in 2009-2010, but no commercial available engine exists to date.
Products
There are two main versions of the boxer 4-stroke engines. Those with the casing of air-cooled beetle engines, and those with the largely similar, but stronger Wasserboxer casing used in late VW vans before the Volkswagen Transporter (T4).
Even though the Wasserboxer engine is water-cooled, this involves only the cylinders and the top. The casing has no water lines, it is only stronger built. This makes it possible to convert the Wasserboxer "back" to an air-cooled engine. The benefits of this conversion is the added strength, and the size of the Wasserboxer casing will accept larger cylinders. In general it becomes a much more robust engine compared with engines using the original air-cooled casing. These "water to air" converted engines are sometimes referred to as the misnomer oxyboxer in automobile VW engine circles.
4 Stroke engines for experimental and ultralight
* Sauer S 1800 UL - 68 HP, in production
* Sauer S 1900 UL - 75 HP, in production
* Sauer S 2100 UL - 80 HP, replaced by the S 2200 UL. Sometimes referred to as Sauer 2100/2200 UL. The specs are identical to the S 2100 certified engine.
* Sauer S 2200 UL - 85 HP, in production
* Sauer S 2400 UL - 100 HP, in production
* Sauer S 2100 ULT - 115 HP Turbo, Wasserboxer casing, probably still in production
* Sauer S 2500 UL - 100 HP, Wasserboxer casing, obsolete
* Sauer S 2500 ULT - 126 HP, Wasserboxer casing, obsolete
* Sauer S 2700 UL - 105 HP, Wasserboxer casing, obsolete (appears as a "UL" in old price lists. Uncertain if a certified version also existed)
4 Stroke certified engines
* Sauer S 1800 - 60 HP, 3 variants, in production
* Sauer S 2100 - 80 HP, 2 variants, in production
* Sauer S 2500 - 94-100 HP, Wasserboxer casing, 4 variants, in production
* Sauer S 2500 T - 126 HP, Wasserboxer casing, obsolete
2 Stroke Engines
Various engines from 14.9 to 100 HP, single cylinder to 3 cylinder. These engines are re-branded Hirth engines built by Sauer. The specifications are identical to the corresponding Hirth engine.
* Sauer S 210 - 210cc, 14.9 HP, (Hirth F-36)
* Sauer S 330 - 313cc, 28 HP, (Hirth F-33)
* Sauer S 550 - 521cc, 50 HP, (Hirth F-23)
* Sauer S 625 - 625cc, 65 HP, (Hirth 3203)
* Sauer S 650 - 625cc, 70 HP, (Hirth 3503)
* Sauer S 950 R - 939cc, 86 HP, (Hirth 3702)
* Sauer S 950 R 100 - 935cc, 100 HP, (Hirth 3701)
Applications
* Groppo Trial
* AMS Carat
* Alpi Pioneer 200
* Scheibe SF 36
* Scheibe SF 25
* Skyranger SW
* As a drop in replacement in older Motorgliders originally fitted with Limbach engines.
4 stroke certified engines
The naming format changed in 2003. The current naming format is: S aaaa-(b)-(XYZ)c
* S refers to Sauer Flugmotorenbau GmbH
* aaaa refers to engine displacement in (approximate) cubic centimeters (cc)
* b=1 for single ignition, b=2 for double ignition
* X is a letter describing a particular equipment
* Y is a letter describing the propeller flange
* Z is a letter for a special utilization
* c=1 for hydraulic valve lifters
Whereas the old naming format found in older engines is:
* S X aaaa Y b Z
* S refers to Sauer Flugmotorenbau GmbH
* X is a letter describing a particular equipment (A or S)
* aaaa refers to engine displacement in (approximate) cubic centimeters (cc)
* Y is a letter describing hydraulic valve lifters (Y = H)
* b=1 for single ignition, b=2 for double ignition
* Z is a letter describing the propeller flange
4 stroke engines for experimental and ultralight aviation
There is no defined naming for these engines from the manufacturer, but they all are named according to:
* S aaaa UL(T)
* S refers to Sauer Flugmotorenbau GmbH
* aaaa refers to engine displacement in (approximate) cubic centimeters (cc)
* UL refers to Ultralight
* T refers to Turbo | WIKI |
Thread:Comments:UN convoy targeted in Syrian province of Idlib/Act of war
Technically, bombing a unbiased, UN observation team is an act of war. If these attacks on the UN continue, some countries can use this as an excuse to send military forces to Syria. | WIKI |
id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 8638 The styling of the anchor image in the editor is not customizable Teresa Monahan "Create an anchor in any editor instance and see that an anchor image is displayed in the editor to mark it's position. The image and CSS used to style this icon is provided directly in link/plugin.js and the image used is hardcoded as images/anchor.gif. {{{ var basicCss = 'background:url(' + CKEDITOR.getUrl( this.path + 'images/anchor.gif' ) + ') no-repeat ' + side + ' center;' + 'border:1px dotted #00f;'; editor.addCss( 'a.cke_anchor,a.cke_anchor_empty' + // IE6 breaks with the following selectors. ( ( CKEDITOR.env.ie && CKEDITOR.env.version < 7 ) ? '' : ',a[name],a[data-cke-saved-name]' ) + '{' + basicCss + 'padding-' + side + ':18px;' + // Show the arrow cursor for the anchor image (FF at least). 'cursor:auto;' + '}' + ( CKEDITOR.env.ie ? ( 'a.cke_anchor_empty' + '{' + // Make empty anchor selectable on IE. 'display:inline-block;' + '}' ) : '' ) + 'img.cke_anchor' + '{' + basicCss + 'width:16px;' + 'min-height:15px;' + // The default line-height on IE. 'height:1.15em;' + // Opera works better with ""middle"" (even if not perfect) 'vertical-align:' + ( CKEDITOR.env.opera ? 'middle' : 'text-bottom' ) + ';' + '}'); }}} We would like to be able to customize this CSS through a skin and in particular be able to specify a different image name and type for this icon e.g. anchorIcon.png " Bug closed Normal General 3.0 invalid IBM Damian Satya Minnekanti | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
DJ Mavious
Enock Mukiibi (born 6 June 1991) commonly known as DJ Mavious (Omwana w’eka) is a Ugandan born-USA based songwriter, musician and DJ.
Career
At the age of 14, Enock ventured into the music industry as a DJ at several house parties and functions in the USA at the start of his music career. In 2018 he started songwriting and singing where he is popularly known for his songs such as Bantuma, Kakuba, Boss among others.
Discography
* Boss 2019
* Tinder 2019
* Kaloosa 2019
* Slow wine 2020
* Bantuma 2020
* Kakuba 2021
* Everyday 2021
Personal life
DJ Mavious was born in Kampala. He studied at Hilltop Academy, Shimoni Demonstration School but was later taken to the USA at the age of 14 | WIKI |
Wikiquote:Transwiki/American History Primary Sources The Gilded Age
SOCIETY
1871
“In the New World man is born to conquer. Life is a perpetual struggle. A rivalry from which no one can exempt himself, a race in the open field across terrible obstacles, with the prospect of enormous rewards for reaching to goal. The American cannot keep his arms folded. He must embark on something, and once embarked he must go on and on forever; for if he stops, those who follow him would crush him under their feet. His life is one long campaign, a succession of never-ending fights, marches, and countermarches.
“In such a militant existence, what place is left for the sweetness, the repose, the intimacy of home or its joys? Is he happy? Judged by his tired, sad, exhausted, anxious, and often delicate and unhealthy appearance, one would be inclined to doubt it. Such an excess of uninterrupted labor cannot be good for any man.
“The woman suffers most from this regime. She sees her husband at most for half an hour, once in the day, and then in the evening, when, worn out with fatigue, he comes home to sleep. She cannot lighten his burden or share his anxieties and cares, for she knows nothing of his business; for want of time, there is little or no interchange of thought between them.
“As a mother, her share in the education of her children is of the smallest. As soon as her little ones can run alone, they pass their lives away from her, out of the house. They are entirely ignorant of the obedience or respect due their parents but, on the other hand, learn early to do without care or protection, to be self-sufficient. They ripen quickly and prepare themselves for the fatigues and struggles of the overexciting, harsh, adventurous life which awaits them.”
'''Josef Alexander, Graf von Hübner, was an Austrian diplomat who was the ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Italy. He took a world tour after leaving that position, and published his observations.'''
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
1868 “The galleries were packed, and an indescribably anxiety was written on every face. Some of the members of the House near me grew pale and sick under the burden of suspense. Such stillness prevailed that the breathing in the galleries could be heard at the announcement of each senator’s voice.” ''George Julian, account of the vote in the Senate not to convict impeached Pres. Andrew Johnson.''
c. 1875 “The galleries and lobbies of every legislature are thronged with men seeking... an advantage.” A Northern Republican leader, complaining about people — now called lobbyists — wanting favors from lawmakers.
c. 1879 “We work through one campaign, take a bath and start in on the next.” Remark of a professional political campaign worker. 1879 “The only hope of exposing and breaking up the extortion an speculation by which a standing army of professional politicians corrupt the people whom they plunder [is action by] all honest citizens.” Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty.
1880 “It’s just like look’ ahead in Wall Street or in the coffee or cotton market... I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.” George Washington Plunkett, of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall Democrat political organization, defending what he called “honest graft”.
c. 1880 “I believe in liberality. I am a thorough New Yorker and have no narrow prejudices. I never ask a hungry man about his past; I feed him, not because he is good, but because he needs food. Help your neighbor but keep your nose out of his affairs.” “Big Tim” Sullivan, popular machine political leader on New York’s Lower East Side.
1883 “Open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for public service.” Aim of the Civil Service Commission, established under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, which was intended to eliminate the “spoils system” that had developed under Andrew Jackson 50 years earlier. 1890 “The largest executive bureau in the world.” ''Description of the Veterans Bureau, which came to employ some 25,000 government workers in 1900, which was responsible for providing for every veteran of the Union Army under the Pension Act of 1890. This was just the beginning of the growth of gigantic government bureaucracies.'' 1901 “Bully pulpit” President Theodore Roosevelt’s expression about the power of the presidency, especially its ability to persuade the people. | WIKI |
St. Mark's Hospital - September 06, 2019
by H2u magazine
Ready, set, squat! This month we’re challenging you to do squats at least three days a week to build strength and flexibility in the knees, calves and glutes.
Here’s why it matters
Every day, you use squatting movements to stand up, sit down, put away groceries and more. So being able to squat easily ensures you can get in and out of your car easily, pick up heavy items safely and maintain mobility.
How to do a basic squat
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and toes pointing forward. Lean slightly forward and extend arms in front of you. Bend your knees and push your hips back into a squat position, as if sitting on a chair. Hold for 3-5 seconds, then rise to standing. If balance is a problem, put a bench or sturdy chair behind you for safety. Squat to just above the seat and hold. Repeat 10 times.
If this is too hard, try chair squats. Simply squat until you are sitting on a chair, then slowly rise with arms extended. Avoid pushing off with your hands. For an even easier chair squat, start by sitting on the edge of a sturdy chair. Extend your arms in front of you and slowly raise your hips a few inches off the chair. Hold 3–5 seconds and lower. Repeat 10 times.
When doing any squat, remember to keep your chest out, back straight and feet flat on the floor. When you’re ready for something harder, increase your reps, do an extra set or hold hand weights while you squat. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Pavlovsk Palace
Pavlovsk Palace (Павловский дворец) is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, within Saint Petersburg. After his death, it became the home of his widow, Maria Feodorovna. The palace and the large English garden surrounding it are now a Russian state museum and public park.
Catherine and Grand Duke Paul
In 1777, the Empress Catherine II of Russia gave a parcel of a thousand hectares of forest along the winding Slavyanka River, four kilometers from her residence at Tsarskoye Selo, to her son and heir Paul I and his wife Maria Feodorovna, to celebrate the birth of their first son, the future Alexander I of Russia. At the time the land was given to Paul and Maria Feodorovna, there were two rustic log lodges called Krik and Krak. Paul and his wife spent the summers of 1777 to 1780 in Krik, while their new homes and the garden were being built.
They began by building two wooden buildings, one kilometer apart. Paul's house, a two-story house in the Dutch style, with small gardens, was called "Marienthal", or the "Valley of Maria". Maria's house was a small wooden house with a cupola and flower beds, named "Paullust", or "Paul's Joy". Paul and Maria Feodorovna began to create picturesque "ruins", a Chinese kiosk, Chinese bridges and classical temples in the English landscape garden style which had spread rapidly across Europe in the second half of the 18th century.
In 1780, Catherine the Great loaned her official architect, the Scotsman Charles Cameron, to design a palace on a hillside overlooking the Slavyanka River, near the site of Marienthal. Cameron had studied under English architect Isaac Ware, who was close to William Kent. Kent introduced the Palladian style of architecture into England with his work at Chiswick House for Lord Burlington. Through this connection Cameron became familiar with the original plans of Palladio, which were in the personal collection of Lord Burlington. This style was the major influence on Cameron when he designed Pavlovsk.
Cameron began his project not with the palace itself but with two classical pavilions. The first was the Temple of Friendship, a circular Dorian temple with sixteen columns supporting a low dome, containing a statue of Catherine the Great. It was placed at a bend of the Slavyanka River, below the future palace, and was surrounded by silver poplars and transplanted Siberian pines. The second was the Apollo Colonnade, a double row of columns with an entablature, forming a setting for a reproduction of the Belvedere Apollo. It was placed at the entrance of the park, and it was made of porous limestone with a coarse finish; the surfaces suggest that they had been aged by centuries of weather. At the same time the Slavyanka River was dammed, to create a lake which would mirror the facade of the palace above.
Maria Feodorovna also insisted in having several rustic structures which recalled the palace where she grew up at Étupes, forty miles from Basel, in what was then the Duchy of Württemberg and today is in Alsace. Cameron constructed a small Swiss chalet with a library; a dairy of rough stones with a thatched roof, where milk products were kept and prepared, and an aviary in the form of a small classical temple with metal netting between the Dorian columns, which was filled with nightingales, goldfinch, starlings and quail. For the palace itself, Cameron conceived a country house which seems to have been based on a design by Andrea Palladio shown in a woodcut in his book I quattro libri dell'architettura, for the Villa Capra "La Rotonda" near Vicenza in Italy. This same drawing was later used by Thomas Jefferson in his design for the University of Virginia. The palace he designed had a cube-shaped central block three stories high with a low dome supported by sixty-four columns. On either side of the building were two single story colonnades of curved open winged galleries connected to service buildings one and a half stories high. Each facade of the palace was decorated with molded friezes and reliefs.
In September 1781, as construction of the Pavlovsk Palace began, Paul and Maria set off on a journey to Austria, Italy, France and Germany. They traveled under the incognito of "The Count and Countess of the North". During their travels they saw the palaces and French gardens of Versailles and Chantilly, which strongly influenced the future appearance of Pavlovsk Park. King Louis XVI presented them with four Gobelin tapestries, Marie Antoinette presented Maria Feodorovna with a sixty-piece toilet set of Sèvres porcelain, and they ordered more sets of porcelain and purchased statues, busts, paintings, furniture and paintings, all for Pavlovsk. While they traveled, they kept in contact almost daily with Kuchelbecker, the supervisor of construction at Pavlovsk, sending back and forth drawings, plans and notes on the smallest details.
Paul and Maria Feodorovna returned in November 1782, and they continued to fill Pavlovsk with art objects. A shipment of antique marbles, statues, busts, urns, and pottery discovered and purchased at Pompei, arrived in 1783. Sixteen sets of furniture, over two hundred pieces, were ordered from Paris between 1783 and 1785 for the State Rooms. In 1784, twelve Hubert Robert landscapes were commissioned for Pavlovsk. The couple purchased ninety-six clocks from Europe. The Imperial Glass factory, made special chandeliers for each room. In the midst of the construction, tensions grew between them and Cameron. Cameron was used to the unlimited budget for materials given him by Catherine the Great, while Catherine gave very little money to Paul; and Cameron was annoyed by the furniture, tapestries and fireplaces brought back from Europe by Maria Feodorovna without consulting him. Maria Feodorovna in turn was annoyed by the bright polychrome decoration and Pompeian arabesques used by Cameron, and wanted more delicate colors, and Paul did not like anything that resembled the style of his mother's house, the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo.
The tensions led to a parting in 1786. Cameron left to build a new palace for Catherine in the Crimea. He had finished entry vestibule and the five rooms of the private apartments. The work of decorating the interior was taken over by an Italian architect, Vincenzo Brenna, from Florence, who had come to Russia in 1783. Brenna designed interiors which reflected Paul's taste for Roman classicism. He created the white and gold Halls of War and Peace, on either side of the Greek Hall by Cameron, which had a colonnade of green false marble columns, resembling a Greek temple. He made the Italian hall into a replica of a Roman temple, and he built the State Bedroom for Maria Feodorovna as an imitation of the state bedroom of the King of France, with a huge gilded bed, and cream silk wallpaper painted in tempura with colorful flowers, fruit, musical instruments and gardening tools.
Paul I and Maria Feodorovna
Catherine the Great died in 1796, and Paul became Emperor. He decided to enlarge Pavlovsk into a palace suitable for a royal residence, adding two new wings on either side of the main building, and a church attached to the south wing. Between 1797 and 1799, he lavished money and the finest materials on Brenna's interiors. The reign of Emperor Paul did not last long. He alienated the nobles, and became increasingly fearful of conspiracies. His fears were justified; the Emperor Paul was murdered by members of his court in 1801, and his son Alexander became Emperor. Pavlovsk Palace became the residence of the Empress Maria Feodorovna (1759–1828), the mother of both Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Emperor Nicholas I of Russia.
She turned the house into a memorial to her murdered husband, filled with his furniture and portraits, and made the house a showcase for finest 18th-century French furnishings, paintings, sculpture and porcelain. Another disaster struck Pavlovsk in 1803; a fire caused by a defective chimney destroyed a major part of the interior of the palace, including all the decor of the State Apartments and living rooms. Most of the furniture was saved, along with some door panels, fireplaces and mirrors, but most of the Palace had to be rebuilt.
Maria Feodorovna brought Cameron and Brenna's young assistant, the Italian architect Carlo Rossi, to help restore the Palace. She also employed a Russian architect, Andrei Voronykhin, who had been born a serf, and was trained in decoration and design, who rose to become the architect of Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Voronykhin was named chief architect of Pavlovsk by Maria Feodorovna. He brought back the architect Quarenghi, who had redecorated five rooms on the main floor, to recreate his work. He remade some of the rooms, such as the Tapestry Room and the State Bedroom, exactly as they had been, but for other rooms he added decoration inspired by Roman models discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum; Roman-style lamps, furniture, Roman couches, and chairs copied after those of Roman senators.
Following the French taste of the time for Egyptian art, he added black Egyptian statues in the entry vestibule of the Palace, He redesigned the Greek and Italian halls, replacing the molding on the walls with false marble, and he added a Russian touch; fireplaces faced with Russian lapis-lazuli and jasper, which had originally been in the Mikhailovsky Palace that Paul had built in St. Petersburg. Voronykhin also made plans for a semi-circular library in one of the wings, which was later built by Carlo Rossi, and he redesigned the private apartments of Maria Feodorovna on the ground floor, which included a library, boudoir and bedroom. He installed French doors and large windows in the apartment, so the flower garden outside seemed to be part of the interior.
In 1805 Voronykhin built the Centaur bridge in the park, and the Visconti bridge, which crossed the Slavyanka at a point it was filled with water lilies. His last construction in the park was the Rose Pavilion, built in 1811, a simple structure surrounded entirely by rosebushes. The Rose Pavilion was the site of a grand fete on 12 July 1814, celebrating the return of Alexander I to St. Petersburg after the defeat of Napoleon. For the occasion, architect Pietro de Gottardo Gonzaga built a ballroom the size of the Rose Pavilion itself in just seventeen days, and surrounded it with huge canvases of Russian villagers celebrating the victory. The ball inside the pavilion opened with a Polonaise led by Alexander and his mother, and ended with a huge display of fireworks. In her later years Maria Feodorovna had a literary salon at Pavlovsk, which was frequented by poet Vasily Zhukovsky, fabulist Ivan Krylov, and historian Nikolai Karamzin.
The last great St. Petersburg architect to work at Pavlovsk was Carlo Rossi, who in 1824 designed the library, which contained more than twenty thousand books as well as collections of rare coins and butterflies. He also designed the Corner Salon, where Maria Feodorovna received guests such as the first American Ambassador to Russia, John Quincy Adams, and the Lavender Room, whose walls were made of lilac-colored false marble, matching the lilac flowers outside the windows. These rooms were furnished with furniture made of native Russian woods, including Karelian birch, poplar and walnut.
Later history
Maria Feodorovna died on 24 October 1828, fourteen days after her sixty-seventh birthday. She left the house to her younger son, Michael, and specified that none of the furniture should be taken away. After Michael's death, it went to the second son of Nicholas I, Konstantine Nikolayevich. It then passed to his widow and then their eldest son, Konstantine Konstantinovich. Her descendants respected the will, and turned the house into a family museum, just as it was when she died.
Russian Revolution
At the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the eldest son of Constantine Constantinovich, Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, along with his wife, Princess Helen of Serbia, the daughter of King Peter I of Serbia, were living in one of the wings of Pavlovsk, together with his father's widowed sister Queen Olga of Greece. As the political situation deteriorated, they left, and the house was left to the care of Alexander Polovotsoff, director of the Art Institute and the Museum of Applied Arts in St. Petersburg.
When Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917, Polovtsoff went to the Winter Palace, found Anatoly Lunacharsky, the Commissar of Enlightenment of the new government, and demanded that Pavlovsk be saved as a museum. Lunacharsky agreed and named him Commissar Curator of Pavlovsk. He returned to the Palace and found that a group of revolutionary sailors had searched the Palace for weapons and taken a few sabers, but otherwise everything was in its place. He hired former soldiers to guard the house, put all the furniture into the main building, made an inventory of all the treasures in the Palace, and successfully resisted demands from various revolutionary committees for dishes, chairs, tables, and all the books from the library. He was able to persuade Lunacharsky himself to come to Pavlovsk.
After Lunacharsky's visit, Pavlovsk was officially confiscated, but turned into a museum, open to the public two or three days a week. Having succeeded in saving the Palace, Polovtsoff took family and belongings and slipped across the border to Finland and moved to Paris.
World War II
The German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 and the swiftness of the German advance took the Soviet government by surprise. The morning after the attack, the curators of Pavlovsk, under the direction of museum curator Anatoliy Kuchumov, began to pack as many of art objects as possible, starting with the Sèvres porcelain toilet set given by Louis XVI to Maria Feodorovna and Paul in 1780. Ninety-six hours after the announcement of the beginning of the war, the first thirty-four crates were being carried from the palace by horse-drawn cart. Boards were put over the windows, and sand on the floor of the Palace. Thirty curators often worked by candlelight, and by July there were air raids. The paintings, chandeliers, crystal, porcelain, rare furniture, and works of ivory and amber were packed and sent first. They worked with great care – each piece of furniture had to be carefully dismantled, porcelain vases had to be separated from the bases, and delicate clocks had to have their casing and mechanisms separated and packed separately, with diagrams on how to put them back together. One piece of each set of furniture was saved, and the others left behind. The Roman and Greek antiquities were too heavy and delicate to move, so they were taken to the basements, placed as close together as possible, and then hidden by a brick wall.
By the third week of August thirteen thousand objects, plus all the documentation, had been packed and sent away. Some crates were sent to Gorky, others to Sarapul, and the last group, on 20 August 1941, went to Leningrad, where the crates were stored in the basement of St Isaac's Cathedral. The last shipment included the chandelier from the Italian Hall and the jasper vases from the Greek Hall. On 30 August, the last rail link from Leningrad to Moscow was cut, and the city was under blockade. By 28 August, the Germans were fifty kilometers from Pavlovsk. A Soviet division headquarters was located in one wing of the palace. As the Germans approached, the park and palace came under bombardment. The museum staff began to bury the statues which were too heavy to evacuate. They calculated that the Germans would not dig deeper than one meter eighty centimeters, so they buried all the statues as deep as three meters. The statues of the Three Graces were buried three meters beneath the private garden of Maria Feodorovna. Their calculations were correct; the statues were still there after the war.
On 16 September, the last soldiers left, and the Germans took over Pavlovsk Palace, still occupied by a group of elderly women guardians. The Germans occupied Pavlovsk palace for two and a half years. Officers were quartered in the salons on the first floor, and the ballroom was made into a garage for cars and motorcycles. Barracks were located in the north wing and a hospital in the south wing. German soldiers, Dutch soldiers and Spanish soldiers in special units of the German army occupied the buildings in the park. The sculpture and furniture that remained in the house and all the books of the Rossi Library were taken to Germany. The statue of Emperor Paul in the courtyard was used as a telephone pole. The Germans did not discover the antiquities hidden behind the brick wall in the basement.
Pavlovsk was retaken on 24 January 1944. When the Soviet troops arrived, the palace had already been burning for three days. The main building of the Palace was a hollow shell, without a roof or floors. The north wall had fallen. Most of the parquet floors of the palace had been used as firewood; a few pieces were found in unburned portions of the palace near the stoves. Of the more than 100,000 trees that had been in the park before the War, at least 70 percent had been cut down or destroyed by shelling. All the decorative bridges in the park had been blown up. Eight hundred bunkers had been dug in the park. The Rose Pavilion was gone; the Germans had used the materials to construct a fortified dugout.
Restoration
On 18 February 1944, a meeting was held at the House of Architects in Leningrad to discuss the fate of the ruined Palaces. Academician and architect Aleksei Shchusev, who had designed the Lenin Mausoleum, called for the immediate reconstruction of the Palaces. "If we do not do this", he said, "we who know and remember these palaces in all their glory as they were, then the next generation will never be able to reconstruct them."
Even before the war had ended, the Soviet government decided to restore Pavlovsk and the other ruined palaces around Leningrad. First the mines had to be cleared from the ruins and palace and the park. Then the remaining walls were supported with scaffolding, and casts were made of the remaining molding. Fragments of plaster molding were collected, sorted, and casts made. The color of paint still on the remaining walls was carefully noted for later copying. Photographs and early plans of the palace were brought together to help with the restoration.
As soon as the war ended, a search began for treasures stolen from the Palace. Curators collected pieces of furniture, fabric, the legs of tables and pieces of doors and gilded cornices from the German fortifications around the Palace. In the buildings which had been German headquarters, they found chairs, marble statues and rolled-up paintings from the Palace. They found other furniture and objects as far away as Riga, Tallinn, and in Konigsberg, in Germany. Some precious objects from Pavlovsk left Russia even before the war. Four Gobelins tapestries from Pavlovsk were sold by the Soviet Government to J. Paul Getty, and are now on display in the Getty Museum in Malibu, California.
The restorers used only the original variants of the architectural decoration; those created by Cameron, Brenna, Voronykhin, and Rossi. The only changes permitted were to use modern materials. Columns made of wood were replaced by poured concrete or bricks, and the ceilings of the Italian and Greek Halls were made of steel and concrete so they would be fireproof. A special school, the Mukhina Leningrad Higher Artistic Industry School, was created in Leningrad to teach the arts of restoring architectural details, furniture, and art objects. This school produced a corps of restoration experts who worked on all the palaces around Leningrad. The work was meticulous and difficult, and proceeded very slowly.
In 1950, after six years of planting new trees, parts of the park opened to the public. In 1955, the restoration of the facade of the Palace was completed, and restoration of the interiors began. Fortunately for the restorers, the original plans by Cameron, Brenna, Voronykhin and Rossi still existed. Also, fragments of the original interior molding, cornices, friezes and the frames for the carvings, bas-reliefs, medallions and paintings still remained, and could be copied. In addition, there were 2500 photographic negatives taken in the early century by Benois, and another eleven thousand photographs taken just before the war.
The chief of the restoration, Feodor Oleinik, was insistent that all the restoration be faithful to the original work: "Pay attention and do not use later details", he demanded. "Only the original variant, only that done by Cameron, Brenna, Vornykhin, or Rossi." Old techniques of artisans of the 18th century, such as painting false marble and gilding furniture, had to be relearned and applied. A silk workshop was opened in Moscow to recreate the original woven fabrics for wall coverings and upholstery, copying the texture, color and thread counts of the originals. In forty rooms of the Palace, painted decoration on the walls and ceilings had to be precisely recreated in the original colors and designs. A Master painter and six helpers recreated the original trompe l'oeil ceilings and wall paintings.
Once the interior walls and decoration had been exactly recreated, the next step was the furnishings. The twelve thousand pieces of furniture and art objects removed from their original places, from paintings and tapestries to water pitchers and glasses, had to be put back where they belonged. Furniture, doors, and parquet floors of many different colors of wood which had been burned or stolen were remade exactly like the originals. The crystal chandeliers of the 18th century were exactly copied. In 1957, thirteen years after the Palace had been burned, the first seven rooms were opened to the public.
In 1958, four more rooms were opened, and eleven more in 1960. The Egyptian Vestibule was finished in 1963, and the Italian Room opened in 1965. Eleven more rooms were ready by 1967. By 1977, on the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Palace, fifty rooms were finished, and the Palace looked again as it had in the time of Maria Feodorovna.
Pavlovsk Park
Pavlovsk Park was conceived by Cameron as a classic English landscape garden, an idealized landscape filled with picturesque pieces of classical architecture, designed to surprise and please the viewer. Like the English landscape garden, it took much of its inspiration from the romanticized landscape paintings of Claude Lorraine and Hubert Robert. The gallery of Pavlovsk has twelve landscape paintings by Hubert Robert that were commissioned by Maria Feodorovna. Cameron laid out a triple alley of five straight rows of Linden trees, imported from Lübeck, in a long axis from the courtyard of the Palace, leading to a small semi-circular place in the forest. This served as a parade ground for Emperor Pavel's Imperial guards. In the forest to the left of this axis he placed a romantic thatch-roofed dairy with stalls for two cows modeled after the one in the park of Württemberg where Maria Feodorovna had grown up; and on the other side of the parade route, an aviary, filled with parakeets, nightingales, starlings, and quail. This part of the garden also included a labyrinth, and picturesque tombstones imported from Italy. An early French visitor described the effect of this part of the garden: "Melancholy consumes the soul when you arrive...then the pain is followed by pleasure."
Marie Feodorovna was deeply interested in botany. In 1801, Cameron constructed an elegant flower garden behind the Palace, just outside the windows of the private apartment of Marie Feodorovna. Next to the garden was a Greek temple containing a statue of the Three Graces, looking down at the river. She imported flowers from Holland for her garden, including hyacinth, tulips, daffodils and narcissus. She also constructed an orangery and several greenhouses where she grew apricots, cherries, peaches, grapes and pineapples. The River Slavyanovka was the picturesque axis of the composition, with winding paths along the river providing changing views to the visitor. A dam turned the river into a picturesque pond in the valley below the Palace. In 1780, Cameron constructed a large Roman temple at a turn in the river in the bottom of the valley. The classical temple, similar to the Temple of Pan in the gardens at Stowe House in England. It was originally called the Temple of Gratitude, dedicated to Catherine the Great, who had donated the land for the Park, but in 1780 it was renamed the Temple of Friendship, in honor of the visit to Pavlovsk of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Between 1780 and 1783, at the top of the hill which descended to the lake, Cameron constructed a colonnade with a copy of the Apollo Belvedere in Rome. By the early 19th century, the park at Pavlovsk had gardens representing many different styles. A formal and geometric garden à la française was planted near the Palace. An Italian garden, with parterres, classical statues and a grand staircase was created by Brenna on the hillside overlooking the lake. Cameron used the intimate Dutch style for the little private garden outside Maria Feodorovna's private apartments, and the huge park was in the style of the English and French landscape garden. An English visitor, John Lowden, who saw Pavlovsk during the war against Napoleon in 1812, wrote that Pavlovsk Park was the most beautiful example of the English landscape garden in all of the Russian Empire.
Beginning in 1792, the chief architect of the Pavlovsk Park was the Italian landscape architect and painter, Pietro Gonzaga, who had begun his career as a set designer at the La Scala Theater in Milan. Gonzaga always remained a theater designer; he designed the funeral procession of Catherine the Great, Paul I, and Alexander I. as well as the Coronations of Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I. For Cameron he painted landscape scenes of the Pavlovsk Park on the walls and ceilings of rooms of the Palace, and he designed spectacular sets for the 1814 ceremony at Pavlovsk welcoming Alexander I home after his victory over Napoleon.
Gonzaga planned the landscape of Pavlovsk Park with meticulous care, marking the trees to be saved or cut down. He laid out paths and changed contours to create the effects he wanted, using open and closed spaces and different colors and shapes of trees to make theatrical scenes. He made dramatic use of the contrast between the white bark and light leaves of birch trees and the dark needles of red-brown trunks of pine trees, setting groups of birch trees in front of dark backgrounds of pines. He made decorative use of the different seasons in the park, painting scenes with brilliant colors of the autumn leaves. Gonzaga was the architect of Pavlovsk Park until his death in 1831 at the age of eighty.
Gonzago Gallery
The Gonzago Gallery is a unique architectural and fresco ensemble in the Pavlovsk Palace, created by the Italian decorator, architect and art theorist Pietro di Gottardo Gonzago in the early 19th century. It is the only example in Northern Europe of an exterior fresco painting of such a large area: 350 square metres for the wall and 200 square metres for the ceiling.
The gallery was built in 1795-1797 by the architect Vincenzo Brenna as a summer outdoor dining room for the palace's inhabitants. The painting of the Gallery, created by Pietro di Gotthardo Gonzago, was carried out on behalf of Empress Maria Feodorovna much later. The work was carried out in 1805–1807.
It is believed that Gonzago previously made a drawing on the wet plaster method graffiti, and then worked on the plaster that has not yet dried up in the technique of grisaille red paint based on iron oxide pigment. When the plaster had dried, the artist elaborated and modelled the form with lime-based paints.
In 1822-1824 the architect Carlo Rossi built a library over the Gallery with large arched windows framed with rosettes ornaments. Because of the construction of the library, Gonzago's assistant had to redo the ceiling of the Gallery in 1824. Rossi placed busts of ancient writers and philosophers between the windows, with stucco wreaths above them. In the 19th-century updates of the paintings in the Gallery were made.
During the Soviet era, a museum-reserve was established based on the Pavlovsky Palace. In the 1930s, the Gallery was used as a canteen at a children's health camp.
During World War II, the frescoes were seriously damaged. The difficult process of restoration of the Gonzago Gallery was only completed in 2011. | WIKI |
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Postby Jonathan » Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:08 pm
I've been reading so much about RSS I finally decided to investigate. I'd like to jump in by trying out your free version, but have reservations.
Although I know your FAQs clearly indicate that the software does not contain spyware, I also notice (in the comparison of the Personal and Advanced editions) that the Personal edition does not provide "Secure RSS Feeds." What does this mean? I am so troubled by the spyware/adware that my computer is infected with, I'm rather skittish. Why isn't it "secure?"
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Jonathan wrote:I've been reading so much about RSS I finally decided to investigate.
Welcome aboard! You're in for a fun time :-)
Jonathan wrote:Although I know your FAQs clearly indicate that the software does not contain spyware,
This is absolutely true. We hate the damn stuff as much as you and everyone else does.
Jonathan wrote:I also notice (in the comparison of the Personal and Advanced editions) that the Personal edition does not provide "Secure RSS Feeds." What does this mean? I am so troubled by the spyware/adware that my computer is infected with, I'm rather skittish. Why isn't it "secure?"
The technical answer is that a secure feed is one that has an address that starts with "https://".
The non-propeller-head answer is that secure feeds are feeds that have been heavily encrypted so that they can't be intercepted and/or tampered with as they fly around the Internet. If you ever do any online banking or use Amazon or anything like that, you may have noticed that the URL's start with "https://" and a little gold padlock shows up somewhere in your browser, indicating that you are in a secure area.
It's the same thing with RSS feeds. Some people or companies may want to publish feeds that contain private or sensitive information that only certain people will be able to read. These feeds will be published as secure feeds and the Advanced Edition of Awasu will let you subscribe to them (assuming you have permission, of course).
So it's really just an additional feature that Awasu offers - the ability to read secure feeds is not something that casual users are likely to need, it's more for people using it for business purposes - and has nothing to do with spyware or viruses.
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Androidの勉強をしたいけどJavaが全然頭に入ってこないのでKotlinを使うことにしました。自分用の覚書です。
Kotlin
log
print("hogeohoge")
println("HOGEHOGE")
//=> hogehogeHOGEHOGE
改行するまで出力されません。最初、print()でログに表示されないので困ってました。
配列
listとかarrayとか。この辺、Java分かってないとダメっぽい。あとで調べる。
val list = listOf(0, 1, 2)
println(list.javaClass)
//=> class java.util.Arrays$ArrayList
val mutableList = mutableListOf(0, 1, 2)
println(mutableList.javaClass)
//=> class java.util.ArrayList
val array = arrayOf(0, 1, 2)
println(array.javaClass)
//=> class [Ljava.lang.Integer;
最後のカンマはエラーになる。個人的にこれは痛い。
val list = listOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4,)
immutable read-only
val list = listOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
//list[2] = 0 //エラー
println(list)
//=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
varにしても中身はimmutable read-only。
var list = listOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
//list[2] = 0 //エラー
なぜimmutableではないかと言うと、
読み取り専用とイミュータブルの違い
‥ということらしい。
ようするに、
kotlin
val list = listOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
println(list)
//=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
//MutableListにコピー(Shallow copy)して書き換えると
val mutableList = list as MutableList
mutableList[2] = 999
//listが書き換えられてる!!
println(list)
//=> [0, 1, 999, 3, 4]
ということ。（たぶん）
SwiftはDeep copyなので上記のようなことにはならない。
swift
let immutableArray = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
//immutableArray[2] = 999 //エラー
print(immutableArray)
//=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
var mutableArray = immutableArray
mutableArray[2] = 999
print(mutableArray)
//=> [0, 1, 999, 3, 4] //こっちは当然書き換えられる
print(immutableArray)
//=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] //元の方は書き換わっていない
mutable
val list = mutableListOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
list[2] = 0
println(list)
//=> [0, 1, 0, 3, 4]
mapとか
val list = listOf(0, 3, 2, 4, 1)
println(list.map {it * 2})
//=> [0, 6, 4, 8, 2]
println(list.sorted())
//=> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
withIndex()
val ordinals = listOf<String>("first", "second", "third")
for ((index, value) in ordinals.withIndex()) {
println("$index: $value")
}
//=> 0: first
//=> 1: second
//=> 2: third
辞書
val hashMap = hashMapOf("key" to "value")
println(hashMap["key"])
//=> value
println(hashMap.javaClass)
//=> class java.util.HashMap
lateinit
iOSのStoryboardの定番。
swift
class Hoge: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var button: UIButton!
}
こうやる。
kotlin
class Hoge : AppCompatActivity() {
lateinit var button : Button
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
:
button = findViewById(R.id.button) as Button
}
}
Android
View取得
activity_main.xml
android:id="@+id/text_view"
val textView = findViewById(R.id.text_view) as TextView
println(textView.text)
//=> Hello World!
Kotlin Android Extensionsを使うとidで直接アクセス出来るようですが、あまりそういうのに依存するのもアレかと思うので使わないことにします。
println(text_view.text) //いきなり使える(らしい)
//=> Hello World!
リソース取得
String
strings.xml
<resources>
<string name="string_hello">Hello Kotlin!</string>
</resources>
.kt
println(getString(R.string.string_hello))
//=> Hello Kotlin!
Color
API23未満がえらい面倒だったのでメモ。
colors.xml
<resources>
<color name="red">#ff0000</color>
</resources>
.kt
ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.red)
API23以上はgetColor(R.color.red)で取れる。（たぶん）
Button
SAM (Single Abstract Method)
val button = findViewById(R.id.button) as Button
button.text = "push me"
button.setTextColor(BLUE)
//button.textColor = BLUE //これはダメだった
button.setOnClickListener { view ->
val button = view as Button
button.text = "thanks!"
}
SAM+引数省略
button.setOnClickListener {
(it as Button).text = "thanks!"
}
関数化‥じゃなくて変数化?
val listener: (View) -> Unit = {
(it as Button).text = "thanks!"
}
button.setOnClickListener(listener)
この辺はあとでちゃんと調べる。
遷移
普通に遷移
MainActivity.kt
//val intent = Intent(this@MainActivity, javaClass<SecondActivity>()) //エラー。古い書き方?
val intent = Intent(this@MainActivity, SecondActivity::class.java)
startActivity(intent)
this@MainActivityはクラスを明示せずthisだけでOK。
SecondActivity
finish()
戻る。
すげ替え
setContentView(R.layout.activity_second)
ListView
超基本的な部分だけ。
更新はadapterにお願いする。
val weekdays = mutableListOf(
"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
)
val adapter = ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, weekdays)
val listView = findViewById(R.id.list_view) as ListView
listView.adapter = adapter
//更新
weekdays[1] = "HOGEHOGE"
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
//これでもいける（けどキャストが‥）
(listView.adapter as ArrayAdapter<*>).notifyDataSetChanged()
参考：[Android] ListView と ArrayAdapter 簡単なテキストリストの表示
Preference
取得
val pref = getSharedPreferences("Hoge", MODE_PRIVATE)
基本形。nameとmodeを指定して取得。modeのMODE_WORLD_READABLEMODE_WORLD_WRITEABLEはdeprecatedになっている。
val pref = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE)
アクティビティのクラス名で取得。例えば、nameに"MainActivity"を指定するのと同じこと。
val pref = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this)
パッケージ名で取得出来る。modeはMODE_PRIVATE固定。MODE_WORLD_READABLEMODE_WORLD_WRITEABLEが無くなっているので、これだけでいいんじゃないかと思う。
書き込み
pref.edit().putString("key", "hoge").commit()
Editorを通して書き込む。型は、int、long、float、boolean、String。
commit()は同期、apply()は非同期で書き込む。
読み込み
println(pref1.getString("key", "default"));
//=> hoge
println(pref1.getString("undefinedKey", "default"));
//=> default
第2引数でキーが未定義の場合の値を指定する。
xml
com.example.testpreference.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
<string name="key">hoge</string>
</map>
参考：SharedPreferencesに出力したデータの保存場所
時間差処理
とりあえずメインスレッド用。UI触りたいときに。
.kt
Handler(mainLooper).postDelayed({
//処理
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Git
Use SSH with multiple GitLab.com accounts
Here’s the situation: The easiest and most secure way to interact with Git repos hosted on GitLab is over the SSH protocol. While most people only use one GitLab.com account, a freelancer or consultant might need to work with repos from multiple accounts. If that freelancer attempts to upload their public SSH key to multiple accounts, they’ll get the following error message from GitLab: Fingerprint has already been taken. Assuming they don’t want to use password-based authentication over HTTPS as a workaround, how can our friendly freelancer get SSH working?
git greenbase means never pulling a broken build
If your team uses Git and Continuous Integration, chances are good that your workflow could benefit from git greenbase. But first, strap on your VR headset and experience the perils of git pull through the eyes of our seasoned developer, Karen. Table of Contents Karen vs the broken build Where vanilla git pull falls short git greenbase to the rescue! What about local feature branches? Installing git greenbase But what about Mac and Windows?
How to find stuff in Git
When you first started with git, you quickly got up to speed with committing, pushing, pulling, merging, and the like. But then you noticed a gaping hole in your knowledge - how do you find stuff in Git? Can you revert to a version of a file as it stood three weeks ago, or find out when a bug was introduced? Who was the last person to edit this file? They always tell you that the great thing about Git is that you [almost] never lose any history. So how do you access and utilize that history?
Git hooks, practical uses (yes, even on Windows)
What are Git hooks? Can you do anything useful with them? Also, since Git hooks come from Linux, is there anything special you need to do to get them working on Windows? What are Git hooks? Git hooks allow you to run custom scripts whenever certain important events occur in the Git life-cycle, such as committing, merging, and pushing. Git ships with a number of sample hook scripts in the repo\.git\hooks directory, but they are disabled by default. For instance, if you open that folder you’ll find a file called pre-commit.sample. To enable it, just rename it to pre-commit by removing the .sample extension and make the script executable (chmod +x pre-commit if you’re on Linux, or just check your NTFS execute rights if you’re on Windows). When you attempt to commit using git commit, the script is found and executed. If your pre-commit script exits with a 0 (zero), you commit successfully, otherwise the commit fails. If you take a look at the default sample pre-commit script , it does a few helpful things by default, like disallowing non-ascii filenames since they cause issues on some platforms, and checking for whitespace errors. This means that if you enable this script and have “whitespace errors”, like lines that end in spaces or tabs, you’ll fail to commit and have to remove the whitespace before you can commit. What cool stuff can I do with Git hooks? Since you’re working with scripts, you can do pretty much anything with Git hooks. That being said, just because you can do something… Yeah, you know. Git hooks can make the behavior of common Git tasks like committing, pushing and pulling nonstandard, which can annoy people, especially if they’re just trying to get used to the glories of Git. But here are a few examples of what you might accomplish with Git hooks. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Simaethistoidea
Simaethistoidea is an obscure superfamily of pyralid-like moths with two genera, whose biology and relationships among the Ditrysia is currently unknown, namely the Australian Metaprotus (2 species) and the China and North Indian Simaethistis (2 species) (Dugdale et al., 1999).
Genera and species
* Metaprotus Hampson, 1899
* Simaethistis Hampson, 1896 | WIKI |
Home
To understand what is involved in septic tank pumping, it is first important to understand what a septic system is, what it does and how it works. A septic system is, very simply, an underground treatment system for household sewage. A typical septic system consists of 4 components: the pipe from the house, the septic tank, a drain field and the soil. Damage or malfunction of any of these components can cause the system to fail which can result in soil and drinking water contamination and costly repairs or replacements by the homeowner.
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Installing septic tank pump system becomes necessary for all those homeowners who live in the area having no municipal sewage system. These tanks are quite effective in treating and disposing off your discarded products. You should take special care in maintaining this tank pump system. Sometime homeowners also involve themselves in installation process.
Sometimes installing a septic tank pump becomes necessary especially in higher elevation areas. This pump works exceptionally well in pumping sewage to a distribution tank from septic chamber. Thus it ensures functionality of overall septic system. Though majority of septic systems is based on gravity but this assistance becomes impractical and sometimes impossible in some cases due to distance or terrain.
You should consider installing a pump in the septic tank in this situation just to ensure smooth supply of water to the filed lines directly from the tank. Well, this is a common technique that gives considerable difference from typical setup process of a septic tank system. Consider following step by step guideline to install your septic tank pump:
4 - Use direct burial wiring to connect pump motor with electricity. It is recommended having separate breaker for the pump motor. An added protection to pump could be placing Ground Fault Circuit Interruption breaker because such devices reduces electrical shocks or short circuit issues. Considering expert help is recommended especially if you don't know much about electrical wiring.
5 - Now add some water to your tank just to test the pump. The pump should activate itself once the tank reaches its predefined depth level. Shut off the pump once it moves out water. In the end, septic tank should be covered once you get confirmation that your septic tank pump is functioning properly.
How it works
A very basic explanation of how the system works begins with waste water leaving the house through the plumbing network inside the house to the pipe leading to the septic tank. The tank is buried underground and is usually constructed in a water tight manner of concrete, fiberglass or polyethylene. It is intended to hold the waste water long enough to allow the solids to settle to the bottom (to form sludge) and the oils to float to the top (to form scum). Some of the solid waste decomposes as well. There are compartments and a “t” shaped outlet from the septic tank that prevents the sludge and scum from leaving the tank to travel to the drain fields. Once the liquid enters the drain field, it is filtered through the several layers of soil for the final treatment by removal of harmful bacteria, viruses and nutrients.
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As a home inspector, I hear complaints from real estate agents every week about septic system failures. The story always goes like this. The buyer loved the home. The inspector suggested there may be a problem with the septic system. The buyer ignored the inspector's warnings and bought anyway. And the buyer ends up with a home that is ruined with seeping sewage within just a few years.
It is easy to blame the seller in this situation, and believe that he intentionally misrepresented the home.
This is often unfair to the seller, who does not know any better than the buyer that the septic system is on its last legs at the time of the sale. However, this does not change the sad fact that the buyer, who is already leveraged on an expensive home (particularly in New Jersey, where annual property taxes normally run in the tens of thousands of dollars), then has a septic repair job on their hands that costs several thousand dollars.
7) If the seller refuses to be at the home on the day of the inspection, this is a red flag for consideration. Tell him you would like to keep him in the loop, and you would appreciate if he comes to every meeting.
Septic System Inspection: Money Well-Spent
For both the buyer and the seller, the cost of a septic system inspection is well worth the money. The buyer gets peace of mind knowing he will not have to replace his septic system at a moment's notice. Also, the seller protects himself from a lawsuit, as the contractors he hires become the targets for litigation.
Maintaining a regular schedule of septic tank pumping will help keep your system running efficiently and will save you hundreds of dollars in expensive system repairs. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
-- Japan’s Bonds Set for Biggest Drop in 2 Weeks on Auction Results
Japan ’s government bonds fell,
heading for their biggest decline in two weeks, as the nation’s
stocks rallied and a sale of 20-year securities met the weakest
demand in nine months. Benchmark 10-year yields were set for the highest close
since April 2012 after the government’s offer of 1.2 trillion
yen ($11.8 billion) in 20-year debt drew bids for 2.54 times the
amount on offer, down from a bid-to-cover ratio of 3.68 at the
previous sale. Bank of Japan Policy Board Member Ryuzo Miyao
said a better economic outlook could drive yields up. “Selling dominated after the weak auction,” said Akito Fukunaga , the chief rates strategist in Tokyo at Royal Bank of
Scotland Group Plc’s RBS Securities unit, one of the 24 primary
dealers that underwrite Japan’s debt. “The bond market has yet
to settle down amid concerns of a further sell-off.” Japan’s 10-year yields increased 7 1/2 basis points to
0.905 percent as of 4:33 p.m. in Tokyo, according to Japan Bond
Trading Co. The price of the 0.6 percent note due in March 2023
fell 0.660 yen, or 660 yen per 100,000 yen face amount, to
97.253 yen. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point. Twenty-year yields climbed four basis points 1.7 percent,
while 30-year rates added one basis point to 1.835 percent.
Five-year yields gained five basis points to 0.4 percent. Ten-year bond futures for June delivery slid 0.59 to 141.84
in Tokyo, while the Topix Index of shares rallied 1.2 percent. Japanese government bonds have fallen 1.3 percent this
month as of yesterday, the biggest drop since April 2008,
according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. To contact the reporter on this story:
Yumi Ikeda in Tokyo at
yikeda4@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Rocky Swift at
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Settlement Reached Over Stuyvesant Town Charges - Metropolis - WSJ
This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit http://www.djreprints.com. http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/11/29/settlement-reached-over-stuyvesant-town-charges/ Tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village have tentatively won $68.8 million in a long-running lawsuit that centered on how much some residents were overcharged at the giant 11,200-unit property. The action wraps up a legal saga that began nearly six years ago when the property's the owner at the time, Tishman Speyer Properties LP, was aggressively converting rent-regulated apartments to luxury, market-rate units. Tenants paying market rates filed a lawsuit that alleged the owners shouldn't have been able to take those units out of rent stabilization because of a tax break the property was receiving. In a move that shocked many in the real-estate industry, the tenants prevailed in an appellate court ruling in 2009. Since then, the tenants have been negotiating with the owners over how to calculate how much back-rent they are owed. Under the terms of the settlement, the property's current ownersa group of bond investors represented by real-estate firm CWCapital Asset Managementhave agreed to pay $58 million, while a past owner MetLife, has agreed to pay $10.5 million. In addition, CW Capital waived rights to collect an additional $76 million in rent that could have been charged. The settlement still needs state court approval and is subject to challenges from tenants. Under the terms announced Thursday, it would amount to an average check of $3,250 to be paid to each of the 21,250 current and former renters who leased any of the affected 4,300 so-called luxury apartments between 2003 and 2011, according to the tenants' lawyers at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP. Tenants who lived in rent-regulated apartments before 2009 wouldn't be eligible to receive payments. While estimates varied for how much the lawsuit could bring in, the settlement is lower than the roughly $200 million the tenants initially believed they stood to recover. In a statement, Ronald Aranoff, an attorney at Bernstein Liebhard representing tenants in the case, said he believes the settlement provides an extraordinary recovery for our clients. Disney and Vice, a Storybook Romance U.S. Joins Turkish Forces to Launch Push Against Islamic State Trump Courts Black Vote but Avoids African-American Communities Companies Rethink Annual Pay Raises Islamist Extremists in Britain Tap Smugglers to Reach Syria Want to Book an Airbnb Stay? Not So Fast Terror, Brexit and U.S. Election Have Made 2016 the Year of Yeats Attention, Jumbo-Mortgage Shoppers: Deals Ahead Curbing Media Use for Your Children in Other Parents' Homes Subscribe NowSign In WSJ Membership Customer Service Tools & Features Ads More Copyright 2014 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Episteme (moth)
Episteme is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1820. Species are widespread.
Description
Palpi upturned, where the terminal joint long and naked. Antennae simple and dilated. Forewings with vein 5 from near angle of cell, vein 6 from upper angle, and veins 7 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with vein 5 from the center of discocellulars.
Species
* Episteme adulatrix Kollar, [1844]
* Episteme arctopsa Chou & Chen, 1962
* Episteme beatrix Jordan, 1909
* Episteme bisma Moore, [1858]
* Episteme connexa Walker, 1856
* Episteme conspicua Rothschild, 1896
* Episteme hebe Jordan, 1912
* Episteme latimargo Hampson, 1891
* Episteme lectrix Linnaeus, 1764
* Episteme macrosema Jordan, 1912
* Episteme maculatrix Duncan & Westwood, 1841
* Episteme mundina Jordan, 1912
* Episteme negrita Hampson, 1894
* Episteme nigripennis Butler, 1875
* Episteme nipalensis Butler, 1875
* Episteme sumatrana Rothschild, 1899
* Episteme sumbana Rothschild, 1897
* Episteme vetula Geyer, 1832 | WIKI |
Race in the contemporary world is mostly viewed from the social point of view, rather than biological. There have been a lot of debates and disputes about racial problems in the United States of America since early colonial times till now. Racial differences and boundaries are of social origin. The problem of race has existed during the whole historical process in the United States as well as all over the world. It goes without saying that races make people different.
So, as the race is socially determined, it is considered to be a fundamental structure of society and its development. It should be noted that during history, the main historical dispute about racial differences has been held between the Whites and the Blacks. A lot of human problems have arisen from the racial approach to people. In the past, many races were viewed as distinct from others, and that hierarchy was supposed to be immutable and innate.
For centuries, the word “race” was associated with white and black skin. Even today, when thinking about racial differences among people has changed many scholars consider that a slave position of black people is still persistent. The discussions about the concept of race have been taken place over the whole period of human history. Considering race as a social structure, it is worth noting that people from different races have different social rights and privileges that are not equal. The complexity of the racial issue in U.S. society has been viewed even today, and this is one of the main national problems today. Though black people have gained their independence many years ago, many of them are still thinking that their rights are eliminated by white people.
Thus, from the societal point of view, the race may be estimated as a fundamental structure of the nation. As far as the American nation is concerned, it consists of different people, who are from different cultures, backgrounds, and races. All of them are part of the majority and build up a nation. There is an opinion that all debates about racial inequality in the United States are artificial. Practically, all black people have equal rights with whites, which are protected by American law. On the other hand, looking globally at the issue of race, it has become clear that people of the white race differ from other races. The point is, however, that the world is so diverse and it was developed during centuries. Thus, there are many stereotypes that are hard to be changed. Many poor countries in Africa, India and Latin America percept people from the white race as wealthy, healthy and smart.
Though, they never liked them because of that. In some cases, races and classes may be interchangeable. The line between them is always changing. Racial group membership shapes an individual opinion about races and their place there. From the above statement, it is obvious, therefore, that the concept of race is not new. Though during the whole process of human history the issue of race was constantly changing, this problem still exists. In some areas of the world, racial problems may be stronger in others – weaker. In those countries, where only one race is present, this is not an issue. In countries, which accept immigrants from all over the world, it may be a serious problem. All races and people, who have different skin colors want to be equal and protected in society.
Thus, race is not simply a four-letter word. This is a word that carries a long struggle for independence and equal rights. No other country has felt this problem like the United States of America.
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House Republicans vote to fine lawmakers who live stream from the floor
In a vote along party lines, House Republicans approved new rules last night that impose fines for live-streaming from the floor of the House, after lawmakers used apps like Periscope as a form of protest earlier this year. Lawmakers can now be fined $500 for a first offense and as much as $2,500 for subsequent offenses under the new rules, which also include fines for still photography. Politico reports that the rules were slightly tweaked from an earlier form to include an appeal process. Democrats staged a sit-in protest at the House in June after lawmakers failed to vote on gun control legislation. As the House left for recess, cameras were shut down, but Democrats — and C-SPAN — turned to live-streaming footage to broadcast the protest. Democrats immediately blasted the new rules. Representative John Lewis, who was part of June’s protests, said the rules would have a “chilling effect on members who disagree with the proceeding of this body.” We must never, ever give up the right to protest for what is right, what is good, and what is necessary #goodtrouble https://t.co/PwRzZj55S4 “No congress, no body, no committee has the power to tell us that we can not stand up, speak up, and speak truth to power,” he said. “We have a right to dissent, we have a right to protest for what is right.” The new rules followed an attempt by members of the House GOP to gut an independent ethics committee. Those rules were scrapped after widespread outrage. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Talk:Zeus/Archive 1
Jupiter (mythology)
Shouldn't stupider get his own article? Sennheiser! 21:41, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
* However, disregarding linguistic evidence, some people claim that the worship of Zeus originated among the Mycenean heirs of Minoans, where he was known as the Earthshaker.
Mycenean Linear B tablets were shown to be in Greek half a century ago, so I'm not sure where the "disregarding linguistic evidence" part comes from. Also, as Wetman pointed out, Poseidon the the eartshaker. If someone wants to track down what "Zeus" was in Linear B then the Myceneans might be worth a mention, but for now I'm just cutting it. Bacchiad 22:10, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Steven Colbert is more godlyer than Zeus I shrunk the "Seductions" sections significantly. Nearly all the material in the sub-sections was duplicated word for word in the linked articles on the women/nymphs in question; in a few cases the article had a fuller explanation. In the couple of cases where there was less, I pasted the material from this page into Aegina (mythology) or Astreia or whatever. Then I cut out the text on each seductee, leaving only the wiki-links. I believe this makes the article more manageable and balanced. Please do revert if you disagree. Bacchiad 05:41, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
* I cannot find any mention of the seductions in the article anymore. Were they removed? Or have they been moved to another page? If so which one?
In the epithets section for xenios, I changed "ready to avenge any wrong done to a stranger." to "any offense to xenia was an offense against Zeus." This way xenia is actually mentioned a linked too. Also, Zeus didn't always avenge misdeeds. In the case of the Trojan War, it was up to the suitors of Helen to avenge the misdeed against Menelaos. --~ Jared ~ 22:22, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Minor vandalism fixes, 09/26/2006
While reading the article today I caught a couple of lines not handled by the revert some hours before my visit. Vandalism was introduced here:
(cur) (last) 21:00, 25 September 2006 <IP_ADDRESS> (Talk) (→Zeus and Hera)
(cur) (last) 20:58, 25 September 2006 <IP_ADDRESS> (Talk) (→Spoken-word myths - audio files)
and was carried through future revisions. The 9/26 revert didn't catch these, so I took them out by hand rather than revert the article further. Wingchild 17:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Melissa
Does anyone have a citation for the goat-milk thing? Everything I've found says she plundered honey, which is where the meaning for 'Melissa' (honey bee) supposedly came about. Of course, those are no more reputable than this without a source, so... Melissa Della 09:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
* Amalthea (mythology) for the goat-milk thing. Walter Burkert, Greek Religion for some context. --Wetman 09:05, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
The "necklace"
What does Pausanias mean when, reviewing the site of the olympic festivals, he refers so casually to the "necklace" worn by Zeus pictured as a boy:
* "The figure of Zeus as a boy wearing the necklace is the votive offering of Cleolas, a Phliasian".
Does anyone recognize the necklace that Pausanias assumes we already know about? --Wetman 22:06, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
* Probably "the necklace of Eriphyle"... Doing a search on Perseus for "necklace" there are several instances in which Pausanias mentions "the necklace" or "the famous necklace" with most instances referring to the necklace of Eriphyle. See also: Robe & Necklace of Harmonia 1. And Apollodorus tells us a bit of when Zeus messes around with "the necklace", here Seems like this necklace would deserve an article of its own... --gio 03:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
* though the necklace shown to Pausanias was not "the necklace" worn by Zeus as a boy, I gratefully added Giorgio's Pausanias notes to Eriphyle.--Wetman 23:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Collected etymology queries
What's up with the phrase in the intro: (in Greek: nominative Ζεύς, Zeús genitive Διός, Díos). It does not look like a declension. The German wikipeida says that "Zeus is in Old Greek, Dias in in New Greek", which also sounds suspicious to me. So, what is it? In other wikipedias, some parrotted English, others copycatted German, still others say nothing. I've looked up some more detailed linguistic texts, and it appears it is not so simple and probably deserves a full section. Mukadderat 21:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
The usual etymology of Zeus (Buck, Watkins) is from Indo-European *deiwos 'god', related to *dyeu- 'sky', 'day', 'bright'. The usual gloss is 'god of the bright sky'. What is the source for 'divine king'? If there is no documentation for this, I will change to the more usual gloss. --Macrakis 13:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Dzeus and Dias: The article currently begins "Zeus or Dzeus"; but as far as I know, Dzeus is never (or very rarely) used in English, though it is closer to the ancient pronunciation. It continues "...or Dias (Greek: Δίας, Días)"; this is the modern Greek name, derived from the oblique forms (Ζεύς Διός), but again, as far as I know, Dias is never used in English. Unless I hear objections, I will remove both Dzeus and Dias. There was presumably an archaic nominative Δίς (Dis), but I don't believe this is actually textually attested. There are other archaic, dialectal, and poetic names (Ζηνός, Ζάν...) but these also don't appear in English. If someone wants to cover these variants, perhaps they belong in their own section, but not, I think, in the first paragraph. --Macrakis 19:25, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Jove: Most of the way through the article there is a reference to Jove and "by Jove". Nothing in the text appears to tie it to Zeus. How is this related to Zeus - does it need to be cut?
* In case you haven't figured it out yet, "Jove" is the same as "Jupiter", who is essentially equivalent to Zeus. elvenscout742 21:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
* Iove (Jove) is the Latin ablative form of Iuppiter (Jupiter). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Erik the Red 2 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Removed: The root of the name is zeugnymi, greek for mating, as Zeus symbolizes the universal process of joining and disjoining. I checked Liddell and Scott, who give nothing but Sanskrit words for 'day' as the root for Zeus, not zeug-. Nor does their entry for 'zeugnymi' suggest any connection to Zeus. All of the above may well be true, but I'd like to have a source. --MichaelTinkler
* Good point. This is the explanation I know but I'll have it checked in my books. I'll check it ASAP. BTW, I hope my english is good enough. --Jtheo (Greece).
* 'Zeus/deus' is certainly the more familiar PIE identification.
Cases
Zeus is the nominative, Dios is the genitive (if those links don't work a first, refresh the page a few times - there seems to be server problems at the other end). It's an irregular noun. --Tzekai 17:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* Not that straightforward. See section above. Mukadderat 17:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* Also, yes. I can confirm that Zeus is not used in Demotic Greek, the nominative being Dias and the genitive being Dia. Of course, Demotic Greek is not relevant in this article, as it emerged after Christianity. --Tzekai 17:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
BTW what is not that straightforward? If you want a "name and etymology" section, then write one. That Zeus is the nominative and Dios the genitive is sourced (the Perseus Project links above). Don't them! --Tzekai 18:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* Clearing up some things: 'Zeus' is used in demotic greek, as part of phrases that have remained for millenia, e.g. 'Xenios Zeus' (patron of the guests/foreighners). the genitive in demotic is both 'Dia' and 'Dios', although 'Dia' is by far the most common. and something else.... i have no idea why the 'facts' were asked:/ can someone dispute it? lol Hectorian 18:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* Did you read my question in the section above? And you just confirmed my suspicion: you write that "dia" is far most common. Why would one want to omit the more common version and add less common? I call this "sloppiness". I also don't understand why adding this microscopic piece of Greek grammar is important at all. Why not other declensions? This random bit of information in the intro causes a natural question in a person who does not know the topic, like me. Instead of explaining, some editors prefer to rush into an attack. Mukadderat 23:00, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* The genitive is useful information, it shows you that there's a stem starting with d- in addition to the one starting with z-. That's interesting for many reasons - see Dyeus. Haukur 23:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* You don't read my question carefully. Of course, any information is useful. But given without system it creates confusion and wondering only. Specifically, repeating, my major points:
* In other language wikipedias something different is written (and this attracted my attention to this in the first place)
* Our colleague Hectorian writes that Dia is far more frequent. So my question was "why less frequent case is provided?"
* I am ot so lazy as some allege and did look up internet, and found some interesting comments about this issue (so my question is not so stupid as some may think ), but I am not an expert to improve this place myself.
* And once again, it looks like sloppiness to me and I ask for explanation and fixing. If you think there is nothing to fix, let it be so. I have no vital interests in Greek gods to pursue this question further. Mukadderat 23:22, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
* Its useful to know that the name Zeus is irregular and becomes Dios in the genititive, since many other Greek names are understood to derive from this declination: e.g. the Dioskouroi (=sons of Zeus), Dione (=female Zeus), Dionysos, etc. Perhaps a brief explanation of this somewhere in the article would help. Theranos 09:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
The Oracle at Siwa
Is it just me, or is the following not quite coherent?
* "The oracle of Ammon at the oasis of Siwa in the Western Desert of Egypt did not lie within the bounds of the Greek world before Alexander's day, but it already loomed large in the Greek mind during the archaic era: Herodotus mentions consultations with Zeus Ammon in his account of the Persian War. Zeus Ammon was especially favored at Sparta, where a temple to him existed by the time of the Peloponnesian War (Pausanias 3.18).
* "After Alexander made a trek into the desert to consult the oracle at Siwa, the figure arose of a Libyan Sibyl."
I presume it was Ammon that loomed large in the Greek mind rather than the oracle of Ammon at Siwa in particular. Does Herodotus say that people went to Siwa to consult the Zeus Ammon oracle or to nearer temples devoted to him? But why did the Greeks adopt Ammon? (The link to Ammon is surprisingly unhelpful on this, which I think would be interesting information here. I believe Hercules consulted the oracle of Ammon in Libya, so I presume Ammon came into Greek mythology through contacts with Egypt.)
What does "the figure arose" mean?
The connection of this with Zeus isn't made clear enough for me. I presume this means that after Alexander's visit, the Greeks attached the idea of Zeus Ammon and the Libyan sibyl to Siwa. Since the article on the Libyan Sibyl mentions that the Libyan sibyl predated Alexander, "the figure arose" here is confusing, in my opinion, in the present wording.
qp10qp 17:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Tables
Someone with more html smarts than me-- that's almost everyone-- could make these boxed lists set up as three columns side-by-side. Yes? --Wetman 04:22, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
* I had a similar idea, and just put the two tables into columns side by side. Good enough? Fayenatic london 23:27, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Profanity
Someone has vandalized this entry, using four letter words can somebody please fix it, i am not competant enough to do so —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC).
* I have requested semi-protection for this page due to the frequent vandalism and confusing reversion history. Fayenatic london 20:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Unjustified removal of a whole section
Could anyone please revert this removal? Regards. --<IP_ADDRESS> 15:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
* OK, done. Looks to me as if the deletion was a slip-up; that section had been in the article for some months previously. - Fayenatic london (talk) 17:44, 2 March 2007(UTC)
Remembering a garbled etymology from Plutarch?
The following was deleted by someone, quite correctly: ''In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. It is also possible that his name deriving vom a source "J-O" (D-IO), like IV-piter, O and U beeing the semitic "Vav" and thus connected to the Jewish god "I-Vav" (like in Jo-natan - "god gave"). Even Romans in later times saw this parallel... I believe there is a nugget of cultural history embedded in it, though as genuine etymology it is trash, like Plutarch's and Isidore of Seville's and Legenda Aurea'' etymologies. Anything worth re-editing? --Wetman 02:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
God of friendship?
Pausanias is alleged to describe a cult of "Zeus philliou"; likewise in the "Phaedrus" it is Phaedrus who calls Zeus the "god of friendship." Any comments? Haiduc 03:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
* Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.3.14 mentions Zeus called Dios philiou, but I can't bring up the context on-line this morning. Theou philiou, kai xeniou translates "the God of charity, and hospitality to strangers". "Charity" is to be taken in the sense of caritas, which KJV translates "loving-kindness". I suppose Pausanias, though I can't get hold of him this morning, is reflected in the following passage, discussing Cyprus:
* One of their principal cities was Curium, which was denominated from Curos, the Sun, the Deity, to whom it was sacred. In the perilous voyages of the antients nothing was more common than for strangers, whether shipwrecked, or otherwise distressed, to fly to the altar of the chief Deity, [Greek: Theou philiou, kai xeniou] —the God of charity and hospitality— for his protection. This was fatal to those who were driven upon the western coast of Cyprus. The natives of Curium made it a rule to destroy all such, under an appearance of a religious rite. Whoever laid their hands upon the altar of Apollo, were cast down the precipice, upon which it stood." (Jacob Bryant, A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology Volume II, 3rd ed. London, 1807)
* The main point in theou philiou is to contrast this emotion with eros. Ignore Bryant's excursus on etymology. --Wetman 09:54, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
* Granted, and yet I wonder if we are being more restrictive than the Greeks. We have the terms "philetor" as "erastes" from the Cretans, and "paidophilein" in a number of texts, used as synonymous with "paiderastia". And I am sure there are other examples but I cannot bring them to mind just now. Haiduc 12:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
* PS That's Pausanias 8.31.4; Haiduc 14:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
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NPOV
This should have an NPOV tag because it labels Zeus as a myth, while Yaweh is not labeled as a myth.
When religions die, their components usually become myths (they're renamed myths, I mean). That is the case with the old Greek mythology and its symbols, such as Zeus. However, when a religion is alive and practiced, its components cannot be labelled as myths. It has something to do with believing, faith and the such, but I can't explain properly here.--Kim Kusanagi 19:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Colossal seated Statue is Marnas not Zeus!
The Photograph in the Article referring to the "Colossal seated Zeus from Gaza, Roman period Istanbul Archaeology Museum" is falsely assigned as a Zeus. This Colossal Statue is portraying the very important local city God of Gaza who is referred to as Marnas "Aramaic-My Lord". This fine but very important difference must be issued because Marnas as the Philisto-Canaanite city God of Gaza, plays a crucial roll in the self identification of the Pre Christian population of Gaza.
Marnas Aramaic "the Lord" who was regarded as the God of rain and grain and invoked against famine. He was identified at Gaza with Cretan Zeus, Zeus Krêtagenês. It is likely that Marnas was the Hellenistic expression of Dagon. Marnas as already said is of importance for the self identification of the pagan population of Gaza and Gaza itself. His code “mem” for Marnas appears as early as the 5th Century BC. on coins that were minted in Gaza. Later the sign of Marnas Phoenician variant of the letter M appears as the Coinage mintmark for Gaza.
The happenings in the 5th century also reflect the adoration brought forward to Marnas by the population of Gaza, since they refused to convert to Christianity and even drove Porphyry of Gaza out of the city for trying to proselytize them, which routed to the destruction of the temple of Marnas per degree from Arcadius the east Roman Emperor.
As to the classic appearance of the mentioned statue, Gaza as a pagan central of the time gained an imported roll after the Jewish revolts in A.D. 119, Hadrian himself reanimated the Cult of Marnas in Gaza. The annual "Hadrianic" games were instituted during Hadrian's visit to the city in 130 CE this is also the time period were the Marnas temple was revived.
References This is a important reference from 1887 because it describes the discovery of a Colossal Marnas statue in Gaza. The text specifies and describes the statue found. Through the description and the note that the statue was sent to Constantinople /Istanbul it is obvious that the Photograph in the Wiki Zeus article is actually the colossal Marnas statue found in Gaza that is mentioned in the text. Therefore it would be correct if the statue is assigned as Marnas not a Zeus. Or at least as Zeus-Marnas as a Hellenistic expression of the local Gaza God Marnas.
* http://philologos.org/__eb-thlatb/chap08.htm#mosue
Basic References on Marnas
* http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06399c.htm
* http://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2004/rhahn.html
Wiki articles were Marnas the city God of Gaza is mentioned. Superman Dagon
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon
Porphyry of Gaza
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_of_Gaza
Coinage from Gaza with the sighn of Marnas as a Gaza mint mark. Windswal 08:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
* http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=182143&AucID=234&Lot=2384
* http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=7458&AucID=20&Lot=1417
* http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?results=100&search=Gaza
There's no "powers" section.
Needs a section describing Zeus's powers. <IP_ADDRESS> 02:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
There is also only two humans to ever conquer Zeus and the two people were Landon Hadley and Tab McLain. They defeated Zeus with a magical rock called Spontaniohydroplosion because they figured out he was dreamily allergic to it and made him turn into a yeti. When you are a yeti you can't talk, move your legs quickly or throw people (including boxes and people in boxes) over 10.987654321½ ⅓ ¼ miles per kilowatt. Some of the symptoms of becoming a yeti are lepracy, flesh eating bacteria, hot dog fingers, the awful inverted penis, government created killer nano-robot infection, and anal fizzures. These symptoms are very obvious when present. So Zeus knew he was becoming a Yeti when he got hit by the spontaniohydroplosion. (Sad story) END.Ű⅞ —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
^Is that a Joke? Source, Please. Weedle Mchairybug —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Zeus' epithets
According to the Realencyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Zeus garnered over 600 epithets. lists dozens and dozens of them. Ifnkovhg (talk) 22:41, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
"in popular culture"
This is an article about a greek god, it seems really inappropriate to have such a trivial section. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 00:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Zeus and Hera
Perhaps this heading could say underneath:
Main article:Hera
Just wondering. Meldshal42 Comments and Suggestions My Contributions 20:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody believe in Zeus?
Do any people today believe in Zeus as the supreme God? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
* See Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism. Haukur (talk) 22:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
How could I not believe in the Storm Father! Clio the Muse (talk) 01:30, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Zeus and his sexuality
yes, something about his bisexuality should perhaps be mentioned somewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:48, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Error in History section
The part where the history section compares Greek to Norse myth is very confusingly (or even incorrectly) written. I think you want to say that since Odin, the Norse chief god, was not a sky god, Zeus was seen as related to his son Thor, who was a thunder god. But the existing text doesn't say this... Since the article is semi-protected, and I'm too lazy to log in, I just mention it here. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Your confusion may stem from the fact that Odin was not the Chief Norse god until the post-Christian reconstruction of Norse mythology. Roman and Hellenic records show Odin was a Germanic god similar in function to Hermes/Mercury or Hades/Orcus depending on the tribe. Tyr was the supreme Norse God at that time but was later supplanted by Thor. Odin on the other hand was more popular than either Tyr or Thor during the Roman period, and therefore more well documented for reconstructivists to draw on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:55, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
Zeus and Jesus
The quote from the Greek and Roman Mythology Appendix 1, Survival of Ancient Greek Divinities and Myths in the Modern Greece says: Only in a few localities notably in Crete, does any form of the name of Zeus survive, but the g-d still lives under the title [Theos], a title so unequivocal that the Christian can use it without heresy and at the same time square perfectly with the ancient pagan belief"
Peace. Shalom Alleichem. Alleichem (talk) 15:21, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
* You're making this stuff up now. Your edit to the article is completely unsupported by this text either. This quote is nonsense and to use it to demonstrate what you do on the article page is total nonsense. I'm removing it again as it's a ridiculous use of a source. — Gareth Hughes (talk) 15:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
* What have I done wrong? The quote clearly shows that Zeus has crept in unaweres in to the NT in the form of Theos. Alleichem (talk) 15:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC) This is ridiculous. Just because you're a Christian doesn't mean people shouldn't know the truth. It simply means the IMAGE is wrong. Peace Alleichem (talk) 15:38, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
* No, this is not some campaign for the 'truth'; it is the assertion of your own ideas with flimsy evidence. The Greek words 'Theos' and 'Zeus' are linked, and the New Testament uses the word 'Theos' for 'God', but the two links are centuries apart. LXX uses 'Theos' as well, and the word is used very widely to describe a divine being. If you want to bring my Christian faith into this, you might as well include that I read Greek and Hebrew, that I'm a theologian and where I work. What's your line? — Gareth Hughes (talk) 15:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
* I'd hardly call it flimsy evidence, if you wanted I'd study every book I have on the subject and then you could call it flimsy evidence. The truth is I added one sentence on the subject, an opinion that is widely circulated among books and journals. You just said yourself: "The Greek words 'Theos' and 'Zeus' are linked, and the New Testament uses the word 'Theos' for 'God', but the two links are centuries apart." What des it matter if it’s centuries apart? Don't you think people have a right to know? Don't you also believe that people have a right to know of scholarly opinion that Jesus' image is based on that of Zeus? This doesn't make the Messiah look like a counterfeit, only the image. The image is based upon a myth. When I learnt these things I was astounded. Don't you believe in truth? Peace. Alleichem (talk) 12:12, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
* It's not a bout some idea of 'truth'; it's about academic verifiability. You take one source that says one thing and add your interpretation to it. This interpretation is not supported by the reference. Etymological evidence is often misunderstood by people: meanings change. The etymological link between 'Ζευς' and 'Θεος' is a hypothetical one from prehistory. The NT was written in first couple of Christian centuries: the Greek was different. Jews, who would be repugnant to any such link with Zeus, used 'Θεος' to translate אלהים in LXX. If you believe that what you believe is the 'truth' is supported by the paltry evidence you present, then your methodology is severely flawed. Can you not understand that I know what I'm talking about, and when I say it's severely flawed you should take note? Your edits are now disruptive. If you continue to revert the edits of experienced editors and admins, you may be blocked from editing. That is no threat, but an administrative response to disruptive behaviour. — Gareth Hughes (talk) 00:28, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
* Hey, I concur with Gareth Hughes, but you know, you mustn't bite him! Now, as for you, Alleichem: this thing you're saying makes no sense in that it is your view. Sorry, mate, but I don't see it as fit for this article. Perhaps on your own wikispace or user page or something, because it is most definitely original research ;) Cheers! BlackPearl14 [ talkies!•contribs! ] 06:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
This page is such crap--it should not be rated anything close to B, and is a disgrace. I'm never using Wikipedia again. Even the spelling in the first paragraph is WRONG! PulEEEZ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:53, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
* You mean, like the way you spell "puLEEEEEZ"? Hey, we're human. We make mistakes. You find something wrong, fix it yourself. BlackPearl14 [ talkies!•contribs! ] 19:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Or better yet, let those of us with the willingness to do so and the ability to articulate ourselves do it. --Scribeofargos (talk) 03:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Zeus Uranios
Should mention Zeus Uranios/Ouranios... AnonMoos (talk) 12:57, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Zeus = Amon = Baal
Zeus is identified with Amon, which is a demon in demonologist. Zeus is the same as the Egyptian Amun/Amen/Amon and Baal. Has anyone ever seen Amon mentioned in any version of the christian bible? It is claimed "amon" means "so be it" but in fact it means "the hidden one".UnionWorker (talk) 13:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Readability change in intro
I moved the list Greek names for Zeus from the first paragraph of the introduction to the last paragraph of same. This makes for a much smoother read. Metatron the Tetramorph (talk) 19:43, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Wrong Link
need change link: Jupiter to Jupiter (mythology) <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:30, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
* ✅ Thanks for pointing it out. Enigma msg 07:07, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
Death of Zeus... ^^
Just to highlight that is Kratos who kick his butt ^^ lol...Want a proof ? Just wait God Of War 3 to be released ... lol ^^--<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:14, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
Hindu Mythology
I am puzzled why a reference to Indra is present in the opening paragraph. The correlation between the Greek and Roman gods is well known as coming from the same original source. But Hindu mythology? That developed separately, did it not? Thanks <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:08, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Pelasgian, pre-greek origin of Zeus
Homer refers to him as Pelasgian Zeus. Why there is no mention of the Pelasgian origin of Zeus. Much earlier than the arrival of the doric tribes in nowadays Greece?--Lceliku (talk) 03:28, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
sorry
im sorry jelly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittyd101 (talk • contribs) 18:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
BC or BCE
Note: BC or BCE? This article has used the formula BCE since 20 September 2002. Constantly inflicting a change to "BC" is a jejune form of vandalism. --Wetman 00:15, 12 October 2006 (UTC) Jupiter came from the Roman God of achiculture or Zeus. Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar sytem.
* BC is correct. It's the form used for a little less than 2000 years. It's also correct because BCE is a blatant ripoff of BC. It's also not recognized as an acronym by Firefox Spell Checker. <IP_ADDRESS> 02:06, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
* What is Wikipedia's policy on this? Is there a place where it can be discussed? As in most cases the BC/AD notation is used, changing the dates to the incorrect and infrequently used BCE/CE form seems to me to be an act of vandalism.
* Manfi (talk) 11:23, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
* Wikipedia's policy is "leave it alone" whatever convention was used first. The only sensible way. No one ever changes BC to BCE: why do you suppose that is? Cultural maturity do you think? People resent being bullied like this. Try to find something useful to do.--Wetman (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
i love jelly —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Melissa cont'd
This section has just been deleted from the #Melissa# article: "Melissa was a princess of Ancient Crete who served baby Zeus honey after she learnt how to collect it. Out of appreciation he transformed her into a honey bee, preserving her immortality. However, in the stories of Zeus, transformations take on a sexual implication. Zeus often disguised himself as an animal to beguile goddesses and unwilling maidens and Hera often transformed those of Zeus' conquests that offended or threatened her. Sometimes Hera even changed unwilling maidens into animals or plants to rescue them from the lasciviousness of her husband." I wonder whether it ought to be reinstated as no reason was given for deleting it.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 20:24, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
* No, whoever deleted this improved the article. A "princess"? "After she learnt how to collect it": an inserted note of human interest and pseudo-biography? "He transformed her": her very name means "honey". There is no transformation of Zeus in this story. This kind of "tell-it-in-your-own-words" myth babble has carefully been edited out of most of the current Greek mythology articles, to their great improvement. The present text: He was raised by Melissa, who nursed him with goat's-milk and honey: that's all the connection the sources support. --Wetman (talk) 21:44, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
im sorry jelly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittyd101 (talk • contribs) 17:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC) an your so much hotter then megan fox —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mittyd101 (talk • contribs) 18:03, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
What about Zeus' male lovers?
Only the female lovers and their children are noted here... why are the male lovers excluded? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 04:30, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Zeus in Modern Culture
I think this article would be greatly improved by adding a section about Zeus's appearances in popular culture. Subtopics for this would range from his appearance in "Percie Jackson and the Lightning Thief" and "God of War," to the influence Zeus had on the imagery of the modern Christian God. Bartholomewklick (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Argive genealogy in Greek mythology
I've seen other genealogies for Zeus, so I don't think it's a good idea to have this chart listed as a definitive one. I'm all for including it; it makes the article look nicer, but I think we should mention Zeus's origins from the perspective of non-ancient greeks. Bartholomewklick (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Zeus' Other Names.
Could we have something here besides a bulleted list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartholomewklick (talk • contribs) 20:47, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
Biblical Relationship to the birth of Zeus
The word Jesus is a contractive slur of the word Jupiter and Zeus The Bible line, which states this is my beloved son in which I am well pleased is the words of Apollo who's face brightens upon the child's birth. The story of Noah is an ancient story of the birth of Zeus and the great battle which the gods fought for domination of the Earth. The story properly interpreted would indicate that Zeus the planet Jupiter was aquired from outside the solar sytem and not part of the solar sytem during its creation. That the solar system underwent great changes which destroyed two worlds which created the astoroid belt and changed the position of the ruling diety in the solar system. Jupiter became the fith planet and Uranus was forced to become the seventh. This work is Compliments of Michael K. Reilly Author of Gravity Electrical Geometry Electronics and Time Machines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Zeus becomes king of the gods
After reaching manhood, Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge first the stone (which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, the Omphalos) then his siblings in reverse order of swallowing. In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open. Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes, from their dungeon in Tartarus, killing their guard, Campe. As a token of their appreciation, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt, or lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia. Together, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, along with the Gigantes, Hecatonchires and Cyclopes overthrew Cronus and the other Titans, in the combat called the Titanomachy. The defeated Titans were then cast into a shadowy underworld region known as Tartarus. Atlas, one of the titans that fought against Zeus, was punished by having to hold up the sky.
After the battle with the Titans, Zeus shared the world with his elder brothers, Poseidon and Hades, by drawing lots: Zeus got the sky and air, Poseidon the waters, and Hades the world of the dead (the underworld). The ancient Earth, Gaia, could not be claimed; she was left to all three, each according to their capabilities, which explains why Poseidon was the "earth-shaker" (the god of earthquakes) and Hades claimed the humans that died. (See also: Penthus)
Gaia resented the way Zeus had treated the Titans, because they were her children. Soon after taking the throne as king of the gods, Zeus had to fight some of Gaia's other children, the monsters Typhon and Echidna. He vanquished Typhon and trapped him under a mountain, but left Echidna and her children alive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:20, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
eas granted his powers from a poose —Preceding unsigned comment added by Badar-wiki (talk • contribs) 22:56, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
after i wake up i find my shoes so i can take out the garbage. it usually stinks. really bad. really really bad. how does this tie in to zeus? it doesn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Zeus = Deus
Deus(in Laconian), Deus(in Boeotian) Böri (talk) 10:56, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
In Popular Culture
I'm just curious why there are no links to any references of almost any of the major Greek Gods in Popular Culture. I feel as though it's a good way for people to find other interesting topics.
Grimbear13 (talk) 16:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Other Titles...
Palamnaeus- Punisher of Murderers Basileus- King Amboulios-Counsellor Epidotes- Giver of good Soter-Saviour Hypatos-Supreme, Most High Koryphaios-Chief, leader Melchius-Gracious, Merciful Theos Agathos-The Good God Keraunios- Of the thunderbolt ...and last but not least "FATHER OF GODS AND MEN" —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:50, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Pronunciation
Could someone change on my behalf both the English and Ancient Greek pronunciations (I don't want an account). The English would be more accurate as or and the Ancient Greek as I don't have references for either, but as far as I'm aware, one isn't required for the English (just say the word) and the Ancient Greek can be reconstructed from our article on the subject or W. Sidney Allen's Vox Graeca if anyone's unsure. Thanks. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:02, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
ily —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:52, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Pending changes
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Please update the Queue page as appropriate.
Note that I am not involved in this project any much more than any other editor, just posting these notes since it is quite a big change, potentially
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Addition request
Please add "Law, Order and Justice" as things Zeus is a god of. This is hardly disputed.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
From Pantheon.org's article on him:
"Being the supreme ruler he upheld law, justice and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men.........He brought peace in place of violence and Hesiod (circa 700 BCE) describes Zeus as "the lord of justice". Zeus was also known as "Kosmetas" (orderer), "Soter" (savior), "Polieos" (overseer of the polis, city) and "Eleutherios" (guarantor of political freedoms)." <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
* Well, Pantheon.org does not qualify as a reliable source per WP:RS rules. Certainly some other source could be used. DreamGuy (talk) 18:49, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
* Can you put it back anyway? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:05, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hellojelly's request
Hellojelly (talk) 15:24, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. Celestra (talk) 19:09, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Error regarding "Subterranean Zeus"
Subterranean Zeus (Kthonios) and Plouton refers to Zeus' brother, Hades. Please refer to the Orphic Hymn on Hades. Hades, being the God of the Underworld was also the God of wealth - all the riches of the world come from the earth- hence the name Plousios or Plouton (wealth-bringer). To my understanding, those titles are not in reference to Zeus. PLease check and correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:28, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Zen = Zeus
Zenobia: fem. proper name, from Gk. Zenobia, lit. "the force of Zeus," from Zen, collateral form of Zeus, + bia "strength, force," from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Zenobia&searchmode=none
Zeno / Zenon: From the Greek name Ζηνων (Zenon), which was derived from the name of the Greek god ZEUS. Zeno was the name of two famous Greek philosophers: Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school in Athens. from: http://www.behindthename.com/name/zeno Böri (talk) 12:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Deus
in Laconian, in Rhodian and also in Boeotian dialects (see Aeolic Greek article)Böri (talk) 13:04, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Aphrodite
Aphrodite could be born from the sea, as Botticelli's painting suggests, OR daughter of Zeus and Dione.
Aphrodite was NOT I repeat NOT a child of Zeus. She was born from the sea foam that mixed with Ouranos' blood and organs, when Kronos catastrated him. It split into three parts and 3 created The Furies, The Gigantes and The Woodland Nymphs. The last part floated into an oyster and in 32 years created Aphrodite. Aphrodite was not the child of Zeus and Dione. Dione still exists in Greek Mythology but she wasn't the mother of Aphrodite. Dione was just the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and the sister of Pyrrah. Eros, the god of Love and Athena, the wisdom goddess —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
* Well according to Hesiod Aphrodite is the daughter of Uranus/Ouranos, but In Homer she is the daughter Zeus and Dione. See Aphrodite. Paul August ☎ 20:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Yeah but I still agree more that Aphrodite was the daughter of Ouranos. Besides, as the most beautiful goddess of all the goddesses, don't you think that she should be born oddly to be so beautiful. Eros, the god of Love and Athena, the wisdom goddess
* It doesn't matter what you or I "think". Paul August ☎ 01:15, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
* If it dosen't matter why are you writing about it. Eros, the god of Love and Athena, the wisdom goddess
* Wikipedia is not written based on opinion but on facts, and in fact, there are more than one version about Aphrodite's parentage. It doesn't matter which version you agree more. Alagos (talk) 17:12, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Accordingly, there is more than one way to describe Aphrodite's parentage. Some believe she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, others say she is simply the daughter of Zeus. Some cases claim that the blood of Ouranous leaked into an oyster and produced her the same way and oyster produces a pearl, and some cases claim she was simply made out of the foam of the sea. Wikipedia is strictly factual, and opinions aren't what matter. Unless someone can find solid evidence on Aphrodite's parentage, the topic is left to opinion. Therefore, it doesn't matter what the article says. MelancholyPanda (talk) 19:12, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Corrections and comments
This article is fairly decent. It just needs a few more fixes. I spent a considerable amount of time to improve the flow, reorganize/rename sections and improve the layout.
1. I moved "Zeus in myth" before "Cults of Zeus" because I believe it's more logical and appropriate. I believe it's a more rational flow.
2. I improved the "Consorts and children" section. I widened the tables and fixed some entries. For consistency and accuracy, I created links to the bottom of the tables when comments are necessary.
3. I merged "Roles and epithets" with "Additional names and epithets". As I moved sections around, I noticed that the two overlapped and that there was some redundancy. 4. I renamed the "Cults of Zeus" subsections for consistency.
In addition, I would like to know what are the sources for the following two:
1. "In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open."
2. "By Hera, Zeus sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus, though some accounts say that Hera produced these offspring alone. Some also include Eileithyia and Eris as their daughters."
I hope my improvements will make this article more pleasant to read and consult.
ICE77 (talk) 05:46, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Alexander The Great
Alexander the great[Alexander III of Macedonia] was not son of Zeus and Olympia. His father is [Philip II of Macedon]Philip II]], king of Macedonia, and Alexander succeed him as king after his death. MBibovski (talk) 21:09, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Hephaestus Missing from Table
Hephaestus is listed in the article text as being a child of Zeus by an obeiss fat lady. (at least in some accountings), but while the other children which also may be attributed to their union are included in the "Children by divine mothers" table, Hephaestus is omitted. He should be added for completion.
Soralette (talk) 23:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC) Hephaestus was the son of Hera and Zeus, but he was born before Zeus married Hera. Eros, the god of Love and Athena, the wisdom goddess —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC) zeus is a dumb bastard — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:22, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Are you serious?
Listen up I study the Iliad for years and I teach about it in the main university of athens and there is no dione all gods of greek mythology they have nicknames in this poeme and aphrodite was the adopted daughter of Zeus she was the daughter of cronos (zeus father) and the sea!!sorry about the bad quallity of my eng. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:35, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
* Homer Illiad 5. 370 writes "Aphrodite flung herself upon the knees of her mother Dione." Are you saying that "Dione" is a "nickname" for Hera? What is your source for that? The Oxford Classical Dictionary says that "Dione was a consort of Zeus at Dodona". Paul August ☎ 14:39, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
* No confusion here or at Dione.--Wetman (talk) 05:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Dione was also considered a female form of Zeus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:38, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Edit request on 9 December 2011
hi
Marsman325 (talk) 17:44, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
* Hello-- Jac 16888 Talk 17:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
=ANWER
Hypostases
In Greek philosophy especially Platonism there are 'Three Hypostases', the ultimate God is called 'The One' and was identified with Zeus in Parminides. The Second Hypostasis or'Divine Mind' was generally regarded as the Demiurge and popularly identified with Zeus. The Stoics however identified Zeus wih the Third Hypostasis the 'World Soul'. Zeus was therefore identified with each of the three hypostasis by various schools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:40, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Edit request on 10 May 2012
The current text's first paragraph says, ' "Father of Gods and men" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, patēr andrōn te theōn te)[4] who rule the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rule the family.' This is grammatically incorrect, since "rule" should agree in number with "Father." Please change the two instances of "rule" to "rules" - Thank you.
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:16, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
* Seems like a good faith request, don't see a reason why it shouldn't follow normal grammar. Monty 845 05:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
King of the Fucks?
This article begins with describing Zeus as playboy. Where do you reference that to? In which Greek text is he referred to as slaves of the Gods? It would be more appropriate, I think, to say "Father of Gods and men"(Hesiod, Theogony). At least we know that the Greeks worshipped him as such, and this being an article about a Greek God, The Greek God, it certainly would make more sense to add this in the first paragraph if not the opening sentence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Playboy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
* That's a very sensible point.--Wetman (talk) 22:20, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
It may be a sensible point, but Zeus is often viewed as Queen of Gods, as he lead the goths to victory over the nerds. He has control over other Immortals (sort of...) and controls things that happen on earth (ex. the seasons, whether night and day happens, that kind of thing). These are rights that, as it seems to me, are reserved for rulers. MelancholyPanda (talk) 19:05, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Cronion
Cronion links to this article, but is not explained. Does it mean "son of Cronus"? It's used quite a lot in the Odyssey. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:08, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Edit request on 7 December 2012
i Want to add new info
Colby512 (talk) 15:21, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
* Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. — KuyaBriBri Talk 17:02, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Athena
Shouldn't Athena be mentioned up top with his prominent children? seems legit — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Athena is not actually one of Zeus's uncle, he came from his mind. Zeus had his skull cut open and she sprang forth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brandonr1994 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
But it is still his child right? I mean, she came out of Zeus Hermes13 (talk) 20:43, 6 April 2010 (UTC) Hermes13
Athena is Zeus' first child. he swallowed Metis, my mother, and gave birth by Athena himself —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 01:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Athena wasn't simply "imagined" by Zeus. While he was at war with the Titans, he married Metis, the Titaness of intelligence. Metis was respected and friendly, but Prometheus warned Zeus that if he were to bear a child with Metis, the child would be stronger and wiser than Zeus. Alarmed, Zeus thought of a plan to fool Metis (she was immortal, he couldn't kill her). Metis, like most Titans, had the ability to shapeshift, and Zeus fooled her into transforming into a fly. While she was a fly, Zeus swallowed her. That was her end, but after the Titan war, Zeus developed a head-ache. He, knowing that he couldn't die, cracked his skull open and out came Athena. Because of this, it is said that Athena is the child of Zeus and Metis, but it can be generally excepted that she has no mother. I'd say that counts as a prominent child. MelancholyPanda (talk) 19:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Zeus in Rick Riordan's Series 'Heroes of OLYMPUS"
Zeus is though tof as a — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:AEB0:BBF9:CFD:82B2:306B:A51A (talk) 22:08, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Dates are missing.
The only mentions of dates in this article are in captions of picture for when a statue was found. This is the only reference to dates of worship and it's buried way down in the Cult section: "The cult of Zeus at Dodona in Epirus, where there is evidence of religious activity from the second millennium BC onward, centered on a sacred oak. When the Odyssey was composed (circa 750 BC)," Each of the cult sections needs a time frame added.
* When did Zeus worship start?
* Was there a precursor god to Zeus?
* When did the Greeks worship Zeus and when did he fade from common worship?
I really would like some historic perspective about Greek pantheon worship. Did it influence Christianity? Judaism? Was Zeus worship concurrent with Judaism? If these topics are discussed in another article, which one? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:45, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Castor
Castor shouldn't be listed as a son of Zeus by Leda, under semi-divine/mortal section of his offspring. Pollux/Helen were the children of Zeus while Castor/Clytemnestra were the children of Tyndareus. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
* You're right. I've removed Castor. Thanks. Paul August ☎ 00:50, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Zeus in Holy Bible
Should there be an added "Biblical Narrative" added to this article featuring Acts 14:11-13? Twillisjr (talk) 02:12, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Edit request on 18 September 2013
I N4ed TO CHANGE SOME THINGS ON HERE!
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:20, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
* Please provide details of what you would like changed. If your requested changes are substantive, please also provide sources to support them. Monty 845 16:23, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Mistake about Zeus birthplace-Please correct!
The most propable and important place of birth is located on Dictaion andron on mount Dikti according to Hesiod theogony(750-700 bC),Agathocles(2nd century aC)Apollonios o Rodios(295-215bC)Diodoros o Sikeliotis(90-20 bC)etc Dictaion Andron is of far more archeological importance but is given less attention than it deserves and that includes the sorounding area..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 00:13, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Miscellany Bullet List
Many of the items under "Miscellany on Zeus" mentions characters he chose to reward, favor, or punish (which goes with how the Greek gods are described as capricious). Those details could easily be reworked into something under the "Zeus in myth" section. Other bullet points relate to depictions, and symbols related to Zeus. These might be appropriate under either "Roles and epithets" or "Cults of Zeus." w. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:50, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 4 February 2014
There is a mistake in the Zeus article regarding his birthplace!The place of birth is located on Dictaion andron on mount Dikti according to Hesiod theogony(750-700 bC),Agathocles(2nd century aC)Apollonios o Rodios(295-215bC)Diodoros o Sikeliotis(90-20 bC)etc Dictaion Andron is of far more archeological importance
Talos Severin (talk) 11:15, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
❌ The birthplace of an imaginary god can never be established, as he was never born anywhere, so there can only be myths and contradictory myths. The current birthplace appears to be cited to a reliable text. If you wish to add alternative myths, you will need to quote specific references (title, author page-number etc.) However, do not remove the existing - but state there is disagreement. The archaeological importance of somewhere is irrelevant to a mythical birth. The article is currently unprotected so you can do this yourself. Arjayay (talk) 08:52, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 5 February 2014
swich all the tunder words to blunt
FreeUsername123 (talk) 04:08, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: as you have not requested a change. Arjayay (talk) 08:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 18 February 2014
Zues is the middle child.
Abby72597 (talk) 00:57, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
* Source? -- Neil N talk to me 00:59, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Edit request-wrong birthplace!
Th birthplace of Zeus (according to Hesiod Cosmogony,Apollonios o Rhodios,Aratos,Arrianos etc)is located on the Dikti mountains in the cave of Psychro!The Idi mountains is mentioned in much later myth which says that Idi was his second refuge from Kronos but never his birthplace! I am new at this please someone correct it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Talos Severin (talk • contribs) 00:16, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
* Please see my answer to your request above, As the article is currently unprotected you can do this yourself, but please do not remove cited material, or the article will be protected again. You may wish to read WP:Referencing for beginners - Arjayay (talk) 08:57, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
* Well, I see it's been done and reverted, "see Mount Ida". Mount Ida describes it as Zeus's hiding place. Mount Ida (Crete) describes it as his birthplace. Cave of Zeus has just changed from Mount Ida to Dikti, however, by, a pretty experienced editor. Dikti says explicitly there are two myths. Pinkbeast (talk) 12:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
* I undid my reversion of the change from Mount Ida to Dikti. I did not make the change to Dikti. I undid the reversion because a brief check of sources in various Wikipedia articles led me to conclude that there are three different possibilities and that I could not easily determine which one was correct. So I went with good faith on the change. Such little understanding as I had of the matter was that Mount Ida was correct but this seems to be a matter of dispute. Donner60 (talk) 00:26, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* Sorry, I appreciate you did not initially make the change, but undid the reversion. However, I think the situation at the moment is untenable. Some of the text in Cave of Zeus pertains to a real physical cave, as do the photos (although as mentioned I think the second one is probably of the cave in Turkey). Which cave's got the "beautiful stalagmites and stalactites"? Pinkbeast (talk) 01:03, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
There are many different traditions concerning the birth of Zeus, none is "correct"."Zeus" in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Ed. says the following:
* "Before the hour of birth came, Uranus and Ge sent Rhea to Lyctos in Crete, requesting her to bring up her child there. Rhea accordingly concealed her infant in a cave of Mount Aegaeon, and gave to Cronos a stone wrapped up in cloth, which he swallowed in the belief that it was his son. Other traditions state that Zeus was born and brought up on Mount Dicte or Ida (also the Trojan Ida), Ithome in Messenia, Thebes in Boeotia, Aegion in Achaia, or Olenos in Aetolia. According to the common account, however, Zeus grew up in Crete."
Paul August ☎ 01:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* I have some further thoughts on my talk page but I will add something similar here. I note that if more than one possibility exists, I think each one should be mentioned. If one is unsupportable or far-fetched, it should be excluded. If more than one possibility concerns a physical cave, pictures of each cave should be included. If some of the possibilities are myth, that should be made clear. If one possibility is more accepted than others, and several references show this, that should be mentioned. The bottom line is that I am not an expert, I originally thought that Mt. Ida was the only possibility but it seems other credible references exist. I do not want to get involved in a controversy about which I apparently do not know as much as I thought I did. So with these thoughts, if they are acceptable to editors working on this, I will leave the matter to those who know more or who are willing to do more research and cite reliable, verifiable sources for edits to the article. Donner60 (talk) 01:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* This seems a little odd because, well, they're all myth, Zeus not being real.
* I propose the following. We edit this article in accordance with 's cite above; I was hoping something like that would turn up. We revert Cave of Zeus to be the one on Mount Ida (Crete), because I believe the bits of physical cave description in that article pertain to that one, but note there is more than one Cave of Zeus. Ditto Psychro Cave, Mount Ida (Crete), Mount Ida, Dikti, etc; try and avoid any page having a statement that there is one generally-agreed birthplace of Zeus (in the way that, say, Jesus is generally agreed to have been born in Bethlehem). What do you think? Pinkbeast (talk) 02:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
* Does any other editor have an opinion? I'm reluctant to make such widespread changes on my own say-so. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:08, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
* I think you should go ahead a make the changes you think are appropriate. Any problems that arise can be fixed. Paul August ☎ 13:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
* Done (finally, ahem). Pinkbeast (talk) 16:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
"Not to be confused with Dr Seuss"
Has anyone ever actually confused Zeus with Dr Seuss? This seems a silly edit to me. Pinkbeast (talk) 11:36, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Agreed. Removed. Nsteinberg (talk) 07:29, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 15 April 2014
would you be able add a photo to this page for me? two of my brothers feel this is an important photo. this movie is their fantasy of turning me to dust. http://0.tqn.com/d/scifi/1/0/Z/j/0/-/COTT2-00792r.jpg
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:18, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
❌ That image appears to be copyright. Arjayay (talk) 20:08, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Opening paragraph presents Zeus as real
The opening paragraph is terrible. Maybe change to: Zeus is one of the twelve major deities of the Greek pantheon.
* The first sentence ends "according to the ancient Greek religion." The second, and the infobox, identify him as a god. I think most people know that gods (except whichever they believe in) are not real. Pinkbeast (talk) 14:52, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 24 May 2014
You put Zeus in Myth instead of Zeus in Legend. As in the fact that Zues never existed. AS this has happened Zeus is not a myth and in fact a legend for he may have existed and we can not prove otherwise.
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Zeus Herkeios
I see the god called Horkios, protector of oaths, the title for (e.g.) his statue in the Bouleuterion at Olympos, but not Herkeios, defender of the home, the title for his humbler statue in many an ancient Greek courtyard. I'm not finding anything that strikes me as a suitable secondary source, so I'm bringing the point up here and hoping a better scholar than I can add it to the article, properly footnoted. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 04:31, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
no dates?
some dates on when zeus first starts appearing in mythology, when the religion declined, and how many followers it had at its height seems needed <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 07:10, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
That's covered pretty well in the general Greek mythology article--and some of those linked to it. And I think dating each mythical figure individually is a finer level of detail than is suitable for an encyclopedia article. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 04:37, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 1 August 2014
Well, I would like to edit the page because you didn't include Hercules in the list of children of Zeus. So, please let me edit or edit it yourself. Thank you.
Failuremonument Woas (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
* Heracles (note this is the correct Greek spelling of the name) is included in the list of offspring already. QuiteUnusual (talk) 08:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Article Rewrite
Alright, I'll flat out say it: This article is terrible. It needs to be rewritten. To begin with, this article needs to be chronological; that means the earliest sources need to be handled first, not just lumped into arbitrary categories. Second, someone really ought to go through the talk page here and purge the vandalism and bulletin board blather. Had I more time on my hands, I would gladly do it, but meanwhile this message may assist in inspiring someone to go ahead. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
Zeus's Infancy
The "infancy" section states categorically that Zeus was raised on Mt Ida, when this is in fact only one of many traditions. Hesiod places Zeus's birth on Mount Aegeum [Aegaeon] (Theogony - line 484), and The Library of Greek Mythology (pseudo- Apollodorus) says Zeus was "...brought [...] to birth in a cave on Mount Dicte[Dikte]." The Ideon and Dikteon caves are both tourist attractions on Crete, as can be seen in most travel books (Lonely Planet etc.) I would also like to know if his birth on Mt. Ida is a folk tradition or if we have a document that states this. AParks2012 (talk) 20:19, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
I've just added Dictaeon Andron as one of the variants of the Amalthea story, I thought it unwise (readability), to either contradict the Mt. Ida intro or introduce an extra possibility to the list.Pincrete (talk) 23:49, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
"Earthshaker" error?
Worship of Zeus originated among the heirs of your face, where he was well known as the Earthshaker. I had to insert Myceneans for obvious reasons. But the 'Earth Shaker' is Poseidon, the son of god. But the consort of the two goddesses of Crete and Mycenean Pylos, is he not? I've left that for you all to puzzle out. Wetman 03:21, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
I think that though Poseidon was the Earthshaker, that they may have thought that since Zeus and Poseidon were brothers Zeus would have some of that power. Therefore Zeus had the thunder so that might have "shaken the ground".[User:Kangaroo2] 05:19, 1 December 2008
What?
"Christian patristic writers took up the suggestion with ethnu"? What? I would add a period to the sentence, but that doesn't even make sense.
Kronos
It is Kronos, not Cronus
Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2014
Zeus (Ancient Greek: Ζεύς, Zeús; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días; English pronunciation /ˈzjuːs/[3] or /ˈzuːs/) is the "Father of Gods and men" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, patḕr andrōn te theōn te)[4] who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family according to the ancient Greek religion. He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Zeus is etymologically cognate with and, under Hellenic influence, became particularly closely identified with Roman Jupiter.
Zeus is the child of Cronia and Rhes, and the youngest of his siblings. In most traditions he is married to Hera, although, at the oracle of Dodona, his consort is Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione.[5] He is known for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.[6]
As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence."[7] For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. As Pausanias observed, "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men".[8] In Hesiod's Theogony Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods.
His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, Nephelēgereta)[9] also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty
<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:12, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
* Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: looks like you just want to change Cronus and Rhea to Cronia and Rhes. Don't see why. That seems to be incorrect. Cannolis (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Pronunciation
The Ancient/Classic pronounciation given ([zdeǔ̯s]) is definitely wrong. Please provide a source and/or compare with the articles on ancient greek pronounciation, help:IPA_for_Greek and even the 'name' section of this article. While there is some uncertainty of the usage of Zeta for Dz or Zd in some cases, this does not apply to Zeus (as all other languages clearly show). --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:31, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
* See Dionysius Thrax' explicit testimony that zeta was generally pronounced like sigma + delta. This overrides comparative evidence – which is anyway not decisive in a case like this, since pronunciations can change. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 16:42, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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This page is being edited by a student in WikiEd course at Colgate University/CORE151 : Legacies of the Ancient World (Fall_2015) Tdisibio (talk) 16:35, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Miscellany
Is the miscellany section worth saving at all? It is (with the exception of the mention of Athena as Zeus' favourite daughter) entirely unsourced, and it largely doesn't appear relevant to the article on Zeus. It might be the case, for instance, that Bia was described as being a constant companion to Zeus, but she is sufficiently obscure (her own article manages to find only 100 lines of Hesiod in which she is mentioned), but if we're going to have every mythological figure with only one line of poetry mentioning their connection with Zeus in this article, it's going to be absurdly large.
There are a few figures in this section who are fairly notable in their own right, and might manage to make it into the body of the article elsewhere (Prometheus, for instance, has a few interactions with Zeus: Hesiod mentions the Trick at Mecone, and Prometheus stealing fire from the gods and his subsequent punishment, which appears in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, for example). Even here I'm unconvinced, though...
Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 13:09, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
* Seeing as no one has objected in almost a month, I have gone ahead and removed this from the article. In case anyone wants to work anything here into the body of the article, it is reproduced below:
*Zeus is sometimes depicted as a middle-aged man with strong muscular arms. His facial hair can be a full beard and mustache or just stubble. *Zeus turned Pandareus to stone for stealing the golden dog which had guarded him as an infant in the holy Dictaeon Cave of Crete. *Zeus killed Salmoneus with a thunderbolt for attempting to impersonate him, riding around in a bronze chariot and loudly imitating thunder. *Zeus turned Periphas into an eagle, making him the king of birds. *At the marriage of Zeus and Hera, a nymph named Chelone refused to attend. Zeus transformed her into a tortoise (chelone in Greek). *Zeus, with Hera, turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains (the Balkan mountains, or Stara Planina, and Rhodope mountains, respectively) for their vanity. *Zeus condemned Tantalus to eternal torture in Tartarus for trying to trick the gods into eating the flesh of his butchered son Pelops. *Zeus condemned Ixion to be tied to a fiery wheel for eternity as punishment for attempting to violate Hera. *Zeus sank the Telchines beneath the sea. *Zeus blinded the seer Phineus and sent the Harpies to plague him as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods. *Zeus rewarded Tiresias with a life three times the norm as reward for ruling in his favour when he and Hera contested which of the sexes gained the most pleasure from the act of love. *Zeus punished Hera by having her hung upside down from the sky when she attempted to drown Heracles in a storm. *Of all the children Zeus spawned, Heracles was often described as his favorite. Indeed, Heracles was often called by various gods and people "the favorite son of Zeus", Zeus and Heracles were very close and in one story, where a tribe of earth-born Giants threatened Olympus and the Oracle at Delphi decreed that only the combined efforts of a lone god and mortal could stop the creature, Zeus chose Heracles to fight by his side. They proceeded to defeat the monsters. *Athena has at times been called his favorite daughter and adviser. *His sacred bird was the golden eagle, which he kept by his side at all times. Like him, the eagle was a symbol of strength, courage, and justice. *His favourite tree was the oak, symbol of strength. Olive trees were also sacred to him. *Zelus, Nike, Cratos and Bia were Zeus' retinue. *Zeus condemned Prometheus to having his liver eaten by a giant eagle for giving the Flames of Olympus to the mortals. *When Hera gave birth to Hephaestus, Zeus threw him off the top of Mount Olympus because of his repulsive appearance.
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* I 'piped' to 'goat's milk' rather than goat milk. Pincrete (talk) 10:45, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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King of the Gods ?
User:Keivan.f, User:Bloodofox , regarding this edit. Would it not be simpler to put 'Ruled as King of the Gods' and omit 'God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, justice'? I am arguing not from close knowledge, rather from the pov that infobox should summarise briefly and therefore 'King of the Gods' is how he is mostly known. Keeping an uncluttered infobox, is the base from which I am working, but am happy to be told how ignorant I might be about the subject! Pincrete (talk) 14:57, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
* The edit isn't accurate. The page has a huge number of issues at the moment and this adds another. It has no concern for nuance, detail, or source relation—it's a mass of WP:SYNTH. And rather than discussing how the figure of Zeus developed over time, it's stuck in a synchronic perspective with little concern for the diachronic. It has more in common with Bulfinch's Mythology than where scholarship is at in 2016. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:23, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
* Fair enough! I largely have this article on my list as a 'vandal watcher'. Pincrete (talk) 23:06, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Student Edit
Hi, I recently edited the page with 3 new sections I have been researching for a while. Would love to receive feedback, and thank you for not editing too much during this process!Tdisibio (talk) 02:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
It Good to know Blackburn0805 (talk) 15:46, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
It Good to know Blackburn0805 (talk) 15:46, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Some Suggestions:
Hi I'm a Rookie Wikipedian. (Still not sure if this is going to look right...So sorry) I'm not an expert on the subject unfortunately but some possible suggestions to improve this article is:
* 1) Put a section describing the development of Zeus' depiction since it's hard to get that sense when its all sorted into different sections. So there might as well be a section for it.
* 2) I know that Zeus has plenty of myths concerning him, so it would be nice to have a summarized version of the most well known ones or at least a label with a link to another article on the myth (For example, "Zeus and Ganymede's myth" with it linked to Ganymede>>I guess I just have a problem with the way the info. is sorted)
* 3) Going along the lines of #2, Maybe we can put a list of Zeus' lovers in general including both genders
* 4) Have a section devoted to Zeus' depiction in other books, such as Odyssey, Aenied, or other local myths so that it's easier to find.
That's all I can think of at the top of my head. Hope it was hopeful. :) Stacey.banh (talk) 18:10, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
Children of Hera
On the article it is said that Hebe, Hephaestus and Ares may have been born merely by Hera. As of Hebe in an alternative version it's said that "Her mother Hera became pregnant merely by eating a lettuce plant when dining with Apollo". As Athena was also born by Zeus without recourse to Hera, she bore Hephaestus alone. But what about Ares? In a part of Iliad Zeus tells Ares "And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, since you are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you", which obviously means that Ares is his son but is there another story about his birth? I couldn't find it anywhere. If there's no mention of an alternative version, then isn't it right to correct that note which says he might be born merely by Hera? Keivan.f Talk 23:00, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 29 November 2016
Hi! Please add the following categories on this page:
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Thank you! FábioEscorpião (talk) 15:40, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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Nike
change ((Nike)) to ((Nike (mythology)|Nike))
Done Well spotted. Pincrete (talk) 14:59, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2017
I'd like to edit Zeus, below his picture, as being a member of the Olympians. Tim McGervey (talk) 22:22, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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Page:Yiddish Tales.djvu/122
118 SHOLOM-ALECHEM
And it came to pass one day that something hap- pened.
It was on a fine, bright, cloudless day; we were all sitting at table, eating breakfast, and the clock struck. Now I always loved to hear the clock strike and count the strokes out loud:
"One two three seven eleven twelve thir- teen! Oi! Thirteen?"
"Thirteen?" exclaimed my father, and laughed. "You're a fine arithmetician (no evil eye!). Whenever did you hear a clock strike thirteen?"
"But I tell you, it struck thirteen !"
"I shall give you thirteen slaps," cried my father, angrily, "and then you won't repeat this nonsense again. Goi, a clock cannot strike thirteen !"
"Do you know what, Simcheh," put in my mother, "I am afraid the child is right, I fancy I counted thirteen, too."
"There's another witness!" said my father, but it appeared that he had begun to feel a little doubtful himself, for after the meal he went up to the clock, got upon a chair, gave a turn to a little wheel inside the clock, and it began to strike. We all counted the strokes, nodding our head at each one the while: one two three seven nine twelve thirteen.
"Thirteen!" exclaimed my father, looking at us in amaze. He gave the wheel another turn, and again the clock struck thirteen. My father got down off the chair with a sigh. He was as white as the wall, and remained standing in the middle of the room, stared at the ceiling, chewed his beard, and muttered to himself: | WIKI |
RSP Science Hub International Research Journal on Advanced Science Hub 2582-4376 3 11 2021 11 30 Clean Energy from Plastic: Production of Pyrolysis Oil from Plastic Waste 243 250 16802 10.47392/irjash.2021.262 EN Pradeep Kumar Krishnan Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman 0000-0002-4954-5066 Anfal Abdullah Reashid Al Araimi Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Sultanate of Oman Journal Article 2021 09 26 <em>Plastic materials’ applications are expanding on a daily basis due to their unique properties, which enable them to replace other materials in their appli- cations while still meeting customer needs thanks to advanced technology. In Sultanate of Oman 20.9% of the solid waste are plastics. As a result, more plas- tic produced, which leads to an increase in plastic waste. Since it is produced from an unsustainable crude oil source using a high-energy consuming method, plastic waste contributes significantly to soil, water, and even air pollution. As a result, they are non- biodegradable, resulting in high greenhouse gas emis- sions, a plastic waste crisis, and the non-renewable fossil fuel petroleum being depleted. One of the methods for handling plastic waste that has been devel- oped is the energy recovery process. Given that petroleum was the primary source of plastic, converting it to liquid oil via pyrolysis had enormous poten- tial, as the resulting oil had a calorific value comparable to commercial fuel. Pyrolysis of plastics is a chemical reaction in which larger molecules are bro- ken down into smaller molecules using heat. As a result, the aim of this study is to catalytically pyrolyze most commonly plastic waste (PET, HDPE) into a liquid oil using a spent FCC catalyst. This will contribute to the plastic waste management program while also providing a renewable energy source which can be used in boilers combustion and engines fueling, reducing plastic waste. Pyrolysis has been found to be an excellent solution for transforming Petro- plastics into different functional products, with liquid oil production reaching up to 80%, according to previous studies. This study conduct Pyrolysis of PET and HDPE plastic waste the poly fuel produced was analyzed by Gas Chro- matography (GC) instrument and compared with commercial diesel properties.</em> Pollution Plastic Waste Pyrolysis Liquid oil FCC Catalyst PET HDPE Poly Fuel https://rspsciencehub.com/article_16802_ec81ad5fd204a31747d3dfaba238a0dd.pdf | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
@article{Lezhenina_Vasilieva_2020, place={Kyiv, Ukraine}, title={On the biology of the East Asian seed beetle Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhreus, 1839) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), an adventive species for Ukraine}, volume={54}, url={http://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/78}, DOI={10.15407/zoo2020.04.307}, abstractNote={<p>Results of studying the biology of the East Asian seed beetle <em>Megabruchidius dorsalis </em>(Fåhreus, 1839) (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) in the laboratory and field conditions of Kharkiv Region are presented. Mainly the fourth instar larvae and adult beetles hibernate in beans on the ground, in beans on trees and in shelters. Overwintered beetles appear in the first decade of May and do not need maturation feeding. The beans of honey locust (<em>Gleditsia triacanthos </em>L.) are an important factor in stimulating the start of oviposition. The beetles start oviposition only 8‒11 days after emergence if only the seeds are proposed as a substrate, but if the beans are present, the beetles begin to mate and lay eggs in two days. Fertility of females in the laboratory is 110±40 eggs. Egg mortality under natural conditions is 50–93%. <em>Megabruchidius dorsalis</em> did not colonize the seeds of chickpeas (<em>Cicer arietinum </em>L.) and lentils (<em>Lens culinaris </em>Medik.). The beetle inhabited 10–40 % of seeds of vigna (<em>Vigna </em><em>sesquipedalis </em>Fruw) and common beans (<em>Phaseolus vulgaris </em>L.), but the 1<sup>st</sup> instar larvae died. Most of the growing season the beetles use the seeds of <em>Gleditsia </em>of previous years as a fodder substrate both in the native range and in the Kharkiv Region. Only in the second half of August they inhabit the seeds of the current year’s crop. In the Kharkiv Region, <em>M. dorsalis</em> has three generations per year like in its native range in Sagamihara (Japan). The development duration of one generation in the laboratory is 37 days at 27 ºC and 41 days at 25 ºC.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Zoodiversity}, author={Lezhenina, I. P. and Vasilieva, Yu. V.}, year={2020}, month={Jul.} } | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Vol 69.djvu/442
424 Experiment. 1 Density at C, 0-916335 Weight assigned. 3 2
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Weighted mean ... 0-9160
We thus obtain 0*9160 gramme per cubic centimetre as the density of ice at C.
Four values for the coefficient of cubical expansion can be obtained from these results. They are :
Experiment. Coefficient of cubical expansion.
1 0-000155
2 0-000152
3 0-000153
4.. 0-000148
Mean 0-000152
The results of this investigation are that Nichols' value for the density of artificial ice is confirmed, but that since the same specimen of water can freeze into specimens of ice having different density, the use of the Bunsen ice calorimeter in absolute determinations must be limited to an accuracy of probably one in a thousand.
The expenses of this research have been in part defrayed by a Government grant from the Royal Society, and in part by the Cavendish Laboratory.
I wish to thank Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., for his kind en- couragement, and my thanks are also due to Mr. E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., through whom I was led to undertake the investigation. | WIKI |
HMS Helena (1778)
HMS Helena was a 14-gun sloop of the Royal Navy and briefly of the French Navy. Captured by the French Navy in August 1778 and recommissioned as the Hélene, she was recaptured for Great Britain by HMS Ambuscade on 22 June 1779. She ran aground on the Dutch coast on 3 November 1796 with the loss of all hands.
Service
Helena was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1778. (She may originally have been a French vessel named Hélene.) The French captured her in September 1778, and took her into service under her existing name, or perhaps as Helene. HMS Ambuscade recaptured her for the British on 22 June 1779. A storm drove her ashore on the Dutch coast on 3 November 1796; there were no survivors. | WIKI |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tagmar
The result was no consensus. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 02:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Tagmar
* ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)
Appears to be non-notable role-playing game. Only references are in Portuguese, but are to the game's sites. Can't see evidence of third-party references. The ghits for Tagar seem to mostly be player names in other RPGs. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:23, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
* Being the first Brazilian RPG would make them notable if there was proof. Right now it looks like a typical 13 in a dozen game. - Mgm|(talk) 10:36, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
* Comment. See the section GSA Editora on this page. While I wouldn't necessarily trust this site, it does claim that Tagmar was at least created by the first Brazilian RPG-making company. D ARTH P ANDA talk 15:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TravellingCari 23:46, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Brazil-related deletion discussions. -- TravellingCari 23:47, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
* Note: This debate has been included in the list of Game-related deletion discussions. -- TravellingCari 23:47, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
* Delete no independent reliable sources stabilish verifiable Notability. Tosqueira (talk) 00:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
* weak keep I think. looks minor, but seem to be a RS. is even more of a passing mention. could be quite solid, but I'm not sure. Hobit (talk) 01:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
* Comment It is still too trivial. Does not seem to have enough coverage from reliable independent sources to stabilish notability. Tosqueira (talk) 01:52, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
* Can you help out with the last source? It looks like a chapter in a book that covers Portuguese RPGs, but I really can't tell. In any case, the coverage in the first source is boarder-line enough given the things found above (IMO of course). Hobit (talk) 01:57, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
* Comment It is trivial. The last source is not a book about RPGs, it seems to be an academic essay (WP:OR) about RPGs published in some proceedings. Per WP:N still does not have enough coverage from WP:IS WP:RS. Tosqueira (talk) 11:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
* An academic essay would be fair game. WP:OR simply prevents us from adding our own original research. Zagalejo^^^ 05:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 20:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
* Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz talk 02:29, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
* Delete Lacks notability and sourcing. Trivial coverage in Portgugese sources will not allow us to construct a good encyclopedia article. Fletcher (talk) 07:14, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
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BitmapInterpolationMode enumeration
Specifies the interpolation mode used for scaling pixel data.
Syntax
public enum class BitmapInterpolationMode
Attributes
VersionAttribute(NTDDI_WIN8)
Members
The BitmapInterpolationMode enumeration has these members.
MemberValueDescription
NearestNeighbor | nearestNeighbor0
A nearest neighbor interpolation algorithm. Also known as nearest pixel or point interpolation. The output pixel is assigned the value of the pixel that the point falls within. No other pixels are considered.
Linear | linear1
A bilinear interpolation algorithm. The output pixel values are computed as a weighted average of the nearest four pixels in a 2x2 grid.
Cubic | cubic2
A bicubic interpolation algorithm. Destination pixel values are computed as a weighted average of the nearest sixteen pixels in a 4x4 grid.
Fant | fant3
A Fant resampling algorithm. Destination pixel values are computed as a weighted average of the all the pixels that map to the new pixel in a box shaped kernel.
Remarks
This enumeration is used when setting the InterpolationMode property of a BitmapTransform.
In general, moving from NearestNeighbor to Fant, interpolation quality increases while performance decreases.
Requirements
Minimum supported client
Windows 8
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2012
Namespace
Windows.Graphics.Imaging
Windows::Graphics::Imaging [C++]
Metadata
Windows.winmd
See also
BitmapTransform
Build date: 12/4/2012
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Page:The theory of psychoanalysis (IA theoryofpsychoan00jungiala).pdf/50
impossible to transfer the libido theory, with its sexual definition, directly to dementia præcox, as this disease shows a loss of reality not to be explained by the deficiency in erotic interests.
It gives me particular satisfaction that our master also, when he placed his hand on the fragile material of paranoiac psychology, felt himself compelled to doubt the applicability of his conception of libido which had prevailed hitherto. My position of reserve towards the ubiquity of sexuality which I allowed myself to adopt in the preface to my "Psychology of Dementia Præcox"—although with a complete recognition of the psychological mechanism—was dictated by the conception of the libido theory of that time. Its sexual definition did not enable me to explain those disturbances of functions which affect the indefinite sphere of the instinct of hunger, just as much as they do those of sexuality. For a long time the libido theory seemed to me inapplicable to dementia præcox.
With greater experience in my analytical work, I noticed that a slow change of my conception of libido had taken place. A genetic conception of libido gradually took the place of the descriptive definition of libido contained in Freud's "Three Contributions." Thus it became possible for me to replace, by the expression "psychic energy," the term libido. The next step was that I asked myself if now-a-days the function of reality consists only to a very small extent of sexual libido, and to a very large extent of other impulses. It is still a very important question, considered from the phylogenetic standpoint, whether the function of reality is not, at least very largely, of sexual origin. It is impossible to answer this question directly, in so far as the function of reality is concerned. We shall try to come to some understanding by a side-path.
A superficial glance at the history of evolution suffices to teach us that innumerable complicated functions, whose sexual character must be denied, are originally nothing but derivations from the instinct of propagation. As is well known, there has been an important displacement in the fundamentals of propagation during the ascent through the animal scale. The offspring has | WIKI |
BRIEF-CD Projekt To Cooperate With Digital Scapes on Cyberpunk 2077
Oct 9 (Reuters) - CD PROJEKT SA: * SAID ON MONDAY CD PROJEKT RED HAS STARTED LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH CANADA’S DIGITAL SCAPES * CANADIAN STUDIO TO CLOSELY COOPERATE WITH CD PROJEKT RED ON CREATING AND OPTIMIZING TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR USE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CYBERPUNK 2077 * DIGITAL SCAPES IS A DEVELOPMENT STUDIO SPECIALIZING IN IN AAA MULTIPLAYER CONSOLE AND PC GAME DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPMENT TOOL CREATION, ASSET PRODUCTION, AND CLOUD COMPUTING Source text: bit.ly/2RCcRbO Further company coverage: (Gdynia Newsroom) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Cacica mine
The Cacica mine is a large salt mine located in northern Romania in Suceava County, close to Cacica. Cacica represents one of the largest salt reserves in Romania having estimated reserves of 238 million tonnes of NaCl. | WIKI |
Gandhi revision Essay
Decolonization and liberation happened in many different parts of the world during the Twentieth Century. During this time period, many authors became well-renowned for their writings and beliefs. Such authors include Che and Fannon. Each used their own methods and writing styles in order to reach their goals for the world. Maybe the most famous of all of the authors, was Mohandas Gandhi.
Before becoming an author, Gandhi practiced law in London. His practice did not work very well. As a result he returned to India; where, in 1909 he wrote Hind Swaray. Gandhi believed in non-violence and practiced this belief regularly. The practice of non-violence was often referred to as Satygrayha. The practice of Satygrayah involved fasting, non-cooperation, as well as many other practices.
Gandhi hoped to open his reader’s hearts and minds to non-violence and truth. He also encouraged fasting, boycotts, non-cooperation, and living spiritually. Fasting always drew attention from the public. Non-cooperation involved the boycott of services, etc., to those who’s ideals were not the same as your own. His main goal in life was to liberate India from British rule, which he hoped non-violence would accomplish.
Gandhi never used a particular style in his writings. However he wrote precisely and clearly. The majority of Gandhi’s writings are persuasive and also instructive. When one reads Ghandi’s writings he or she gets the sence that the author wishes that you believe in his cause. He also describes exactly how a believer in non-violence should practice this way of living. Therefore, his method of writing was unlike any standard method used by most authors.
The reasoning behind Gandhi using his own personal style and method is because it mirrored his own personal life. He wrote simply and truthfully. Gandhi also used his own personal style in hopes that his readers would live their own lives the same way. Ghandi believed that everyone within India could unite regardless of their race, religion, or beliefs. He wanted India to become pure through spirituality and non-violence.
At last, Gandhi finally reached his major goal. He saw the fulfillment of his efforts to liberate India from Colonial rule. Sadly, Gandhi’s life came to an abrupt end on January 30th, 1948. Gandhi was murdered by Hindu fanatics. However, his writings and beliefs of non-violence are still read and practiced around the world. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Gopaldas Shankarlal Agrawal
Gopaldas Shankarlal Agrawal was a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Gondiya Constituency. He joined Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. It is his third term as an MLA. A RTI question revealed that Agrawal was amongst those who didn't ask a single question during the winter session of assembly held in Nagpur from 9 to 20 December 2013. A PIL filed by him against his own government revealed the government being unable to meet deadline of 19 February 2014, with regards to measures necessary in connection to starting a medical college in Gondia. This allegedly caused the MCI to reject the proposal. He was also the Chairman of Public Accounts Committee Maharashtra Legislature (PAC). | WIKI |
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Bullet Native Client Acceleration Module
Native Client Acceleration Modules
90% Web App
Native Performance Where You Need It
Native Client (NaCl) Acceleration Modules (AM) are a new way of using Native Client. In a nutshell they allow you to expose a JavaScript API to C/C++ code. The C/C++ code runs at native speed inside the NaCl sandbox. The application logic runs inside JavaScript.
For low level details on how this works check out my GDL talk here.
To help show this technology off I've created a demo that shows the Bullet Physics engine simulating 400 rigid bodies in real time. On my machine simulation takes only 2 milliseconds. The time it takes to transfer the data from NaCl to JavaScript is negligible. All drawing is done using Three.js.
What's really fun about the demo is that you can create your own scenes and watch them run. Grab your text editor and paste this into it:
{
"shapes": [
{
"name": "box",
"type": "cube",
"wx": 1,
"wy": 1,
"wz": 1
}
],
"bodies": [
{
"shape": "box",
"position": {
"x": 0.0,
"y": 1.0,
"z": 0.0
},
"rotation": {
"x": 0.0,
"y": 0.0,
"z": 0.0
},
"mass": 1.0,
"friction": 0.5
}
]
}
First let's discuss the "shapes" array. It contains an array of shape objects. Each shape object must have a name and a type. There are four shape types:
1. cube
2. cylinder
3. sphere
4. convex
The "cube" shape type has the following parameters:
1. wx
2. wy
3. wz
The three together specify the width, height, and depth of the cube.
The "cylinder" shape type has the following parameters:
1. radius
2. height
The radius specifies how thick the cylinder is and the height how tall it is.
The "sphere" shape type has the following parameters:
1. radius
Which sets the radius of the sphere.
The final shape type "convex" has the following parameters:
• points
Which is an array of points like the following:
points: [
[0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
[0.0, 1.0, 0.0],
[0.0, 0.0, 1.0],
[0.0, 0.0, 1.0],
[2.0, 5.0, 1.0],
[1.0, 1.0, 1.0]
]
A convex hull is created out of these points, allowing for any convex shape to be created.
After specifying the shapes, the bodies array specifies the actual physical bodies in the scene:
{
"shape": "box",
"position": {
"x": 0.0,
"y": 1.0,
"z": 0.0
},
"rotation": {
"x": 0.0,
"y": 0.0,
"z": 0.0
},
"mass": 1.0,
"friction": 0.5
}
Each body specifies the shape name. Position has x,y,z specifying where the origin of the shape is. The rotation is euler angles of yaw, pitch, and roll. Mass and friction specify how the object will move around in the world.
Once you've created your JSON scene description, pick the "Choose File" demo and load it. If you want to replay it, pick the 'Reload Scene' button. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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SOP/SOP_Flatten.C
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*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* The Flatten SOP. This SOP Flattens the geometry onto a plane.
*/
#include "SOP_Flatten.h"
#include <SOP/SOP_Guide.h>
#include <GU/GU_Detail.h>
#include <GA/GA_Iterator.h>
#include <OP/OP_Operator.h>
#include <UT/UT_Matrix3.h>
#include <UT/UT_Matrix4.h>
#include <UT/UT_Vector3.h>
#include <SYS/SYS_Math.h>
#include <stddef.h>
using namespace HDK_Sample;
void
{
"hdk_flatten",
"Flatten",
1,
1,
NULL));
}
static PRM_Name names[] = {
PRM_Name("usedir", "Use Direction Vector"),
PRM_Name("dist", "Distance"),
};
};
{
return new SOP_Flatten(net, name, op);
}
: SOP_Node(net, name, op), myGroup(NULL)
{
// This indicates that this SOP manually manages its data IDs,
// so that Houdini can identify what attributes may have changed,
// e.g. to reduce work for the viewport, or other SOPs that
// check whether data IDs have changed.
// By default, (i.e. if this line weren't here), all data IDs
// would be bumped after the SOP cook, to indicate that
// everything might have changed.
// If some data IDs don't get bumped properly, the viewport
// may not update, or SOPs that check data IDs
// may not cook correctly, so be *very* careful!
mySopFlags.setManagesDataIDs(true);
// Make sure to flag that we can supply a guide geometry
mySopFlags.setNeedGuide1(true);
}
SOP_Flatten::~SOP_Flatten() {}
bool
{
bool changed;
changed = enableParm(3, !DIRPOP());
changed |= enableParm(4, DIRPOP());
return changed;
}
{
// The SOP_Node::cookInputPointGroups() provides a good default
// implementation for just handling a point selection.
context, // This is needed for cooking the group parameter, and cooking the input if alone.
myGroup, // The group (or NULL) is written to myGroup if not alone.
alone, // This is true iff called outside of cookMySop to update handles.
// true means the group will be for the input geometry.
// false means the group will be for gdp (the working/output geometry).
true, // (default) true means to set the selection to the group if not alone and the highlight flag is on.
0, // (default) Parameter index of the group field
-1, // (default) Parameter index of the group type field (-1 since there isn't one)
true, // (default) true means that a pointer to an existing group is okay; false means group is always new.
false, // (default) false means new groups should be unordered; true means new groups should be ordered.
true, // (default) true means that all new groups should be detached, so not owned by the detail;
// false means that new point and primitive groups on gdp will be owned by gdp.
0 // (default) Index of the input whose geometry the group will be made for if alone.
);
}
{
// We must lock our inputs before we try to access their geometry.
// OP_AutoLockInputs will automatically unlock our inputs when we return.
// NOTE: Don't call unlockInputs yourself when using this!
OP_AutoLockInputs inputs(this);
if (inputs.lock(context) >= UT_ERROR_ABORT)
return error();
fpreal now = context.getTime();
duplicateSource(0, context);
// These three lines enable the local variable support. This allows
// $CR to get the red colour, for example, as well as supporting
// any varmap created by the Attribute Create SOP.
// Note that if you override evalVariableValue for your own
// local variables (like SOP_Star does) it is essential you
// still call the SOP_Node::evalVariableValue or you'll not
// get any of the benefit of the built in local variables.
// The variable order controls precedence for which attribute will be
// be bound first if the same named variable shows up in multiple
// places. This ordering ensures point attributes get precedence.
setVariableOrder(3, 2, 0, 1);
// The setCur* functions track which part of the gdp is currently
// being processed - it is what is used in the evalVariableValue
// callback as the current point. The 0 is for the first input,
// you can have two inputs so $CR2 would get the second input's
// value.
// Builds the lookup table matching attributes to the local variables.
// Here we determine which groups we have to work on. We only
// handle point groups.
(!myGroup || !myGroup->isEmpty()))
{
UT_AutoInterrupt progress("Flattening Points");
// Handle all position, normal, and vector attributes.
// It's not entirely clear what to do for quaternion or transform attributes.
// We bump the data IDs of the attributes to modify in advance,
// since we're already looping over them, and we want to avoid
// bumping them all for each point, in case that's slow.
UT_Array<GA_RWHandleV3> positionattribs(1);
UT_Array<GA_RWHandleV3> normalattribs;
UT_Array<GA_RWHandleV3> vectorattribs;
GA_Attribute *attrib;
{
// Skip non-transforming attributes
if (!attrib->needsTransform())
continue;
GA_TypeInfo typeinfo = attrib->getTypeInfo();
if (typeinfo == GA_TYPE_POINT || typeinfo == GA_TYPE_HPOINT)
{
GA_RWHandleV3 handle(attrib);
if (handle.isValid())
{
positionattribs.append(handle);
attrib->bumpDataId();
}
}
else if (typeinfo == GA_TYPE_NORMAL)
{
GA_RWHandleV3 handle(attrib);
if (handle.isValid())
{
normalattribs.append(handle);
attrib->bumpDataId();
}
}
else if (typeinfo == GA_TYPE_VECTOR)
{
GA_RWHandleV3 handle(attrib);
if (handle.isValid())
{
vectorattribs.append(handle);
attrib->bumpDataId();
}
}
}
// Iterate over points up to GA_PAGE_SIZE at a time using blockAdvance.
for (GA_Iterator it(gdp->getPointRange(myGroup)); it.blockAdvance(start, end);)
{
// Check if user requested abort
if (progress.wasInterrupted())
break;
for (GA_Offset ptoff = start; ptoff < end; ++ptoff)
{
// This sets the current point that is beint processed to
// ptoff. This means that ptoff will be used for any
// local variable for any parameter evaluation that occurs
// after this point.
// NOTE: Local variables and repeated parameter evaluation
// is significantly slower and sometimes more complicated
// than having a string parameter that specifies the name
// of an attribute whose values should be used instead.
// That parameter would only need to be evaluated once,
// the attribute could be looked up once, and quickly
// accessed; however, a separate point attribute would
// be needed for each property that varies per point.
// Local variable evaluation isn't threadsafe either,
// whereas attributes can be read safely from multiple
// threads.
//
// Long story short: *Local variables are terrible.*
myCurPtOff[0] = ptoff;
float dist = DIST(now);
UT_Vector3 normal;
if (!DIRPOP())
{
switch (ORIENT())
{
case 0 : // XY Plane
normal.assign(0, 0, 1);
break;
case 1 : // YZ Plane
normal.assign(1, 0, 0);
break;
case 2 : // XZ Plane
normal.assign(0, 1, 0);
break;
}
}
else
{
normal.assign(NX(now), NY(now), NZ(now));
normal.normalize();
}
// Project positions onto the plane by subtracting
// off the normal component.
for (exint i = 0; i < positionattribs.size(); ++i)
{
UT_Vector3 p = positionattribs(i).get(ptoff);
p -= normal * (dot(normal, p) - dist);
positionattribs(i).set(ptoff, p);
}
// Normals will now all either be normal or -normal.
for (exint i = 0; i < normalattribs.size(); ++i)
{
UT_Vector3 n = normalattribs(i).get(ptoff);
if (dot(normal, n) < 0)
n = -normal;
else
n = normal;
normalattribs(i).set(ptoff, n);
}
// Project vectors onto the plane through the origin by
// subtracting off the normal component.
for (exint i = 0; i < vectorattribs.size(); ++i)
{
UT_Vector3 v = vectorattribs(i).get(ptoff);
v -= normal * dot(normal, v);
vectorattribs(i).set(ptoff, v);
}
}
}
}
// Clears out all the myCur* variables to ensure we have no
// stray references. This ensures that if the parameters are
// evaluated outside of this cook path they don't try to read
// possibly stale point pointers.
return error();
}
{
const int divs = 5;
OP_AutoLockInputs inputs(this);
if (inputs.lock(context) >= UT_ERROR_ABORT)
return error();
float now = context.getTime();
myGuide1->clearAndDestroy();
float dist = DIST(now);
float nx = 0;
float ny = 0;
float nz = 1;
if (!DIRPOP())
{
switch (ORIENT())
{
case 0 : // XY Plane
nx = 0; ny = 0; nz = 1;
break;
case 1 : // YZ Plane
nx = 1; ny = 0; nz = 0;
break;
case 2 : // XZ Plane
nx = 0; ny = 1; nz = 0;
break;
}
}
else
{
nx = NX(now); ny = NY(now); nz = NZ(now);
}
return error();
UT_Vector3 normal(nx, ny, nz);
normal.normalize();
inputGeo(0, context)->getBBox(&bbox);
float sx = bbox.sizeX();
float sy = bbox.sizeY();
float sz = bbox.sizeZ();
float size = SYSsqrt(sx*sx + sy*sy + sz*sz);
float cx = normal.x() * dist;
float cy = normal.y() * dist;
float cz = normal.z() * dist;
myGuide1->meshGrid(divs, divs, size, size);
UT_Vector3 zaxis(0, 0, 1);
UT_Matrix3 mat3;
mat3.dihedral(zaxis, normal);
UT_Matrix4 xform;
xform = mat3;
xform.translate(cx, cy, cz);
myGuide1->transform(xform);
return error();
}
const char *
SOP_Flatten::inputLabel(unsigned) const
{
return "Geometry to Flatten";
} | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Government First Grade College, Mangalore
Dr. P. Dayananda Pai - P. Sathisha Pai Government First Grade College Mangalore (also known as the Carstreet College) is a degree college located in Mangalore, Karnataka. It was established in 2007. The college is permanently affiliated with Mangalore University and is accredited 'A' grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
History
The college is located in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. It was established in 2007 and was initially based at the Government PU College building in Balmatta but relocated to the Government Primary School building in Carstreet in 2008. The college was renamed to the Dr. P. Dayananda Pai- P. Sathisha Pai Government First Grade College in October 2017 and was reopened by Basavaraj Rayareddy, Minister for Higher Education of the State of Karnataka. The inauguration ceremony was attended by patrons Dayananda Pai and Sathisha Pai. Over the years the college has grown and expanded its academic programs.
The college is permanently affiliated to Mangalore University. The Principal of the college is Dr.Jayakara Bhandary M.
Departments
The Government First Grade College offers various academic courses for Post graduate in MA, MCOM, MSW disciplines
Under graduate (UG)
* Bachelor of Arts(BA)
* Bachelor of Commerce(BCOM)
* Bachelor of Science(BSC)
* Bachelor of Social Work(BSW)
* Bachelor of Computer Application(BCA)
* Bachelor of Business Administration(BBA)
Post graduate (PG)
* Master of Arts(MA)
* Master of Commerce(MCOM)
* Master of Social Work(MSW)
Curricular activities
* National Service Scheme
* Youth Red Cross
* Rovers and Rangers
Accreditation
The college is recognized by the University Grants Commission and was accredited 'A' grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in March 2023 after its second cycle of assessment. | WIKI |
In vitro Validation of Quantitative Light-Induced Fluorescence for the Diagnosis of Enamel Fluorosis in Permanent Teeth
D. M. Cuevas-Espinosa, E. A. Martinez-Mier, M. Ando, G. A. Castiblanco, F. Cortes, C. M. Rincon-Bermudez, S. Martignon
Research output: Contribution to journalArticle
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Abstract
This study aimed to validate quantitative light-induced fluorescence (QLF) as a diagnostic tool for mild and moderate enamel fluorosis in permanent teeth, comparing it to visual diagnosis and histological assessment completed using polarized light microscopy (PLM). The buccal surfaces of 139 teeth were visually classified using the Thylstrup and Fejerskov Index (TFI) into sound (TFI 0; n = 17), mild (TFI 1-2; n = 69), and moderate (TFI 3-4; n = 43) fluorosis. Fluorosis was then assessed with QLF (variables ΔF, A, and ΔQ at 5-, 15-, and 30-radiance thresholds) using as reference areas the entire surface and a region of interest (ROI), identified as the most representative region of a fluorosis lesion. PLM images of longitudinal thin sections including the ROI were assessed for histological changes. Correlations among TFI, PLM, and QLF were determined. A receiver-operating characteristic curve was conducted to determine QLF's diagnostic accuracy when compared to the TFI and PLM assessments. This was used to assess the probability that the images were correctly ranked according to severity as determined by PLM and TFI. A positive correlation was found between QLF and PLM, and between QLF and TFI. QLF showed the highest sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of mild fluorosis. There was also a strong agreement between TFI and PLM. The selection of a ROI resulted in a stronger correlation with TFI and PLM than when the entire surface was used. The study results indicate that defin.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)515-526
Number of pages12
JournalCaries research
Volume51
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2017
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German ministry says it expects to avoid driving bans for some older diesels
BERLIN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A German Transport Ministry plan should make it possible to avoid driving bans for diesel vehicles meeting the Euro 4 and Euro 5 diesel emissions standards, a spokeswoman for the ministry said on Wednesday. “We have worked out an effective concept that will ensure that there need not be any driving bans for Euro 4 and 5 and that cities can stick to the limits,” a spokeswoman for the Transport Ministry told a news conference. A German government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel expected carmakers to present their plans for diesel trade-in incentives in the coming days. That comes after the federal German government outlined plans earlier this month to cut pollution from diesel vehicles by asking carmakers to offer owners trade-in incentives and hardware fixes. (Reporting by Maria Sheahan and Thomas Seythal Editing by Michelle Martin) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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TGF-1 is the main mediator of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). HK2 cells
TGF-1 is the main mediator of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). HK2 cells was effective at avoiding it. This mechanism may contribute to the fibrosis observed in hyperoxaluria. Calcium mineral oxalate (CaOx) crystals are the major crystalline composition of kidney stones, as being CaOx crystallization is definitely influenced by the focus of oxalate and calcium supplement in the kidney tubules1. Both CaOx crystals and oxalate (Ox) ions induce localised damage and irritation in the kidneys, near the tubules buy Halofuginone particularly. Oxalate nephropathy is normally characterized by tubular crystalline tissue of calcium supplement oxalate and can business lead to severe and chronic tubular damage, interstitial fibrosis, tubulointerstitial irritation, and modern renal deficiency nephropathy2. The root system of fibrosis activated by oxalate is normally badly known but may involve epithelial to mesenchymal changeover (EMT). EMT has a essential function in both pathologic and physiologic circumstances, such as embryogenesis, cancers, and fibrosis. This changeover procedure talks about a phenotypical transformation activated in epithelial cells, which in the placing of tissues damage provides method to a cell type called the myofibroblast; these cells are characterized by the dissolution of restricted junctions, reduction of cell-cell adhesion, reduction of apico-basal polarity, reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, buy Halofuginone and elevated motility, extracellular matrix proteins activity, growth, and invasiveness3,4,5. The cells acquire mesenchymal features, including down-regulation of epithelial indicators E-cadherin, cytokeratin, and buy Halofuginone restricted junction proteins zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1), ending to reduction and disintegration of the cellular get in touch with. In comparison, the cells going through EMT up-regulate mesenchymal indicators, such as vimentin and even muscles -actin6,7,8. TGF-1 is normally a essential profibrotic cytokine discovered in the kidney and in various other solid areas9. It induce many mobile replies by performing as a central orchestrator of advancement, injury curing, fibrosis, and cancers. Macrophages are the primary cell included in the cytokine creation; it provides been proven that macrophages shown to CaOx induce TGF-1 creation and induce EMT in distal tubular epithelial cells10. The proximal tubule is normally the primary portion of the nephron that is normally shown to oxalate. Additionally, the proximal tubular epithelial cells are able of acquiring up CaOx crystals through endocytosis and making TGF-111. As a result, it is normally acceptable to recommend that when shown to CaOx or Ox, the proximal tubule might participate in extracellular matrix deposition in peritubular fibrosis through EMT. The beginning of the fibroblasts included in renal fibrosis provides been previously showed in persistent kidney disease, with 50% developing from regional resident in town fibroblasts through growth, 35% from myofibroblast difference in the bone fragments marrow, 10% from the endothelial-to-mesenchymal changeover plan, and 5% from the epithelial-to-mesenchymal changeover plan4,12. Even so, the function of Ox and CaOx in the creation of TGF-1 and in the induction of EMT into proximal tubule cells and the kidney cortex possess not really however been driven. Bone fragments morphogenic proteins-7 (BMP-7) provides surfaced as a essential antifibrotic cytokine in the kidney that stops fibrosis and antagonizes the results of TGF-113. It is normally a member of the modifying development aspect-1 (TGF-1) superfamily, which has a essential function in renal advancement14,15. In the adult kidney, BMP-7 reflection can end up being discovered in tubular epithelial cells and in podocytes16 also,17. Its reflection reduces during severe renal damage considerably, and the administration of exogenous rhBMP-7 accelerates the fix of the harmed kidney, recommending that a function is normally performed by it in the maintenance of kidney homeostasis18,19,20,21. The goal of the present research was to evaluate the effect of Ox and CaOx both and as well as their capability to induce EMT buy Halofuginone assays The fresh process was accepted by the Values Panel HSPC150 of the Universidade Government de T?o Paulo (UNIFESP – process amount 2012/05412), also in agreement with the B razil suggestions for scientific pet make use of22 and treatment,23. Fresh groupings C57Bd/6 rodents had been divided into the pursuing groupings: a control group getting drinking water for 60 times; an HPL group that received 5% trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline for 30 or 60 times for 30 or 60 times, all Sigma reagents (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA). At the last end of the fresh process, the pets had been held for 24?hours in metabolic cages for urine collection and had been sacrificed using a toxic dosage of anesthetic in that case. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Up to this point we haven’t created a complete SMIL presentation because I haven’t yet explained to you how to control a very important part of multimedia presentations: layout. In this lesson I’ll introduce you to the basic concepts of layout, and in the next lesson7 I’ll show you enough to enable you to create a few presentations.
SMIL has basic layout capabilities similar to what you’d find in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In fact, if you already know CSS, you’ll have an advantage when learning SMIL’s BasicLayout and HierarchicalLayout modules, as many of the names and concepts therein are the same.
We’re going to concentrate on the BasicLayout module as it’s the most essential. I’ll also introduce the AudioLayout and MultiWindowLayout modules since they are rather unique to SMIL. The HierarchicalLayout allows you to control the layout of SMIL presentations with the same (or better) level of precision and flexibility provided to you by a combination of HTML and CSS. As such, it is rather complex (it adds well over 30 values, attributes, and elements) and an entire tutorial could be written on it alone. In fact, if you have already studied or plan on studying CSS you will learn 80% of what you need to know for using HierarchicalLayout.
So let’s begin by taking a look at positioning media objects on-screen.
Dividing Space into Regions
You’re already undoubtedly familiar with the term region in relation to geography, well in this case a Region does not relate to a place you can visit or travel too, no it’s not like Las Vegas or San Diego. A SMIL region is similar in many respects except for one: SMIL regions are always rectangular. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has worked with computers long enough to realize how video memory is managed on a bit-mapped screen.
Arranging media in SMIL is done (usually) as a two-step process. First, a region is created, and then a media object is tied to that region. For creating regions, SMIL has the element <region>. It has a number of attributes (11 to be exact) for specifying where it should be located and how media in the region should be displayed. Here is a brief description of each:
width and height
These two attributes do just as you would expect.
leftrighttop, and bottom
These attributes specify the values for the extremities of the region.
backgroundColor and showBackground
These attributes both affect the color of a region (or at least the parts of the region not obscured by media objects).
fit
The fit of a region controls what happends to a media object when its intrinsic width and height do not match that of the region it’s tied to.
regionName
You can think of the region name as being similar to an id attribute. However, the regionName need not be unique.
z-index
The z-index gives a weighted value of the region’s position on the z-axis. (The z-axis is the third axis of three-dimensional space, the first two being the x and y axes.)
Attributes which are screen measurements (widthheightleftrighttop, and bottom) can take relative values (pxem, or ex), absolute values (cmmminpt, or pc), or percentages. Here I’ll be using mostly px (pixels), cm (centimeters), and percentages.
You can probably already visualize how regions are declared, but here are a few examples:
<region id="CIF-NTSC" width="352px" height="240px"/>
<region id="US-photo" width="6in" height="4in"/>
<region id="half-center" left="25%" top="25%" width="50%" height="50%"/>
Grouping Regions into a Layout
While a solitary region may make sense, it’s not useful in a SMIL document until it has been added to a <layout> element. A <layout> groups one or more regions in the same way that a synchronization container groups media objects. The difference is that there is only one <layout> for a SMIL document and it cannot contain another nested <layout>. Also, the <layout> element must occur in the document’s <head>.
So to use all of the regions presented above, you could write the following:
<head>
<layout>
<region id="CIF-NTSC" width="352px" height="240px"/>
<region id="US-photo" width="6in" height="4in"/>
<region id="half-center" left="25%" top="25%" width="50%" height="50%"/>
</layout>
</head>
<layout> can have one attribute named type which allows you to use other layout methods. However, in this tutorial we will be using the BasicLayout module of SMIL and will thus only use the (default) value "text/smil-basic-layout".
These values don’t really make much sense until they are qualified by another region. They are based on the dimensions and positions of their parent/ancestor elements, or failing that, the window they’re rendered in. In this case the "CIF-NTSC" and "US-photo" regions would overlap (and probably the "half-center" region as well).
Technically width and height can be qualified values when they are percentages.
Using Windows
No, this section is not a mini-tutorial on using the operating system from Microsoft, frankly miscrosoft has no real involvement here other than the fact that I am creating this tutorial with it right now, and that the constant crashing is giving me the urge to go find some fun San Francisco things to do to take my mind off rebooting… <hits save>. The term window in our modern Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) refers to a region on screen. In fact, this is where Microsoft Windows got its name.
In HTML the concept of windows doesn’t exist. Eventually JavaScript came along and pop-ups were born. More often than not, unfortunately, pop-up windows are used for advertising or malicious purposes rather than presenting useful information to the user, and because of that many people disable them in their web browsers.
But I’m not here to preach about operating systems or internet ethics. What I’d like to show you is how to control the appearance and behavior of the windows your SMIL presentation is rendered in. This is done by using the <topLayout> element.
TopLayout Semantics
The <topLayout> element has five attributes, three of which we’ve already seen in the <region> element. They are widthheightbackgroundColoropen, and close.
Both the open and close attributes control when a window specified by a <topLayout> is displayed. open can take the value of "onStart" and "whenActive"close, in contrast, can be either "onRequest" or "whenNotActive". Here’s a simple example:
<layout>
<topLayout width="640px" height="480px" backgroundColor="#FFFFFF" open="whenActive" close="whenNotActive"/>
</layout>
If you’re a computer programmer or are otherwise familiar with GUI terminology, you can think of a <topLayout> as a top-level or shell window.
Multiple Top-level Layouts
Nothing keeps you from using more than one <topLayout> in your presentation. Sometimes it may be useful to have media objects presented in a separate window. For example, a picture slideshow could have a different window which displays a description of the scene in the current picture.
It’s really up to you to decide how to use multiple windows (if at all). Keep in mind that multiple windows are best suited for displaying information which is only loosely related or not critical to another window. In our example above, displaying the descriptions of the pictures in a separate window gives the viewer the opportunity to close that window.
Although I have been talking about windows here exclusively, SMIL presentations may not always be rendered in traditional GUI windows. In fact, the SMIL working group has gone out of its way to avoid using the term window in the SMIL 2.0 recommendation. That’s just something to keep in mind for the future.
If you’re curious about how to add a title to a window, your best bet is to add the title attribute to the <topLayout>. However, the SMIL player isn’t required to display it! You can also add a title to any other SMIL element.
Laying Out Audio
The concept of audio layout in SMIL is actually very simple. In fact, the AudioLayout module adds only one thing to SMIL: the soundLevel attribute for a <region>. Basically you can think of soundLevel as a volume setting.
soundLevel is specified as a percentage greater than or equal to 0. As with other <region> attributes, soundLevel is relative. I’ll demonstrate soundLevel briefly in lesson7.
Since the SMIL 2.0 recommendation says nothing on the matter, we’ll have to assume that the fictitious root soundLevel is set to whatever the computer or device’s mixer is set to.
Test Your Understanding
1. True or False: To set the volume of a region to half of its parent region’s volume, you would use soundLevel="-50%".
2. Which of the following is the optimum size of the main <topLayout> (often called the root window):
1. width="640px" height="480px"
2. width="100%" height="100%"
3. width="20cm" height="20cm"
4. none of the above
3. What’s wrong with the following <region><region id="strange" left="20px" top="10%" width="80px" height="50%" right="140px" bottom="90%"/>
4. Extra Credit: Create some hypothetical regions for some media objects you imagine yourself working with in the future.
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wikiHow to Check the Temperature and Humidity on Your Android
Two Parts:Downloading and Installing Temperature and HumidityUsing the ApplicationCommunity Q&A
Google Play Store allows you to download an application that will measure the ambient humidity and temperature of your surroundings in real time. Currently, the only devices that it will work on are those with Ambient humidity and temperature sensors, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and S4, according to the application description page. If you have either of those devices, you can begin learning how to measure the humidity on your supported Android device with Ambient Temperature and Humidity by Sensirion AG.
Part 1
Downloading and Installing Temperature and Humidity
1. 1
Launch Google Play Store. Do so with a tap on its icon on your home screen.
2. 2
Type in “Ambient Temperature” in the search bar. You can summon the search field by tapping on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the app screen.
3. 3
Select the app when you see it. From among the results, select the one labelled “Ambient Temperature and Humidity” by Sensirion AG.
4. 4
Download and install it. Tap on the “Install” button right below the app name to begin downloading and installing the app.
• Read the permissions, and tap the “Accept” button at the bottom of the permissions window.
5. 5
Launch the app. Just open the notification panel by swiping downward from the top of the screen, and tapping the Play Store notification that the app has finished installing.
• You can also quickly do this by tapping the “Open” button that replaces the Install button in the application's page at the Play Store.
Part 2
Using the Application
1. 1
Access the right screen. After you launch the app, you should be greeted with a splash screen, and taken to the main app screen. A notice will appear. Read it carefully, as it states the requirements for getting the most accurate reading.
2. 2
Place your phone on top of a flat surface. Make sure it’s away from any strong wind sources, such as a fan, and keep it away from direct sunlight.
3. 3
Wait five or so minutes to let the readings stabilize. Under the green temperature reading tile, you will see the Humidity Percentage. Once it becomes stable, take note of the humidity percentage as it should be the accurate measurement.
4. 4
Place a Temperature and Humidity widget on your homescreen. You can configure a widget to be on your home screen to actively measure the humidity of your surroundings.
• Tap and hold a blank area in your home screen, and select “Widgets” from the menu that pops up. Scroll down until you see “Temperature and Humidity,” and tap it. Select the unit of measurement (C or F), and set the refresh rate in seconds at the bottom. Tap on “OK,” and the widget should appear in the area you tapped and held.
• The widget will show you the temperature reading on the left half and the humidity on the right half.
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P68
P68 may refer to:
Vessels
* HMS Venturer (P68), a submarine of the Royal Navy and, as HNoMS Utstein (P68), of the Royal Norwegian Navy
* INS Arnala (P68), a corvette of the Indian Navy
* RSS Panglima of the Republic of Singapore Navy
Other uses
* DDX5, RNA helicase p68
* Ford P68, a racing car
* NetBurst
* P68 holin family
* Papyrus 68, a biblical manuscript
* Partenavia P.68, or Vulcanair P68, an Italian light aircraft
* Vultee XP-68 Tornado, a proposed American high-altitude interceptor aircraft
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Scorched is a generic, unopinionated, DRY, light-weight web framework for Ruby. It provides a generic yet powerful set of constructs for processing HTTP requests, with which websites and applications of almost any scale can be built.
If you've used a light-weight DSL-based Ruby web framework before, such as Sinatra, Scorched should look quite familiar. Scorched is a true evolutionary enhancement of Sinatra, with more power, focus, and less clutter.
Code Quality Rank: L5
Monthly Downloads: 1,794
Programming language: Ruby
License: MIT License
Latest version: v1.0.0
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Simple, Powerful, Scorched
Scorched is a generic, unopinionated, DRY, light-weight web framework for Ruby. It provides a generic yet powerful set of constructs for processing HTTP requests, with which websites and applications of almost any scale can be built.
If you've used a light-weight DSL-based Ruby web framework before, such as Sinatra, Scorched should look quite familiar. Scorched is a true evolutionary enhancement of Sinatra, with more power, focus, and less clutter.
Getting Started
Install the canister...
$ gem install scorched
Open the valve...
# hello_world.ru
require 'scorched'
class App < Scorched::Controller
get '/' do
'hello world'
end
end
run App
And light the flame...
$ rackup hello_world.ru
A Note on Requirements
Scorched requires Ruby 2.0 or above. If you've got Ruby 2.0.0-p195 and newer, you're good. Otherwise, you need to ensure that your version of Ruby 2.0 includes changeset 39919 in order to avoid suffering from random segmentation faults.
The Errors of Our Past (and Present!)
One of the mistakes made by a lot of other Ruby frameworks is to not leverage the power of the class. Consequently, this makes for some awkwardness. Helpers for example, are a classic reinvention of what classes and modules are already made to solve. Scorched implements Controllers as classes, which in addition to having their own DSL, allow you to define and call whatever you need as standard instance methods. The decision to allow developers to implement helpers and other common functionality as standard instance methods not only makes Controllers somewhat more predictable and familiar, but also allows for such helpers to be inheritable via plain old class inheritance.
Another design oversight of other frameworks is the lack of consideration for the hierarchical nature of websites and the fact that it's often desireable for sub-directories to inherit attributes of their parents. Scorched supports sub-controllers to any arbitrary depth, with each controller's configuration, filters, route conditions, etc. applied along the way. This can help in many areas of web development, including security, restful interfaces, and interchangeable content types.
Design Philosophy
Scorched has a relatively simple design philosophy. The main objective is to keep Scorched lean and generic. Scorched refrains from expressing any opinion about how you should design and structure your application. The general idea is to give developers the constructs to quickly put together small, medium and even large websites and applications.
There is little need for a framework to be opinionated if the opinions of the developer can be quickly and easily built into it on a per-application basis. To do this effectively, developers will really need to understand Scorched, and the best way to facilitate that is to lower the learning curve, by keeping the core design logical, predictable and concise.
Magicians Not Welcome
Scorched aims to be raw and transparent. Magic has no place. A thoughtful and simple design means there's no requirement for magic. Because of that, most developers should be able to master Scorched in an evening.
Part of what keeps Scorched lightweight is that unlike other lightweight web frameworks that attempt to hide Rack in the background, Scorched makes no such attempt, very rarely providing functionality that overlaps with what's already provided by Rack. In fact, familiarity with Rack is somewhat of a pre-requisite to mastering Scorched.
First Impressions
class MyApp < Scorched::Controller
# From the most simple route possible...
get '/' do
"Hello World"
end
# To something that gets the muscle's flexing
route '/articles/:title/::opts', 2, method: ['GET', 'POST'], content_type: :json do
# Do what you want in here. Note, the second argument is the optional route priority.
end
# Anonymous controllers allow for convenient route grouping to which filters and conditions can be applied
controller conditions: {media_type: 'application/json'} do
get '/articles/*' do |page|
{title: 'Scorched Rocks', body: '...', created_at: '27/08/2012', created_by: 'Bob'}
end
after do
response.body = response.body.to_json
end
end
# The things you get for free by using Classes for Controllers (...that's directed at you Padrino)
def my_little_helper
# Do some crazy awesome stuff that no route can resist using.
end
# You can always avoid the routing helpers and add mappings manually. Anything that responds to #call is a valid
# target, with the only minor exception being that proc's are instance_exec'd, not call'd.
self << {pattern: '/admin', priority: 10, target: My3rdPartyAdminApp}
self << {pattern: '**', conditions: {maintenance_mode: true}, target: proc { |env|
@request.body << 'Maintenance underway, please be patient.'
}}
end
This API shouldn't look too foreign to anyone familiar with frameworks like Sinatra, and the potential power at hand should be obvious. The route method demonstrates a few minor features of Scorched:
• Multi-method routes - Because sometimes the difference between a GET and POST can be a single line of code. If no methods are provided, the route receives all HTTP methods.
• Named Wildcards - Not an original idea, but you may note the named wildcard with the double colon. This maps to the '**' glob directive, which will span forward-slashes while matching. The single asterisk (or colon) behaves like the single asterisk glob directive, and will not match forward-slashes.
• Route priorities - Routes (referred to as mappings internally) can be assigned priorities. A priority can be any arbitrary number by which the routes are ordered. The higher the number, the higher the priority.
• Conditions - Conditions are merely procs defined on the controller which are inherited (and can be overriden) by child controllers. When a request comes in, mappings that match the requested URL, first have their conditions evaluated in the context of the controller instance, before control is handed off to the target associated with that mapping. It's a very simple implementation that comes with a lot of flexibility.
Comparisons with other frameworks
Refer to the comparisons directory in the repo to compare a simple example app written in frameworks similar to Scorched.
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How to remove extensions from Safari
Safari extensions add functionality to Safari, so you can explore the web the way you want. Extensions can show different useful information, display news, weather, help you use your favorite services, personalize the appearance of web pages, and much more. Sometimes Safari extensions can be useful, but sometimes they are no longer needed, or they can slow down your Mac or sluggish browsing . Though Mac OS is considered a secure operating system, malware can penetrate with extensions. So users want to remove them. In this article we will show you how to remove Safari extensions.
Removing extensions on Mac from Safari
1. Launch the Safari app and open Safari menu and select Preferences;
2. Go to the Extensions tab;
3. Click on the extension you want to remove and choose Uninstall;
4. This is the easy way to remove Safari extension, but you can also manually remove extensions from Safari.
Manually deleting Safari extensions on Mac
Sometimes the Extensions manager won’t be able remove the extensions itself. First method above won’t work. This is rare case, but it can happen with an incompatible extension that refuses to remove itself. If this happens, you can manually delete an extension from Safari extensions folder.
1. Close Safari
2. Hit Command+Shift+G from Finder to bring up Go folder then type the following path:
~/Library/Safari/Extensions/;
3. Select Go and you’ll see the Safari extensions folder, delete unnecessary extensions;
4. Relaunch Safari.
Removing extensions with utilities
There are special programs that can remove extensions automatically. For example, such as Bitdefender Antivirus. You can download it from here. Bitdefender Antivirus performs many functions to clean and optimize your Mac. But today we’ll show you how to remove safari extensions with this software.
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Follow the instructions to remove Safari extensions:
1. Quit Safari and launch Bitdefender Antivirus;
2. Select Extensions on the left tab;
3. Choose your browser;
4. Select unwanted items by clicking checkboxes. Set the checkbox Select all to remove all extensions;
5. Click Remove at the bottom of the window.
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Примеры использования JS Fetch
Fetch – это JavaScript метод, который используется для отправки запросов на сервер и получения данных. Этот метод является более современной и удобной заменой устаревшего XMLHttpRequest.
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В данном примере отправляется GET-запрос на ajax.php, который выводит строку:
<?php
echo 'Строка из ajax.php';
PHP
После отправки запроса, его результат обрабатывается в первом then(). Если ответ успешный, то он преобразуется в строку, далее работа с ней идет во втором then().
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php')
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
JS
Результат в консоли:
Строка из ajax.php
В первом then() можно проверить статус HTTP-запроса и определить, выполнился ли он успешно. В случае возникновения ошибок запроса, они будут обработаны в блоке catch().
JS:
fetch('https:://example.com/script404')
.then(response => {
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error('Ошибка запроса');
}
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error);
});
JS
Результат:
GET https:://example.com/script404 404 (Not Found)
Error: Ошибка запроса
Если от сервера ожидается ответ в формате JSON:
ajax.php:
<?php
$array = array(
'key_1' => 'value_1',
'key_2' => 'value_2'
);
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($array, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
PHP
JS:
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php')
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => {
console.dir(data);
});
JS
Результат:
{
key_1: 'value_1',
key_2: 'value_2'
}
Можно передавать HTTP-заголовки вторым параметром метода fetch(). Заголовки передаются в формате «ключ: значение».
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Basic 123456'
}})
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => {
console.dir(data);
});
JS
В GET-запросах параметры передаются непосредственно в URL (?ключ=значение&...). Чтобы сформировать такой URL из объекта параметров можно применить встроенный класс «URL».
JS:
let params = {name: 'Иван', family: 'Иванов'};
let url = new URL('https:://example.com/ajax.php');
url.search = new URLSearchParams(params);
fetch(url, {
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json'
}})
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => {
console.dir(data);
});
JS
ajax.php
<?php
print_r($_GET);
PHP
Результат в переменной $_GET:
Array(
[name] => Иван
[family] => Иванов
)
2
POST-запрос
Для POST-запроса нужно указать method: 'POST' и передать параметры в body в виде «ключ=значение&..» или воспользоваться классом URLSearchParams:
JS:
let data = {
key_1: 'value_1',
key_2: 'value_2'
};
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
},
body: new URLSearchParams(data).toString()
})
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
JS
ajax.php
<?php
print_r($_POST);
PHP
Результат:
Array(
[key_1] => value_1
[key_2] => value_2
)
Второй пример отправляет данные на сервер в виде JSON.
JS:
let data = {
key_1: 'value_1',
key_2: 'value_2'
};
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify(data)
})
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.dir(data);
});
JS
ajax.php
<?php
$data = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
print_r($data);
PHP
Результат:
Array(
[key_1] => value_1
[key_2] => value_2
)
3
<input type="text" id="input_text">
<input type="file" id="input_file">
<input type="submit" value="Отправить" onclick="sendForm();">
<script>
function sendForm(){
var text = document.getElementById('input_text');
var file = document.getElementById('input_file');
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('text', text.value)
formData.append('file', file.files[0]);
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
method: 'POST',
body: formData
})
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
}
</script>
HTML
ajax.php
<?php
print_r($_POST);
print_r($_FILES);
PHP
Результат:
Array(
[text] => Текст из поля
)
Array(
[file] => Array(
[name] => photo.png
[type] => image/png
[tmp_name] => /tmp/????
[error] => 0
[size] => 189415
)
)
<input type="text" id="input_text">
<input type="file" id="input_file" multiple>
<input type="submit" value="Отправить" onclick="sendForm();">
<script>
function sendForm(){
var text = document.getElementById('input_text');
var file = document.getElementById('input_file');
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('text', text.value)
for (let item of file.files) {
formData.append('files[]', item);
}
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
method: 'POST',
body: formData
})
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
}
</script>
HTML
Результат:
Array(
[text] => Текст из поля
)
Array(
[files] => Array(
[name] => Array(
[0] => photo.png
[1] => photo-2.png
)
[type] => Array(
[0] => image/png
[1] => image/png
)
[tmp_name] => Array(
[0] => /tmp/????
[1] => /tmp/????
)
[error] => Array(
[0] => 0
[1] => 0
)
[size] => Array(
[0] => 189415
[1] => 88603
)
)
)
4
Пример использования fetch с методом PUT:
fetch('https:://example.com/update', {
method: 'PUT',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({ key: 'value' })
})
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => console.log(data));
JS
Метод DELETE:
fetch('https:://example.com/del/1', {
method: 'DELETE',
})
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(data => console.log(data));
JS
5
По умолчанию fetch запросы не отправляет cookies. Чтобы их включить добавить параметр credentials:
fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php', {
method: 'GET',
credentials: 'include'
})
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
console.log(data);
});
JS
6
В JavaScript Fetch API нет синхронных запросов, так как Fetch использует промисы для работы с асинхронным кодом. Однако можно использовать async/await для достижения синхронного поведения.
async function fetchData() {
try {
const response = await fetch('https:://example.com/ajax.php');
const data = await response.json();
// Далее идет ваш код, который будет выполняться после получения данных
console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
console.error('Error:', error);
}
}
fetchData();
JS
7
Data on support for the fetch feature across the major browsers from caniuse.com
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Communication Architecture for an Unmanned Merchant Ship
Paper i proceeding, 2013
Unmanned ships is an interesting proposal to implement slow steaming and saving fuel while avoiding that the crew has to stay on board for very long deep-sea passages. To maintain efficiency and safety, autonomy has to be implemented to enable the ship to operate without requiring the SCC to continuously control the ship. Communication between ship and a shore control center (SCC) is therefore critical for the unmanned ship and proper safety and security precautions are required, including sufficient redundancy and backup solutions. Communication systems should be able to supply at least 4 Megabits/second for full remote control from SCC, but reduced operation can be maintained at down to 125 kilobits/second. In autonomous mode, the required communication bandwidth will be very low. For an autonomous ship the higher bandwidth requirements are from ship to shore which is the opposite of the situation for normal ships. Cost and availability of communication is an issue. The use of technical and functional indexes will enable the SCC to monitor the status of the ship at minimum load on operators and on the communication systems. The security and integrity of information transfers is crucial and appropriate means must be taken to ensure failure tolerance and fail to safe properties of the system.
data
autonomous system
satellite communication
Författare
Ørnulf Jan Rødseth
Beate Kvamstad
Thomas Porathe
Chalmers, Sjöfart och marin teknik, Maritime Operations
Hans-Christoph Burmeister
OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE
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Transport
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Flynn confidante arranged outside Clinton probe: report | TheHill
A confidante of former national security adviser Michael Flynn sought the help of a contractor with knowledge of the so-called dark web through intermediaries, according to a report by the Guardian. In 2015, Barbara Ledeen, a conservative activist who works for Sen. Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) on the Judiciary Committee, launched her own investigation into former Secretary of State 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's use of a private email server — particularly whether the communications had been compromised by a "foreign power." According to FBI files obtained by The Guardian, Ledeen had decided to undertake the probe because she wanted to know if such a hack would have endangered her children, who serve in the military. Unable to finance the work herself, Ledeen turned to an unnamed contractor, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Gingrich reportedly "wanted to speak to others about the project” and asked Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, to finance it. Judicial Watch then turned to another unnamed contractor who was reportedly familiar with the "deep web and dark web." The project was eventually shut down. Ledeen is the second person tied to Flynn that reportedly sought to conduct an independent investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server for State Department business. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Peter Smith, a longtime GOP operative who believed Clinton's emails had been compromised by foreign hackers, had approached a former British intelligence officer about receiving help authenticating alleged copies of Clinton's emails that Smith claimed he had received from someone on the "dark web." Smith reportedly suggested that he was connected to Flynn, though he said the operation was independent of the Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's presidential campaign. The GOP operative died in May, just days after speaking with the Wall Street Journal. Ledeen's involvement with the outside email investigation also raises concerns because she still works as on the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of the congressional panels investigating Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. A spokesman for Grassley, the committee's chairman, told the Guardian that Ledeen worked on the panel's judicial nominees unit and does not have access to materials regarding the Russia investigation. Flynn served as an adviser to Trump on the campaign trail, before being named the president's first national security adviser. He was forced to resign in February, just 24 days after taking office, amid revelations that he had misled Vice President Pence about his contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the months before Trump took office. Flynn has become a central figure in the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Trump has denied that his campaign ever coordinated with Russian nationals or officials and has called the probe a "witch hunt." 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 |
Beckology
Beckology by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar, from early days with The Tridents through to his Guitar Shop album in 1989.
* Volume 1 includes previously unreleased tracks from The Tridents, earthy mono recordings of Yardbirds classics like "Steeled Blues" and "Heart Full of Soul", four tracks from a Yardbirds BBC session, and Jeff's first solo single sides.
* Volume 2 covers both incarnations of The Jeff Beck Group which each released two albums and finishes with Beck, Bogert and Appice tunes. Highlights here include the reworking of the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things" with Rod Stewart on vocals, the driving "Plynth", the beautiful guitar work on "Definitely Maybe" and the reworking of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition".
* Volume 3 tracks through what the sleeve notes call the "instrumental era" of the 1970s with tracks from the jazzy Blow by Blow and the acclaimed George Martin produced Wired albums. There is a live performance of "Freeway Jam" from 1977 with Jan Hammer, with whom Jeff had been touring and collaborating.
A 60-page booklet comes with the album, and includes a biography by Gene Santoro.
Reception
Allmusic gave an enthusiastically positive review of the set, asserting that the mastering quality is far superior to any previous release while applauding the selection of material: "to survey Jeff Beck's entire career […] would be a hopeless task, given the amount of anonymous session work that the guitarist did circa 1964–1966, but Beckology still manages to touch a few unexpected bases, even as it strings together all of the obvious and most of the important sides in Beck's output."
Track listing
* Volume One
* 1) "Trouble in Mind" – The Tridents (unreleased)
* 2) "Nursery Rhyme" (live) (Bo Diddley) – The Tridents (unreleased)
* 3) "Wandering Man Blues" – The Tridents (unreleased)
* 4) "Steeled Blues" – The Yardbirds (B-side of Heart Full Of Soul single)
* 5) "Heart Full of Soul" – The Yardbirds (4th single, from Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds)
* 6) "I'm Not Talking" – The Yardbirds (For Your Love)
* 7) "I Ain't Done Wrong" – The Yardbirds (For Your Love)
* 8) "Train Kept a Rollin'" – The Yardbirds (Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds)
* 9) "I'm a Man" (Bo Diddley) – The Yardbirds (Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds)
* 10) "Shapes of Things" – The Yardbirds (6th single, from Greatest Hits)
* 11) "Over Under Sideways Down" – The Yardbirds (7th single, from Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down)
* 12) "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" – The Yardbirds (8th single, from Greatest Hits)
* 13) "Hot House of Omagarashid" – The Yardbirds (Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down)
* 14) "Lost Woman" – The Yardbirds (Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down)
* 15) "Rack My Mind" – The Yardbirds (Yardbirds)
* 16) "The Nazz Are Blue" – The Yardbirds (B-side of Happenings Ten Years Time Ago single (US))
* 17) "Psycho Daisies" – The Yardbirds (B-side of Happenings Ten Years Time Ago single (UK))
* 18) "Jeff's Boogie" – The Yardbirds (Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down)
* 19) "Too Much Monkey Business" (live) – The Yardbirds (BBC Studios, 1965)
* 20) "The Sun Is Shining" (live) – The Yardbirds (BBC Studios, 1966)
* 21) "You're a Better Man Than I" (live) – The Yardbirds (BBC Studios, 1965)
* 22) "Love Me Like I Love You" (live) – The Yardbirds (BBC Studios, 1965)
* 23) "Hi Ho Silver Lining" – Jeff Beck (1st solo single)
* 24) "Tally Man" – Jeff Beck (2nd solo single)
* 25) "Beck's Bolero" – Jeff Beck (Truth)
* Volume Two
* 1) "Shapes of Things" – The Jeff Beck Group (Truth)
* 2) "I Ain't Superstitious" – The Jeff Beck Group (Truth)
* 3) "Rock My Plimsoul" – The Jeff Beck Group (B-side of Tally Man single)
* 4) "Jailhouse Rock" – The Jeff Beck Group (Beck-Ola)
* 5) "Plynth (Water Down the Drain)" – The Jeff Beck Group (Beck-Ola)
* 6) "I've Been Drinking" – The Jeff Beck Group (B-side of Love is Blue single)
* 7) "Definitely Maybe" – The Jeff Beck Group (Jeff Beck Group)
* 8) "New Ways Train Train" – The Jeff Beck Group (Rough And Ready)
* 9) "Going Down" – The Jeff Beck Group (Jeff Beck Group)
* 10) "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You" – The Jeff Beck Group (Jeff Beck Group)
* 11) "Superstition" – Beck Bogert Appice (Beck, Bogert, Appice)
* 12) "Black Cat Moan" (live) – Beck Bogert Appice (Beck, Bogert, Appice Live)
* 13) "Blues Deluxe/BBA Boogie" (live) – Beck Bogert Appice (previously unreleased)
* 14) "Jizz Whizz" – Beck Bogert Appice (previously unreleased)
* Volume Three
* 1) "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" – Jeff Beck (Blow By Blow)
* 2) "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" – Jeff Beck (Wired)
* 3) "Love Is Green" – Jeff Beck (Wired)
* 4) "Diamond Dust" – Jeff Beck (Blow By Blow)
* 5) "Freeway Jam" (live) – Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live)
* 6) "The Pump" – Jeff Beck (There And Back)
* 7) "People Get Ready" – Jeff Beck featuring Rod Stewart (Flash)
* 8) "Escape" – Jeff Beck (Flash)
* 9) "Gets Us All in the End" – Jeff Beck (Flash)
* 10) "Back on the Street" – Jeff Beck (B-side of People Get Ready single)
* 11) "Wild Thing" – Jeff Beck (UK single release only)
* 12) "Train Kept A-Rollin'" – Jeff Beck (Twins soundtrack)
* 13) "Sleep Walk" – Jeff Beck (Porky's Revenge! soundtrack)
* 14) "The Stumble" – Jeff Beck (Twins soundtrack)
* 15) "Big Block" – Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop)
* 16) "Where Were You" – Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop) | WIKI |
Flash video stops updating while browser page is resized
REOPENED
Unassigned
Status
()
Core
Plug-ins
REOPENED
6 years ago
4 years ago
People
(Reporter: George Carstoiu, Unassigned)
Tracking
Firefox Tracking Flags
(Not tracked)
Details
(Reporter)
Description
6 years ago
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Going to the following website: http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/E5141/wmode.swf and resizing window, freezes the flash.
Litmus testcase: https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=24514
Steps to reproduce:
1. Load http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/E5141/wmode.swf
2. Resize the window.
Actual results:
- flash freezes while window is resized
Expected results:
- After Step 2 you should be able to successfully resize the window without a crash or any other issues.
Shockwave Flash
File: Flash Player.plugin
Version: 10.3.181.34
Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181
This bug report is far too vague. What do you mean by "freeze"?
And the problems I was able to find (using your testcase) don't just
happen on OS X 10.7. In the future please test on other versions of
OS X before reporting that some bug is specific to a particular
version.
With the default settings (basically using a clean profile), the only
problem I saw was that the testcase stopped updating while the page
was being resized. It started updating again as soon as you finished
resizing, and there was definitely no "freeze" or hang or crash (the
plugin-container process was not restarted).
This is a bug, I suppose, but a pretty minor one. I see it on OS X
10.7, 10.6 and 10.5, in all FF versions that I tested (back to FF
3.6.18). I also see it to a lesser extent in Chrome (on OS X 10.6.8).
In all cases I tested with the latest version of the Flash plugin --
10.3.181.34.
The only serious problem I saw (the only one resembling a temporary
hang or freeze) was with non-default settings, and only happened back
to FF 4.0 (i.e. not with FF 3.6.18), and back to OS X 10.6 (i.e. not
with OS X 10.5.8). Here's how to reproduce it:
1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.i386.flash
player.plugin to 'false'. This forces the Flash plugin to run in
process (if the browser is in 32-bit mode).
2) Quit FF, right click on the FF distro, and do the following:
a) Choose "Get Info".
b) Select "Open in 32-bit mode".
3) Start FF, load this bug's testcase
(http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/E5141/wmode.swf), and
start resizing it.
Notice that resizing performance slows to a crawl, and that there
are display artifacts (among other things, the browser window goes
completely white for a few seconds). These clear up a few seconds
after you stop resizing.
Not quite a hang or a freeze, but something close to it. However,
I never saw the plugin-container process crash.
Summary: Flash freezes during window resize on Mac OS X 10.7 → Bad behavior resizing animated Flash plugin while running in-process
Benoit, do you have any idea what could be causing the semi-hang I report in comment #1?
Version: 6 Branch → unspecified
> 1) In about:config, set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.i386.flash
> player.plugin to 'false'. This forces the Flash plugin to run in
> process (if the browser is in 32-bit mode).
>
Even when running the browser in 32-bit mode, flash will run out of process. I'm curious why we are concerned about supporting this old, non default, code path?
> Notice that resizing performance slows to a crawl, and that there
> are display artifacts (among other things, the browser window goes
> completely white for a few seconds). These clear up a few seconds
> after you stop resizing.
>
> Not quite a hang or a freeze, but something close to it. However,
> I never saw the plugin-container process crash.
This code path is very outdated and amongst other things doesn't use plugin layers, async rendering. It's likely that there's been regression with this code path since I don't think anyone is running it.
If we have a good reason to support this code path then I'm willing to take some time this week to investigate.
> Even when running the browser in 32-bit mode, flash will run out of process.
Not if you set dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.i386.flash player.plugin to 'false'.
> If we have a good reason to support this code path then I'm willing
> to take some time this week to investigate.
We *don't* have any good reason to support it, as far as I'm
concerned. I was just curious if you knew, off the top of your head,
why the "semi-hang" happens. (Perhaps I should have made this
clearer.)
Apparently you don't, and I think we can let the matter rest there.
So I'll mark this bug WONTFIX.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Last Resolved: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
(Reporter)
Comment 5
6 years ago
Still, I think you should reconsider changing the status of this issue. I tested the same issue (the hang while resizing) on Safari and it is not reproducible.
Maybe we should relate to Safari when it comes to Mac OS and not Opera or Chrome.
With a default installation (Nightly), the problem I see here is that the video playback, in youtube, jitters when I resize the Firefox window. Sound keeps going.
If I stop resizing, but I don't let go of the resize handle in the lower right-hand corner, the video stops.
If I let it go, then the video resumes playing normally.
It feels ugly.
This doesn't happen with with Chrome, nor with Safari. Video playback is smooth while you resize.
I'm reopening so other people can give it a second look.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
I have a patch in bug 663259 that hasn't landed yet. I wanted to give a few days for async plugin to be tested before changing the resize behavior. I hope this land this shortly, perhaps you can give me feedback if this improves the resize behavior for you once it lands.
Juan, what you report isn't either of the two problems I found (and reported in comment #1). Please open a new bug. And when you do, be sure to include at least one example, together with detailed instructions on how to reproduce.
As for the original report, it's too vague to tell whether or not it's the same as your bug or either of my two bugs.
(Reporter)
Comment 9
6 years ago
> As for the original report, it's too vague to tell whether or not it's the
> same as your bug or either of my two bugs.
Just so as to clarify this. In Comment 0 I was referring exactly to what Juan saw when he tried to reproduce it - while a video is playing and a user is resizing the window, the video hangs although the sound keeps going. For the average Mac user that is used to everything running smoothly this could be a bit of a hiccup. Also on Windows or Linux builds, this does not happen. so why should it on Mac?
(In reply to comment #9)
You're using the words "hang" and "freeze" in ways they're not
normally used. I suspect what you really mean to say is that a Flash
video (or your animated example) stops updating (or updates only
intermittently) while the page is being resized. If so, then your bug
is the first of the two I described in comment #1.
Juan's report is (frankly) not terribly clear, either -- what is the
"jittering" that he reports? But I suspect he's also seeing the
"Flash video not updating while the page is resized" problem.
If so, we actually have something to work with, and I'll repurpose the
bug.
As I said in comment #1, I found the "not updating while resizing"
problem back to OS X 10.5.8, and in the oldest version of Firefox that
I tested (3.6.18).
I realize it may not be possible for you to test on other versions of
OS X. But it's easy to download and test with older Firefox versions.
So please test to see if *your* bug happens back to FF 3.6.18 (or
3.5.19).
Summary: Bad behavior resizing animated Flash plugin while running in-process → Flash video stops updating while browser page is resized
Another thing: Please test with older versions of the Flash plugin. It's possible that this is at least partly a Flash bug, and might not happen with older versions of Flash.
Older versions of the Flash plugin are available at:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html
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Peter Joseph Eschborn (March 4, 1800, in Mainz – November 17, 1881, in Coburg) was a German composer, violinist and conductor.
Life
Eschborn studied composition with Friedrich Witt. From 1821 to 1827 he was music director at the theater in Düsseldorf and from 1832 to 1834 conductor of the orchestra of the Mannheim National Theatre. His successor was Franz Lachner. He then worked as music director in Cologne, Stuttgart, Amsterdam and in 1845/1846 was director at Theater Aachen, living his last years in Coburg.
A setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem, "Das Lied von der Glocke," "as a declamatorium and set up for the stage by C. Simons" is in a printed piano version preserved from the year 1827. An opera, Der Bastard oder Das Stiergefecht "made in music by Joseph Eschborn" from the year 1836 is also preserved.
Eschborn was married to the singer Maria Angelika Ciscewski. Their daughter, Natalie, also became known as a singer under the stage name,. | WIKI |
A taxing case on the Supreme Court's docket
The Supreme Court is about to take its third whack in a half-century at an issue that’s long divided the business community and government officials — should states have more power to collect sales taxes from out-of-state companies that sell products to their residents? It’s a case that covers core U.S. legal dilemmas, like the reach of the Commerce Clause, and illustrates the increasing influence the internet and technology have on Americans’ everyday lives. But in a twist fit for today’s Washington, one of President Donald Trump’s personal feuds — this one with Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos — is also in the mix. Here’s what you need to know about South Dakota v. Wayfair, on which the Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday. How the case got to the court In short, the Supreme Court is taking this case because Congress has failed to act on online sales tax legislation. The court last ruled in 1992’s Quill v. North Dakota that a state can only force retailers with a physical location within its borders, like a brick-and-mortar shop or a warehouse, to collect sales taxes. But the court also called lawmakers better equipped to resolve the issue, and invited Congress to enact legislation. Quill, which itself followed a 1967 Supreme Court case, dealt with mail-order sales, and the justices clearly didn’t foresee the emergence of online shopping in that ruling. The GAO says that states could have collected up to an extra $13 billion in sales taxes in 2017 from out-of-state companies. And with most states having to balance their budgets each year, state officials have increasingly sought to get their hands on that money. Marty Jackley, South Dakota’s attorney general, noted that sales tax revenue makes up 63 percent of the general budget for his state, which doesn’t have an income tax. “It’s a significant issue for especially the small states,” said Jackley, who will argue for his state at the court on Tuesday. The closest Congress came to taking up the judiciary’s invitation to legislate was in 2013, when the Senate passed a measure that would have swept away the physical presence requirement. But a key House lawmaker, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), has never been a fan of that legislation, and the issue in general divides Republicans — some want nothing to do with anything that could be even remotely derided as a tax increase, while others cast the effort to expand taxing power as a defense of states‘ rights. With legislation stalled, Justice Anthony Kennedy invited a legal challenge to Quill in a related 2015 case, and South Dakota promptly enacted a law that violated the current precedent to quickly get the current case before the court. Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) made one last effort to pass online sales tax legislation, H.R. 2193 (115), before Tuesday’s arguments, but was unable to attach her measure to last month’s big spending bill. What the opposition says The defendants in the case are three prominent online retailers — Wayfair, Newegg and Overstock. (A fourth company, Systemax, began collecting sales tax from South Dakota customers and was dropped from the lawsuit.) Those companies argue that charging sales taxes remains a heavy and costly administrative exercise, even as technology has made it easier to purchase items and despite products like special software to simplify collection. “State sales and use tax systems remain inordinately complex and burdensome during the Internet era, just as they were before it began,” the companies wrote in their brief. Conservative groups that want to maintain the current precedent say they’re interested in keeping states’ taxing power in check, and that overturning Quill would amount to taxation without representation. Amazon's role Trump has repeatedly jumped on to Twitter to accuse the Seattle-based online shopping titan of ducking its taxes. But the truth is far more nuanced than that, as was Amazon’s own evolution on online sales tax policy. (And that’s not even getting into Amazon’s corporate tax practices, where studies have found the company pays a low effective rate.) Amazon currently supports legislative efforts to give states increased sales tax power, as do big-box retailers and their D.C. interest groups, but has yet to comment on the Supreme Court case. As it happens, Amazon also collects in all 45 states that have a statewide sales tax, after expanding its network of distribution centers to facilitate faster deliveries. But that’s also a shift for the company, which fought efforts to allow broader state tax collection when it had a smaller delivery apparatus. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has noted that Amazon generally doesn’t collect sales tax on its marketplace, where it essentially acts as a middleman between the customer and another company. Those purchases account for about half of Amazon’s unit sales, according to some estimates, but the company currently collects on those transactions in only two states — Washington and Pennsylvania. Where the Trump administration stands It perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise that Trump — a real estate developer who’s made his living in brick and mortar — would agree that the current precedent tips the scales toward online retailers. So it didn’t raise many eyebrows when Trump’s solicitor general, Noel Francisco, wrote a brief backing South Dakota’s position, especially since the president has said Amazon is putting thousands of retailers out of business. Technically, the administration’s position is that the Quill precedent could survive, but that the court should rule that states can tax even out-of-state online retailers because of their “pervasive and continuous virtual presence.” Francisco also gets 10 minutes during Tuesday’s arguments, further underscoring how strongly the administration feels about the issue. Reading the court Trying to figure out how the nine justices might act before arguments are even heard can be tricky. But South Dakota, its backers, other experts and even some supporters of the defendants acknowledge the plaintiffs have reasons to be confident. For starters, the court didn’t have to take up the case if it was interested in keeping the current Quill precedent. Close followers of tax law also say that, starting with Kennedy’s statements back in 2015, it’s not hard to believe that at least five justices would side with South Dakota. As an appellate judge, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the Quill ruling might have an “expiration date,” in dealing with the same case where Kennedy questioned the current precedent. The Tax Foundation’s Joseph Bishop-Henchman has projected that Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan would uphold the state law, while the other four justices are either wild cards or might join a narrowly crafted decision favoring South Dakota. What’s next? If it’s tough to predict how the justices might rule, it’s even more of a challenge to tease out the impact of that ruling. But if the current precedent survives, lawmakers will still push an online sales tax bill, though the same dynamics that have stalled legislation for years will still exist. Would Congress need to act if the Supreme Court upholds the South Dakota law? There's a range of opinions on that front, though it would clearly depend on how sweeping a ruling comes from the court. Noem and other congressional supporters of expanded state sales tax power have said it would be chaos for businesses if Quill is swept away without the sort of protections and streamlined collection procedures offered by their legislation. But some experts say the court could also guide states toward what it sees as more reasonable sales tax frameworks. Harley Duncan of KPMG said the court would seek to limit undue burdens on interstate commerce if it did overturn the current precedent, and could talk up what it sees as favorable aspects of the South Dakota law. Companies have to collect only after meeting certain sales thresholds — $100,000 worth of sales or 200 transactions — under that law, which also wouldn’t seek any retroactive revenues. “The Court could on that basis determine that the South Dakota statute does not pose an undue burden on interstate commerce, which might then steer other states in that direction,” Duncan said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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Binding of oxygen with titanium dioxide on singlet potential energy surface: An ab initio investigation
Результат исследования: Научные публикации в периодических изданияхстатьярецензирование
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Аннотация
Ab initio calculations have been carried out to investigate interaction of titanium dioxide TiO2 with oxygen O2 in ground triplet and excited singlet states. On a singlet potential energy surface (PES) formation of a stable compound of titanium peroxide TiO4 is revealed which should appear in reaction of TiO2 with singlet oxygen without activation barrier. This peroxide is lower in energy than the ground state of two individual molecules TiO2 + 3O2 by 34.6 kcal/mol. Location of conical intersection between triplet and singlet PESs of TiO2[sbnd]O2 is also investigated.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Страницы (с-по)216-219
Число страниц4
ЖурналChemical Physics Letters
Том667
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 янв 2017
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Joffrey Lupul
Joffrey Lupul (born September 23, 1983) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. In his professional career, Lupul played in the NHL for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was selected seventh overall at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by Anaheim, beginning his NHL career with the organization and later playing a second stint with the team prior to joining the Maple Leafs in 2011. A right-hand-shooting natural right winger earlier in his career, Lupul made the transition to become a left winger after joining Toronto.
Amateur
Two years into his three-year major junior career with the Western Hockey League (WHL)'s Medicine Hat Tigers, Lupul was drafted by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as the team's first choice, seventh overall, at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. The London Knights' Rick Nash was chosen first and Lupul's Tigers teammate Jay Bouwmeester went third that year. The following season, Lupul made the final roster for Canada and played in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers
Lupul made the jump directly to the Anaheim lineup his first season out of the WHL, but the following season, during the 2004–05 NHL lockout, he was assigned to the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, for the entire season. However, in his third professional season, Lupul was a regular with Anaheim and during the team's run in the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs, he became the first player in NHL playoff history to cap a three-goal game with an overtime goal after he tallying all Duck goals in a 4–3 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Western Conference Semifinals.
After the 2005–06 season, Lupul was traded to the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers (along with Ladislav Šmíd and draft picks) in exchange for Chris Pronger on July 4, 2006.
Philadelphia Flyers
On July 1, 2007, after just one season with Edmonton in which he scored 16 goals, Lupul was traded (alongside Oilers captain Jason Smith) to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Joni Pitkänen, Geoff Sanderson and a third-round draft pick in 2007.
During the 2007–08 season, his first with the Flyers, Lupul was diagnosed with a spinal cord contusion after a collision with teammate Derian Hatcher in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 5, 2008. Lupul made his return to the lineup just over one month later, on February 9 in a game against the New York Rangers. On April 22, Lupul scored the series-winning goal in the first overtime of Game 7 in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals between Philadelphia and the Washington Capitals. After helping the Flyers reach the Eastern Conference Finals, in which Philadelphia fell to rivals Pittsburgh, Lupul agreed to a four-year contract extension with the team on July 21.
Return to Anaheim
On June 26, 2009, following his second season with Philadelphia and just one year into his four-year contract, Lupul was traded by the Flyers to the Anaheim Ducks at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft (along with Luca Sbisa and two first-round picks) in exchange for Chris Pronger, the second time in Lupul's career he had been part of a trade involving the Ducks with Pronger going the other way.
Back surgery in December 2009 and a subsequent blood infection limited him to just 23 games during the season. He ultimately missed a total of 12 months of playing time—the final 59 games of that season and carrying over into the first 28 games of the following 2010–11 season.
Toronto Maple Leafs
On February 9, 2011, nearing the end of his second season back with Anaheim, but having played only 49 games during his second stint, Lupul was traded (alongside Jake Gardiner and a conditional draft pick in 2013) to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for François Beauchemin, marking the third time Lupul had been involved in a trade with the Ducks organization. Originally, the deal excluded Lupul, however he was included as a salary dump to keep the Ducks under the salary cap. After being traded to Toronto, he made the transition from right to left wing and finished with 18 points in 28 games to finish the 2010–11 season.
The following year, 2011–12, Lupul began the year on the opposite wing of Phil Kessel, putting together a strong first half of the season that led to his invitation to the 2012 NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa as an alternate captain to Zdeno Chára. There, he scored two goals for Team Chara in a 12–9 win over Team Alfredsson. On March 2, 2012, Toronto fired its head coach, Ron Wilson, and replaced him with Randy Carlyle, Lupul's former head coach in Anaheim. Lupul suffered a severe shoulder separation on March 6 that necessitated immediate season-ending surgery. Nonetheless, he finished with a career-high of 67 points on the year despite playing in just 66 games, marking the first time in his NHL career he scored at least a point-per-game pace. At the end of the season, Lupul was a finalist for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy—awarded annually to the NHL player best exemplifying qualities in perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey—which was ultimately awarded to Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens.
During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Lupul played for the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)'s Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg in Yekaterinburg, Russia. After the lockout was resolved and just prior to the start of the truncated 2012–13 season, Lupul, along with teammate Clarke MacArthur, was named an alternate captain of the Maple Leafs under captain Dion Phaneuf. Days later, on January 20, 2013, Lupul signed a five-year, US$26.25 million contract extension with Toronto. Only three games into the season, Lupul fractured his right forearm when he was hit by a Phaneuf slapshot while screening opposing goaltender Marc-André Fleury in a game against Pittsburgh. Lupul subsequently missed 25 games. In his return to the ice on March 16, he scored on his first shift of the night and once again in the second period of the game. However, the Maple Leafs went on to lose the game in a ten-round shootout to the Winnipeg Jets. Rejuvenated in his return after a long absence, Lupul scored goals in six consecutive games and recorded points in a prolific rate—eight goals and six assists in six games—before he suffered another injury in a game against his former club, the Flyers. While chasing the puck deep in his own zone, Lupul was hit by two Flyers simultaneously, one of which accidentally contacted his head, resulting in a concussion. He would miss an additional two weeks before making his return on April 16 against Washington. Lupul finished the season with totals of 18 points in 16 games.
With 57 points gained in 48 games, the Maple Leafs qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2004. During Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals against the Boston Bruins, Lupul scored two goals to help propel the Leafs to a 4–2 win and even the series at one game apiece. He would score again in Game 4 at the Air Canada Centre when he scored the game's opener, though Toronto would eventually lose in overtime, 4–3. Lupul ended his first playoff series with Toronto with three goals and one assist in seven games as the team fell 5–4 in overtime of Game 7.
On November 14, 2015, Lupul scored his 200th career goal during a 4–2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks. On December 1, 2015, Lupul was placed on injured reserve after suffering a lower body injury. Lupul returned but was again injured in February, and was shut down for the season to have surgery. Facing a decline in offensive production and a growing reputation as an injury-prone player (having missed 40% of the Maple Leafs' games over the past four seasons due to injury), Rumours began to circulate as early as February 2016 that there was concern if Lupul could continue to play at the NHL level anymore. With two more years on his contract paying him $5.25 million annually, there was speculation Toronto management was planning to sideline the winger under the Injury Reserve for the duration of his contract, similarly to what was happening with teammate Stéphane Robidas following the 2014–15 season. At the end of the season, Lupul was not seen at the year-end locker room clean-out or media briefings.
Despite comments from Lupul earlier in the season and teammate Nazem Kadri in the summer implying Lupul wanted to and had the ability to play the following season, he did not participate in pre-season action, and he announced on September 22, 2016, he would sit out the upcoming season due to injury. He was subsequently placed on the long-term injury reserve, with the team stating he had failed his pre-season physical. By mid-February 2017, media reports indicated Lupul had played his final professional hockey game, and that he had been out of contact with the media and one of his agents for months. Lupul was left unprotected by the Maple Leafs in the 2017 Expansion Draft and was thus eligible to be selected by the expansion Vegas Golden Knights, although players who were injured for more than one year and were not expected to play again were exempt in the draft under NHL rules, signalling that Lupul may not be injured in the traditional sense. In September 2017, the Leafs declared Lupul had failed his physicals at training camp before the 2017–18 season. Lupul then made several posts on his Instagram account saying he was healthy and accused the Maple Leafs of cheating by designating him injured so his salary could not count against the salary cap. These accusations prompted the NHL to administer a second physical by an independent doctor, which he subsequently failed and confirmed the Maple Leafs' initial claim he was unfit to play.
International play
Lupul was selected by Hockey Canada to play for the nation's junior team in the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. He posted two goals and one assist for a total of three points in six games as Canada finished with the silver medal, falling 3–2 to Russia in the tournament final.
Records
* First player to score a playoff hat-trick in Anaheim franchise history;
* First player to score four playoff goals in one game, including an overtime winner;
* First player to score all four of his team's goals in a playoff game.
Personal life
As featured during an NHL Network Online video, Lupul enjoys playing guitar. He is of Ukrainian descent. However, his father's family comes from the Romanian minority in Ukraine. Lupul's maternal grandfather, Tom Mayson, was a former member of the Edmonton Investors Group, the limited partnership that owned the Edmonton Oilers. In Romanian, Lupul's surname means "the wolf".
Lupul became part-owner of the West Village bar Due West in January 2018. | WIKI |
Gheorghe Cornea
Gheorghe Cornea is a former professional football player of Romanian nationality converted into a professional football coach. He was born on July 7, 1967, in the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu.
Professional football career
Cornea played professional football in Romania and Morocco, his best season involved scoring 14 goals for Oţelul Galaţi in the 1994–95 Divizia A season.
In addition he has been selected several times in the national team of Romania.
* Fotbal Club Oțelul Galați (Romania)
* Asociația Clubul de Fotbal Gloria 1922 Bistrița (Romania)
* Fotbal Club Brașov (Romania)
* Asociația Clubul de Fotbal Gloria 1922 Bistrița (Romania)
* Maghreb Association sportive de Fès (Morocco)
* Hassania Union Sport d'Agadir (Morocco)
Professional coach career
Gheorghe Cornea is a very rich professional coach. He has worked in Africa, the Middle East and of course Europe.
He trained in the best leagues in these regions, and had many great players under his supervision.
He has not only been a club coach, but he has also trained national teams.
He was also Technical Director in some of the clubs where he worked.
* 2004-2005 : Minerul Certej (Romania)
Coach of the professional team
* 2005-2006 : CS Mureșul Deva (Romania)
Coach of the professional team
* 2006-2008 : Hassania Union Sport d'Agadir (Morocco)
Coach of the U-21 football team
* 2008-2009 : Al Shabab Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Coach of the professional team
* 2008-2009 : Al Shabab Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Assistant Coach of the professional team
* September 2009-December 2009 : Al Nasr Salalah (Oman)
Assistant Coach of the professional team
* January 2010-May 2010 : Al-Taawoun Football Club (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Assistant Coach of the professional team
* 2010-2011 : CS CFR Simeria (Romania)
Coach of the professional team
* August 2011-December 2011 : Ohod Club (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Coach of the professional team
* January 2012-June 2012 : Al-Taawoun Football Club (Saudi Arabia)
Coach of the professional team
* 2012-2013 : AFC Fortuna Poiana Campina (Romania)
Coach of the professional team
* 2013-2014 : Hassania Union Sport d'Agadir (Morocco)
Technical Director
* 2014-2016 : U-18 Romania National Team
National Team Coach of the U-18 national team
* July 2016-January 2017 : Qatar Sports Club (Qatar)
Assistant Coach of the professional team
* 2017-2018 : CNS Cetate Deva (Romania)
Coach of the professional team
* 2018-2019: Al-Shorta El-Gadarif (Sudan)
Coach of the professional team
* 2019- : Al-Hazm Rass (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Assistant Coach of the professional team
Honors
* As a Coach:
* U21 Champion of Morocco 2008
* Vice champion of Saudi Arabia 2010
* Promote in Saudi Arabia Premier League 2010
* As a player:
* Champion of Morocco with Hassania Union Sport d'Agadir
* Champion of Romania
* Winner of the Cup of Romania
Personal life
Gheorghe Cornea speaks fluently Romanian, French and English. He also can understand Arabic.
Degrees and Titles
* UEFA Football Coach License recognized by FIFA
* Engineer's degree in metallurgy
* Member of the Football Commission of the Romanian Football Federation | WIKI |
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1 Introduction
[page 176, §1]
[176.1.1] A large variety of dynamic phenomena in condensed systems can be described by a lattice gas model. [176.1.2] Examples include transport in superionic solids, phase separation in binary alloys, kinetics of spin models, diffusion in metal-hydrogen systems or order-disorder phenomena in chemisorbed monolayers at surfaces[1, 2, 3, 4]. [176.1.3] Moreover, the popular model of hopping transport on a percolating network can be viewed as a special case. [176.1.4] This is seen by considering a lattice gas with two species of particles, A and B, for the case where the B-particles are frozen into some random configuration. [176.1.5] If, as usual, the A-particles are allowed to hop only into vacant lattice sites then the problem is that of diffusion in a frozen disordered environment. [176.1.6] Our interest in this problem stems from a case in which the B-particles are not completely immobile, but very slow compared to the A-particles. [176.1.7] The general objective in this paper will be to calculate the transport coefficients for the A-particles.
[176.2.1] More specifically, we are motivated by the problem of calculating the frequency dependent conductivity of β′′-alumina, a superionic conductor, well known for its ability to transport a variety of cations[5]. [176.2.2] Na+/Bapp-β′′-alumina is a layered compound where Na+-ions hop between the sites of a hexagonal lattice forming a stack of two dimensional conduction planes[6]. [176.2.3] The activation energy for Na+is roughly 0.35eV while that for Bapp is approximately 0.58eV[5]. [176.2.4] Thus at sufficiently low temperatures the Bapp-ions are essentially frozen. [176.2.5] They play the role of the B-particles in the lattice gas described above. [176.2.6] At higher temperatures the Bapp become mobile. [176.2.7] Now the Na+-ions (A-particles) experience a dynamic instead of a frozen disordered environment. [176.2.8] The fundamental parameter characterizing the different time scales in the problem is the ratio τ=τB/τA between the charcteristic hopping time τB of the Bapp and τA of the Na+-ions.
[176.3.1] Despite its conceptual simplicity the model contains many interesting features, even if we neglect for the moment all interactions between particles, except, of course, the hard core repulsion. [page 177, §0] [177.0.1] The hard core repulsion prevents double occupancy of lattice sites. [177.0.2] In the limit τ1 the tracer diffusion coefficient for the A-particle shows pronounced correlation effects[7]. [177.0.3] On the other hand in the limit τ the system will exhibit a percolation transition[8]. [177.0.4] For low concentrations of B-particles the Aâparticles can diffuse along an infinite network of vacancies while at high concentrations they are confined to finite clusters, and there will be no long range transport.
[177.1.1] Generally the system discussed above can be described by a many particle master equation[1]. [177.1.2] This remains true even if interactions between particles are included. [177.1.3] In the case of Na+/Bapp-β′′ âalumina the Coulomb repulsion between the mobile ions will be important. [177.1.4] Additional correlations can arise from lattice relaxation effects, or from simultaneous hops of groups of ions. [177.1.5] The latter is a well known phenomenon for the related β-alumina. [177.1.6] Clearly the problem has to be simplified even if one resorts to a computer simulation. [177.1.7] A careful Monte-Carlo-study of the tracer diffusion problem was carried out by Kehr, Kutner and Binder[7, 9, 10, 11, 12]. [177.1.8] They focussed on the case τ=1 on a face centered cubic (fcc) lattice, and considered systems with and without short range attractive/repulsive interactions. [177.1.9] Theoretical attempts[13, 14, 15] have also concentrated on the case τ=1 and were therefore unable to reproduce the percolation transition for τ. [177.1.10] In this paper we present a theory for general τ which allows to incorporate correlation effects arising from the blocker dynamics or from other sources such as particle interactions.
[177.2.1] Let us first discuss the general framework of our approach. [177.2.2] Instead of focussing on the case τ=1 the basic idea is to start from the frozen problem, i. e. τ=. [177.2.3] We discuss the diffusion of a single A-particle in the percolation geometry produced by the immobile B-particles. [177.2.4] Interactions between the particles lead to correlations for the random walk of the A-particle. [177.2.5] In general the effect of such correlations is to change the transition probabilities to nearest neighbours of the particle[16]. [177.2.6] In particular let us assume that the primary effect is to change the transition rate to the site that was occupied before the last step. [177.2.7] Thus we assume that the A-particle has a memory of its previous position, and consequently its random walk no longer has the Markov property. [177.2.8] The corresponding problem on a regular lattice is well known[17, 18, 19, 20] and can be solved exactly. [page 178, §0] [178.0.1] This allows us to formulate a generalized effective medium theory for the correlated hopping of an A-particle on the frozen disordered network.
[178.1.1] Finally the B-particles are allowed to move, i. e. τ<, and the A-particle now experiences a dynamic disordered environment. [178.1.2] The solution to this dynamic percolation problem can be expressed in terms of the solution for the frozen problem. [178.1.3] The result is valid for arbitrary τ and allows to incorporate correlation effects via the special transition rate for transitions to the previously occupied site. [178.1.4] The main advantage of this approach is its simplicity. [178.1.5] The three main parameters are the concentration of B-particles, p, the ratio of attempt frequencies, τ, and the ratio between the hopping rates for return to previously occupied sites and transitions to other neighbours, b. [178.1.6] The first two are essentially fixed from the experiment, while b can be determined from a measurement of the conductivity at any single frequency, e. g. at ω=0.
[178.2.1] The objective of this paper, as mentioned in the beginning, is the calculation of the frequency dependent conductivity for the A-particles. [178.2.2] In addition we wish to evaluate the correlation factor for the selfâdiffusion constant in the d. c. limit. [178.2.3] We assume here that the B-particles do not contribute to the conductivity. [178.2.4] We will present results for the hexagonal and the fcc-lattice. [178.2.5] The first because of its low coordination number and its relevance for Na+/Bapp-β′′-alumina. [178.2.6] The second because of the possibility to compare with d. c. results from extensive Monte-Carlo simulations in the literature.
[178.3.1] For the a.c. response we find a crossover between a low frequency regime dominated by the effects of blocker motion, and at high frequency regime in which the blockers, or equivalently vacancies, appear to form a frozen network. [178.3.2] In addition we predict the appearance of novel features in the real and imaginary part as a result of correlations. [178.3.3] In the d. c. limit we calculate the correlation factor for the self diffusion coefficient. [178.3.4] It interpolates smoothly between the case τ=0 and τ. [178.3.5] Although our theory does not contain adjustable parameters for the uncorrelated case (b=1) we find good agreement with Monte-Carlo simulations by Kehr, Kutner and Binder[10, 11]. Our results will be presented in Section 5 and are then discussed in Section 6. [page 179, §0] [179.0.1] In the next section we formulate our model. [179.0.2] In Section 3 we treat the correlated random walk in a frozen disordered environment, and in Section 4 we use the result from Section 3 as input for the dynamic problem. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
1997 in China
The following lists events in the year 1997 in China.
Incumbents
* General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party: Jiang Zemin
* President: Jiang Zemin
* Premier: Li Peng
* Vice President: Rong Yiren
* Vice Premier: Zhu Rongji
Governors
* Governor of Anhui Province – Hui Liangyu
* Governor of Fujian Province – He Guoqiang
* Governor of Gansu Province – Sun Ying then Song Zhaosu
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Lu Ruihua
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Wu Yixia
* Governor of Hainan Province – Ruan Chongwu then Wang Xiaofeng
* Governor of Hebei Province – Ye Liansong then Yue Qifeng
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Tian Fengshan
* Governor of Henan Province – Ma Zhongchen then Li Keqiang
* Governor of Hubei Province – Jiang Zhuping
* Governor of Hunan Province – Yang Zhengwu then Chu Bo
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Zheng Silin then Ji Yunshi
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Shu Shengyou
* Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Yunkun then Hong Hu
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Wen Shizhen
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Tian Chengping then Bai Enpei
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Cheng Andong
* Governor of Shandong Province – Li Chunting
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Sun Wensheng
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Song Baorui
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Li Jiating
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Wan Xueyuan (until April), Chai Songyue (starting April)
Events
* January 21 – 1997 Jiashi earthquakes
* February 3 to 5 – Ghulja Incident
* February 25 – 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings
* April 29 – According to Chinese government official confirmed report, two passenger train collision on Rongjiawan Station, Hunan Province, 120 persons were fatalities with 230 persons were hurt.
* May 8 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456
* July 1 – Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
* August – Typhoon Winnie (1997)
* September 19 – Election of the 15th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
* November 8 – 1997 Manyi earthquake
Culture
* 1997 Shanghai International Film Festival: The Woodlanders won the award for Best Feature Film
* List of Chinese films of 1997
Sport
* December 5–14 – 1997 AFC Women's Championship, in Guangdong
* Chinese Jia-A League 1997
* China at the 1997 East Asian Games
Births
* January - Fan Zhendong, Chinese professional table tennis player.
* May - Jacqueline Wang, great-grandchild of Wang Guangqi, great-grandniece of Wang Guangmei, attended Groton School and Columbia University in the City of New York.
* November - Xu Minghao, singer, member of Seventeen.
Deaths
* January 14 — King Hu, film director based in Hong Kong and Taiwan (b. 1932)
* January 28 — Wong Shun-leung, Hong Kong martial artist (b. 1935)
* February 2 — Qin Jiwei, general (b. 1914)
* February 17 — Leonard Ho, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1925)
* February 19 — Deng Xiaoping, 3rd Paramount Leader of China (b. 1904)
* March 31 — Dorothy Liu, Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician (b. 1934)
* April 9 — Wu Zuoren, painter (b. 1908)
* April 11 — Wang Xiaobo, novelist and essayist (b. 1952)
* April 26 — Peng Zhen, 4th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (b. 1902)
* May 6 — Wang You, biochemist (b. 1910)
* May 7 — Yip Hon, gambling tycoon (b. 1904)
* May 16 — Wang Zengqi, writer (b. 1920)
* May 25 — Luo Ergang, historian (b. 1901)
* June 6 — Liao Shantao, mathematician (b. 1920)
* June 10 — Zhou Lin, politician (b. 1912)
* June 27 — Joseph Zong Huaide, Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Shandong (b. 1917)
* June 28 — Yang Yichen, politician (b. 1914)
* June 30 — Su Bingqi, archaeologist and co-founder of Peking University's archaeology program (b. 1909)
* September 8 — Yu Jim-yuen, martial artist, actor, teacher and the master of China Drama Academy (b. 1905)
* September 22 — Chiang Wei-kuo, Nationalist general and adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek (b. 1916)
* September 23 — Lu Sheng, lieutenant general (b. 1911)
* October 7 — Wan Laiming, animator (b. 1900)
* October 17 – Fang Yi, former Vice Premier of China (b. 1916)
* October 20 — Li Ruishan, politician (b. 1920)
* October 26 — Teng Haiqing, military officer and politician (b. 1909)
* November 8 — Lam Ching-ying, Hong Kong stuntman, actor, martial artist and action director (b. 1952)
* November 9 — Wu Xiuquan, military officer and diplomat (b. 1908)
* December 4 — Ho Sin Hang, Hong Kong entrepreneur, philanthropist and financier (b. 1900)
* December 16 — Hu Ning, physicist and writer (b. 1916) | WIKI |
Sunday, September 1, 2013
DOM Event Delegation
Event delegation can be used for handling DOM events efficiently. The basic principle behind event delegation is bubbling of events. An event handler can be attached to a parent node and any event that occurs within it's child element will bubble up if not already captured on its way to the parent node.
<div class="root">
<div>A</div>
<div>B</div>
<div>C</div>
<div>D</div>
<div>E</div>
<div>F</div>
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</div>
// Using jQuery
$(document).ready(function () {
$('.root').on('click', function (e) {
alert(e.target.innerHTML);
// depending on e.target we can call necessary function (delegation)..
});
});
jsFiddle demo (uses jQuery).
//Using DOM APIs
var el = document.getElementsByClassName('root');
el[0].addEventListener('click', function(e) {
alert(e.target.innerHTML);
});
jsFiddle demo (uses DOM APIs). | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Page:Letters of Cortes to Emperor Charles V - Vol 1.djvu/228
204 told me to watch them, because they were bad men who had come to spy and see what damage they could do us, and that I might rest assured they had come for no other purpose. With some dissimulation, I had one of them taken, without being observed by the others, and leading him and the interpreters apart, frightened him so that he should tell me the truth. He confessed to me that Sintengal, the captain-general of this province, was behind one of the hills opposite the camp, with a great number of people, ready to fall upon us that night, for they said that they had tried by day against us, and had gained no advantage, and now they wished to try by night, when their people would fear neither our horses, our cannon, nor our swords; and they had been sent in order to examine our camp, and those points where they could attack us, and how they could burn the straw huts. I at once had another of the said Indians taken, and also asked him, and he confessed the same as the other in the same words, so I took another five or six, and they all agreed in their statements. Seeing this I had all the fifty taken, and cut off their hands, and returned them to their chief, ordering them to sav to him, that, by day or night or at any or all times he might come, he would see who we were. I then had my camp fortified as best I could, and posted the people as seemed most suitable, and we rested thus on our guard until sunset.
When it was growing late, our opponents began to descend into two valleys, thinking they were surrounding us secretly, and to get nearer to us for carrying out their | WIKI |
Talk:Cowboy church
Untitled
After some though, it could work to use only the 'cowboy church' heading and include 'cowboy ministry'.
Thanks, CowboyWisdom 21:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Redirection
Please redirect Cowboy Church to this page. -- <IP_ADDRESS> 06:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Untitled 2
"The sermons are usually short and simple, in order to better to be understood by the parishioners." Hmmm... now that is a bit condescending, don't you think? RowlandReed (talk) 15:50, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
Age
I am no expert on cowboy churches, but I know that somebody who called themselves Cowboy Church Sunday School published a record i 1954, so the term is at least as old as that. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:24, 26 May 2019 (UTC) Ingvar Åberge | WIKI |
Ivan Martynushkin
Ivan Stepanovich Martynushkin (Иван Степанович Мартынушкин; born January 18, 1924) is a Russian World War II veteran and the last surviving liberator of the Auschwitz concentration camp, after the death of David Dushman in 2021.
Early life
Martynushkin was born on 18 January 1924 in the village of Poshchupovo, Ryazan Governorate. In 1942, he graduated from the Khabarovsk machine-gun and mortar school. He was sent to the front in 1943. He served in the 1087th Rifle Regiment of the 322nd Rifle Division and initially commanded a machine gun company, then a machine gun platoon. He was wounded twice and received a concussion.
The liberation of Auschwitz
On 27 January 1945 at the age of 21, Martynushkin was among the first Soviet soldiers who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Recollections
Decades after the liberation, Martynushkin shared recollections through interviews.
“It was huge. It went on and on for kilometers. We started to see groups of people when we reached the fence. They came up to us dressed in prison stripes, some had other clothes on top. ... After being in such a hell, constantly threatened by death, they were worn, depleted people. The only thing to them were those eyes that reflected a kind of joy — of being freed, the joy that hell had ended and they remained alive.” he said. ... Back then when we saw the ovens, our first thought was: ‘Oh well, so they are crematoriums. So people died and they didn’t bury them all.’ We didn’t know then that those ovens were specially built for the killing of people, to burn those who had been gassed, that kind of systematic killing.”
"We saw emaciated people -- very thin, tired, with blackened skin. They were dressed in all sorts of different ways -- someone in just a robe, someone else with a coat or a blanket draped over their robe. You could see happiness in their eyes. They understood that their liberation had come, that they were free."
"But what did I feel when I saw these people in the camp? I felt compassion and pity understanding how these people's fate unfolded. Because I could have ended up in the same situation. I fought in the Soviet army. I could have been taken prisoner and they could have also thrown me into the camp."
Later life
Martynushkin turned 100 on January 18, 2024. | WIKI |
Better Buy: Square, Inc. vs. American Express
Digital payments are still a booming business around the world, and Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) and American Express (NYSE: AXP) play key roles in building the platforms customers use. But they are coming into the market from very different angles.
American Express is one of the oldest credit card companies, making money on transactions and providing credit to customers as traditional banks do. Square is processing cards like American Express and taking a small fee in the process. But it's building a platform of products small businesses can use to build and grow, with payment processing at the center of the offering. So which one is the better investment today?
Where financials stand today
American Express is a highly profitable company, but it isn't really a growth company. Its market for credit cards and other services, mostly on the high end of the market, hasn't grown as quickly as digital payments overall, as you can see from the comparison to Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard 's (NYSE: MA) revenue and net income growth over the last decade.
AXP Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts
Square, on the other hand, is a high growth company, but has yet to reach profitability. The chart below also shows just how new the company is to public markets, giving investors only a couple of years to analyze its financial performance.
AXP Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts
Square is clearly the growth company out of these two, but there's more to their differences than that. Square's business is trying to build a platform for other businesses to build on top of.
Transactions versus a platform
American Express' business is very well established at this point and it's not going to change a lot in the future. And despite how big the company is, it's really second fiddle in credit cards to Visa and Mastercard globally.
Square is a credit card processor, but it's more of a platform company. It wants small businesses to use its product to process credit cards and also plug into accounting, payroll, inventory, and other systems it may have. The company's point of sale system is also, arguably, one of the easiest to use on the market, making it an easy draw for small businesses trying to set up quickly.
Long-term, the platform approach may engrain Square more deeply with its customers. It's difficult to change systems once a business starts using them, so Square is becoming indispensable for a lot of its partners.
Innovating for the future
Square could also be disrupting commerce in ways we don't fully understand yet. The Square Cash app makes peer to peer payments easier, and it could eventually allow Square customers and partners to use Square payments without ever using a traditional bank or credit card. If adoption of Square's payment processors and the Cash app grow, there are a number of ways it could leverage that side of the platform.
American Express seems to be moving in the opposite direction, focusing on core markets but not expanding into interesting new markets. It has a huge profit advantage over Square today, but that lack of innovation could be a detriment long-term.
The platform play in digital payments
Right now, I think Square is the better buy for investors long-term, mainly because it's disrupting the payments business rather than being disrupted like American Express is. It's very possible that American Express remains highly profitable for years to come and stays one of the largest credit card companies, but I think Square is the wave of the future, and it's the kind of company I want in my portfolio going forward.
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Radoje Vujošević
Radoje Vujoševic (born May 5, 1989) is a Montenegrin professional basketball player for Sutjeska of the Montenegrin Basketball League. | WIKI |
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Specific Medical Conditions and Travel
By Christopher Sanford, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Global Health, University of Washington
People with certain medical conditions encounter special problems in transit.
Heart Disease
If people with angina, heart failure, or heart rhythm disturbances have symptoms during rest or with minimal exertion, they should not travel. If people recently have had a heart attack, they are advised to postpone travel for 3 days, 10 days, or indefinitely, depending on the severity of the heart attack. They should ask their doctor whether they need to wait and, if so, for how long. People with severe or worsening angina should avoid flying. Their symptoms may worsen because less oxygen is available at high altitudes.
All travelers with heart disease should carry a copy of a recent electrocardiogram (ECG). People with pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, or coronary stents should carry a card or doctor’s letter documenting the presence, type, location, and electronic characteristics of the implanted device. An implanted metal device may trigger an alarm as the person passes through electronic security. Electronic security devices do not generally affect implantable defibrillators, but travelers are advised to avoid standing in walk-through metal detectors for more than 15 seconds. Hand-held metal detectors are also safe for people with defibrillators, but prolonged contact, such as holding the detector over the defibrillator for more than 5 seconds, should be avoided.
If given notice in advance, most major airlines can provide low-sodium, low-fat meals on flights with regular meal service. If notified in advance, many cruise lines can also provide these meals.
Did You Know...
• At high altitudes, symptoms of certain heart and lung disorders and sickle cell anemia can worsen because less oxygen is available.
Lung Disease
Travelers with lung cysts, severe emphysema, a large collection of fluid around the lungs (pleural effusion), or recent lung collapse (pneumothorax) or who have had recent chest surgery can develop complications caused by airplane pressure changes. They should not fly without approval from their doctor.
Other travelers with lung disease may need supplemental oxygen while they are aboard an airplane. A doctor determines a person’s need for in-flight oxygen by measuring the level of oxygen in the blood. A low level of oxygen in the blood is called hypoxemia. Most airlines will provide in-flight oxygen if they are given a doctor’s prescription and advance notice. Travelers are not allowed to carry oxygen in any form aboard an airplane. Travelers who need oxygen during airport layovers must make their own arrangements, although most oxygen vendors will assist their regular customers without charge if they have services in the destination city. Other respiratory equipment, such as continuous positive airway pressure devices, can be accommodated on an airplane provided the equipment does not exceed the size allowed for carry-on luggage. However, travelers who need this equipment should allow extra time for security checks.
Ground travel at high altitudes may present special problems because less oxygen is available than at sea level. In general, people with mild or moderate lung problems do not have any difficulty at altitudes below 5,000 feet (1500 meters), but the higher the altitude, the greater the chance of problems. People with lung disease traveling in or through such areas should take the same precautions they would take if they were flying.
Bus, train, car, and ship travel is safe for people with lung disease but requires planning to ensure a supply of oxygen. Commercial services can coordinate oxygen deliveries for travelers anywhere in the world.
People with asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis may find that their symptoms worsen in cities where air pollution is significant. They may need additional treatment with their inhalers or additional drugs, such as corticosteroids, to control symptoms adequately. Smoking can make mild hypoxemia worse and should be avoided before flying. The effects of alcohol may be increased by hypoxia and fatigue, and therefore alcohol is best avoided while traveling.
Diabetes
Blood sugar levels are best managed in transit by frequent testing, with adjustments of food intake and drug doses as needed. Travelers with diabetes should pack sugar (glucose) supplements in their carry-on bags or carry juice, crackers, and fruit for when blood sugar levels are low. Generally, the timing of insulin doses should be based on how much time has elapsed during travel rather than on local time. Also, if travel plans incur time changes of more than a few hours, people with diabetes, especially those taking insulin, should consult with a doctor about how best to schedule their drugs. Insulin can be stored without refrigeration for many days but should be kept out of extreme heat.
If given 24 hours' notice, most major airlines provide special meals for people with diabetes. Measures to prevent dehydration while in flight are important.
Did You Know...
• When people with diabetes are traveling, target blood sugar levels should be slightly higher than when not traveling.
Blood sugar levels should be monitored frequently on arrival because activities and diet often differ from those at home. Because controlling blood sugar levels precisely is more difficult while traveling, levels tend to vary more than usual. Trying to keep levels very close to normal thus increases the risk that levels may sometimes become too low. For this reason, target blood sugar levels should be somewhat higher than ideal while traveling. Diabetic travelers should adhere to established diets despite temptations to try new foods and to eat more frequently or off schedule. They should wear comfortable socks and shoes, check their feet daily, and avoid walking barefoot to prevent minor injuries that may become infected or be slow to heal.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is generally not affected by flying on a jet. However, pregnant women who are close to their due date (over 36 weeks' gestation) and those at risk of miscarriage, premature delivery , or placental abruption should avoid flying and traveling long distances. Most airlines have policies regarding travel for pregnant women, and these policies should be checked before tickets are purchased. For instance, an airline may require that a woman in her 9th month of pregnancy who wants to fly must have a doctor's written approval letter dated within 72 hours of departure that states her expected delivery date. Pregnant women traveling long distances should take precautions to reduce the risk of blood clots (such as getting up often when traveling by airplane and stopping to take short walks when traveling by car) and dehydration. Seat belts should be fastened below the abdomen and across the hips to prevent injury to the fetus.
Pregnant women should avoid live vaccines, including yellow fever, measles-mumps-rubella, varicella (chickenpox), and typhoid fever by mouth (see Table: Vaccines for International Travel*,†,‡).
Pregnant women should avoid prolonged use of water purification tablets that contain iodine because iodine can affect development of the thyroid gland in the fetus.
Pregnant women who cannot postpone travel to regions of the world where malaria is common must weigh the risks of taking protective drugs whose effects on pregnancy are not well known against those of traveling without adequate protection. Pregnant women should consider delaying travel to areas where malaria is common because malaria is more likely to be serious and life threatening among pregnant women than among women who are not pregnant, even when preventive drugs are used. Mefloquine for malaria prevention is recommended for use during all 3 trimesters of pregnancy.
Pregnant women are also at risk of contracting hepatitis E infection, a viral liver infection rare in the United States but common in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Mexico. Miscarriage, liver failure, or death may result. There is no treatment, so postponing travel to regions where hepatitis E is common should be considered. Women who cannot postpone travel should be vigilant about hand washing and following safe food guidelines (see Overview of Gastroenteritis : Prevention of Gastroenteritis).
Other Conditions
Travel and transit also affect other medical conditions such as
• Sickle cell disease
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
• Colostomy
• The wearing of contact lenses
• Mental health disorders
• Physical disabilities
• Jaw problems
Some travelers with sickle cell disease are at risk of having pain (sickle cell crisis) when exposed to the low humidity and low oxygen levels in airplane cabins. This risk can be minimized with adequate hydration and oxygen.
Drugs used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or AIDS may interact with drugs frequently taken by international travelers to prevent malaria and traveler’s diarrhea. Therefore, affected travelers should discuss the risk of such interactions with their doctors and pharmacist.
People with a colostomy should wear a large bag or bring extra supplies because fecal output may increase with expansion of intestinal gas during flight. Because gas expands in flight, water should be substituted for air in devices secured by air-filled cuffs or balloons, such as feeding tubes and urinary catheters.
People who wear contact lenses may want to wear eyeglasses en route or wet their lenses frequently with artificial tears to compensate for low humidity in the airplane. Artificial tears may also be helpful for people with dry eyes. In general, bringing an extra set of eyeglasses or lenses or a prescription in case replacements are necessary is a good idea. Extra batteries for hearing aids may also be useful.
Travelers with serious mental health disorders, such as poorly controlled schizophrenia, may pose a risk to themselves or others and should be accompanied by a responsible attendant. Sedating drugs may be recommended also.
Most airlines provide disabled travelers with wheelchairs and stretchers on commercial flights. Some airlines accommodate travelers who need special equipment, such as intravenous lines or ventilators, as long as trained personnel accompany them and arrangements have been made in advance. If travelers cannot be accommodated on a commercial flight because of severe illness, air ambulance service is necessary.
People whose jaw is wired shut (as occurs after surgery on the jaw) should not fly unless they have a way to quickly open the jaw. If they vomit while the jaw is wired shut, they could choke or inhale vomit.
General advice about traveling with various medical conditions can be obtained from
• The medical departments of major airlines
• The Federal Aviation Administration (www.faa.gov)
• Online travel information sources
• Local travel clinics
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4 Telecom Stocks Poised to Beat Q4 Earnings
The U.S. telecommunications industry is a rapidly changing space. This has traditionally been the norm and there has been no change to this trend with Donald Trump at helm of the U.S. administration. In fact, president Trump already has had quite an impact on telecom policy parameters. Under Trump's presidency, 2017 may usher in a less restrictive telecom regulator - the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) that will likely to boost telecom operators' and other Internet service providers' (ISP) revenues.
Recently, President Trump has elected existing Republican commissioner Ajit Pai as the new Chairman of the FCC. Appointment of Pai as the head of the regulatory body appears to put net neutrality back on the front burner as he is a staunch net neutrality opponent. Notably, in Nov 2016, the FCC abandoned its plans to reform Business Data Services (BDS) market and decided not to proceed with its set top box reform proposals, the two game changing decisions taken by the previous Obama regime.
Per the latest Earnings Trends report, 219 S&P 500 members have reported their quarterly numbers as of Feb 01, 2017. Total earnings for these members are up 5.4% on 3.5% higher revenues, with 64.8% beating EPS estimates and 53.4% coming ahead of top-line expectations. Clearly, the overall earnings data so far is indicating toward a booming economy with growth on track to reach its highest level in two years.
Factors at Play
Telecommunications is a necessary utility. The need for telecom in both rural and urban areas as well as its role in the infrastructural development of an economy is of vital importance.
5G Wireless Technology
Several industry researchers hold that fifth-generation (5G) network will provide a download speed of 1 Gbps (gigabit per second), which is 200 times the throughput of the currently available standard 4G LTE network. Latency period of data delivery will be in a millisecond. Further, 5G technology is designed to be more power efficient than any other standard wireless network available at the moment. Naturally, 5G-enabled mobile devices are likely to last much longer than their 3G or 4G counterparts.
In July 2016, in a landmark voting, the FCC unanimously decided to make available high-frequency radio spectrums (above 24 GHz) for the use of the upcoming 5G wireless network. With this, the U.S. becomes the first country in the world to identify and open up a significant amount of spectrum suitable for the ultra-fast 5G mobile standard. At present, all four major national wireless operators, namely, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), AT&T Inc. (T), Sprint Corp. (S) and T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) are going through trial runs for 5G wireless standards. Notably, Verizon has announced that an initial 5G network will be deployed in 2017. All four stocks mentioned above currently carry a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here .
Internet of Things (IoT): The Next Growth Driver
IoT, which enables any physical electronic device with a valid IP-address to transfer data seamlessly over a wireless network, is quickly gaining significant market traction and bringing about fundamental changes in business models. Next-generation superfast wireless networks (4G LTE, LTE-A, upcoming 5G) will provide the primary impetus to the telecom industry. In this context, IoT holds potential to be the numero uno factor in driving future growth in the space. IoT is a network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity that facilitates it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with other connected devices. Superfast 5G mobile networks will be of utmost necessity in managing the exponential growth of IoT.
Online Digital Advertisement: Strong Potential
Advertisement on the mobile video platform is gradually leaning away from simple selling of banner ads on the mobile web to automated or programmatic ad selling. Pay- TV operators are steadily adopting the data-driven advertising technique that is already popular in the web-based advertisement arena. To derive maximum synergy from the combined video content and video distribution platform, these companies are extensively penetrating into the advertising technology market. Inclusions of dynamic ad-insertion, targeted audience advertising and data-driven TV advertisements are all steps toward the same objective.
How to Make the Right Pick?
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The Earnings ESP for ARRIS International PLC ( ARRS ) is +1.56% and the stock carries a Zacks Rank #3. The company will release its Q4 earnings results on Feb. 22.
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shell is allowed to remain untouched for some times, as if the animal was trying to acquaint itself with new surroundings. Afler one adductor is severed, the valves open, so that the other may be easily reached.
2°. I have often seen the posterior margins of the valves sllgbUy notched, an<l the epidermis scratched, from the eSorta of the mnskrat to open the sliell.
3°. The shells are never opened by tearing away Itie hi D^l lament, although this portion is some- times injured.
i". During the winter season the shells were de- posited, ofieu many bushels, upon the edge of the ice which fringed the shores. This offered an ex- planation to me for the large quantities of dead shells which I had frequently noticed in certain localities at the bottom of Che river.
S". Wlh the muaselfl In the muskrat shell-heaps were many flat stones, gathered for the purpose of eating the algae growing upon them.
8". Among the speciea eatcu by the muskrats of the Alleghany River may be mentioned the follow- ing as of the most frequent occurrence: Unio llga- mentinus, U. pbawolus, U. gracilis. U. patulus, U. clavus. U. crassidens, U. occidena, U. ovatus. tJ. lul«olu8, U. gibbo^us, Margaritana rugosa, M. mar- ginals, and Anodonta edenlula.
CuAS. E. Be&CUKR, Atlmny. N.r.,Feb. B.
��h»re been familiar, ever alnce my boyhood, with fact that these animals live largely upon the mus* and other shell-Gsh of our rivera and creeks. It U also well known to duck-huntera, at least In this region of country, that they pick up no inconsidemble portion of their subsistence from dead and wounded birds found by them after the sportsman has aban- doned the search. Only last spring T killed a duck in this vicinity which fell out of reach and floated off. Upon recovering it within less than an hour after- wards, on the farther shore of the 'slough,' its breast bad already been eaten away by amuskrat; and It is no uncommon occurrence to surprise them at such Kpaatt. Theo, S. Case.
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��a notice of a discussion upon this subject, which teak place before the Blolt«ical society of Washing- ton in the spring of 18S4. In regard to the fact that piles of iin^roiten Unlo shells are found near muak- ral burrows, it seems to me that there can be but one expUnatioD, and that Is the suggestion made at the Biological society, that the shells are gathered by 4be niukrats, piled up, and left out of water until too irnk to keep their shells closed, when the rodent >iiiidB It an easy matter to pick out the meat.
Rali'h S. Tabb.
OuDbrldoe, Uue„ Feb. S.
��JOHN GWYN JEFFREYS. The ranks of English naturalists have met with a serious loss in the death of John Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S,, etc., which took place suddenly his residence, Kensington, on the 24th of January.
Dr. Jeffreys was born at Swansea, Jan. 18, 180!>, and at the time of liis death, with the exception of Sir Riehard Owen, was probably the oldest British naturalist. Up to the last he waa busily engaged on the in^'e^tigation of the deep-sea dredgings of the Lightuing and Porcupine expeditions; and, only three days before the reception of the news of his death, a copy of a recent paper on the relations of the American and Eiiroi)ean inollusk faunae was received from him.
Dr. JetTrej-B was the descendant of one of the oldest families of Wales, and was unlled to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. For many j-eara, however, he had retired from practice, and had been devoted to the inveatigatiop of the natu- ral history of mollusks, especially those of the British islands, northern Europe, and the a<]- jacent seas. Ilis work on the British molhisca is the standard book of reference on that topic, and his investigations into the fauna of tite deep sea were known and a|>preciated among men of science everywhere.
Dr. Jeifreys, from a lad, had been a student of conchology, devoting liis holidays to col- lecting, and was among the earliest, most enei^etic, and persistent dredgers of the Brit- ish seas. In his earlier days he waa intimately ac^inainted with that classical band of British naturalists to whom science owes so much, and who toiled for the moat part unappreci- ated. In later years he waa equally active, and participated in the important expeditions of the Lightning, Porcupine, Valorous, etc., and was only preiented by an accident from participation in the voyage of the Challen- ger. His first important paper waa pub- lished by the Linucan society in 1828 ; and since then hardly a year has passed by with- out contributions from his pen, many of which were printed by the Royal society, of which he was for forty-five years a fellow. Tbe extent and importance of his researches can only be fully appreciated by specialists engaged in similar studies. He was president of the bio- logical section of the British association in | WIKI |
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